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The Right Time with Bomani Jones

Adam Silver's NBA tanking problem. USA wins gold vs. Canada, Floyd Mayweather back? | 02.23

The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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Music, Sports, News

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Bomani Jones breaks down the NBA’s tanking problem and explains why the real issue might be that the regular season just doesn’t feel like it matters anymore. He also dives into USA Hockey’s gold medal moment, why America’s relationship with hockey is actually healthy, and what makes certain sports hit differently culturally. Plus, Floyd Mayweather’s return, Sam Altman’s wild AI comments abd TSA PreCheck chaos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original.

0:10.0

My name is Bobani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast.

0:13.3

Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars.

0:19.2

You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are

0:22.5

a hater. We're going to talk about the hockey in a little while. Hell yeah. You know what I'm

0:30.8

saying? It's a real hacksaw, Jim Duggan sort of situation right now with that. But anyway,

0:35.6

we're going to talk about that. But first, Brian, I can't remember. I think we talked about this in the last show. I can't remember about it explicitly made the point. But, you know, the NBA's got this problem, which is we'd be trying to, and I know we talked about this, we'd be trying to shake off that football Jones. Yes. Right. And then all we typically get was the dog shit of the NBA All-Star Game.

0:56.9

Right.

0:57.2

And that just doesn't do enough.

0:58.8

And that leads to everybody.

1:00.2

Like, it's just the time to, the NBA is not what people want at that moment.

1:05.1

And so it becomes an opportunity for people to project all their unhappiness onto the NBA for reasons that don't really have

1:11.9

that much to do about the NBA, except the NBA be making it easy, right?

1:17.5

So if there's anything we know about the NBA, you correct me if I'm wrong here.

1:21.3

I think I've talked about this before also.

1:25.2

The commissioner of the NBA is real online.

1:27.9

So if y'all get online and start talking about what kind of things y'all think or something

1:32.3

need to be changed, don't you worry.

1:34.2

Adam Silver will hear you, right?

1:36.7

That doesn't necessarily mean that there will be changes, but you get to talk it in your

1:40.5

podcast or on threads even, perhaps, and the NBA is going to have some sort of response at the very least, they're going to say something to you, right? You have to imagine that the NBA almost gets like these briefs of the people's tags. Yes. Like, like a good show. Whose job is it, right? Yeah. Who works in the podcast research department?

2:02.0

There's certainly somebody.

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