Finally, someone is saying it with pride....There is nothing wrong with being in the lottery. That is how you rebuild.
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6th man of the year?
Who’d they play?
Oh that’s right the Generals, great games from both of them but they’re not even one Bam
19 rebounds is crazy!
Who’d they play?
Oh that’s right the Generals, great games from both of them but they’re not even one Bam
Miami put up 152 points vs the Generals
The Wizards people on this Board have one more year for this Washington Generals being anything but a punching bag.
There are Cities waiting for an NBA franchise....move this team( you can't be ass this long)
Look at OKC they spent years being ass traveling from city to city until finding a good city to land in.
Move the Wizards to Las Vegas or Seattle.
Yeah I read one of the comments saying it was Stephen A who twisted it around, I bet he was hoping LeBron said his name. I just watched the clips you posted and that was foul of Stephen A and Kendrick Perkins...smh
People are still trying to say he's spreading the word and not that he has screws loose.
I agree with mark Cuban about what he said as it relates to tankingNBA considering harsher tanking penalties, draft lottery expansion: Sources
NBA commissioner Adam Silver speaks before the start of last year's draft. Sarah Stier / Getty Images
By Joe Vardon
March 27, 2026 11:20 am EDT
The NBA introduced three potential expansions to the 2027 draft lottery in an attempt to end tanking and is also considering harsher penalties for teams that continue to manipulate their lineups purposefully, player availability and in-game rotations to lose, two league sources told The Athletic.
The possible changes to the lottery, which were introduced this week at the league’s Board of Governors meeting and will be voted on — with likely amendments — in May, widen the lottery from 14 to either 18 or 22 teams, those sources said.
Additionally, if a team, under new rules, was still found by NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s office to be tanking, the commissioner would either be able to take away that team’s draft pick, move it to the end of the lottery or first round and also increase fines into the millions of dollars.
“Without stricter penalties, you could still have crazy behavior,” said one league source, granted anonymity so they could freely discuss concepts under consideration. “You have to have something in place that is so drastic, a team would actually think twice about tanking. And if a team tries it and gets caught, then the other teams need to see the penalties and realize it isn’t worth it to try.”
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ESPN first reported the lottery expansion proposals. Two of them would see the lottery expand from 14 to 18 teams and include the four teams that reach the Play-In Tournament.
In one of the 18-team proposals, the worst 10 teams would have an equal chance of getting the No. 1 pick (8 percent), with the remaining odds distributed evenly on the teams that finish with the 11th- to 18th-worst records. In the other, there would be a lottery for the first five picks, with the five worst teams having the highest (and equal) odds of a top-five pick. There would be a second lottery for the next 13 picks, and if one of the five-worst teams didn’t get a top-five pick, then the lowest they could fall in the draft would be 10th, according to ESPN.
In a third proposal, the lottery would extend past the Play-In to include teams that lose in the first round of the playoffs, and teams would be ranked for lottery odds based on their records over the previous two seasons. There would be a mandatory minimum for wins in each season as part of that proposal, ESPN reported. For example, if the minimum were set at 20 wins, and a team only wins 18 games in a season, that campaign would count as a 20-win season over the two-year aggregate.
“Exactly what that change is, we’re continuing to work on,” Silver said at his news conference on Wednesday. “I think there’s also unanimous agreement that we need to make this change in advance of the draft and free agency this year, so all the teams understand the rules of the road going into next year.”
Silver said tanking “has business implications. It has basketball implications. It has integrity implications for the league. So it’s one that we take very seriously, and we are going to fix it. Full stop. And I want to say that directly to our fans.”
— The Athletic’s Mike Vorkunov contributed.
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I thought Milwaukee was blacker.
But I also didn’t know Memphis was #1 by such a large margin.
NBA city metro areas ranked by % Black population
1–10 (highest)
- Memphis — Memphis Grizzlies — ~48%
- New Orleans — New Orleans Pelicans — ~40%
- Atlanta — Atlanta Hawks — ~36–37%
- Washington DC — Washington Wizards — ~26–27%
- Charlotte — Charlotte Hornets — ~24%
- Detroit — Detroit Pistons — ~22%
- Philadelphia — Philadelphia 76ers — ~22%
- Miami — Miami Heat — ~19%
- Houston — Houston Rockets — ~18%
- New York — New York Knicks / Brooklyn Nets — ~17–18%
11–20 (upper-middle)
- Chicago — Chicago Bulls — ~17%
- Dallas — Dallas Mavericks — ~16%
- Orlando — Orlando Magic — ~15–16%
- Cleveland — Cleveland Cavaliers — ~15%
- Indianapolis — Indiana Pacers — ~15%
- Minneapolis — Minnesota Timberwolves — ~14%
- Milwaukee — Milwaukee Bucks — ~14%
- San Antonio — San Antonio Spurs — ~13–14%
- Phoenix — Phoenix Suns — ~13%
- Sacramento — Sacramento Kings — ~12%
21–30 (lowest)
- Los Angeles — Los Angeles Lakers / Los Angeles Clippers — ~9–10%
- Denver — Denver Nuggets — ~10%
- Oklahoma City — Oklahoma City Thunder — ~10%
- Portland — Portland Trail Blazers — ~9–10%
- Salt Lake City — Utah Jazz — ~9%
- Boston — Boston Celtics — ~8–9%
- San Francisco Bay Area — Golden State Warriors — ~6–7%
- Toronto — Toronto Raptors — ~9% Black (Canadian census category differs; still near bottom
Black folks said fuck traveling West lol
I never thought Jay will was that good. I thought he was solid but not good
People are still trying to say he's spreading the word and not that he has screws loose.
dude's brain is fried
Nigga there is something wrong with it it means you suck lol. I’m proud to be in it but ain’t nothing good about it especially if you really ass.
I mean he playing for stats they taking a hit. That’s if he care I don’t know if he does.
you may not like it for basketball wins( in the short time), but
If you were not in the lottery, you would not have gotten Cooper Flagg.
You went from losing one of the best players in the game, to getting his replacement out for the season....to a first-round draft of the best new player in the NBA. What are the odds of that happening?
The draft can shoot a team back from the dead quickly...That is why everyone down there is trying to tank( and the NBA is trying to do something about that)
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