NEW YORK — Tanking — the idea of losing games in order to get a better position, and ideally a better player, in the NBA draft — is an issue that remains difficult to fix completely.

Earlier this season, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver fined Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban $600,000 for saying “losing is our best option.

”Silver acknowledged Friday at the league’s spring meeting he had discussions with “several teams about what the product was they were putting on the floor, and I’ll leave it at that.

I find it an incredibly difficult issue,” Silver said. “We are changing the draft lottery for next year. It’s something that’s already been voted on. But we continue to look at the issue. We recognize that our goal is to put the best competition on the floor, and it’s balanced against legitimate rebuilding of some teams. I know we’re not there yet. I certainly wasn’t satisfied.”

In September, the league passed lottery reform in an effort to disincentivize tanking. Starting with the 2018-19 season, the three highest lottery seeds will each have a 14% chance of winning the top pick compared to 25% for the team with the worst record, 19.9% for the team with the second-worst record and 15.6% for the team with the third-worst record in the lottery system used since 2005.