"The incentives are not necessarily matched here," …

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That's why, in two separate answers about tanking that came up in his annual All-Star weekend news conference, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said "incentives" five different times. "The incentives are not necessarily matched here," Silver said. "I think the tradition in sports where the worst-performing team receives the first pick from their partners, when any economist comes and looks at our system, they always point out: You have the incentives backwards there. "That doesn't necessarily make sense."

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