Hello, welcome to the collective podcast. We talk about the NBA. This is a previously

unscheduled podcast. Some people would call it emergency. I don't know. I'm not in a,

I don't feel like emergency. But emergency happens after, after trades. This is,

this is a big moment in the NBA that just happened today. Robert Sarver announced

saying that he is going to sell the Phoenix sons. Joining me, we were all together now,

way yesterday. But today is a new day. Joining me from Oakland is Mark J. Spears from

Ansca. Hey, Mark. What's happening? I, yeah, this is, this is a big deal.

And joining me from Los Angeles in a room I was just in like 12 hours ago.

From on to Shelburne, fresh off the set of NBA today. How's it going?

Gone well. Gone well. I know that I've done a little rearranging a little furniture in this room.

Brian, so I know see if you recognize it. That's right. So, Spears, you've been

very vocal both on television and on social media. I just want to know, I mean, I saw what you wrote,

but I wanted to know what you thought about today when Robert Sarver put out that statement

that he was going to sell the team. We'll talk about the statement of what's in it. But I just,

I just wanted to know what your reaction was.

Pleasantly surprised and ecstatic. And I like to say that I think the players had a lot to do with it.

The NBA he decided not to push for Sarver to be pushed out like they did with Sterling.

The owners were never put to a vote. Draymond Green suggested yesterday that they should.

I just want to say I don't want to interrupt you, but that was a big moment.

Yeah. And Draymond did that. In my view, that was a big moment.

So I kind of felt with LeBron James' tweet, Chris Paul's tweet, Draymond's words on the podcast,

like the players were starting to boil the water hotter and hotter. And I think it was going to

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