J. Kyle Mann

Not only is Shea not playing right now, Justin, he's already been announced as being replaced for the All-Star game.

Alper and Shang-Goon, you are now an All-Star.

I assume the league would love to have Shea Gilgis-Alexander representing it in the future of the sport to say nothing about Team World or whatever its name is that's going to be competing in the game itself.

That's not going to happen.

You can't turn injuries off, but there are so many things we could be doing to minimize them and make the schedule and the cadence of the season more manageable for everyone involved.

And it's just one of those areas that is like a third rail because it touches the finances and no one wants to mess with anything that could turn the spigot of money pouring out.

Let's get Jim Dolan on the phone.

Let's get Mickey Arison on the phone.

This is the problem.

It's not convincing us or even people who watch the NBA.

It's convincing the people who profit from the NBA.

Well, at the risk of not diversifying our podcast conversation, it was Jaron Jackson Jr.

on the Jazz just because seeing him implemented with that space, with the flexibility, with elements of his game that I think we take for granted, including what he can do kind of in the mid-range with all these weird little push shots and deep seals and things like that.

It's like he is a kind of weapon that a Will Hardy offense can really, really benefit from.

And

not to drag us back into the muck, but this is one of the things about the Jazz that's so infuriating is they are so clearly a better run team than they represent on a regular basis.

Whenever they decide to be good, and that might be as soon as next season with Kessler back and Jackson fully integrated and whatever draft pick that they tank their way into receiving, they're going to really sing because the coaching and the style of the offense and the scheme, all of that stuff is really, really sharp.

And seeing Jaron Jackson in it

to me was just like kind of a revelation.

Like he just looked like a totally different kind of score in admittedly very limited time.