The NBA's revised lottery odds appeared to work, at least for this year. The three worst tanking offenders, the Knicks, Cavs, and Suns, did not get the No. 1 pick. Teams that tried, for at least some of the year, jumped up.
According to Zach Lowe, some in the NBA wondered if the league went too far, but it's probably too early to say.
"One year doesn't tell the whole story," Kiki VanDeWeghe, the NBA's executive vice president of basketball operations, told Lowe. "But the intent was to make it a little more random."
Tanking isn't done, but perhaps it's a little more discouraged now.