Gasper and Murray: NBA's return format, Durant announces he won't play, the impact of no fans on games (Hour 2)
Felger & Massarotti
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🗓️ 6 June 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Chris and Jim open up the second hour of the show breaking down the NBA's return format and debating the Celtics' chances in the Eastern Conference. The guys also discuss Kevin Durant announcing he will not return this season despite the long layoff for the Nets. Finally, they take a look at how some home teams are faring overseas with no crowd and what sports leagues will do locally with pumping in noise once games return.
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| 0:00.0 | B-Pod Studios |
| 0:03.0 | This is |
| 0:07.6 | Gasper and Murray. |
| 0:09.4 | You will listen. |
| 0:10.5 | 985, the Sports Hub. |
| 0:25.9 | Gaspar Murray 98-5 of Sports. So just on the surface of it is the NBA and their board of governors get it all figured out this week. |
| 0:30.9 | And I phone call on Thursday, 22 teams, the one dissenter out of the votes, the 30 votes throughout the league was 29 to 1. |
| 0:38.9 | The one to center with a Portland Trailblazers who apparently wanted a 20, |
| 0:43.0 | you know, to be 20 teams, not 22. |
| 0:45.8 | Celtics, of course, are in this thing, but they go down to Orlando, Florida. |
| 0:49.0 | There's been talk about bringing down the floors for the teams. |
| 0:52.5 | There's been talk about how the top seeds can somehow benefit from this, either giving them more timeouts, foul calls, things like that. There's a lot of crazy things being bandied about, but it's got to happen. You know, end of July. The NBA is back. Obviously, without fans, they'll be in the bubble environment. But what do you think of the setup? You're happy it's going to be back. |
| 1:12.4 | I am happy that it's going to be back. And I think all things consider the setup's pretty good. I like going with the 22 teams. Now, in my opinion, it would have made sense to just go back with the 16 teams, play some exhibition games and get into the playoffs. but I know for some of these RSNs, they need to get a certain amount of games. |
| 1:29.4 | You're going to play eight games down there. |
| 1:30.8 | My one issue with this setup is, why do you need the Washington Wizards? Like, let's be honest about it. We're trying to restart a sports league, which is on the periphery, especially when it comes to importance during a global pandemic, the wizards aren't |
| 1:45.7 | going to make the playoffs. |
| 1:46.9 | We all know. |
| 1:47.4 | The wizard stink. |
| 1:48.4 | Right. |
| 1:48.9 | And so this idea that you have to have a play-in or the potential of a play-in in both |
| 1:54.9 | conferences makes zero point-0 sense to me. |
| 1:58.0 | There's merit for it in the West. |
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