NBA's Reaction to Protests and Problems with Restarting the Season

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🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Wes Goldberg and David Ramil open the show by talking about how the NBA has reacted to the protests around the country resulting from the death of George Floyd. Then the discuss why the league would be foolish to resume the season with 30 teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Lockton NBA, your daily NBA podcast, part of the Lock
0:16.2	on Podcast network. I'm West Goldberg, host of Lockton Warriors here with David
0:20.4	Rimmel, host of Lockton Heat. Today's episode of Lockton NBA is brought to you by Built Bar,
0:25.4	the best tasting low-carb protein bar out there.
0:27.7	The promo code,
0:28.8	Locked on gets you $10 off of your first box at builtbar.com. The NBA and Adam Silver seemed to be
0:34.6	closing in on a plan to resume the season with 22 teams though ESPAN
0:38.6	reported Monday that there has been a recent push for 30 teams to be involved when they start playing at Disney
0:44.4	World in Orlando, but before we get to that, I wanted to get your thoughts, David, on some of the
0:48.7	reaction by the NBA to the protests that have resulted from the death of George Floyd. Several players, coaches. the with all of this considering that a majority of its players are black,
1:03.2	its place in black culture and all these things.
1:08.8	We've seen stuff back with LeBron James and Duane Wade and these guys speaking out about Trayvon Martin.
1:15.0	The NBA always again seems to carry a lot of weight
1:20.0	when it comes to these social issues.
1:22.0	What's been your thoughts on the response from the league,
1:25.0	their players, their coaches, the front offices?
1:27.0	Mixed, to be honest with you, because I feel like a lot of players and teams,
1:34.5	some teams in particular, I think Tom Haverstro
1:38.0	tweeted out something regarding the number of teams
1:40.4	that have mentioned like the actual cause of what people are protesting like
1:45.8	the reasoning behind it and look first and foremost let me just lay this out I'm
1:50.4	sure even right now as we're mentioning this there's some listener maybe even
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