NBA teams are throwing in the towel in early February with the hopes of securing a top pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, which features Kansas’s Darryn Peterson, BYU’s AJ Dybantsa, and Duke’s Cameron Boozer ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Jaren Jackson's first game with the Jazz will go down as the most obvious example of the team tanking with the intent to preserve a spot in the NBA lottery. Acquired last week from ...

One of the biggest stories in the NBA post trade deadline has been the incoming tank jobs by a number of teams around the league. While tanking has been a topic of discussion for a few years now, the ...

Despite the NBA's best efforts to combat the dark arts of tanking, the practice is still widely employed across the league. This year's field of wannabe losers is one of the biggest and most ...

Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming. The NBA trade deadline charts the course for the rest of ...

The NBA trade deadline charts the course for the rest of the season, and now it’s in the rearview mirror ahead of the 2026 playoffs. In the wake of the trade wreckage, there’s a small inner circle of ...

It’s no longer a whisper; the NBA has a brazen and embarrassing tanking problem. The Utah Jazz closed the third quarter Monday, Feb. 9 against the Miami Heat up by three. They had been dominating ...

Following Will Hardy’s remark after Monday’s game, reporter Tomer Azarly hinted that the Jazz might have been intentionally losing. After finishing last season at the bottom of the Western Conference ...

Will Hardy leaves the Jazz with little-to-no plausible deniability in their tanking efforts after his admission following their win vs. Heat. The Utah Jazz have been guilty of some of the most ...