Mike Zarren has developed one of the more interesting anti-tanking draft reform proposals the NBA has ever seen. He’s keeping the fine details to himself for the moment.

The 2018 NBA tankathon is upon us. Eight teams are within 2.5 games of having the league’s worst record and all but the Brooklyn Nets are likely to do all they can to ensure that they lose as many games as possible down the stretch.

If that feels antithetical to the purpose of the league, it’s because it is. The teams with the NBA’s worst records are given the greatest odds at securing a top pick in the following summer’s draft (for now), incentivizing them to lose. A lot.

It’s a structure that can lead to some pretty ugly basketball. There is a small pocket of people that hold the process of losing on purpose, also known as tanking, as something of a necessary evil. There are certainly some interesting story lines related to roster development inherent to the process, but for the most part it’s a blight on the league.

The NBA is implementing a new set of lottery odds next year, redistributing the chance of winning the lottery more evenly with the hope of curbing the most extreme forms of tanking. The three worst teams in basketball will be given a 14% chance at the number one overall pick, with declining odds assigned by record from that point forward.

The result will create slightly more random pick assignments, but it still gives teams plenty of reasons to lose. Tanking is likely to remain a problem.

That leaves NBA consumers, and those concerned with their happiness, searching for answers. Boston Celtics Assistant General Manager and Team Counsel Mike Zarren has pitched one of the more radical solutions to the NBA on several occasions.

The proposal, known by many as simply “the wheel” is one in which teams would be assigned draft picks based on a predetermined order, independent of record. The following was reported in 2013 by Zach Lowe, discussing the original concept:

Each team would simply cycle through the 30 draft slots, year by year, in a predetermined order designed so that teams pick in different areas of the draft each year. Teams would know with 100 percent certainty in which draft slots they would pick every year, up to 30 years out from the start of every 30-year cycle.

Zarren has since submitted a simplified version of his wheel to Adam Silver, but ultimately the league opted in favor of its more modest changes to lottery odds.

Zarren announced, via Twitter, that he plans to keep the full proposal for “the wheel” private, out of respect for the NBA’s efforts to quell tanking via alternative methods. He’s not going to keep outsiders in the dark forever though.

Zarren indicated that he will release the proposal to the public in its entirety at some point down the road. Whether or not that comes as part of additional draft reforms remains to be seen.