Brian Scalabrine

So what he's saying really there is there are going to be teams who...

when the lottery odds are flattened or it's more random or whatever we end up doing who say, well, wait a second, this hurts our ability to get star players because we're small market teams.

We, this is our only guaranteed way to get a star is guaranteed.

It's not, I mean, God knows the Kings have sucked for a million years.

Um,

But what Adam Silver is saying is that may be true.

Let's posit that it's true.

He probably disagrees, but let's posit that it's true.

How about we open up other ways for you to get star players?

And I've talked about how maybe restricted free agency goes away or is limited in some way so that teams have quicker access to young free agents.

Maybe you increase rookie scale salaries so that...

That if a really good team wins the lottery, they're immediately in a financial crunch.

I had even one team propose, like, if you get a top three pick, you have to win a certain amount of games in your first three or four seasons to actually get him to be a restricted free agent rather than an unrestricted free agent.

That was interesting.

So that was a tell.

There's one other thing I want to get your thoughts on before we go.

Where are you on Denver right now?

Because it's been a very strange injury riddled season for them.

They've won a couple of games in a row, but they've been like high scoring games that don't exactly encourage you about their defense, which is ranked 21st in the league.

But Watson just came back.