Justin Verrier

But like, I do think I'm not complicit in what the NBA does.

If anything, I'm a consumer.

And I do think like we have a job to speak for the consumer in this.

And I think it's incumbent on us to be like, this is bullshit.

And it's a change.

Like this season, this NBA season, if we're being honest, I think has been subpar.

in large part because of the injuries.

And I just think it's undercut the main source of attraction for the league.

And the thing that it's been selling since the Larry Bird, Magic Johnson era kind of sprung us into where we are now, which is superstars.

We do not get enough superstar play.

And that's tangential to the tanking thing.

But like there aren't enough good players playing.

And that's a big part of it.

And I think it kind of coalesces because like there aren't enough good teams playing their good players.

There are other kind of half measures ideas that have been out there too.

Like the wheel had a good run of like two to three years where people were saying that that was the popular counter example of what could happen.

There are like, I mean, it feels like a lot of junior executives, most of their free time is spent coming up with ways to make the league marginally better.

And so I'm sure you can get a panel together to come up with something at the very least that works.

pushes us in the right direction, but I'm at the point where I would like to see legislation happening.

And to your point, Rob, like I agree that like people will find ways to kind of undercut that.