The NBA despises the word so much that Commissioner Adam Silver referred to it as the "T-word." Tanking — the idea that teams lose games on purpose to procure top draft picks — permeated the ...

Accusations of tanking have clearly gotten to Washington Wizards owner Ted Leonsis, who recently sat down with Front Office Sports to reiterate the team's strategy to return to contention while ...

Finally, the last sign that the Wizards are tanking is their strategy of contracts and salary management. At this moment, the franchise has nine players who are signed for four years, however ...

The NBA did recently change its rule to make tanking less beneficial, but it did so before Wembanyama was even on the league's radar. The draft lottery used to offer the worst team in the NBA a 25 ...

It's a weird strategy," Wembanyama said. "I find it unreasonable, and I try not to think about it. I also heard that the NBA considered changing a few rules for me, but that doesn't concern me." ...

SAN ANTONIO — It is not a complete surprise to see a few NBA teams perhaps intentionally lose games or "tank" in order to increase their lottery odds in 2023. And the prize at the 2023 NBA Draft ...

Here’s a brief history of the NBA lottery and what the league is doing to combat tanking. Pre-1985: The numbers game. The first three decades of the NBA draft were both simple and calculating.

Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 126-118 loss to the Toronto Raptors from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen. 1. The Jazz try a new tanking strategy Ah ha! Fresh off being fined by ...

Tanking is endemic to NBA culture, we are told. The very nature of the NBA and the US collegiate system necessitates a draft by which the most unsuccessful teams get the best players, and this, it ...

More than any other league, the NBA should know exactly what to do to strike at the heart of tanking, because it was the first league — and, to date, the only one — to actually do something ...