As a Chicago-based sports data analyst with 7 years in NBA research, I’ve seen teams gamble on tanking—and this time, it’s backfiring. Using deep red/blue visual dashboards from Tableau, I tracked 14 franchises and found one truth: Toronto’s ‘strategic losing’ isn’t luck. It’s math. And it’s failing. Here’s why the data says he should be a starter—not a scapegoat.