Has the NBA Found the Solution to Tanking? | Real Ones
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bobbin, Real ones. |
| 0:06.9 | Logan Murdoch here. |
| 0:08.4 | Roger Bell and Howard Beck in a few. |
| 0:11.2 | We talked a lot about Adam Silver's comments following the Board of Governors' meetings. |
| 0:15.9 | Howard Beck was in the crowd. |
| 0:17.1 | So we talked about expansion, talked a little bit about tanking reform. Is that even a thing? |
| 0:23.7 | And then we talked about how the latest news in the Janus impasse is going to affect how the |
| 0:28.8 | bucks are reputationally around the league. And how important that is for teams that treat their |
| 0:34.2 | current players, how important is that for how they're going to treat future players and future free agents? |
| 0:39.4 | And how are they going to look at a team that, you know, is in an impasse with a generational |
| 0:43.6 | talent, all that and more on real ones. |
| 0:46.0 | But first, Cliff play the theme music. |
| 0:53.3 | It's popping. |
| 1:28.0 | Real ones. Logan Murdoch here. Howard Beck there, Roger Bell over there. Man, I need some coffee, Doc. I'm out here. I'm not in my normal self. Let me get, let me take a sip before we get to the shits. Everybody good? We good. We're good. Are you good, Logan? Yeah, travel week for you. I know it's like it's, it's wrecking your whole schedule, your sleep, your, your bio rhythm. You do it all right? Yeah, I'm all right, bro. I don't know how NBA players do back to backs and all that shit. Anyways, let's get right to it. |
| 1:29.1 | I have no transition here. |
| 1:34.9 | Shams Sharania just put out a tweet before we got on the pod. |
| 1:37.8 | Talking about tanking in the board of governors meeting. |
| 1:44.1 | And we'll get all into the board of governors meeting and talk about Howard's experience as being there. |
| 1:45.2 | But first, the Shams Serrani, a tweet, the NBA presented three comprehensive anti-tanking |
| 1:50.0 | concepts to its Board of Governors on Wednesday with modifications expected before a formal |
| 1:55.6 | vote in May. |
| 1:56.7 | Here's one of them. |
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