Bill Simmons
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Anthony Davis, no.
Sonny wants to know,
Zach mentioned that Donovan Klingin looks like Gunther, the wrestler, becoming the first person in mainstream media to make that point.
Shouldn't we start calling Klingin the rim general because Gunther is the ring general?
Doesn't this instantly become a top five nickname in the NBA, the rim general?
Winston writes in, I got, by the way, please stop sending me tanking emails again.
I can't.
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.