The NBA's Board of Governors have voted down lottery reform, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports. This is big news, as the reform was widely expected to hurt small market teams.

The change would have worsened the odds for bad teams to have high lottery picks. Under the current system, the team with the worst record can fall no farther than 4th, as the Kings experienced in 2009. Under the proposed change, the worst team could fall as far as 8th.

As Kings fans, this is good news. While we hope the Kings will be a good team for years to come, we're simply not there yet. There's a chance the current rebuild fails, and the Kings would once again be in the league's cellar. Or, even in the best case, the Kings would eventually return to the cellar after their run of multiple championships.

Small market teams rely on the lottery and the draft. Weakening this tool would have hurt the competitive balance of small market teams. Today's news is good news. The big question then is trying to figure out why the Kings favored the reform.