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.

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%