DeMaurice Smith

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756 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · Decoding the Kawhi Leonard Investigation, with DeMaurice Smith · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

The fundamental necessary ingredients for sport is fairness and rule following.

So when I'm with my class, and yes, I torture my class, and this is a sure shameless plug for my class that I'm teaching at Georgetown in the fall.

A bunch of nerds doing nerdy, dorky stuff.

The business of ethics in sport.

Sport requires fairness and rule following.

Entertainment does not.

Entertainment only asks for an audience.

I think from a pure, you know, straight line business analysis even, if you lose the fact that people believe that it's any given Sunday,

They believe that the rules are being followed.

They believe that someone is trying to engender fairness.

You've undermined your product.

In these case studies... Unions have to play longer than the owners.

Sometimes you just have to put it in a different amount of language.

For the basketball players, football players, hockey players, baseball players, all the players, even the players who are playing in the World Cup, you look at the insane effort and the industry...

that these players willingly put themselves through game after game, single elimination, World Cup champion or not, what do they absolutely insist upon?

Fairness and rule following.

So why, on God's green earth,

would you come to a conclusion that you are going to expect less when it comes to the macro way in which the league is being operated?

Why would you choose less fairness in the Mac world than the fairness in rule following that you absolutely would insist on on the pitch?

The league, the way it's run, the collective bargaining agreements, the business decisions that you make together have to be enforced.

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