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NBA commissioner says the league is monitoring tanking, a ‘serious issue’

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NBA commissioner Adam Silver says the league is monitoring tanking, a ‘serious issue’

Anticipating that teams might employ the strategy for a certain 2023 draft prospect, Adam Silver said the league will be “paying particular attention to the issue this year."
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While some franchises have been speculated to do less than everything possible to win in order to secure top draft picks, the NBA is cracking down this season, according to Silver.

"We put teams on notice," he reportedly told employees. "We're going to be paying particular attention to the issue this year."
 
1-Jazzfan said:
sports.yahoo.com

NBA commissioner Adam Silver says the league is monitoring tanking, a ‘serious issue’

Anticipating that teams might employ the strategy for a certain 2023 draft prospect, Adam Silver said the league will be “paying particular attention to the issue this year."
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While some franchises have been speculated to do less than everything possible to win in order to secure top draft picks, the NBA is cracking down this season, according to Silver.

"We put teams on notice," he reportedly told employees. "We're going to be paying particular attention to the issue this year."
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Wonder if the Lakers got a call.











I know they don’t have their pick it’s just fun to think of Silver calling them asking if they are this ****** on purpose.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Wonder if the Lakers got a call.











I know they don’t have their pick it’s just fun to think of Silver calling them asking if they are this ****** on purpose.
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No the ultimate goal is to get Wemby on the Lakers. This is just phase 1.
 
I mean its no surprise Victor is the highest ranked concensus #1 in a long long time and the blatant tankers will get punished with bad lottery outcomes behind their secret curtain of shame. There is no way to know who is really tanking if players are getting hurt, its not up to the Commish to decide if they are cleared to play or not.
Teams that tank by using bad line ups also just have to mix those up with more bad line ups all season. Its easy to tank and no way to prove its done outside of teams intentionally pulling the best players on the team when playing tank race teams
 
To say a team can't tank now is absurd unless you penalize all the current teams that have benefitted from it. The Jazz have basically never tanked, ever. So if they choose to bottom out now, it would be b.s. to somehow penalize them, especially when draft pick %s are already designed to discourage tanking.
 
Idk man. I’m watching the Spurs smack around the 0-2 (now 0-3) Sixers in Philly. Look what the Jazz have done. There is so much talent in the league, I wanna see how this tanking thing really works out first. So far it’s nothing. All these teams have nice players.
 
TheGoldStandard said:
To say a team can't tank now is absurd unless you penalize all the current teams that have benefitted from it. The Jazz have basically never tanked, ever. So if they choose to bottom out now, it would be b.s. to somehow penalize them, especially when draft pick %s are already designed to discourage tanking.
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This will be like the year Aaron McKie was dealt in a sign-and-trade by the Lakers when he was on the Sixers coaching staff, then when Keith Van Horn did a sign-and-trade shortly thereafter, then we tried a similar deal including Ostertag and the league nixed it, stating Ostertag wasn’t in the league.
 
Silver went on to say:

Tanking is stupid and random so math and reason says that teams shouldn’t do it… furthermore it has been shown to drop high level talent in ****** tv markets. So only teams in important markets are allowed to participate in this terribly random strategy to get high level talent. Utah, OKC, Indiana, San Antonio will be penalized in advance of the lotto due tank like behaviors… their picks will be given to NY, LA, Chicago, Las Vegas, and Seattle… also forgot to announce we are doing an expansion draft where LV and Seattle will draft teams from the small market rostersI mean randomly selected nba markets… Utah, OKC, Orlando, Indiana, SA… also the Lakers will get picks in this draft cuz the are flaming dog ****. Thank you.
 
The dumbass should've been monitoring tampering and side deals that allows teams to amass a super lineup in one off-season.

NBA championships are won in July, not during the playoffs and more than 80% of the teams know they have no chance to win a championship. Broken League
 
Not only is this impossible to monitor and punish, it is ridiculous to start doing it now given how prevalent it has been in the past. This is Silver posturing in public and making it sound like the league will do something or that the league cares. They have built a system that rewards tanking and teams will keep doing it.
 
just take lottery balls away from teams like OKC that for consecutive seasons resting their star players for no apparent reason.

simple fix.
 
Jazzmix said:
Has there ever been a team penalised for tanking before?
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Orlando tanked its way into picking Mario Hezonja at #5 in 2015, which isn't an official NBA penalty, but I'm calling it poetic justice.

These days Hezonja is probably playing overseas in some league where the fans, refs and players all smoke at halftime.
 
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