Fred Katz

De'Aaron Fox is replacing Giannis in the All-Star game.

It was supposed to be, it was supposed to be three, eight player.

Maybe Harden was on and then he asked out before Silver could announce it.

Yeah, I mean, the motto for all of this stuff is unintended consequences, constantly.

I mean, I can tell you what some of them are off the top of my head right now.

Let's say the NBA does it where lottery odds lock in March 1st.

You know what's going to happen?

Teams are just going to tank egregiously at the start of the season instead of the end.

They're going to say, oh, we're not going to be good.

So we got to make sure to get our tank in now.

You're not going to see the scenario like where Utah maybe tries to compete for the first couple months of the season, then turns it over and is like, we're going to tank hard the second half of the season.

They're just right off the bat going to be like, this is what we're doing.

from the jump.

And then March 1st, they might be like, oh, now we can play marking in and play our guys and play them there because now the winning will help.

And then you're going to end up with weird scenarios.

It's also going to end up with weird scenarios too, where like, you know, guy gets hurt for the first half of the season.

Guy comes back from injury, is ready to go in January.

They hold them out for an extra two months, bring them back on March 1st.

So they maximize their losing before March 1st and minimize and maximize their winning.

after March 1st, like it's still gonna happen in those scenarios.