The NBA’s new anti-tanking rules will be in place through the 2029 draft. After that, the league’s board of governors will decide whether to keep it in place or find another system.Yet commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday night one thing is certain: “We’ll never go back to where we were.”In an interview with ESPN before the draft, Silver said the age of teams fighting to see who could finish at the bottom of the league standings — and thus improve their chances of a better lottery spot — was over.“We ended up in a situation where fans of teams were actually rooting for their teams to be bad,” Silver said. “It was particularly bad this year, I think, because of the perceived depth of (the 2026 NBA) Draft.”Under the new rules, the bottom three franchises are considered in the “relegation zone” and drop from a previous 14 percent chance of landing the No. 1 pick to a 5.4 percent chance. The fourth- through 10th-worst teams now have 8.1 percent odds of landing the first selection.Silver has previously likened the incentives to those of European soccer, in which the bottom three teams in leagues get relegated to lower divisions. In the ESPN interview, he said any incentive to lose should be nullified and it had become a pervasive issue in the league that needed to be dealt with.