What the Jazz are doing by benching their best players in the fourth quarter is TOTALLY disgusting and unprecedented in the history of the league! (please dont investigate the blazers game against the bulls on 4/4/25 when avdija was benched in a close game)
I’m glad they are trying something to mitigate this issue, but unless there are changes to the actual system in place, tanking will always be a problem.
The first round top 6 pick is worth way more than 500k to the jazz
Unfortunate timing although it was inevitable. Now they gotta look like they aren’t tanking agains the blazers tonight 😂 not gonna be as easy as we hoped
Just bandaid stuff. Fundamental problem with how the draft incentivizes losing when you aren’t realistically competitive. Unless they retool things in a major way, I don’t see it changing, just more players showing up on injury reports with vague issues.
The NBA needs to do what MLB does to prevent excessive tanking. A team is ineligible for the lottery after 3(?) consecutive years in the lottery.
Just like anti flopping and anti….
This is good, it should make late season games more competitive.
Punishing tanking is stupid until they change the cap rules such that small market teams can actually build contenders without first drafting an MVP candidate.
The league is struggling to sell tickets and watch on TV and buy league pass.
This has been a problem for years. It’s still doing well financially because of the game’s popularity in China.
But it’s losing fans here to other things. Silver just let this fester, it’s kind of too late now.
The penalty should involve draft picks
Look, the Jazz are an absolute garbage franchise that no doubt should be ashamed of themselves, but Chauncey was prime tank commander for several years. This man tanked the shit out of many games. That being said, tanking should not be rewarded.
Fines won’t solve much about tanking. Taking away a draft pick would immediately stop tanking.
The league needs to change the incentive for tanking instead of adding policies
I would think good a solution would be. That a teams current season ranking gives them specific draft picks 2 or 3 years out. That way no one could necessarily tank because they dont know what the players would be like that far out. While guaranteeing building blocks for future development
Just invert the lottery. Gives teams a real incentive to fight for at least mediocrity and continuously try to get better. Though the tanking in the play-in games would be egregiously funny.
Please just abolish the draft.
It is anti-competitive and anti-worker.
Take away some of their ping pong balls for each violation.
Stop fining them and start taking away ping pong balls
Fines aren’t going to fix the problem of tanking. They need to get creative with the draft and how they handle teams that don’t make the playoffs.
Whether it’s flattening out the lottery odds, adding incentives for competitive play after the all-star break, or even changing lottery odds to be based on multi-year records rather than a single season of tanking your way to the top, something has to change.
Small markets like ours just have no incentive to do anything BUT tank. The Lakers and such are going to get their stars through free agency but our only hope is the draft, so of course markets like ours are going to do everything they possibly can to maximize their odds of landing a star in the lottery.
Jazz already knocked out JJJ for the season as a result
It’s really too bad relegation isn’t a thing…. Would prevent all tanking. But…. Wed probably get relegated cuz we’re a small market with shallow pockets….. 😆
Relegation to the g league for the bottom teams.
With the final 20 games. The teams that are eliminated should be put into a bracket tourney and top team gets the #1 pick. We gotta stop giving bad franchises good players.
Maybe they should start to give strong financial rewards to teams winning more games, make the entire luxury tax some sort of prize pool? Teams and players get a serious bonus for reaching playoffs. Give them also an extra MLE to sign if you finish 1-6, and 50% for teams 7-10.
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What the Jazz are doing by benching their best players in the fourth quarter is TOTALLY disgusting and unprecedented in the history of the league! (please dont investigate the blazers game against the bulls on 4/4/25 when avdija was benched in a close game)
I’m glad they are trying something to mitigate this issue, but unless there are changes to the actual system in place, tanking will always be a problem.
The first round top 6 pick is worth way more than 500k to the jazz
Unfortunate timing although it was inevitable. Now they gotta look like they aren’t tanking agains the blazers tonight 😂 not gonna be as easy as we hoped
Just bandaid stuff. Fundamental problem with how the draft incentivizes losing when you aren’t realistically competitive. Unless they retool things in a major way, I don’t see it changing, just more players showing up on injury reports with vague issues.
The NBA needs to do what MLB does to prevent excessive tanking. A team is ineligible for the lottery after 3(?) consecutive years in the lottery.
Just like anti flopping and anti….
This is good, it should make late season games more competitive.
Punishing tanking is stupid until they change the cap rules such that small market teams can actually build contenders without first drafting an MVP candidate.
The league is struggling to sell tickets and watch on TV and buy league pass.
This has been a problem for years. It’s still doing well financially because of the game’s popularity in China.
But it’s losing fans here to other things. Silver just let this fester, it’s kind of too late now.
The penalty should involve draft picks
Look, the Jazz are an absolute garbage franchise that no doubt should be ashamed of themselves, but Chauncey was prime tank commander for several years. This man tanked the shit out of many games. That being said, tanking should not be rewarded.
Fines won’t solve much about tanking. Taking away a draft pick would immediately stop tanking.
The league needs to change the incentive for tanking instead of adding policies
I would think good a solution would be. That a teams current season ranking gives them specific draft picks 2 or 3 years out. That way no one could necessarily tank because they dont know what the players would be like that far out. While guaranteeing building blocks for future development
Just invert the lottery. Gives teams a real incentive to fight for at least mediocrity and continuously try to get better. Though the tanking in the play-in games would be egregiously funny.
Please just abolish the draft.
It is anti-competitive and anti-worker.
Take away some of their ping pong balls for each violation.
Stop fining them and start taking away ping pong balls
Fines aren’t going to fix the problem of tanking. They need to get creative with the draft and how they handle teams that don’t make the playoffs.
Whether it’s flattening out the lottery odds, adding incentives for competitive play after the all-star break, or even changing lottery odds to be based on multi-year records rather than a single season of tanking your way to the top, something has to change.
Small markets like ours just have no incentive to do anything BUT tank. The Lakers and such are going to get their stars through free agency but our only hope is the draft, so of course markets like ours are going to do everything they possibly can to maximize their odds of landing a star in the lottery.
Jazz already knocked out JJJ for the season as a result
It’s really too bad relegation isn’t a thing…. Would prevent all tanking. But…. Wed probably get relegated cuz we’re a small market with shallow pockets….. 😆
Relegation to the g league for the bottom teams.
With the final 20 games. The teams that are eliminated should be put into a bracket tourney and top team gets the #1 pick. We gotta stop giving bad franchises good players.
Maybe they should start to give strong financial rewards to teams winning more games, make the entire luxury tax some sort of prize pool? Teams and players get a serious bonus for reaching playoffs. Give them also an extra MLE to sign if you finish 1-6, and 50% for teams 7-10.