Rufus and Jeff talk to Evan Wasch, EVP at the NBA

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🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Rufus and Jeff have a fascinating interview with Evan Wasch EVP of Basketball Strategy and Operations at the NBA about many things the NBA has implemented like the play-in game, scheduling and the new lottery system. They also talk a lot about fried potatoes so there's that.

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0:00.0	On this week's Beth Process Podcast, Rufus and I talk about our lives, talk about
0:08.4	wonderful personal tilting moments.
0:11.9	But then we move into some interesting discussions on incentives in sports, robo umpiring
0:18.3	in the future of humans in the world of sports. And we have a great
0:23.8	interview with Evan Wash, an executive at the NBA, who's worked on sort of a lot of the innovations,
0:30.3	which then the NBA structure. And then we finished with a wonderful shout out to my painter.
0:36.4	So with that, let's start the process
0:37.8	bet bet bet bet the process welcome to the podcast it's not that typical cookie cutter nonsense if you came
0:53.0	just for picks you're in the wrong place.
0:54.6	Find a town with the narrative to make a strong case.
0:57.4	Instead of blindly assuming a team must be tanking.
1:00.0	We're looking for the edge of messy P-body rankings, crunching all the numbers in the
1:03.9	simulator system that break down the data analytically driven.
1:08.0	Media coverage, and sports gambling is pathetic.
1:10.0	Welcome to another episode of The About the Process Podcast podcast where Rufus is in Maine.
1:16.2	And we've already had some beginnings of some deep philosophical conversations on what ultimately motivates Rufus.
1:24.3	So what ultimately motivates you on this Thursday morning, Rufus, or I guess it's not,
1:29.5	is it still morning? It's not morning for you. It's afternoon. It's morning somewhere.
1:35.7	That's a really good question of what motivates me.
1:39.7	It's kind of, kind of not a, is it not a soup question?
1:44.0	What's a soup question? It's from a movie kind of not a, is it not a soup question? What's a soup question?
1:46.1	It's from a movie called Finding Forrester where Sean Conner, I think I've told you the
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