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That's a big one.
Lottery, and that's probably the most likely one to me.
Lottery odds freeze at the trade deadline or a later date.
That's going to happen.
That's definitely going to happen.
I think the next few, the first half of these, I can see 100% happening.
The lottery odds freeze at the trade deadline.
I don't love that, and I'll tell you, I think it's going to happen, but I don't love it because sometimes you really do get a catastrophic injury.
I mean, as a Philadelphian who knows tanking but also know injury, if Joel Embiid,
slips on a banana peel in February, which he will, you know what I mean, a lot of years, and then suddenly I go from being in second place to being in 12th place, to me, that's not tanking.
Like, that shit happens.
That's the only thing.
You can get bad luck in the second half of a season.
Now what do we do?
If you make the playoffs, it don't matter.
But if you miss it by one game... But if they cap it at All-Star... Your lottery odds.
But if you make the playoffs, your lottery odds are moot.
But where it gets interesting is they also are considering adding play-in teams.