Brian Scalabrine

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The Zach Lowe Show · Celtics Top Thunder and Wemby’s Brilliance With Brian Scalabrine. Plus, Moussa Diabaté on the Upstart Hornets. · 26 Mar 2026 podcast

I'm not sure what the leader in the clubhouse is right now in terms of what the league wants, what's actually passable at the BOG.

But there is some... Momentum is too probably strong a word, but of going back to a system where the odds are completely flat for all the teams that are... All the teams...

in the lottery, except for the teams that get into the play-in and lose.

Those teams would get some lottery odds, but not the same odds as everybody else.

And the idea there would be obviously flattening the odds removes all the incentive to lose at the highest level, but we don't want a system where teams are tanking out of the play-in to get in to the lottery.

And so we give them a little love too.

I think that's got some momentum and that brings up the same fears that, you know, I think there'll be some small market teams who are a little bit

hesitant about that because they feel like it takes away their cleanest way to get a superstar, their most tried and true way to get a superstar.

But I... They've also done this before.

Like, the NBA had... That was the system of, like, the Ewing lottery, I think, was flat odds.

And so...

If that's what it ends up being, everybody needs to be prepared for like when they changed the odds that you mentioned seven, eight years ago, they flattened out the odds.

You mentioned it didn't change behavior and you're correct.

It actually made some behavior, tanking behavior worse because teams started tanking to the middle.

But one thing it did change is there started to be some pretty wild jumps up in the lottery and wild falls down in the lottery.

Yeah.

And everyone immediately was like, oh my God, what have we done?

This is a bad idea.

So we need to change it back the other way.

And it's like, if you just gave this system 25 years in the aggregate, the worst teams would pick the highest and you'll, but you'll have more years where there's some jumping around and you just sort of like, did you not understand what that was going to be?

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