Chuck Todd

So we all know they probably should shrink the regular season schedule, but they won't.

Yeah.

And, you know, you're right to find other ways to replace it.

Is it tournaments?

Maybe that does it.

But, you know, I was thinking about something else about the NBA.

And I was wondering, you know, I was watching John Robb play at the Masters.

And I was like, he doesn't have a chance.

But, you know, everything he moves up, right?

There's other things you play for in the Masters.

If you win, you get into the certain...

Oh, yeah.

I think if you're in the top 20, you automatically get an invite the next year, I think.

Then there's certainly different financial rewards depending on the place you finish.

And so it got me thinking, is there a way to create a financial reward for players based on their regular season?

That essentially, just like with golf, if you finish 35th, you make more money than if you finish 36th.

So there's, in theory, an incentive to keep playing hard.

So if there is more money on the table, more bonus money, more this money, more that money, maybe it's the playoff TV revenue that players get.

Maybe there's a pool of it that all players get some of it depending on where their team finishes in the overall standings of the league.

But right now it's the franchises that have all the incentive and the players have no skin in the game.