NBA rules proposal to address 'tanking' are an overreaction to a one-year phenomenon
The NBA does not need new rules to address the "tanking problem". The only tanking problem that will exist next season will be the absence of rewards for those teams that choose to be bad.
NBA rules proposal to address 'tanking' are an overreaction to a one-year phenomenon originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The NBA had a tanking problem.
One letter can make a heck of a difference in the English language. Not 'has'. Had.
Because the 2025-26 season is over. Which means every team in the league that became enchanted with the mountain of talent in the pending draft class no longer is actively involved in the process of losing games (or passively involved in attempting to win them, if that seems a more palatable description of what occurred through the winter). This is not a pervasive, long-term problem for the league.
It’s an episodic, anecdotal issue. Occasionally, it develops with specific teams in isolated circumstances. What happened this season with a large segment of teams was an aberration.
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