justletmeregisteryou | Bucks

625 | 5 hours ago

dawg some of these teams just fucking suck lol

Metaboss24 | Suns

82 | 3 hours ago

The obsession with tanking is leading to people not caring about the differences between a team trying to lose, a team that gave up on a failed core, and a franchise that eats Elmer’s glue for breakfast.

FailedAwards | Warriors

60 | 5 hours ago

Which is why he didn’t say the kings

sloBrodanChillosevic | Supersonics

127 | 4 hours ago

Probably more because they aren’t playing tonight

zero_deaths0p | Kings

25 | 4 hours ago

lol for reals. Warriors bout to join us in the nor cal despair anyways.

Virtual_Zebra_9453

3 | 4 hours ago

Doubt we see them over 500 in the near future

Franklo | Warriors

-16 | 4 hours ago

Got something for you to see 🖖🏻💍💍💍💍

Virtual_Zebra_9453

-6 | 3 hours ago

As a laker fan, you have a long ass ways to go

Afraid-Department-35 | Mavericks

1 | 4 hours ago

Yeah, and next thing we know they’ll draft some generational talent within the next 3 years.

arcefu

0 | 4 hours ago

the bay is too big a market now to be bad for very long

BurnMeInTheStars | Knicks

4 | 3 hours ago

The team in THE biggest market actually was bad for very long though.

chrisgcc

1 | 3 hours ago

They’ve got enough good vibes to survive for a few years before the despair hits

MitsuSosa | 76ers

3 | 4 hours ago

The fact that person has so many upvotes tells you half the people in this sub don’t even actually follow the NBA

Cheeseish | NOP

2 | 3 hours ago

Or the pelicans

DirkNowitzkisWife | Mavericks

44 | 4 hours ago

Only thing the Mavs are doing is holding out Kyrie for the season, which is prudent, who’s their 2nd best player? Naji Marshall?

TwitterLegend

6 | 3 hours ago

Naji deserves to be traded to a contender this offseason.

McDouble__ | Pistons

9 | 3 hours ago

Naji would fit perfectly in Detroit

TwitterLegend

1 | 2 hours ago

He would kill it with you guys, that would be a perfect fit.

KingDave46 | Cavaliers

17 | 5 hours ago

I don’t buy the “this team isn’t tanking they just built the most dog shit roster ever conceived but are trying real hard I swear”

WeBelieveIn4 | Raptors

32 | 4 hours ago

You just described the kings

NotNice4193 | Mavericks

10 | 3 hours ago

Hey…its not tanking if you traded away one of the best player since the league for an injury prone old man!

mikesh8rp | Knicks

7 | 4 hours ago

Yeah, some people seem to really be discounting the owners and GMs that built teams that have no choice but to tank, whether the coaches and players want to or not.

ositola | Lakers

5 | 3 hours ago

This, tanking is a FO move, the players don’t want to look bad on tape

Except Cam Thomas

Milkboy1516 | Bulls

5 | 3 hours ago

I’ve tried but you can’t deny that the Bulls exist

Awesomedinos1 | Jazz

1 | 3 hours ago

People will normalise about what kind of tanking is acceptable. ‘ethical tanking’ has always been a term of convenience.

Hurls07

1 | an hour ago

Having a dogshit roster (pacers minus their hurt players), and siting all stars (wizards with young and AD) isn’t the same

moby323 | 76ers

18 | 5 hours ago

The nephews are like toddlers when they learn a new word.

Like a 2 year old that learns the word “spa- getti” and calls all food “spa-getti”

legend023 | Pelicans

7 | 5 hours ago

They’re so bad they pull out players that play well when they have close games.

Objective-Product361

4 | 5 hours ago

But some of them really are tanking. I saw one time washington giving OKC fits. They were up 96-93 beginning of 4th quarter when the coach suddenly rested Coulibaly, who’s torching OKC on both ends, for 5-6 minutes. When he came back the lead has ballooned to 20 😂

Parallel-Quality

21 | 4 hours ago

Yes, resting Coulibaly (who played 32 minutes) to start the fourth is why OKC beat them.

We’re talking about the team that let Bam score 83.

They just suck.

TheBigBomma | Thunder

1 | 4 hours ago

Their two best players are on ice for questionable reasons

TheRobSorensen | Hawks

-2 | 4 hours ago

Your argument is that these teams aren’t intentionally tanking and just suck? That seems borderline delusional.

lethalizered | Thunder

9 | 4 hours ago

Citing the OKC game and the Coulibaly to start the fourth quarter was still hilarious lol

Man had played 26 minutes before the fourth started, rested for 4 minutes and ended up with 34.

There are some much better examples to prove the strategic tank angle, that was not one of them.

Parallel-Quality

5 | 4 hours ago

Some of them just suck. Some of them are intentionally tanking.

Watch the Pacers. They pick and choose when they want to compete.

They absolutely could be a play-in team, but they’re strategically tanking.

lethalizered | Thunder

20 | 4 hours ago

They were up 96-93 beginning of 4th quarter when the coach suddenly rested Coulibaly,

The man played 34 minutes lol, what do you want them to do, not rest anyone?

OKC lets Shai rest in the start of the fourth quarter for nearly every night, guess we’ve just tanked our way to a 57 win season lol

frozen2665 | Heat

1 | 2 hours ago

This having upvotes is such a tell about how much this sub sucks now. The Nuggets tank every game for resting Jokic the first 4 minutes of the 4th

EmphasisOk8298

1 | 5 hours ago

No every single one is so good obviously tanking. Why do people keep saying this.

LordBaneoftheSith

0 | 4 hours ago

Being bad is nefarious now lol

wormhole222 | Heat

-18 | 5 hours ago

That’s why I didn’t put the Pelicans. Because they aren’t trying to lose.

Neveraththesmith

28 | 4 hours ago

How is Chicago and Dallas trying to lose?

Animefan420lol | NBA

24 | 4 hours ago

To help fit OPs narrative

TheForceWithin | Bulls

389 | 5 hours ago

Much to my chagrin, the Bulls do not ever tank.

zero_deaths0p | Kings

70 | 4 hours ago

Never. Nice .500ish record and a play in birth for forever.

SilkyJohnson72 | Bulls

11 | 4 hours ago

We’re finally breaking the cycle this year

zero_deaths0p | Kings

17 | 4 hours ago

Play-in won’t be the same.

Mr_Hugh_Honey

7 | 3 hours ago

The Hawks would also not be in the play-in if the season ended today. What a time to be alive

frozen2665 | Heat

3 | 2 hours ago

Smh what are those two doing? Ruining tradition

aquintana | Spurs

6 | 3 hours ago

Berth

ogorangeduck

1 | 39 minutes ago

The Washington Wizards gambit

ThoseDarnCatGifs

9 | 4 hours ago

As a Spurs fan I for one am hoping for a Josh Giddy revenge game vs his old team. Let’s go Bulls!

fattymcdabs | Thunder

2 | an hour ago

Shai is trying to help him. 0/10 from 3 tonight lol

PresidentRevrac | Pacers

2 | 2 hours ago

This is our first time ever

Sandasmandas | Knicks

180 | 5 hours ago

Chicago isn’t taking though… they play their starters starter minutes and try to win games… same with Dallas

Afraid-Department-35 | Mavericks

73 | 5 hours ago

We be doing some ethical tanking. 💪💪💪

FunTailor794

65 | 5 hours ago

Just ethically dogshit basketball 🏀

livefreeordont | 76ers

3 | an hour ago

Back in the day a team could just suck donkey balls without being accused of losing on purpose

Eclipse434343

16 | 4 hours ago

I didn’t know that’s what they call being bad these days. Maybe I can ethically tank my nba try outs

Hayabusa_Blacksmith

10 | 4 hours ago

youve been ethically tanking your NBA tryouts this whole time

Afraid-Department-35 | Mavericks

2 | 4 hours ago

Isn’t that what we’ve all been doing? Otherwise we would be in the nba.

mMounirM | Raptors

16 | 4 hours ago

Bulls’ strategy of just having a bunch of guards post-trade deadline and having a flawed roster is their method of tanking.

champaigneandcocaine | Spurs

6 | 4 hours ago

That is usually how you tank, yes

You put a bad roster together and lose games

Crafty-Border-7452

5 | 4 hours ago

That is ethical tanking

Something_Sharp | 76ers

-1 | an hour ago

No one said that when we did it lol

Mammoth-Physics6254 | Mavericks

1 | 5 hours ago

With some of the lineups that Kidd throws out there we might as well be tanking.

phrozen_waffles | Cavaliers

-9 | 4 hours ago

Tanking via roster construction, how many guards do you have, how many 2nd round picks have you hoarded, how much in expiring contracts after this season?

Staring bench players outside to Buzelis & Giddey isn’t really “not” tanking.

Sandasmandas | Knicks

9 | 4 hours ago

I think hoarding 2nd round picks and expiring contracts isn’t tanking, it’s a strategy for the future. I view tanking as specifically playing games to lose. Otherwise it’s a rebuild.

phrozen_waffles | Cavaliers

-4 | 4 hours ago

Not extended players and trading them for expiring contracts so your roster is full of bench players and playing 3-4 guard line ups is the same as tanking.

It’s tanking at the GM level vs. the coaching level.

Sandasmandas | Knicks

3 | 4 hours ago

I’m not sure we have the same definition of tanking. Tanking on the GM level is rebuilding. Tanking I feel refers to purposefully trying to lose games. GMs making moves isn’t exactly purposefully trying to lose games. I don’t think those GMs are making those moves to make a team that loses games, I think they are doing it from a future strategic standpoint. That’s rebuilding to me, as opposed to sitting your guys to lose games

timestalker78

95 | 5 hours ago

Some of these teams are just bad, though. There are always going to be bad teams.

Ok-Butterfly2994

47 | 4 hours ago

it’s like people think every team in the league should basically just be at .500. someone needs to be the 15 seed.

Rosenvial5

19 | 4 hours ago

Crazy how so many people don’t understand that some team has to be the worst. Why should the league be responsible for forcing teams to not be shit when they’re not doing anything on their own volition to stop being shit?

EmphasisOk8298

0 | 5 hours ago

Which teams aren’t actively making moves to reduce their odds of winning.

PillsburyToasters | Bucks

16 | 4 hours ago

The Kings

Basic-Collection5416 | Pistons

15 | 4 hours ago

The Bulls

Constant_Charge_4528 | Bulls

1 | an hour ago

Nah, we traded away 3 of our starters and our best bench players in January. We are actually trying to lose

Crafty-Border-7452

12 | 4 hours ago

It’s really only the Jazz and Wizards tbh. The other teams just suck or actually traded their good players in a rebuild.

EmphasisOk8298

2 | 4 hours ago

The nets were a competitive team for 2 months and then miraculously fell off a cliff lol.

Crafty-Border-7452

5 | 4 hours ago

Okay yes, I will acknowledge this one. They started sitting MPJ and limiting Claxton’s minutes

JayJax_23 | Washington Bullets

2 | 4 hours ago

Do you think the wizards would be in a play in spot if they weren’t “tanking” this

Constant_Charge_4528 | Bulls

-1 | an hour ago

traded their good players in a rebuild

Isn’t that effectively just tanking? Like OKC trading away basically everyone for draft capital and then built their championship roster in the next two years. They blew up their entire squad in 2021, tanked 21 and 22, built their team in 23 and 24 then won the ring in 25.

In fact, the current top contenders were all on the same trajectory, just that Pistons, Spurs and OKC had their picks panning out while the others failed so they’re continuing the tank. I guarantee in five years the contenders will include the teams tanking today.

The problem is that it makes regular season games even more meaningless than they already are, half the teams are trying to lose while the other half are trying to conserve energy for the playoffs.

The league needs to stop giving higher picks for performing badly. Handing out fines won’t work, it’s just a slap on the wrist plus it doesn’t solve the main issue.

Panthor

1 | 3 hours ago

Why are they adding more teams, isn’t that just going to dilute the talent pool further? There aren’t enough top tier players for 32 competitive teams.

Free_Surprise_7939

1 | 9 minutes ago

The nba owners gonna get a hefty payout for those expansion teams

Lucky13200 | Celtics

-3 | 5 hours ago

But why make it better for the team to lose than win. Bad or not teams should try to win. You know if the wizards have the lead after 3 quarters the coach will bench the players.

samlet | Spurs

4 | 4 hours ago

Yeah there are always bad teams, but only the NBA has so many games where you just know one team is actively going to try *not* to win.

Like the Spurs have had three games in the last week or so against Sacramento, Indiana, and Memphis where the whole time I was watching I was thinking “okay, but even if the Spurs are losing in the 4th quarter there’s no way the other team is going to try to win lol.” It just makes it feel like a fake game.

I don’t blame the other teams since that’s just the way the system is set up rn, but it’s dumb that ¹⁄₃ of the season feels like exhibitions.

Wrong-Vermicelli4723

2 | 4 hours ago

The nba needed to cut the amount of games a long time ago.

cacti_zoom | Suns

49 | 4 hours ago

This happens every year and honestly worse?

Why do i give two fucks about the teams like utah and dallas when

The east 5-10 is super tight
SA is trying to catch OKC
West 3-6 is also tight
BOS/NYC are fighting for 2 seed
West 8-10 is also tight

Thats 15 teams fighting for playoff seeding

AfricanRain | NBA

-14 | 4 hours ago

You guys are just fully indoctrinated into accepting so many meaningless games that you can’t see the problem here

All of those interesting things become less interesting when those teams are playing teams deliberately trying to lose

Victor_Wembanyama1 | Spurs

10 | 3 hours ago

It’s an 82 game season and some of us watch multiple teams. And if by some magic all teams are competitive, there will still be teams i won’t be watching because they suck and don’t have a direction or flatout not interested at all.

Teams consistently in the 8-11 range are the worst teams overall to watch, like the kings or bulls because their FOs suck. They would have fun games here and there when they manage to nab some good players but they’ll fuck It all up and never be truly competitive.

The bigger issue is how the nba has babied offenses and the refs being inconsistent because they can’t keep up with the players. And games taking way too long.

pm_me_fish_sticks_

6 | 3 hours ago

Whether you believe it or not, teams in EVERY league are incentivized to lose in order to gain a higher draft pick. It happens in the NHL & the NFL a lot as well. Sure, tanking sucks and makes games less interesting. But we’re also just a few weeks from the playoffs, where EVERY game is important and NO tanking teams are playing.

The NBA playoffs are awesome every year and this year is looking to be no different. So if I have to deal with some tanking teams and uninteresting basketball for a few weeks, that’s fine with me. Especially when I understand that the league (and every league with a draft system) incentivizes losing in order to improve.

thatisagoodrock | Knicks

-4 | 4 hours ago

Correct. I don’t know why it’s so crazy for basketball fans to want to watch competitive basketball. I feel like I’m living in a simulation.

Brooklyn/LA should not be more boring than baseball when I’m a diehard basketball fan.

Ok-Tree4365

43 | 5 hours ago

March is always a funny time for the NBA. Even if tanking didn’t exist, there would still be teams outside of the playoff picture who would rest stars, or situations where stars are rested for favorable bracket matchups.

Dallas and Chicago will still try to win. There may be a little extra juice in Indiana due to Mathurin and Jackson returning. Memphis still can win games, and Golden State is really bad.

EarthWarping | NBA

6 | 4 hours ago

Grizzlies beat the Nuggets a week ago (B2B, still tho).

Bulls beat the Rockets a few days ago.

For the teams that arent completely tanking all the time, they can still win a game vs a good team. All it takes is one hot shooting game.

wpmason

42 | 4 hours ago

The Pacers are currently up by 19, so we can shut this down right now.

theeternalcowby | Lakers

18 | 3 hours ago

It did NOT feel like the Pacers were tanking the other night against the Lakers lol

wpmason

20 | 3 hours ago

They legitimately aren’t… they just don’t have enough to finish games because Siakam is carrying so much and the rest of the team has just been inconsistent.

There have probably been 30+ games where they looked awesome through 3 quarters and didn’t have enough in the tank to close out the 4th.

burgermeatdawg

1 | 23 minutes ago

Eh the pacers would be closer to .500 if they didn’t let some of those 30+ games ‘slip’ away. Their rotation players consistently play harder and out hustle 90% of the teams in the league. I can’t see them losing all those games because they “didn’t have enough in the tank.”

ianbits | Cavaliers

4 | 2 hours ago

Pacers aren’t even sitting Siakam

meowcat93 | Pacers

1 | an hour ago

My friend…

MrFishAndLoaves | Pelicans

24 | 5 hours ago

It’s Week 17 of the NFL. Chill.

wormhole222 | Heat

-15 | 5 hours ago

Even in week 18 it isn’t a situation where 70% of the games are unwatchable. In week 17 it’s way less than that.

dwrek24 | Spurs

13 | 4 hours ago

My first question is are you actually watching full games of week ¹⁷⁄₁₈ football? Or are you watching RedZone?

26_skinny_Cartman | LAC

4 | 3 hours ago

Yea, only like 65% unwatchable and meaningless games for week 18. I’m sure everyone was super stoked for Browns v Bengals, Chiefs v Raiders, watching the 3-14 Jets, Cardinals, and Titans all get blown out by 3+ scores, and 3 teams only managing to score a field goal. Most exciting week of football in years. Only thing that would have made it better is for the Giants and Cowboys to play a double header at the 4PM and Sunday night slots. There was like 3 games that meant anything at all.

Filthy_Commie_ | Bulls

2 | 3 hours ago

This is straight up untrue lmao, Week 18 is notorious for playoff teams pulling their starters and ruining fantasy lineups. Week 17 isn’t as bad but it’s still meaningless football most of the time.

Locksmith1778

17 | 5 hours ago

Some teams are just bad and that’s ok. It’s an unavoidable part of every major team sport, even the ones that don’t have drafts

tari-gand-ma-ghu

14 | 5 hours ago

No one is tanking Adam. Go do something productive.

Ending33

10 | 4 hours ago

I’m not going to pretend that teams aren’t out here tanking but people gotta realize some of these teams just aren’t good. Or aren’t good enough! Some plain suck. Major difference in tanking and a team not being good

geezerhippo

1 | an hour ago

They arent good ebcasue t ehy have no incentive to be good.

If there was no reason to be bad, the jazz woudl be compeeteing for a play in spot right now.

If there was no increntive to be bad, the bulls wouldnt have a rotaotion right now of 8 point guards.

ETC

These teams are bad. but they are bad on purpose.

awesomespy | Lakers

9 | 4 hours ago

Indiana, Chicago, and Dallas would be bad no matter what, they seem to be trying to win games. Brooklyn, Memphis, and Washington are trying to get out of the hole they dug themselves in.

Only the Jazz seems to be artificially worse than they could be.

It’s not possible for all 30 NBA teams to be good in a season. A bunch of teams are going to bad, and a few teams are going to terrible, no matter the rules

kamekaze1024

8 | 4 hours ago

Bad teams =/= Tanking

jfrodriguez1983 | Mavericks

9 | 4 hours ago

No we just suck. Kidd is very much still trying to win these games. The majority of our games have been very competitive until the end.

Numerous_Car_8358

7 | 4 hours ago

Dallas is just really dog shit they play all their starters at normal minutes

ShawshankException | Knicks

8 | 4 hours ago

I guess the whole “half the league is tanking” take is right if you just say any bad team is tanking

UnusualTarget7661

4 | 4 hours ago

not every team in the league can be good or should be good all at the same time, and sometimes it leads to nights like this and thats fine

Own_Result3651

6 | 4 hours ago

I do not care. It’s playoff time.

Sniffy4 | South Sudan

4 | 4 hours ago

Warriors are tanking involuntarily. Oh wait I think that doesnt make sense?

ChrisBot8 | Cavaliers

3 | 4 hours ago

No one gave a damn about tanking before gambling was involved in the league. OKC was allowed to do it for years.

SmileyPiesUntilIDrop | West

3 | 4 hours ago

If I was a Mavs fan,I would have wished the team tanked more and given Cooper Flagg rest a few more road games so they would have better lottery odds about right now. And if I was a Bulls fan,I would have wanted management to trade away all their vets expiring/earlier in the season for 87 guards,because they already banked too many wins to have anything but a slight punchers chance at a top 4 pick. And Memphis isn;t really tanking they are just too bit by injury all season

Fcusjfnfmfkg | Lakers

2 | 4 hours ago

How about those tanking Pacers beating up the trying Clippers? I guess “tanking” doesn’t guarantee something being unwatchable at all

Vitex1988 | Thunder

3 | 4 hours ago

I don’t see the point of this discussion when nobody actually cares about the teams that suck

TarkovBirdman | Lakers

3 | 4 hours ago

Memphis, Chicago, and Washington are winning tonight

Murat_Gin

3 | 3 hours ago

Shows what you know, the Pacers are running roughshod over the Clippers.

SportsLaughs

2 | 5 hours ago

Sounds competitive.

Giuseppe_exitplan | Magic

2 | 4 hours ago

Bulls & Mavs are ethical tanks.

naderni | Nuggets

2 | 4 hours ago

They all say Utah is tanking we still managed to lose last week.

reitraf | Hawks

2 | 4 hours ago

The Indiana vs Clippers game could really be some 3D, next level tanking. It greatly benefits the Clipper for the Pacers to drop one or two spots in the draft order (they are owed this years top 4 protected); the Pacers are just good old-fashioned tanking. Add in the fact that the Clippers have almost no chance to improve playoff position, we may see some serious tanking action.

PieHorror2624 | Trail Blazers

3 | 4 hours ago

Just check the scoreboard. WTH, Pacers is up 23pts lol.

Parallel-Quality

3 | 4 hours ago

You appear to be correct. Clippers getting blown out.

Jstaud4 | Bulls

1 | 3 hours ago

Actually it behooves the clippers for the pacers to keep losing. They are close to being locked in to a 50% chance to get the pick regardless and the worse the pacers are, the more value the clippers get out of that pick.

TooCozy21 | Lakers

2 | 4 hours ago

Only one of those teams are tanking the others are just bad.

billtopia | Timberwolves

2 | 4 hours ago

Chicago is just bad. Its like watching the wolves from when Garnett left until they drafted Ant. Like this team is doing all they can to get wins but they just aren’t any good.

WorkFoundMyOldAcct

2 | 4 hours ago

Wizards been tanking for 14 years I guess

Naismythology | Lakers

2 | 4 hours ago

I still haven’t had anyone really be able to explain how this is functionally different than those teams just outright sucking through incompetence (which some of them do anyway too)

gosucrank | Wizards

2 | 3 hours ago

NBA is the only league where people think going into a rebuild is unethical lol. It’s fucking dumb

TimeDielation

2 | 3 hours ago

Who is actually watching nba tn

crazybull007 | Charlotte Bobcats

2 | 3 hours ago

So at this point we’re just saying every bad team is tanking?

dinglebarryb0nds

2 | an hour ago

I thought i lost interest in basketball after liking it my whole life, then i put these college games on. They are great. Real rules, the kids play 10x harder. The refs are barely in the game

EmphasisOk8298

3 | 4 hours ago

These are legitimately fake basketball games and people will act like this is a minor issue.

We have an all time 4 person MVP race and 3 of the players are playing today but none of the games are even real basketball games.

I promise it does not have to be that way.

Having bad teams is fine as long as the games are real. If the other teams GM, Owner, Coach and Fans all prefer a loss to a win it is not a legitimate sporting event.

samlet | Spurs

0 | 4 hours ago

100% agreed. The Spurs are on this awesome streak, but there’ve been way too many times during the last few months where I know the other team is actively trying to lose lmao. It’s almost like kayfabe at this point… watching Wemby dunk on replacement players is fun but it does cheapen the experience.

Specialist_Boat_8479 | Bulls

0 | 4 hours ago

100% it doesn’t have to be this way

Basic-Collection5416 | Pistons

1 | 4 hours ago

Memphis tanking may still beat Houston though.

TheAgeOfTomfoolery | Nuggets

1 | 4 hours ago

And I am grateful for it!

Fcusjfnfmfkg | Lakers

1 | 4 hours ago

They have all been eliminated from postseason contention, what exactly do you want them to do? Nothing the league can do will make teams want their best players to play in meaningless games

PeanutFarmer69 | Nets

1 | 4 hours ago

Learn how to use a comma, dawg… also, pacers send their regards

Aerospaced0ut | Warriors

1 | 4 hours ago

Washington still tries to win, they just can’t get over the hump vs the G-league warriors…

champaigneandcocaine | Spurs

1 | 4 hours ago

Tanking isnt a problem

Its a symptom of the system

ElChapo1515

1 | 4 hours ago

Rockets don’t discriminate. We’ll lose to anyone.

Troker61 | Thunder

1 | 3 hours ago

None of those teams are just bad?

If not, is that a higher amount of teams tanking than any other season?

Contextless bullshit sucks.

CourtneyLamar

1 | 3 hours ago

Within a month from the playoffs the teams that’s not in playoffs position are tanking for the best lottery pick

PixelBy_Pixel | Pistons

1 | 3 hours ago

4 of these teams are definitely not tanking

Chessh2036 | Hawks

1 | 3 hours ago

Speaking of tanking, am I crazy or were the 3 proposals the NBA has to solve tanking all pretty bad?

Jstaud4 | Bulls

1 | 3 hours ago

You straight up are not going to get me to care about tanking during March madness and 3 weeks out from the playoffs sorry

StealYoBall | Suns

1 | 3 hours ago

Pacers are currently doing a terrible job of “tanking” vs Clippers…

Hagdogrobinwood | Bullets

1 | 3 hours ago

The horror

Kodo25

1 | 3 hours ago

You all wanted this when yall were fan boys of your own teams tanking not thinking it’s bad for the league. Yall think with your dick instead of everyone’s dick

tempraman | Timberwolves

1 | 2 hours ago

Stupid, tanking can also be seen as player development. Lots of them just suck as well

w3bCraw1er | NBA

1 | 2 hours ago

That’s pretty much every day. Rarely there are good games.

Like yesterday, only one game was worth watching.

b00naloo | Pacers

1 | an hour ago

I honestly don’t understand, either watch the shit or don’t - whether a team is trying to be competitive or not is their choice, no?
Ive watched 73 Pacers games this year, 58 of them losses (I missed one game because it started at 10:30pm). Do you have a choice in what you watch? Do you have arguably the most choice in what to watch ever?
If you don’t like the game that’s on, change what you are watching. Go do something else, go play Magic the gathering.
Steve Balmer arranged to pay his FA star player 30m+ under the table and the league is trying to ignore it and you are taking the bait to bitch about 7 teams that actively suck ass actively sucking ass.
Grow up.

tabben | NBA

1 | an hour ago

Pacers put in effort what do you mean “tanking”, they been straight cursed after their devil magic ran out

UnanimousM

1 | an hour ago

Most of these teams aren’t tanking they’re just not good and/or have major injuries. What are the Mavs supposed to do 😂

lialialia20 | Timberwolves

1 | 10 minutes ago

it is harder to tank good this season than it is to get to the play-ins 🤣

Fast-Coast-3456

-4 | 5 hours ago

This is what hapens when you give prizes for losing.

The worst team of each conference shouldn’t have a first round pick. It would be even better if that team was demoted to the G-League. Bad teams have nothing to lose with the actual rules.

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5 | 4 hours ago

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Fast-Coast-3456

-8 | 4 hours ago

If you don’t have any better idea why don’t you just shut up? Your comment adds nothing to the conversation, only shows how useless a person can be with a keyboard and internet connection.

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2 | 4 hours ago

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Fast-Coast-3456

-1 | 4 hours ago

Those teams wouldn’t promote, that already happens in soccer in Spain with “B” teams. But that wasn’t the point, I now demoting is not a posibility in the NBA, that wasn’t even part of my point.

Although in every other country in every other sport, there are different levels in the same league system, and every season the worst teams get demoted and teams from the lower divisions get to the upper level. That forces bad teams to compete, but I don’t expect you to understand this.

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Fast-Coast-3456

1 | 4 hours ago

Do you know how to read? The 30 team format doesn’t change. Just take away the 1st round pick for the worst team of each conference. And every team but conference finalists have the same odds in the draft, no reason to tank, nor lose the play-in.

Fast-Coast-3456

-7 | 5 hours ago

For those thinking: “BuT WoUdn’t those bad teams be bad forever without picks?” Only the worst, next year would try harder and another would be the worst, you only have to not be the worst and you can get your pick.
Also, conference finalists without 1st round pick. The rest same odds, the 14th team and 2nd round exits. No reason to miss the playoffs. And who would lose in the 2nd round on purpose to get a small chance of landing a good pick? No one.

Rosenvial5

0 | 4 hours ago

My favorite argument is all the Jazz fans going “We will never be able to be a good team because no good player wants to live in Utah!” as if the current champions and best team in the league aren’t from Oklahoma

BakerStSavvy | Spurs

2 | 4 hours ago

I mean 90% of okcs team is forced to be there through draft or trade. Hart was a free agent i remember but that was after they were already the 1 seed and contenders.

Most fan bases dont have front offices smart enough to make good picks so they are praying to get “you cant screw this up” #1 picks

Kryptos33

0 | 4 hours ago

Indiana is up 42 21 after the first quarter. Curious how they’re going to pull out the loss here.

Edit - Chefs fucking kiss 🤣

_JimJohnny_

0 | 4 hours ago

Clippers tanking?

Romanopapa | Warriors

0 | 4 hours ago

This hurts man.

AKHunter3502

0 | 4 hours ago

And the league wanna add two more teams. I say get rid of 4 teams.

Plus_Kick_8289

-1 | 5 hours ago

Warriors tanking as well 😭

Basic-Collection5416 | Pistons

3 | 4 hours ago

Losing doesn’t help them any, they just don’t have the necessary players to win many games.

tyronemartins2

-1 | 4 hours ago

If you don’t like this, you don’t like NBA basketball

barb_lucky

-2 | 5 hours ago

At this point it doesn’t even feel like a competition night — it’s like a lottery preview 😭 7 out of 10 games with teams openly tanking just kills the intensity. I get rebuilding, but the league seriously needs to fix incentives because this is getting painful to watch.

Little_little_e

-3 | 5 hours ago

All I know is this coming lottery should reward to team like the Kings, whom never actively do the intentional tanking.

Current_Can_3715 | NBA

1 | 4 hours ago

Monkey paw curls and Kings would draft the equivalent of Bagley again, it’s the unfortunate destiny of the Kings

Specialist_Boat_8479 | Bulls

-3 | 4 hours ago

Tanking is a disease that’s rotting sports. Hope all these teams lose their picks

legend023 | Pelicans

-12 | 5 hours ago

The product the league is serving us with so many of these teams around is disgraceful.

Brooklyn, Washington, Indiana, Memphis, and ESPECIALLY Utah deserve massive penalties for what they’ve done this year.

Few_Mulberry7390 | Rockets

10 | 5 hours ago

I’d still rather they get a top pick than the Spurs so

legend023 | Pelicans

-3 | 5 hours ago

Dallas won the top pick and they were 10 points away from making the playoffs. These teams would be better off trying their best to win instead of alienating players and making a disgrace of the league to lose games

Own_Result3651

4 | 4 hours ago

That’s what happens when you do what Adam silver tells you

Few_Mulberry7390 | Rockets

4 | 4 hours ago

Exactly. I would rather these bad teams get good players than teams like the Mavs and Spurs who don’t deserve them

the_mexican_menace | Nuggets

12 | 4 hours ago

Y’all not watching Brooklyn or Washington or Utah no matter what lol

dumpgubblin | Pacers

2 | 4 hours ago

Only true comment in the whole thread. Lol

I watch them my league mandated 4 times per year, and that is PLENTY. 👍

Out of 10 games tonight 7 of them involve a team that is actively tanking.