Justin Verrier

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.

So who knows?

But the fact that they were trumpeting that, that this was a busy transaction period, at the very least suggests that

that they appreciate the attention that they're getting during this week, especially when the Super Bowl is happening and how much that matters to their bottom line.

I feel like we've gone back and forth with this where it's like a lot.

I think a lot of people were vocal about all the transaction game is kind of taking over the actual game.

We need to be watching the game as opposed to dealing with Woj bombs all the time.

I honestly think we've kind of settled in a nice little middle ground there with this year.

But at the very least, the league values this.

And it honestly kind of undercuts this whole idea as kind of nonsense theater or perhaps even like scripted to the point where Giannis is suggesting that like maybe this wasn't even real.

And I do think like we're talking about the integrity of the league.

That's kind of like the big headline of all these conversations.

Like I think it kind of undercuts that as well.