It's the crossover Sports Illustrated NBA show.

Bricking down the latest news, rumors, and everything in between.

Here's your host, Chris Manning's and Chris Erring.

This is the crossover NBA podcast.

I'm Chris Manick, Senior Writer with Sports Illustrated,

joined by my colleague, Chris Herring, senior writer with SI,

New York Times bestselling author of Blood in the Garden.

And Chris, we want to jump on here on a Friday afternoon

because one of the all-time Friday afternoon news dumps, or I guess

Friday morning news dumps came from the NBA, where the league announced its punishment for

John Morant.

The NBA has suspended John Morant for 25 games beginning, of course, next season.

John Morant subsequently released a statement, apologizing.

He's three-paragraph statement.

I won't read the whole thing, but saying he was going to work on himself,

his mental health, and continue to train for the day when he's allowed back on the courts.

So let's start with the punishment itself.

I believe I said last week on the show that I thought it would be 30 games.

This was kind of right around where I thought it would be a little bit light.

But what was your take on the NBA's 25 game suspension?

Yeah. You, I mean, actually, hearing you kind of lay out what you're, what you'd started

to hear on your end, started to prompt me to start thinking more about the fact that the

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