Give me some examples of previous teams who"Tanked it"

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954UAlreadyknow said:
The Warriors when they got Harrison Barnes because their pick was top 7 protected or it would go to Utah. nikkas was playing bum ass nikkas to make sure they lost :dead:
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The Golden State Warriors are the latest example of what happens when pick protection goes bad. To try to hold onto their top-seven protected pick, the Warriors have thoroughly tanked the second half of their season -- on Saturday night, rookie Charles Jenkins played 48 minutes and Mikki Moore got 24 minutes.
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Another obvious tank job, the 2006-07 Boston Celtics. Second worst record in the league, salivated over Durant/Oden, and they were catatonic when the balls didn't roll their way. It worked out in the end though :dry:
 
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Tanking paid off in '84, big time. The Bulls got Jordan by dropping 14 of their last 15 games that spring, including their final five. The Rockets earned Olajuwon by losing 14 of their last 17, nine of their last 10, and their final five. Aging Elvin Hayes, a shadow of his old self, played a full 53 minutes of an overtime game for Houston during a 129-128 loss to San Antonio in the 81st game of the season. As one local Houston reporter, Fran Blinebury, recalled, "He looked like he needed an IV stuck in his arm out there."

In Dallas, coach dikk Motta fumed because his Mavs owned the Cavaliers' first pick in the draft, and Cleveland therefore had no incentive to tank like Chicago or Houston. The same was true with Indiana, which had traded its pick to Portland, and with the Clippers, who had dealt theirs to the Sixers.

"Weird things were happening," recalled Pat Williams, who was GM at the time in Philadelphia, and would choose Barkley at No. 5. "A lot of funny stuff going on, leaving a dark mark on the integrity of the game."

Frank Layden, the former Jazz coach and executive, said years ago that he had been told by a Rocket executive there was, in fact, a conspiracy of failure at hand in 1984.

"They were losing on purpose," Layden said. "It was a business decision."

The league's board of governors instituted a lottery system weeks after the 1984 draft to make certain this nonsense would never happen again. Because of that decision, Patrick Ewing ended up on the Knicks in the 1985 lottery, even though the Pacers and Warriors finished with worse records.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...raft-debacle-tanking-fallout-article-1.972775
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MJ said he thought he was going to the Sixers... then the Bulls got "hot"
Sixers GM Pat Williams was mad:wow:
 
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