Basketball Intelligence For 3/28/26
The day's best basketball news and reporting.
FEATURES OF THE DAY
Clippers still on stage
Kelly Dwyer, Kelly Dwyer on hoops
Does Cooper Flagg or Kon Knueppel have the better Rookie of the Year resume?
Christian Clark/Mike Vorkunov, The Athletic
AROUND THE LEAGUE
The NBA Has Tanking Solutions, It Thinks
Jacob Sutton, JSutt Hoops
NBA moves further away from point of having a draft with latest ideas to curb tanking
Kurt Helin, NBC Sports
C.J. Holmes: A generational tank-off has the NBA reaching for fixes, and fans hate the fine print
C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News
The second concept goes even further, a 22-team lottery that brings in the four teams eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. It also uses a two-year record component and a minimum win threshold concept, like 25 wins, to discourage extreme tanks.
This is the one that makes the biggest chunk of people uneasy because it introduces the most subjectivity and the most edge cases. A two-year formula can punish teams that crater for reasons that have nothing to do with intentional losing, and a win floor can feel like the league retroactively assigning results to smooth out the standings
Controversial ‘Jail Blazers’ Team to Receive Netflix Documentary
Jalyn Smoot, heavy.
NBA considering harsher tanking penalties, draft lottery expansion: Sources
Joe Vardon, The Athletic
