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Hour 3 - Crickets on the Menu · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom shocka Laca.
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  Speaker 2: available for you on the Fifth Hour podcast. Where you
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  Speaker 2: found this podcast and this hour. What is the solution
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  Speaker 2: to the NBA's load management problem as that continues to
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  Speaker 2: be a bugaboo? Also, how did Adam Silver's comments on
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  Speaker 2: doing everything possible to stop tanking in the NBABA sit
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  Speaker 2: with you? And what did you make of the Baron
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  Speaker 2: Arena for NBA All Star Saturday's Dunk Contest and three
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  Speaker 2: point Contest. The arena also empty for the All Star
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  Speaker 2: Game itself, so the end one there for the All
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  Speaker 2: Star events. We'll talk about that and more right now here.
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  Speaker 2: It is our number three crickets.
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  Speaker 1: On the menu.
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  Speaker 2: So our lead this hour is from pro Bouncy Ball.
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  Speaker 2: We'll circle back to that. The All Star weekend took
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  Speaker 2: place in the hood in Englewood and up to no good.
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  Speaker 2: And while the All Star Game itself saw players actually
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  Speaker 2: show some effort, they're getting complimented. You imagine how bad
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  Speaker 2: your business is when the players are now getting complimented
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  Speaker 2: for doing what they're supposed to do anyway and playing hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's wild what a bizarro world we're in.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not the store here, So over the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: the Commissioner, the Lizard person, Adam Silver, gave his State
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  Speaker 2: of the NBA address. Always must listen unless it's not so,
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  Speaker 2: the Commissioner, Adam Silver said, over the weekend he talked
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  Speaker 2: about the draft, the tanking, He talked about the load management.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna start though with the issues inside pro bouncy ball,
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna start with the load management problem, which
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  Speaker 2: is an issue right and so Adam Silver said that
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  Speaker 2: every possible remedy, every possible remedy is going to be
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  Speaker 2: looked at to stop load management tanking. All of it
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  Speaker 2: is under consideration. So ot of Solis or not, maybe not.
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  Speaker 2: Adam Silver conceded that tanking, which has been around for
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  Speaker 2: a long time, but not quite up to the standard
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  Speaker 2: it's been at this year where teams lose intentionally and
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  Speaker 2: they're so arrogant now like the Jazz coaches like bragging
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  Speaker 2: about it. They don't even hide it. They don't even pretend.
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  Speaker 2: The rules of tanking were the first rules. You're not
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  Speaker 2: supposed to tell teams you're tanking, or anyone you're tanking
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  Speaker 2: while you're tanking. But they're so arrogant they know the
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  Speaker 2: NBA is not gonna do anything. They're like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're tanking. Let's see, it's rather obvious. We had three
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  Speaker 2: teams trade for veteran, name brand players and shut them
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  Speaker 2: down immediately, the Utah Jazz, the Indiana Pacers, and the
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  Speaker 2: Washington Wizards because they're all tanking. It's outstanding, just outstanding.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, Silver admitted it's worse this season than it
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  Speaker 2: has been in years past. But let us discuss that
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  Speaker 2: is a good jumping off point. So the question what
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  Speaker 2: is the solution? All right, give me the solution for
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  Speaker 2: the NBA's load management problem. So I've got Clark Kent,
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  Speaker 2: Maury Povich, and cardboard cutouts, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 2: of these things together and we are going to make
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  Speaker 2: some chicken palm, is what we're going to make, all right. So,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, other than having the players grow some
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  Speaker 2: hair on their chest and bigger basket walls, right, actually, so.
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  Speaker 1: Well, maybe I shouldn't be a bigger.
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  Speaker 2: Wiss than previous generations that actually have some pride in
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  Speaker 2: my product. Outside of that, we do have answers, right,
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  Speaker 2: We do have answers here, and it actually isn't complicated.
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  Speaker 2: The National Basketball Association is in the business of selling stars.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the stars, right.
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  Speaker 2: They don't sell the teams, they sell the star players.
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  Speaker 2: You go to watch the Steph curR in the Goal
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  Speaker 2: and State Warrior. You don't go to watch the Warriors.
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  Speaker 2: You go to watch Steph curR in the Goal State Warriors,
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  Speaker 2: or fill in your favorite star and Edwards and the
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota Timberwolves. The team always comes after the star. That's
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  Speaker 2: how the NBA has done business going back forty plus years.
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  Speaker 2: That's how they operate. It's a star driven soap opera.
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  Speaker 2: And they've got a lot of squeaking in the sneakers.
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  Speaker 2: So right now, if you look at this, right now,
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  Speaker 2: the NBA is selling you Superman. Come out and see
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  Speaker 2: Superman deliver. And the only thing delivering is a Clark
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  Speaker 2: Kent impersonator who's morbidly obese wearing sweatpants. That's essentially what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing. You're not getting Superman, you're getting the Clark
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  Speaker 2: Kent morbidly obese impersonator is what you're getting here, eating
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  Speaker 2: cold old pizza and drinking lukewarm beer on the sofa.
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  Speaker 1: That is how all of that is going here.
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  Speaker 2: And so you've got fans paying for Taylor Swift tickets,
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  Speaker 2: and they're getting the backup dancers and the lip syncing
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  Speaker 2: is what.
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  Speaker 1: They're getting at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the Mallor advice, the mallord advice is this, I've
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  Speaker 2: got MBG. You put in an MBG and watch all
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  Speaker 2: of this change. That is a money back guarantee. You
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  Speaker 2: put a money back guarantee. You identify. Here's what I
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  Speaker 2: would do. I would identify the top three players on
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  Speaker 2: every team, right, top three players, whoever they might be,
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  Speaker 2: and each of them is worth thirty three point three
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  Speaker 2: three percent. So it's you break it up three players.
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  Speaker 2: The other ones are worth like point one percent, but
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  Speaker 2: thirty three point three percent, and it's each ticket sold
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  Speaker 2: thirty three point three percent. If one star res load management,
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  Speaker 2: you refund thirty three percent of the face value ticket price.
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  Speaker 2: If to sit, you're now giving back sixty six percent
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  Speaker 2: of the money. And if all three congratulations. If all
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  Speaker 2: three sit out, you get a full refund at face value.
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  Speaker 2: Or you can get a ticket to another game to
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  Speaker 2: watch other players sit in that game and follow.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's aldi the grocery store all d.
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  Speaker 2: Where they have a money back guarantee, a promise of
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  Speaker 2: confidence So that's all the NBA is do you can
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  Speaker 2: do all the different studies you want and all this
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  Speaker 2: and that.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing of a jig and the watch and
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  Speaker 1: McCall and all that.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, let me point out that the
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  Speaker 2: reason a lot of stores do the money back guarantee
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  Speaker 2: is because the data shows that hardly anyone even claims
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  Speaker 2: the money back guarantee.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they do it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, there's some con artists out there that take advantage
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  Speaker 2: of it, but for most people there's too lazy to
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  Speaker 2: do it. But the threat, hey I can get my
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  Speaker 2: money back, that is the great equalizer. That is where
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  Speaker 2: the magic is. Because it's not just the tickets. You've
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  Speaker 2: got to be transparent to your television partners. You imagine
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  Speaker 2: a world where they break up the amount of money
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  Speaker 2: the NBA gets from television, which is really what bankrolls
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  Speaker 2: all of this. It's a TV show and they're putting
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  Speaker 2: inferior people on the TV show. So if you start
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  Speaker 2: taking away TV money from the league and you give
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  Speaker 2: it back to NBC, to Amazon, to ESPA, you say, okay, listen,
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  Speaker 2: we did not give you the product that you're paying for,
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  Speaker 2: so therefore we are going to we're going to give
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  Speaker 2: you some money back. Suddenly those rest days, the hamstring injuries,
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  Speaker 2: which you could maybe play, but you're like, out of
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  Speaker 2: an abundance of caution, I'm not going to play. Those
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  Speaker 2: things are gonna heal faster than a wolverine in a
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  Speaker 2: contract year. Right, The healing powers will be amazing. And
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  Speaker 2: you don't fix the load management. You don't fix the
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  Speaker 2: load management with a memo or any of that stuff. No, No,
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  Speaker 2: you fix it by making it hurt with the bottom line,
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  Speaker 2: because the trickle down on that. If you're taking money
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  Speaker 2: away to give back to television because you're giving them
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  Speaker 2: a crappy product, and you're giving tickets back to people
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  Speaker 2: money back for people that bought tickets, then all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden that trickles down to the players. They're getting
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  Speaker 2: less money and suddenly they'll get some motivation to show
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  Speaker 2: up and play. That's it wallet first, Pride second. Now,
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  Speaker 2: speaking of page two here, keeping the theme of the
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  Speaker 2: hour going so At the State of the NBA address
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend, Adam Silver also said that the NBA
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  Speaker 2: is considering redoing how teams qualify to get the top
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  Speaker 2: picks in the draft. They've had the draft lottery for
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  Speaker 2: over forty years, and so Adam Silver's like, well, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if this is good idea or not. We're
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  Speaker 2: looking at all options. Blah blah blah. He said, it's
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  Speaker 2: time is a quote, it's time to take a fresh
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  Speaker 2: look at this and see whether that's an anequated way
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  Speaker 2: of going about doing it. Silver said of the draft lottery,
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  Speaker 2: and if you're not familiar because you've been down by
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  Speaker 2: the river and not paying attention, the fourteen suck teams
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  Speaker 2: that don't make the playoffs are all into the draft
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  Speaker 2: lottery and they have a chance to get the top
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  Speaker 2: pick in the draft. So that is how that works. Now,
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  Speaker 2: changes would require the approval of the owners and likely
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  Speaker 2: the players union.
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  Speaker 1: They'd all have to be in lockstep on this.
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  Speaker 2: So the question how did Adam Silver's comments on doing
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  Speaker 2: everything possible, everything possible to stop tanking and the NBA
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  Speaker 2: sit with you? So I did watch this over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It was more entertaining than the All Star Saturday Night.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to that in a minute. So I watched
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  Speaker 2: it and it was like what, I was like, what
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  Speaker 2: is that I'm watching? I'm like, okay, so you're you're
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  Speaker 2: talking tough. What are you gonna gonna send a memo out?
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  Speaker 2: It just sounded like a lot of verbal gumbo from
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  Speaker 2: Adam Silver of alphabet soup, where you're wearing a microphone
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  Speaker 2: or holding a microphone, it's alphabet soup. And he's running
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  Speaker 2: the NBA like a mom and pop diner, serving up
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  Speaker 2: a menu that includes nonsense stu, a lot of that,
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  Speaker 2: and then for dessert, you've got a brain freeze milkshake.
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  Speaker 2: You've got that for dessert there. And he's been talking
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  Speaker 2: about this for several several years, all right, he been
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  Speaker 2: talking about this, and as he has talked about it,
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  Speaker 2: the tanking has continued. It's gotten more obvious and more
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  Speaker 2: in your face this year than in years past. And
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  Speaker 2: as we said, teams don't even try to hide it.
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  Speaker 2: And listening to Adam Silver get up at the dais
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  Speaker 2: and address the issues with the tanking and all this stuff,
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  Speaker 2: it was like the old Maury Povich show from back
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  Speaker 2: in the day. There you are the father. It's not
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  Speaker 2: you are not the father. You are the father because
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  Speaker 2: load management and tanking. We have not seen it get
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  Speaker 2: to this level without the help of Adam Silver.
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  Speaker 1: You are the father. Of twins.
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  Speaker 2: It was a thing in the past, but it's never
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  Speaker 2: been to this level. The product's never been worse than
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  Speaker 2: it is right now. So Adam Silver helped elevate on
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  Speaker 2: the launching pad, both tanking and load management and all that.
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  Speaker 2: And so now you're shocked at they're taking advantage of
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  Speaker 2: you because you have no spine.
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  Speaker 1: You're a spineless, gutless commissioner.
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  Speaker 2: And you're shocked at teams are misbehaving and they're taking
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  Speaker 2: advantage of you because you don't do anything.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you be shocked.
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  Speaker 2: It's like setting your house on fire and blaming the smoke. Well, no,
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  Speaker 2: So the Malar think tank, we've activated, the mal think tank,
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  Speaker 2: the Mather think tank advice, you gotta go drastic, you
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  Speaker 2: got to go. I would get rid of the draft. Done,
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  Speaker 2: bye bye, no more drafts, blow it up coming, bye bye.
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  Speaker 2: You get rid of the draft. And you can't have
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  Speaker 2: a draft without integrity. There is no integrity in the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: It does not exist. And the draft. If you understand
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  Speaker 2: the history why they even had the draft, it was
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  Speaker 2: in a period of time where everyone actually tried to
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  Speaker 2: win every game, but some teams just sucked.
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  Speaker 1: But they were trying to win and they were just bad, right.
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  Speaker 2: So in order to give them a shot because they
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  Speaker 2: were trying to win games.
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  Speaker 1: You had the draft.
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  Speaker 2: And it only works when everyone's trying to win. Rewarding
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  Speaker 2: bad teams who are intentionally bad makes no sense. And
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  Speaker 2: so in these modern days where sports have been taken
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  Speaker 2: over by the Ivy League crowd, the nerd crowd, the
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  Speaker 2: dingle Berrys, they taken over our sports and they've figured
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  Speaker 2: out there's scientific formulas, and so they have to they
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  Speaker 2: have to get certain amounts of ping pong balls, and
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  Speaker 2: they know their odds go up, and so they do
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  Speaker 2: this and they move that over there and then there
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  Speaker 2: you go. So it's it's blasphemedy, but that's the reality
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  Speaker 2: of the situation. And we have some of the media
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  Speaker 2: carrying the water for these teams. Oh, it's the right
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  Speaker 2: thing to do. Okay, I agree, So let's stop the draft.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just get rid of the draft, because you can't
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  Speaker 2: have nice things because you've ft with the draft. There's
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  Speaker 2: no integrity because of the Wizards and the Jazz and
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  Speaker 2: the Pacers and these other teams. So just get rid
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  Speaker 2: of it. Just get rid of the draft. And for
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  Speaker 2: those pearl clutching dopes who are out there who would
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  Speaker 2: have a coronary. Oh, you can't get rid of the draft,
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  Speaker 2: the very thought. I can't belive it. Oh my god, Spiderler.
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  Speaker 2: The most popular sports league in the world is the
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  Speaker 2: Premier League. I'm told that all the time by the
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  Speaker 2: soccer hanks. The Premier League is the most popular league
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  Speaker 2: out there. You know, the Premier League has no draft.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know that there's no draft? You're not drafted
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  Speaker 2: into the Premier League.
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  Speaker 1: You're not. So go old school if they can pull
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  Speaker 1: it off.
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  Speaker 2: And Adam Silver has a chubby for everything international, that's
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  Speaker 2: why we have that fugazy playing the playing tournament. We've
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  Speaker 2: got that, We've got the the thing. The Knicks won
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  Speaker 2: the cup in season tournament. He's dumb ideas that Adam
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  Speaker 2: Silver came up with. So why not just go Premier
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  Speaker 2: League and say, Okay, we're gonna get rid of the.
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  Speaker 1: Draft and we'll go old school. We're going to.
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  Speaker 2: Scout, develop and compete. And the Premier League, which again
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  Speaker 2: everyone says is the gold standard globally most popular league
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  Speaker 2: and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And if the teams are not going.
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  Speaker 2: To try to win, you're not allowed to have nice things,
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  Speaker 2: and so the NBA nobody's policing the candy store. And
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  Speaker 2: so okay, Adam Silver's got no answers. He's just got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Words, a lot of words.
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  Speaker 2: So just enough you get that burrito stuff with random nouns.
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  Speaker 1: Just get rid of the draft.
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  Speaker 2: Say that's it. We're done, and we're gonna do it
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  Speaker 2: a different way. And that's just the way it has
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  Speaker 2: to be, all right now. Final thought, While the All
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  Speaker 2: Star Game was slightly better, the amount of attention the
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  Speaker 2: players actually trying got was nauseating. So with that being said,
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  Speaker 2: the other events were absolute milk toast. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: so bad, so bad during the weekend where those were
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  Speaker 2: always the pre eminent events, All Star Weekend, the Dunk contest,
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  Speaker 2: the three point contest, That All Star Saturday thing was huge,
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  Speaker 2: and that's supposed to be the highlight of the weekend
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  Speaker 2: and it shows the athletic ability and how great these
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  Speaker 2: players are and all that stuff, the biggest and brightest
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  Speaker 2: stars in the NBA and all this blah blah blah
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  Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah blah. That the headline was
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  Speaker 2: empty arena greets All Stars in Inglewood. It was hardly
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  Speaker 2: the ennyway there on Saturday for the three point Shootout
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  Speaker 2: and the Dunk Contest, which.
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  Speaker 1: Were not very good. We're not very good.
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  Speaker 2: The photos went viral of the lifeless arena in Inglewood,
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  Speaker 2: so the question what did you make of the barren landscape?
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  Speaker 2: And it was barren there for the NBA's All Stars
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  Speaker 2: Saturday Dunk Contest and three point Contest, and it continued
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  Speaker 2: in the All Star Game, which was mostly empty, mostly empty,
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  Speaker 2: the All Star Game, A lot of people there in
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  Speaker 2: the upper parts of the arena.
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  Speaker 1: What a mess? All right?
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  Speaker 2: So what did we make of all of this? I
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  Speaker 2: was now, I was fussing around with my remote control.
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to find something. I wasn't really too
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  Speaker 2: into the Olympics, and so I was like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: my right hand was getting a workout. I was slipping
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  Speaker 2: back around to various channels, and I did flip over
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  Speaker 2: to the All Star Saturday with a Saturday afternoon on
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  Speaker 2: the West Coast, because they had to play these things
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the day, because NBC wanted the Olympics in
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  Speaker 2: primetime because they knew nobody wants to watch pro bouncy ball,
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  Speaker 2: and primetime so let's put the Olympics on there. Let's
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  Speaker 2: put some skating and that'll get big ratings. And so
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  Speaker 2: they did. And as I'm watching this and I thought
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  Speaker 2: my TV had glitched, I thought, oh my god, I'm
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  Speaker 2: in the hot tub time machine and I'm looking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, did we go back to twenty twenty? Is
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  Speaker 1: there a pandemic?
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  Speaker 2: The arena look like everyone was following the six foot rule,
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  Speaker 2: which was bull crap and social distancing and all that.
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  Speaker 2: It was unoccupied. It was as a basketball wasteland for
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  Speaker 2: All Stars Saturday, and they really needed to add cardboard cutouts.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, where are the cardboard cutouts? It's social distancing.
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  Speaker 1: There must be some pandemic. Where are the cardboard cutouts?
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Where's the water? Where's the toilet paper? We need that?
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, it is appropriate. That's appropriate. It's
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  Speaker 2: well earned.
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  Speaker 1: Piece by piece.
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  Speaker 2: The NBA has been chipping away at these events in
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  Speaker 2: the last ten years, probably longer than that, but we'll
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: just go to the last ten years. And it's like
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: termites biting at the hardwood floor, and we've had that,
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  Speaker 2: and it's been going on. And these contests were built
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  Speaker 2: in a different era, and I get it. Times change,
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  Speaker 2: the money's great and all that stuff. And there was
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  Speaker 2: a point where the biggest names in basketball cared about
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  Speaker 2: being ambassadors to the sport. They wanted to help. You
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: can say it's hokey and it's you know, a bunch
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: of boomers, but they actually cared about the product that
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: they wanted to promote the business of basketball, make it
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  Speaker 2: what it is today where the players can be spoiled
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  Speaker 2: a holes, and so they succeeded. But those contests were
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: built in an era when the players understood marketing and
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  Speaker 2: that it was important that the biggest name showed up,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: that it mattered and they mattered, and everyone had to
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: work together, and they wanted to help grow the pop
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  Speaker 2: ularity of basketball to new fans. But now everyone's fat
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  Speaker 2: and happy. The elite players are pampered and they're too
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  Speaker 2: cool for school. They're coddled. They're allergic to showing up
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  Speaker 2: to these events. It's just it's not worth their time.
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  Speaker 2: They'll go and hang out for the parties and all that.
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  Speaker 2: But they've majored in being above at all. They can't
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  Speaker 2: be bothered.
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  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you.
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  Speaker 2: It's twenty twenty six. We do not need to do
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  Speaker 2: these things we don't know, right, and they're all making
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  Speaker 2: tons of money.
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  Speaker 1: Good for them. They're filthy rich.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: And they'll show up for the velvet ropes and the
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: private parties and the bottle service and all that to
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: get him in the Dunk contest. Forget about it. That
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: is a nuisance. It is an absolute nuisance. Now, what
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: is my evidence? Some guy named Kashad Johnson. I total,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: he plays with the Miami He won the Dunk Contest,
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  Speaker 2: the Doctor J Trophy for the Dunk Contest, averaging this
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  Speaker 2: season seven minutes a game and three points a game for.
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  Speaker 1: The Miami Heat. And that is your all. At least
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: he's in the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: Unlike the G League guy that has won the last
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: several Dunk Contests, the last four Slam Dunk Champions, last
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: four Slam Dunk Champions in the NBA have played a
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: combined forty seven career games in the actual NBA. And
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: the guy for the Heat, Kashaw Johnson, he did the
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  Speaker 2: most rudimentary elementary dunks. And then his thing was he
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: would just dance after It's like, okay, he's dancing.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: That's great. Let's get him on, you know, we'll get
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: him on Broadway or something like that.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: But the dunk itself was not that good. And yet
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: this guy won the dunk contest with the most elementary
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  Speaker 2: dunks imaginable because he just shook his ass a little
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  Speaker 2: bit after he dunked, and he won the slam Dunk
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: cuts no star power in that. It's the witness protection
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  Speaker 2: program of the NBA. And apathy is the death of entertainment.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: And there's a whole lot of apathy right. Fans are
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: drifting away. It's kind of like gravity, right drifting away,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: and once they float out of the orbit, good luck
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: pulling them back in.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not gonna work out very well for you.
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  Speaker 2: Viva Lost Vicky said he sent dunks in the dunk contest.
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  Speaker 2: You might want to go to the eye doctor. Get
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  Speaker 1: That would be a speedo. A speedo.
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  Speaker 2: If the RedHawks go unbeating, no one wants to see that.
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  Speaker 2: We'll say hello to Manuel in Guardina a old agend, Hello, Manuel, welcome,
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  Speaker 4: Don't remember the last time I listened to Doug Gottlieb
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  Speaker 4: that long?
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