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Tanking is ruining NBA basketball. Can math save it?
Scientific American
May 11, 2026 · 16s listen
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Several teams appeared to spend the second half of the U.S. professional basketball season losing games on purpose for a better chance at a high draft pick. New ideas propose to fix this incentive problem
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