This week for what seems the umpteenth time, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has openly expressed his disdain for what he prefers to call “intentional underachievement” and vowed to curtail the practice more commonly known as Tanking.
In a “mea culpa” meeting earlier this week with a large group of Phoenix Suns employees at Footprint Arena, he revealed that the league was studying the possibility of adopting the common European soccer strategy of “relegating” the league’s poorest performers to a lower level of play (presumably the G-League) while elevating the very best from that “lower” level.
The reports from the gathering seem to suggest that the Commish spent more time expounding on the inherent drawbacks to such a course of action, complications that would disrupt their “business model.