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“I’ve asked a lot of people and they don’t even have SGA in their top three when it comes to this. If you ask a lot of players, they look at how they play at the entire game, not just the offensive end, but the defensive end. I think when you talk about the narrative for so long, the narrative on Luka is that he doesn’t play on defense. A lot of these reporters don’t watch West Coast games. They just look at the box score and go about what someone else tells them. You’re like, “Luka doesn’t play defense” so they make a note, “-1 for him.” And you look at SGA, “They’re the number one team, that’s +2 for him.” Oh, you look at Wemby, “He’s probably defensive player, thats +2 for him.”So they look at things like that, and to me, Wemby is a great player, but he’s not even my top 3, top 4 for MVP this year — We don’t know who’s doing this voting, I know about two guys who vote. And they’re on ESPN and I don’t trust their votes anyways.” Robert Horry defending Luka for not being an MVP finalist

Multiple sources with knowledge of Thursday's GM meeting as well as a late January Competition Committee meeting told ESPN that the following concepts have been discussed to curb tanking: •First-round picks can be protected only top-4 or top-14+ •Lottery odds freeze at the trade deadline or a later date •No longer allowing a team to pick top 4 in consecutive years and/or after consecutive bottom-3 finishes •Teams can’t pick top-4 the year after making conference finals •Lottery odds allocated based on two-year records •Lottery extended to include all play-in teams •Flatten odds for all lottery teams