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Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

Flashback: Solving Tanking

Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

Basketball, Sports

4.6866 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Originally published in 2025 John Hollinger, who may or may not know anything about tanking, and Nate Duncan bandy about the best ideas they and listeners have for curbing the epidemic of tanking that has beset the league.  We go through basically every viable idea, and in the end agree on FOUR things we’d try to implement immediately.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode of Hollinger and Duncan was published last year, but guess what? The tanking

0:05.5

epidemic is still on and all the points made are still valid. So if you're looking for solutions

0:10.3

to tanking, check it out. Welcome on to Hollinger and Duncan, a very special Hollinger and Duncan,

0:16.9

indeed, because today we will solve the scourge that is tanking in the NBA.

0:22.4

Clearly we can do it right because, you know, this is an easy to solve problem, not really

0:27.3

any complexities or unintended consequences from any of these ideas.

0:31.7

So should be able to just get this done with the massive intellectual horsepower at our disposal.

0:39.0

As the only podcaster who has had a 4 and 31 blaze to the finish line with an actual NBA team,

0:48.4

I feel uniquely qualified to discuss this matter.

0:51.4

Yeah.

0:51.7

Well, as I put it in the description, you never actually were involved in taking,

0:56.1

but you knew of teams that were.

0:58.0

I heard stories about other teams that, yeah, yeah.

1:01.6

We just happened to hit a rough patch there.

1:05.4

Yeah, it was tough.

1:06.9

It was tough in that 2018 season.

1:10.4

And yeah, so I want to encourage all you all on youtube we got

1:14.4

a lot of great suggestions on twitter as well throw in your reactions to our ideas some more of your

1:20.7

ideas will as much as time allows try to address every comment that we've gotten here so you

1:26.5

wrote about this actually on Monday.

1:27.9

You and I've been talking about doing this show for a couple of weeks now.

1:31.2

It's been pretty egregious.

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