Justin Verrier

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.

We should be at 60, 68 sort of games.

And these two things dovetail because it's just like nothing's happening.

It's very frustrating, as you can probably tell by now.

Yes.

And as we're recording this, the Wizards are down 30 in the third quarter to the Miami Heat.

Good stuff.

All right.

Why don't we take a break?

I'm going to take a melatonin.

All right, in between all the tanking, we did see some old faces in new places.

Always nice to see.

You get the James Harden in the Cavs jersey.