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Nothing Personal with David Samson

GOP trying to strip MLB of antitrust exemption; Mark Cuban not happy with play-in tournament he voted for (4/14)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘no regrets’ as in Mark Cuban as in the owner of the Dallas Mavericks realized he made a big uh oh too late. Players are not happy with the new play-in tournament in the NBA Playoffs. (11:40) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about antitrust, the Sherman Act, the Republican effort to do away with this because of the All-Star Game being moved. Can the Minnesota Timberwolves move? Are the NBA rules the same as MLB? (26:12) NPPOD. (32:06) Review: Godzilla vs Kong. (35:56) Buffalo Bills fans will need to be vaccinated if they want to go to games. People are not happy. People are happy. Let’s discuss. (42:15) The Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers players will not attend OTAs… Why is this news? Why do we need a statement?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

No regrets. Nothing personal word of the day. Wednesday April 14th, 2021. Happy birthday

0:24.6

to my middle daughter, 23 years old. No regrets. That has nothing to do with my daughter's

0:31.9

birthday, actually. That has to do with Mark Cuban. Mark Cuban is a funny person to say

0:37.5

no regrets except when he says regrets. Why does a guy like Mark Cuban have any regrets?

0:44.3

He's the most outspoken owner. He's got to seat at the table in the NBA. He's involved

0:49.4

in every negotiation that happens, both with other owners, with the commissioner, with

0:54.4

the players association, with contestants on Shark Tank. He's the king of negotiating.

1:03.0

All of a sudden, the Dallas Mavericks, the team that he owns, the team that he has a locker

1:09.2

in the clubhouse, the team that he sits practically on the bench during the games, the team

1:14.8

that has hoisted one championship trophy over our Miami Heat. Mark Cuban decided yesterday

1:23.6

was a good time to give his comments on the NBA and the NBA playoffs and the NBA play internament.

1:31.4

What are we talking about? Your entire life, my entire life, most of my entire life. The

1:36.8

NBA has two conferences, Western conference, Eastern conference. The top eight teams go

1:42.0

to the playoffs in each conference. One plays eight, two plays seven, three plays six,

1:47.4

four plays five. And then the winter advances and then advances and then advances and

1:53.6

then they hoist the trophy, the Larry O'Brien championship trophy. And then they move on

2:01.8

to the next season. Well, last year they had that compressed schedule. They played in

2:06.2

the bubble. COVID totally changed everything. And they decided to do a play internament.

2:11.1

I remember well on a previous episode of Nothing Personal, where we smiled about Adam

2:17.4

Silver's plan and the owner's plan to play a play internament. Where if you're not in

2:22.2

the top eight, you still have a chance to come to the bubble, play well and then make the

2:26.9

playoffs. And we nicknamed it as I recall the Zion tournament, any possible way to get

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