ITALKSPORTS Episode 27 - NBA All-Star Weekend
The discourse presented articulates a profound disappointment regarding the current state of the NBA All-Star Weekend, underscoring the disillusionment felt by a once-ardent supporter of the sport. We convey our sentiments with palpable fervor as we navigate the myriad shortcomings observed during this year's festivities, particularly addressing the perceived decline in competitive integrity and entertainment value. It is imperative to acknowledge that, while our frustrations are deeply rooted in passion for the sport, they also reflect an understanding of the broader implications for the business of basketball. The emergence of outdated formats, coupled with lackluster performances, has led to a troubling disconnect between the players and the audience, ultimately detracting from the celebratory essence of the All-Star experience. As we engage with these themes, we invite listeners to reflect on the necessity of reform, urging a return to a more authentic representation of athletic prowess that once defined this illustrious event.
An exploration of the evolving nature of the NBA All-Star Weekend reveals a palpable disillusionment among fans, particularly regarding the perceived decline in the quality of the event. As I articulated my frustrations, it became evident that the All-Star Game, once a vibrant showcase of talent and competitive spirit, has devolved into a lackluster exhibition that fails to engage both players and spectators alike. The introduction of a new format intended to inject excitement has instead led to confusion and a diluted experience. Through a critical lens, I examined the implications of this shift, recognizing that the essence of the All-Star Weekend is being compromised, much to the dismay of devoted fans who cherish the authenticity of the sport. The episode delves into the underlying factors contributing to this decline, including the players' approach to the event, the evolution of sports culture, and the overarching business interests that may overshadow the genuine passion for the game.
Throughout the discourse, I reflected on my own journey as a sports fan, expressing a sense of nostalgia for a time when the All-Star Game was a compelling celebration of athletic prowess. The current state, characterized by a cavalier attitude among players and a focus on individual accolades over team dynamics, has left me questioning the future of the event. My candid assessment of the dunk contest and the three-point shootout further underscores the disconnect between fan expectations and the reality presented by the league. As we navigate these changes, it is imperative for the NBA to reevaluate its priorities and strive for a return to the competitive spirit that originally defined the All-Star Weekend, lest it risk alienating a generation of fans who yearn for authenticity and excitement in their sporting experiences.
Takeaways:
- The transformation of the NBA All-Star weekend has led to a significant decline in quality, reflecting a broader disappointment in its execution.
- As a passionate fan, I express my frustrations regarding the lack of effort and intensity displayed by players during the All-Star game.
- The All-Star game format, while intended to innovate, has inadvertently reduced the viewing experience for fans who expect to see their favorite players perform.
- The reliance on social media highlights has diminished the allure of the dunk contest, as fans are now exposed to superior performances online.
- We must recognize the players' accountability in the decline of the All-Star weekend, as they often do not play with the intensity exhibited during regular season games.
- The need for a comprehensive reevaluation of the All-Star weekend format is imperative, ensuring that it meets the expectations of the fans who support the sport.
Transcript
I get to wear shades indoors now.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Not only are these lights too bright, but my future?
Speaker A:My future.
Speaker A:I used to play basketball in high school.
Speaker A:I wasn't even that great.
Speaker A:I wasn't even that good.
Speaker A:I was the fat kid on the team.
Speaker A:I was there for vibes and the coach liked me, and I was just always there in a professional basketball game.
Speaker A:At the end of the day, the all star game is a professional basketball game, right?
Speaker A:You're at work, and I don't know about you, but when I go to work, I make sure I perform to the best of my abilities.
Speaker A:Henry Ceudo should have stayed retired because ever since coming out of retirement, he hasn't won a single fight.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:Why would I try to watch these guys do dunks that were cool 10 years ago?
Speaker A:When I can open my phone and see some of the flyest dunks you'd see, some of them you'd think are physically impossible.
Speaker A:Have you seen the things these dudes are doing?
Speaker A:We need to work our way back up to having a proper All Star weekend.
Speaker A:However, those are just the thoughts of one man sitting in a chair in Joburg.
Speaker A:Tell me what you think.
Speaker A:Mic check 12.
Speaker A:What's good?
Speaker A:What's good?
Speaker A:What's good?
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's a new me.
Speaker A:It's a new me.
Speaker A:Who is this young man?
Speaker A:That's not Mukundi.
Speaker A:This is cool mukundi.
Speaker A:This is 25 year old Mukundi with a fully developed frontal lobe.
Speaker A:My boy.
Speaker A:I was 24 hours.
Speaker A:I was 24 years old when I started this podcast and now I'm a grown man.
Speaker A:I've seen some things.
Speaker A:I've been in the industry.
Speaker A:I am considered one of the pioneers and one of the goats.
Speaker A:And because of that, I get to wear shades indoors now, why?
Speaker A:Not only are these lights too bright, but my future, Duana.
Speaker A:My future.
Speaker A:But anyway, I feel too good, man.
Speaker A:I feel so good.
Speaker A:My birthday was on Friday.
Speaker A:So all y'all that tried to celebrate Valentine's Day, I had to take all your spotlight.
Speaker A:And with that, I feel no regrets.
Speaker A:But my birthday was on Friday.
Speaker A:Got.
Speaker A:I got lit.
Speaker A:Had a great time, man.
Speaker A:Turned 25 once again.
Speaker A:I woke up Saturday morning, my knee was like.
Speaker A:My boy, you're not as young as you used to it.
Speaker A:So next time I go play basketball, we'll see.
Speaker A:We'll see what happens.
Speaker A:However, he talks sports and his name is Mukundi.
Speaker A:Welcome.
Speaker A:I'm gonna actually be a human being.
Speaker A:All right, N.J.
Speaker A:what's good, bro.
Speaker B:I'm all right.
Speaker B:I'm all right.
Speaker B:For the rest of the season.
Speaker B:I'm not watching Chelsea.
Speaker B:We keep losing to teams.
Speaker B:We got Kappa three nil and we're.
Speaker A:Six on the log.
Speaker B:Where we were when we started, when we ended last season.
Speaker B:What is that like?
Speaker A:I man, who beat all three nil.
Speaker B:Brighton.
Speaker A:They look very united.
Speaker B:Not Brighton.
Speaker B:United.
Speaker B:Brighton is good.
Speaker B:It's a very good team.
Speaker A:There's two Brightons.
Speaker B:No, there's just Brighton.
Speaker A:Isn't it Brighton United?
Speaker B:It's Brighton Albion.
Speaker B:Yeah, they're very good.
Speaker B:That's a very good outfit.
Speaker B:But for us to get.
Speaker B:I'm done with Chelsea.
Speaker B:I'm out throwing him.
Speaker A:Thank you, Brighton.
Speaker A:Thank you, Chelsea, for losing three.
Speaker A:No, man, y'all ain't been the same since you lost Kremlin money.
Speaker A:Telling you, telling you.
Speaker A:But anyway, my dude, what is good with you?
Speaker A:Are you fine?
Speaker A:Just tell me down there.
Speaker A:I'm fine, Mukundi.
Speaker A:Are you?
Speaker A:Well, did you see the All Star break?
Speaker A:Yes, I did.
Speaker A:And how was it?
Speaker A:All Star weekend was fun.
Speaker A:But before we get there, shout out Batman, by the way, keeping me energized with my coffee.
Speaker A:All right, so I've been getting this question, why do you love sports so much?
Speaker A:Allow me to tell you.
Speaker A:The crazy thing is, I didn't even like sports.
Speaker A:I wasn't even into sports until I was maybe 18, 19.
Speaker A:The only sport I liked, not even loved, the only sport I liked was basketball.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because I used to play basketball in high school.
Speaker A:I wasn't even that great.
Speaker A:I wasn't even that good.
Speaker A:I was the fat kid on the team.
Speaker A:I was there for vibes.
Speaker A:And the coach liked me, and I was just always there.
Speaker A:And I had a great heart.
Speaker A:He liked my heart and my work ethic.
Speaker A:Never missed practice, never missed a game unless it was really important, like school or something like that.
Speaker A:Same thing goes with practice.
Speaker A:So my work ethic and all that and just my bubbly, bubbly personality got me to be one of the basketball players at school.
Speaker A:I couldn't even dunk.
Speaker A:Still can't.
Speaker A:But I digress.
Speaker A:What I'm saying is that was the only sport I liked.
Speaker A:That was the only sport I tolerated.
Speaker A:And then the older I got and the more I started realizing that there's more to sports than the actual sport.
Speaker A:I just fell in love, particularly with basketball, football and combat sports.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:These are all sports and mostly sports.
Speaker A:Where?
Speaker A:And it's the same with every sport, actually.
Speaker A:Sports teaches you to bet on yourself.
Speaker A:Sports teaches you that no one will do it unless you do it.
Speaker A:Sports teaches you that nobody can do it but you.
Speaker A:You're not scared of anything.
Speaker A:You're not scared of anyone.
Speaker A:If I got.
Speaker A:If I gotta win this game, that means I gotta put the ball through the hoop.
Speaker A:And if I gotta put the ball through the hoop, that means I gotta do it.
Speaker A:Nobody else will.
Speaker A:And how do I put the ball through the hoop?
Speaker A:I don't just do it at the game.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:Champions are not born, they're made.
Speaker A:I gotta go to practice.
Speaker A:Once again, that work ethic, right?
Speaker A:So there's a lot that sports does.
Speaker A:Builds discipline.
Speaker A:Much like the gym, you gotta be disciplined to go to practice every day, to take those free throws at the end of practice.
Speaker A:Practice every day before you get to go home because coach insists you got to make a free throw before you go home.
Speaker A:I didn't like doing that, but I understood I had to do it.
Speaker A:I had a job to do, and I got.
Speaker A:And I had to do it because no one else was going to do it.
Speaker A:If I didn't make that free throw, I was sleeping at the courts.
Speaker A:Same thing with life.
Speaker A:You got to pull up, dog.
Speaker A:You gotta pitch, and you gotta put in the work.
Speaker A:I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker A:There's days where I wake up and, well, especially when we're recording on Mondays.
Speaker A:Some Mondays, I'm just like, bro, I just want to go home and sleep and mind my business.
Speaker A:But if I don't record, who will?
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:That's the discipline that you got to take.
Speaker A:Same thing with the gym.
Speaker A:If you leave that bar right there where you left it, who's gonna move it?
Speaker A:No one.
Speaker A:And the crazy thing is, it doesn't even care that you moved it or you didn't move it.
Speaker A:But you will care if you moved it or you didn't move it.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:So that's why I love sports.
Speaker A:Because it teaches you to bet on yourself, it gives you discipline, and it's just pure entertainment.
Speaker A:Peak entertainment.
Speaker A:I see everything else it does.
Speaker A:The cultural and social aspects, bringing people together, uniting communities, and just bringing joy to people's faces.
Speaker A:But I want to look at the other aspect.
Speaker A:The fact that there's so much you get from sports.
Speaker A:Think about it.
Speaker A:For you to be the best player in the world, you have to believe that you're the best player in the world.
Speaker A:You have to believe that no one else can do what I do.
Speaker A:That is why I, Jayson Tatum, can go to the Boston Celtics and say, I want $300 million cash.
Speaker A:Because no one else can do what I do.
Speaker A:And that is why Jayson Tatum has $300 million.
Speaker A:Well, the contract, rather.
Speaker A:Because no one else can do what he does.
Speaker A:That's the beauty of sports.
Speaker A:As Meek Mill said, when you really got it f being humble.
Speaker A:That's exactly what Steph Curry said.
Speaker A:He said, when you really got it f being humble.
Speaker A:Because nobody can do what Steph Curry did.
Speaker A:That is why he was the All Star Game MVP last night.
Speaker A:See that segue?
Speaker A:See that segue.
Speaker A:Anyway, All Star Weekend was here, and it was fun.
Speaker A:It came and it went.
Speaker A:There were some high points.
Speaker A:There were some low points.
Speaker A:There was some great basketball.
Speaker A:There was some okay basketball.
Speaker A:And sometimes I was just like, what am I watching?
Speaker A:Okay, so we had the new All Star Game with a new All Star format, which was a mini tournament.
Speaker A:I still don't get it, but I'll get to that later.
Speaker A:I wanna bring it up.
Speaker A:I wanna raise it up before I bring it down.
Speaker A:Because I got negatives.
Speaker A:I got pros and cons for everything.
Speaker A:I got pros and cons for this whole thing.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:All Star Weekend was a solid 6 out of 10, if I'm being honest.
Speaker A:And the only thing on my mind now is how I don't have any sports to watch this week.
Speaker A:There's no basketball.
Speaker A:Cause it's All Star break.
Speaker A:There's no football until October.
Speaker A:Well, there's ufc, but that's only on Saturday.
Speaker A:You know damn well I'm not gonna watch soccer.
Speaker A:So it's gonna be a long week for me.
Speaker A:However, Chuck's OGs are your all Star Game winners with Stephen Waddell Curry being the All Star Game mvp.
Speaker A:That is very important because I was the hater that sat on this chair a week ago.
Speaker A:And I said, why does Chat does Shaq have a bunch of old dudes playing on his team?
Speaker A:How are they gonna run around again after all these other young studs?
Speaker A:Yeah, they.
Speaker A:They, they.
Speaker A:They.
Speaker A:They beat those young studs.
Speaker A:And it was okay basketball, man.
Speaker A:I'm not even gonna lie.
Speaker A:But I have my.
Speaker A:My worries about this new format.
Speaker A:Part of it being we.
Speaker A:And we won't get as much basketball as we'd want, right?
Speaker A:So let's let me give you an example with a player who was on Chuck's.
Speaker A:Who was on Kenny's Young Stars, right?
Speaker A:Anthony Edwards.
Speaker A:Well, Anthony Edwards didn't even play in that game.
Speaker A:Let's go with.
Speaker A:I don't know, man.
Speaker A:I'm too busy right now.
Speaker A:My mind is in the zone to just think of a name at the top of my head.
Speaker A:However, I'll give you Anthony Edwards as a great example.
Speaker A:Anthony Edwards was on Kenny's team.
Speaker A:Kenny's team was eliminated first.
Speaker A:And remember in these games you gotta get 40.
Speaker A:The first team to get to 40 wins the game.
Speaker A:Now Anthony Edwards was eliminated.
Speaker A:Their team was eliminated first.
Speaker A:Which means for the rest of the night if that game lasted 15 minutes just for them to get to 40, which I think is a stretch, could have even lasted 10 or shorter.
Speaker A:But if that's it, all you saw was 10 minutes.
Speaker A:Your favorite players on this team and you just saw your favorite player for 10 minutes as opposed to them going on and in and out the game in a normal 48 minute game.
Speaker A:Now you got 10 minutes of your favorite player.
Speaker A:And if their team is eliminated, that means goodbye, I'll see you in the season or next All Star break.
Speaker A:I don't like that it's All Star Weekend.
Speaker A:We here to see the stars.
Speaker A:Yeah sure they got to play more games but what's the use if my favorite player as the fan?
Speaker A:Because remember All Star weekend is all about the consumer.
Speaker A:All Star weekend is to appeal to the fan, is to give back to the fan.
Speaker A:Give the fans a fun game and a fun time watching basketball.
Speaker A:Now tell me if I'm not getting ripped off as a fan paying all this money because I know Anthony Edwards will be in the All Star game and Anthony Edwards plays for seven minutes and he's never to touch the court again because his team got eliminated.
Speaker A:Does that make sense?
Speaker A:I don't like it.
Speaker A:Do you like it?
Speaker A:Tell me this, what's gonna happen when this gets out of the way, when this gets boring?
Speaker A:The league just needs to find a permanent solution to this.
Speaker A:And I understand it's partly the players fault.
Speaker A:80% of this, of this is the players fault.
Speaker A:There was nothing wrong with the old format.
Speaker A:East and west.
Speaker A:If a basketball game with the 24 best players on the planet.
Speaker A:It's not like that anymore.
Speaker A:What we have now is a shootout.
Speaker A:We saw it last year, it was atrocious.
Speaker A:Did you watch the All Star game last year?
Speaker A:I thought it was shoot around.
Speaker A:I was waiting for the game to start.
Speaker A:Tell me why both teams scored a combined 400 points in an NBA game.
Speaker A:Was everyone just Luca Dontish that day?
Speaker A:No defense.
Speaker A:Come on man.
Speaker A:When I go to watch an exhibition game.
Speaker A:Sure the All Star game is an exhibition game but key word exhibition.
Speaker A:NJ has the definition of the word exhibition changed since the NBA started?
Speaker B:Exhibition hasn't changed since the word exhibition was implemented.
Speaker A:So it's an exhibit, right?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:You are showing you are showcasing NBA talent.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Would I be wrong in saying last year's All Star game was not a showcase?
Speaker B:It was a showcase, but not what we wanted.
Speaker B:It was a showcase of trash.
Speaker B:That's what it was.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker B:Love you, J.
Speaker B:Brown.
Speaker A:No, no, no, no.
Speaker A:I'll turn.
Speaker A:Damn.
Speaker A:Damn.
Speaker A:What was I saying exactly?
Speaker A:Last year's All Star game was atrocious.
Speaker A:And it's not just the game.
Speaker A:The players didn't play any defense.
Speaker A:The players didn't put in any effort.
Speaker A:And that is why they trying to spice things up.
Speaker A:All you got to do is incentivize these players and they will be good.
Speaker A:But I don't know what more they want.
Speaker A:I don't think we asking for much.
Speaker A:As Stephen A.
Speaker A:Says, all I need you is to play with as much intensity that you play with during the off season, not during the regular season.
Speaker A:Your practice intensity, just bring that to All Star weekend.
Speaker A:Because we can't have dudes wide open in a professional basketball game.
Speaker A:At the end of the day, the All Star game is a professional basketball game, right?
Speaker A:You're at work and I don't know about you, but when I go to work, I make sure I perform to the best of my abilities.
Speaker A:The players don't do that anymore.
Speaker A:They don't even care.
Speaker A:That's why this is happening.
Speaker A:That's why.
Speaker A:That's why the dunk contest is a mess.
Speaker A:Man, I hate that white boy.
Speaker A:Mack McClunk shout out to him.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:He 3 Peter as the slam dunk cheers champion.
Speaker A:This dude is not even in the league.
Speaker A:He's in the G League, bruh.
Speaker A:They call him up.
Speaker A:I swear to God the season calls him up every season to come do the dunk contest because they know he will just dog walk everybody.
Speaker A:And guess what he did.
Speaker A:He dog walked everybody.
Speaker A:Think about this for a minute.
Speaker A:Think about this.
Speaker A:In the NBA, the National Basketball Association, All Star break.
Speaker A:All star break is what for the all stars and the rising stars, right?
Speaker A:The NBA has to go all the way across the river to the G League and get Mac McClung, a G Leaguer and a white man to come and jump higher than black men.
Speaker A:Professional athletes, NBA players.
Speaker A:Why hasn't John Moran been in the dunk contest?
Speaker A:Anthony Edwards Giannis.
Speaker A:For 22 years we've been begging LeBron James to to do the dunk contest.
Speaker A:And now he's too old to even do the dunk contest.
Speaker A:The dunk contest is a mess.
Speaker A:And it's a bit of.
Speaker A:It's two sides of a bad coin.
Speaker A:I'll tell you why.
Speaker A:The NBA has professional athletes, and they are going to do their job.
Speaker A:They're gonna come in and dunk.
Speaker A:However, see this thing right here?
Speaker A:This has ruined the dunk contest.
Speaker A:Cell phones, social media have ruined the dunk contest.
Speaker A:Because I could tune into All Star Weekend and watch Jaylen Brown try to do the best dunk of his career and end it off by dabbing and think, oh, wow, he made that look cool.
Speaker A:Open my phone.
Speaker A:I see Jordan kill gannon do a360 East Bay.
Speaker A:And I'm like, okay, okay.
Speaker A:There's levels to this.
Speaker A:So that's the problem.
Speaker A:The fans were spoiled for choice.
Speaker A:We spoiled for choice.
Speaker A:Why would I take 30 minutes of my time watching these guys try to do dunks that were cool 10 years ago and that's it?
Speaker A:Why would I do that?
Speaker A:Why would I try to watch these guys do dunks that were cool 10 years ago when I can open my phone and see some of the flyest dunks you'd see?
Speaker A:Some of them you'd think are physically impossible.
Speaker A:Have you seen the things these dudes are doing?
Speaker A:So that's how bad the dunk contest has gotten.
Speaker A:The league has to go get Mac McClung every year.
Speaker A:Every year, he comes up like the Undertaker in WWE.
Speaker A:Oh, it's WrestleMania.
Speaker A:Boom.
Speaker A:Then he's gone.
Speaker A:Same thing.
Speaker A:Mac McClung.
Speaker A:Have you ever seen a Mac McClung highlight?
Speaker A:Did you even know his name?
Speaker A:Can you even spell McClung?
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:So that's my biggest problem.
Speaker A:I met at the Skillz contest.
Speaker A:The three point competition was actually so entertaining.
Speaker A:The three Point Shootout is the one aspect of All Star Weekend that has not managed to fall off.
Speaker A:And for that, I thank all of our shooters.
Speaker A:Damian Lillard tried to get the three Pete.
Speaker A:Couldn't do it Championships just to loot this guy.
Speaker A:Even useless ones.
Speaker A:Hey, no mid season tournament.
Speaker A:Hey, in season tournament.
Speaker A:Okay, so that's it, man.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I talked All Star Weekend all episode.
Speaker A:I was gonna talk ufc, but.
Speaker A:Because I think you should.
Speaker A:It's important for you to know Jared Cannonier is back in the win column.
Speaker A: His first win since: Speaker A:And Henry Cejudo is fighting again this weekend.
Speaker A:Henry Cejudo should have stayed retired because ever since coming out of retirement, he hasn't won a single fight.
Speaker A:But then again, he's lost to Aljo and Merab Dwalishvidly.
Speaker A:You know how I feel about both of those, so I'm not even going to talk much about it anyway.
Speaker A:Yeah, so the NBA All Star weekend was a six.
Speaker A:The dunk contest is trash and they need to do something about it.
Speaker A:I don't like the new format of the game and they definitely need to do something about it.
Speaker A:I can't really hate on the league.
Speaker A:I'm blaming the players.
Speaker A:The league is just trying to do their best to actually improve the situation and the players are the ones that need to take accountability and accept that we may have ruined All Star Weekend and we need to work our way back up to having a proper All Star weekend.
Speaker A:However, those are just the thoughts of one man sitting in a chair in Joburg.
Speaker A:Tell me what you think, N.J.
Speaker A:what you got for me, bro?
Speaker A:How you like my cup, by the way?
Speaker B:I don't know why you thought it was okay to take my cup, but it's okay so.
Speaker A:Because I'm Batman.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:So I think the NBA should just go and speak to Chelsea FC on how to be a worse of an atrocity like bro, I don't know which is worse.
Speaker B:I don't know which is worse.
Speaker B:Do you think Let me take these off.
Speaker B:It's your show.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:I just hit record.
Speaker B:Do you think that the fact that the players have to do so little work to get these insanely high contracts, 30mil, 50mil, 100mil, 150mil before they even prove anything, has that led to the decline in the quality of the NBA and the quality of the All Star game?
Speaker B:Do you think that that's the case because in Jordan's day, that you prove that they worth the money before they got the money.
Speaker B:Now you get the money before.
Speaker B:Look at Zion.
Speaker B:I don't know what he's done, but he's like earning a lot of money.
Speaker B:And all these NBA players earn more than the goat of tennis Novak Djokovic has earned in his entire career.
Speaker B:And they do that in one year.
Speaker A:So do you think that makes a lot of money?
Speaker A:It's not therefore the league makes a lot of money.
Speaker B:I'm just showing perspective here.
Speaker B:So do you think that the players getting so much money so easily has led to the decline in like what we're seeing with the NBA All Star weekend?
Speaker A:I wouldn't say easily because for you to get 30 mil you still got to put in the work and actually prove yourself as a great player to get 30 mil.
Speaker A:But I think I get what you say you it's a lot easier now.
Speaker A:And I think them not being incentivized at all.
Speaker A:Star break.
Speaker A:I think that's them.
Speaker A:And with also the rise of injuries in among the league because players bodies are going through the most now.
Speaker A:Back in the day when you came in the league, you had maybe started playing basketball since high school and you went through a year of varsity or whatever and then you're in the league.
Speaker A:By the time players get to the league now, they've been playing basketball since they were like 10 years old.
Speaker A:AAU, Little League, all that.
Speaker A:The wear and tear on your body is so crazy that by the time you're in your fifth season, God help you if you're not injury ridden.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:And with that players have dialed it back in terms of intensity.
Speaker A:I think the problem is just the intensity that they play with now.
Speaker A:They try not to hurt each other and not to hurt themselves.
Speaker A:However they hurt the product.
Speaker A:That's my chat.
Speaker B:We need Simon to ask them that question.
Speaker A:That's right, because they soft it's off dog.
Speaker A:I anyway from me and my Batman mug episode 27 in the books done dusted and tell me what you think.
Speaker A:Tell me if I'm tripping.
Speaker A:Tell me if I'm being a hater because at some points I do be a hater but my hate is usually justified.
Speaker A:So tell me if I'm being a hater.
Speaker A:Tell me if you think my new Batman cup is cool.
Speaker A:Tell me if you think 25 year old Mukundi is cool.
Speaker A:I know he is but you know cuz he has shades on indoors.
Speaker A:But just keep the love, spread the love and watch.
Speaker A:Watch more sports.
Speaker A:Kiss your mother and as always, enjoy the violence.
Speaker B:Don't finally.
