NBA Tanking Issues, Seahawks Football, Tennessee Hoops, WTW

Jim Rome's Daily Jungle

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Jim Rome's Daily Jungle 2/13/26 The NBA has a tanking problem, and Jim has a better answer than Adam Silver after the league fined the Utah Jazz and the Indiana Pacers. Plus, Alvie has his ionic Week That Was. Today's Guests include Seahawks CB Tariq Woolen and Tennessee Basketball Head Coach Rick Barnes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Live from Southern California, this is the Jim Rome show.
0:08.4	You're not going to believe this.
0:10.4	There is a stunning revelation out of the association in the last 24 hours.
0:16.1	Did you know there is tanking in the NBA?
0:21.7	Yes, I said it.
0:23.1	Tanking.
0:24.1	Can you believe that?
0:25.5	No way, right?
0:27.1	Yeah, only the most obvious thing ever.
0:29.4	It's only been going on for years and years and years for years.
0:33.7	For years.
0:35.2	And clearly, there is not a damn thing that Adam Silver, aka, thank you, I'll be very much,
0:41.7	for getting it in the same year.
0:43.7	Years.
0:44.9	Look, there's not a damn thing that Adam Silver, aka Powder, can do about this.
0:49.8	But it's not going to stop him from trying.
0:53.6	Remember, he changed the entire format of the playoffs just to solve this tanking issue.
0:59.2	And yet somehow, tanking seems more prevalent than ever before.
1:03.5	You could argue, in fact, that this is one of the worst tanking seasons in league history.
1:09.8	I'm assuming that Powder would agree with that. Since he just slapped a tanking tanking seasons in league history. I'm assuming that Powder would agree with that since he just slapped a tanking tax on both
1:16.3	the Jazz and the Pacers last night.
1:19.0	Shams on X, quote, the NBA is fine in the Utah Jazz 500 Gurr.
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