The NBA is set to hold a vote at next week's board of governors meetings on whether to begin taking bids for expansion teams in Las Vegas and Seattle, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported Monday. The vote ...

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 ...

Draymond Green had some thoughts on tanking. Of course he did. Everyone from Mat Ishbia (anti) to Mark Cuban (pro) has lately weighed in on the subject. No surprise, given that commissioner Adam ...

The Sacramento Kings' season isn't going as many expected. They were never expected to be great, or even good, but few had them sitting at 14-47 and last in the standings as the NBA regular season ...

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver ramps up anti-tanking crackdown against Utah. NBA fined Utah Jazz and Indiana Pacers for tanking to improve draft odds. League uses independent doctors to verify injury ...

International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology, after Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could be used to ...

Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN NBA analyst Charles Barkley has a plan to stop NBA teams from tanking to get more ping pong balls in the draft lottery and it starts with their ticket prices.

The NBA’s push to curb tanking shifted from theory to urgency Thursday, a change that feels especially relevant for the Nets. Commissioner Adam Silver informed the league’s 30 general managers that ...

The Phoenix Suns have been much better this year than NBA pundits thought they would be. After trading Kevin Durant, they are a better team. Right now, the Suns sit seventh in the Western Conference ...

Tanking has begun. Forget April nosedives. That was a 2010s thing. March? That was so last year. The NBA’s annual tanking ritual, in all its spirited glory, is now taking place as early as February.

The NBA is taking its tanking problem pretty seriously. Just before the All-Star break, both the Jazz and Pacers were fined related to players sitting out of games the league believed they should have ...

With NBA commissioner Adam Silver fining teams for tanking and making statements about repercussions, there has been a lot of talk in league circles about the process and strategy of tanking its ...