Bill Simmons

Chuck and I talked about it on Tuesday and it just, it's like the gates open.

Winston did have a good point though.

Tanking is like pornography.

You know it when you see it.

Instead of making more rules, the teams will inevitably get around, empower the commissioner to hammer teams that everyone knows are tanking.

There's a good of the game clause at the moment.

It's not specific enough.

The commissioner needs to start hammering people to show he's serious.

I've heard variations of this, including a competition type committee.

That's a tanking committee where they would watch the wizards give up 83 to bam out of bio and just be like, we're taking 10 ping pong balls away.

You're going to have 10 less than the lottery after that.

You don't think that works.

A couple of different people had variations of this idea, but I think I tweaked it into an idea that I kind of liked.

And I thought of it from when the NFL, when they tell people, I'm now going to attempt an onside kick.

And you tell the other team, oh, you're onside kicking.

Okay, we'll get our guys out.

But you have to announce it ahead of time.

What would happen if teams just basically announced we're tanking?

And you could decide at any point of the season, they put out basically like best odds for the number one pick, this tanking group.

But you have to tell us that you're tanking and you're throwing away.