Hello and welcome to the hoop collective podcast. We talk about the NBA which we're doing on Sunday evening.

Joining me is Fort Myers Florida is our front office insider long time NBA executive, our NBA executive on our staff. Bobby marks. Hey Bobby. Hey Brian. How are we?

I'm good. Thanks. Today I'm. I'm you know, it's a weird thing, but I'm actually in London right now.

And I went to Arsenal versus man United. Proper football today.

I'm going to create experience Arsenal the home team one three to two in the final minute of our regulation. So it was an awesome game.

There's a lot that the Premier League does right that the NBA could learn from.

And I know it's obviously a very different sport, but you know, you know, it was been of a bit of a tough weekend for the NBA because.

And I know that there's a lot of other issue of resting players. This has been happening for five, six years now.

And the reason it's interesting, Bobby is because the collective bargaining agreement talks are going on.

And I've heard like several time I hear people say, oh, white till the owners get to deal with this.

I don't know this is I don't think this is a this is an issue that's that's bigger than just talks with the players, you know, like this is a it's not an issue of like a bargaining issue.

This is not really a negotiable thing.

And so like Steve Kerr, he kind of you know Friday, you know, the warriors were in town in January on a Friday night in Cleveland.

It's not just a big ticket that the champs are in town on a Friday night in the winter because there's not a lot of other options in Cleveland.

But also the teams charge a premium for those tickets. And not only that, but you know, they announced that the Steph and Clay and Dremond and Wiggins were going to be out with a few hours before tip off.

I've seen this, we've seen this repeat over and over and Steve Kerr just was like, look, it's, I feel terrible, but we're making the best decision we can.

And what happens is when this happens, a lot of people complain about a lot of people, including Steve who, you know, reaffirmed his desire to have a 72 game season.

And I feel like they'll come up with reasons, you know, things that they could do to alleviate it. But Bobby, I don't think there's a magic bullet. And I don't think there's going to be a magic bullet coming in this CBA of all the stuff that I've heard is under discussion as they work through their talks towards the newest deadline, which is in February.

I don't know, I don't think this is going to be something that's resolved and I don't know what you do about.

I agree. And I think if you're the players, you're saying, well, wait a minute. This is the team that's dictating if we play or not. Right. The strength and conditioning or the sports science staff.

It's a team. It's, I'm, Steph Curry's not going to Steve Kerr or Dremond or Andrew Wiggins or Clay Thompson.

The medical staff saying, this is kind of where they're load management with is where they are to back the back game. It's all scheduled out. So it's, it's not going to be a, you know, this is not a collectively bargaining thing between the players who would say, hey, we want to play, but we're following with our sport science.

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