Jason

And this is where I tie it back to the tanking piece.

There's this idea that's like, oh, we have all these blowouts.

We have all these bad teams.

That's why we can't have expansion.

And again, if you want to tell me that you don't want expansion because you want to keep the talent in those 30 teams, I think that's a realistic take that I think is fair.

But the idea that the tanking is negatively affected or is in some way tied to the talent level is ridiculous to me.

Because if you actually look at all the tanking teams, they have a lot of good players that aren't playing.

like Utah has a lot of really good players that they just didn't play down the tail end of the season.

Like Indiana has a substantial injury that they're dealing with that is dragged them down.

Anthony Davis and Trey young are just not playing for the Washington wizards.

Like this is, I fail to see the connection there because tanking to me feels like an entirely separate.

We're just not playing our good players problem.

Not a, oh, we have 10 terrible teams.

We don't have 10 terrible teams.

We have 10 teams that are trying to be terrible.

That's two very, very different things.

So again, the expansion debate to me, I don't really have a strong opinion about it.

My basketball fan side's like,

let's watch the Seattle Supersonics again.

You know, like my basketball fan side says, like, I do think we have enough talent to have two more teams and not really dramatically affect the way that the league looks and feels.