MIAMI — The tanking debate is one that could well come to define the 2025-26 NBA regular season, with Commissioner Adam Silver as recently as Friday at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in ...

Sometimes tanking comes with a cost. For the Raiders, the apparent effort to clinch the first overall pick in the 2026 draft included a decision to shut down defensive end Maxx Crosby and tight end ...

LOS ANGELES – Nearly a month after the NBA issued an $100,000 fine to the Indiana Pacers for resting key players in a regular-season game, Pacers coach Rick Carlisle offered a vote of confidence on ...

Exasperated, Steve Kerr placed his head in both of his hands. He was imitating Adam Silver. The Warriors coach imagined the NBA commissioner’s reaction to hearing yet another possible solution to the ...

The Orlando Magic are back in action against the Dallas Mavericks in another game the team should win on paper. The Mavericks have lost five of their last seven games, which include defeats against ...

The NBA desperately wants to address tanking, and a quick glance at the standings shows exactly why. In what is an absolutely remarkable stat, the bottom 10 teams in the NBA enter Wednesday’s action ...

Throughout the NBA’s nearly 80-year history, like any organization, the league has navigated several broader obstacles. Among them, a blatant drug problem it faced in the 1980s, the issue of load ...

The Bulls and Spurs are in two different stages of their rebuilds. February showed how fulfilling (or gut-wrenching) it can be. Geoff Stellfox / Getty Images Tanking has been at the forefront of NBA ...