Game Thread Feb 07, 2026 05:00PM MT: Utah Jazz @ Orlando Magic

[NAOS_pt2]

You have a very deep misunderstanding of what Adam Silver's job actually is if you think he's going to resolve this by punishing individual teams instead of making structural changes to disincentivize tanking going forward.

Comparing this to the Sterling episode is launching yourself completely outside of reality.

It's difficult to shame someone out of their one true activity.

 

[Flc]

The NBA didn't have a rule against Sterling, and they banned him for life and took away his team.

Sterling violated article 13A and 13d of the NBA Constitution and Bylaws. Thanks for playing, back to your troll hole.

 

[fishonjazz]

Of course we could have. All you simply have to do from the beginning of the season is not play Svi or Love hardly any minutes and split the center minutes between Nurk and Flip. Do those things and we have at least 3 less wins and are very comfortable right now. Instead we are looking at a very stressful 30 games.

Ya the great thing about starting from the beginning is no one knows what your rotations are like yet. So you can just have tanky rotations from game 1 and no one even knows you are using your tank rotation. They just figure it's your normal rotation since it's the only rotation anyone has seen

 

[outerspacefan]

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1qywzsn/post_game_thread_the_orlando_magic_2724_defeat/


Strongly recommend everybody reading this, ppl are just malding in the comments lmfaoooooo

- George

Fxxx them all, fxxx the NBA and fxxx Silver. RS can handle some money sanctions.

 

[Tanktastic]

Are you going to reddit and the pacers forums when they sat their 5 starters and 6th man against us... and the immediately all played the next game?

What about the wizards sitting Sarr, AD, Tre, and more?

Yeah, they did all that. And no-one noticed. Because they had some bums on the court that never had a chance. Whereas the Jazz threw a game in the most open and visible way.

You have a very deep misunderstanding of what Adam Silver's job actually is if you think he's going to resolve this by punishing individual teams instead of making structural changes to disincentivize tanking going forward.

Comparing this to the Sterling episode is launching yourself completely outside of reality.

No, Adam Silver's job is to protect the league and it's image.

As long as tanking is a nuisance to a minority of the most committed fans, it's a non-issue.

If suddenly it's on national news that NBA teams are throwing games and laughing about it on the bench, Silver has a problem he actually cares about and has to deal with.

And no, tanking and Sterling aren't comparable. But Sterling just shows that Silver and the NBA can do absolutely anything they want to - if they feel they need to.

Sterling violated article 13A and 13d of the NBA Constitution and Bylaws. Thanks for playing, back to your troll hole.

Yeah, nice on you cuck.

Guess what 13g says...

(g) Offer, agree, conspire, or attempt to lose or control the score of any game participated in by a Team operated by a Member of the Association, or fail to suspend immediately any officer or any Player or other employee of the Member who shall be found guilty, in a
court of law or in any hearing sanctioned by this Constitution and By- Laws, of offering, agreeing, conspiring, or attempting to lose or control the score of any such game or of being interested in any pool or wager on any game in which a Team operated by a Member of the
Association participates.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

JJJ on offense often looked like the second coming of Al Jefferson. Not sure if I like that.

He had 3 assist...

 

[KqWIN]

Yeah I’d say what the Jazz, and one third of the league, is doing is about the same as Donald Sterling.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

The minutes restriction stuff looks bad, but it's still more ethical than flat out sitting players. Jazz still player a tough 48 minutes and everyone on the court was playing to win.