Mark Cuban explains 'why the NBA should embrace tanking' after commissioner fines teams, condemns it

After NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said past play that tanking is the worst it's been "in caller memory," Mark Cuban believes helium and the league bureau should "embrace" it.

The NBA precocious fined the Utah Jazz and Indiana Pacers, who ain a combined grounds of 33-78, $500,000 and $100,000, respectively, for sitting steadfast players, and Silver said past play helium is considering "every imaginable remedy" to combat it.

But Cuban, who has admitted to tanking successful the past, posted connected X "Why the NBA should embrace" teams not putting their champion ft guardant for aboriginal gain.

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Dallas Mavericks number proprietor Mark Cuban watches the crippled betwixt the Dallas Wings and the Indiana Fever during the archetypal 4th astatine the American Airlines Center.  (Jerome Miron/Imagn Images)

"The NBA has…been misguided reasoning that fans privation to spot their teams vie each nighttime with a accidental to win. It’s ne'er been that way," Cuban began successful a lengthy X post.

"When I got into the NBA, they thought they were successful the hoops business. They aren’t. They are successful the concern of creating experiences for fans. Few tin retrieve the people from the past crippled they saw oregon went to. They can’t retrieve the dunks oregon shots. What they retrieve is who they were with. Their family, friends, a date. That’s what makes the acquisition special. 

"Fans cognize their squad can’t triumph each game. They cognize lone 1 squad tin triumph a ring. What instrumentality (sic) that attraction astir their team’s grounds privation is hope. Hope they volition get amended and person a accidental to vie for the playoffs and past possibly a ring. The 1 mode to get person to that is via the draft. And trades. And headdress room. You person a amended accidental of improving via each 3, erstwhile you tank. 

Dallas Mavericks' proprietor Mark Cuban during a property league aft Luka Doncic signed a declaration extension  (REUTERS/Borut Zivulovic)

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"We didn’t vessel often. Only a fewer times implicit 23 years, but erstwhile we did, our fans appreciated it. And it got america to wherever we could improve, commercialized up to get Luka [Doncic] and amended our team.

"The NBA should interest much astir instrumentality acquisition than tanking. It should interest much astir pricing fans retired of games than tanking. You cognize who cares the slightest astir tanking, a genitor who cant spend to bring their 3 kids to a crippled and bargain their kids a jersey of their fave subordinate Tanking isn’t the issue. Affordability and prime of crippled presumption are."

With a stacked NBA Draft class, it appears that much teams are vying for amended chances astatine the No. 1 pick. And portion the lottery had bully intentions to not warrant the worst squad the champion pick, the luck of the gully has led to much and much teams who cognize they cannot vie for a title to vie for what they anticipation volition beryllium their adjacent accidental astatine one.

"If teams are manipulating their show successful bid to get higher draught picks adjacent successful a lottery, past the question becomes ... are they truly the worst-performing teams?" Silver said during NBA All-Star Weekend. "It's not wide to me, for example, that the 30th-performing squad is that overmuch measurably worse than the 22nd-performing team, peculiarly if you person inducement to execute poorly to get a amended draught pick…

NBA commissioner Adam Silver speaks during property league astatine the Emirates NBA Cup Final astatine T-Mobile Arena connected Dec. 16, 2025, successful Las Vegas, Nevada.  (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

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"The league is 80 years old. It's clip to instrumentality a caller look astatine this to spot to whether that's an antiquated mode of going astir doing it."

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