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Welcome into the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast.
I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson.
I am so excited to be with you on this Wednesday morning again and enter the release show.
We don't get too many of these in a year, but I feel like this year we get a lot of
them.
I don't know, I don't know.
I feel like things are working out in our favor.
We're getting another Insta release show, recording this on Wednesday morning right
after 9 o'clock Central Time.
And I'm excited to be with you guys.
A little bit of personal news from me, I'm gonna be a little slow on the news, maybe
just a little bit, as I'm going to the Glacier Clinic in Las Vegas, one of the bigger coaching
clinics in the country.
The Glacier Clinics do a tour.
They go around the country.
It just happened that it worked out well for me with timing-wise.
So I'll be at the clinic, the Glacier Clinic, because you guys have been watching, listening
to the show and listening for years now.
I'm a defensive coordinator.
I'm a coach, football coach.
So it is huge to be able to go to this clinic.
They're partnering with the Raiders.
I'm gonna be in sessions wall to wall while I'm there.
So the news could be a little slow, but I'll definitely give you guys an update on the
clinic whenever I get back and record the next show after the clinic.
So that'll be dope.
But happy Wednesday to you all.
Happy hump day.
You've officially made it half way through the week.
So for those of you on the job right now, hey man, you are halfway through.
By the time you hear this, you'll be over halfway through.
So kudos to you guys for working it out.
But I always, I like to do this show.
I try to do it every year.
I call it my welcome to the NBA show.
Football season's over.
We're gonna do the instant reaction with the Super Bowl.
And then we have All-Star Break.
Now usually All-Star Break is not, it feels like All-Star Break was really close to the
Super Bowl this year.
Normally it feels like All-Star is like right around Mardi Gras.
It kind of gives like two, maybe two and a half-ish weeks between Super Bowl and All-Star
Break.
Kind of gives fans a chance if you're a dual fan, but like myself, if you like football
more, it kind of gives you an opportunity to say, okay, basketball season, I'm gonna
watch a couple of games, kind of get familiar with what's going on.
And then you go into All-Star.
And then kind of that's, you know, to me there's like Daytona 500 is like the Super Bowl for
NASCAR.
It's like their biggest race at the beginning.
But then there's the Indy 500.
It's kind of like the official game.
Now we're roaring towards what matters.
So what All-Star Break is to me, Christmas Day to me is the unofficially started basketball
season.
Yes, I get it.
It starts around Halloween or whatever.
To me, Christmas Day is your unofficially started basketball season.
And then All-Star Break is the, okay, now let's wake up.
Let's regroup.
Let's reevaluate.
And then roar towards the playoffs.
But we have just came out of All-Star weekend.
Again, even though it felt really soon, we came out of All-Star weekend and it was a lot
of discourse.
That's what I want to talk about first.
And we're going to get into the standings and kind of outlook on the rest of the season.
But I want to get into All-Star weekend first.
There was a lot of discourse and a lot of discontentment about the All-Star game.
I'm one of the people who criticized it too.
Friday night was cool.
The Rising Stars game, I don't mean to sound harsh, but it doesn't matter.
So like Skip Bayless was tweeting about the celebrity game.
Who cares?
Right?
Like it's not the year of like, you know, Kevin Hart playing so a lot of eyes are on
it or when Monet Davis played fresh off the Lillie World Series, a lot of eyes were on
it.
You know, a lot of eyes were on the Monet Davis one.
Again, Kevin Hart was in that one too.
Justin Bieber was in it.
Terrell Owens was flying around.
Usain Bolt was in it.
A lot of WNBA stars were in it.
We had like a US congressman in it one time.
That was pretty dope.
So again, we've had pretty amazing celebrity games, but it's a celebrity game, right?
And then Friday night is these, so Thursday night is a celebrity game.
Friday night you have the Rising Stars game, Rookie versus Sophomores, USA versus the World,
whatever.
But it's the first two to three years of NBA service.
You can be in the Rising Stars game, right?
And they've done all kinds of stuff, they did, you know, it's working for Sophomores,
was it forever?
And then it went USA versus the World.
And then it went to like this like the weird tournament style thing.
Like they've been trying stuff for years to make the Rising Stars game exciting.
There's not a lot of rookies to get me excited.
For instance, the Rising Stars game one year had Ja, Luka, Zion, Trey, I think was in it.
Like that was a fun one.
But like the rookies this year, let's be honest, I mean, they're not good.
Like y'all connect's probably the best one, right?
They're not very good.
And no disrespect to Zachary, he's a share.
Alex, I hadn't heard anything about Alex Arall all season.
And you know, but next year should be fun.
You have Cooper Flagg in the game.
You'll have Ace Bailey.
You'll have some of those stars.
So you'll have some guys in the game.
I know the guy was probably fun too, but you have some guys in the game that'll make kind
of fun, right?
But ultimately no one cares.
Saturday night is what Saturday night is.
It's three point contest, which is always dope.
And then the slam dunk, which we'll talk about Macklemore in a minute.
Sunday night is supposed to be the showcase of the Immorals.
A la WrestleMania, a la like I said, Daytona 500 or Indy 500 really.
Indy 500 was like the, it's the Brickyard 500.
Like it is what it is.
You go over literally roll the bricks to the finish line.
Like it's the Brickyard 500.
You have, you know what I'm saying?
The rest of you got WrestleMania.
You have what all these things, but whatever it is, it ends.
It is the showcase game in a way for the, for the NBA.
And what happened in this, in August, it was weird.
A couple of weeks ago, a few weeks ago, maybe a month ago, I was in Wingstop getting some
food and I happened to look up and they were showing like a 1970 something all star game.
Like Bill Walton was on the floor.
Like I just, I just happened to look up and see it.
And it was on NBA, the TV happened to be NBA class or whatever.
And I was watching it and I was in Wingstop for a few minutes.
I was watching it and it looked like a basketball game.
Obviously they weren't hacking.
They weren't hard filing.
If somebody drove past somebody, they weren't really coming over for help side defense crazily.
They were trying to block it, but they weren't, you know, bring them to the floor and you
know, if a fast break happened, they might try to stop the power, tip the past.
But once it got to the ground, they let it go.
So it was clearly a relaxed basketball game, but it was basketball.
It was mid range jump shots.
I mean, it was seventies and eighties too, but it was mid range jump shots, post ups.
It was real at the room defense.
People were driving and people were going to try to block it.
Like it was real.
These things look like a basketball game.
And I noted to myself, man, that looks like a basketball game.
You know, and just, you know, cause last year it was like two 11 to 186.
Somebody that in the All-Star game, right?
A team scored 186 points and lost by more than 20, 25 points.
Like that's insane.
Right?
But watching that over, I was like, man, that looks like a basketball game.
And so I remember they talk about the All-Star game, the nineties, people were going at
each other.
A lot of personal beasts were being settled, but people going at each other.
I mean, think about the eighties.
I mean, it was, you may have three or four Lakers and three or four Selgers on the All-Star
team and then Jordan and then, you know, bad boy Pistons were involved.
And remember they famously iced Jordan out of the All-Star game, wouldn't pass on the
ball early in his career.
And all people said, set up for what Jordan did later.
We kind of kept that chip on his shoulder forever.
They iced me out.
They asked me out.
You get into the nineties.
They were usually Jordan Dunk Fest.
However, you had people trying to show, Hey, this is our chance.
Early two thousands, there's the famous Allen Iverson, the famous ending where they were
going at each other down the stretch.
2010, 2011, you get Kobe versus LeBron.
I mean, remember at one point they were playing the All-Star game in football stadiums.
Remember like Kevin Durant's first All-Star game was in Jerry World because Dallas was
just Jerry was showing off the stadium anyway he could.
So they played the All-Star game in Jerry Ward and had like 60,000 people in the building
to watch an All-Star game.
And they were pretty much going at it that night.
Terrible shooting because in the basketball arena, but it was some big time moments.
And then you had just the last six or seven years with the All-Star game was a three point
contest and a dunk show.
Right?
Like, I mean, and then it coupled with Saturday night was bad.
So you had bad Saturday night coupled with, you know, people were making jokes.
There's better dunks in the game than they're on the same dunk contest.
And the dunks in the game were wide open walking dunks.
I mean, it was, I remember it might have been last year before that.
Steph and Dame start going half court shot for half court shot.
And one or two were fine.
Like Steph and Dame, right?
Like at a certain point, can't help myself.
I'ma shoot it.
Like Steph did last night or a couple, few nights ago.
You know, they were up eight or whatever and he just said, screw it and shot a bomb and
it went in.
And places in San Francisco.
He was in the Bay.
So you get, you got to a point where it was early, like for like three or four minutes,
three players on either side kind of walked up and down the court and it was, it was just
horrible, horrible basketball.
Right?
And so the NBA tried this new thing this year where they basically made it.
Horizon stars had a tournament, the pros had a tournament.
So they drafted 12 players on each side as an honor to TNT.
Shaq, Kenny and Chuck picked their squads.
Shaq did win with the OGs.
Kenny ended up with the international players.
And then Chuck ended up with the young stars, the rising stars, basically.
Not the rising stars, like the new generation.
And then the rising stars team had a tournament.
The rising stars teams had a tournament.
The four team, the four team six player tournament, whatever, to go into who they were, whoever
wins that tournament, we'll play on Sunday night against the OGs.
I think in the drawing them, but the rising stars game, Draymond and many others were
pissed, especially players.
The rising stars are not all stars.
They have no business playing on Sunday night.
And I agree with them.
Draymond had one of the better analogies I've ever heard in my life.
Draymond was like, they don't deserve to be on the all star floor.
And yes, from the time the rising stars game wasn't even played in the all star arena,
but from the time it is all stars Saturday night, or Friday night with the rising stars
game, all star Friday night, you're on the all star floor.
It says all star all over the floor.
You're in the all star arena.
The crowd's there or whatever.
They was somewhat similar to Air Force One.
He said, there's more than one of those planes, but it's not Air Force One.
Let's present it on it.
That floor is an all star floor until the all stars are on it, until the best players
in the world are on it.
So he was he was frustrated because he was like, man, you're basically he was saying
like, okay, first of all, the format's stupid, which I agree for you basically.
So you're playing games to 40 in an attempt to make the players play harder because the
game is shorter.
To me, the issue is not length of game.
I think style of game and reward style of game and benefit is what could really change
this game.
For instance, so I think the style of game, I think three time quarter, I think feeble
style three time quarters, 10 minutes a quarter.
It's all a game.
You don't need 12.
Those who want to play will play.
Those who are just going to do a lot with LeBron did last year when he played like three
minutes got like four points and sat down are going to do that.
Right.
And then the score, I think, plus 24 forever because of Kobe.
He got Kobe Bryant MVP award for the All-Star game.
Give Kobe Bryant the you know what I'm saying?
Making 24 points for the All-Star.
I like the year where they did the quarter system where you played for each quarter.
You win a quarter for your charity.
And then they added the score up at the end.
And then you play the regular fourth quarter.
You play the score for a ending or target score fourth quarter.
I like that system, too.
But regardless, three regular quarters, maybe add it to each quarter for charity.
And then you play a target score fourth quarter and a commercial free target score fourth
quarter.
I hated all the gimmicks.
The All-Star game lasted three hours, two three hours, only 33 minutes of actual basketball.
The rest was Mr. Beast and trying to get a half course shot from a fan.
And you had Kevin Hart giving retirement gifts to TNT.
And yeah, I mean, the All-Star show is the All-Star show.
But you had all this different stuff.
And it's like, bro, it was a whole lot of gimmicks.
And there was hardly any basketball.
That was the All-Star game.
That was like a old to TNT.
Basically it was not.
It was a miss, a major miss from the NBA.
And I ended up tweeting out.
I said, wow, that was fun.
I never want to see that on my TV again.
Like it was just a joke.
It was ridiculous.
It was like everything wrong with the NBA came out at one time.
Now the games were pretty solid.
The games are fairly competitive, but the OGs wanted to end the game the same way they
went to the three.
They had like multiple layups when they were down, when they were only three points away
from the target score.
They just passed up for threes.
They were trying to end it with a three.
They could end it anytime they wanted to.
They could have blown the rising stars out 40 to 10 if they felt like it.
Now, you know what I'm saying, like they just didn't want to.
Any kind of watered down scene in the rising stars on Sunday night.
I didn't, I didn't enjoy that at all.
You never rising star to earn an All-Star bid?
Great, be an All-Star.
But just because you're on the rising star scene, you happen to win a tournament against
other rising stars you play.
Truly the best players in the world on Sunday night.
Yeah, I ain't like that.
Right.
And so I think that that was a miss.
I think traditional, I'm not a fan of the traditional East.
I mean, if you're going to do the East-West format, that's fine.
I don't like the USA versus the world idea because there's not enough good world players
yet.
There's not enough good All-Star level players from the world yet.
Four years, five years running.
You know what I'm saying?
But I think about it, there's a lot of bigs on the world team.
Victor and Jokic and Kat, Embiid, you know what I'm saying?
They're going to have every big, but they have little to no guards.
It'll be a lot of Dylan Brooks real fast.
And Bo Young and Bajdanovic, and then a couple of American players who may have deserved
All-Star nods don't get it because of that.
So I don't like that idea.
So I'm cool with 24 teams.
Now I want, now I am a fan of 24 teams, 24 players regardless of conference.
To me, you don't have to do 12 East, 12 West, and then play.
I'm a fan of 24 regardless of conference.
Or, if you're going to do East, West, put the finals on the line.
If you don't want to give any money, because the East didn't do it to motivate the players,
winning a team gets $2 million apiece, losing a team gets nothing.
That's an easy way to motivate a player, right?
$2 million?
Man, I can make $2 million a night?
I'm about to play.
Or, you put the finals on the line.
These are All-Stars.
Usually all these guys, these teams are East, at least in the playoffs, put the finals on
the line.
The conference gets home court advantage in the NBA finals.
But you got to do something to motivate these guys to get them to play.
Because that crap was not it.
I assure you that wasn't fun.
If that's the format next year, I will not be watching.
I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.
And a lot of my friends didn't watch this year because of the stupid format.
They thought it was stupid and then you went and made it worse by junking it up with a
whole bunch of presentations and stupid contests.
Yeah, let's never do that again.
But shout out Mack McClung.
Man, I would be remiss if I mentioned Mack, the G League dunker extraordinaire.
The first time, the first three-peat winner ever of the NBA slam dunk contest, he has
yet to miss a dunk in the dunk contest in three years.
He has never missed.
And that's what made it so impressive.
He has never missed.
I think all his dunks have been won in the 50s.
I mean, what he did Saturday night, jumping over the car with the reverse, jumping over,
was it in, it wasn't in B, it was a Evan Mobley taking the ball off the top of his head, kissing
the ball, kissing the rim with the ball, dunk, having a guy spin on a hovercraft and another
guy hold the ball, a different ball above the rim, dunking both basketballs.
And then the 360 wasn't the same.
He jumps over the guy and then straight and then spins his body last second and dunks
it.
It's freaking ridiculous.
Like I said, he's never missed.
Steven Castle, to me, Steven Castle and Trey Murphy over the last 15 years, probably won
every dunk contest but four.
Any other Aaron Gordon was not winning, even though Aaron Gordon's ever done, ever done
title his house.
Like to me, he beats Zach Levine.
I definitely thought he'd be Derek Jones.
To me, Trey Murphy beat Mac McClung the first time.
Right?
So, but it's insane, man.
Mac McClung, he's a little six foot one white guy.
Like, it's not like he's one of these six foot seven, six foot eight power dunkers that
just dunk the absolute crap out of the ball on a regular basis.
He's a superstar.
He's a, like I said, six foot one white guy that plays in the G League.
I saw a stat where he's made $310,000 for dunk contest winning and he's made like $290
in the NBA or something like that.
Now they asked him after the dunk contest, yo, you coming back?
He said, yeah.
He said, if they want me back bad enough, I'll do it.
Translation?
Pay me.
Now, whenever a dunk contest is crazy and the crowd's going insane or whatever, the
guy starts tweeting, oh man, if this happens, I'll do it.
John Morant does it.
If Mac McClung comes, if Mac comes back, I'll do the dunk contest.
Giannis goes, well, if you come back, I'll do it.
That lasted like 24 to 48 hours.
And then Giannis is walking, back whacking it.
Yeah, my kids hacked my phone.
They tweeted that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Cause none of them are going to do it.
But think about the dunk contest and it's past.
Michael Jordan was a birth air Jordan in the dunk contest.
Dominique wasn't a, he was a high level player, but he wasn't no crazy level player.
Spud Webb was a five foot six basketball player.
You know what I'm saying?
He wasn't no dunk.
He wasn't no superstar.
So you get these guys that you don't get.
Kobe wasn't Kobe yet.
So when these guys who did these dunk contests, they usually weren't the best players in the
world at the time.
They grew into it, but they, looking back on it, man, something says, the dunk contest.
They were never, like Michael Jordan wasn't doing the dunk contest in 92.
That was 85, 86 kind of thing.
He wasn't doing it in 92.
So it'd be interesting to see if anybody does effectively challenge Max Throne.
I think the NBA needs to pay him a million dollars next year or two million dollars next
year and say, you're going to do the dunk contest son.
Here's $2 million.
Whether we got to give it to you under the table, whether they're going to give it to
you in an endorsement, whether they got to give it to you just some random team gives
you two years, $8 million as a thank you for the dunk contest kind of thing.
Like I don't know what we got to do, but that's what I would do.
If I'm the NBA, Max dunking next year and in Los Angeles, Mac is dunking next year.
All right, but moving away from all star weekend, we're going to talk about the rest of the
outlook of the NBA season really quickly.
So we have, I'm going to do the standings run down really quickly.
So in the East we have calves, Celtics, Knicks, Pacers, Bucks, Pistons, round out the top
six.
So the season would end, those six teams would have playoff bids automatically.
In the play in for the East, Magic, Hawks, Heat, Bulls, and right outside the play in,
we have Sixers, Nets, and Raptors.
To the West, we have Thunder, Grizzlies, Nuggets, Rockets, Lakers, Clippers.
So those six teams again, the season ended today, would have automatic bids into the
playoffs.
Then you have Timberwolves, Mavs, Kings, Warriors.
Those teams would be in the play in tournament.
And then Suns, Spurs, and Blazers round out those teams that are not quite in the play
in tournament.
A lot of storylines left.
Luca LeBron, what do the Mavericks do?
Do the Knicks get the two seed?
Do the Cavs and the Thunder hold their impressive lead?
Can the Lakers get to the two seed?
Can Detroit climb up a little bit higher?
Maybe even get to that four and host have home quarter advantage in the first round.
What happened with the Suns?
They're only a game and a half out of the play in tournament.
Who wants to see Kevin Durant one game only?
Philadelphia 76ers, can they get it turned around?
Paul George, Tyrese Maxx, Joe Ellen Beach.
So there's a lot of storylines happening in the second half of the NBA.
But up next, we're going to transition to the NFL really quickly.
Talk about what's going down there.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to talk about again really quickly, NFL free agency, what's going down
there.
So in NFL free agency, it is typically, it's getting done a lot better as of late.
They're not necessarily stealing the NBA's model.
Free agency is everything, but it has gotten a lot better as of late.
And then we're going to go through some headlines really quickly in the NBA.
So Andy Dalton goes back to Carolina two years, $10 million.
All but looks like he'll finish his career as a backup there in Carolina, backing up
Bryce Young.
And then the Bengals, they look to keep their core.
Or Jamar Chase, Trey Henry, Sanantihiggins.
That is going to take some extensive cap maneuvering in order for the Bengals to get
this done.
However, I don't think they can do it.
Joe Burrow has a very movable contract.
What I mean by movable, I mean rearrangeable.
You can easily create space in Joe Burrow's contract.
That's not a huge problem, not a huge deterrent.
Jamar Chase is going to have to be friendly and not friendly in terms of his dollar value,
friendly in terms of his structure and the ownership who I've criticized for being cheap.
He's going to have to pony up some guaranteed dollars.
The reason why is you're going to want to pull as much as Jamar Chase money away from
the cap as much as possible.
His cap pay has to be really, really low.
The reason why is you've got to bring in T. Higgins at a good number and they want to
keep Trey Hendrickson on the defense side of the ball while also attempting to maintain
some flexibility in the free agency.
Because if I'm them, if I'm the Bengals, I have a Ronnie Staley clause in all of my
players' contracts this offseason.
Yeah, yeah, we're able to convert this crap to whatever we can do it to get Ronnie Staley.
The Cincinnati Bengals are a left tackle away from being the best team in the AFC North.
I'm not saying that from conjecture.
I'm not saying that from opinion.
It's a fact.
They have the second best quarterback in the AFC North, I give you.
They usually got the best weapons.
They have probably the worst coach.
But they have such elite talent on the offense side of the ball, if they can just get marginally
better on the O-line and competent on defense, they're looking at the best team in the AFC
East, in the AFC North.
I'm sorry.
I believe that much in Burrow and Chasen.
I believe that much in that offense that they can do it.
So if I'm the NFL, I'm keeping the O-line away from the Cincinnati.
Without an O-line, they made it to the Super Bowl.
The only reason they don't have a ring is because, well, Aaron Dowell and their O-line.
But they are absolutely dangerous.
And the Bengals are trying to find a way to keep their core together, but they have to
do it, in my opinion, without sacrificing flexibility in free agency.
Because again, if a Ronnie Staley or Kareem Robinson or someone of that nature pops up
in free agency, you have to have the ability to go get those guys.
That's not a, that's not, I mean, you just have to be able to do that.
I would sacrifice Trey Henderson for that.
Kellen Moore is the new head coach of the New Orleans Saints, officially.
He's working on building out his staff.
He's got Brandon Staley, as all, but he's the defensive coordinator, the former head
coach of the Chargers, who's the only NFL head coach I've seen in my life worse than
Zach Taylor, and he's got Doug Nussmeyer pretty much tabbed as his OC.
Now, Doug Nussmeyer is the head coach, or is the father of LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeyer.
He's been a quarterback coach in the league for years, multiple stops.
And he's looking like he's going to be the OC for the New Orleans Saints, who are in
need of a quarterback, and his son comes out next year's draft in the same state.
I'm not saying things were done in advance, but I'm not saying it either.
Aaron Rodgers, as we all know, will not be a jet, so where does Aaron Rodgers go?
The world may never know.
If he wants to continue to Brett Farmer, he's in Minnesota next year.
However, I don't see that happening.
Either the Vikings quarterback will either be J.J. McCarthy or Sam Darnold, so it's going
to be a situation where I don't know where Aaron Rodgers lands.
I don't know where Aaron Rodgers fits personality-wise, talent, clearly on a few teams.
I don't know where he fits personality-wise.
He's a general, you know, general menace.
And the franchise tag expected to be light this year.
Like I said, Ronnie Staley and T. Higgins are the two names that jumps out in the franchise
tag market.
I don't see anybody else doing it, but I'm going to run really quickly through the franchise
tag numbers.
Offensive tackle, 24.745 million.
Linebacker, 25.069 million.
Cornerback, 19.833 million.
Safety, 18.321 million.
Tight end, 13.618 million.
Wide receiver, 23.598 million.
Offensive lineman, 23.051 million.
Running back, 13.437 million.
Kicker-up-hunter, 6.218 million.
Back 39.636 million.
Defensive end, 21.713 million.
And again, that is for the first tag number.
The number that jumps out to me, running back.
They're the second lowest paid people.
It's kickers-up-hunters, none of them.
Just below tight ends, barely.
I mean, if I'm going to say corn, I know he's not on the franchise tag, if I'm going to
say corn, I'm causing hell to get my money.
That's just me, personally.
I'm just causing hell.
I ain't going to lie to you.
But up next, we're going to shift to our best flash, which is going to be talk about Unrivaled.
Welcome into the show.
And now we're going to quickly talk about the Unrivaled League, the three on three,
full court women's basketball league, featuring a lot of your favorite WNBA players.
They did a heck of a job with their one on one tournament.
That was fun.
Shout out to Nafisa Korya for winning it.
And the league's been fun.
It's been a fun league.
But what I've enjoyed about it is, this league has allowed them flexibility to go tour.
Like Asia Wilson just had a two on two thing, and like Arike Gumbale, who's in Unrivaled,
like played in the thing.
And so did Dejan A. Carrington, and Chelsea Gray was also winning.
And it's allowed these players to make a little extra money in a time where they normally
would go overseas.
They're making overseas contracts in America.
They're not having to go overseas.
They're playing in Miami.
They're playing in front of a decent crowd.
They're playing in a beautiful facility.
And it's pretty dope.
And it's having moments like Lisa Leslie is training Angel Reese.
And you're having all these great spectacular moments of the past connected with the present.
And it's just been amazing.
And I think the W is going to have to step it up.
Playing in some point, you cannot allow Unrivaled to have all this stuff better than you, especially
when the players put it together on their own.
And you have backing of the NBA.
You have backing of legit owners.
You have backing of legit money.
And the players put together TV contracts and facilities deals and sponsorships and
money and a weekend and a location.
And they just did all this stuff in travel and housing and childcare and all this stuff
that they complained about in the WNBA.
They went and did it themselves, which means it's possible.
So therefore, you have to get this done if you're the WNBA or Unrivaled may expand to
5v5 and you could be in trouble kind of thing.
If you catch my drift WNBA.
If Unrivaled decides, hey, we don't need the WNBA at all.
We're going to up our salary to 200, 250, 300 a player to go 5v5.
Could be interesting to say the least.
But that is all I have for the day.
I hope you guys have a great rest of your week.
I hope you guys enjoyed this show.
Again, some of our shorter shows, the NBA doesn't have as many storylines as the NFL,
but the NFL is only dead for a couple more weeks and then it's back to the NFL off season.
But I hope you have a great rest of your day.
This is your host, Justin Jackson signing out.