{"id":612731,"date":"2026-02-20T02:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/612731\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T02:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:06:19","slug":"road-only-going-to-get-tougher-for-nets-as-tanking-questions-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/612731\/","title":{"rendered":"Road only going to get tougher for Nets as tanking questions loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA will make <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/19\/sports\/nba-plans-to-implement-tanking-crackdown-next-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anti-tanking rule changes for next season<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But the Nets tipped off the second half of this one with their own tank very much ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Nets came out of the All-Star break Thursday night in Cleveland, the first of their 29-game stretch run toward the draft lottery. If that run has been a brisk jog to this point, it\u2019s about to become an all-out sprint to the finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38547931\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP_Nets_Cavaliers_Basketball_65721-16fd5-0.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn Nets forward Danny Wolf (2) dunks next to Cleveland Cavaliers guard Keon Ellis, left, in the first half of an NBA basketball game in Cleveland, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. \" class=\"wp-image-38547931\"  \/>Danny Wolf dunks on Keon Ellis during the first half of the Nets-Cavaliers game on Feb. 19, 2026. AP<\/p>\n<p>While NBA commissioner Adam Silver on Thursday warned the league\u2019s 30 general managers of planned anti-tanking rule changes, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2024603693673271697?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to ESPN<\/a>, those won\u2019t go into effect until next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA will make anti-tanking rule changes for next season. But the Nets tipped off the second half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,248,6,249,671,66,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-612731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklynnets","12":"tag-jordi-fernandez","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-draft-lottery","15":"tag-nets","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116100517083621463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612731","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=612731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}