How do the new NBA anti-tanking rules work (and how might they impact the Boston Celtics)?

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How do the new NBA anti-tanking rules work (and how might they impact the Boston Celtics)? The league commissioner Adam Silver and the NBA Board of Governors recently convened to vote on a new way of doing the NBA lottery and draft, with the old, flattened lottery odds being thrown out in favor of a more complicated scheme that was put together to (hopefully) discourage such blatant tanking as we saw during the 2025-26 NBA regular season.

What are the changes to the old system? What are some of the things it is trying to address? How likely is it to work, and will there be any other potential impacts? And how will teams like the Celtics likely shift how they conduct business related to the draft?

The folks behind the "Malika Andrews" YouTube channel put together a clip of said ESPN reporter helping to answer all of the above on a recent episode of their "NBA Today" show. Check it out below!


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