NBA 2025-26 NBA Thread

[Kefka]

Austin Reaves w/ 33 points in 20 minutes on 80% shooting rn

 

[LeBowen]

Been thinking about it, the levels of tanking have reached an all-time embarrassing level.
Hinkie got cancelled for the process, but at least he created rosters that were incapable of winning, even if they tried.
Meanwhile this season we have teams blatantly tanking even though they're way better than their record.

Jazz being the worst offenders.
When Markkanen plays 33+ minutes: 14-13
When he plays less than 33 minutes: 1-10
When he doesn't play: 1-13

Everyone keeps talking about changing the lottery system, for me it's really simple.
Make it so that 30 wins is the threshold. Everyone with less than 30 wins gets the same odds, keep everything the same for teams with 30+ wins.
Very few rosters in the NBA are that bad to be incapable of winning 30 games.
We won 22 with point Sochan and blatantly throwing like at least a dozen games.
It's just a horrible product.

 

[mo7888]

Been thinking about it, the levels of tanking have reached an all-time embarrassing level.
Hinkie got cancelled for the process, but at least he created rosters that were incapable of winning, even if they tried.
Meanwhile this season we have teams blatantly tanking even though they're way better than their record.

Jazz being the worst offenders.
When Markkanen plays 33+ minutes: 14-13
When he plays less than 33 minutes: 1-10
When he doesn't play: 1-13

Everyone keeps talking about changing the lottery system, for me it's really simple.
Make it so that 30 wins is the threshold. Everyone with less than 30 wins gets the same odds, keep everything the same for teams with 30+ wins.
Very few rosters in the NBA are that bad to be incapable of winning 30 games.
We won 22 with point Sochan and blatantly throwing like at least a dozen games.
It's just a horrible product.

The Jazz are the worst. They way they 'managed' that game coming down the stretch in Atlanta may have been the worst example of tanking I've ever seen. Even after they in intentionally gave away the lead every time they had an out of bounds play with a chance to tie/win the drew the most difficult play for the most mediocre shooters. It was a league embarrassment in my estimation.