Wanna bet that one manager is someone that directly benefitted recently and is now contending?

The league office probably presented them with data to suggest it negatively affecting league revenue. Integrity is already damaged it’s king term viability that they need to protect

Tanking has been a problem for decades so I’m actually not sure about it threatening the “long term viability of the league”.

And the league’s integrity has much larger problems than tanking

There is literally an active investigation into all that going on as we speak. If Sarver took 9 months with clear evidence this’ll probably take even longer

They’re investigating, they’re not gonna release the things they know bc that’s how you screw up an investigation 

Yeah right 😂😂😂 in your dreams

At least wait until after the All-Star break, that’s when Silver said that we’d…

Oh.

And enforce the flopping rules.

What’s the point of this comment when you know they’re actively investigating? If you actually want the Clippers to be punished and for it to stick, the NBA will need an ironclad case to move forward.

Sports gambling is here and it’s not going away. This move to curb tanking to stop teams from outright throwing games is to benefit the gambling companies

Well it’s the gambling companies who don’t like the tanking 

Kawhi Leonard…

Basically bunch of useless corporate speak for “money talks”

They go hand-in-hand. See Chauncey Billups’ indictment

That doesn’t mean it’s wrong or bad to try to reduce tanking

Bro this is a top voted comment lmao

No it doesn’t, teams THROWING on purpose is a bigger issue

Do that in any other sport other than american sports and u go to jail lmao

The bigger problem is why they suddenly care about the smaller problem

Integrity and long term viability are funny words to use when the only reason they started to care is that their gambling sponsors are upset.

Place your bets on which of the top anti-tanking options will be chosen!

This doesn’t even make sense here, but it’s an easy way to get some upvotes I guess.

It’ll either make tanking worse or screw over small market teams.

All they need to eliminate pick protection 

Yeah but the short-term upside and present value of money thooooo

Not really.. no.

It’s annoying though. And I’m a gambler.

I’d like to think we just showed the hypocrisy of tanking in general. Everything We’ve done has been done before in the past, maybe not as blatant, but minute manipulations, roster manipulation, giving healthy guys DNP’s, or resting guys needlessly has all happened and is currently happening. Utah’s jsut decided to no longer care about trying to hide it like everyone else has done in the past.

Its like the NBA and fans all felt like there’s an unwritten rule or gentlemans agreement and we said “fuck it” we want to eat our cake and keep it too, and we can with how everything’s written so we will. Then everyone got upset because they didn’t do it first.

It’s fine to be a bad team that is in transition, but it’s the actively not trying that is the problem

Wouldn’t it be the other way around?

You care if it succeeds but you don’t care when it doesn’t?

Like nobody cares that the Rockets got Green, Jabari and Amen, but it’s way more annoying that the Spurs got Wemby, Castle and Harper.

The Sixers tank is pretty different to what’s going on now. I can’t recall the last time the league had multiple teams actively tanking before the all star break. Most times they tank the last month or so, the Sixers were just really bad and their top pick was out for practically 2 years before he played.

The Jazz could trade markannen and tank that way, trade away your good players and run youth and be and organically. Benching your best players in December is fucking ridiculous and terrible for the spot. I really can’t remember the last time it was this bad, where practically 1/3rd of the league is tossing games on purpose. And with the nba getting a ton of tv money to be broadcasted by a million different streamers, you can’t have ¹⁄₃ of the league tanking in December

the strategy isn’t paying off

If you believe the only way to judge the payoff is “X tanking team wins a Championship” sure. But look at the reality. Spurs, Rockets, Thunder, Pistons, are just the most recent examples of franchises that have turned their hopes around thanks to tanking. Are all of them going to win Championships? No. That doesn’t mean it somehow hasn’t worked for them though.

I’d argue tanking has been a net positive for the league because bad teams now have a clearly defined pathway to competitiveness, and a result of which is the league is more broadly competitive than ever before. 8 different teams have won a championship in the past 10 years alone. For 3 of these teams it was their first championship.

Go back to 2020 and tell people the top teams in the league in 2026 would be the Spurs, Rockets, Thunder, and Pistons.

It’s because the regular season is trash. It’s rarely fun to watch except for a few great matchups. This is a real problem.

When I was growing up I’d watch dozens of games a year. People were fighting for awards. Fighting for contracts. They honestly may have too much sucess now because there is so much money.

 American leagues realizing the late stage capitalist effect of non relegation competition

dumb as fuck take when prominent leagues featuring relegation are ruled by blue bloods bought out by ultra billionaires with endless pocketbooks

“Late stage capitalist” wtf are you talking about? None of this involves capitalism.

What a dumb take. Tanking doesn’t exist because teams just want to do the bare minimum. You misunderstand basically everything about the sport and how it works as a business if you think relegation is the solution.

Hhnnnngggggg 🍆💦

“This is a highlights-based league”

I think cuz it’s all about betting. If teams are tanking, they’re sitting guys or playing them less minutes and the bettors aren’t certain what to set their lines at. Sorry if my betting vocabulary is wrong cuz I don’t bet

As a fellow heat fan, I’m sure you’re also anxiously awaiting them to give justice for the Terry Rozier situation as well. At least they’re doing something about tanking in a year where they’re surrounding by a ton of controversy and need some signal of good will. The reality is nothing will happen to the clippers and Kawhi. The heat got defrauded by another organization with an assist from the NBA and that’s swept under the rug too.