Speaker 1: Breaks breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines. So the
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Speaker 1: covering all the trauma around the association. Moving on.
Speaker 2: It has been a long six weeks of nothing.
Speaker 1: Happening except for James Harden and Damian Lillard holding their
Speaker 1: team's hosts trying to jump shit.
Speaker 2: But we finally have about a little bit of.
Speaker 1: Actual news to discuss. I'm not talking about PJ Washington
Speaker 1: returning to the board. I am not talking about the.
Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs continuing to build up goodwill by giving.
Speaker 1: Campaign an outright release so that you can go with
Speaker 1: a contending team. I am talking about structural NBA news
Speaker 1: that we are breaking down. Thank you to Adam Silver
Speaker 1: because our fearless commissioner has now decided to take on
Speaker 1: the subject of loads management and tanking head on becaues.
Speaker 2: It's face, it has been terrible.
Speaker 1: It's been kind of killing the league's vibe for at
Speaker 1: least in terms of in person paying customers for a decade.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to look forward to watching a February
Speaker 1: Clippers versus Sixers game on TV only to find out
Speaker 1: Kawhi and Embiid are sitting there in street clothes.
Speaker 2: But it's another thing to check the calendar for months.
Speaker 1: Take your kid and promise that kid that they are
Speaker 1: going to see Joel Embi. You get nose lead seats
Speaker 1: to see your hero, and then you show up to
Speaker 1: find the guy that you.
Speaker 2: See and you paid the seed.
Speaker 1: Take the day off until you can't even find out,
Speaker 1: until you got your first hot dog.
Speaker 2: In your mouth. That's why Kobe is beloved.
Speaker 1: The dude is going to play through anything when he
Speaker 1: was playing through a broken hand, through broken anything, just
Speaker 1: to keep the fans happy.
Speaker 2: But that's not happening anymore. So Adam Silver had to
Speaker 2: step in.
Speaker 1: By the way, quick aside, This happened to me last
Speaker 1: year when I wanted to see Jaw and Desmond Baine
Speaker 1: play against the Washington Wizards.
Speaker 2: I hate Capitol One Arena. It fucking sucks. It's like
Speaker 2: a best buy in there. But for Jaw and for
Speaker 2: Desmond Bane, I would do it.
Speaker 1: And you know what I paid for floor seats just
Speaker 1: to watch David fucking Roddy.
Speaker 2: Do you know how bad David Roddy is? Do you
Speaker 2: know how slow David Roddy is? This is not a
Speaker 2: ricochet shot to David Roddy, but for few hundred dollars
Speaker 2: per seat.
Speaker 1: I did not want to watch David Roddy and Steven
Speaker 1: Adams in the block disgusting.
Speaker 2: And I didn't.
Speaker 1: It's like going to Momofuku and then you go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom and you find out it's actually a panda express.
Speaker 2: So yes, I get that this is a problem. Enter
Speaker 2: Adam Silver, who came up with this.
Speaker 1: According to WOJ, the NBA's Competition Committee recommended a plan
Speaker 1: that the league's Board of Governors is expected to approved Wednesday.
Speaker 1: It would ultimately give the league office authority for greater
Speaker 1: oversight over disciplined for miss games, and an ability to
Speaker 1: find teams over one million dollars for each instance of
Speaker 1: violating resting rules. This has got to be aimed, by
Speaker 1: the way what the league is calling star players? What
Speaker 1: is a star player? The MBA is defining a star
Speaker 1: player as someone who's made the All Star or All
Speaker 1: NBA teams in three any of the three previous seasons.
Speaker 1: God damn Bradley Beal, you are fucked. Here are adams five.
Speaker 2: Rules for fixing tanking. Teams must manage their roster to
Speaker 2: ensure that no more than one star player is unavailable
Speaker 2: for the same game. How is that gonna work?
Speaker 1: Because Paul George and Kawhi Leonard are injured all the
Speaker 1: time simultaneously.
Speaker 2: Bron and ad more like Kawhi and.
Speaker 1: PG or m Bidenharden, teams must ensure that star players
Speaker 1: are available for nationally televised games and in season tournament games.
Speaker 2: Adam Silver loves that n season tournament.
Speaker 1: Boy, before it even gets started, He's making sure guys
Speaker 1: don't dog it. We saw this, everybody thought it was
Speaker 1: going to be an off day for star players. In
Speaker 1: the same way that Man United and Arsenal and Premier
Speaker 1: League team send their B teams to compete in the
Speaker 1: FA Cup for English soccer. But the difference is between
Speaker 1: that and the NBA. The NBA has much larger rosters
Speaker 1: that soccer teams control. Next point, teams must maintain a
Speaker 1: balance between the number of one game absences for a
Speaker 1: star player.
Speaker 2: In home games and road games, with the preference for
Speaker 2: those absences to happen in home games. So I believe
Speaker 2: one of the examples.
Speaker 1: Of this was that Steph Clay and Draymond all played
Speaker 1: on like a Tuesday in Golden State and then one
Speaker 1: day later they all rested in Denver.
Speaker 2: YEP. Can't do that.
Speaker 1: You got to rest them all in San Francisco. Penalize
Speaker 1: the home fans and not the road fans. I don't
Speaker 1: hate that, especially if you're living in a suburb and
Speaker 1: you're driving you and your whole family to see your
Speaker 1: favorite player on Golden State and then he doesn't show up.
Speaker 2: That's just bad for business.
Speaker 1: Next point, teams must refrain from any long term.
Speaker 2: Shutdown or near shutdown when a.
Speaker 1: Star player starts participating in games or plays in a
Speaker 1: material materially reduced role in circumstances affecting the integrity of
Speaker 1: the game. This is what we call a direct shot
Speaker 1: at the Portland Trailblazers who ended up shutting down Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard and pretty much every player on their team except
Speaker 1: for consecutive ten day contract guys like Drew got ten
Speaker 1: day God you banks to get Shaden.
Speaker 2: Sharp and Scoot Henderson. That's what we call the Dame
Speaker 2: Lollard tank rule.
Speaker 1: No more shutting down superstars to lose games at the
Speaker 1: end of the season.
Speaker 2: If I am Portland would be.
Speaker 1: Fine with paying ten million dollars for the rights of
Speaker 1: Scoot Anderson or Victor Wambayama.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to change the damn thing.
Speaker 1: Next point from Adam Silver in his league office, teams
Speaker 1: must ensure that healthy players resting for a game are
Speaker 1: present and visible to fans. No more James Harden hooka parties.
Speaker 1: No more if you're not there, you're sitting on the bench.
Speaker 1: No more Kawhi going dark when he's out of a game.
Speaker 1: What is the penalty for violating these tanking slash load
Speaker 1: management rules? First defense one hundred K, second offense two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty K, Third offense one million dollars for
Speaker 1: each individual violation. Interestingly, Adam Silver also instituted what I
Speaker 1: call the Lebron exception. The MBA will allow pre approved
Speaker 1: designated back to back allowances for players who are thirty
Speaker 1: five years old on opening night or have career workloads
Speaker 1: of thirty four thousand regular season minutes or one thousand
Speaker 1: regular season playoff game minutes combined. That exception impacts Lebron
Speaker 1: and Stuff, but not Kawhi or ad Fyi.
Speaker 2: Here are the only seven.
Speaker 1: Players who can rest on the back end of a
Speaker 1: back to back with no penalty. Lebron, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: Chris Paul DeMar DeRozan, Mike Conley, and James Harden. That
Speaker 1: is it, and like clockwork, the league approve what it's
Speaker 1: calling the Player Participation Policy on Wednesday. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to see how teams try to evade this rule,
Speaker 1: because we know that they will. I suspect that we're
Speaker 1: gonna see a lot of Kawhi Leonard getting five to
Speaker 1: seven minutes of the play and then sitting out, which
Speaker 1: doesn't technically violate the league rules, but kind of fucking
Speaker 1: sucks and fucks the vibe up from a betting standpoint
Speaker 1: as well, which might actually help you if you know
Speaker 1: that this is a possibility, and this is a big
Speaker 1: thing considering the league is fully in bed with sportsbooks
Speaker 1: right now, I'm not sure how this is gonna play out,
Speaker 1: but it is going to be fascinating to see. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: one thing that it won't do is make it more
Speaker 1: likely for me to throw a paycheck six weeks out
Speaker 1: in advance to see a player.
Speaker 2: There's probably a fifty to fifty chance that you will see.
Speaker 2: Gonna be fun. Gonna be fun to see how this
Speaker 2: plays out.