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NBA plans to enact anti-tanking rules next season, sources say
Posted on 2/19/26 at 5:57 pm
Posted on 2/19/26 at 5:57 pm
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Commissioner Adam Silver informed the league's 30 general managers Thursday that the NBA plans to make anti-tanking rule changes for next season, sources told ESPN.
The league office's conversations with stakeholders from the board of governors, competition committee and GMs have been intensifying dialogue about combatting tanking -- including starting to propose potential concepts for changes in December during its meeting with owners.
Multiple sources with knowledge of Thursday's meeting as well as a late January competition committee meeting told ESPN that these concepts have been discussed to curb tanking:
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First-round draft picks can be protected only for top-four or top-14-plus selections
Lottery odds freeze at the trade deadline or a later date
No longer allowing a team to pick in the top four in consecutive years and/or after consecutive bottom-three finishes
Teams can't pick in the top four the year after making conference finals
Lottery odds allocated based on two-year records
Lottery extended to include all play-in teams
Flatten odds for all lottery teams
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Posted on 2/19/26 at 6:02 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Flatten odds for all lottery teams
This is the way
All lottery teams only get 1 ball
Posted on 2/19/26 at 6:07 pm to RLDSC FAN
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First-round draft picks can be protected only for top-four or top-14-plus selections
Lottery odds freeze at the trade deadline or a later date
This would just start a race to the bottom earlier
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Teams can't pick in the top four the year after making conference finals
This isn't even about tanking
Posted on 2/19/26 at 6:17 pm to RLDSC FAN
Bottom 2 teams should be relgated to the G League.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 6:18 pm to RLDSC FAN
Best odds by winning percentage as soon as you are mathematically eliminated.
You play harder to prolong elimination that way you increase your chance for a better percentage.
You play harder to prolong elimination that way you increase your chance for a better percentage.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 6:27 pm to boosiebadazz
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Best odds by winning percentage as soon as you are mathematically eliminated
How about just the most wins after you’re mathematically eliminated… it gives an advantage to the worst teams because they’ll have more time to rack up those wins
Posted on 2/19/26 at 6:29 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Lottery odds allocated based on two-year records
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Lottery odds freeze at the trade deadline or a later date
These are good moves
Posted on 2/19/26 at 6:38 pm to BunkieWrench
Wiz will be done tanking by then. 
at the nba deciding to get up in arms all of sudden about it this season
at the nba deciding to get up in arms all of sudden about it this season Posted on 2/19/26 at 6:41 pm to chalmetteowl
But that incentivizes you to tank earlier to be eliminated then start trying to win.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 6:43 pm to RLDSC FAN
NBA is such a corrupt joke it’s pathetic. Silver is a clown
Posted on 2/19/26 at 7:39 pm to Cosmo
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Flatten odds for all lottery teams
This is the way
All lottery teams only get 1 ball
Flattening lottery odds for all teams could lead to more tanking from middle-of-the-pack teams. While a solution is needed, any change will likely have unintended consequences.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 7:44 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Teams can't pick in the top four the year after making conference finals
Yea they’re definitely not targeting Indiana here.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 7:48 pm to boosiebadazz
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But that incentivizes you to tank earlier to be eliminated then start trying to win.
So teams can’t be just bad anymore? Pels fans know all too well you can lose games and not be tanking
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:02 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Teams can't pick in the top four the year after making conference finals
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:04 pm to chalmetteowl
You can, you’re just going to have to play harder to get a higher pick.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:04 pm to 504Voodoo
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Flattening lottery odds for all teams could lead to more tanking from middle-of-the-pack teams.
Very true. That's the problem. NBA teams are too smart and rational these days.
If Silver wants to solve tanking he needs to institute an IQ max of like 105 for all front office members
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:04 pm to S
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Yea they’re definitely not targeting Indiana here.
Or OKC with their 1000 picks
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:45 pm to RLDSC FAN
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No longer allowing a team to pick in the top four in consecutive years and/or after consecutive bottom-three finishes
Doesn't MLB already do something similar? It's a start, but it feels more like desperation to have ignored this for years to get to where they are now.
Posted on 2/20/26 at 5:33 am to RLDSC FAN
I don’t even care about tanking. Do people really think it matters if your team finishes 10th in the conference or 14th?
As a fan, I’d much rather my team finish at or near the bottom with the hope of getting a good draft pick than being stuck on a mediocrity treadmill near 10th with little hope for a good draft pick and little hope of moving up the standings.
You’ll always have bad teams who finish last. Who cares if a few teams prefer that outcome?
As a fan, I’d much rather my team finish at or near the bottom with the hope of getting a good draft pick than being stuck on a mediocrity treadmill near 10th with little hope for a good draft pick and little hope of moving up the standings.
You’ll always have bad teams who finish last. Who cares if a few teams prefer that outcome?
Posted on 2/20/26 at 6:43 am to PrimeTime Money
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You’ll always have bad teams who finish last. Who cares if a few teams prefer that outcome?
Their fans don’t want to pay money to support that and no one wants to see them on tv
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