Justin Verrier

I think we're going to get to a pretty dire point where if Shea doesn't qualify for the MVP, that Jokic might not as well.

Who the fuck do we give the MVP to?

Because of another arbitrary rule where we just set a benchmark and all of a sudden we can't go over that even though

62 games would be perfectly fine to give Jokic an MVP and not 65.

But yeah, I think if you were watching the league this year, I think the dance of, is this player playing or not, especially if you're going to those games, playing good money in order to see those guys play, I think it's worse than ever.

I've only gone and paid my own money, thankfully, a few times in order to see games over the past couple of years.

Every time I'm like, I'm crossing my finger.

Oh, I hope Jokic plays.

I hope this guy plays.

It's like, it sucks as a fan.

And consequences is the perfect word for this.

There has to be consequences for your actions.

And we've been saying for years and years and years now that these actions are just not in line with like promoting what is best for the game, what is the best of the game and what's in the best interest of the game.

And for there not to be any hard line consequences as a result is a problem.

And there's also the medical side of this.

Even when you talk to any sort of person in the medical field about injuries and the abundance of injuries and the increase of injuries, they're always very careful about what is and what is not just because that's just the field that they're in.

But you talk to anybody in the league, you talk to players, you talk to people behind the scenes,

Playing NBA basketball requires more from your body than ever before for probably longer and over longer parts of the court because it's all spread out now.

The torque and stress on the human body is worse than it ever is before.

And to just completely ignore that and add more games in the play-in and do nothing to try to fix that is embarrassing.