Episode 238: NBA PR Nightmare

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Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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On today's episode I talk about the past few weeks being a bad one for the NBA. Load management continues to be an issue despite NBA Commissioner Adam Silver's denial. Now Memphis star Ja Morant is away from the team as he deals with repeated, alarming incidents. Morant was suspended for two games, but that number could be much, much higher. In the past 24 hours, it has been reported that Morant took his firearm on the team's charter aircraft. If true Morant is looking at a 50 game suspension! It will be interesting to see how the Grizzlies and the NBA deal with all of this! I also talk about the alarming race card used by those in the media and former players like Paul Pierce. When will accountability, or lack thereof be used as the reason for criticism instead of race? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.9	needs and repairs. It has been somewhat of a PR nightmare for the NBA since the all-star break.
0:55.0	Actually, you could look back at the all-star break when NBA Commissioner Adam Silver
1:00.8	acted as if load management was not a problem.
1:04.0	Then the first game after the break, the Portland Trail Blazers after a week and a couple of days
1:11.4	off decided to rest their two-star players and their biggest star
1:16.2	and one of the biggest stars in the NBA Damian Lillard and the other very good player
1:21.2	Jeremy Grant but of course the NBA does not have a load
1:25.6	management problem and we have seen several other examples since the
1:30.3	all-star break including Kawai Leonard over the weekend when he played against
1:34.5	the Warriors on one night and the next night did not play against Sacramento didn't
1:39.5	even attempt to play as a matter of fact said so in the locker room following loss to the
1:44.3	warriors that he would not play. So load management continues to be an issue in the
1:49.8	NBA. And then you have the John Marant story and this thing is developing with more and more
1:59.2	alarming news by the day. Now let's back up a little bit, okay? Because it was last week that the story came out,
2:09.2	the Washington Post, all right, detailing two incidents involving the ramp this past summer.
2:17.0	Okay, there were police reports, but to be fair here, there were no arrest. Now in the second incident, as reported by the Washington
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