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2025-2026 Tank Race Prediction Contest and Current Results Thread

idiot said:
Whether the league can tolerate this in the long run is a legitimate question.

For now, and correct me if I'm wrong, the Jazz are following league rules.

I don't think the league has a lot of leeway to arbitrarily change its rules midway through the season just because things are unseemly. Rule changes of this magnitude have to be negotiated among/agreed upon by the league collectively (team voting) in its annual meetings.
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There's some gray area language in the Player Participation Policy related to meaningfully reducing a role...but no real way of defining that. That policy is not for tanking in the first place.

Tanking isn't a problem that you can shame away. It's up to the league to increase the incentive to win or decrease the incentive to lose. Some potential decisions have also been discussed and reported on. They're not going to implement those things mid-season, and the only one that would have an impact on this year is locking the odds after March 1.

Stop us if you've heard this before: the NBA is apparently unhappy with its league-wide tanking epidemic. After several attempts at lottery reform and the adoption of the Play-In Tournament, the league, according to ESPN, is considering several more drastic steps to attack the problem. Solutions being considered include:

  • Limiting the legal protections on traded first-round picks to top-four or 14 or above, theoretically eliminating the incentive to tank down to a specific slot or try to lose when a Play-In berth is at stake.
  • No longer allowing teams to draft in the top four in consecutive seasons.
  • Locking lottery positions after March 1.
While each of these concepts at least has some merit, the drawbacks in each case are often just as significant if not worse.
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The NBA is once again trying to solve its unfixable tanking problem

The NBA is reportedly discussing potential new steps to curb tanking across the league
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The Jazz could have delayed playing JJJ for some time after acquiring him and nobody would have cared, but they got excited and now they have a longer runway of having to play these games.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
The Jazz could have delayed playing JJJ for some time after acquiring him and nobody would have cared, but they got excited and now they have a longer runway of having to play these games.
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I think if push came to shove, the Jazz would clearly have less plausibility for sitting JJJ (compared to Zubac, AD, Trae who each had real injuries before their trades).
 
idiot said:
I think if push came to shove, the Jazz would clearly have less plausibility for sitting JJJ (compared to Zubac, AD, Trae who each had real injuries before their trades).
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Zubac had a baby on the same day as the trade, so I'm actually pretty cool with him getting a real paternity leave.

I'm sure if the Jazz wanted to they could have found some injury to say that JJJ needed time for though.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
I'm sure if the Jazz wanted to they could have found some injury to say that JJJ needed time for though.
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MIL signed Cam Thomas. Giannis says he wants to play. They’re not a huge risk to jump us imo. That’s the kind of team that can cleanup on the actual tanking teams.
 
KqWIN said:
MIL signed Cam Thomas. Giannis says he wants to play. They’re not a huge risk to jump us imo. That’s the kind of team that can cleanup on the actual tanking teams.
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I still feel like our ceiling is 4 but maybe realistically it’s 5. The Pelicans can pass us especially if we get grimy in our games against them.

The Wizards and Pacers are just so bad and leaning into the tank. The Kings are Kanging. The Nets are in between.
 
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