OT Adam Silver Warns Teams About Tanking, Says NBA Will Closely Monitor Their Play

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  1. Wizard Mentor

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    I'm afraid it's part of our business/political/cultural management throughout our society.

    In this case, Silver does not really care about tanking, he only cares about the appearance of tanking. Cuban shooting his mouth off (i.e. being "honest") is making Silver and the league look bad. That's what Silver really wants to avoid.

    As long as teams have some sort of plausible deniability, they're good. The truth is that all players are, to some extent, hurt. So, it's not that hard to hold players out.
     
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    I agree. In my mind, selling actual contact is not the same as flopping, as flopping has evolved in the NBA. Modern day flopping is pretending there was bone jarring contact, when there was none at all. He doesn't do that. Others may define flopping differently.
     
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    That's also what you say about guys like James Harden and Cris Paul when talking about there flopping?
     
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    A flop is a flop. If your selling and the refs are buying it's a flop.
     
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    A foul is a foul. Except the ones the refs don't call.

    Was Brandon Roy's high pitched scream every time he got fouled a flop?
     
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    He gets hit twice in that clip. Once from LeBron in the face and then from behind from Crowder when he falls back. They mention and show him bleeding.....did he pull out a blade, WWE-style, while he was face down and cut himself? Does he lean in a bit? Yes. Does he take contact, though? Yes. He could have easily just grabbed his face where he actually got hit, so if you're considering his fall as a flop, I could probably be convinced. I just consider it on a different level than what the aforementioned CP3 and Harden do. They get away with stuff that is unreal.





     
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    Damn they could have had Meyers Leonard
     
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    Silver needs to monitor his refs and make sure they officiate unbiased games and get calls right.
     
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    Doesn't matter who it is or how you flop. If you flop it's a flop.
     
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    Nurk flops and I kind of love it.
     
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    The players association don't run the league. It's not hard to foresee that giving that much free cap space to the strongest teams in the league might be catastrophic for the league's parity.

    He should have thought of more creative solutions and put his foot down on that one.
     
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    About 5 years ago, Popovich began openly giving his players nights off. I was surprised that Stern did nothing. Now it's common practice across the league.

    Silver's words are empty.
     
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    That isn't how it works. There is a collective bargaining agreement. Silver can't go against it if the players association won't vote it in.

    Besides, the league is thriving right now so you can't say what happened was bad.
     
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    Correct. The salary cap jump was an issue because of the Players.

    The funny thing is, that their decision benefited like 15-20% of the league and sort of screwed over the others.
     
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    Watched the OKC@Mavs game last night and it went to OT. Only thing that caught my eye as odd.......5 min left in the 4th, Mavs up 5 or 7 and they pull Dirk. Then he was out again the last 3 minutes of a tied game in OT. Tanking?
     
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    Silver doesn't want teams to stop tanking. He wants them to stop talking about tanking. Cuban got fined $600K for what he said, not for anything the Mavs did on the court.

    When a team sucks, you can't really tell if they are losing on purpose. You just don't want them telling the ticket buying public they are paying to see a team that's trying to lose on purpose. That changes the entire narrative from lovable losers to blatant ripoff.

    BNM
     
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