Flashback: Solving Tanking

About this episode

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan discuss various ideas to address the issue of tanking in the NBA.

Originally published in 2025 John Hollinger, who may or may not know anything about tanking, and Nate Duncan bandy about the best ideas they and listeners have for curbing the epidemic of tanking that has beset the league. We go through basically every viable idea, and in the end agree on FOUR things we’d try to implement immediately.

People in this episode

Hosts: John Hollinger, Nate Duncan

Topics covered

• tanking
• NBA
• basketball strategies
• league policies
• sports discussion

Keywords

• tanking
• NBA
• basketball
• strategies
• league
• policies
• solutions

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