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First question.

Hey, Jason.

Love the content.

What are your thoughts on all the wild ideas for fixing the tanking issue? Seems like the

easiest thing to do would be to give play-in losers the top four picks in a random order.

Then the other 10 non-playoff teams get even odds at the

picks five through 14. This would mean teams would try to win to get the highest picks or actually

be in the playoffs. Players don't tank. Just organizations. So the players probably won't tank

in the playing games. So you're you're kind of in a general thought process that I do agree with.

I would not

give the picks to teams in the play in but I would try to em I would try to emphasize

tanking in that range rather than the bottom and I have a specific reason for that so hear me out

first of all I don't think there's an easy solution here. The league has tried flattening out the odds.

That clearly hasn't worked.

We're going to have one of the most epic tanking showdowns to end the season,

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