Wosny Lambre
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807 appearances
10 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Jun
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We need to let go of that as even a concept or an idea. Americans love football more than they do basketball. And that's okay. A lot more. A lot more. And that's okay. I just think it's about... One, the Giannis and Shay thing, and I've talked about this on group chat. I think David Stern's dream of these hyper-corporatized, you know, focus group to death athletes.
You know, they don't get busted for weed. They don't scare corporate America. They are the perfect corporate automatons. But guess what? People are not attracted to that. They're not compelling figures. Even Nike and Giannis, like selling Giannis as this cute, cuddly teddy bear, that's just a mistake. Nobody knows a single thing about Shea Gildress Alexander except that he wears funny clothes.
That's it. Nobody knows anything about these guys.
Yeah, look, I agree with you on the Netflix front. Look, sorry, Bill, but Jason Tatum went on that damn show and said he loves his mom, he loves his son.
I mean, that was just misery in terms of selling this product and being like, these are compelling guys, interesting people, great athletes. This man went up there and said he loves his mom, his son, and he hoops really hard. Like, It's just not going to work. And, you know, again, and I'll say this again, their most popular young guy was who? Ja Morant. Right, yeah, we talked about all this.
And bottom line is Nike and them did not get their hooks into him and turn him into a corporate product since he was 12 years old like they have the rest of these guys. These dudes are so anodyne. They don't say or do or look – Nothing is interesting about these guys. I enjoy watching them hoop. As people, I'm completely uninspired. There's just nothing there.
And, you know, again, the guys who are willing to be a little bit out there and different don't comport with how the league sees itself. Like how's this guy Kyle Kuzma? Hey, Kyle Kuzma is willing to say stuff in public. That's what I like that about Kuzma. He's willing to say shit. These other guys, like, I don't know, man. They're just so afraid. There's too much money at stake. Any backlash.
Yeah. They don't want to jeopardize it.
Yeah, the thing about more cup games, it will make it so that it makes it easier for the best teams to actually play in the further rounds to actually advance. And so you probably wouldn't get an Atlanta in there, although I love watching Atlanta.
Hey, that's fair. And yeah, again, I do think... you know, fixing the window that they put it in. But to me, it's like, it's a promotion issue. Like Adam Silver needs to get his Don King hat on. Like this guy's just not a promoter. He does not know. They just don't know. And maybe it's the networks. I don't know. You know what I mean? They don't know how to eventize these products.
And that to me is the main issue. People don't see these things as essential viewing. They know the season is 82 games long. They know that effectively a loss in January is just like ho-hum. Who cares? Every single game doesn't matter. And the league just needs to be better, more effective at promoting their product, getting people to feel like this is essential.
Because the idea that people aren't interested in the NBA, I think, is BS. I think plenty of people are still interested. Obviously, like the highlights, the recaps, they do numbers online. People still want to know about the results and all of that stuff. It's just the NBA needs to impress upon people that these games are worthy of their time, worthy of their commitment.
I kind of do at this point. He's got a Dyson Daniels bedspread. So I'm also like a bit of a radical thinker on the schedule and stuff. One, I think, I don't even think 70 is enough of a cut. I think it should be literally round robin. You play each team one time at home, one time away, two times a week. So like 60.
That's it. One in one.
And that's the point. All of these owners who were told are the most visionary business people ever because they ran some hedge fund, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They can't figure out how...
this extra shortfall in money that they got from this big, big ass 11 year contract from all of these networks, as house mentioned, how reducing inventory and making it more scarce, they can't figure out a way to monetize that. I find that to be just, just baffling. It does.
And also I'm a bit radical on league pads. I think we should abolish it.
I haven't heard this. Look, if you have to watch the NBA for work, if people say, oh, that's self-serving for you, Woz, whatever. I'm just saying, if people have to watch it for work, all right, we'll give you League Pass. If you want access to it, we're charging you a crazy premium, which to me, that means like whenever people want to watch the NBA, they got to watch it with the league's partners.
I like I don't see what's so bad about that as an idea, because, again, I grew up in a context of no league pass and was completely fine with Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and NBA on NBC. Like, I don't know.
Yeah, you get your own team in your market. Yeah, just like how the Jets and Giants got forced down my throat when I was living in New York.
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