Roster Flexibility Around the League, What Moves Can The Lakers Make?
Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective
ESPN
3.9 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Keep up to date on all the bull games with the ESPN College football podcast hosted by a rotating |
| 0:07.2 | talent roster including Kirk Herbstreet, David Pollock, Boguer MacFarland, Paul Feinbaum, Joey |
| 0:12.4 | Galaway, and more. Listen, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:23.3 | Hello, welcome to the Who Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA which is doing on Monday |
| 0:27.6 | morning. Happy holidays to our Bobby Marks, joining us from Naples for now. Hi, Bobby. |
| 0:33.7 | Hello, Brian. How are you? Happy holidays to you. Thanks. I'm better than a lot of the NBA right now. |
| 0:42.7 | So you've been in the end, you've been involved with the NBA how many years? |
| 0:46.5 | Oh, what is this 27? I can't imagine you've seen anything like this. |
| 0:52.2 | I would just say that life pre-COVID in a front office is with a lot of easier life in a front |
| 0:57.1 | office right now. And before COVID, it was hard. It's certainly challenging, but where we are right now, |
| 1:05.5 | teams have an extent of the list of tradable players, teams have a list of hardship exception |
| 1:12.0 | players. The games, I guess, was Sunday, right? We're not competitive for the most part. We've |
| 1:19.8 | got teams losing by 45, 46 points. Thank God. The Christmas day games were somewhat entertaining. |
| 1:29.0 | But yeah, we're at a point where I don't see a slowdown as far as cases coming our way now because |
| 1:36.2 | we're testing daily, right? I mean, that's the mandatory and Phoenix who has been |
| 1:42.1 | unscathed through this whole process all of a sudden we start testing daily. And then we've got |
| 1:47.2 | two players, Jay Crowder for one that is in health and safety. So there aren't only two players. |
| 1:57.2 | Once you have a player or two test positive, you need to start working on your hardship plans |
| 2:02.4 | because the wave is coming. I think it's pretty transparent that the NBA, |
| 2:09.6 | they decided what was it, maybe seven or eight days out. We're not going to start testing until |
| 2:14.0 | after Christmas. It's pretty transparent that the NBA wanted to do everything it could to deliver |
| 2:18.8 | those five games. Those five games were delivered. And now they up their testing with the expectation |
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