Lauri Markkanen (rest) and Keyonte George (ankle) are out tomorrow for the
@utahjazz
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Rest is neeeded ahead of the all star break

The Jazz did this last year, too. They had a top 10 protected pick, they sat Markannen when he was healthy, and lost 21 of their last 23 games.

Silver fined them $100k.

LeBron James is now ineligible to make an All-NBA team after being ruled out Tuesday.

His 21-season streak is over:

2nd Team
3rd Team
3rd Team
3rd Team
2nd Team
1st Team
3rd Team
1st Team
1st Team
1st Team
1st Team
1st Team
1st Team
1st Team
1st Team
1st Team
1st Team
1st Team
2nd Team
1st Team
2nd Team

LeBron has more All-NBA seasons than all but 6 players have total seasons played.

open an investigation into Hardy & Ainge for suspicion of gambling.

But who’s making money betting that the Jazz will lose?

In regard to the apron discussion, maybe they should throw that into the sea where it belongs

Expected Lineup
PG A. Nembhard
SG Aaron Nesmith
SF Ben Sheppard
PF Pascal Siakam
C Jay Huff

MAY NOT PLAY
F J. Walker Out
F Obi Toppin Out
C I. Zubac Out

Expected Lineup
PG Jalen Brunson
SG Landry Shamet
SF Mikal Bridges
PF Josh Hart
C K. Towns

MAY NOT PLAY
F OG Anunoby Out
G M. McBride Out
C M. Robinson Out

And now LeBron is out tonight against the Spurs after not being on the injured list for the bulk of the day.

I think there is an even easier non-complicated way to solve tanking.

First tie huge monetary incentives to making the playoffs/play-in. That way teams are always incentivized to make the playoffs. Like zero revenue sharing or zero tv contract money for non payoff teams. Make it costly to miss the playoffs.

Then take all the non-playoff/play in teams and do a flat odds lottery for every pick 1-10.

On top of that, get rid of draft pick protections and make all traded picks from teams in the lottery pick at the end of the lottery. So 10th if there is one traded pick or have a lottery among the teams with traded picks to pick at the end if there is more than one like 8-10 if there are three teams with traded picks. Or just get rid of trading future picks all together.

Replace the NBA Draft Lottery with an ACTUAL NBA Draft Lottery.

Put 30 Ping Pong Balls in a cage, each June, then let teams pick in the order the balls come up.

No reward for terrible W/L records, no penalties for great W/L records.

There would be zero tanking, immediately. Would I cringe if the Spurs got yet another 1st round draft pick? Of course. But the NBA would be offering a far superior product for the entire season, with no reward for sitting people.

I see no reason he can’t do that, and it would be a powerful deterrent.

FYI Bobby Marks has come out as saying that what Utah is doing rn is “messing with the integrity of the game.”

Especially when they are promoting gambling on the games.