NBA owners fail to pass lottery reform

Proposed changes to the NBA's draft lottery format designed to distribute the odds more evenly among the non-playoff teams failed to pass at the league's board of governors meeting on Wednesday, Commissioner Adam Silver said.

Silver said the final vote was 17-13 in favor of the reform but that fell short of the required 23 votes -- three-quarters of the league's teams -- needed to change the lottery.

The reform plan was to discourage the idea of losing on purpose, known as "tanking", to increase a team's odds in the lottery.