{"id":136120,"date":"2026-02-17T14:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136120\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:11:12","slug":"the-nets-are-on-notice-for-tanking-but-cant-let-nbas-threats-stop-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136120\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nets are on notice for tanking but can&#8217;t let NBA&#8217;s threats stop them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over NBA All-Star weekend, commissioner Adam Silver had some uncharacteristically pointed warnings for the third of the league currently tanking.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets clearly fall in that category.<\/p>\n<p>But they <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/21\/sports\/what-nets-must-do-in-second-half-to-fulfill-lottery-fueled-dreams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can\u2019t afford to fail<\/a> in that category.<\/p>\n<p>How the Nets fare in May\u2019s draft lottery will impact their future plans, just as much as how their current crop of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/10\/sports\/nolan-traore-tells-the-post-why-nets-rookie-tandem-could-be-teams-backcourt-of-the-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">five first-round rookies does<\/a>, or even whether a star like Giannis Antetokounmpo or Donovan Mitchell becomes available in the summer. It could be the root node of their decision tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over NBA All-Star weekend, commissioner Adam Silver had some uncharacteristically pointed warnings for the third of the league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[11759,98,100,355,99,31506,4570,32660,4600,21,9,24,63,4780,319,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-136120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-adam-silver","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-nets","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-inside-the-nets","14":"tag-jordi-fernandez","15":"tag-lauri-markkanen","16":"tag-michael-porter-jr","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}