{"id":613350,"date":"2026-02-20T08:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/613350\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:54:18","slug":"nba-plans-to-adopt-anti-tanking-measures-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/613350\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Plans to Adopt Anti-Tanking Measures Next Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The NBA is prepared to address the rash of mid-season tanking among franchises anticipating a quick fix for their institutional woes via the NBA Draft. The current draft system, a weighted lottery among all 14 teams who do not make the playoffs, gives incentives for losing: greater odds of high picks for teams with worse records. This has led to a raft of accusations of \u201ctanking\u201d\u2014intentionally losing games\u2014against teams who appear to be underperforming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47979919\/nba-set-enact-anti-tanking-rules-next-season-sources-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN is reporting<\/a> that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has informed General Managers of all 30 franchises that anti-tanking measures will go into effect next season. Currently the league fines teams who rest star players without clear indication of injuries, but financial penalties are hard to enforce and don\u2019t appear to be actually deterring decision-makers anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The ESPN article suggests that, per league sources, the following measures may be considered:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The article also describes the commissioner\u2019s message as \u201cforceful\u201d. We\u2019ll see what develops over the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA is prepared to address the rash of mid-season tanking among franchises anticipating a quick fix for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,6,12,3101],"class_list":{"0":"post-613350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nba-draft","11":"tag-nba-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116102120413378416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613350","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=613350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}