_Wash | Timberwolves

1397 | 5 hours ago

imagine an official company investigation coming to the conclusion that you’re just bad at your job

KennyDenn1s

243 | 5 hours ago

I like the angel Hernandez situation where a court of law concludes that you’re just bad at your job

b_fellow | Rockets

14 | 3 hours ago

You also have to be likable to get a pass even if you’re bad at umpiring like Enrico Palazzo.

Still-Standin

1 | 37 minutes ago

AInt heard that name in a long long time lol

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

-66 | 5 hours ago

lmao, as someone who knows nothing about MLB, I thought you were joking about this. Reminds me of when Fox & CNN successfully defended themselves from fake news accusations by claiming Hannity & Maddow weren’t meant to be taken seriously.

_Wash | Timberwolves

79 | 5 hours ago

not sure what you’re talking about with CNN/Maddow, especially since Maddow has never been a part of CNN

but Fox did use the defense that they were an entertainment company and nobody should take them seriously as a news outlet. NOTE: this was not a successful defense, as it was settled out of court for ~800million dollars (which you wouldn’t do if you were going to win)

edit: if you’re referring to the OAN lawsuit, Maddow argued she was giving an opinion (that OAN was paid russian propaganda [it is]) and won in court multiple times

not entirely comparable

InnocuousAssClown | Bulls

39 | 5 hours ago

But my “both sides”!

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

-33 | 5 hours ago

Not equating them, but if you’re listening to either, you’re only getting establishment drool.

BatDubb | Bulls

23 | 4 hours ago

So…”both sides”?

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

-19 | 4 hours ago

in the particular parameters I described, yeah lol

redditlvlanalysis

1 | an hour ago

The sides aren’t freaking equal pay attention to the economy it always goes to shit during republicans then we enter war to distract from it or in this case to distract from the pedo in chief being a fucking pedo.

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

1 | 11 minutes ago

Republicans being worse doesn’t mean Democrats aren’t bad too

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

-11 | 5 hours ago

Ah yeah you right, I got shit mixed up. It also wasn’t Hannity but Tucker Carlson (though they’re both awful).

OnlyAdvertisersKnoMe

30 | 4 hours ago

So to be clear, you just completely made up the cnn thing? Where did you even get that idea?

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

-11 | 4 hours ago

No, I got it partially-wrong. She was sued for defamation, and the court ruled in her favor under the argument that the reasonable person would not take her seriously. IIRC, that was literally the wordage verbatim.

ytboiricky

24 | 4 hours ago

No you got it totally wrong lmao. “The judge ruled that no reasonable jury could find actual malice, noting Maddow’s comment was based on her interpretation of events and public reporting.” -Reuters a 5 second Google search was all it took

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

-5 | 4 hours ago

“Thus, the Court finds that as a part of the totality of the circumstances, the broad context weighs in favor of a finding that the alleged defamatory statement is Maddow’s opinion and exaggeration of the Daily Beast article, and that reasonable viewers would not take the statement as factual.”

From the actual opinion: https://timesofsandiego.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MADDOW-DISMISS.pdf

BAHatesToFly | Knicks

9 | 3 hours ago

That’s the judge ruling that people can obviously tell that she is giving an opinion and not reporting facts. It is NOT, as you’re alleging, “CNN” arguing that her show should not be taken seriously. You’re just wrong here.

calmrain | Lakers

23 | 4 hours ago

Reminds of you of a fake memory that never happened?

Goddamn the only thing worse than conservatives are both sides enlightened centrists.

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

-5 | 4 hours ago

I’m a leftie lol. Are we really at a point where critiquing an establishment commentator is not allowed lol.

Hugo_Hackenbush | POR

17 | 4 hours ago

It’s allowed, but your “critique” in this case was some shit you imagined that didn’t happen.

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

-5 | 4 hours ago

I was partially-mistaken and admitted as such. If you’re expecting more than that, then you best get off Reddit lol

BAHatesToFly | Knicks

8 | 3 hours ago

You were fully mistaken. FOX’s defense was completely different from Maddow’s, and I say this as someone who does not like Maddow (or any pundit-style show).

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

-1 | 3 hours ago

nah

Ambitious-Mirror-497

6 | 5 hours ago

I’m so glad you said this. The whole reason I go to r/nba is to read about Sean fuckin’ Hannity

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

-3 | 5 hours ago

LOL, I’m sorry mate

d4nowar |

45 | 5 hours ago

That’s most post mortems. Usually just ends with an SOP being written and the person who screwed up putting their name on something that says they’ll use the SOP next time.

dontmatterdontcare | Warriors

4 | 4 hours ago

💯

All these youngin’s don’t know shit lmao

holyrolodex | Lakers

3 | 2 hours ago

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”

Hanlon’s Razor

Moreorlessatorium | Spurs

18 | 5 hours ago

“We’ve been talking and came to the conclusion that you don’t know ball”

Desa-p | Kings

15 | 5 hours ago

Honestly it’s insane they even felt the need to open an investigation because of one dumb coaching move. Is this now the standard for every coach/team in the league?

There should need to be a pattern before they jump into something like this

Baseball12229

11 | 4 hours ago

Why do you think this gained traction? This wasn’t your ordinary bad foul. Players on the court were actively confused by what happened. There is nothing wrong with investigating weird shit like this. The league faces enough integrity questions as it is, the more transparency the better

Round_Clock_3942

-3 | 4 hours ago

Or they investigate everything, which costs the NBA money and the fans nothing.

Seems like something you’d only take issue with if your team actually has been doing some intentional losing tanking bullshit, and you’re worried that this kinda thing would spook them to cut those out too.

Desa-p | Kings

2 | 4 hours ago

Obviously I’m not worried. Kings just went on their best stretch of the season and the nba cleared Doug and the team of any wrongdoing. It’s just annoying that this happened in the first place because Draymond complained. Meanwhile kings fans have been pissed for weeks because the team is trying way too hard and winning

Alarmed-Cucumber-858 | San Diego Clippers

12 | 5 hours ago

It seemed obvious at the time and that makes it even more hilarious.

Giannis refusing to practice and then trying to pin it on the Bucks was another fast investigation

dontmatterdontcare | Warriors

5 | 4 hours ago

This is actually very common in the real world, tf you talking about lmao

_Wash | Timberwolves

-4 | 3 hours ago

guess i’m just not bad at my job? could be a you problem

edit: lol blocked me over that? no, it is not normal for a company to do a whole investigation into a mistake and put out a press release about it

dontmatterdontcare | Warriors

5 | 2 hours ago

Wild to think you’d never mess up, maybe it’s just cause you’re young and inexperienced. Everyone messes up eventually, get back to reality son.

-KFBR392 | Raptors

2 | 2 hours ago

You’ve never made a mistake at your job? Damn, you must be pretty high up in the company by now

_Wash | Timberwolves

4 | 2 hours ago

not to the point where there’s an investigation and a press release about it

making a mistake is normal. having the company do a full-blown ‘investigation’ into your mistake is not.

didn’t realize i’m the only one not allowed to be snarky here.

Obi_Wan_KeBogi | Kings

2 | 5 hours ago

The league just doing Vivek a solid and feeding his embarrassment kink

Briggity_Brak | Tampa Bay Raptors

1 | 3 hours ago

And that that is a POSITIVE result.

chris-dempsey |

1 | 2 hours ago

bad at your job

That’s putting it mildly, more like “stupid”, right, Kings fans?

Kavazou77

665 | 5 hours ago

I’m a Kings fan.

The foul wasn’t an attempt to tank.

Hiring Christie as a coach was the attempt to tank.

This isn’t a joke.

Drewicho | Supersonics

166 | 5 hours ago

That’s the way teams should tank. Not having the coach be in on it, but hire an awful coach so they have plausible deniability.

threeangelo | LAL

83 | 5 hours ago

We joke but this is kinda the way I see it too. The front office can focus on being bad on purpose, but the coaches and players should be trying to win

Drewicho | Supersonics

38 | 5 hours ago

That’s honestly how I do feel. The front office I think is fair game, but a coach changing his lineups to try to lose is straight up gross. Like the NFL has teams that tank, but coaches there have way too much pride to go along with it. See Lovie Smith and Brian Flores.

lethalizered | Thunder

3 | 2 hours ago

NFL also has only, what 16 games?

So the tanking there isn’t that on the nose.

NBA has 82 fucking games, man. And a single player can change the trajectory of a franchise much more than that sport.

It’s just apples to oranges on all levels.

ovondansuchi | Raptors

1 | 12 minutes ago

The only problem with this is that you need to be in such a derelict situation to purposefully hire a bad coach. If you have a handful of younger players with a modicum of potential, creating a losing environment and tanking their development purposefully is just a way to keep the losing persisting.

Kavazou77

26 | 5 hours ago

I’ll go even further.

The team employees Kylian Hayes and has sat Russell Westbrook because they were winning too many games. I believe that Kylian Hayes during his time with the Pistons was one of the worst players to ever play in the league.

The starting lineup is made up of

Kyllian Hayes

DeRozan / an NPC they found on the street

A late 2025 first rounder

A middle 2025 second rounder

A guy that was cut from the raptors 3 months ago

6th man - an undrafted 2025 center.

Unfortunately for us, in the second half for the season, that mid 2nd rounder became an all rookie first team player, the guy the raptors cut is averaging like 15 and 10 and the undrafted center looks like a future 1st team all defense player. Oh, and Hayes is now a legit nba player somehow.

This team was built to tank after its three highest players went away with season ending injuries and began to play better.

ReggieEvansTheKing | Kings

13 | 4 hours ago

If anything it’s an indictment on the other tanking teams. Our roster that is currently 8-12 over it’s last 20 games was essentially put together with scraps - players any team could have drafted or signed if they wanted them. We are the baseline for how bad you should be. The fact that other teams are worse is proof to me that they are overtly tanking.

Low-Measurement-2468

1 | 43 minutes ago

this kind of thing is why i’m sort of on board with that idea posted about recently where the bottom three teams don’t get quite as good odds at the top pick. because honesty, there are lots of ways for teams to improve in the margins outside of getting a future all star in the draft. even among the worst teams, you can still hire a good developmental staff and really try to help your young players improve quickly. you can look for fringe bench players other teams may be overlooking. you can try to find an underrated assistant coach on another team or overseas coach and see if they have what it takes to be the next surprising young head coach. you can help establish a culture where giving a shit matters and the team isn’t given an implicit message that “honestly, it’s better if we lose games, so if you miss some defensive rotations, it’s not a big deal.”

it’s true that it’s next to impossible to become a real contender without a few really good players. but we’ve seen teams full of mid roleplayers punch above their weight plenty of times because they play hard, play well together, and get good production out of guys other teams overlooked. some organizations have been incentivized to truly not give a fuck about even putting forth a halfway decent attempt at a solid basketball team and it shows. i’m not as keen on giving those teams an easy way out as a lot of fans seem to be.

ReggieEvansTheKing | Kings

1 | 35 minutes ago

The issue though is that a team like the Kings would just get beaten on and teams like the Pacers and Jazz would float at 5-8th worst until the end of the season and then tank for that 4 spot. The true worst 3 teams would get decimated

Four_Verts | 76ers

8 | 5 hours ago

Isn’t this the plot to Ted Lasso?

Its_Hoggish_Greedly | Kings

4 | 5 hours ago

Yes, we saw the documentary and thought we’d bring it to life.

Reagles

7 | 5 hours ago

Thats objectively a bad way to tank. Any team, especially a tanking team will have some young players. You want a coach that is capable of developing them and building good habits.

Ideally, you find a coach like Daigneault who helps the tank for a few years, but is also capable of leading a championship team.

Kavazou77

2 | 5 hours ago

He’s giving the young guy as many minutes as they can handle and it seems to be instilling them with confidence. He’s not doing things like playing a PG at center or something but he is probably the worst coach in the league.

aquachuza

4 | 4 hours ago

I’m going to stand in front of Doug here and point out that the players you made a point with have been improving steadily all season. A non-lottery first round pick, a second round pick, and an undrafted big, extend this out to a player picked up off his couch, etc, etc. All of them are developing at a decent clip, that doesn’t happen if Doug is anywhere near as inept as many of you think he is. He’s not Phil Jackson but he really isn’t what you dorks keep foaming at the mouth about.

Kavazou77

2 | 4 hours ago

I mean, we’ve seen the games. While I agree that the young guys are developing, when he had the full roster available last year and this one, he wasn’t very good.

aquachuza

2 | 3 hours ago

The full roster he inherited is about the same as this current one. Mike Brown had them at 13-18 when he was fired, they finished the season 40-42. Hes made mistakes, but the level of disdain being levied on him is laughable. He’s going to be here next season, and likely the year he’ll be held accountable to is year three. This team is bad, bad. The roster is really bad. No coach is going to fix that, they need to smash it in the lottery because no free agent is coming through that door either. Doug is cheap, loves this city and team, and appears to have assembled a very good development staff, and the young players love him.

Kavazou77

0 | 3 hours ago

Sure, he’s here because he’s a nepo hire and can be paid whatever he wants. No arguments there.

Maximum-Class5465

1 | 5 hours ago

Doc Rivers finds a way to be in demand yet again!!!

lava172 | Suns

1 | 4 hours ago

That’s pretty much what we did in the late 2010s

Zeeron1 | Thunder

1 | 4 hours ago

I disagree. They shouldnt hire awful coaches, they should hire young coaches that can develop alongside the young roster. If they want to fully tank, it’s up to the GM to sell the vets for young players and picks

JeanMichelGaming

1 | 4 hours ago

All this time the Bucks where just tanking then ?

LargeBrownBird | Kings

1 | 4 hours ago

Exactly, sheer incompetence baby, the Kings way

MyTeamsSuck99

1 | 3 hours ago

The issue is that teams like Utah pacers and Washington will still out tank you with more talent by throwing games

donuttrackme | Spurs

1 | 3 hours ago

This seems like an absolutely terrible way to go about it. You want a good coach to instill good fundamental basketball principles in your younger players. But I dunno, I’m spoiled as a Spurs fan so if it gives you other fandoms hope then sure lol.

24Haaton | Lakers

27 | 5 hours ago

Deadass if you asked the ownership if they wanted to tank at the beginning of the season they would more likely say no. None of the moves Sacramento made scream we are trying to tank. I’m not trying to shit in Sacramento I just think we should separate teams who are actively going into the season trying to tank and those who just kinda floundered throughout the year

Green_Atmosphere_802 | Kings

14 | 5 hours ago

Our goal is to make the play in every year, luckily our team is badly constructed and sabonis + keegan were injured most of the year so we ended up unintentionally tanking.

thisisjustascreename | Bulls

5 | 5 hours ago

The kings kinda flounder every year tbh

soda_cookie | Kings

3 | 4 hours ago

That word “throughout” is doing some extremely heavy lifting here

ka1982 | Kings

1 | 4 hours ago

Ownership didn’t think the team was tanking.

Not so sure about the front office.

HammerLikeMjolnir | Kings

12 | 5 hours ago

It really wasn’t though. They actually thought they could make the play- in with him and that roster

Kavazou77

2 | 5 hours ago

There was a mutiny last year where players ran to ownership and asked for Christie to be given the job and Brown to be fired.

RedactedAsFugg | Kings

2 | 4 hours ago

Source?

Sounds like BS you just made up

Kavazou77

2 | 4 hours ago

Very well known around local media. Almost unanimous in agreement that that’s what happened.

RedactedAsFugg | Kings

2 | 4 hours ago

Again, source?

Kavazou77

-2 | 4 hours ago

Do the research. ESPN radio guys, 1140 guys. Are you a Kings fan? It sure how you can be and have missed this.

Even specifically that it was a group including Sabonis and Monk.

RedactedAsFugg | Kings

3 | 4 hours ago

Did my research and no credible sources anywhere, just baseless rumors from people like you

Kavazou77

-1 | 4 hours ago

Really? You listened to every episode of the radio shows during that time and have gone through all the tweets?

RedactedAsFugg | Kings

5 | 4 hours ago

Why go through all that if it doesn’t exist?

Can you point to one instance, one tweet, one article, or anything that support your claim? If its well known and unanimously agreed upon, shouldnt be hard to find right?

No_Nefariousness6385 | Kings

2 | 4 hours ago

Vivek didnt hire Christie to tank. He hired him cause he is cheap, Doug is the cheapest coach out there, a former King from the “glorious times” (Vivek loves to hire this specific kind)and he really believed the team was going to compete with Doug as a HC

Dymatizeee | Knicks

1 | 4 hours ago

No coach can save that roster

Redpin | Super 8

1 | 3 hours ago

Let’s see where Doug lands next season.

grxccccandice | Lakers

1 | 3 hours ago

Ahh the Ted Lasso attempt

bubbles2255 | Kings

324 | 5 hours ago

See, we don’t tank. We just have a bad coach! 😬

Tough_Lawfulness8380

47 | 5 hours ago

If I was a kings fan I’d rather just be tanking than the league calling my coach bad

hlebtastic

24 | 5 hours ago

He won’t be our coach in a couple weeks. Its all good.

BitterSourpuss | Kings

21 | 5 hours ago

I appreciate the hopium, but Christie is absolutely coming back next year lol

BruinBound22 | Kings

1 | 5 hours ago

Yeah they will wait for us to clearly be a potentially good team, and we are more than one draft pick away from that

Maximum-Class5465

3 | 5 hours ago

I believe in the Kings. They’re two years out. They still got Domas.

PaxChelonia | Kings

1 | 5 hours ago

It’d be a mistake to wait imo. I want our lotto pick to have a good coach for his rookie year.

bubbles2255 | Kings

0 | 5 hours ago

Yep, but Bobby Jackson probably will be

attersonjb

8 | 5 hours ago

But who hired the coach? That’s 5D tanking

TrickAutomatic3206 | Kings

5 | 5 hours ago

Vivek

Rocky-Rocker

3 | 5 hours ago

And a bad owner.

LaMelonBallz | Hornets

3 | 5 hours ago

But a cool beam

Rocky-Rocker

3 | 5 hours ago

The beam now has liver failure.

MrSCR23 | Hawks

2 | 4 hours ago

You sure it’s not just a bad franchise?

ObviousAnswerGuy | NYK

1 | 3 hours ago

I could 100% see this being a Monty-in-Detroit situation, where you change the coach and completely turn the team around. The roster really isn’t bad, on paper at least.

nowhathappenedwas | NBA

131 | 5 hours ago

Brutal to have the league officially determine that your coach is an idiot.

Importantly, this is a terrible strategy even if Christie could count. You don’t use your “foul to give” with 3 minutes left in a 1-point game.

TheDreamLives

24 | 5 hours ago

Right? Why would you waste your foul to give to call a timeout.. while you are on defense. Just wait until the next possession.

Pupienus

2 | 2 hours ago

Teams are limited to 2 timeouts in the final three minutes, and it’s likely the Kings wouldn’t have gotten the ball back until after that point if they hadn’t fouled. Still incredibly dumb to foul there, but he couldn’t just wait until the next possession because he’d lose the ‘use it or lose it’ timeout.

justlobos22

3 | 5 hours ago

Yea, that’s my takeaway. Even if he was right, it’d still be a dumb play.

MoltresRising

1 | 3 hours ago

Exactly. If anything, the conclusion should’ve been: “An NBA investigation int Sacremento’s intentional foul reveals a more unlikely reason, but still is tanking because that shit makes no sense either.”

IntelligentAd5460 | Grizzlies

76 | 5 hours ago

an official investigation saying yo the kings coach just trash is killing me man

BBallHunter | Thunder

31 | 5 hours ago

He just made an oopsie at work, happened to me yesterday.

bubbles2255 | Kings

23 | 5 hours ago

You’re tanking at work?

-jamesbb-

3 | 5 hours ago

That is an interesting idea. I mean, if I had a guaranteed 4-year contract at work, I might actually tank sometimes. It depends on the job, but when there aren’t any interesting projects, it feels like some colleagues just invent some work in order to look busy.

mcn_z

1 | 5 hours ago

Are you a surgeon?

MatchAffectionate951

31 | 5 hours ago

“Investigation”

NBA: were you tanking

Doug: No I’m just a idiot

NBA: okay thanks

investigation finished

Prior_Chemist_5026 | Celtics

23 | 5 hours ago

The NBA has completed an investigation of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Shooting Guard JR Smith’s decision to run out the clock in the team’s game against the Golden State Warriors on April 7. The league’s investigation determined that Smith mistakenly believed that the Cavaliers were leading and therefore instructed himself to stand still in an attempt to run out the clock and make LeBron melt into a puddle of incredulity. The investigation found that Smith made no intentional effort to give the Warriors a win, or to cause the Cavs to lose the game

Jota46

7 | 5 hours ago

NBA officials determined Smith was just stupid or high at the time. Maybe both. Probably both.

AlterWanabee | Lakers

3 | an hour ago

Definitely both.

whyte_ryce | Kings

21 | 5 hours ago

people spent all season saying Doug Christie was a horrible coach and then when he shows it everyone thinks blatant tanking

Zombizle | Kings

21 | 5 hours ago

All caused by Warriors and Draymond because they couldn’t put away a bad team. They whine so much.

IAmNotKevinDurant_35 | GSW

8 | 5 hours ago

We are also a bad team

bta47 | Warriors

-3 | 5 hours ago

we’re whining because we also suck ass and you should have beat us!

aaron2tf

1 | 4 hours ago

The kings are never expected to beat anybody haha!

False_Pear1860

-6 | 5 hours ago

Except actually caused by your coach being a moron lmfao. Hilarious attempt to throw blame here.

Zombizle | Kings

3 | 5 hours ago

Yes, that’s why we are bad this season. Draymond is his typically sensitive self because Curry and him struggled versus rookies and gleaguers.

False_Pear1860

0 | 5 hours ago

Curry just came back from multiple months of injury and we’re missing like more than half our roster lmfao. We’re also the 10th seed, not some top level team.

Kings also won a few games recently because they can’t even be competent at tanking. There’s also more reasons than just the coach why you’re bad, that’s just cope lol.

Warriors also literally won the game. A game being close doesn’t mean it was some struggle.

You’re just looking for a reason to cry about Draymond here when your own coach caused the problem and threw away yet another game.

nuhx

22 | 5 hours ago

ethical tank, not like the other shameless teams.

DiscreteBee | Raptors

14 | 5 hours ago

Has the witch hunt got so out of hand that we have to ask why the Kings are doing stupid shit?

HokageEzio | Knicks

13 | 5 hours ago

“Sorry, he’s actually just stupid. Our fault.”

cough_landing_on_you

12 | 5 hours ago

Spoelstra once called a timeout and his team had none, causing the L technical. So yes it happens to the “smart” ones too.

ObiOneKenobae | Knicks

10 | 5 hours ago

“Not guilty just incompetent” is rough.

Shot-Tackle-1458

8 | 5 hours ago

“Never attribute to malice that which is better explained by stupidity.”

bigvahe33 | Supersonics

8 | 5 hours ago

lol

Area51_Spurs | Spurs

7 | 5 hours ago

Having your coach defend himself with “Your honor, you may think I’m a fucking moron and a terrible coach, but I assure you I’m much more incompetent than you can ever imagine.” is so on-brand for the Kings.

mattjf22 | Kings

6 | 5 hours ago

The hilarity of it all. Kings fans have been pissed we aren’t tanking we are close to .500 in our last 20 games. We are just bad.

You want to investigate tanking look at the teams below us like the pacers who were in the finals last year and currently own the worst record this year.

ka1982 | Kings

4 | 4 hours ago

We’re bad at being good and we’re also bad at being bad.

Mundane-Structure148

5 | 5 hours ago

makes sense tbh

nopostwilly

5 | 5 hours ago

Seemed pretty obvious from the situation. With that said, Doug Christie is a bad coach

Chubbadog | Pacers

4 | 5 hours ago

Glad we spent time on this. 🙄

dwrek24 | Spurs

6 | 5 hours ago

One of the funnier “controversies” in recent memory 🤣

zebrainatux |

5 | 5 hours ago

With the amazing conclusion of “dawg this man is just a moron”

raivetica20 | Spurs

4 | 5 hours ago

Having the NBA officially declare that your coach is just incompetent has to feel worse for the Kings and their fans than just being fined for tanking, right?

sorendiz | HOU

4 | 3 hours ago

Official Ruling: “Not unethical, just stupid.”

kl08pokemon | Lakers

3 | 5 hours ago

Humiliating

Cold-Tangerine-2893

3 | 5 hours ago

Still waiting on the completion of that Clippers investigation… any day now…

2ByteTheDecker | Raptors

3 | 5 hours ago

“we weren’t tanking, I’m just shit at my job!”

soda_cookie | Kings

3 | 4 hours ago

Pure tank upheld

small-with-benefits | Thunder

3 | 4 hours ago

Your honor, I’m just a caveman…

Technician-Temporary | Knicks

3 | 4 hours ago

Totally believeable

nowaygreg | Rockets

3 | 4 hours ago

Kings fans deserve a better lot in life. It must be brutal…

_AceHigh | Spurs

3 | 4 hours ago

The Kings have not tried to tank for a second this year.

They’re just and honest goodness ass team.

Aggressive_Owl_6913

2 | 5 hours ago

Investigating tanking but not investigating illegal cap circumvention….

Jomolungma

2 | 5 hours ago

The key to tanking is to have a bad coach. Everything else will take care of itself.

Asleep-Collection-51

2 | 5 hours ago

This is even more embarrassing

omikeon | Lakers

2 | 5 hours ago

I would love to be remembered as the worst coach in nba history, just give me a guaranteed $20m 5 year contract, I’ll drive the tank Vivek!

Broke_Banker01 | Bucks

2 | 5 hours ago

“We investigated and found that the HC was just incompetent.”

nevermindthatyoudope | Celtics

2 | 4 hours ago

Nothing nefarious, just gross incompetence.

Dreams-Visions | Cavaliers

2 | 4 hours ago

Somehow, “I’m just stupid” makes this worse.

Electronic_Scar7142

1 | 5 hours ago

https://64.media.tumblr.com/7addc5bd29ecb161a37adc69c185f8ef/76e126dc35b8bf41-1f/s400x600/c9bae33baf911d5b3c237a045e1c1240f109de8a.gifv

Patient_Yogurt975

1 | 5 hours ago

Investigation confirms Christie is an idiot

IsThisMe8 | Warriors

1 | 5 hours ago

How embarrassing.

Certain_Difference11 | Pacers

1 | 5 hours ago

Sounds about right

heat_fan_ | Raptors

1 | 5 hours ago

Lmao damn

TrickAutomatic3206 | Kings

1 | 5 hours ago

Life as a kings fan we got noticed for the wrong reasons

HipnotiK1 | Knicks

1 | 5 hours ago

still doesn’t make sense to foul just to use a timeout. if you had 1 foul to give, now you are in the penalty with your next foul.

Sunnyday1775

1 | 5 hours ago

Since when has Doug Christie been the coach

Master-Owl3262 | Knicks

1 | 5 hours ago

Stfu

FunIllustrator6890 | Jazz

1 | 5 hours ago

damn wish they made excuses like this for us

DJFreezyFish | Nuggets

1 | 5 hours ago

Breaking news; the Kings are not smart.

hot_girls_in_hell

1 | 5 hours ago

I’m not seeing this statement on pr.nba.com

Strange_Lab_3474

1 | 5 hours ago

“They aren’t trying to tank, their coach is just a dumbass” - rough man

ChefCurryYumYum | Warriors

1 | 5 hours ago

I thought it was so strange when it happened live but I get this claim of incompetence.

Ecstatic-Coach | Nets

1 | 5 hours ago

He’s so stupid he put a 100% free throw shooter on the line so he could draw up a play?

nugsandbudder

1 | 4 hours ago

They need to investigate aspiration, nba buncha fuckin clowns

miglrah

1 | 4 hours ago

I love that they quoted “the investigation.” Guys just literally asked Doug, “what were you thinking?!?”

swentech | Timberwolves

1 | 3 hours ago

No malicious intent. Just a dumb ass.

ricepail | Warriors

1 | 3 hours ago

To be fair, I also think it’s extremely stupid and potentially confusing how NBA scoreboards define being “in the bonus” to be only after the 5th foul, even though the 5th foul itself gives free throws. A coach definitely should know better from the actual number of fouls, but it’s stupid that scoreboards don’t mark a team as in the bonus when they have 4 team fouls.

warp10barrier | Magic

1 | 3 hours ago

Mhmm…

Shower__Farts | Kings

1 | 3 hours ago

No shit. He’s just a bad coach, but he’s our tank commander!

🎶Tank🎶

from Cowboy Bebop.

dave__autista

1 | 2 hours ago

Who is even taking these “NBA investigations” seriously? You have the Clippers evading the salary cap with underhanded deals that everyones pretty much forgotten about and there’s the NBA going “we are investing a FOUL!” like shut your ass up

TheeMarsVolta

1 | 27 minutes ago

Haha! What a joke. Meanwhile sac media is celebrating the “win” laughing that the NBA thinks a coach would make this ultra rare mistake at that point in the game. He even had Cardwell foul out by intentionally fouling Seth Curry 17 feet from the rim which could actually have been upgraded to flagrant.

[NBA PR] An NBA investigation into Sacramento has determined that head coach Doug Christie mistakenly believed the Warriors were not in the penalty when he instructed an intentional foul late in the April 7 game, and that there was no intent to create a shooting foul or to lose the game.