{"id":300647,"date":"2026-02-20T07:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300647\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:49:10","slug":"suns-owner-mat-ishbia-blasts-teams-for-ridiculous-tanking-done-by-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300647\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns owner Mat Ishbia blasts teams for &#8216;ridiculous&#8217; tanking &#8216;done by losers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia is sickened by teams tanking games to try to improve their draft position, calling it &#8220;ridiculous,&#8221; and &#8220;losing \u2060behavior done by losers&#8221; and &#8220;much worse than any prop bet scandal&#8221; in a social media post on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ishbia linked his tweet to a Yahoo Sports story posted on X about tanking in the league. While not new, the so-called strategy came back to the forefront when commissioner Adam Silver spoke last weekend about its \u200bprevalence after the Utah Jazz were fined $500,000 and the Indiana Pacers were docked $100,000 last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is ridiculous! \u200cTanking is \u200closing behavior done by losers,&#8221; Ishbia wrote on his X account. &#8220;Purposely losing \u200bis something nobody should want to be associated with. Embarrassing for the league and for the organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia is sickened by teams tanking games to try to improve their draft position,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[151704,85,91307,46,151703,138839,105,122520],"class_list":["post-300647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-adam-silver","tag-il","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-israel","tag-mat-ishbia","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-sports","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}