Live broadcast, October 25 -during today’s guest program, NBA president Xiao Hua once again talked about the topic of lying down.
When asked if there were any special measures to prevent some teams from playing bad this season, Xiao Hua said: “It is not a new topic to stop playing bad in the league. In 2019, we revised the lottery rules, it reduces the probability that the team with the worst record will win the first prize, and now the four teams with the worst record have a 14% probability of winning the first prize. On the other hand, even if you are the team with the worst record or one of the teams with the worst record, you have a 86% probability of not winning the first prize, so we have taken very important measures before. After that, we added playoff play-offs. If you start slowly or suffer from injuries at the beginning of the season, you still have a chance to enter the playoff. This is also the measure we have taken in recent years. I can’t say that I am seriously considering the upgrade, because we are different from the European football league system. It is meaningless to reduce an NBA team to the Development League and send a Development League team to the NBA. When communicating with Sun employees, I said that we were paying attention to this issue, because the competitiveness of the league is one of our selling points, but one thing to point out is that we simply lose on purpose and accumulate talent through losing, to rebuild, these two things are still different.”
(Tielin)