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All right, we're taping this at his 10 o'clock AM Pacific time. The Board of Governors is meeting right now. I don't think anything major is going to come out of that, which is why I wasn't nervous about starting a record this week.

I'm not going to start a record this podcast now, but we'll just if anything crazy happens out of that. My guess for Sillo is that they're going to talk about hardening some of the protocols that they've had because I think the biggest issue.

The first few weeks of the season is you saw with the NFL with the NFL was just like, Hey, you can't do this. And then they started finding people and I think we're about to cross that line with the NBA. Have you heard anything other than that?

I mean, I just kind of what I've read, you know, I feel like it's somewhat similar to remember how we were talking, you know, going back to the beginning more really the middle of last year when it was the delay and anybody that you talk to that knew what was going on was like the only thing that we've decided is that we haven't really decided that we're exploring every single possibility to restart the season.

This is different, but I think you'd agree that it's along the same lines. It's like, okay, let's just draw a million ideas and see what makes sense because this is a completely different challenge. But when people say like, Oh, they should shut it down for a week, they should have down for two weeks.

I don't know the having 500 players away from a structured system actually helps. It's kind of like the college football argument.

Yeah, I thought there was a possibility of a week long pause, but they're pretty determined much like the NFL was. I think to keep it going, keep it going, keep it going.

They want to keep the schedule. They want to get to 72 games for variety of reasons with the RSN. I think what surprised me is how lacks some of the protocols have been. I was watching the wizard Celtics game on Friday night.

And I kept watching at the end because I wanted to see Bill and Tatum, you know, Bill was a big brother to Tatum, whole St. Louis thing.

And they're really close. And I wanted to see how they'd interact after the game. I wasn't even thinking COVID. It was just more like it was the first time Tatum's played Bill where they were clearly on the same level as like top 20 guys.

And they were just kind of hanging out in the court and talking for, I don't know, two minutes, something like that. And after I read that Tatum test positive, my first thought was that Bradley Beal thing.

And I thought when we were heading into this season, they were really going to be adamant about, hey, you guys are playing the games other than that stay away from each other, wear masks on the sidelines.

We all have to do this together. And it just seems like it slipped left and right. And I think they've had issues. You know, when teams go to Florida, there's no rules there versus you go to New York, all the restaurants are shut down past certain hour, but in Florida, you can go out.

If you're 21 year old guy, you and I have made a bunch of mistakes over the years, especially when we were in our 20s, these kind of sneak out.

What do you do? Well, Arizona is the same way. Like one of my friends is like, hey, man, you're going to make it up to Scottsdale.

Like, what's going on? Like, yeah, it's just on.

Actually, I don't want to do that. But I mean, yes, there's part of me that's very much like, man, you know, this is, I've tried not to complain throughout any of this. This has taken a million turns. And I think it's gone on longer and been worse than maybe any of us could have thought at the very beginning.

You know, I don't really want to debate a ton of that stuff other than, you know, this is even though you have that urge.

The right thing would be to not do that. You know, the same as the Alabama celebration after they went in national title, and you see all this stuff down there. And you're like, I get it. I get wanting to do that. But I mean, give me a break.

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