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New York Knicks – Carmelo Anthony Plants to Go Down With the Ship
Contrary to rumors that the New York Knicks are planning to shut Carmelo Anthony down for the season, the team’s franchise player has no plans of sitting out what remains of this terrible, embarrassing campaign.
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New York Knicks – Finally Making Their Tanking Official
Very few people are sad to see J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert leaving via trade, but this officially means the New York Knicks are tanking to try and finish at the bottom of the Eastern conference in the 2014-2015 season, which means the Philadelphia 76ers have competition for the worst team in the NBA.
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New York Knicks – No One Thought It Was Going to be This Bad
Things keep getting worse for the New York Knicks, redefining pathetic with every game and loss that automatically comes. Carmelo Anthony is pretty much done for the season unless something surprising happens, and the Milwaukee Bucks beating them in their latest embarrassment in front of home fans served as another wake up call to those who thought this season might be about anything than tanking.
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San Antonio Spurs – Winning is Easy Against the Worst Team in the NBA
The Philadelphia 76ers aren’t just the worst team in the NBA this season, still win-less after 17 games; they might also be the worst team in the history of the league. The San Antonio Spurs didn’t really find beating them a problem at all, despite having Kawhi Leonard do some extra work because of his resting and injured teammates.
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NBA Rumors – Indiana Pacers Aren’t Going to Tank
Losing their best player to a season ending injury and perhaps their second most important offensive player to free agency could mean the Indiana Pacers are headed towards a season that will be about tanking in order to ensure a better future, although it’s hard to believe that’s going to happen considering the men running this team.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Can’t Decide Whether They’re Tanking or Not
With or without Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers just aren’t looking like a team that’s good enough to rise above mediocrity (at best) and make it into the playoffs through the very difficult and competitive Western Conference. The question that lingers on since the beginning of this season remains – in a culture that’s about winning or title and not caring about anything else, wouldn’t it be wiser to start thinking about folding for the season?
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Los Angeles Lakers – Losing Kobe Bryant, Maybe the Entire Season
It turns out Kobe Bryant played an entire second half with a fracture of the lateral tibial plateau in his left knee. Now, he’s out for at least six weeks, and the Los Angeles Lakers might start to wonder if tanking is something they should consider considering how far the playoffs look and how bad their injury situation is right now.
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NBA Rumors – Chicago Bulls Trading, Not Tanking
The key word this season for many NBA teams is tanking. No one is admitting they’re doing it, but at some point this season, we’re going to see a whole lot of it. Are the Chicago Bulls part of that bunch? Definitely not, despite the Derrick Rose injury, the disappointing start, the loss to the Utah Jazz and all the talk about trading Luol Deng and possibly others to start something of a rebuilding process.
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Rajon Rondo Injury is Perfect for Tanking Boston Celtics
Having Rajon Rondo tear his ACL and miss what will turn out to be almost a year of basketball isn’t what the Boston Celtics wanted, but ever since turning into tanking mode during the offseason, getting Rondo back on the court as late as possible is the best option for them this season.
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Boston Celtics – Rajon Rondo Isn’t Going to Like All the Tanking
The problem with tanking? It’s too obvious to ignore, but no team can actually admit that’s the course it is taking next season, in order to get a high draft pick and on the way, getting rid of as much money off the salary cap as possible. While the Boston Celtics might have made moves that in the future will prove very wise financially, keeping their best player, Rajon Rondo, happy, in a terrible season, isn’t going to be easy.