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Cade Cunningham's agent, Jeff Schwartz of Excel Sports, to ESPN: "Cade has delivered a first-team All-NBA season. If he falls just short of an arbitrary games-played threshold due to legitimate injury, it should not disqualify him from recognition he has clearly earned over the course of the season. The league should be rewarding excellence, not enforcing rigid cutoffs that ignore context. An exception needs to be made." More here: espn.com/nba/story/_/id…

@12News Right, because untrained uneducated racist incels will help the problem.

In a pair of social media posts, Trump first threatened and then said he'd made plans to put officers from U.S. ICE agents in airports starting Monday. 12news.com/article/news/n…

@ShamsCharania Rigged draft, Rigged league.

The NBA has rescinded Lakers star Luka Doncic's 16th technical foul, allowing him to play in Monday's road game against the Detroit Pistons.

@skengboymode @YoSoyJerryJones @NBA Ask his old agents.

@issummeroveryet @YoSoyJerryJones @NBA how can you tell a top 3 pick not to go to a bottom team?

A career night for Ace Bailey 👏 33 PTS (career-high) 9 REB 4 AST 3 STL 7 3PM

@skengboymode @YoSoyJerryJones @NBA They told him not to go to any of the bottom teams. He wouldn't work out for any of them as well.

@issummeroveryet @YoSoyJerryJones @NBA they got him to Utah that was the best place to go

@YoSoyJerryJones @NBA His former agents were shit. That's why.

@NBA Crazy how this dude didn’t go top 3 too much talent boy just needs to gain some weight. Utah will be in the playoffs in 2 years cooking

@NBA He's going to have to have a random minor surgery soon. 😂

@Dick_LedgerCFO @SleeperJazz But the Jazz are always trying to find the great white hope 😂

@SleeperJazz Richie Saunders is a great BYU player, but he is not a top 10 pick. Too short. Too white. Not enough other stats.

Jazz are now on the clock… #1: Cam Boozer (gone) #2: AJ Dybantsa (gone) #3: Darryn Peterson (gone) #4: Caleb Wilson (gone) #5: ⬅️ Who are you selecting? 👀

@WorldWideWob The draft is rigged anyway. Trade Luka to the Lakers. Get the #1 pick with the worse odds. Bron leaves Cleveland. They get 3 out the next 4 years the #1 pick. Those odds are so astronomically low for that to happen. It's rigged.

And this right here, what just happened in Indiana, is why making an example of the Jazz was a short-sighted decision/slippery slope. 1) Zubac returns to action from extended time off, plays heavy 1H minutes. Looks good scoring 8 PTS (4-6 FG). 2) Nembhard drops 23 PTS (!) in the 1H in just 17 mins. They both disappear at halftime, and dont play a single 2H second in what was a respectably close game for a majority of it. Pacers (a team with losing incentive) lose. Sound familiar? The franchise comms team will likely issue an injury management explanation to avoid the eye of Secaucus Sauron/refute the imminent tanking allegations. Is it possible both players got sore in the locker room/hurt in the first half? Sure, I guess. The point here is that by fining the Jazz for conduct detrimental to the league, NOT (⬅️) a Player Participation Policy violation, your games are now going to be under the microscope in the event this type of starter rotation activity occurs again. You can’t just fine one franchise and hang their reputation from a tree to scare the other citizens from replicating the same behavior. That selective enforcement is what put you in the spotlight originally, because Jaren Jackson Jr./Lauri Markkanen ended up either getting surgery or having a legitimate hip injury keeping them out for the foreseeable future. Nembhard/Zubac may end up experiencing something similar to JJJ/Markkanen, they may not, but the inconsistent enforcement WITHOUT knowing their personal medical records is reflective of a business that only steps in when the seat gets hot. The Jazz ended up winning some of those games they were so highly scrutinized for. The Pacers lost tonight. This alone does not justify penalizing the Pacers, because Micah Potter was trying to win just as much as Brice Sensabaugh was for Utah. Players dont tank. If you’re not going to fine the Pacers for this tonight, then just give the Jazz governors their $500,000 back, because this hypocrisy is what’s damaging the league reputation more than the integrity of the game.

@andyblarsen NBA players aren't allowed to ski in their contracts. Very few would do so anyway. They have less national attention, less chance of endorsements, less chance of winning and you have to deal with all the racists in Utah. Not to mention the Mormon controlled everything.

As Collin Sexton once said: “People just try to downplay Utah. If we look around, this shit nice as hell.”

@DJJazzyJody The NBA does nothing against people like Brooks or Draymond that have done far worse constantly. They're not doing anything. Maybe a 1 game suspension.

This deserves a severe punishment from the NBA. Eason should be suspended for as long as Williams is sidelined.

@JakeMorrisonNBA Should investigate the whole NBA. Start with the rigged draft.

BREAKING: The NBA is investigating head referee Scott Foster following the Lakers game against the Celtics. Multiple goaltending calls were missed throughout the game. Foster will be suspended without pay as the league investigates.

@Tjonesonthenba The draft is rigged anyway. Trade Luka and we'll give you the number one pick with the worse odds! Bron leaves Cleveland and they get 3 number 1 picks in 4 years?? The odds are astronomically low of that happening. Fixed.

that's the other rule. I actually pretty heavily disagree with that one Why should the Pacers be penalized for their best player getting injured and their big walking?

@Tjonesonthenba Not believing in fake conspiracy bullshit?

I think about a 3 out of 10 at this point

@ShamsCharania The draft is already rigged. Trade Luka get#1 pick with the worse odds. Bron leaves Cleveland and they get 3 #1 picks in 4 years??? You know the odds of that happening? Fucking rigged.

Multiple sources with knowledge of Thursday's GM meeting as well as a late January Competition Committee meeting told ESPN that the following concepts have been discussed to curb tanking: •First-round picks can be protected only top-4 or top-14+ •Lottery odds freeze at the trade deadline or a later date •No longer allowing a team to pick top 4 in consecutive years and/or after consecutive bottom-3 finishes •Teams can’t pick top-4 the year after making conference finals •Lottery odds allocated based on two-year records •Lottery extended to include all play-in teams •Flatten odds for all lottery teams

@ShamsCharania *national attention

@ShamsCharania You might as well get ride of all small market teams and cut the league down to 10 teams. No great players wants to be on a losing small market team. Less endorsements, less baton attention. No reason to stay.

@Mishbia15 Easy to say in a large city with a big market. Small market trams have no other choice, you dork.

This is ridiculous! Tanking is losing behavior done by losers. Purposely losing is something nobody should want to be associated with. Embarrassing for the league and for the organizations. And the talk about this as a “strategy” is ridiculous. If you are a bad team, you get a good pick. That makes sense. But purposely shutting down players and purposely losing games is a disgrace and impacts the integrity of whole league. This is much worse than any prop bet scandal. This is throwing games strategically. Horrible for fans that pay to watch and cheer on their team. And horrible for all the real teams that are competing for playoff spots. Awful behavior that Adam Silver and the NBA will need to stop with massive changes, and I have complete confidence that with his leadership, he will fix it. Those of us in a position of influence need to speak out… the only “strategy” is doing right by fans, players, and the NBA community.

@ohnohedidnt24 THE NBA is corrupt. Small have to do what they have to. When players can refuse to be drafted by or traded to certain teams. It's corrupt as fuck. Dallas getting Coopper with l9wests odds corrupt. Cleveland getting 3 out of 4 years the number one pick when Bron left. Corrupt.

Will Hardy on the league fining the Jazz $500K: "I sat Lauri because he was on a minutes restriction. If our medical team puts a minutes restriction on Lauri I'll try to keep Lauri healthy"

@utahjazzhistory @ultimate_assist Dodge you ask him when he lost his mind and started to belive in crazy conspiracy theories?

In the studio yesterday with John Stockton and the @ultimate_assist 👀 My husband Garrett and I had a great time chatting with John and hearing stories from his career with the Jazz. Interview clips coming soon!