{"id":621854,"date":"2026-02-24T12:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/621854\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:41:14","slug":"what-the-nbas-anti-tanking-agenda-means-for-the-nets-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/621854\/","title":{"rendered":"What the NBA&#8217;s anti-tanking agenda means for the Nets&#8217; plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows just how important the Nets\u2019 current tank is to their future.<\/p>\n<p>That means everybody could probably envision just how nervous \u2014 borderline panicked? \u2014 Nets general manager Sean Marks must have been last week when he thought two years\u2019 worth of planning (and losing) were in danger of going awry.<\/p>\n<p>Marks was on a video call last Thursday with the NBA\u2019s other 29 general managers and league commissioner Adam Silver, who has been on a mission to tamp down and stamp out tanking. Or at least to punish those who partake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/19\/sports\/road-only-going-to-get-tougher-for-nets-as-tanking-questions-loom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Such as the Nets<\/a> \u2014\u00a0and a solid third of the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everybody knows just how important the Nets\u2019 current tank is to their future. That means everybody could probably&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,3822,6,671,3823,3596,66,196],"class_list":["post-621854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn-nets","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklynnets","tag-inside-the-nets","tag-nba","tag-nets","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sean-marks","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116125662146000227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621854","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=621854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}