NBA commissioner says the league is monitoring tanking, a ‘serious issue’
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The sixers were forced to hire Brian Colangelo who completely screwed up all their future assets with stupid moves.
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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.
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.
mellow
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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
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
gomretat
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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.
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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.