Hello, welcome to the game theory podcast. I'm your host Sam Vesini.

We're presented by CLNS Media. Today on the show, Coles Wickers here, we're going to break down the surprises of the NBA season.

This has been a weird NBA season so far.

It does feel more open than past seasons.

It does feel like it's been, the games feel like they've been more exciting.

I'm more excited to sit down and watch NBA every night, every morning, whenever I sit down in front of the computer with Synergy or just on TV with ESPN or something like that.

Do you feel that way?

Like, do you feel like even though we have teams that are tanking, even though we have teams that it seems like the worst teams are worse than last year.

I am just more excited to sit down.

Like the game-based storyline seemed to be a little bit better this year.

Yeah, that's really interesting.

I'm always excited to watch NBA.

And I think with the draft class this year in college basketball, I'm even more excited

to watch NBA.

I think the product's fine. I think a lot of the pushback has been a little bit unwarranted. Maybe how the product's being

presented by certain outlets has diminished. And I, of course, get the official's criticism with some of

some of the stuff that's going on. But I think the game is in a great place right now. There's a lot of great young players, and I'm definitely into it. Well, yeah, like, let's be real about it. Like, Jeff Van Gundy going on

ESPN every time he announces a game and just, like, shit-talking the NBA and the way the game

is played now. And then, like, Shaq and Charles Barkley still, you know, I think Barclay has finally been, like, a little bit convinced on teams that shoot heavy amounts of threes being able to win titles.

But, like, Shaq still is on about getting the big man involved, right?

And it feels like we have all of these older players who are struggling to adjust to the way the game

is played now and are thus and I don't even like I don't want to say that they're wrong for

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