{"id":607737,"date":"2026-02-17T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/607737\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:48:12","slug":"and-ones-tanking-reform-power-rankings-hayes-davis-gasol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/607737\/","title":{"rendered":"And-Ones: Tanking Reform, Power Rankings, Hayes-Davis, Gasol"},"content":{"rendered":"

The subject of tanking has become a hot-button topic in recent weeks, so much so that NBA commissioner Adam Silver felt the need to address<\/a> it over All-Star weekend.<\/p>\n

ESPN\u2019s Bobby Marks spoke about the commissioner\u2019s response, including his comments about potentially stripping picks from teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cChange is coming here when we\u2019re looking at this lottery system, and basically not incentivizing teams to lose to gain advantage in the draft,\u201d Marks said (video link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

There have been different ideas thrown out as potential remedies for the current system. Marc Stein, in his latest newsletter, suggests a new approach, wherein teams would only secure the highest odds for landing the top pick once they clear 27 wins (subscriber link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

He uses 27 wins as the cut-off because that would mean winning at least a third of the season\u2019s games, and would discourage teams from bottoming out completely. Some semblance of competitiveness would be required to hit that mark and qualify for a top pick. Teams that didn\u2019t reach 27 wins would have lower odds of landing a top-four pick in this scenario.<\/p>\n

Whatever the choice is, Stein writes that it\u2019s important that the league doesn\u2019t overreact to a particularly egregious single-year tank battle due to what is considered a generational draft.<\/p>\n

We have more from around the world of basketball:<\/p>\n

Law Murray of The Athletic<\/a> released his post-All-Star Break power rankings today, which he broke into five categories: Top Contenders, In a Good place, The Bubble, Not the Tier to Fear, and Basement Floor. His Top Contenders category includes five teams, led by the Pistons, followed by the Spurs, Thunder, Knicks, and Celtics, while his\u00a0second tier is a three-team race between the Cavaliers, Nuggets, and Rockets.\u00a0On the other side of the spectrum, he has five Basement Floor teams, with the two lowest being the Wizards at 29 and the Kings, whom he calls \u201ca true factory of sadness,\u201d at 30.
\nIt was recently reported<\/a> that Nigel Hayes-Davis<\/a> would be leaving the NBA to return to Europe, signing a deal with Panathinaikos that will extend through 2028. He explained the decision on choosing the Greek team instead of joining one of his former squad, Fenerbahce Beko. \u201cEveryone knows Fenerbahce was an option and what I did there over the last few years, especially what we accomplished as a team last season. It just felt like that chapter was closed and that I had given my all,\u201d he said, per Kevin Martorano of Sportando<\/a>.
\nPau Gasol confirmed his involvement in NBA Europe, though what exactly he will be doing has yet to be fully clarified, Mortando writes<\/a>. \u201cAt the moment, there is no defined role. I\u2019m simply working with the NBA, with\u00a0FIBA, and speaking with teams to see what the evolution of basketball\u2019s growth in Europe should look like,\u201d the two-time NBA champion said. \u201cFrom there, we\u2019ll see what role I will ultimately take on, whether at the league level or with a team.\u201d He also outlined his vision for what the project would be able to accomplish. \u201cWe need to build everything from scratch,\u201d he said. \u201cBasketball is a globally important sport, and I believe we have the space to enhance it both as an experience and as a show, going beyond the simple magic of the game itself. That is exactly what we are here to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The subject of tanking has become a hot-button topic in recent weeks, so much so that NBA commissioner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[2214,7,5180,1673],"class_list":{"0":"post-607737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-adam-silver","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nigel-hayes-davis","11":"tag-pau-gasol"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116084873960576030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}