NBA Tanking

Here’s something I bet you didn’t know before, say, right gotdamn now. Michael Carter-Williams loves him some Ellen. During a piece for the The Players’ Tribune, wherein he sounds off on allegations that the Sixers are tanking, MCW offers some insight into how he copes with losing: Every guy in the league deals with losing [...]

Tanking is not an epidemic in the NBA, but it does exist. Under the current lottery system, how could it not? Rebuilding teams have an incentive to lose if they want a high draft pick. It’s that simple. Some people despise it, others are indifferent to it and a few even embrace it. I would [...]

Tanking isn’t in Derrick Rose’s vocabulary. Hell, rebuilding isn’t either. But it may have to be. According to the New York Daily News‘ Mitch Lawrence, Rose wants no part of a rebuild in Chicago: Rose has told several confidantes that he is worried that the Bulls will start to let the team hit the skids [...]