04-09-2023, 01:52 PM
(04-09-2023, 01:47 PM)hakeemfaan Wrote: Many teams do this when a generational talent is the prize but they don’t openly come and say it. They trade some of their best players. Other players the medical staff will downgrade even for the smallest of niggles.
The 76ers Process talk was well known and even mentioned on national broadcasts.
Where the league has to investigate it is when someone on the team pretty much states they are intentionally tanking like Kidd did the other night
I said then the league will be forced to investigate this. “Forced” is the key word. Do you think the league wants to do this? What choice do they have though when a snitch within the organization openly says they have been told to tank? The NBA will otherwise get asked in the media how they are letting this go. With other teams there is plausible deniability
You can almost see Silver groaning when he read Kidd’s words knowing now his office will have to get involved when they could have just turned a blind eye if the Mavs did this the same way other teams are doing it.
This is all going to end with the Mavs winning today and losing the coin flip. Thus losing their pick.
Then the nba will investigate and determine the Mavs did tank the Bulls game due to Kidd’s words. Nba will fine Cuban and they tell him as punishment he needs to continue to make basketball decisions.
Ok probably not, but it would be a chef kiss to end the most dysfunctional season.