All of the major sports leagues in the United States use a reverse order draft t
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Question
All of the major sports leagues in the United States use a reverse order draft to promote competitive balance. The NBA is unique in that it utilizes a “draft lottery” such that the worst team in the league is not guaranteed the top pick in the draft but instead only receives the highest probability in the lottery to receive the top pick. Why does the NBA use a draft lottery? Why might it be the case that only the NBA uses a lottery while the other leagues use a straight reverse order draft? (10 points)
Explanation / Answer
NBA uses lottery system to promote teams that have missed to play in the previous session, This encourages teams to get into the stream again.
The lottery system was launched in 1985, In this the teams that missed previous turn will get chance to win the slot in the present session.
Even after lottery some teams will be left out and they are called lottery teams.