In an “idea gathering” call with every team, the league’s proposals on how to curb intentional losing don’t have any real force behind them at this stage.
reporting on the NBA’s planned expansion to Sin City, though most team officials believe that is most certainly in play. I have my boxing hat on this weekend—if you’re a fan of the sweet science,Evan Turner is back with some final thoughts on the All-Star Game, if he thinks star players would participate in a Saturday night one-on-one competition, what Cleveland will look like in the second half with James Harden, and if Turner, a close friend of Jayson Tatum, believes we will see Tatum play this season.
ListenNBA commissioner Adam Silver acknowledged that tanking had reached never before seen levels . “Are we seeing behavior that is worse this year than we’ve seen in recent memory?” asked Silver. “Yes, is my view.” Last week, Thursday’s call formally began the process to address it. Team officials threw out a number of proposals, from limiting pick protections to freezing lottery odds to not allowing teams to pick inside the top four in consecutive years. It was “idea gathering,” said one top team executive briefed on the call. Added another, “I’d call it throwing s--- against the wall.” Indeed, none of the proposals have any real force behind them. While the NBA is committed to instituting fresh anti-tanking rules next season, what those are will be decided by the league’s competition committee, a mixed group of team executives, head coaches, players and league officials. This week’s meeting was about “giving feedback,” says a source, and giving reps from each team a chance to speak.. While Silver doesn’t believe subjective punishment is a long-term solution , the league is willing to bring out the stick again if they see similar situations.Evan Turner was a popular player during his 10-year NBA career, and remains so even in retirement. Among the players Turner has a relationship with is“It’s going to take confidence, 1,000%, just confidence,” Turner says. “Everybody wants reassurance to make sure we are not rushing this thing. Because it is . When you sit back and everybody says, ‘Yo, he got hurt last May,’ and now he is back 10 months later? That is kind of crazy. “He has been practicing, he has been working out, he has been doing his thing. You heard Jaylen Brown say he heard he looked great in practice. The hooper that I know, the person that I know, he’s itching to get back. NBC ain’t stupid. It’s his birthday March 3. Jayson, he likes to give himself nice gifts. An early comeback against a team he usually puts 35 points on, that could be one of them.”Chris Mannix is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated covering the NBA and boxing beats. He joined the SI staff in 2003 following his graduation from Boston College. Mannix is the host of SI's "Open Floor" podcast and serves as a ringside analyst and reporter for DAZN Boxing. He is also a frequent contributor to NBC Sports Boston as an NBA analyst. A nominee for National Sportswriter of the Year in 2022, Mannix has won writing awards from the Boxing Writers Association of America and the Pro Basketball Writers Association, and is a longtime member of both organizations.
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