Grant's Rant: 4-14-21 Luka Doncic doesn't quite seem to understand the playoff play-in format.

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Grant Napear

Football, Basketball, Sports

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🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Poor baby. He doesn't understand why the NBA would make a playoff format that could mean two and through. He maybe doesn't notice there are no fans in the stadiums. He may be just so focused on his game that he can't comprehend that the league has likely lost it's butt this year and this is a way to get some revenue toward the gap. Enter Mark Cuban to the rescue. Now he doesn't like the play-in format either. Thinks it was a big mistake. Could it be because his team is in 7th place right now??? Let's talk a little about the process in today's rant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's time for France, France.
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0:14.8	plumbing.com any W rx plumbing.com well the MBA a couple of weeks left in the
0:22.2	regular season and then the playoffs begin, and this
0:24.8	year there is a new format voted unanimously by the NBA Board of Governors at the beginning
0:30.4	of the season.
0:31.4	A play-in tournament, the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth-place teams will
0:35.7	battle it out for the final two spots. Now, Luca Danchetch of the Maves, whose team currently
0:42.0	sits seventh in the West said this.
0:45.0	I don't understand the idea of the playing tournament.
0:49.0	You play 72 games to get in the playoffs,
0:51.0	then maybe you lose two in a row when you're out of the
0:53.5	playoffs. I don't see the point of that. Well, Luca, the point of that is
0:57.9	really very simple. The league that you play and lost a fortune and continues to lose a fortune due to the pandemic.
1:04.9	I'm sure you're aware that when you go to different venues around the NBA,
1:09.2	the arenas are empty.
1:11.5	I know that you are a hell of a player and you concentrate on playing
1:14.2	basketball but I would think that even you would recognize that the
1:19.3	arenas are empty and common sense will tell you that that puts a major economic stranglehold
1:28.7	on your league until the pandemic ends. So they need to figure out new revenue streams.
1:37.0	Now the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, oh you know he's coming to the defense of his young stud point guard.
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