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00:03 - But first with the format
00:04 and the in-season tournament at large,
00:06 are you a fan of what the NBA is rolling out?
00:09 - It's funny, you know, our backcourt mate, Kevin Walsh,
00:14 basically was all for it.
00:16 I hated it.
00:17 And then I started hearing the details.
00:20 I said, you know what?
00:21 This ain't half bad.
00:23 Here's why.
00:24 If you think about the NBA, folks, you always hear this.
00:27 The unofficial start of the NBA season is Christmas day.
00:31 Now that the NBA in-season tournament
00:34 ends on the 11th of December,
00:35 ready folks, you have brought intrigue
00:39 to the NBA from Jump Street.
00:41 Number two, when are the games being played for this?
00:45 Tuesday, Friday nights.
00:47 Why is that smart?
00:48 Number one, ESPN, their best broadcast partner,
00:51 has the rights to the best games.
00:54 Number two, we're not dealing with football.
00:58 You're not dealing with Monday night.
00:59 Wednesday night's kind of a weird night to me
01:01 because what are you playing the next night?
01:03 You're not gonna play it on Saturday, college football.
01:06 Sunday, NFL.
01:07 So even you look at the structure,
01:09 but when they selected when to play the games
01:11 with the ESPN partnership,
01:13 they picked the two nights of the week
01:16 that have the least amount of talk for football.
01:19 And that makes sense.
01:21 So smartly done by the NBA.
01:24 I'm a big fan.
01:25 I love the 500K per player.
01:28 I honestly wish, why don't you just say to the team,
01:31 you get 7 1/2 million, you split it any way you want.
01:34 I don't care if Phoenix wins.
01:36 If they win, but I don't need Bradley Beal,
01:39 DeAndre Ayton, Kevin Durant, and Devin Booker
01:43 taking a half million dollars each.
01:44 Give the guys that went there on vet minimums
01:47 and the second round draft the guys,
01:49 give them a little bit bigger share of the pie.
01:53 But what if it's because KD, D Book, and Beal
01:55 led them to that NBA in-season tournament victory?
01:59 I will just say this, JY, as you get later into November,
02:02 Tuesday night, important in football,
02:04 college football, it's matchin'.
02:06 Just wanted to make that distinction and clarification here.
02:09 But JY, let me ask you something here.
02:11 Do you believe from a coaching perspective,
02:13 this is going to change strategy?
02:15 This is going to change mentality for teams,
02:19 what they roll out,
02:20 and their incentive to play regular season games?
02:24 - Here's a funny thing, Ben.
02:26 If a team has back-to-back games,
02:29 you're going to see them play mostly the game
02:33 that has this into it, the in-season tournament.
02:36 You'll see them play that game, miss the other game.
02:40 But Ben, more than anything else in the NBA,
02:43 more than anything, including the in-season tournament,
02:46 the number you keep wanting to remember is 65.
02:51 Those are the number of games you must play
02:54 to qualify for in-season awards,
02:57 which also means getting max and super max contracts.
03:02 You will see guys play more often
03:05 because at the end of the day,
03:06 I know I said they shouldn't get that half a million dollars,
03:09 but Ben, you know it all, and I know it.
03:11 When it comes down to that check,
03:13 brother's going to be showing up to play.
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03:18 (bells chiming)