Welcome back to another episode of the Vertical Podcast with Chris Mannix.

Glad he could join me, and we have a lot to get to this week.

We have the Cavalier struggling, the warrior surging, more dysfunction in Sacramento, and an NBA

Board of Governors meeting coming up this week where I hope they address tanking in a serious

way.

Joining me to discuss all this is Bobby Marks, the front office inside it with the vertical.

Bobby, of course, is a former assistant GM with the Nets. Quick housekeeping note, if you like this podcast, there is one very easy way you can support it. Go to iTunes, post a rating, leave us a comment. It's easy, it's free, and it helps us out here a lot. That's it. All right, let's go. Welcome back to another episode of the vertical podcast with Chris Maddox and a lot going on in the NBA right now.

Tons of stuff going on.

Got Cleveland, there's struggles, Golden State surging.

New injury to Derek Rose looks a lot like the old one.

Of course, the MVP race is heating up.

Nobody better to talk to about all these things than Bobby Marks, the front office insider over at the vertical, former assistant GM with the Brooklyn Nets for many years.

Bobby, what's going on today?

Hello, Chris.

How are you?

You know, well, I'm still, you know, I was, I do a lot of outside radio interviews, you know, like you do as well.

And people ask me all the time, say, is what Cleveland's going through concerning.

And I'm pretty consistent that, you know, yeah, you're always concerned when a team is losing games and looking like they do.

But it's still the two-time Eastern

Conference champs, it's still the defending NBA champs, it's still largely the same team

that went to back-to-back finals. So, you know, my common response is they'll figure it out.

I'm starting to waver off that response a little bit, Bobby. It was,

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