NBA Anonymous Player Poll Released | NBA Blitz
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Let's get to a blitz here. And I don't know if it's NBA, NFL, what David's got |
| 0:04.7 | playing? Hit the music and we'll find out. Go ahead, David. Oh, boy. Yeah, this is NBA related. |
| 0:11.1 | This is a trash can league. Yeah. Let's do it. So this is what the Athletic did. The athletic did |
| 0:15.9 | an anonymous player poll regarding different topics in the NBA. And I want to get you all's opinion on some of this stuff. |
| 0:22.7 | Sure. |
| 0:23.3 | So the first question they posed is, is the integrity of the game in danger? |
| 0:29.0 | Yes. |
| 0:29.6 | 74.6% said no, but there's a couple quotes here. |
| 0:33.5 | One says, I don't think we have an integrity issue. |
| 0:37.5 | It's almost like it's the beginning of a possible issue, though. |
| 0:41.6 | Then one other player says, the purest, we just want to play. |
| 0:44.4 | Now, the reason why I bring this up, along with this question, is because everything we've had with gambling. |
| 0:49.9 | Porter, the Billups situation, the Damon Jones situation. Is there an integrity problem in the NBA? |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah. And you said who was, players were asked? It's an anonymous player, Paul, yes. They don't see. Yes. There is an integrity across the board. And I wasn't even thinking of gambling. I was just thinking of guys just don't want to |
| 1:11.1 | play. Yep, there it is. So I got to beg you to play. I got to set rules that basically say you |
| 1:17.5 | can't have dessert unless you finish your dinner. Unless you play 65 games, then you can't win |
| 1:23.2 | anything. But then it comes to all the gambling and things like that. Yes. And the fact that they don't think that they have one, Mike, that's called denial. Oh, 100%. I think you said 99% of it. I just night and night out, you don't know who's playing. And 13 teams tanking. That's an integrity issue. Yeah. And here's what I was more alarmed by. It's an anonymous player poll. |
| 1:45.0 | The fact that 25% said yes, you would think anonymous player poll 100% would say, |
| 1:51.7 | oh, no way. |
| 1:52.6 | 25% are like, yeah. |
| 1:54.9 | They get it. |
| 1:56.2 | Maybe they're from the 13 teams that were tanking. |
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