{"id":607970,"date":"2026-02-17T11:52:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/607970\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:52:29","slug":"the-nets-are-on-notice-for-tanking-but-cant-let-nbas-threats-stop-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/607970\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nets are on notice for tanking but can&#8217;t let NBA&#8217;s threats stop them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over NBA All-Star weekend, commissioner Adam Silver had some uncharacteristically pointed warnings for the third of the league currently tanking.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets clearly fall in that category.<\/p>\n<p>But they <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/21\/sports\/what-nets-must-do-in-second-half-to-fulfill-lottery-fueled-dreams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can\u2019t afford to fail<\/a> in that category.<\/p>\n<p>How the Nets fare in May\u2019s draft lottery will impact their future plans, just as much as how their current crop of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/10\/sports\/nolan-traore-tells-the-post-why-nets-rookie-tandem-could-be-teams-backcourt-of-the-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">five first-round rookies does<\/a>, or even whether a star like Giannis Antetokounmpo or Donovan Mitchell becomes available in the summer. It could be the root node of their decision tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over NBA All-Star weekend, commissioner Adam Silver had some uncharacteristically pointed warnings for the third of the league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[2214,7,247,3822,248,304,976,562,6,1136,191,3810,3806,3823,66,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-607970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-adam-silver","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-inside-the-nets","12":"tag-jordi-fernandez","13":"tag-knicks","14":"tag-lauri-markkanen","15":"tag-michael-porter-jr","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-knicks","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkknicks","21":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116085833428272897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607970","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=607970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}