Howard Beck

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.

Mm-hmm.

You're right.

You were right.

doing great I'm just you and I are in the same room which is a rarity in itself yeah we're in the same room with the great Tyler Parker which is just raising this whole thing to a whole other level very excited about this Tyler's made some turns on the real ones when I was subbing for you you know I like I freelance a little bit when you're gone I just like I just start bringing on random people like Tyler Parker cool yeah we had fun without you but it's good to have us all here it's fine no it's an honor to join one of my favorite shows always happy to talk ball and yeah let's get some takes off

I am a little intimidated by the fact that we are in this hallowed studio space where the house of R tapes.

So shout out to Mal and Joe.

Like this is like, I almost put on the knight's helmet out there.

The league got weird about it, though, in the early 2000s.

That's what happened.

Like, Iverson did his arm sleeve, which, shout out to Ty Lue for then emulating the arm sleeve in practices when they were getting ready for the finals in 2001.

He, like, not only was playing the part of Iverson at practice, he did the sleeve to emulate.