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[ponchi101]

I am a bit confused. Cuban EXPLICITLY said their best move was to lose, and I read in another article that the NBA had already fined him $600K for this blatant tanking.
I don't see what is there to investigate.
Plus. The NBA has forced owners to sell their teams for blatantly immoral stuff (The Clippers' sale, for example). If the owner of one team does openly speak about tanking, what sort of penalty should there be? This goes straight against the core of any competitive league. At the very least, season pass holders should be compensated. At worst, this person has to go.

[ti-amie]

I missed this. It had to be really bad for an investigation to be started.

[JazzNU]

This was the clumsiest ish I've seen a team string together in a very long while. The Spurs have been tanking all season for Wembanyama and they've been more subtle than this was. Investigation, fine, and likely loss of draft pick well deserved for the Mavs.

[ti-amie]

Wow.

[JazzNU]

[JazzNU]

Not just a slap on the wrist, barely a tap. That was the most obvious tank job I can recall because it wasn't just headed into the game, it was also in-game tanking as well. This will not deter any other team to scheme to keep a protected draft pick, that's for sure.

[ponchi101]

Agree. This was extreme, especially for a team that still had a mathematical chance to make the play-in. They basically said "we don't care about the post-season".
And it won't deter anybody else, as you say.

[JazzNU]

[JazzNU]

Super ridiculous firing.

[patrick]

Unfortunately for Williams, 2 blow out losses in elimination games in consecutive years and his feud with Ayton was at the top of the list. Now, will Ayton step his game up next year with a new coach and Durant in place for an entire year.

[JazzNU]

Unfortunately for Williams, 2 blow out losses in elimination games in consecutive years and his feud with Ayton was at the top of the list. Now, will Ayton step his game up next year with a new coach and Durant in place for an entire year.

That's putting blame on Monty without any context and that he doesn't deserve. And if the owner is stupid enough to choose Ayton over Monty, who both Booker and Durant love and respect, the main reason that he had Phoenix on his list of teams he'd go to for a few years now, then he's even dumber than I was thinking he was.

[ti-amie]

He should've been suspended for the season after the first incident went public. Those so called "friends" in this post with him will be gone once the NBA kicks him out.

[ti-amie]

I can't wait to hear the TNT guys on this. Today's game is on ABC/ESPN so I'm sure Stephen A will be bloviating about it.

[ti-amie]

Temetrius Morant's agent

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NBA Front Office

[ponchi101]

About Monty. He was without C. Paul, and the KD trade left him without a bench. Plus. Are there really many better coaches out there?
Micro management at its worst.

About Ja. What is he thinking, and does he have any friends to tell him to stop it?