'25-26 NBA Thread

[wadesworld]

Why is tanking an issue? It's also not really fixing bad teams, so it's just hurting their businesses. Look at who the bad teams have been. Not many go from bad to good. Bad teams are usually staying bad for a long time. Pels, Nets, Hornets, Wizards, Portland, Utah, Sacramento. If they want to keep tanking, let them. Just hurting themselves.

[MuggsyB]

Why is tanking an issue? It's also not really fixing bad teams, so it's just hurting their businesses. Look at who the bad teams have been. Not many go from bad to good. Bad teams are usually staying bad for a long time. Pels, Nets, Hornets, Wizards, Portland, Utah, Sacramento. If they want to keep tanking, let them. Just hurting themselves.

Then should they lower the ticket prices if their goal is to lose?  Whatever happened to actually trying?

[WhiteTrash]

Why is tanking an issue? It's also not really fixing bad teams, so it's just hurting their businesses. Look at who the bad teams have been. Not many go from bad to good. Bad teams are usually staying bad for a long time. Pels, Nets, Hornets, Wizards, Portland, Utah, Sacramento. If they want to keep tanking, let them. Just hurting themselves.

NBA/NFL/NHL owners and GMs would disagree with you. There are data points to support the tanking strategy. Not a guaranty to success (hmmm maybe like transfer portal players), but higher daft picks hit at a higher rate. Maybe not dramatically higher rates, but sometimes these teams are forced to work in the margins to gain any advantage possible.

If tanking for higher draft picks doesn't provide an advantage, why haven't the leagues gone to just picking in alphabetical order?