In its effort to curb tanking, Adam Silver and the NBA have put out three proposals that would radically change and expand the NBA's Draft Lottery. All three would grow the lottery to between 18 and 22 teams and flatten the lottery odds. Plus, the plans open the door to harsher penalties for teams that manipulate their lineups or otherwise take steps to tank in the league's eyes, up to and including moving the team's draft pick back to the end of the first round.

These are the three proposals presented to the NBA Board of Governors, a story broken by Shams Charania of ESPN.

• The lottery is expanded to 18 teams, the 10 teams that miss the postseason entirely, plus all eight teams in the play-in.
• The 10 teams that miss the play-in all have an 8% chance of winning lottery, with the other 20% of the lottery odds split among the teams in the play-in, in a descending order.
• All 18 teams are in the lottery.

• The lottery is expanded to 22 teams: The 10 that miss the postseason, the eight in the play-in, and the four teams eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.
• Those 22 teams will be ranked in order of their record across the last two seasons (the WNBA's system). For example, if a team won 20 games this season and 30 the previous season, for the lottery purposes they would have 25 wins.
• Teams will be given a win total minimum, and if they finish below that line their record will improve for lottery purposes. For example, let's say that number is 22 wins, then this season's Pacers/Nets/Wizards — all on pace to have fewer than 22 wins — would see their records increased to 22-60 for lottery purposes. The goal is to take away the incentive to lose too many games.
• The top four spots in the lottery would be drawn as they are now, after that it would go in record order.

• The lottery is expanded to 18 teams, the 10 teams that miss the postseason entirely, plus all eight teams in the play-in.
• The teams with the five worst records would all have the same odds, with the lottery odds for the rest of the teams descending from there.
• There would be two lottery drawings. The first would be for the top five picks. Then, there would be a second lottery drawing for the 13 remaining teams, and if any of the teams with the five worst records did not make the top five picks, then they could not fall further than 10th.

In addition to those proposals, the league wants to increase the commissioner's power to punish a team seen as manipulating its roster to tank. Those punishments could include moving a team's pick to the end of the draft (30th in the first round) and fines in the millions of dollars, according to Joe Varden at The Athletic, who has a quote from a league source.

"Without stricter penalties, you could still have crazy behavior. You have to have something in place that is so drastic, a team would actually think twice about tanking. And if a team tries it and gets caught, then the other teams need to see the penalties and realize it isn't worth it to try."

The NBA's Board of Governors is set to vote on these proposals before this year's NBA Draft.

Stopping tanking has been on top of Adam Silver's to-do list for years, and he's going to use his political capital to push owners to approve some version of one of these proposals. Whether they will work is another question.