This is an IHeart podcast.

I need to put a trigger warning on this segment.

It's going to make our generation of NBA audience, aka millennials, very mad.

Not at me, at Adam Silver.

I like Adam Silver.

He seems like a nice guy.

He seems like a progressive guy, but sometimes a little too progressive.

You know what I'm saying?

He has a message for all of you old heads who thinks that basketball today

is played by a bunch of pussies. You know who you are, like the Kwamey Browns of the world,

the Matt Barnes of the world, you know what I'm saying. I see you on my comment section as well,

you fans all the time. You will not shut up about how you hate the league now, how soft it is,

how Rick Mahorn and Charles Oakley were actually the pinnacle of basketball, and ever

since then, it's been terrible. Here's what Adam Silver has to say to you guys, pining for the

days of 84,82 final score games.

Our esteemed commissioner said, there was a point in the late 90s when the game just

became too physical for our fans from the aesthetic enjoyment of the game where it de-emphasized

the particular skill a player had and maybe weighted too heavy on physicality where a big strong player

could come in and prevent an incredibly skilled player from doing those things.

Pause.

Hold on.

He went there.

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