Inside the NBA Reacts to Mavericks Being Fined $750k by NBA

Let me ask you about this news today from the NBA about the Dallas Mavericks who were

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750 thousand dollars by the league for what they did during the last weekend of the season when they sat down, they all played Luka Doncic a quarter in a game against Chicago. because they still had a chance to make the playoffs yeah they still had a chance to play yeah first of all I thought the fine was the reason they got

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they were stupid and talked about it that's why they fined them in the NBA editorial office. They demonstrated the organization's desire to lose the game to improve their chances of keeping their first round pick and listen, they just told people what they were doing, that's the stupid part, so the NBA had to do something, but while I have been an NBA team that has collapsed.

Teenagers have always broken down. My problem with the whole system has been that we reward losing and give you extra ping pong balls. I have always said this and this is my opinion. The way to solve it you get a ball. If you are in the lottery, then these teams you go back and watch. I've seen a lot of trash basketball in the last three or four weeks, teams saying we need more ping pong balls because that's really the only way to do it. improve, especially if you're a small market, but I always said the NBA could fix that.

Hey, we're not going to give you extra ping pong balls to keep you losing the last month of the season, or even the last three because it means it's weighted so that the last three have an equal chance. I think there are pros and cons. I understand your point of view. You are saying that you are basically rewarding bad management and bad coaching and you are going to send one of the best players in the amateur ranks to them, which will not be beneficial even for that player, however, that is the only way that sometimes you can improve, that's the only way you can improve through momentum for everyone, so yes If there are eight teams that have the same opportunities as you and you are a bad team, yes, but do you think they should give you extra ping pong balls because have you seen some of these scores?

I think it should be given the same weight as Lo is, but I think it should be weighted, yeah, uh, it was just Joe Dumar saying that by the way, the Mavericks' actions failed our fans and our league, it was just obvious that it didn't. They had the confidence to want to play in the play. game or even if they played the game consistently enough to make the playoffs, then they did what they had to do, some call it a tank, some call it a manager, but I've seen it before and like Chuck said, they talked about it and you know that was the stupid part because remembering his chest, not the Checkers, should we try to play the game and get the air conditioning and get swept by Denver or just relax our guys and figure it out?

I had to talk about that, yes. Yeah no they did it because other S doesn't mean the reason they had to talk about it is because it put Jason Kidd in a very precarious position. They did it for sure after the game and he's like, What are you doing? You know you're not playing. You've got it, listen, we've got Luca Dantage and Kyrie Irving and you've got a chance to be in the playoffs. Those two guys play. You get to start playing, but hey, I agree, I agree, no, that's not what they did. Shaq. I agree with what the math did if they win that game that Bazinga pick goes to the Knicks and now they will get a top 10 pick most likely they will get lucky they might end up with the Yama woman so they had to make a decision.

Do we want to make the playoffs and lose or do we want to do it because Porzingis picketing was so long ago but as a player would you want to do it if you're a player and you still have a chance to be involved in that play? and then maybe make the playoffs you're trying to tell me you'd be fine with that. I think it's different between a player and an organization. The organization has to do what is best for the organization. Do we want to go to the playoffs? playoffs and lose in the first round or we want to have a player in the top 10.

I think there is a big difference between a player and an organization. I have a question, of course, when you built this team when you have Luka, Doncic, Kyrie Irving, Christian Woods. and so on, Hardaway, you didn't think you could make the playoffs with that team, well, I didn't do well, you don't think that team could make one of the best plays, not one of the 10 best teams in basketball, we. we had in the west we had this conversation not when you built it no Kenny so now but then you should have sunk then you can't say no because they thought it was make a deal and get Kyrie Irving and then say and we don't have him again no can you do it wait a second okay because that didn't work it didn't work we didn't say it didn't work thank you that's the point I was going to make it didn't come down to that one game they were already really out of it the last three like two weeks when they were raiding the joint, but you asked us on this show that you don't want to lose that election, you don't want them, you don't want to waste time playing, so your solution is that everyone should get the same number of balls, so now, the way it works, if they keep giving you extra balls for losing and you saw some of those extra percentages, it's It's not really a ping pong ball, yeah, yeah, so I don't think it's like listen, they don't have anything and what kind of balls those are those.

I'll tell you something if you drop ping-pong balls. on my hip, okay, what do you mean, honey, 'cause he's been repeating himself, wait, but you had to know before the show, bro, unless there's always a supply of ping pong balls up there to her, I just hate y'all, I hate y'all, man, listen. You got more ping pong balls in my diet coke right after this. I hate you all because