Tanking has become a taboo subject for NBA organizations. While numerous teams enter each season angling for a top draft pick, you'll rarely hear an owner, front office executive or coach use the word “tank.”

Last month at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai didn’t explicitly admit to his team tanking, but he came close.

“Well, I have to say that we’re in a rebuilding year,” Tsai said on the All-In podcast. “We spent all of our [2025] picks — we had five first-round draft picks this past summer… We have one pick in 2026, and we hope to get a good pick. So you can predict what kind of strategy we will use for this season. But we have a very young team.”

The Nets jettisoned themselves into a rebuild last offseason. General Manager Sean Marks traded Mika

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