Justin Verrier

I think that if they were successful, the city would have rallied behind it because there's a lot of civic pride there.

But just they never put out a competitive product.

And so I just don't know how after now three different eras of this franchise, you're still starting from behind and trying to start fresh.

I just don't know how it's going to latch on even as an entertainment program.

You don't deserve a team.

Yeah.

Tough.

All right.

One more break and we could talk about the remaining two teams.

All right, the Utah Jazz, who I clearly have some sort of sickness because I find myself gravitating toward this team all the time.

Tell me about it.

What's drawing you in?

After all of the consternation and the flare-ups over the Jazz specifically being the shunning example of tanking and what's wrong with the league, I do feel like they've kind of settled into a pretty natural state of where they're just allowing their young players to develop.

which maybe they should have done sooner.

I don't give them any free passes because the tanking was very egregious.

I think they just did it in such a loud way that just allowed them to be the ones that got the hammer in the way that you could have probably dropped it on a couple of the wizards, for instance, of late.

It's just like, why are we sitting like our second year players?

Like, shouldn't they be playing valuable minutes at this point?

All those stories.

But the Jazz have basically just sat the vets and kind of given way to the young guys.