Speaker 1: So we spoke a couple of weeks ago about the
Speaker 1: importance and the excitement of this summer.
Speaker 2: Of the pro am.
Speaker 1: You've got the Crossover, You've got Drulie, You've got Peach Jam.
Speaker 2: I know that's high school, but doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: You've got a bunch of these popping up all over
Speaker 1: the country. And he brings together all these elite NBA
Speaker 1: players and it gives local communities a chance to see
Speaker 1: these players up close and personal when they probably would
Speaker 1: never see them in an NBA game, and if they did,
Speaker 1: they'd be in the nosebley because of how expensive these
Speaker 1: tickets cost, which is why this news sucks so bad.
Speaker 2: Chet Holmgren looks like he might have some ligament damage
Speaker 2: to his foot.
Speaker 1: In the first quarter of the crossover game in Seattle,
Speaker 1: with a bevy of NBA stars including Lebron, Jason Tatum,
Speaker 1: de Jonte, Murray Pallo, BN Caero and Chet Holmgren, braun
Speaker 1: to outlet pass came barreling down the court as he does,
Speaker 1: like a train, and Chet Holmgren stood in his way.
Speaker 1: Good for Chet, by the way, just getting in the
Speaker 1: way of Lebron James nineteen years old, as big as
Speaker 1: a stick literally like a twig going up against the
Speaker 1: freight train. Anyway, he decides to put his body between
Speaker 1: Lebron and the basket. He made a nice little defensive play,
Speaker 1: made Lebron James miss and then landed awkwardly on his
Speaker 1: ankle and poof night.
Speaker 2: Over didn't look like it was too bad.
Speaker 1: Turns out though, news comes out today and the reports
Speaker 1: are that he has quote potential torn ligaments in his foot.
Speaker 1: The timetable is now being developed to further evaluate the injury.
Speaker 1: That is terrible, terrible for Chet, worse for the Prorams.
Speaker 1: Prorams are now under attack. People are coming out of
Speaker 1: the woodworks being like, yes, we should never let these
Speaker 1: guys play in these unsanctioned tournaments of the games that
Speaker 1: they already play for a living. So the same game
Speaker 1: had issues from the beginning with humidity, possibly from so
Speaker 1: many people jamming the inside of the gym, had to
Speaker 1: be stopped multiple times because the court was too slippery.
Speaker 1: Play was ultimately suspended in the second quarter. They basically
Speaker 1: canceled it because of quote unsafe conditions stemming from the
Speaker 1: condensation on the floorboards. What a janky ass seattle Jim
Speaker 1: like this is why we hate Seattle. I don't really,
Speaker 1: but as a Portland person, you just hate everything about
Speaker 1: him and my worst fears, like I said, already being realized.
Speaker 1: The tweet from Charles Robinson, senior reporter from Yahoo Sports,
Speaker 1: the warning shot quote after this chet Hoolmegren injury diagnosis,
Speaker 1: hashtag NBA hate teams, he's.
Speaker 3: Hashtagging the NBA, Charles, Charles, let's start again after this
Speaker 3: chet Holmegreen injury diagnosis hashtag NBA teams would be insane
Speaker 3: to let any.
Speaker 1: Player screw around and participating in the program. I don't
Speaker 1: understand how this wasn't already a given, Charles. These grown
Speaker 1: men make their own decisions in the summer, so I
Speaker 1: don't know if you can necessarily try to say this
Speaker 1: should have already been sanctioned. The true League's been going
Speaker 1: on since the nineteen seventies, folks, like this has been
Speaker 1: you're just now aware of the prorams. Like I said,
Speaker 1: the programs are incredible. They make superstars from Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: to Lebron to DeRozan accessible to communities, mostly inner city
Speaker 1: communities that simply cannot afford and will not ever pay
Speaker 1: to see them in person and if they do, it's
Speaker 1: an event. This was what I thought was the beginning
Speaker 1: of something really special, which is the summer of the
Speaker 1: program where maybe in the off season we'll have people
Speaker 1: go around like the Harlem Globetrotters from city to city,
Speaker 1: playing in elite prorams and seeing guys for five dollars right,
Speaker 1: get your gatorade. You go and sit in an over undersized,
Speaker 1: over sweaty jim and you watch Lebron James give chat
Speaker 1: home brin buckets, and now people think that we should
Speaker 1: be banning players from playing in them due to injury risk.
Speaker 2: This is the player empowerment era.
Speaker 1: This is not something that I think is gonna go anywhere,
Speaker 1: but I think it's something at least to note. If
Speaker 1: Demarta Rosen wants to play in the Drew League, He's
Speaker 1: playing in the Drew League. He's played every single year
Speaker 1: during his career. He's going to play unless he is
Speaker 1: contractually forbidden to do it. And that would also then
Speaker 1: mean okay, well, what about all these little lifetime fitness
Speaker 1: pickup games that we see with pure sweat and you know,
Speaker 1: Drew Hanlin and all these things that we see on
Speaker 1: Instagram where it's like, oh, Carmelo and his hoodie was
Speaker 1: given so and so the business.
Speaker 2: Like then that couldn't happen either, right.
Speaker 1: Those games also not able because they are also have
Speaker 1: the same height heightened amount of injury risk. Every scrimmage
Speaker 1: would be off, every single one. Don't think it would
Speaker 1: be very easy to enforce, truthfully. This would be like
Speaker 1: the prohibition.
Speaker 2: Era where there was like speak easies.
Speaker 1: They're like pro ams speak easies, like hey, Lebron's coming
Speaker 1: through tomorrow at the YMCA and Columbus, Ohio like be
Speaker 1: there be square, like you have to have the password
Speaker 1: to get in. There's no phones allowed. It's like Dave
Speaker 1: Chappelle show, or you put them in a little like
Speaker 1: envelope and at lock shut to avoid that. And then
Speaker 1: it's like, oh de Jonte Murray towards MCL how do
Speaker 1: you do that?
Speaker 2: Uh walk into the store. It's like, oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think that's probably impossible to litigate, but it
Speaker 1: is gonna put the pro am under a microscope. And
Speaker 1: I think anytime we get to a point where players
Speaker 1: at some point are gonna make eighty ninety maybe one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars a year, NBA teams are gonna find
Speaker 1: a way.
Speaker 2: Are gonna try to find a way.
Speaker 1: To preserve their golden goose, to put it in a
Speaker 1: little glass case until they can bring it out and
Speaker 1: show their friends. You can't play in any programs. You
Speaker 1: can only play for me. Hopefully Chet will be fine.
Speaker 1: Nothing's gonna come of this, But the fact that that's
Speaker 1: where the journalist's minds immediately went, it's troubling. Charles Robinson,
Speaker 1: allow the fun to go down. Programs are lit. We
Speaker 1: need more of them, not more scrutiny.