Howard Beck

And crisis is a strong word.

Crises, scandals, concerns, just functional fixes that need to be made.

Like we had the Tim Donaghy scandal, right?

We've had a gambling scandal.

This one I think is less than that, but this one's going on at the same time that we also have a cap circumvention scandal.

Well, we had cap circumvention or some version of that with Joe Smith back in the day, but that was by itself.

Donaghy was by itself.

Lockouts were by themselves.

What we have right now is a cap circumvention scandal that is seemingly coming to a head soon with some sort of ruling or conclusions from the law firm about what the Clippers did or did not do with Kawhi Leonard and Aspiration.

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