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22 Ways To Make The NBA Perfect · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: The staff over at The Ringer put together an article
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Speaker 1: called 22 Increasingly Unhinged Ways to Fix the NBA. We
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Speaker 1: love the NBA. It is my favorite league of all
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Speaker 1: of the major sports leagues. But we have to admit
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Speaker 1: that there are some flaws within our league. And I
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Speaker 1: wonder if the team over at The Ringer has all
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Speaker 1: the answers of how we can make this a perfect league.
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Speaker 1: And they do say increasingly unhinged, right? So these first
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Speaker 1: couple shouldn't be that crazy. But by the time we
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Speaker 1: get to idea number 22... I'm expecting to have to
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Speaker 1: think for 30 minutes on whether or not I like this.
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Speaker 1: And so the first one is, wait, these are actually
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Speaker 1: good ideas. This is from Rob Mahoney that says, get
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Speaker 1: rid of pick protections. Heard this quite some time. And
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Speaker 1: I'm sure this just comes from the fact that pick
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Speaker 1: protections have become crazier as years go on. We've got
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Speaker 1: picks that are like best swaps, worst swaps between four
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Speaker 1: different teams and If it lands one through five, it's here.
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Speaker 1: If it's six through 11, it's here. If it's 12
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Speaker 1: through 13, it becomes crazy, right? And these organizations be
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Speaker 1: trying to trick their fan bases when they trade away
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Speaker 1: their best players, say, hey, we got three picks, when
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Speaker 1: the reality is they don't. They maybe got one pick
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Speaker 1: and then two swaps that will never convey, but the
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Speaker 1: article or the tweet that Shams put out there make
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Speaker 1: it seem like you got three first round picks, but
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Speaker 1: you don't. So I probably wouldn't get rid of pick protections.
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Speaker 1: I probably would just simplify how you can protect them.
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Speaker 1: Either you give up a first rounder, like completely, Or
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Speaker 1: it's like lottery protected. Or number one protected. Or something
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Speaker 1: like that. There's only a couple different ways you can
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Speaker 1: protect a pick instead of doing it where, yeah, we're
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Speaker 1: going to keep it if it's one through six. And
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Speaker 1: if it's seven through eight, you get it. But if
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Speaker 1: it's nine through 13, it's us again. Like, that's crazy.
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Speaker 1: Not a bad idea, Rob. Number two, abolish the cap aprons. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, if there's one potentially positive thing about the aprons,
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Speaker 1: and I don't even know if the aprons should get
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Speaker 1: full credit for this. is that we do live in
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Speaker 1: the most parity that we've ever really had, right? Teams
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Speaker 1: will win a championship, and because of the aprons, and
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Speaker 1: because everybody gets paid after a championship, traditionally, right? You
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Speaker 1: increase your market value once you're really important in a
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Speaker 1: game six of NBA finals. Teams come off of a
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Speaker 1: championship and say, damn, we can't really afford to keep
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Speaker 1: this team, right? I mean, I think about just OKC,
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Speaker 1: who won not this year's championship, but the year before that,
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Speaker 1: they won a championship, they were super young, and boom,
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Speaker 1: now Aaron Wiggins is gone, Isaiah Joe's gone, now Lou
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Speaker 1: Dort is gone. And while those guys... at least the
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Speaker 1: first two may not have contributed a ton come postseason
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Speaker 1: in their championship run. They had to get rid of
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Speaker 1: them because they were afraid of these aprons, right? A
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Speaker 1: team like the Denver Nuggets who come off a championship
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Speaker 1: and just a year after that has to, or two
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Speaker 1: years after that have to trade Michael Porter Jr. and
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Speaker 1: get a player in Cam Johnson. And then they make
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Speaker 1: some interesting decisions on who to pay and when to
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Speaker 1: pay them. And just like that, because the aprons, their
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Speaker 1: team looks completely different as a few years ago. And
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Speaker 1: while another positive could be for like a content creator
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Speaker 1: like myself, you do get it where like the Boston
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Speaker 1: Celtics traded Jalen Brown because they wanted more flexibility to
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Speaker 1: avoid apron. Like that's kind of fun as a consecrated
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Speaker 1: because I can say, hey, here's a video where Jalen
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Speaker 1: Brown got traded against half a million views. But it
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Speaker 1: does change team building to the place where you can't
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Speaker 1: really say for certain if somebody's going to be on
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Speaker 1: your team for five years or two years or one year.
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Speaker 1: And it also does change, get rid of kind of
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Speaker 1: like rivalries. Now, the NBA is not a place that
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Speaker 1: has a ton of them. But the ones that we
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Speaker 1: had in history was like, oh, these two teams have
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Speaker 1: had the exact same starting lineup for three years. They've
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Speaker 1: seen each other in the first round of conference finals
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Speaker 1: and the second round of those three years. But they
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Speaker 1: keep going head to head. Now, look at last year's
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Speaker 1: team versus this year's team. Like, damn, that team made
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Speaker 1: it to the conference finals and they traded everybody? So
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Speaker 1: the aprons really do hurt that. So I'm in favor
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Speaker 1: of this idea. Number three, lose the conferences. The Eastern
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Speaker 1: and Western conferences have existed in the NBA since the
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Speaker 1: start of the 70-71 season. It's tradition. I'm not reading
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Speaker 1: all this. I don't like the idea of getting rid
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Speaker 1: of the conferences, man, especially now. When it was where
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Speaker 1: the Western conference was so dominant for 10 years straight,
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Speaker 1: you were like, yeah, man, that East don't stand a chance.
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Speaker 1: It's really just LeBron coming out of the East every
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Speaker 1: single year. Maybe if we divvied it up and made
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Speaker 1: a conference list, then maybe both sides of the bracket
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Speaker 1: could be interesting. But now, at least going into this season,
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Speaker 1: I think both sides of the bracket is going to
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Speaker 1: be insane. I think the battle for the top 10 seeds,
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Speaker 1: top 8 seeds in both conferences is going to be elite.
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Speaker 1: So I don't want to get rid of the conferences
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Speaker 1: at all. I think this is the wrong time for
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Speaker 1: that one. Next one, make the four worst teams play
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Speaker 1: for the number one pick. I can't say I agree
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Speaker 1: with this one. I think it is a pretty fun
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Speaker 1: idea to have some type of tournament. Wow. The real teams,
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Speaker 1: the championship caliber teams are playing in the playoffs. Then
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Speaker 1: we got the worst offs on the other side for
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Speaker 1: the first pick. But this just crazily incentivizes tanking to
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Speaker 1: the third degree. We're like, I'm going to try my
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Speaker 1: very best to lose as many games as possible so
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Speaker 1: I can get into that battle for the first overall pick,
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Speaker 1: you know? And this is, again, we talk about the
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Speaker 1: changing of the lottery odds system. This could be the
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Speaker 1: year where we get no tanking. I'm putting that in
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Speaker 1: quotation marks. No tanking, no true tanking. And this rule
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Speaker 1: right here would bring back tanking to the highest level.
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Speaker 1: So I can't really say I like this too much.
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Speaker 1: Because then what's stopping the Washington Wizards, who, again, got
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Speaker 1: AJ DeMonte, so it doesn't matter. What's stopping the Washington
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Speaker 1: Wizards from having one of the top or the bottom
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Speaker 1: four records in the regular season? And then, like, the
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Speaker 1: last week of the season, oh, my goodness, Trae Young
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Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis are healthy now. And then they go
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Speaker 1: into that four-team tournament and dominate because they got two
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Speaker 1: all-star level players that didn't play this season, but they're
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Speaker 1: ready for this tournament. So, yeah, I don't really like
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Speaker 1: that idea. Number five, Ben intentionally fouling the hack of Shaq. Sure,
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Speaker 1: it's not one of those things that's too much of
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Speaker 1: a problem. If you ask me in the NBA, you
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Speaker 1: do get the times where you do get, you know,
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Speaker 1: the Mitchell Robinsons of the world. And the NBA finds
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Speaker 1: you like, golly, we had the free throw line again.
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Speaker 1: And that kind of changes things. the viewing experience for
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Speaker 1: us at home, but it's not something that's ran as
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Speaker 1: often as maybe it was 10, 15 years ago. So
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Speaker 1: I'm okay if we just, we keep it. Ben intentionally
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Speaker 1: fouling though. So that also he's, they're talking about like completely,
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Speaker 1: you know, we play the foul game at the end
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Speaker 1: of the games. I, as you know, 30 seconds of
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Speaker 1: basketball time can turn into 20 minutes of real lifetime
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Speaker 1: because of intentionally fouling and free throws and stuff. And
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Speaker 1: obviously the viewing experience of that can be trashed. But
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Speaker 1: how cool is it when the intentionally fouling works? You're
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Speaker 1: down by two, you intentionally foul, and that person splits
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Speaker 1: them at the free throw line, and now you're down
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Speaker 1: by three with a ball, and now you hit a
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Speaker 1: three-pointer to go to overtime. Pretty cool stuff. Now, if
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Speaker 1: you get rid of intentionally fouling, and there's 13 seconds left,
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Speaker 1: the team with the ball basically just won the game.
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Speaker 1: Because as long as they get it up half court,
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Speaker 1: what are you going to do? They're not going to
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Speaker 1: pass it. You're not going to force them to take
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Speaker 1: a shot if there's 13 seconds left. So Nah, we're good.
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Speaker 1: We're good. We're good. Shorten the games, the season, and
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Speaker 1: the load. I don't love the idea of shortening the
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Speaker 1: NBA season whatsoever. I understand why it would be beneficial.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at it right here, the
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Speaker 1: picture that they're using is Tyrese Halliburton. Tyrese Halliburton was
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Speaker 1: coming off that calf injury and then went into the
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Speaker 1: playoffs and knew the risk, and he went in there
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Speaker 1: in Game 7. He tore his Achilles, and you see
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Speaker 1: this from Damian Lillard, too, who was dealing with some
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Speaker 1: type of hamstring. I think it may have been a
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Speaker 1: hamstring injury. He rushed his way back And then he
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Speaker 1: also tours Achilles and they will say, hey, the wear
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Speaker 1: and tear on our guys is causing us to have
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Speaker 1: this increased level of injury, which I'm not a doctor.
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Speaker 1: I'm not one of the people that keeps track of this,
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Speaker 1: but that makes sense to me. The problem I have
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Speaker 1: with shortening the games, which is like they're talking about
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Speaker 1: instead of it being a 48 minute game, it's now
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Speaker 1: a 40 minute game because that works in college or
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Speaker 1: shortening the season where instead of it being an 82
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Speaker 1: game season, it's now, I mean, they mentioned right here,
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Speaker 1: The WNBA plays 44 games, so shorten it tremendously. I'm
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Speaker 1: not a traditionalist in any term and a word when
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Speaker 1: it comes to the NBA, but I do love records
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Speaker 1: and the idea of records being broken. Can you imagine
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Speaker 1: if we go from 48 minutes to a 40-minute game,
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Speaker 1: how every average just goes down, the idea of somebody
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Speaker 1: scoring 101 points goes down, or you get rid of
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Speaker 1: an 82-game season in favor for a 72-game season. You're like, damn.
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Speaker 1: Now total points are going to go down season across season.
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Speaker 1: And Braun got a lead over everybody when it comes
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Speaker 1: to these total points. You shorten that season, Braun's total
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Speaker 1: points in the NBA career is going to be an
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Speaker 1: unbeatable record. And right now it kind of does feel
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Speaker 1: like that. The man's been an All-NBA player 23 years.
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Speaker 1: But the idea that those records become completely, completely untouchable,
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Speaker 1: I hate the idea of that. I think the simple
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Speaker 1: recipe for this outside of shortening the season, because I think,
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Speaker 1: logically speaking, shortening the season to 72 games makes too much.
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Speaker 1: It makes sense. Let's be real. But it's unrealistic because
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Speaker 1: of the money that's involved and the ads that's being
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Speaker 1: sold and the owners and all of that. What makes
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Speaker 1: the most sense if we want to keep 82 but
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Speaker 1: also want to shorten the load, as Kurt Goldsberry says,
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Speaker 1: and you have to get the NBA players to buy
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Speaker 1: into this, is elongate the season, right? So now this
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Speaker 1: goes into the offseason of players that maybe they won't
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Speaker 1: agree with this either. But maybe start in the season
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Speaker 1: two weeks earlier, end in the season two weeks later,
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Speaker 1: and now that eliminates as many two games and three
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Speaker 1: nights or three games and four night opportunity things that
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Speaker 1: you see. But I don't know. Again, I'm not a traditionalist,
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Speaker 1: but I love the idea of records potentially being broken.
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Speaker 1: And if we shorten the season and if we shorten
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Speaker 1: the amount of minutes per game, a lot of that
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Speaker 1: stuff goes out of the way. And my– I guess
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Speaker 1: I'm not willing to sacrifice health from these players in
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Speaker 1: order to get rid of that. Maybe I'm the selfish
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Speaker 1: one here. I'm selfish. I won't all in to play
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Speaker 1: 82 games plus win 16 games in the postseason to
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Speaker 1: get the NBA championship. Number seven, bring back prep to
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Speaker 1: pro era. No notes. I think that if A.J. DeBonta
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Speaker 1: was coming out of high school and some team wanted
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Speaker 1: to draft him number one or number two or number 12,
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Speaker 1: he should have been able to go straight to the league.
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Speaker 1: I understand the idea of one year after preps before
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Speaker 1: you turn pro. I think it has done some interesting
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Speaker 1: stuff for the, for the college game. Maybe it won't
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Speaker 1: be as black and white nowadays because of NIL. And
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Speaker 1: I think that's maybe the point Danny is making right here.
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Speaker 1: We're like, maybe AJ DeBondster still goes to college because
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Speaker 1: of the bag that he got from BYU. But I
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Speaker 1: think that if somebody is willing to employ you at
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Speaker 1: 18 and you want to take that job, you should
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Speaker 1: be able to take that job, you know? So bring,
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Speaker 1: bring it back. Cause it's not, it's not as like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, It's not a guarantee that the guy
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Speaker 1: that you draft out of high school is going to
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Speaker 1: be thinking like you. Of course, you got your bronze
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Speaker 1: of the league and Dwight Howard, like guys that immediately
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Speaker 1: went in and become DP wise and NBA MVPs and
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Speaker 1: Hall of Famers and stuff. But you also got your
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Speaker 1: DeSagina Deops of the world. We're like, we're just going
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Speaker 1: to draft a high school guy because we think he
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Speaker 1: could be it. And you're going to miss. And I
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Speaker 1: feel like there's not a ton of crazy things happening
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Speaker 1: in NBA draft anymore. Having prepped the pros come back,
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Speaker 1: you will see a 17-year-old guy get drafted number 10,
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Speaker 1: and he's going to be ass. And while I hope
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Speaker 1: that doesn't end up happening to my team, I think
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Speaker 1: it's funny. I don't know. I think it's funny. All right,
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Speaker 1: so we're in part two. You want to get nuts?
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Speaker 1: Let's get nuts. Number eight. Get rid of instant replay entirely. Oh,
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Speaker 1: my God. We can all agree that the refs going
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Speaker 1: to that damn monitor and this thing that the fans
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Speaker 1: or the players be doing after every foul is annoying
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Speaker 1: as hell. I don't think we should get rid of
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Speaker 1: instant replay entirely. I think it is a very simple solution.
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Speaker 1: If you go to the monitor and you can't make
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Speaker 1: a decision within like two minutes, then the call stands.
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Speaker 1: Give a shot clock to the referees. And if they
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Speaker 1: can't determine it or the people in Secaucus, right? Isn't
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Speaker 1: that where they at? Secaucus can't figure it out in
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Speaker 1: two minutes. Ball up top. You know, we can't have
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Speaker 1: 10 minute reviews anymore. I don't care if it is
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Speaker 1: the NBA Finals game seven. You get a two minute
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Speaker 1: window to figure it out. And if you don't, then
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Speaker 1: the initial call stands. Finally bring one-on-one to NBA All-Star Weekend.
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Speaker 1: No notes. It's just a matter of can we convince
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Speaker 1: the top end level players to actually do it? I
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Speaker 1: don't know the answer to that. I know like guys
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Speaker 1: like Harvey Irvin have said they would do and Maybe
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Speaker 1: Kyrie is the guy that can get it all going.
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Speaker 1: But I also think it's an event that, of course,
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Speaker 1: we benefit from having true all-star level players in there.
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Speaker 1: Some of these role players in the league, as y'all know,
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Speaker 1: are just buckets. Like, go into an open run and
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Speaker 1: don't miss. So, can you imagine? Let me think of, like,
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Speaker 1: Lonnie Walker IV. Lonnie Walker IV just spent the year overseas,
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Speaker 1: and now he's back with the Denver Nuggets. Right? I
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Speaker 1: think it's the Denver Nuggets. You put him in a
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Speaker 1: one-on-one competition. he he's gonna dog you know so maybe
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Speaker 1: it gives an opportunity for some of the role players
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Speaker 1: to say look i could do this but i adjusted
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Speaker 1: my role to be in the nba so 100 no
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Speaker 1: notes bring this to the nba all-star weekend let's make
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Speaker 1: it work but i think the first year has to
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Speaker 1: be all-stars to get people excited and then it may
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Speaker 1: be fall off after that because somebody's gonna get embarrassed
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna be like oh i'm not doing that
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Speaker 1: again number 10 introduce nba red zone rim kobe payne
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Speaker 1: Let me tell y'all, I have had the luxury over
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Speaker 1: the last couple of years to be in a lot
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Speaker 1: of meetings with a lot of big companies, just pitching
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Speaker 1: my brand and pitching myself. I have brought up the
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Speaker 1: idea of NBA Red Zone a thousand times in these meetings.
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Speaker 1: And I think NBA TV did something similar. It was called,
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Speaker 1: was it Game Time or something? They did something similar.
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Speaker 1: And every time I bring it up in the meetings,
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Speaker 1: the main response is basically, it is a great idea.
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Speaker 1: It is just the execution part is the toughest part
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Speaker 1: of it all, right? Between all the different partners, you
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Speaker 1: have to get every single partner to agree with to allow,
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Speaker 1: let's say it is NBA TV, to allow NBA TV
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Speaker 1: to broadcast these rights because it might be a 10-game
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Speaker 1: slate and one of those games is on Amazon. You
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Speaker 1: have to get Amazon to agree to allow you to
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Speaker 1: use that game for red zone, and I don't know
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Speaker 1: if they'd be willing to do that. So it's just
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Speaker 1: too many moving pieces to make it work, but I
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Speaker 1: promise you I've been in the meetings pitching, and of
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Speaker 1: course I'm pitching myself to be the host, but I
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Speaker 1: even been saying like, hey, I ain't even got to
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Speaker 1: be the host. I know somebody's got to get this
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Speaker 1: done and get it done well. Um, um... MLB Network
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Speaker 1: has their own version of this. It's amazing. Of course,
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Speaker 1: Red Zone is the greatest piece of media of all time.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's 13 fucking football games on right now.
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Speaker 1: I can't watch them all. Give me the Bears on
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Speaker 1: the big screen, the Reds on the small screen so
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Speaker 1: I can see if my fantasy team is doing good.
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Speaker 1: It is perfect. And yes, the NFL is the better
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Speaker 1: league for an idea like this because there's so many
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Speaker 1: stoppages to play. And you can flip between this channel
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Speaker 1: and this channel and never miss a real play. And
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Speaker 1: the NBA is a lot different than that. There is
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Speaker 1: a world, in my opinion, where an NBA red zone
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Speaker 1: can work. I pitched it. I pitched the damn meetings, y'all.
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Speaker 1: And it's just tough to make it happen. Realistically. I
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Speaker 1: even pitched like, OK, this is pre-Amazon. This is pre-NBC.
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Speaker 1: So this is what, two years ago at this point
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Speaker 1: when it was only basically Turner slash ESPN or Turner
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Speaker 1: and ESPN as the major rights owners. And then you
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Speaker 1: got all the local broadcastings that I'm like, bro, don't
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Speaker 1: even include the ESPN game. If we have seven games on, yes,
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Speaker 1: ESPN game might be the best one because it's LeBron
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Speaker 1: versus Kevin Durant. there are NBA fans that would want
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Speaker 1: a smaller version. It's just like I said, I wanted
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Speaker 1: my bears on my big screen. And then all the
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Speaker 1: other games on red zone, you can, you can put
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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant and LeBron versus LeBron James on your normal monitor.
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Speaker 1: And then if you want to see the Charlotte Hornets
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Speaker 1: versus the Cleveland Cavaliers, put that on a small monitor,
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Speaker 1: like can it be to be the narrator and bring
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Speaker 1: you in and out of these games? I've tried it, bro.
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Speaker 1: It's just not something I feel like it's going to
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Speaker 1: really work. Um, Crunch time is what they try. That's
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Speaker 1: what it's called. The NBA actually tried this before NBA
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Speaker 1: crunch time. But our research in this found many people
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Speaker 1: was confused on what it was, where it aired, and
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Speaker 1: whether it exists. So I just, I don't know. Somehow
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Speaker 1: these videos that I make here gets a wider reach.
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Speaker 1: So maybe one of them executives that I've talked to
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Speaker 1: is now watching this and saying, oh my God, Kenny
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Speaker 1: Beecher maybe got another good idea. It's not my idea.
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Speaker 1: It's not my idea. I just want to be the
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Speaker 1: one executing. I will move to your city. Straight up.
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Speaker 1: Move to your city. All right, number 11. Give owners
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Speaker 1: a tenure limit. Howard Beck, you're cooking. What up, Beck?
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Speaker 1: You know I got love for you. 100% something I've
15:18
Speaker 1: been pitching for a long time. Obviously not to anybody,
15:20
Speaker 1: but I've mentioned it on the podcast many times. There
15:23
Speaker 1: is a league in Germany, if I'm not mistaken, a
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Speaker 1: football slash soccer league in Germany that basically has this where, like,
15:29
Speaker 1: if you're an owner of this club, you have a
15:31
Speaker 1: window to do the right thing and to get fans excited.
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Speaker 1: And if you don't do that, then you get your
15:37
Speaker 1: ass out of there. It is so crazy that we
15:40
Speaker 1: put on these hats, we put on these jerseys, and
15:41
Speaker 1: we root for these teams. But the reality is these
15:43
Speaker 1: owners have so much power and control, and they can
15:45
Speaker 1: be shit at their job. And we just are sitting
15:48
Speaker 1: here like, oh, my God, what am I supposed to do?
15:49
Speaker 1: I'm a Clippers fan today. What am I supposed to
15:51
Speaker 1: do because Steve Varm and them was tripping and now
15:53
Speaker 1: I got 10 years where I can't do anything? The Bulls.
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Speaker 1: So great for the 90s. The Rhyme Store family done
16:00
Speaker 1: a good thing since. They lucked out to get Derrick
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Speaker 1: Rose and we got to the conference finals once, but golly,
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Speaker 1: what else? So if you have it where there's a
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Speaker 1: 10-year window and you let the fans decide after the
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Speaker 1: 10-year window, can Jerry keep this team or will he
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Speaker 1: be forced to sell? Will he get forced to put
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Speaker 1: it on the open market? And then now we get
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Speaker 1: to the point where we have 30 owners that care
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Speaker 1: about the fan base that's more than just money hungry,
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Speaker 1: which is They're billionaires at the end of the day, right?
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're going to be money hungry. But like
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Speaker 1: people that actually care, like say what you want. I'm
16:30
Speaker 1: going to give this guy a compliment. Say what you
16:32
Speaker 1: want about Matt Ishpium and how crazy his decision making
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Speaker 1: has been since he became the owner of the Phoenix Suns.
16:37
Speaker 1: He cares about their franchise. He's like a no stone
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Speaker 1: unturned type of guy. So much so he gave the
16:42
Speaker 1: whole future of Kevin Durant to win. A playoff? Did
16:44
Speaker 1: they win a playoff series together? I don't know. But
16:46
Speaker 1: he came in and he tried it. And that didn't
16:48
Speaker 1: work out, so he traded away. And now the Phoenix
16:49
Speaker 1: Suns last year were a surprise team. And he gave
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Speaker 1: a 20-31 first-round pick to get Miles Bridges for no
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Speaker 1: fucking reason. But, like, he came in and he said,
16:56
Speaker 1: I care. You know, I think he made it so
16:58
Speaker 1: that it's free to broadcast if you're in Phoenix area.
17:01
Speaker 1: You get a free antenna. And then there was, like,
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Speaker 1: some benefits for the workers in the Phoenix Suns arena
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Speaker 1: and stuff. So, like, wow, he's a billionaire. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Trey Wilder's lightly cared. There are people
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Speaker 1: out there that would be willing to own a franchise
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Speaker 1: and try to put the franchise before everything. Tenure window.
17:20
Speaker 1: And then you got it where these ownership groups can
17:23
Speaker 1: be thinking, hmm, the Bulls are year number eight. The
17:27
Speaker 1: Bulls are year number eight. And I know them fans
17:28
Speaker 1: is not going to feel good. So now we got
17:30
Speaker 1: two years to figure out if we want to put
17:31
Speaker 1: an offer in because we know that they're not going
17:33
Speaker 1: to renew Jerry Reisdorf's contract. You feel me? Give them
17:37
Speaker 1: a window, damn it. This makes too much sense. I mean,
17:40
Speaker 1: there's probably the money reasons why they won't make it happen.
17:43
Speaker 1: And of course, Adam Silver is an employee of the owners.
17:46
Speaker 1: So the owners would have to be the ones to say,
17:47
Speaker 1: good idea. You're going to fire me in four years. No,
17:50
Speaker 1: they would never do that. So yeah. Bring back home
17:53
Speaker 1: and away jerseys. Sure. I don't mind it. I mean,
17:56
Speaker 1: I've never really been a jersey guy. Like as growing up,
17:59
Speaker 1: I didn't have a ton of jerseys. I understand the
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Speaker 1: appeal of having them and how... important they can be
18:05
Speaker 1: to a franchise where they mention like Celtics screen in
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Speaker 1: the 80s or the 90s Bulls I don't really care
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they're saying like yeah the white team or
18:12
Speaker 1: the home team wears this color the white team wear
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Speaker 1: this color nowadays you can wear your home jersey and
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Speaker 1: your road jersey on back-to-back games and it don't matter
18:20
Speaker 1: um fix the NBA aesthetic problem okay let's see what
18:23
Speaker 1: Raheem is talking about here um I'm with Jomie okay
18:26
Speaker 1: so this person that brought in the home and away
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Speaker 1: jerseys but let me take it one step further NBA
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Speaker 1: has a visual identity problem since Nike took over the
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Speaker 1: exclusive provider of on-court uniforms in the 17-18 turn to
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Speaker 1: NBA game has truly become a perplexing experience. Despite decades
18:42
Speaker 1: of established brand identity, you now see the Pistons wearing green,
18:45
Speaker 1: the Warriors wearing white and brown, the Cavaliers wearing bright orange,
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Speaker 1: the Grizzlies wearing red, and even the most egregious, the
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Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls, who are some of the most iconic jersey
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Speaker 1: uniforms in the history of the sport, wearing white and gold.
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Speaker 1: I mean, yes and no. I mean, that jersey sucked
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Speaker 1: in the first. No disrespect to the people that designed it.
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Speaker 1: but they wore it like three times. I don't really
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Speaker 1: care about that. Stop trying to profit from the gimmick.
19:08
Speaker 1: I think that's going directly against, huh? I don't really
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Speaker 1: have an opinion on that one. Next we get the,
19:15
Speaker 1: and we've lost control of the exercise. So these are
19:18
Speaker 1: the craziest, craziest ideas. And there's seven of them. All
19:22
Speaker 1: trades are secret trades. All right. obviously, we know that
19:26
Speaker 1: these ideas are not great, but it's, they're basically saying, like,
19:30
Speaker 1: this is fucking Royal, WWF, WWE Royal Rumble, where it's
19:33
Speaker 1: the first, it's the beginning of the season, and it's like,
19:36
Speaker 1: oh my God, Jalen Brown is in the star lineup
19:39
Speaker 1: for who, what, what, obviously, that kills all off-season talk,
19:45
Speaker 1: but it does open up the idea, and obviously, now
19:47
Speaker 1: we get to the point where these ideas are literally
19:49
Speaker 1: never going to happen. But let's just have fun with it.
19:51
Speaker 1: It does open up the opportunity for us fans to
19:54
Speaker 1: be detectives and be like, oh, there's a private jet
19:58
Speaker 1: flying from Boston to Philly. You're like, oh, who could
20:02
Speaker 1: be on that jet? And there's one going from Philly
20:05
Speaker 1: to Boston. Yeah. They must have traded Peyton Pritchard. And boom!
20:09
Speaker 1: It's like, oh my God! Did Paul George now play
20:13
Speaker 1: on this team? You know? That is kind of funny.
20:16
Speaker 1: They used the Luka Doncic trade as an example. Yes, bro.
20:19
Speaker 1: Can you imagine? Again, there's no way we knew that
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Speaker 1: this trade happened. Lakers play against... I forget who they
20:25
Speaker 1: played against that first game with Luka. I forget. Luka
20:28
Speaker 1: first game. And it's like, start a lineup for the
20:31
Speaker 1: LA Lakers. Edgar, Luka Doncic. You're like, what the... What the...
20:35
Speaker 1: What just... Anyway, that's funny. The next one. Why Jeff Teague?
20:41
Speaker 1: Every team gets a roster for one retired player. Okay.
20:45
Speaker 1: Let me think. Who's the retired player for the Chicago Bulls?
20:47
Speaker 1: Todd Gibson. He's not retired. The brother's still open as
20:50
Speaker 1: far as I know. One retired player. This is like
20:56
Speaker 1: the one year where Dwayne Wade and Dirk both made
20:58
Speaker 1: all-stars in their last year because of their farewell tour.
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Speaker 1: This is basically an NBA regular season version of that.
21:03
Speaker 1: I wonder how old can you get? Can you get
21:06
Speaker 1: Charles Oakley to wear an NBA jersey? I know him
21:09
Speaker 1: and his relationship with the Knicks have kind of wavered
21:11
Speaker 1: over the last couple years. But can you get him
21:12
Speaker 1: in a Knicks jersey at 60? Can you get Michael
21:16
Speaker 1: Jordan to come out of retirement to play for the
21:18
Speaker 1: Bulls where he's just at the end of the bench
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Speaker 1: collecting a check? And what does he look like in
21:23
Speaker 1: a jersey nowadays? How about, side note, I was going
21:28
Speaker 1: to say, how do coaches wear jerseys to baseball? Teams
21:32
Speaker 1: pick their own three-point line. This is so left field.
21:35
Speaker 1: I wish there was a... I tried to do something
21:36
Speaker 1: like this in 2K once. Where like, you know, baseball
21:39
Speaker 1: fields have the... You have the short porch with the Yankees.
21:42
Speaker 1: Or you have the ivory or the green... What the
21:45
Speaker 1: fuck is it called? The... I'm a White Sox fan,
21:47
Speaker 1: not a Cubs fan, by the way. Where the stuff
21:50
Speaker 1: on the wall over there in Wrigley. And they were
21:54
Speaker 1: just saying, let's customize our own courts. Where like, of course,
21:57
Speaker 1: you could... If I make my three-pointer 22 feet... Yes,
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Speaker 1: Steph Curry gonna come into my arena and break my record. But...
22:03
Speaker 1: break all the records but also we can benefit from
22:06
Speaker 1: it because we play here 41 times out of the
22:08
Speaker 1: year that could be funny but also i'm sure teams
22:11
Speaker 1: some teams get rid of the corner three completely so
22:13
Speaker 1: pj tucker now is an invaluable nba player once you
22:16
Speaker 1: once you come to our to our city in 2021
22:18
Speaker 1: pj tucker can't play because there's no corner three-pointer anymore
22:21
Speaker 1: matter of fact our team we what's the word what
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Speaker 1: was the worst three-point shooter team of rip last year
22:27
Speaker 1: whatever that team was we actually don't even have a
22:28
Speaker 1: three-point line baby Let's say you beat us with all twos.
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Speaker 1: Start awarding extra points for cool shots. Only in the
22:36
Speaker 1: schoolyard is this cool. And who is the person that
22:40
Speaker 1: decides the cool shot? We already take 30 minutes for replays.
22:44
Speaker 1: Imagine if the referee had to review and be like, ah,
22:47
Speaker 1: that wasn't cool when he did switch his hand midair.
22:49
Speaker 1: Instead of two points, it's three. Who is the player
22:54
Speaker 1: that benefits the most from cool shots? That's the conversation.
22:57
Speaker 1: Who is the player... that you signed for a max
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Speaker 1: contract because he's got cool shots and now them shots
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Speaker 1: are worth four points instead of two. Make dunks worth
23:06
Speaker 1: three points. Oh my God, Rudy Gobert, get ready to
23:07
Speaker 1: average 20, big fella. Get ready to average 26, big fella.
23:10
Speaker 1: You got LaMelo Ballio team and it's worth three points nowadays? Golly,
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Speaker 1: he about to go crazy. This is an idea that
23:16
Speaker 1: was experimented with in some very small basketball league. They
23:20
Speaker 1: didn't have the athletes at the NBA. It's interesting. Make
23:23
Speaker 1: buzzer beater dunks worth even more. How many Busby Dunks
23:27
Speaker 1: do we see? We get the Valley Oop all those
23:29
Speaker 1: years back. But okay. 21 is 17 points. Okay, let's
23:36
Speaker 1: get into it. Add a 16th spot on the NBA
23:38
Speaker 1: benches to give to a... Me, Spike Lee, Jack Nicholson,
23:50
Speaker 1: damn it, Eminem, Clipper Darrow. Is Clipper Darrow still a
23:53
Speaker 1: Clippers fan? I think he left Clipper Fandle for a
23:55
Speaker 1: little bit and then came back. Who are some more
23:59
Speaker 1: famous fans? Oh, I put myself in that. Oh, that's
24:03
Speaker 1: a tough look. Yeah, down. For what it's worth, I
24:09
Speaker 1: can't accept that. I got kids. I can't travel with
24:11
Speaker 1: the NBA team to sit on the bench. Can you
24:13
Speaker 1: imagine me in a Chicago Bulls jersey sitting next to,
24:17
Speaker 1: I don't know, Nicholas Claxton? 6'10, 6'11, I'm 5'7, 145.
24:22
Speaker 1: I'm going to look crazy. And I'm like three years
24:26
Speaker 1: older than him. I'm going to look crazy out there. So, no.
24:28
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be excited for this personally, but I do
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Speaker 1: like the idea. And what if that player comes into
24:32
Speaker 1: the game and scores? That's a 10-point bucket. Let's make
24:35
Speaker 1: some fun of it. Make everything in the NBA eight
24:39
Speaker 1: inches shorter. Huh. Huh. Well, shout out to the team
24:46
Speaker 1: at The Ringer. That was fun. At the end of
24:48
Speaker 1: the day, whether you agree or disagree with some of
24:49
Speaker 1: these ideas, you can say it was fun. Shout out
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Speaker 1: to them. I'll put the link in the description if
24:52
Speaker 1: you want to read it because, again, we just skimmed
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Speaker 1: through it. Shout out to them. Whatever.