Bob Voulgaris

You have like the Chauncey Billups situation, yeah?

Where he's alleged to have given information that some players would not be playing, presumably because they were going to tank the game for draft positioning, right?

And my point was like, your league is so cooked that you are going to have a tough time differentiating between tanking for the purposes of illegally gambling or tanking for the purposes of trying to get draft position.

So good luck proving that in court of law.

Everyone in the league knows, every player in the league knows that tanking exists.

And therefore, the integrity of the game is just not there.

It's not pristine.

It's not even close to being pristine.

How about that?

Like the Spurs, with one of the greatest coaches in NBA history, or if not the greatest, were openly trying to get, they did it with Tim Duncan, and they did it again with Wenbin Yama.

you know, not lose games on purpose while they're playing.

I'm not alleging that because I don't know that's to be the case.

And I doubt that that is because I just don't think that.

But you certainly field players that are not NBA caliber.

And then you tell them to go out and try and win.

That was my experience with the Mavericks is you just kind of like played like a bunch of G League players and you just put them in positions and they just go out there.

And that's just the way the game is.

So my point is that when you have that, it's hard to tell a player then that the integrity of the game matters and don't.

tell your friends, hey, I'm probably going to pull out this game, or hey, bet the under this game, or hey, LeBron's not playing, might as well go out and get yours.

There's just no basis for integrity for the sport.