Today's podcast, a lot of NBA. We've got Palabunk Arrow. We have Bobby Marks help us get through

the new CDA and stuff that you need to know. I'm going to run through the in-season tournament

stuff and realizing I think I might like it and of course, like advice. It's Cardio

Week.

All right. I want to start by talking about the play in tournament that the NBA proposed.

I'll admit when I first heard the rumors about it, I was kind of like, what are they doing?

What is this? What is this soccer? What's going on? And then I think because of other times

you've seen regular seasons disrupted, I think with hockey and Olympics years ago where you

were like, wait, don't they just shut it down? Because that's what they're trying to do here.

And I know that we all collectively, as soon as something new is proposed, we just,

I don't know what's wrong with us. We just go like, oh, it's stupid, right?

A lot of times things can be stupid, but I think I might like the play in turn is my point.

The playing in games, I know that I've been on record with it going into it and being

critical of it, not because I don't think it's fun. The games are a lot of fun. It's

an extra product to sell, which is always a very important part of trying to figure out

why any of this stuff happens. I do think it's a little weird on the TV broadcast at times

where the announcers, as we get down to the stretch of trying to figure out what the

seeding is going to be, who's going to be in the play and who's going to be out, where

they're like, man, the NBA deserves all these credit. It's like, it's not like you can

make it 12 teams. And then we do have even more teams alive. You want to do that too.

Like, I think there'd be some kind of cutoff. And I do think, you know, you play it out

over 10 years. There's going to be a seven seed where you go, how, why does that team

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