Do you like this idea or no? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ya...ba-draft-lottery-reform-really-180043244.html
Plus imagine being an aging star on the team. How much incentive do you have to try to get your team to draft your replacement? Same goes for soon to be free agents. What incentive do they have to play well. Even with that aside, the first significant injury to a star player during the tournament of the damned would end it.
I've been proposing this for years. But it should be 16 teams, not 14, and the top two teams not only get the top two picks, but also get the 8 seed in the real playoffs. And if they play the games on consecutive days, it would only take 3 days to get down to the two playoff teams. All addressed by my proposed expansion above. Vets/FAs don't care about a pick, but they want a shot at the playoffs. As for injuries...they can happen anytime.
The real fix is to eliminate the 7th an 8th seeds all together. Those are the ones that almost never have a chance. Then you can really flatten the probability distribution among the losing teams.