This is just shameless unethical basketball by SGA. Adam Silver is an absolute idiot who decided tanking was the problem when the actual problem is flopping. Nobody wants to watch this
The Denver Nuggets were the best 3-point shooting team in the regular season by far
They shot 32.1% on wide open 3s in the first round, which would have been last in the NBA by far
The Wolves shot 44.7%, which would have been first in the NBA by far
The Nuggets were up by 9 in Game 5 vs OKC last year when they took Russ out for Christian Braun in the 4th. Russ never went back in and Denver lost by 7. Then they decided to not bring Russ back, gave Braun $125mil, and lost to the TWolves w/o Ant in the 1st round. Ooof