During the offseason, the NBA announced the decision to reform the lottery draft in order to prevent tanking in the second half of the season.

According to K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune, NBA commissioner, Adam Silver voiced on Friday that the change in the format was more of a comprise to help shift the focus back to winning throughout the league.

“I don’t think it’s the perfect system yet. But drafts by definition aren’t. It’s a compromise of sorts. But I think it will appropriately focus teams on winning, which is first and foremost what they should be doing.”

Although it doesn't completely solve the issues that have arisen with tanking over the last couple of years, it is a step in the right direction. The fact that it gives the bottom three records the same odds to land the No.1 overall pick could lessen the push from teams to methodically tank over the last few weeks of the season.

“It felt to us, at least with existing odds for the first, second and third pick, that it was almost too tempting to exclusively seek that rebuilding strategy to build a championship team. So we changed the odds.”

The ultimate goal of this change is to create a more balanced league from top to bottom with competitive games being played throughout the season, even those teams well out of the playoff picture.

What should be the most encouraging aspect that should be taken away from this is that Silver has been more than willing to adjust with the times to whatever it felt necessary to improve the product on the court both long-term and short-term. This also signals that there will be more adjustments down the road.