Justin Verrier

Like we probably know that a lot of this stuff is a little bit more for show than it actually is.

If you're on the inside of these things, a lot of things are trumpeted up in order to make ESPN segments first and foremost.

Yeah.

But like to say that like this all leading up to it, the months of podcasts and talking about the league and ramifications might not be real is fucked up.

Like I think Giannis more than us has a duty to at the very least sell that this is like an actual thing happening, like that the integrity of the league matters.

Just the fact that we've kind of undergone a pretty massive wave of soft tissue strains and whatnot.

I mean, there are a lot of good players, but as we're just looking at this, the Thunder aren't playing Shea because he's out.

Jokic was just out.

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.