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Here are some other interesting bits from Sloan. Its focused on the NBA but we always have discussion about whether pro teams and athletes would tank. Oilers anyone?

Tanking, draft discussed at Sloan

A former NBA general manager admitted his team tanked. A former coach called a current team, with its general manager in the room, "embarrassing" for intentionally losing. And a current general manager suggested the league completely change its draft structure.

Bryan Colangelo revealed he wanted the 2011-12 Toronto Raptors, for whom he served as general manager, to lose.

"I tried to tank a couple years ago," Colangelo said. "And I didn't come out and say, 'Coach, you've got to lose games.' I never said that. I wanted to establish a winning tradition and a culture and all of that. But I wanted to do it in the framework of playing the young players, and with that, comes losing. There's just no way to avoid that."

Colangelo said Avery Johnson -- while coaching the then-New Jersey Nets, who already had traded their first-round pick -- was "smirking" after losing to Toronto by 31 points in the final game of the season. That win led to the Raptors picking eighth in the 2012 draft and selecting Terrence Ross.

Had they lost, they could have been in a coin flip for the No. 6 pick, which -- as Colangelo emphasized -- eventually became Damian Lillard.

Really, Colangelo said he was aiming even higher. He wanted the No. 1 pick, but Toronto coach Dwane Casey interfered.

"He did too good of a job in motivating his players," Colangelo said.