March Madness expansion is coming! Giannis and the Bucks drama continued! The Lakers season is sadly over! (Episode 1435 Hour 2)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

NCAA tournament expansion? It’s coming! 76 teams! (7:00) President Trump has signed an executive order trying to “fix” college sports. Does it mean a thing? (16:20) The Bucks and Giannis drama continues. It’s so ugly. Look at all the blowouts. The NBA is struggling to the playoffs. (31:09) The Lakers are in trouble. Luka is out. Reaves is out. Oh boy. (39:20) We have a new owner alert. The Portland Trail Blazers were sold to Tom Dundon, and we already have some problems. (45:00) Let’s talk about the Inter Miami stadium. Nu Stadium, the new stadium, hosted its first game on Saturday. The game was a success, the stadium, not so much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to nothing personal. It's David Samampson, and I am excited because I was going to get on a plane and go to the
0:42.9	West Coast so the damn championship game could start a little bit earlier tonight.
0:48.9	8.50 p.m. Eastern, Connecticut, Michigan, be there.
0:57.8	That's not what I want to talk about right now, Coker.
1:00.3	I want to talk about the story that came out about the NCAA tournament this weekend.
1:04.0	And there was an article in Yahoo by Ross Delinger.
1:08.2	And it was about NCAA tournament expansion. and I was gobsmacked.
1:15.3	It's awesome.
1:16.8	There's going to be 76 teams in the tournament, like almost immediately.
1:24.0	Here's the proposal.
1:25.8	Make sure you stay with me because you've got this.
1:29.3	There's going to be eight extra games added to the current first four that would be played on the Tuesday and Wednesday of the first week of the tournament.
1:42.3	That means 24 teams playing in 12 games over those two days.
1:50.1	Wait for it. You know what the first four is, which is something I still can't quite figure out,
1:54.5	that two teams that aren't good enough to be in the brackets, the winner of a first four,
2:00.4	because there's 68 teams in a 64 team bracket,
2:03.6	that you've got to have an 11 and 11? What? I can't stand that. I don't understand how a team
2:11.9	that doesn't quite make the tournament. Why aren't they a 16 seed? And the answer given to me,
2:17.2	David, you prize fool, it's because of guaranteed bids when you win a conference.
2:22.3	What?
2:23.3	It doesn't matter who's guaranteed.
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