Plumfool
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Robinson got healthy to play that winter and Popovich told him to continue rehabbing. That is why people said they tanked. I'm sure that Popovich would tell you that he was looking out for his long term health and not tanking.
The better example is the 76ers who traded off their good players and played rookies for 4 years straight to draft Embiid, Simmons, Okafor, and Fultz. They just made the ECF and took the eventual champs to 7 games.
Again that’s not 100 percent true. Robinson’s back went out in preseason. He came back when the team was 3-15. They went 3-3 in the games he played in and didn’t improve a bit. In fact one of the games they won was against a 21-3 Rockets team. If they were tanking Robinson would never have come back. The truth is he broke his foot after that 6 game stretch. Sean Elliott missed 39 games that year. The team was led by a geriatric Dominque Wilkins Vernon Maxwell Vinny Del Negro and Avery Johnson. They were lucky to win the 20 games they did