Howard Beck

And then Saturday night, Adam himself says, yeah, this is the worst we've seen it.

on tanking because of how brazen what the jazz did was and he had just find the jazz and the pacers i'm sure hated having to do it days before a press conference that he had to hold in at all-star week in his annual address at all-star weekend so there's just so much going on yes length of the season um load management which frustrates the hell out of fans as it should um

Any number of versions of that, too.

We talked about it earlier.

We're going to see players being rested for tank reasons.

We're going to see players being rested for playoff reasons.

And because we're in a time of sports science...

We all understand it intellectually that it makes sense to rest your guys down the stretch, to make sure that they're in peak condition and not risking injury because you need them in late April, May, and potentially June.

But intellectually, that's fine.

Fundamentally, that sucks because guys just don't play as many games anymore.

So there's all of these things that are on Adam Silver's plate.

And the piece was not intended to say Adam Silver is failing by any stretch, just that he's got a lot of challenges and there's a lot of stuff up in the air.

And the response from the league, I'll just say I've heard through, you know, a couple of different channels of people who basically said, you nailed it.

And I have not heard from, we don't need to name names, you and I know who it would be, but I have not heard any of the pushback yet that I was expecting.

Maybe that's still to come, but I have not gotten that yet.

I have gotten people who are longtime league veterans who know the inside workings of Olympic Tower very well saying, this is spot on, which I appreciated.

But I don't think there was anything controversial about it.

There's just a hell of a lot going on and a lot for Adam and his lieutenants to address and the Board of Governors for that matter.

We are Tuesday, Friday on Real Ones, which is part of the Ringer NBA show channel.

Yeah.