Weeks ago, ESPN’s Shams Charania gave the latest update on the league’s efforts to curb tanking, the colloquial term for artificially losing games.

Per Charania, after proposing three different ideas months ago, the league is now eyeing a fourth option, one that would raise the number of lottery teams to 16, further flatten the odds and create a “relegation zone” that would punish the league’s worst teams.

The system has been coined the “3-2-1 lottery,” which would divvy out lottery balls worth 2.7%, with teams able to get a minimum of one lottery ball and a maximum of three.

Teams in the reverse four to nine range would receive three balls, or an 8.1% chance at the top pick.…