We have to talk about the biggest problem plaguing the NBA right now.

That's tanking.

The Utah Jazz is taking, tanking to the next level. They traded for Jared Jackson Jr. at the deadline. They played their first game with him in the lineup against Orlando Magic, and they were up 94-87 going into the fourth quarter. They were whooping their ass, lock and pallow up, everything to look at the Jazz. We're going to surely get this win. then they sat all their good players for the entire fourth quarter and lost the game 120 to 117.

Egregious act of thinking that is once

again reignited the talking point of this being something that is ruining the league for a lot of

viewers, a lot of people going to games, watching players in real life, watching on TV on League

Pass. It's bad for people that even want to have a casual interest in the NBA over the course

of the second half of the season because they know half the games will not matter because

the players will not play.

Do you guys view this as the biggest problem in the NBA right now?

I don't think this is the biggest problem in the league.

Honestly, this is just like, what is the biggest problem in the league? Power ranked the biggest problems in the league. I feel like it would be more of an eye cancer to watch a team like the Knicks go ahead and tank egregiously or the Lakers. A team that's like clearly like one of the more popular league teams versus the Utah Jazz. Ain't nobody checking for Utah Jazz games like that at all.

I don't give a damn if they think. They kind of have to. They this seems specific in the year, the kind of year and the kind of protection specifically that they have on top of them. They have to take it. They have to go ahead and guarantee that they land a pick or else I think it's top eight protected. if they don't let get it get it within the top eight okay c gets that pick yep that's perfectly fine

their fans I feel like

their fans overall aren't mad about it because they understand how important how pivotal

this is to overall team building if you're the Utah jazz who you're not going to go ahead

and sign any free agents I can't name too many guys off the top of my head who were like, yeah, Utah Jazz, sign me up. I want to be with them Mormons. No one ever thinks like that ever, ever. Yeah. Well, I think you're right that it's obviously in the best interest of the Utah Jazz for that pick protection, for the place they're out in their timeline, for how good this draft is, which is probably like the tweet we have on screen right now.

It seems like 20% of the league is already tanking.

That is how it feels.

I feel like we're in one of the biggest tanking years in a long time. That's going to happen when you have one of the best draft classes of all time, seemingly in front of us, with three seemingly surefire superstars, a fourth guy in Caleb, Wilson, who is also thought to be as good as a normal top three pick,

three or four other guys that could be solid top four picks in most drafts, you're going to see more teams that want to get in on that, they want to get involved with that. That makes sense? The issue isn't doesn't make sense, though. Is it good for the league? And I think that's the part people are taking exception with, that if it makes sense, that's a problem with the system. And the system is set up that it makes a lot of uninteraining hoops. And you don't really, you've never, there's no other sport that have anything like this, where a third of the league is actively putting a bad product out there on purpose for four months of the season. I think for the Utah Jazz specifically, there's some baseball teams that would be.

Sure.

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