The NBA's proposed plan to fix tanking by creating more tankers doesn't make sense

Then, you get to the teams on the line of the play-in tournament and bottom ten, where they would have a shot at the very best lottery odds. Why push for the No. 9 or 10 seed in your conference for an outside shot at the playoffs where you'll lose in the first round anyway when you can potentially land the No. 1 pick?

I'm not a fan of criticizing potential solutions to problems without offering one, so here's mine: get rid of the draft. That's the only true way to fix tanking. But if the draft must stay, and we're accepting that tanking will happen, I have a hard time seeing how the current proposal makes things better.

Unwritten rules are unwritten for a reason

Oh, now the Nuggets want to show some fight.

Nikola Jokic took offense to Jaden McDaniels' late bucket against the Nuggets on Saturday, which caused a big scrum at the end of Game 4. As our guy Robert Zeglinski wrote, it was an embarrassing moment for the three-time MVP, who had an entire game to show some fight:

"The Nuggets and Timberwolves are in a rivalry, and that is what players involved in a rivalry do when they embarrass the opposition. If Jokić didn't want McDaniels taking a meaningless free shot at the rim, he and the rest of the Nuggets should've played better and harder enough to win. Then, it never happens in the first place. If Jokić had played better in the first 99 percent of the game, he wouldn't have gotten this emotional about someone disrespecting him or his teammates.

Instead, Jokić looks like a massive sore loser losing his cool because he knows that he got punked in front of the entire basketball world."

I have to agree with Robert here. If Denver doesn't want to be disrespected in that way, play better. They'll have a chance to do just that facing elimination tonight in Game 5.

Quick hits: Red Sox turmoil ... Seattle's World Cup display ... and more

• Alex Cora was fired as manager of the Red Sox, along with several other coaches, but players on the struggling team weren't happy with the move.
• The World Cup display outside Seattle's Lumen Field interestingly included an Italy flag -- but not a flag for Iran.
• Another torn Achilles in the NBA playoffs continued one eerie coincidence among the players who have suffered the injury.
• An umpire instigated an unnecessary altercation with the Mets' Brett Baty, and mics picked up the whole thing.

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