WEBVTT - [FULL SHOW] Actual NBA News! 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.240 On this episode of The Heat Check, we got big 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:04.560 drama and the hoops world. 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:05.840 Following the epic. 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:09.240 Collapse a TUSA at the Feeble World Cup, Adam Silver 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.119 has passed some draconian rules designed to stop tanking and 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.680 load management. Draymond starts the season better than he started 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.439 the last one, and the Hornets backup center is beefing 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.400 with the guy who took his job. We're almost back 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.600 to normal in the NBA world, So James, go ahead 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:27.200 and drop that generic ass. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:32.880 You's breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines. So the 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.320 Heat Check, the Heat Check, it's just a crazy, the 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.440 best podcast covering all the drama around the association. 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.960 So the dead season is about to end, even though 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:46.960 it really hasn't yet. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:48.600 And I know that there have been people in my 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.280 dms wanting me to weigh in on Kevin Porter Jr. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.120 And I just am not going through. I don't have 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.440 the energy for this. It is so. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:01:00.000 Incredibly sad, it's angering, it's I don't want to give opinion. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.279 This is a basketball comedy podcast, and for the life 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.520 of me, I can't find anything funny with domestic violence. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.160 So you're gonna have to go elsewhere to learn about 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.360 the details. All you need to know is it's not good. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.920 Not much to say except for that this fucking sucks. 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.119 So together. Instead, we'll start with some. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.040 Old news and some new news, all kind of wrapped together. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.960 So as you know by now it's Thursday, the US 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.120 did not medal. They shit the bed at the Feeble 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.319 World Cup, not once, but twice. You know from the 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.880 emergency pod which dropped on Friday. The Team USA got 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:38.120 absolutely schnitzled in a heartbreaker to Germany aka the Fighting 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.360 Who the fuck is Dennis Shooter Think he is Dennis 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.800 Shooters in the semifinals, which then set up a shocking 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.200 third place matchup with Canada, which we thought would be 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.040 the gold medal game, who ended up getting upset by 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.960 Serbia and was that bronze medal? 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.840 A wild one woke up at. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.840 Five something in the morning to watch Shay Gilgess Alexander 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.280 give US straight buckets. Canada had full command of the 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.520 lead pretty much the entire game. They had a four 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.480 point lead with just a couple seconds left to go. 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:09.760 And if it wasn't for Mikal Bridges being just one 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:14.000 of the more forethought athletes during the feb Cup, he 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.720 gets fouled, makes one free throw, misses the other one 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.239 on purpose, gets his own rebound, no one blocks him out, 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.520 him out, and turns around, hits a three with point 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.080 two seconds left in the game to tie at one 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:28.160 to eleven. One eleven, and that, folks right, there was 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:32.360 pretty much the highlight for Team USA in the World Cup. 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.920 Ot You might have thought it could have been competitive, 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.840 but it was not. Canada blew the doors off the Americans. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.960 They won one twenty seven, one pint eighteen. I believe 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.440 every single game in the Feeble World Cup, Team USA 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.040 gave up over one hundred. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:46.480 And ten points. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.040 Dylan Brooks in this one had the game of his life. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.040 He had thirty nine points, seven for eight from three. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.520 I thought Dennis, I thought Dylan Brooks couldn't shoot. 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:56.520 What happened to that? 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.680 What happened to him not being able to shoot from three? 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.400 All of a sudden he is a sniper, plays lockdown defense. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.160 Terrible end for Team USA. Everybody was down on them 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.680 pretty much the entire tournament, including a lot of NBA players, as. 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:10.399 We will find out. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.280 Quick mention though, of the gold medal game because Germany 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.360 ended Serbia's dream run to win the gold with an 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:22.320 incredible performance from yes, Dennis Schruder and Franz and Mo Wagner. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.160 As I said, nobody balls out internationally more than Dennis Shruder. 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.920 He even stopped Maxi Klaba from joining team Germany because 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:33.960 he was like, bro, we didn't see it last year, 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.520 so we don't want to see you now. Dennis Schruder, 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:41.000 the leader of Germany undefeated run. He wins MVP of 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:45.680 the entire World Cup over Shae over Aunt Edwards, over Bogden, 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.560 over Franz Wagner over Kat You get the picture. Serbia 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:55.760 finishes second without Nikoliokic, which is fucking scary, or Vasilli Meichik, 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.440 which means they are going to be a force to 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:02.480 reckon with in the Olympics. All this means together collectively, 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:07.880 Paris twenty twenty four basketball is going to be insane. 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.280 Jeremy squad is so good that Shruder said it's the 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.920 best team he's ever played on and that he played 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.640 with Braun and Anthony Davis in La Serbia, as I noticed, 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.640 is going to have Joki Chimichick. France is definitely adding 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.520 Victor Wanbiyama, but it might end up adding Joel mb 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.839 two and on top of that they have a home 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:27.680 court advantage. 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.240 Australia might end up having Ben Simmons back. I don't 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.359 know if that matters. And as Steve Kirk. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.960 Pointed out, the rest of the world is just caught 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:37.599 up with Team USA. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.320 This is in nineteen ninety two anymore. 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.479 And as sprinter Noah Lyles controversially said that the NBA 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.120 should just stop using the term world champion because they 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.520 only won against North American teams and not world teams. 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.880 He got flamed in that one. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.159 He got flamed for that take, and you know what, 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:58.719 turns out he was right, not only and Giannis tends. 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.000 To agree with him. This is what he said. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.520 I don't think in any other sport you're called world champions, 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.200 you know, like in soccer, which is bigger than the NBA, 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.560 more popular than the NBA. When the Champions League, the 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:13.080 UFA Champions League, you know, champions, they don't say world champion. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.320 You know, when they win the World Cup, they play 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.680 against the US team, they play against teams around the world, 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:19.000 you know, countries around the world. 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:20.240 They say world champs. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:27.159 Last five NBA MVPs foreign born players. Two of the 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:31.680 last finals MVPs foreign born players. Four of the five 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.160 members of the twenty twenty three All NBA First Team 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.279 non Americans, and that team did not include Nicola Jokic. 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.880 Safe to say, Steve Kerr that the world is caught up. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.040 But what does Team USA. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.280 Have that nobody else has? 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:53.560 Lebron James, Yes, Akron Star, Lebron James is here to 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.800 save the day, tweeting photos of himself out at untimely 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.960 moments to say he is going to be out recruiting 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.799 to make him and Anthony Davis and Steph Curry finally 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:05.719 play in the Olympics. 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:06.880 That is the headline. 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.080 And let me tell you if this ends up happening, 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.640 that will be mussy TV. Because once Braun said he 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:17.560 was in the Avalanche Stars chimed in Katie, Steph deeron Fox, 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.480 Jimmy Butler, nobody wants to miss out on the Lebron 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.440 Last Dance because now they know they will be encapsulated 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:28.920 in history like a mummy, a big thing. Everyone wants in. 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:33.120 Even Kyle Kuzma says he wants in. He tweeted, anybody 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.200 USA basketball better get some NBA stars that know how 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.880 to play a role. Anybody can be nice with the 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.359 ball in their hands. But can you be cool defending 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.200 and going to the corner for a. 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:45.920 Few possessions question Mark. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.760 You know it's funny though, as a quick aside, because 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.719 nobody had to play defense and go to the corner 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.200 more than Kyle KU's when he played with Lebron' so 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.240 he knows all about it, and too, we know Kyle 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:57.360 Kuzma hates that shit. 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.480 That's why he's a Washington wizard. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.000 Which, though Devin Booker commented, I'll do that, all stand 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.880 on the corner, all play defense. So when you've got 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.400 Devin Booker, who's probably I would say, the best shooting 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.680 guard in the league right now, saying he's fine with 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:16.360 being a role player, that is going to add the 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.680 Team USA to a new level. Lebron's last dance I 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.600 think has the potential to be the biggest thing for 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:26.600 international basketball since the Dream Team. Yeah, everyone on social 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.000 has already gone crazy, sites like coopsyper comparing these stars 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.760 to Marvel characters, for which it's worth I did that 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.640 and did not record it, and they did nail Anthony 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.640 Davis as being grouped, which I think could be an 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.880 entire episode on its own. America's Aging stars are going 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.320 to get together and with Aunt Edwards is probably the 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.480 exception for one last roundup against the world to show 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:50.880 that they're as good as it gets. 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:52.239 It's going to be fun. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.200 And unless the US does something to negate the plethora 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.480 of overseas height, they need Anthony Davis and they probably 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.000 need Joel Embiid and that's might not be enough. 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:03.240 Man. 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:08.000 And if we lose against the World with ad Lebron, 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:12.720 James Joel Embiid, American fans are going to have a 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.480 meltdown because you can only fall back on feeble World 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.600 Cup doesn't matter, or setting our b team for so 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.520 long before the rest of the world says maybe you're 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.600 just not as good as us. We're gonna finally have 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.400 to admit maybe the rest of the world has finally 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.520 caught up completely moving on. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.520 It has been a long. 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.120 Six weeks of nothing happening except for James Harden and 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.320 Damian Lillard holding their team's hostage trying to jump ship. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.720 But we finally have about a little bit of actual 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.080 news to discuss. I'm not talking about PJ. Washington returning 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:45.880 to the Hornets. 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:50.240 I am not talking about the San Antonio Spurs continuing 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:54.000 to build up goodwill by giving Grant Campaign an outright 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.360 release so that he can go with a contending team. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.360 I am talking about structural MBA news that we are 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:02.079 breaking down. 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.560 Thank you to Adam Silver because our. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.440 Fearless commissioner has now decided to take on the subject 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.560 of load management and tanking head on. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:13.920 Because it's face, it's been terrible. 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.280 It's been kind of killing the league vibe for at 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:21.600 least in terms of in person paying customers for a decade. 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:26.040 It's one thing to look forward to watching a February 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.160 Clippers versus Sixers game on TV only to find out 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.400 Kawhi and Embiid are sitting. 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.840 There in street clothes. But it's another thing to check 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.040 the calendar for months. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:39.200 Take your kid and promise that kid they are going 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.640 to see Joel Embiid. You get nosebleed seats to see 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.320 your hero, and then you show up to find the 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.680 guy that you see and you paid to see. Take 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.520 the day off until you can't even find out until 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.080 you got your first hot dog in your mouth. 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:55.959 That's why Kobe is beloved. The dude is going to 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:56.800 play through anything. 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.560 When he was playing through a broken hand, through broke anything. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.480 Just to keep the fans happy. But that's not happening anymore, 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:08.000 so Adam Silver had to step in. By the way, 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.240 quick aside, this happened to me last year when I 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.360 wanted to see Jaw and Desmond Baine play against the 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.120 Washington Wizards. I hate Capitol One Arena. It fucking sucks. 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.000 It's like a best buy in there. But for Jaw 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.560 and for Desmond Bane, I would do it. And you 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.680 know what, I paid for floor seats just to watch 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.600 David fucking Roddy. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.240 Do you know how bad David Roddy is. Do you 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:33.920 know how slow David Roddy is. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.480 This is not a ricochet shot to David Roddy, but 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.079 for a few hundred dollars per seat, I did not 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.800 want to watch David Roddy and Steven Adams in the 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:46.600 block disgusting, and I didn't. It's like going to Momofuku 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:48.680 and then you go to the bathroom and you find 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:50.439 out it's actually a Panda Express. 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.760 So yes, I get that this is a problem. Enter 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.480 Adam Silver, who came up with this. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:11:00.000 According to WOJ, the NBA's Competition Committee recommended to play 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.559 that The league's board of governors is expected to approve Wednesday, 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.120 It would ultimately give the league office authority for greater 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:12.120 oversight over disciplined for missed games, and an ability to 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:18.160 find teams over one million dollars for each instance of 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:22.360 violating resting rules. This has got to be aimed, by 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.960 the way, what the league is calling star players? What 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.720 is a star player? The MPa is defining a star 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.559 player as someone who's made the All Star or All 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.440 NBA teams in three any of the three previous seasons. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:40.280 God damn Bradley Beal, you are fucked. Here are Adams five. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:44.800 Rules for fixing tanking. Teams must manage their roster to 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:48.360 ensure that no more than one star player is unavailable 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.319 for the same game. How is that going to work? 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.120 Because Paul George and Kawhi Leonard are injured all the 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.200 time simultaneously. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.640 Bron and ad more like Kawhi and PG or m Bidenharden. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.800 Teams must ensure that star players are available for nationally 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:09.520 televised games and in season tournament games. Adam Silver loves 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.280 that in season tournament Boy, before it even gets started, 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.600 he's making sure guys don't dog it. We saw this, 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.240 everybody thought it was going to be an off day 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.679 for star players, in the same way that Man United 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.120 and Arsenal and Premier League teams send their B teams 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.760 to compete in the FA Cup for English soccer. But 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.360 the difference is between that and the NBA. The NBA 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:36.280 has much larger rosters that soccer teams control. Next point, 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.320 teams must maintain a balance between the number of one 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.840 game absences for a star player. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.360 In home games and road games, with the preference for 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.760 those absences to happen in home games. 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:53.120 So I believe one of the examples of this was 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:57.520 that Steph Clay and Draymond all played on like a 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.800 Tuesday at Golden. 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:04.320 State and then one day later they all rested in Denver. YEP. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:05.079 Can't do that. 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:09.319 You got to rest them all in San Francisco. Penalize 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.320 the home fans and not the road h fans. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:12.280 I don't hate that. 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.640 Especially if you're living in a suburb and you're driving 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.760 you and your whole family to see your favorite player 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.080 on Golden State and then he doesn't show up. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:22.440 That's just bad for business. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:27.040 Next point, teams must refrain from any long term shutdown 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.000 or near shutdown when a star player starts participating in 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:36.160 games or plays in a material materially reduced role in 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:40.839 circumstances affecting the integrity of the game. This is what 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:44.079 we call a direct shot at the Portland Trailblazers who 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.920 ended up shutting down Damian Lillard and pretty much every 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.600 player on their team except for consecutive ten day contract 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.160 guys like Drew got ten day God you banks to 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.079 get Shaden Sharp and Scoot Henderson. That's what we call 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.959 the Dame Lillard tank rule. No more shutting down superstar 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.840 to lose games at the end of the season. I 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.360 if I am Portland would be fine with paying ten 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:10.280 million dollars for the rights of Scoot Anderson or Victor Wambayama. 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.000 I don't think that's going to change the damn thing. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.440 Next point from Adam Silver in his league office, teams 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.680 must ensure that healthy players resting for a game are 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:25.240 present and visible to fans. No more James Harden hooka parties. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.200 No more if you're not there, you're sitting on the bench. 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.960 No more Kawhi going dark when he's out of a game. 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.720 What is the penalty for violating these tanking slash load 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:38.880 management rules? First defense one hundred k second offense, two 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:40.720 hundred and fifty k third. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:45.400 Offense, one million dollars for each individual violation. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:51.800 Interestingly, Adam Silver also instituted what I call the Lebron exception. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:57.480 The NBA will allow pre approved designated back to back 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.680 allowances for players who are thirty five five years old 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.520 on opening night or have career workloads of thirty four 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:08.400 thousand regular season minutes or one thousand regular season playoff 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:13.960 game minutes combined. That exception impacts Lebron and stuff, but 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:18.160 not Kawhi or ad Fyi. Here are the only seven 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.040 players who can rest on the back end of a 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:24.520 back to back with no penalty. Lebron, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:30.200 Chris Paul DeMar DeRozan, Mike Conley, and James Harden. That 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:34.840 is it, and like clockwork, the league approve what it's 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:40.440 calling the Player Participation Policy on Wednesday. It's gonna be 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.600 interesting to see how teams try to evade this rule, 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.720 because we know that they will. I suspect that we're 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.040 going to see a lot of Kawhi Leonard getting five 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.360 to seven minutes of the play and then sitting out, 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.120 which doesn't technically violate the league's rules, but kind of 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.720 fucking sucks and fucks the vibe up from a betting 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.120 standpoint as well, which might actually help you if you 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.760 know that this is a possibility, and this is the 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.960 big thing considering the league is fully in bed with 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.520 sportsbooks right now, I'm not sure how this is gonna 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.840 play out, but it is going to be fascinating to see. Nonetheless, 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.840 one thing that it won't do is make it more 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.680 likely for me to throw a paycheck six weeks out 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:18.920 in advance to see a player. 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.440 There's probably a fifty to fifty chance that we will see. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.240 Gonna be fun. Gonna be fun to see how this 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:24.720 plays out. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:29.040 Moving on, it's been a couple of months since we've 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.160 thought about Draymond Green, and he's grabbed the headlines, so 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.200 you knew that it was time. It was time for 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.400 Draymond popping his head out of the woodwork, and here 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.920 it is. It is now Ome Young Music's time to 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.480 produce a Ramona showburn like Deep Dive, and there's lots 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:50.360 of tea spilling. Last season, as we know, could not 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:55.480 have started worse for Draymont Punches. Jordan Poole gets the 0:16:55.600 --> 0:17:01.680 whole TNT sort of comeback story, and then the entire 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:06.040 seasons off the rails. Golden State gets bounced by the Lakers, 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.919 lots of speculation about his future, and yet, like we know, 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.399 because he's Stepf's guy and he's important to the Golden 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.000 State Warriors, he ends up signing one hundred million dollar 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.600 extension and now those questions are quote unquote put to bed. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:22.440 But then the Warriors went out and they did the unthinkable. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:28.000 They got Chris Paul. As we know, Draymond Green has 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.879 been on record about how much he hates Chris Paul, 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.800 and now Draymond is determined to wipe the slate clean, 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.720 to do and say the right things. He said, I 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.520 can look at this year as one of the most 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:44.520 important years of my career, and it's not to redeem 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:51.400 anything about Draymond, Okay. My goal is that we can 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:56.200 help Chris Paul get his first championship, the guy that 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.760 you hated. Now it is your life's mission to help 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.560 out his career and his reputation. 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:07.600 That is a lie. New GM Mike gun Levy met 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.879 with both of these guys. 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.959 Before signing off on the deal because he knew, like 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.440 what we knew is that the two guys can't hate 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.920 stand each other. They hate each other, and that's funny 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:21.520 because the Holy really can't stand them up right. But 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.639 apparently they've now come to Jesus. They have had a 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.359 somewhat of a peace agreement like the US and Russia 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.159 and the Cold War, and according to om Young Music, 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.479 after the trade in late June, Green said that he 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.440 and Chris Paul touched base briefly before giving each other 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:46.560 space and time to digest everything, but they have since 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:50.960 had a face to face and phone conversations. Listening to 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.200 Green talk about all the things that used to drive 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.640 him wild about Chris Paul is almost like carrying an opponent. 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.000 Describe what it's like to battle Green in the playoff. Yeah, 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:01.200 it's like seeing. 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:06.080 A smaller, older, more wily veteran be just like you. 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.240 They are a match in heaven, two world class pests 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:10.920 with a history of animosity. 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:16.359 Now best piece, Hm, We're gonna see about that especially. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:18.679 I think the thing that's the most interesting and the 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.800 most we'll call it up in the air, is that 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:25.560 the offense normally runs through Draymond, and with Chris Paul, 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.399 the offense normally runs through him, who is going to 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:34.240 capitulate and defer to whom. He said, after getting over 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.120 the hump of being in the same room without killing 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:39.360 each other, there's gonna be another hump of actually playing together. 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.359 But it's gonna take some getting used to. Yes, both 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.119 focal points of the offense. To me, that feels like 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:50.199 maybe Draymond comes off the bench Chris Paul. Now the 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.600 rumors are that he's going to be starting. Who is 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:54.480 going to be out of the starting spot. It's not 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.960 gonna be Wiggins, probably not gonna be Looney, Definitely not. 0:19:57.880 --> 0:19:58.919 Gonna be Stephand Clay. 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.440 That means Draymond Green is the odd man out unless 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.600 they allow six starting five players. Green says that it's 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.439 the most important season of his career. He's trying to 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:12.600 position this now as some kind of redemption. Chris Paul 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.240 also looking for redemption, and there's only one way that 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:18.800 they can find it, and that's by winning a championship together, 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:22.160 kissing and making up and giving each other praise about 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.080 how they couldn't accomplish it without the other one. And 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:29.840 dray now thinks this roster, which is wild, has the 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:34.399 chance to win two more championships. He wants to match Jordan, 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:35.920 and he thinks that that's not out of the realm 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:39.919 of possibilities. Guys, I am dubious, I am skeptical. I 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.440 do not know about that one because I have no 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:44.800 idea how they beat the Lakers. I have no idea 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.119 how they beat the Grizzlies. Maybe they do, and I 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.040 certainly have no idea how they beat the Denver Nuggets. 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.359 But hold onto your hats on this one. If they 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:54.480 fall short again. 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:57.560 Shocking to think about a team bounce in the second 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.560 round the playoffs in six, by the way, by a 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:02.960 team led by someone older. 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:04.040 Than me, a four year old. 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.520 Chris Paul's reputation for not being able to win the 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:10.479 big One will be further solidified. And then the belief 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:14.240 that maybe, just maybe Draymond destroyed both timelines of the dynasty, 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:17.120 and maybe, just maybe people are starting to worry about 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.760 Steve Kurtu that will be hard to refute. Once again, 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.720 all eyes are on our Dubs and the pressure is on. 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:25.840 If you're a. 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:30.000