BASKETBALL ILLUMINATI - Tanking Incentives

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Be cautious, Illumination. These early season records are not what they seem. Except for the Lakers, they're going to continue to have issues unless they find a creative way out of the Russell Westbrook Category. Truth Teller Babak Somekh joins the program to discuss the paper he co-wrote with Paolo Falco and Mauro Caselli titled 'Inside the NBA Bubble: How Black Players Performed Better without Fans'. Finally, Amin shares his first Inconvenient Truth from the new season, concerning Adam Silver's flirtation with relegation and how to properly incentivize tanking teams. Subscribe to Basketball Illuminati! On Apple or Spotify Merch: Shirts - Hat 1 - Hat 2 Email us: basketballilluminati@gmail.com Twitter: @bballilluminati Instagram: @basketballilluminati Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A week in the books and the standings are looking just as we expected.
0:04.3	I'm boys, you only four no team Portland.
0:07.6	Yeah.
0:08.4	Spurs three and one saw that coming.
0:11.9	Utah, Utah beat.
0:14.3	Music to my ears.
0:15.9	Minnesota.
0:17.2	Valik is the funniest meme I've seen so far this season is they put the DJ
0:22.8	Khaled suffering from success.
0:25.1	Album cover and it's at Danny age right now.
0:28.9	Yeah.
0:29.9	Yeah.
0:30.4	What does he have to do?
0:32.6	Does he have to Tonya Harding, Laurie Markinan?
0:35.7	What is it going to take to tank for the jazz and the Spurs?
0:39.8	I'm reminded of the fact that Michael Carter Williams in his rookie year
0:43.0	looked like he was a second coming of Magic Johnson for the first three games.
0:46.5	He's also like 35 is rookie year.
0:50.0	The sixers 2014 started out three and oh and ended up with 19 wins.
0:54.6	Looking at the situation, I'm like, who is the Michael Carter Williams of this start?
0:58.7	I think Lowry's better.
0:59.7	I'm going to break it down for you.
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