"Tanking," whether in the NBA or any other professional sports league, refers to a roster-building strategy where teams aren't blatantly throwing games or causing a conflict of interest, but also...
What is tanking in the NBA? Explaining controversial strategy for teams ...
Tanking is differentiated from actions taken to achieve a pre-determined result in a specific contest, usually for the purposes of sports betting, thus violating the rules of the game, along with laws, which is more specifically deemed as match fixing.
That’s the thing about tanking: The cost isn’t just to the tanking team’s fans, many of whom might favor it. It imposes terrible basketball on everyone else, too.
NBA’s widespread tanking has come at a significant cost for the entire ...
League officials are fuming at how brazenly—and how early—teams are tanking. The NBA has done everything it can to incentivize winning. It created the play-in tournament.
The NBA’s Tanking Crisis Is Worse Than Ever. Here’s How to Fix It.
Because elite prospects typically enter through the draft, some teams have adopted a controversial strategy known as tanking. Tanking refers to intentionally weakening a roster or prioritizing...
What is ‘tanking’ in the NBA? What is being done to prevent it?
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said at a press conference Wednesday that the NBA needs to "do something more extreme" to address tanking than the lottery reforms it has implemented in the past.
NBA commissioner talks about the league's need to combat tanking, but admits it's tough to distinguish between tanking and a rebuild.