It's just encouraging teams to lose/ punishing teams that compete. It's gone well beyond developing the kids... Suns & Lakers are even holding out their best kids!!
Simple solution: reduce the difference in ping-pong ball numbers. Currently the percentages look like this.
Simple solution: reduce the difference in ping-pong ball numbers. Currently the percentages look like this.

1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
1 | 25.0% | 21.5% | 17.8% |
2 | 19.9% | 18.8% | 17.1% |
3 | 15.6% | 15.7% | 15.6% |
4 | 11.9% | 12.6% | 13.3% |
5 | 8.8% | 9.7% | 10.7% |
6 | 6.3% | 7.1% | 8.1% |
7 | 4.3% | 4.9% | 5.8% |
8 | 2.8% | 3.3% | 3.9% |
9 | 1.7% | 2.0% | 2.4% |
10 | 1.1% | 1.3% | 1.6% |
11 | 0.8% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
12 | 0.7% | 0.8% | 1.0% |
13 | 0.6% | 0.7% | 0.9% |
14 | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.7% |