Kirk Goldsberry

But

just hats off to the league.

I know we give them a hard time on a lot of things, Zach, but the plan tournament deserves some flowers.

Great season.

Yeah, I agree.

I think, you know, the obvious answer for me is we're playing over 1200 regular season games and that's simply too many to, to bring that kind of emotional stakes to these events.

And, you know, one idea I think I pitched to you, if the league expands to 32 teams is let's go to a 62 game schedule.

Everybody plays everybody twice.

You have a home and away with

every team it's a completely balanced schedule you can have an nba cup in the middle that's a single elimination 32 team tournament and then that way every time the clippers play the warriors it's the only time steph's coming to la for the clippers the only time and i think that would help i think scarcity is the business school professor answer to the question is like the product is diluted when there's this many games not to mention as you already sort of referenced

The crapola of 10 teams not necessarily trying to win those games has polluted the intensity of a huge amount of the league's inventory during the regular season.

So for me, the answer is clear scarcity, thinning out the schedule.

I just don't know if that's realistic, Zach, for the league, its owners and its players to agree, hey, let's go from 82 games to 62 games.

So I'd be curious what your answer to that question would be other than just, hey, let's thin out the games and make it more interesting per game.

Well, how many players are now affected by this, right?

So we have Luka slotting in, so there's one less person All-NBA.

Cade, which I did not expect, Zach Lowe.

I'm just surprised that they caved like this.

Well, I was on the Zach Lowe show the morning after we found out or the morning we found out about his collapsed lung, which is a terrifying injury.

And I remember thinking with you at that time, like, is he going to be eligible?