Stugatz

The Memphis-Utah game played earlier toward the end of the season was the most embarrassing game played in basketball this season, up to and including what happened with the Wizards and Bam, correct?

Well, there were not just three triple-doubles.

It's never happened before, and I think Memphis just played five players all game, correct?

Or six players, and it...

It was as embarrassing a thing as has existed.

And you guys are just saying for all that talk that we spent this season talking about the stupidity, it was half the season talking about the stupidity of 10 teams aren't trying.

You guys are saying they fixed it by simply creating something that feels like a relegation, which is that you are shaming the bad teams for being bad instead of rewarding them.

You're shaming the worst teams for being bad instead of rewarding them.

I don't think it's prisoner of the moment, though, to say that this was the most sustained period of complaining about it as a media narrative.

That's right.

But necessity is the mother of invention.

Like it had become such a problem that it wasn't something he could go any longer without addressing because it was eating up the way that his sport is covered.

Like he, of course, the reason that, yes, you're right.

Leadership requires vision.

But I would say that very often leadership is faulty because things happen to you that you didn't have the vision on.

That's right.

And it collapsed on him in his lap.

But when you talk about some of the things we've been talking about when it comes to vision, we are sitting here laughing about AI.

And I don't know if you guys are covering or reading what The Ringer is doing.

They do some good stuff.