J. Kyle Mann

That's just how sports has worked in my life.

And it works like that in other sports too.

And I don't know what I support, but I'm opening my brain up to what does it actually look like?

Because instead of teams being trapped in badness and small market teams being disadvantaged in fatal ways, it could actually look like

more teams, more it's changing the incentives forces teams to actually try to improve more diligently and in more varied ways.

And it could squeeze records from the bottom up and the top down.

And you could get a healthier, more fun league.

Like I'm, I'm, I'm open to that.

I'm open to that possibility.

It's just, you have to be willing to live in a world where the thunder draft when Benyama

Where the 2017 Warriors draft Cooper Flagg, like that's going to happen.

Yes.

If you go this way and if you're willing to live in that world, then I think all bets are off.

That makes me viscerally uncomfortable.

And maybe it wouldn't happen in that kind of perfect storm sense more than once every 20 years, but it'll happen.

people within the league making that exact point to me way back when the Process Sixers went in the ditch.

And their point was, Philly's not a tiny market team.

Philly's a pretty big market with pretty rich ownership.

if the big teams decide to tank, they can out-tank, they can outlast the small market teams because of the financial buttressing that they have.

Two last things.