John Gonzalez

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Rahimi & Grote Show · John Gonzalez wonders were Caleb Wilson falls in a post-Summer League draft · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

I don't know because, first of all, nobody knows what the ripple effects are on this thing, which is the reason why the league is only having these rules in place through the 2029 draft, and then they're going to reevaluate it.

I thought this whole thing was a gross overreaction by Adam Silver.

Now, the two of you who know me from Philadelphia, as somebody who covered the process up close and personal when Sam Hickey was there, when they changed the rules for tanking initially, and now they're changing it again.

I thought that tanking was not a bad thing for the NBA.

This past year, a little bit of a, like,

sort of a perfect storm because you had eight teams really getting into it.

Took the Chicago Bulls a second to figure out that they needed to be doing that.

Took a second for the Milwaukee Bucks to figure out that they were doing that.

But you had more than a third of the league that was hard competing to be at least in the play-in and then in the playoffs proper.

And then you had this little subset of teams that were like,

We want to improve our draft position.

We want to get better that way because it's hard for us to compete with teams that are already that good.

So I thought Adam Silver had one hot light put on him.

They had some people, some talking heads, not you guys, obviously the bad ones who were like, oh, you know, like tanking is, but you guys are the good talking heads.

And then tanking is no good.

And Adam Silver caught some heat for that.

So at the All-Star break, he had to answer questions about that.

And I thought it was a gross overcorrection.

But we'll see how it manifests during the regular season.

I just think it was much ado about nothing.

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