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Learn more at vertexinck.com. Hello and welcome to the athletic NBA show.

I'm Dave DeFore, joined by my good friend Keith Parrish as we close the books on another summer league and look ahead to what's to come this summer.

We're going to talk a little bit about rule changes and then the Feeble World Cup,

which is the only basketball we're going to have for like three or four months.

So Keith, you're the Mr. Ref.

We need to talk about these rule changes.

Finally, the NBA going after some of the most egregious acts that occur on a basketball court on a daily basis.

The flop.

Is Marcus Smart going to be any good for the Memphis Grizzlies, Keith?

When you said the most egregious acts that occur on the basketball court, I thought you meant trying to draw charges in undercutting airborne shooters.

No.

You make a great question.

Did the Grizzlies know that this flop rule would be implemented before they agreed to trade for Marcus Smart?

I don't have the answer to that question,

but I think I can get the answer.

I think this one rule,

among one of the two rules

that the Board of Governors approved,

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