NBA All-Star Weekend: A success or another failure?; Adam Silver wants to fix tanking, can he? (Episode 1414 Hour 1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘urgency’ as in NBA as in All-Star Game as in what a game as in Kawhi Leonard as in Wemby as in Anthony Edwards. We finally got a great game. Team Stars won it. Team Stripes had a moment. Wemby wanted everyone to try and compete… and they did! But what about the rest of the weekend? Yikes! (15:20) LeBron James had his own media day on Sunday ahead of the All-Star Game. He was asked about Israel? Why? (21:42) Michael Jordan is a champion. For the first time in his career. A Daytona 500 champion. (25:00) Adam Silver met with the media over the weekend. He had a lot to say. Tanking, AI, prediction markets, new technology. The usual. (41:10) Review: The Secret Agent. (46:00) The NFL and NFLPA have a grievance solved over the weekend. No more report cards. The union lost and can no longer make them public. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The urgency that's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Tuesday, February 17th,
0:43.9	2026. Urgency, as in playing with a sense of urgency. As in the NBA All-Star game, finally got it right. For those of you who were not willing
0:58.6	to give it one more chance, just give me one more chance. It was a great NBA All-Star Sunday.
1:09.2	I'm not going to say it was a great NBA All-Star weekend because Saturday
1:13.1	night I could have done without. And it was sort of Saturday afternoon both days, 5 o'clock Eastern,
1:18.6	but that's okay. Certainly not going to hear this old man panic about an early start, a little
1:26.0	buffet special.
1:31.0	Saturday night with Dame Lillard coming back.
1:33.1	I think there should be a rule, by the way.
1:36.5	Side note, Coker, if you're not playing during the season,
1:40.8	you don't get to be in the dunk contest or the three-point contest.
1:41.8	That's it.
1:43.8	I agree, Mack McClung.
1:46.3	It's cool. He can dunk. But as Koka used to say, and still does, I can go hire a bunch of magic dunking guys that'll be just
1:52.9	as entertaining if I'm not going to see any of the NBA stars who I want to see. Three-point
1:59.6	contest, you're out with the torn Achilles you're out get
2:03.5	better start helping your team I don't mean to be a grump or a curmudgeon I just
2:10.2	don't think it's cool if I'm paying that player or if I'm a fan of that player oh
2:15.8	look he's so close.
2:18.1	He just won the three-point contest.
2:20.8	All right, see you next year.
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