Los Angeles ¨C NBA teams are increasingly losing games on purpose to improve their draft prospects and basketball must consider every possible remedy to stamp out deliberate ¡°tanking,¡± the league¡¯s chief said Saturday.
Speaking at his annual news conference before the NBA All-Star Game, commissioner Adam Silver warned that current punishments to prevent teams from gaming the system that allocates top new players are ¡°not working.¡±
¡°Are we seeing behavior that is worse this year than we¡¯ve seen in recent memory? Yes, is my view,¡± said Silver.
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