12-23-2025, 10:34 AM
(12-23-2025, 09:34 AM)Smitty Wrote: @ShamsCharania
The NBA and its stakeholders have started talks on finding new solutions to prevent tanking -- and the league proposed multiple ideas to the Board of Governors as the sides brainstorm cures.
Sources said multiple ideas were proposed Friday as a brainstorming measure, including:
•Limiting pick protections to either top four or 14 and higher
•No longer allowing a team to draft in the top four two years in a row
•Locking lottery positions after March 1
ESPN story: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/4739...ms-tanking
The fact that the NBA uses the Mavs/Lively situation as a tanking reference is another example of what a moron Cuban is. The Mavs properly tanked like once in 25 years and he had to brag about it like he invented the wheel. There are 3-5 teams every year that do it more blatantly to reach a certain protection benchmark, but you obviously can not use these examples, since these teams are not dumb enough to admit it in public.

