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And it's a scary time, no doubt.

I mean, the dialogue around this, it's going political.

I mean, cable news is a wasteland right now.

I think everybody had the same pit in their stomach.

And some progressives had a pit in their stomach for different reasons.

Conservatives.

This guy represented a movement.

for some people.

This one's connecting more with people, I guess, because of the video that is inescapable.

I know people, I'm very close to people.

I know I'm very close to people that have tried to avoid this video and they open up IG and it's the first video that they see.

Yeah, it's inescapable.

And the pit in my stomach isn't just for the person, his family, but also knowing what was going to follow, knowing the toxicity around it, knowing that it's only going to further division, knowing that it's going to be used because he is going to be made into a martyr already.

This is definitely a test for Adam Silver.

In this episode, we learned that at the Board of Governors meeting that they had,

You didn't mention this in front of the Board of Governors and it led to side conversations.

Here's an interesting bit of circumstantial evidence.

We all know this is hard to parse because Kawhi Leonard is so often injured.

But the game logs from that season are pretty damning.

Because before he received the alleged payment, he only played in 7 of 27 games.