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Through the Wire

Can The NBA Stop Tanking?

Through the Wire

Bleacher Report

Basketball, Sports

4.98K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On episode 2 of TTWire, the guys talk about whether or not the NBA can stop teams from tanking. They also talk about who is the best two way point guard in the league, Rudy Gobert vs Draymond Green, NBA 2K18, and Lamelo Ball.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Through The Wire. We got the usual Kaz Derek Mike and Pierre.

0:04.1

If you guys have wanted to listen to it on your cellular device, you can go ahead and download us on iTunes.

0:09.3

If you got to Android, we still working on Android stuff by iTunes for sure.

0:12.9

We hit like six to seven hundred downloads on episode one.

0:16.0

And we try to make it to the top of the charts and the sports categories.

0:19.6

So go ahead and download it. Take a sub episode too, man.

0:21.8

For real, for episode two, we got a lot of topics to hit up today starting off with the NBA lottery reform.

0:27.2

You already, boys? Let's get it.

0:29.1

All right. So basically Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA, is trying to desensitize

0:34.8

tanking. He's trying to get it. So teams don't just bottom out and just be back to get the first

0:42.1

overall pick. Basically, the NBA's proposal would flatten out those odds to give three,

0:45.9

the three teams of the worst record, the same percentage it earned in the first overall pick.

0:49.8

So basically this year, we probably think who the three were teams, the boys for sure, the hogs.

0:55.9

And I'll be talking sons or retalking.

0:58.4

Net.

0:58.9

Net.

0:59.2

Net.

0:59.9

Basically, they would all have the same chances of getting the first overall pick instead of

1:04.4

it being 25% for the worst thing. But this won't come into effect until after next season.

1:09.9

So we basically just don't talk about whether or not we think it's a good idea is

1:13.5

tanking a successful option. Because honestly, I don't think it is.

1:18.3

Name a team that's taint to get a good pick that actually successfully.

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