02-13-2026, 11:20 AM
(02-12-2026, 10:55 PM)OBX Maverick Wrote: I think it’s even more simple than that. $500k fine for first obvious tank. $1M for the second tank infraction. And after the 3rd infraction, the team is ineligible for the draft lottery and is moved to the 14th draft slot. If there is more than one team ineligible, then there is a coin flip of sorts for who drafts 13,14 or for whatever number of teams there may be.
Do NBA athletes waive doctor/patient confidentiality, when they sign their contracts?
At least here an employer does not even have any legal rights to know the illness/injury of an employee, so how can the league verify the validity of an injury. So you´d basically rely on the players telling on their teams to actually prove tanking. You really want to be known as a player that snitches on their own team, when the next max contract negotiation comes up? That´s why they do these lame fines, that nobody will bother to challenge. It´s all about saving face. The Jazz paid Dybantsa 7M to play at BYU. You really think they care about this fine?