TANKING TANKING TANKING! It's all the NBA is talking about! Is Doc Rivers done in Milwaukee? (Episode 1437 Hour 1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘miscalculated’ as in tanking as in Sacramento Kings as in Doug Christie as in the NBA. This has gotten out of control. The whole conversation is just ridiculous. NBA Board of Governors are voting on new rules to curb tanking. Draymond Green says teams need to be fined. Fans are losing their minds. And the playoffs start next week! (22:30) Doc Rivers career as a head coach is over. He’s done in Milwaukee. Has to be. (28:10) Review: Shrinking Season 3. (31:52) We have a suspension update! (38:00) Let’s breakdown the Konnor Griffin contract. Each year matters for the Pirates. (49:30) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Miscalculated. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Thursday, April 9th,
0:45.3	2026, and I'm excited today. It doesn't happen every day. Maybe it happens when you wake up at 2
0:51.3	the morning and you spend hours and hours sort of thinking
0:55.3	about the show, thinking about your life, pondering your navel, and then the red light goes on,
1:01.1	and I know we get to do math today. I don't know about the rest of you, but math really does it
1:08.2	for me. Like when I close my eyes and count sheep, I'm doing like calculus in my mind.
1:13.4	Not geometry.
1:14.4	Hate that, but like trigonometry and sign and cosine and tangent.
1:18.8	Come on, man.
1:21.0	Miscalculating things is a pet peeve of mine because a lot of life is messy.
1:26.7	And I don't like mess in particular.
1:30.5	Math is the cleanest thing around. It's why I've always loved it. You're either right or
1:36.3	you're wrong. We can debate political topics. We can debate sports topics. There's an entire
1:42.4	industry of gas bags who do nothing but debate taking sides
1:46.4	they don't believe in or gossiping about trips taken
1:49.9	to various places.
1:51.3	Not with math, baby.
1:54.6	You either know the number of fouls on your team
1:59.0	or you don't.
2:01.6	You either know the score of fouls on your team or you don't. You either know the score of the game or you don't.
2:06.6	You either know the count in an at bat or you don't.
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