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Hello and welcome to the Ringer NBA Show. It's the answer I'm your host Chris Ryan and this week

on the show, we're asking the question, what's wrong with the NBA and whose job is it to fix it?

The people who govern it or the people who broke it in the first place. Now that seems extreme,

I'm really just trying to get your attention, but I do think that if you've been watching

the league this season, if you've been reading about it on sites like the Ringer, or if you've

been listening to pods like this one, you know that there is something slightly off with the game.

And that's certainly understandable under the circumstances with COVID restrictions,

with limited to no fans in the stands and an incredibly condensed schedule that is likely

resulted in a lot of injuries across the league from some of the best players. But beyond those

factors, right, there's this feeling, I think, like the court can barely hold the sport anymore.

And that technology might be making the game worse rather than better.

Most fans, IRE is saved for the end of game situations where the last four minutes are basically

a period of view, reviews, timeouts, and tiki-tack fouls. But maybe the end of games have always

been stopped and started. I'm just getting old, you know, maybe we're all getting old, but nobody

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