Justin Verrier

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.

But if it's like it changes things for five years or so, if things get better, we can make adjustments on the fly.

If anything, Adam Silver has been very aggressive everywhere else in the league, making minor tweaks year after year.

But the things that matter, which is like, oh, nope, doesn't matter.

82 games.

I just hit my lamp.

I'm just so frustrated.

right after you just went through a situation that people were probably actively betting on and the way he kind of introduced it first of all right after the trade deadline which was really fucked up like i don't know who is managing yannis at this point but dude you need a fucking like reality check because you have just bucks fans were pissed i was reading like i they were livid and i didn't blame them yeah

So are we to assume that everything that happened up until that point was fake, that he wasn't actually asking for a trade, that the bucks were complicit?

These are the type of things that are asked as a result of something like that, and I just can't believe that that happened.

Yeah, I think Mark Stein did a good job pointing this out on his substack, where the NBA, I guess, released some sort of graphic to suggest that this was the busiest trade deadline week in history or whatever benchmark they used.

Now, it's a little kind of fuzzy there because it just kind of restricted it to a week versus the months leading up to it when we've seen a lot of activity.