Changing the NBA Draft to Favor Weak Teams

Zach Lowe at the excellent Point Forward blog has some discussion of proposals to alter the NBA draft to give an even greater advantage to weaker teams. I don't like most of the proposals. Each of the 30 teams should get one of the first 30 picks. It's only fair, and as he notes few players outside even the first 10 or 15 picks become superstars. The first 5-10 picks are by far the most important part of the draft, and the draft lottery already allocates those picks to teams that missed the playoffs.