Ripple Effects of NBA Starting in December, Most Interesting Offseason Storylines and Pat Riley's Asterisk

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Wes Goldberg, Warriors beat reporter for the Mercury News and host of Locked On Warriors, and David Ramil, host of Locked On Heat, open the show by looking at how starting in December will impact the NBA. Then they debate the most interesting storylines of the offseason before asking if Pat Riley was out of line with his comment about the NBA Finals having an asterisk. Plus, what's the most overrated Halloween candy? Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON,” and you’ll get 20% off your next order. BuiltGo Visit BuiltGO.com and use promo code “LOCKED,” and you’ll get 20% off your next order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Lockton NBA, part of the Lockton Podcast Network.
0:03.2	I'm West Goldberg Warriors Beat reporter for the Mercury News and host of Lockdown Warriors here with David
0:07.2	Rimmill, the host of Lockton Heat, and on today's show we discuss what an early start of the
0:11.6	NBA season means for the league's top
0:13.2	contenders the most interesting storylines of the off season, Pat Riley's
0:17.1	asterisk comment and what is the most overrated Halloween candy.
0:21.6	You are locked on NBA, your daily NBA podcast, part of the
0:26.8	locked on podcast network, your team every day.
0:30.4	The NBA Board of Governors last week discussed plans to start next season on
0:34.2	December 22nd, which would condense what is normally a four month off season into
0:38.7	two months. There's a ton of ripple effects based on an early start. But what I want to focus on is how this impacts the contending teams David because for teams like the Lakers, Clippers, Nuggets, the Celtics, the heat, they're going to have less than three months off before the start of next season,
0:55.8	after a long stay in the bubble, a condensed regular season schedule probably means more back
1:00.9	to backs.
1:01.9	I have a hard time believing that star players like
1:04.4	LeBron and Kauai that they're going to be okay going back to camp in early
1:09.4	December, but then again, you know, the league thinks it can make an extra $500 million by
1:14.3	starting then and money talks right that's that's $500 million that are going to be
1:18.5	split somewhere the other between you know the owners and the players.
1:21.5	David what are your thoughts on a December start?
1:25.4	At first, my feeling was that it was, again,
1:27.7	like you pointed out, gonna be a huge negative,
1:29.9	like having to rush these teams,
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