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All right, finally, we have a special interview with Jared Greenberg.

Jared is a reporter for TNT and NBA TV and join my other show, Ben MGM tonight,

along with my co-host, Nick Aschew.

Great interview, so let's get into it.

All right, we bring on Jared Greenberg, NBA on TNT, and there are teams that obviously do care when we talk about the in-season tournament. I love what we've seen so far from it. Some of the courts are a little bit much, but that's, maybe they'll work some of those kinks out. Now we're getting ready, obviously, for the knockout stage, the quarterfinals, and now we've had some teams eliminated. What has been the early, I guess, returns that you've heard from people in terms of whether it's teams, players, whatever, and how that in-season tournament has felt? Yeah, thanks for having me, guys. Trista, long time to talk. I know. I know. We've got to have you on more often. Let's go.

Let's go.

I mean, I heard this pays a lot of money, so I'm excited to start this relationship with you guys.

Yeah, no, I, listen, I'm fired up about the end season tournament. Is it perfect? No. Do they need to make tweaks? Yes. but I've been somebody who's been trying to argue with people for, it feels like, two decades that the regular season is important in the NBA.

It is.

There's, and we've lost some of that integrity.

It's been watered down.

And the complaints that I've heard about it are just to me mind boggling.

It just this get off my lawn mentality of, oh, change is hard and change is not good. No, like this is fun. Tuesday night, I was on the air. I host our whip around

show. It's called Crunch Time on the NBA app. And the fact that we not only had meaningful basketball

with teams playing hard, but over the last 10 years,

we've had trouble getting guys on the court for regular season games.

Now I got Jason Tatum in the fourth quarter up by 30,

trying to maintain a 30-point lead.

If you don't like that, that's great.

And people are saying, that's not basketball.

Who said that's not basketball?

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