AROUND the NBA:

[HoosierDaddyKid]

https://x.com/APH00PS/status/2037406659174117376


Ben Mathurin's QO has been reduced.

[HoosierDaddyKid]

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7150195...s-garland/


Luka and his step back 3's

[HoosierDaddyKid]

https://x.com/NBA/status/2037330101277171818


Kon Knueppel is the only player 22 or younger to record
250 3pt makes in a season.

[Smitty]

@JakeLFischer
The NBPA is proposing a three-prong approach to the league's ongoing tanking/draft lottery reform discussion, @TheSteinLine has learned, which would first financially reward wins and penalize losses, second flatten lottery odds, and third strictly enforce meaningful penalties.

The union has suggested distributing national TV revenue tied to regular-season team performance and conference seeding, similar to the English Premiere League, where each higher seed would earn an additional $10 million of TV revenue.

In addition to flattening of the lottery odds and expanding the lottery to 18 teams, the NPBA is proposing odds for the league's bottom 10 teams should be set at 7%, instead of 8%, and the remaining eight should be at a 3.75% of landing the No. 1 pick.

And lastly, the union and other league figures are pushing to employ additional penalties to punish blatant tanking. Such as reducing a team's lottery odds, moving their pick to the end of the lottery or the first round, or stripping them of their first-round selection.

[KillerLeft]

@JakeLFischer
The NBPA is proposing a three-prong approach to the league's ongoing tanking/draft lottery reform discussion, @TheSteinLine has learned, which would first financially reward wins and penalize losses, second flatten lottery odds, and third strictly enforce meaningful penalties.

The union has suggested distributing national TV revenue tied to regular-season team performance and conference seeding, similar to the English Premiere League, where each higher seed would earn an additional $10 million of TV revenue.

In addition to flattening of the lottery odds and expanding the lottery to 18 teams, the NPBA is proposing odds for the league's bottom 10 teams should be set at 7%, instead of 8%, and the remaining eight should be at a 3.75% of landing the No. 1 pick.

And lastly, the union and other league figures are pushing to employ additional penalties to punish blatant tanking. Such as reducing a team's lottery odds, moving their pick to the end of the lottery or the first round, or stripping them of their first-round selection.

2/3 vote. 

None of the above will pass. This is all a pointless story, imho, though I would be in favor of some of that, probably.

[RasheedsBigWhiteSpot]

2/3 vote. 

None of the above will pass. This is all a pointless story, imho, though I would be in favor of some of that, probably.

Disagree. All owners hate tanking. They just do it because it's strategically allowed.

[KillerLeft]

Disagree. All owners hate tanking. They just do it because it's strategically allowed.

We'll see, but I think you're underestimating how committed some of those teams are to the "cheap owner playbook." Higher percentage of revenue for wins? No chance.

[Winter]

The Player's Union have their own tanking proposals. Most of them are similar, so it seems there's a pathway to making it happen.

Pretty easy read here.

https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2026/03/play...osals.html

[RasheedsBigWhiteSpot]

We'll see, but I think you're underestimating how committed some of those teams are to the "cheap owner playbook." Higher percentage of revenue for wins? No chance.

I think $10 million is negligible to the amount of money that can be made by having a quality product.  Selling out and regional advertising money would make mucho dinero. But once you commit to a season-long tank, fans tune out.

[RasheedsBigWhiteSpot]

Can you imagine a world where these changes go into effect next season and, because of the flattening of odds, the Mavs could both make the play-in and playoffs, and, landing a top 2 pick? If I was the Hornets I'd be pissed. The Mavs would've, essentially, gotten PJ for free.

[loki]

The Player's Union have their own tanking proposals. Most of them are similar, so it seems there's a pathway to making it happen.

Pretty easy read here.

https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2026/03/play...osals.html

I'll get my popcorn ready for the race to the bottom 10 and the race to drop to the play-in.

[cow]

I think it would be more interesting to get rid of the lottery all together and the put financial hardships on any team that is a bottom 10 team for consecutive years as well as a provision that disallows back-to-back #1 picks.

[RoyTarpleysGhost]

Not a lot of Jonathan Kuminga posts recently.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1s...r_kuminga/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AtlantaHawks/co...y_kuminga/

[Mavs2021]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UIwO-sMx1...ture=share

LMAO. All these years Dwight Powell led the NBA in assists and nobody knew.

[Mavs2021]

Not a lot of Jonathan Kuminga posts recently.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1s...r_kuminga/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AtlantaHawks/co...y_kuminga/

Still 13/7/2, shooting 50/48/70 in 22 MPG. Team record 8-1 with Kuminga. Looks like an NBA player to me.

[myconsumerclub]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet but I was shocked to see that OMAX had 31 points against Houston the other day. https://www.nba.com/game/hou-vs-mem-0022.../box-score

[HoosierDaddyKid]

RIP...

It ain't him... George Gervin is the real Iceman.

[myconsumerclub]

I like the idea we have a separate standings be kept for lottery purposes and that they only count the first half of the season or a little more towards the lottery. So the teams that are trying to lose at the end of the season will have zero advantage to purposely tank since those games wont count in the standings. It takes a special kind of loser to tank on purpose from the start of a season and I think fewer teams would tank this way because after the first half of the season the order of worst to first would be set in stone.

Late season injuries would be harder on teams to recover from since they could not decide to tank late in the season because the order would already be set. and start again next year but then a rule that you cannot be eligible for say the top 4 or 6 draft picks if you were in the conference finals the year before.

[HoosierDaddyKid]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet but I was shocked to see that OMAX had 31 points against Houston the other day. https://www.nba.com/game/hou-vs-mem-0022.../box-score

Maybe he's found a home. Good for him.