Domonique Foxworth
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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The 76ers need to lose enough games so that they are in the bottom six so they retain their draft pick. This is not just tanking for a draft pick. When you have these protected pick trades, which I think with OKC, the 76ers have a trade, they need to lose enough games just to keep their draft pick. And so you want to create some sort of structure that eliminates the incentive to lose.
But why that's not a full solve for tanking is because you also need to create some incentive to win. Because you could just be like, all right, we're out of this. All right, being the worst doesn't get us a better chance, but why would I put my good players out there if we're not going to make the playoffs? We have no chance. They could get hurt.
No, Trey?
And he's still being productive. Playing too many minutes for somebody his age right now, but he's still being productive.
I mean, I'm fine. They're going to be bad teams. What I don't appreciate is when, like, I look at the 76ers and they're giving DMPs to Kelly Oubre. And it's like, play your best players. Try to have your best. And even if it's just four teams, I feel like at least – and I'm normally not one who –
I'm gonna defend the players most of the times, but I have found myself becoming a little bit more sympathetic and a lot more sympathetic to fans where it's like, look, we got a whole damn season. This is my team. Y'all not even trying?
It's not because that's not what we do in football. And you can't create the same situation in football because 82 games means money. We're never going to go down to fewer games because I think that would help.
I would disagree with that because I think the scarcity of guaranteed dollars may motivate the players, but that's not what motivates the teams. What motivates the teams is a couple different things. I think it's the complexity of the game of football. Football is not a game where you can get one player in the same way that basketball.
You get one player, it's worth it because that will turn your team around. I think football, we've never really seen that happen. It's so rare. And even all the great quarterbacks that we talk about, I guess – But Aaron Rodgers, he turned the Jets around. Exactly. Full 360. Case in point. And I think it's because of the complexity. That's for the math nerds.
Case of the complexity of football is the reason why so many times we're like, we know this team's going to be good. We know that. And you can't do it. You have to build up the teams that are consistently good are teams that build up that type of culture and are good continuously.
I don't think that if you remove guaranteed contracts from basketball that you would get a better product because the teams would still be incentivized to create DMPs or to tell some guy who's never really been that good to go out there and get his numbers and they lose. You have to remove that incentive.
So – I don't think we need to argue whether it's a problem or not. The perception is out there in whether you're playing. That's the problem.
That's trying to pretend as if it's only perception. It is. It's also fact. Teams are tanking. Let's not... Come on, I mean. Teams aren't tanking. It's not a problem, though. It is a problem. Why is it a problem? Because the game that we got last night, the games where we get where people are trying are a better product.
The idea that it's okay to have some distributors of your product say, you know what? We are going to continuously... purposely put out a trash version of the product stinks. That's not a good precedent to set, and the precedent's been set. That's not a good culture to indulge.
No, it's not backwards thinking. It is backwards. So hold on. Everyone's thinking backwards right now. Can I ask you a question? Mm-hmm. Would you like the NBA better if... No one tanked. If everyone tried their hardest.
It absolutely would make a difference.
No, I think that people – teams construct their – or organizations construct teams based on the fact that they are incentivized to be terrible. I think we will be looking at a different NBA. I think we all accept that the NBA is more talented than it's ever been. But we know that some teams are like, you know what? We need to be really bad right now. We construct a roster that way.
We bench players and we have – Games that are non-competitive that no one cares about. And I guess I wanted to get into some of the solves for tanking, but I somehow found the one man in America who thinks that tanking's not an issue. Even the league, even Adam Silver wants them to stop tanking, but you're like, no, it's cool.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
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