Fred Katz

All the time.

Like, I just broke news with James Edwards last week that Deuce McBride, I mean, this is not one of the serious ones and this is not a tanking situation, but Deuce McBride underwent surgery for a sports hernia.

And he had missed the previous five games because of left ankle injury management.

And he played four of those games he missed came after he underwent the MRI for the sports hernia he eventually had the surgery on.

And it was nowhere on the injury report.

And the Knicks had said there was no new injury.

He was dealing with his ankle.

And like, especially if you're going to lean into gambling and I, I honestly, I hate the gambling stuff.

I hate it, but you got to acknowledge it in these scenarios.

This was written before all the gambling stuff happened.

They're talking about integrity of the game.

That's even more important now, because if you've got a situation where guys are going to sit the fourth quarter, no matter what, and you're going to intentionally try to lose.

First of all, even if you're not doing anything illegal, it leads yourself.

susceptible to a situation where somebody ends up leaking information to somebody who places a large bet.

You're just increasing the chances that you get another Terry Rozier type situation.

You're increasing the chances of that because this information that is being held secretive is now not

Right, 100%.

You just leave yourself susceptible to those sorts of situations.

What the NBA does not need is another off-the-court scandal of that magnitude.

And it leaves yourself very open to those sorts of things.