I mean, the only way to get rid of tanking is to give all the lottery teams equal odds, but that introduces an absurd degree of unfairness to the process, which is worse. So...a Western team like Phoenix deserves to get the #1 pick as much as the wretched Bucks, who tried this season, but were simply garbage? Really? That's not a way to improve bad teams at all. I think the unfairness is far worse than tanking because it is too random. Also, as many have mentioned, there could be ways to limit tanking w/o implementing a lottery - you can't get a top 3 pick 2 years in a row, etc. I still think the best way is to just base it on record. Its not like all garbage teams tank. Some are just bad, and you punish them by letting teams like the Cavs, run worse than Crazy Eddie's stores in the 1980s, keep getting top picks over them.