We dive into the Commissioner's All-Star game address, including big markets versus small markets and branching out into Africa.

A new allegation surface regarding disgraced NBA ref Tim Donoughy.

And concerns about LeBron's health in Los Angeles,

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underscore John. And I'm Jake Madison host of the locked on pelicans

podcast you can find me on Twitter it's at Nola Jake. Lot to get to even as the all-star break rolls on because the Commissioner gave his annual

address at the all-star game, covered a lot.

We're going to break it up into a couple of the big

meaty things that he talked about. We're going to get to the I want to call it expansion. It's not an

NBA expansion. The NBA is throwing its weight behind a league in Africa.

President Obama is going to be involved in that in some capacity.

That's coming up next.

But we're going to start with something that affects you and I directly Jake this whole big market

versus small market thing and that was thrown out there again especially framed

around Anthony Davis and a small market team losing him and big

market teams seemingly swooping in here to poach him. It kind of hearkens back to the old

days of the small market teams just being this kind of

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