Raptors Reject Tanking

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The NBA’s tank-off isn’t just embarrassing. It’s unnecessary

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Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri decided to follow in a long line of teams who are taking advantage of the NBA ’s incentive structure that means bad teams have better odds of landing a top pick in the draft.

The Raptors made history in 2019 by becoming the first team to win an NBA Championship without a single lottery pick.

Teams are sitting their best players due to “rest” and quiet-quitting by pulling starters late in games.

The NBA needs a new set of rules specifically designed to discourage tanking a “Shame Doctrine” that clearly lays out a set of increasingly significant penalties that will be levied against teams for tanking.

The NBA can’t expect the culture to change naturally given that teams have learned how to exploit the system, but the league can make it a significantly harder system to game.

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