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Who should start tanking the season?

By By Chad Ford
NBA Insider

Monday, March 1, 2004

Normally, I'm not allowed to use obscene words in my column ... something about being family friendly ... but every year I go ahead and push the envelope here and write an entire column using the dirtiest word in the NBA. Cover your childrens' ears if you just happen to be reading this out loud. Tank, v.: To suffer a sudden decline or failure. There, I said it. The Hawks deny they're doing it. The Magic, at this point, have no choice but to do it. The Clippers and Warriors are proving once a ...

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