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The problem is, you have to make the punishment harsh enough that it was not worth it for them to do this. If you fine them $10m, or suspend Kawhi for a month, who cares? They still got several good years of play out of Kawhi; if you told them this would happen, they'd probably happily do it again ...

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They’re not going to get anything when other teams know he can’t play for LAC. This way you force them to take on bad money. The clippers won’t care if you void the deal, they are trying to clear space anyways and that clears 50 million in one swoop for free.

You’d have teams tank to be in the bottom 14 so they could win this lottery tournament. The actual bad teams would still not be able to win.

To me the problem is the nba incentivizing the teams in the middle to pretend to be bad to get better players. The problem isn’t that we have bad teams.

The wolves had how many 1sts stripped for their shenanigans with Joe Smith back in the day? I think it was originally 5, but was cut to 3. I feel like that’s the most likely punishment. Restricting the clippers ability to spend money hurts them, but also hurts the players and there’s no reason to pu ...

I think there’s an important distinction between tanking naturally and the tanking Ishbia is talking about. Purposely sitting good players to lower the quality of your team with the purpose of getting better rewards is the problem. Being bad and trading vets away for young players is not the p ...

He obviously knew, but I’m curious what the rules say…it’s the organization that is more to blame for skirting the rules. What obligation does the player have to follow them is my question. Joe Smith wasn’t suspended when Minny did shady things. Players don’t get punished when teams contact them outs ...

But it’s his ankle and not his knee at least

I don’t see how they ban Kawhi for a year…I’d need to see how the cap circumvention rules are worded, but I’m sure it’s targeted more towards teams instead of players.

The wolves had how many 1sts stripped for their shenanigans with Joe Smith back in the day? I think it was originally 5, but was cut to 3. I feel like that’s the most likely punishment. Restricting the clippers ability to spend money hurts them, but also hurts the players and there’s no reason to pun ...

I really think there is two options… 1. Completely remove the connection between record and draft position(The Wheel or something similar) 2. Keep essentially the same system with slight tweaks and just punish teams for intentional tanking. For 2, I would like to see pick protections removed(with m ...

I did say maybe for Sacramento…I agree the fans have been good there…they deserve a better ownership group. New Orleans has been a failure in just about everything.

I think tanking needs to be solved before expansion.

Minnesota isn’t close to anyone in the west, they are much closer to Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit. Memphis may be further east, but they are still somewhat close to Houston, New Orleans, and OKC at least. I’m kind of out on expansion though. I’d rather just move New Orleans to Seattle and maybe S ...

I think there’s an important distinction between tanking naturally and the tanking Ishbia is talking about. Purposely sitting good players to lower the quality of your team with the purpose of getting better rewards is the problem. Being bad and trading vets away for young players is not the problem.

Has the team officially addressed the Cole Anthony situation? He never joined the team and they never welcomed them on their socials they way they did for Coffey. I guess we are just going to release him? Did they say why? I don’t think the team has…I think I saw a report that we were working on a s ...

Can they make the clippers absorb any dead money their current players have with other teams? Haha

Minnesota isn’t close to anyone in the west, they are much closer to Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit. Memphis may be further east, but they are still somewhat close to Houston, New Orleans, and OKC at least. I’m kind of out on expansion though. I’d rather just move New Orleans to Seattle and maybe Sa ...

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Sick. I love building for a 43 win future.

I don’t think I’m following. What do these two things have to do with eachother?

We probably still are…last year we were probably like 3-40 or something

The idiot part is trying to fly with it Okay, but, even that should be completely legal. The moral panic about small amounts of weed possession is the real idiot part. I'll get off my soapbox, but this is just a pet peeve of mine. Too many people have criminal records and have had their lives ...