NBA Draft Lottery Reform PASSES—Will Milwaukee Bucks STRUGGLE Under New Rules?

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🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

NBA lottery reform passes with a 29-1 vote, ushering in the new 3-2-1 lottery format and reshaping draft strategy for teams across the league. Justin Garcia and Camille Davis analyze how these changes—limiting consecutive top picks for struggling teams and expanding the lottery to all 16 non-playoff teams—could impact small-market franchises like the Milwaukee Bucks. Is this the end of tanking, or will it simply make draft outcomes even more unpredictable?

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0:00.0	We get a game seven and the lottery reform officially passes.
0:05.0	Why do Bucks fans seemingly hate this?
0:07.5	Camille and I dig into it next.
0:14.3	You are locked on Bucks, your daily Milwaukee Bucks podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:25.6	Welcome into Locked on Box. I'm Justin Garcia.
0:27.8	I'm, as always by Camille Davis on today's show.
0:31.2	Game 7 baby as we channel our inner.
0:37.6	Camille, as soon as I go to it,
0:40.9	Buck Legend, and I immediately forget the name of like,
0:44.7	wait a minute, I can still picture it in the Hogs jersey.
0:47.7	But yes.
0:49.2	And a lottery reform passes, which we had told you,
0:53.4	it doesn't trickle out if they don't feel that they don't have the votes here.
0:57.3	So it's going to pass.
0:58.7	It did.
0:59.9	There was one dissenting vote.
1:01.9	I think you can probably piece together who it was.
1:05.4	But it seems like Bucks fans hate this.
1:08.0	So we'll dig into the whys behind that that. And then of course, we continue our series
1:13.2	on who will not be selected by the Bucks in the draft, which is rapidly approaching less than
1:19.7	a month away now. But let's start with lottery reform. It passed, what's the vote 29 to 1?
1:28.5	29 to 1.
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