Alexander: The NBA’s race to the bottom continues

INGLEWOOD — Tanking has been a subject of conversation in the NBA almost as long as there’s been a draft.

It is, after all, the reason why the league first invented the draft lottery, 41 years ago in 1985. Specifically, the idea was to prevent a race to the bottom to draft presumptive No. 1 pick Patrick Ewing, the Georgetown star who was perceived as a franchise-changer. A coin flip, to then the traditional method of determining the No. 1 pick between the league’s two biggest laggards,...