Howard Beck

On top of that, we have a federal investigation that we've heard nothing about since October.

But, you know, Chauncey Billups still not coaching.

Terry Rozier still indefinitely suspended.

That's looming in the background simultaneously.

Those two things alone, Zach, would be enough evidence.

To fill all of your time as commissioner and the league office.

And then on top of that, tanking, Adam himself just admitted it.

And Saturday night, I think, was the trigger for why I finally wrote this now.

I've been processing this for a while about how there are so many balls up in the air, so many things to try to manage or to fix right now.

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.