So the lottery system will be changed starting next year, right?

[Moranis]

To be fair Cleveland only won 2 #1 picks, the Irving pick was actually from the Clippers.  Cleveland's own pick that year, despite having the second highest odds, fell to #4.

[BballTim]

Do you think they'll look into changing this crap system going forward? At least putting a stop to a team getting the first pick three out of four years (What are the official odds on what the Cavs have done in the last four years by the way? They have to be like 1 out of like 10,000 at least, right?)

Call it sour grapes if you want, but I'm really not mad at all about the C's getting sixth. Just a very bad organization with no direction getting freebie after freebie is flat out wrong. If you get all these top picks and you're still in the lottery, we need to move on from you.

  The sad but true reality is they'll rush to make changes to the system to prevent a second occurrence of that 1 in 10000 event in a short span of years.

[goCeltics]

It's worth noting that the last time they changed the system was when the Magic got a pair of #1 picks in back-to-back years.

the draft is a stupid system every other sport the worse team gets the best pick, the lotto doesn't even stop teams from tanking, all year people were  saying team were tanking, yet we have a lotto system, all it does punish the worst team and reward mediocre team thru blind luck.

if they really wanted to stop taking they would set order by date elimated from playoffs therefore you could still help out poor teams and lose the incentive to lose games at the end of the season. That would actually make sense

If the worst team got the best pick there would be more tanking than the draft lottery, not less.

Bingo.

what a team might trade all the vets for 2nds rounders and fill them with d leaguers, geez glad the lotto prevented that from happening, cough, cough sixers cough, cough

also do you think it's a pure coincidence that they have had the best finals series while all these teams were tanking, tanking allows competitive teams to get better more easily, ensuring a higher standard league at the top end, while there's little tannking it dilutes the league

remember people are almost exclusively interested in the contenders, no one gives a hoot how bad the bad teams, everyone remembers the great bulls, c's and lakers teams, nobody ever says geez that 1990 bucks team was a great team for a 20th best team in the league etc,