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witnessing is Adam Silver's
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NBA under David Stern stern
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was absolutely locked
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stars big markets big ratings that's
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what he believed stars stars stars if
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you were going to get big ratings you
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needed stars stars stars and under David
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Stern Bird Versus Magic became the thing
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ultimately you had Michael Jordan become
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the thing under David Stern you had the
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neverending quest for the next superstar
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you had Shaq and Kobe and you had I
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manipulations that David Stern kind of
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willfully watched happen or did himself
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to make sure that the stars were at the
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big teams in the big markets so that the
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league was propped up he was all about
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stars adam Silver now has an Oklahoma
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City Thunder and an Indiana Pacers in
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this is the parody that I think Adam
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sought love it or hate it I think this
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is what Silver wants and I believe that
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Adam Silver has looked at the
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NFL and said "Let's keep trying to copy
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that let's keep trying to copy that."
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You know the NFL has done great because
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you wake up on September 1st and
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everybody around the NFL says "Hey you
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know you look at the schedule you win a
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game here or there we might be a wild
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card this year." Can eight n get a wild
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card spot and you start turning yourself
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into you know with that if that works
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that 10 and seven we can win the
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division at 10 and seven then we have a
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whole playoff game and who knows
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everybody around the NFL by and large
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wakes up and says there's a path for us
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to have a great season
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NBA it was a third of the league woke up
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on Halloween and said "I think we can
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have a great season." A third of the
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league and then let's face it it became
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even less than that five or six teams
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this year yeah the Thunder was a 68 win
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team but look where the Thunder was just
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a couple of years ago one of the worst
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teams in basketball the Pacers a four
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seed and this is your NBA Finals small
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markets not huge star power hallebertton
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versus SGA will be notable for
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basketball fans but non- basketball fans
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how many people will know Shay Gilis
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Alexander and Tyrus Hallebertton not
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many this will not move the meter on a
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national level unless it gets to a game
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six and a game seven unless there are
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some monster performances and if
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Oklahoma City does what Vegas thinks
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then it's not going to get to six or
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seven but this NBA is Adam Silver's NBA
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and just note I was surprised and look
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maybe I'm I've got a maybe I've got a
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dot or two of conspiracy theory when it
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comes to the NBA etched in my brain
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because of so many other things tim
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Donnagy frozen envelopes the Chris Paul
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trade that never happened all that type
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of stuff but the referees never tried to
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rob the Pacers of this series and under
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David Stern did it not always feel like
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you could look at that and go "Well
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there's going to be a makeup call there
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well they're getting this thing back to
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New York for game seven well the the
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Patriots will have to beat both the
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Knicks and the refs." I never felt like
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the Knicks were getting the the huge
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benefit of the doubt in fact sometimes
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it felt like they were getting the raw
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and even though the Mavs somehow won the
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lottery the Pacers and Thunder are in
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the NBA finals and there was
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no referee funny business so that's
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something also Adam Silver's NBA here's
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what you're going to look at next year
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in terms of finding the NBA
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Peacock tuesday nights on
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NBC wednesday nights on
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ESPN thursday nights on Amazon got it
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friday on ESPN and Amazon saturday ESPN
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sunday NBC at night and ESPN and ABC in
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the afternoons it's scattered it's all
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over the place but Adam Silver wanted to
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put things on digital on streaming
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and didn't mind spreading the wealth
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instead of just having TNT and ESPN he
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said "Let's give it to a million
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different parties." I don't think that's
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great but it's Adam Silver's NBA and
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because he just got that TV contract
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done and now he washes his hands and got
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all the money i think you know it's like
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hey and now we sell parody now we sell
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all teams have a chance and we sell
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middle markets and small markets can
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Giannis middle markets and small markets
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can hold on to their stars they can sign
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and resign and it's look the Celtics are
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the ones in the double apron oh my god
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what are they going to do they got to
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blow it up that's what Adam Silver has
