Dave Horan

@Hoopss An accountant.

What would be yall first purchase if you just signed a $500 million contract?

I’m so excited that tonight will be the last time I have to ever cheer for a Jazz loss! The future is bright for our Utah teams. #TakeNote #TusksUp

@R_Nwanguma93 AI likes to tell us what we want to hear, but it’s a pretty good chance at this point.

@downrightdave Probably too small. But I could be wrong.

I really, deeply believe that the NBA thrives in one-team markets. Salt Lake. Portland. Oklahoma City. San Antonio. It’s part of why I’m so against Memphis relocation. You get to own that city, guys, and you have several examples of how powerful that can be when it goes right.

@BenAxelrod Lebron, Curry, Gobert, Harden.

Was looking up something on Basketball Reference and there are four active NBA players with 1.0000 Hall of Fame probability scores. Who are they?

@SamQuinnCBS I’d like to see just ten teams in the lottery, incentivize 11-14 to make the play in. I weighted it so that the worst team still has the best average draft position, because bad teams need to get better, but less motivation to tank for the worst record.

Been thinking about this since KOC dropped it. I think it's the first proposal I've seen that would genuinely eliminate bottom-of-the-standings tanking (but not middle-standings tanking). However, I think for it to be fairly implementable, there's one tweak it absolutely needs. An 18-team drawing creates scenarios in which the worst team could wind up with the 18th pick. If you're reducing tanking, outcomes like this punish teams that are genuinely bad instead of artificially bad, and a genuinely bad team picking 18th is going to remain genuinely bad way longer than you want it to. Therefore, in order for the draft to maintain its function as a talent balancing mechanism, I think this rule would have to be paired with a draft slot floor for the three worst teams. Here's my proposal: Teams 1-3: 6% at No. 1; cannot pick lower than 9th. Team 4-10: 8% at No. 1; no floor on their pick. Teams 11-18: 3.25% at No. 1; no floor on their pick. I think it's reasonable to expect the worst teams to improve picking 9th every year, but not 18th. I might also endorse some mechanism to acknowledge the difference between picks owned by their original teams and traded picks (why should a team by punished for being smart enough to trade for the worst team's pick?), but I think this balances the need to improve the worst teams with the league's desire to reduce tanking. My personal preference is still not to flatten odds, but we're here now, so if we're doing it, let's do it fairly and actually act in ways the help teams who are bad organically improve.

@SamQuinnCBS I’d like to see just ten teams in the lottery, incentivize 11-14 to make the play in. I weighted it so that the worst team still has the best average draft position, because bad teams need to get better, but less motivation to tank for the worst record.

@MarkW_E01 I don’t think that’s a hot take, seems pretty obvious.

My hot take on anti-tanking/lottery odds: The need to go back to the odds system they had before they screwed it up by unlocking all top 4 spots and flattening the odds. That made things WAY worse, not better.

@KevinOConnor @YahooSports Okay, but just ten teams in the lottery. Incentivizes 11-14 to try and make the play in. Worst team still has the best overall draft placement, because bad teams need to get better, but worst three teams less likely to get top four players.

Inside the NBA’s GM meeting this week: How concept #1 could be reshaped, why 22 teams vs. 18 is a debate, and the one idea that got Adam Silver’s attention. New column on @YahooSports on what lottery reform could actually look like: sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/nb…

The worst record would still barely have the best average draft finish the way I weighted it, but wouldn’t have the best chance at getting the top picks. I think we still need teams with bad records to have a chance to get better through the draft.

Give the worst 3 records less of a chance to win the lottery, less incentive to be the worst. If you are worried about teams not wanting to get into the play in games, only have the lottery go to the worst ten records. I think there should be fewer teams not more in the lottery.

@tiffanee_dawn I only know like three of those, I must be getting old.

Looking at the Red Butte lineup this year. Any artists stand out to you?

@JimboRudding He’s not even good enough at his sport to beat a team trying to lose.

Why do we care what this dude says? He’s a good defender, but he literally fell into the perfect situation. He is not the source of truth when it comes to taking.

@anthonyVslater Time to find a new commissioner.

The NBA has a tanking problem that has spread into an epidemic. Here’s a wide-ranging look at the worsening tactics, the impact and the call for a fix. Reporting from our ESPN group. espn.com/nba/story/_/id…

@BillSimmons It is beyond time for a new commissioner.

Could someone wake up Adam Silver and tell him the bottom half of the league is in shambles?

@jsjjazzfan78 They will certainly be behind the Spurs and Thunder, and which pick we get will certainly have an impact. But I could see us in the next tier of 3rd to 7th best in the west. Probably closer to the bottom as we are still young, but I still think it’s more likely 5th/6th than 7th.

@downrightdave Jazz will be a play-in team next year

How are people going to feel about being in the play-in next year?

@jvs3ph You could have still made your point without the guys who weren’t on the Jazz roster at all this year. You are also missing a bunch who were for some reason…

reminder this was the Jazz frontcourt this season

@BrickCenter_ The Warriors are so bad they can’t beat a team trying to lose without help. You have to feel bad for them.

The Kings were INTENTIONALLY fouling Seth Curry in crunch time to lose the game... We've NEVER seen this level of tanking 😭

@DavidDJJames I really like him with the starters, but I could see him being the number one option with the backups. So I’d say possible.

David Locke says Ace Bailey could be the No. 1 option on offense for the Jazz by next February. Possible or impossible?