"Draft lottery reform was important to me because I think our teams were going down a path where even if they didn't think that a perpetual rebuild was ultimately the right strategy for winning a championship, there seemed to be enormous pressure on them from their fans and other people in the basketball community as if that were the only way to build a team," Silver said. "It felt to us, at least with the existing odds for the first, second and third pick, that it was almost too tempting to exclusively seek a rebuilding strategy as a way to build a championship team. So we changed the odds.