BASKETBALL ILLUMINATI - Unintended Consequences

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Rudy Gobert is starting to get really frustrated, and we get it. It's so obvious that Minnesota is not getting the respect they deserve. Less than two months after acquiring Kyrie Irving, the Dallas Mavericks are on the brink of shutting it down for the season to preserve their top ten protected 2023 draft pick. Truth Teller Keith Smith of Spotrac joins the program to help us parse the new Collective Bargaining Agreement details that have been announced and identify the unintended consequences of the major changes to the league. Subscribe to Basketball Illuminati! On Apple or Spotify Merch: Shirt - Hoodie - Tank - Hat - Beanie Email us: basketballilluminati@gmail.com Twitter: @bballilluminati Instagram: @basketballilluminati Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Giraffe King's Network.
0:04.6	I'm so mad we don't have audio of this.
0:12.8	I don't know what we're going to do.
0:14.1	Rudy Gobert is long speech here about how the NBA is rigging it for all the teams except
0:18.9	for his.
0:19.9	It's okay Tom, I got this.
0:21.6	Twelve years of French education have prepared me for this moment.
0:25.5	Yeah.
0:26.5	Here's what Rudy said.
0:28.5	It's bullshit.
0:30.0	Bullshit.
0:31.0	It's not fair.
0:32.0	It's really not fair.
0:33.0	Every night I've been in this league for 10 years and I try to always give the benefit
0:38.4	of the doubt.
0:39.4	But it's hard for me to think they're not trying to help the team win tonight.
0:44.4	It's hard for me to think they didn't try to help the warriors the other night.
0:48.7	Or the sacrament of kings the other night.
0:50.8	It's just so obvious.
0:52.4	As a basketball player that's been in this league for so long, it's disrespectful.
0:57.2	And it sucks to be honest.
0:59.3	We work so hard to be in a position to compete with the best and we just get manipulated
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