Pablo Torre
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But hold on.
Because I love that this conversation keeps on going back to tanking, which I think is an under-discussed aspect of the entire conflict of principles involved.
You're saying over and over again that if you cannot distinguish between
Behavior that would be incentivized.
Yeah, why you're... By betting or by getting a draft pick.
Like Victor Wimbanyama, you're kind of f***ed from a first principles perspective.
And so you got to sort of change the incentives with draft picks and tanking.
That's actually what you would... And that's what I would focus on if I cared about the... If they're going to say, Bob, please help us.
You would say, it's time to do what?
It's time to remove the draft lottery as a mechanism.
Mike Zarin, Celtics.
Yeah, Mike Zarin's wheel thing is not bad.
I'm personally in favor of free agency for all incoming rookies.
And I'm in favor of a zillion mini television shows in which they all get to make their individual decisions.
I want rose ceremonies.
I want the bachelor for, I want Victor Weminyama of 2027 to have his own rose ceremony.
On some level, though, what we are reckoning with is the inability to solve for people being f***ing idiots.
By the way, I'm open to all of these suggestions of what you can and can't do such that the access...
to addictive substances is disclosed as a matter of risk and then limited as a matter of law.
That's right.