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Boomer & Gio

NBA's Fix For Tanking

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The NBA Board of Governors voted in favor of a rule for the lottery that would limit teams tanking. Now 16 teams will have the chance to get the number one pick.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I do want to get to the tanking solution in air quotes in a second, but you were out there doing sports talk with Evan. That's what I heard. A little bit. Yeah. What did he have to say? Anything good? Yeah, it's a Nick Hater. He wants OKC because he thinks that the spurs are too young and too immature. That's fair. I'm a loser.

0:21.2

And you can still push Wembe around.

0:23.2

And I was like, hey, look, I don't even think none of these teams, neither of these teams

0:27.2

have actually showed themselves to really be playing their best basketball.

0:32.5

That is fair.

0:33.3

And that was our open that you could listen to on the free Odyssey app with the rewind feature or the chapters and podcasting feature.

0:40.7

So the NBA Board of Governors voted in favor of enacting the new 321 rule, which would change the NBA's draft lottery.

0:52.1

The three worst teams will now enter the relegation zone.

1:01.9

The relegation zone, which is another NBA term that only the NBA could have,

1:07.1

like apron and, you know, exemption and now relegation zone and all of these weird

1:16.7

ass things that we have to figure out with the draft.

1:19.6

Actually, you should send the teams down to the G League.

1:22.0

That would be great.

1:22.9

You know, obviously can't do that because of TV contracts.

1:25.0

That would be awesome.

1:25.9

Yeah.

1:26.3

With lower odds of getting the number one pick, if you're in the relegation zone,

1:30.1

the new system will give 16 teams a chance to win the first overall pick.

1:36.5

I mean, so Brooklyn's basically been relegated, what now for like five years in a row?

1:41.0

The slag net.

1:42.4

Essentially, yeah, you can say that, yeah.

1:44.1

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, you can say that, yeah. Yeah.

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