To discourage obvious tanking by NBA teams trying to get higher picks in the draft lottery—we’ll name no names, but one team whose name rhymes with Olden Crate Scoriers came to mind this season—penalize coaches $10,000 for every loss their squad incurs in the final 10 games of the season.
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Christopher Orr is a senior editor and principal film critic at The Atlantic. He has written on movies for The New Republic, LA Weekly, Salon, The New York Sun, and others, and has worked as an editor for numerous publications.
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