Speaker 1: So I've been on record saying Adam Silver, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: has lost his way.
Speaker 2: I think he's.
Speaker 1: Doing too much and doing too little, all at the
Speaker 1: same time. As it relates to evolving the NBA. He's obsession.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this before. He has this obsession with
Speaker 1: the EPL. I don't know why he wants to turn
Speaker 1: the NBA into the EPL, but he does. He's got
Speaker 1: these tone deaf responses to many crises, including load management
Speaker 1: or poor refereeing at the end of games, all the
Speaker 1: things that have happened with human rights abuses, and as
Speaker 1: Canter coming out and now feeling like he's blackball. There's
Speaker 1: just a lot going on right now. And we've talked
Speaker 1: about this over the past three seasons of the show.
Speaker 1: But somebody said, well, what would you do, Commissioner Crick.
Speaker 1: You're so you got such good ideas, you got yourself
Speaker 1: fast to criticize. You can't complain without offering a solution.
Speaker 2: You're just screaming into the void.
Speaker 1: So you know what, in an attempt to fix that,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Commissioner Cricks NBA, where I will be fixing
Speaker 1: the league, this league for the foreseeable future. My comprehensive
Speaker 1: basketball plan.
Speaker 2: We didn't get into media relations, but we could.
Speaker 1: My comprehensive basketball plan will not only position the league
Speaker 1: at the forefront of the growth and professional sports, It's
Speaker 1: also going to make the league way more fun. You're
Speaker 1: gonna watch great basketball while leveling the playing field for
Speaker 1: the haves and have nots. It begins. It begins with
Speaker 1: expansion Executive Order. Two Western Conference teams are going to
Speaker 1: be added to the mix, the Seattle SuperSonics tomorrow and
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Jacks. Those are the teams right now.
Speaker 1: Now we've got thirty two. It's from thirty to thirty two.
Speaker 1: That is going to be a very important mass school
Speaker 1: to have because I am blowing up the current structure
Speaker 1: of the league. We are going to reorganize the league
Speaker 1: based on geographic lines. No more. Hey, what's the furthest
Speaker 1: East Western Conference team? Why is Minnesota in the West?
Speaker 1: Why is OKC in the West? Fuck? If I know,
Speaker 1: who knows? No idea?
Speaker 2: So we're gonna figure that out.
Speaker 1: The NBA, I think, has been dicking around with expansion
Speaker 1: for way too long. The time is now two cities.
Speaker 1: We know those two cities deserve the teams so why
Speaker 1: make them wait? There's zero sense. So now that we
Speaker 1: have thirty two teams, we expand the season, not contract
Speaker 1: the season like a lot of people want. We're expanding
Speaker 1: the season to eighty four games. You'll find out why
Speaker 1: eighty four in a minute. The reason why these radical
Speaker 1: changes are so important, I think for geographic relocation or
Speaker 1: in terms of geographic restructuring, it will keep travel.
Speaker 2: Down to a bare minimum.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get teams going on these road
Speaker 1: trips where they're flying from Toronto to Seattle, Toronto to
Speaker 1: San Francisco. That doesn't exist anymore. You'll be playing teams
Speaker 1: in your own division more than you do.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: We'll keep the conferences, the two of them, Eastern and Western.
Speaker 1: Right under the two conferences, we'll have four divisions. Let's
Speaker 1: divide the Western Conference into eight teams. So you've got
Speaker 1: the West, You've got the Midwest, You've got the South,
Speaker 1: and you've got the East. So the Midwest and the
Speaker 1: West are in the Western Conference, the South and the
Speaker 1: East are in the East.
Speaker 2: Little confusing, I know.
Speaker 1: So for the Western Division or the Coastal Division, we'll
Speaker 1: call it Portland, Golden State, Sacramento, La Lakers, Phoenix Suns,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Jacks, and the Seattle SuperSonics. For the Midwest Division,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have the Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Minnesota Timberwolves,
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks, Yes, Chicago, Indiana, Detroit, and Cleveland. I don't
Speaker 1: know teams are actually in the Midwest. In the East,
Speaker 1: divided into two divisions, We've got the South. We've got
Speaker 1: the OKC thunder, the Dallas Mavericks, the San Antonio Spurs,
Speaker 1: the Memphis Grizzlies, the New Orleans Pelicans, the Atlanta Hawks,
Speaker 1: the Orlando Magic, and the Houston Rockets. This one is
Speaker 1: a little muddle because we've got some teams in Florida,
Speaker 1: and we've got multiple teams in Florida.
Speaker 2: There won't be in the same division.
Speaker 1: In the East, I think it's much more clear Miami, Toronto, Charlotte,
Speaker 1: which could have gone either way. That's New York Knicks, Washington, Wizards, Philly,
Speaker 1: and Boston. Every team now plays everyone in its division
Speaker 1: four times, so you play a home and home two
Speaker 1: games with every other team in your division. That, Folks,
Speaker 1: is eighty four games, twenty eight division games, fifty six
Speaker 1: out of division games. Now there are no more random things.
Speaker 1: Only four divisions, So how do the playoffs work? Simple,
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the Sweet sixteen. Top four teams
Speaker 1: in each division make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Period.
Speaker 1: That means sixteen total teams are in, sixteen total teams are.
Speaker 2: Out, no more play in tournament.
Speaker 1: I know you love it, but I've got a solution
Speaker 1: for that as well moving forward, which I'll talk about
Speaker 1: in a second. Think about this. It's like the Sweet
Speaker 1: Sixteen of March Madness, with the West and the Midwest
Speaker 1: on one side of the bracket and the East and
Speaker 1: the South on another side of the bracket. Overthink this,
Speaker 1: except for a single elimination game, it will be the
Speaker 1: regular series that we get in the playoffs. So the
Speaker 1: winners of the West and the Midwest divisions play in
Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals. The winner of the Southern and
Speaker 1: Eastern play the Eastern Conference Finals. Winner of those finals
Speaker 1: play for the title. Not reinventing the wheel. But here's
Speaker 1: the twist.
Speaker 2: What about the teams that don't make the playoffs? What
Speaker 2: happens with them?
Speaker 1: So this is where Adam Silver or Commissioner Cricks Coveted
Speaker 1: Tournament takes place. This is a single elimination tourney where
Speaker 1: the winner of this tournament gets the number one pick.
Speaker 2: In the draft.
Speaker 1: The draft then after the number one pick goes specifically
Speaker 1: on record. So to get the number one you've got
Speaker 1: to win the single elimination tournament like we get in
Speaker 1: March Madness, and then you're not gonna be able to say, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: the second worst team gets nothing because they've flamed out.
Speaker 1: The second worst team in the draft. After the winner
Speaker 1: gets the number two pick, the next gets the number
Speaker 1: three pick, et cetera. The tournament will take place directly
Speaker 1: after the season, the regular season, the single elimination tournament,
Speaker 1: and then that gives the actual playoff teams a one
Speaker 1: week break in order to get healthy. Watch the games
Speaker 1: get excited. So now they get rested, we get some
Speaker 1: postseason basketball, and I actually think there might be more
Speaker 1: intrigue and excitement around who gets the number one overall pick,
Speaker 1: just like on the heels of March Madness, because it
Speaker 1: will be probably two weeks after Final four to figure
Speaker 1: out who's going to get Victor Wambiniama. I honestly think
Speaker 1: this is better than March Madness. You're gonna get crazy basketball.
Speaker 1: It would dominate ratings. We would get such good rating
Speaker 1: spikes from this everyone. I think tunes in to watch.
Speaker 1: Teams wouldn't have an incentive to tank. They would pull
Speaker 1: out all the stops to win. You want that EPL
Speaker 1: style tournament, Adam Silver, Here it is there, you go.
Speaker 1: Other changes for Commissioner Kriek. All Star Game will be
Speaker 1: Team USA versus the World. I think that's already in
Speaker 1: motion anyway. I think actually I put that in the motion.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine Nikola, Jokic and Luca deciding that they're
Speaker 1: gonna mail it in because they're playing against Team USA
Speaker 1: and they don't want to look like idiots.
Speaker 2: I don't think that happens.
Speaker 1: I think Team USA has to play hard because they
Speaker 1: don't want to get punked by the international team. We'll
Speaker 1: also move the All Star Break backwards. We're moving it
Speaker 1: to halfway through the season, no more twenty games left.
Speaker 1: When they say the back half the season after the
Speaker 1: All Star Break, it actually will be the back half
Speaker 1: of the All Star break. Having an All Star Game
Speaker 1: with twenty four games left in the season makes.
Speaker 2: No sen sense to me.
Speaker 1: Here's another change. My League office does not investigate tampering claims.
Speaker 1: You want to snitch, maybe I investigate you. How about that,
Speaker 1: Because there's no way to stop it. There's no way
Speaker 1: to prove it. Players are talking, coaches are talking at
Speaker 1: all times. Executives are talking. I'm going to create a situation.
Speaker 1: They can talk as much.
Speaker 2: As they want.
Speaker 1: If you are a buyout candidate, here's another one, another
Speaker 1: rule change. If you're a buyout candidate like Russell Westbrook,
Speaker 1: you can't go to a team currently in a playoff spot.
Speaker 1: You can only sign with teams that are fifth in
Speaker 1: their division, are lower, so that avoids a Kevin Love
Speaker 1: or a Blake Griffin situation. And maybe the most small
Speaker 1: but important change, no city edition jerseys, where where the
Speaker 1: color of your jersey is different. If you're the MAVs,
Speaker 1: no green for you. Doesn't happen if you're the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 1: No brown for you, no cream s cale for you,
Speaker 1: no light blue for the Lakers.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: There's nothing more than I hate and turning on League
Speaker 1: Past to watch the Timberwolves play in MAVs colors or
Speaker 1: the MAVs play in the Celtics colors. Sometimes they play
Speaker 1: against each other. I can't even figure out who's playing who,
Speaker 1: what's going on, even when they show you in the
Speaker 1: graphics packages, Who's in what color?
Speaker 2: Still can't figure it out? There it is.
Speaker 1: I have fixed the NBA to a very large degree,
Speaker 1: all in one segment.
Speaker 2: I think this is bulletproof change.
Speaker 1: Send it up to Mike Bass, send it up to
Speaker 1: Adam Silver, and thank me when you get there. So
Speaker 1: when we get the number one pick in the draft tournament,
Speaker 1: remember where you heard it first.