FIRESTORM: Utah Jazz Hit With $500,000 Fine as David Locke SLAMS NBA for Selective Punishment

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Utah Jazz face a controversial $500,000 fine as Adam Silver aims to “win the press conference” ahead of NBA All-Star weekend. Is the league enforcing tanking rules inconsistently, and who really benefits from the firestorm around the Jazz? David Locke scrutinizes the NBA’s response, spotlighting the impact on owner Ryan Smith and raising critical questions about the league’s integrity and gambling influences

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0:00.0	Adam Silver needs to win a press conference, so it cost Ryan Smith $500,000.
0:14.8	You are locked on jazz, your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz.
0:24.5	Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:31.2	How are you?
0:32.2	I am David Locke.
0:33.1	Today's show is brought to you by Game Time.
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0:39.2	Download the game time out, create an account, use the code locked on for $20 off your first purchase.
0:44.9	It is an Ask L.OJ edition.
0:47.0	We will jump into some questions about basketball, the jazz moving forward.
0:50.6	Jaron Jackson's impact this year, what we saw in the three games with Jaron before
0:55.0	the knee, impending knee surgery, we start with the $500,000 fine against the Utah Jazz.
1:02.3	All right, I have lots of thoughts on this. Let me see if I can start. I don't know that I'll be
1:08.4	as fired up and mad as everybody wants me to be
1:11.6	because I'm in my happy place, which is the van if you're watching on YouTube, so I'm happy.
1:16.4	But let's walk through this for a second.
1:18.7	I honestly believe that the reason the fine came out yesterday
1:23.3	and the Indiana Pacers and the Utah Jazz were fine
1:26.9	because ESPN
1:29.5	and we'll discuss why
1:31.7	talked so much crap
1:33.4	that Bobby Marks
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