The Utah Jazz Got Fined AGAIN
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In this video we discuss the insane $500k fine that was levied by the NBA league offices due to the sitting of Lauri Markkanen in the fourth quarter alongside Jaren Jackson Jr.
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Compromise the integrity? Bullcrap. Adam "Nosferatu" Silver has bigger problems compromising the league.
I, for one, appreciate that Mr. Ryan Smith is not afraid to hit back.
Still find it funny how salty Miami was. They're accusing the Jazz? They LOST to the Jazz, what does that say about them?
My dream would be AJ, next is Caleb Wilson but after the guard corps was decimated. maybe Kingston Flemings or Mikel Brown might be a better fit
Great content !
Do you think the league would change the rules before the draft that would affect this coming draft ?
Would you being the owner, in Ryan's situation . Just sit the high profile players for the remainder of the season?
It's still to early to say were they will draft. Truth is we don't control anything about the draft. Proof, last year.
🤬 KEEP TANKING its our way to land a Luka since we won't be gifted one Like the lakers.
I don't hear Adam silvers crying about that shady trade, 1 first round pick and a injured player for a 25 year old generational player!? We got 5 for gobert and 4 good players 👀 🧠
Investigate that silvers!
Adam silvers happily smiled while the lakers and dallas cheated the rest of the league. He didnt comment about collusion, or block the trade because it tilts what fair market value it. No investigation there because it helped the sports books, and helped their league darling.
They don't care if you sit players for the whole game, they just don't want the precious sports books to get upset because it messed with their betting lines and projections. Whatever happened to load management they never find people for that
I believe this started in 1982 when the Rockets tanked to draft Hakeem Olajuwon. So 44 years later in 2026 the NBA wants to drop the responsibility of their problem, which they can not resolve, onto the Jazz. Yea the Jazz caused this 44 year old pile of shit. I believe the Jazz draft pick will go to OKC.
They gonna fine the Jazz for not winning the right way?? All about gambling
So. Sam Presti said they would go through the back channels to try to battle Jazz tanking. (Obviously because they stand to gain a pick from Jazz, any other team doesnt seem to matter).
Funny part is Sam Presti defended their tanking a few years a go. Stating that allowing youngsters to play during strategic rebuild is not tanking. At the time he refeferences 76rs tanking scheme.
L.O.L
Here are my thoughts. A perfect system to discourage tanking is impossible if you still want to give wanting teams a chance to get better. The problem I see is that the focus of tanking is on their position in the lottery. As long as there is a lottery you are going to have teams try to be in it instead of making a shot at the playoffs, as they know they don’t have it as a team yet, so what’s the point of making a playoff appearance that year.
If you want to discourage position in the lottery, which is what encourages the most aggressive tanking, you should just flatten the odds completely so that every lottery team has equal odds. I think you also implement the rule that a team can’t get multiple top 4 picks in a row so probability won’t favor a team too much. People saying but what about incentive to be competitive? I just don’t think it’s wise to try and go that far as better run teams would take too much advantage from this. I think if teams aren’t incentivized to aggressively lose at the end of the season, the players are competitive enough, that it will work out. What we want to discourage is teams manipulating lineups constantly to lose. It won’t eliminate tanking all together as the fringe teams will try to position and fight over a lottery spot, but that will only be a few teams, and will likely only happen near the very end.
Players have pride, in this scenario no team would want to be the very bottom, or near the bottom of the lottery, teams also know that losing bad for culture and morale, for both players and coaches. If teams aren’t desperate to have bottom four odds, they aren’t going to fight to be at the bottom.
Another thought is that this makes protected picks more fair for both teams involved in the trade, take jazz’s top 8 protected for instance, both teams would then know exactly what a top 8 protected pick means, and Jazz get everything they want from just being in the lottery. They have as good at any chance to get #1, great chance to get top 4, and a high chance to keep their pick. OKC is happy because they have a good chance of the pick to convey. Jazz would then not be nearly as desperate to lose games.
Honestly I think this might be the solution. Shoot out to wraith hoops for mentioning equaling out the odds.
I picture Silver coming home after a long day, turning the Jazz game on, and losing his mind when he realizes he is unable to watch his two favorite players – Lauri and JJJ – play when that was the only thing getting him through the workday.
Silver has screwed up the nba worse than the Jazz can.
I like your idea of flattening the odds for all teams not making the playoffs. It's exactly what I would do. 14 teams gives each team a 7.14% chance of landing the number one pick. It won't eliminate all tanking, but will help reduce it to the teams on the edges of making the lottery or not. If you are comfortably in the lottery and not in any danger of dropping out, there is no reason for you not to want to win every game.
If you flatten the odds for every team not making the playoffs, and then do a lottery drawing for each position after that, here are the odds.
Draw 1 (1st Place): 1 in 14 (7.14%)
Draw 2 (2nd Place): 1 in 13 (7.69%)
Draw 3 (3rd Place): 1 in 12 (8.33%)
Draw 4 (4th Place): 1 in 11 (9.09%)
Draw 5 (5th Place): 1 in 10 (10%)
Draw 6 (6th Place): 1 in 9 (11.11%)
Draw 7 (7th Place): 1 in 8 (12.50%)
Draw 8 (8th Place): 1 in 7 (14.29%)
Draw 9 (9th Place): 1 in 6 (16.67%)
Draw 10 (10th Place): 1 in 5 (20.00%)
Draw 11 (11th Place): 1 in 4 (25.00%)
Draw 12 (12th Place): 1 in 3 (33.33%)
Draw 13 (13th Place): 1 in 2 (50.00%)
Draw 14 (14th Place): 1 in 1 (100.00%)
Pure hypocrisy
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So it’s okay when everyone else does it but now that the Jazz finally have an opportunity to become elite, it’s a problem. Pisses me off.
Hate the idea it's all on Utah cause they don't want it to go to the Thunder and also the Jazz aren't doing anything new btw cause teams used to do this all the time sitting star players on less minutes in a lost season to get experience for the younger players rather then risking a star player a possible season ending injury. now you got him saying players can own interest in gambling companies and tanking still the problem when in my eyes it's a mix of gambling and streaming services isolating poorer fans (Which Utah doesn't have that problem thankfully). He's panicking as all the fans are leaving and he's trying to blame other sources rather then the obvious. also I guess 500,000 if you are doing it for both JJJ and Luari as a combined fine
I'm sick of the purposely tanking for any reason. This front office is very obviously wanting to purposely lose over the last 3 seasons by being in Hardy's ear and making tanking trades. I hope they keep getting fined for it. I want to enjoy watching my Jazz again. Danny Ainge can eat 💩