The NBA Can’t Have 1/3 of the League Trying To Lose | Rachel Nichols & Chris Mannix
Chris Mannix & Rachel Nichols break down the Jazz sitting their stars in the fourth quarter of multiple games and what the NBA can do about a sizeable portion of the league trying to lose on purpose
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This is ridiculous! The Spurs tanked for Robinson, Duncan, and Wemby. The Jazz have never had the number one pick. Everyone remember "the process".
The Jazz are playing within the rules. You have teams that are in the top 5, 3 years in a row.
Rachel has it right. Stop screwing guys that are on small market teams, stop the awful reffing that favors big market teams, stop flattening the curve so that teams in middle of the season dont stop tanking, and start giving better benefits for making the playoffs.
Eliminate the Draft altogether.
The two best players were drafted in the 2nd round and mid 1st round. RANDOM LOTTERY 1-30. Tanking ends. Build your team through scouting, trades, and luck. There will always be bad teams. At least they won't be trying to be bad. It's a horrible fan experience.
Utah is tanking at a level I’ve never seen before. They just bench their guys at the end. The nba can easily fix this. Take away the picks
If you want purity and ethics in sports – then you have to remove the profit incentive – but since that is NEVER going to happen – deal with teams doing what's ultimately best for their bottom line. Shit the league is now openly embracing and partnering with gambling – it's a joke for them to raise concerns about "tanking"
The top players are always given extensions before hitting free agency. I think you need to remove the fully guaranteed contracts and make guys hit the open market.
It is true. A third of the league is tanking. You’re ripping off fans and the integrity of the game is compromised. Mark Cuban had the only remedy that I’ve seen that fixes the problem. Every team is awarded the first pick once every 30 years(30 teams) and picks 2-29 the following 29 years. There would be absolutely NO INCENTIVE to tank.
Just make the WHOLE first round (perhaps exclude the playoff teams) a weighted lottery.
I like the idea where you create pools of five teams, and they rotate every six years to get the top five picks in a draft based off of random odds
the Cavs would have gone 0-82 the year lebron came out without the lottery
If the nba did not have the lottery how would the keep giving the top pick to there chosen team
Keyonte George reinjured his ankle.
Plus even if Utah doesn’t keep its pick next year they are a playoff team as is. Lauris best years have come playing the three, Kessler will be back, George will continue to take a leap, Ace Bailey will improve and Trip is Trip.
Collier, Bryce, Flip, Williams will be a fine bench.
Give Utah credit for doing a complete rebuild in 4 years. OKC did it in 3, San Antonio did it in 6.
Come on.
Revenue sharing the tv money based on winning, would make every won game worth it for evry team.
There is one way and only one way to discourage tanking: Promotion and relegation! Otherwise, in every system you are better off playing your young players, the way the Jazz are, then go all out to win! And why are the Jazz being called out as the face of tanking? We haven't been tanking for any longer than anyone else and there was no complaints when a team like the Warriors tanked after they traded for the pizzagate conspiracy theorist Andrew Bogut and tanked to hang on to their pick that they used to get Harris Barnes!
Nobody tanks like the Kings when they’re trying to win
1. Why is eliminating the lottery never even considered in these conversations? The more teams with a chance at the first pick (or second or third), the more teams will tank to give themselves that chance.
2. Is it possible that too much emphasis is put on winning the Championship? Trying to be good enough to compete for the title can be crowded out by the hope of becoming great enough to guarantee the title.
The real issue is not respecting the game. This turns fans off. We want to see teams compete every game. Nobody wants to spend over $150 or more and see a non competitive game
Replace the draft with a point system. First place gets 1 point, last place gets 30 points. Players are traded for players plus points, not draft picks. Instead of a draft lottery, teams would submit sealed bids. They would not have to use all or any of their points when bidding. They can save points for a better draft class. They can make multiple bids, splitting their points between them if they want more than one 1st round pick. Highest bid gets the first pick. Teams bidding zero points come after all teams that bid at least 1. After the all-star break, any team, beating a team ahead of them in the standings, gets a bonus point. Teams, losing to a team below them in the standings, lose a point. Tanking and sitting stars after the all-star break is eliminated.
Easy solution to the tanking is make entire draft order a lottery where everyone has the same odds so records don’t matter.
I’d also get rid of guaranteed contracts and have salaries be paid at a fixed amount per minute played. For example, if the salary cap is 157 mil then it would be about $7800 per minute played. A starter that played the full season would average about 20 mil a yr, a rotational player about 11 mil a year. Superstars will still have their endorsements on top of all this so they narrate a pay cut but I think they’ll live.
Jazz tanking so they can bury Dybantsa in the bench
When there last 5 games of the season.. and without modifying schedule, get the last 5 teams of the NBA… and the team with more wins, and maybe points in their last 5 games, make that team automatically get the 1st round pick over all.. 2nd with more wins/points scored take the 2nd pick.. etc
Utah Jazz front office “ Adam Silver on the phone would like to talk to the GM” What does Danny Ange or his son say….?
6:46 you should hate watch the pacers OT win over the Knicks in msg that was on tonight. Pacers play ethical hoops
You’re blaming the Jazz and others for an environment the NBA has created. The NBA openly favors large market teams, forcing teams to go into “tank mode” to try to get talent.
Thank you Rachel Nichols for stating the actual problem and the reason for tanking. I appreciate it.
The Jazz did everything possible last year to get the #1 pick and the NBA colluded with Dallas to get them to trade Luka to the Lakers in exchange for the #1 pick. The NBA then caused the Jazz to need to go into tank mode AGAIN. I like Rachel Nichols ideas. She knows ball and has legitimate ideas on how to solve the issues.
Can they just lump the draft odds into groups.. like actual organic groupings — the contenders, middle of the pack/play-in teams and out of playoffs (hopeless)teams. Those are 3 natural groupings with same type mindset, based on them trying to win.
From there, they can penalize just the top 8 seeds, with the champs —ensuring being last pick..etc. (picks 23-30)
Then you got the trying to be contenders.. (seeds 5-10=picks 13-22]
The outside-looking-in teams all have same flat chances.
the blatant tanking(not playing good players) occurs when they’re racing to get the first picks.. it’s like an artificial reward, based on losing vs ability to win.
Blame the jazz. Who cares that the Spurs tanked multiple times to get David Robinson, Duncan, and Wemby.
Now…..NOW, suddenly it's a problem.
This is how the rules are. You don't like it? Make changes.
Until then shut up
Why cant it? I like tanking
oh sure. Flatten the odds for the draft. And magically the lakers, will get top picks every year, and the league will insist that it isn't rigged.
Why did coaches name Siacam an Allstar? Lol
What area teams to do that are not free agent destinations to do?
If you incentivize losing this will continue to happen. Stop rewarding losers!!!!