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Welcome everybody to the Lockdown Lakers podcast. I'm Anthony Erwin in a second. I'm going to be joined by Pete and he and I are going to discuss, look, it's National Championship Day here for college football.

It is something that I was watching right before he and I recorded.

And I just, I can't break myself from the concerns that I have regarding the NBA and its

packaging compared to literally anything football. Like there are high school

football games out here in Texas that are better packaged than

ESPN and TNT have

lined up for for NBA games. I just think that's a inherent problem. So Pete and I are going to basically

talk about that for the entirety of the show and we're going to offer up our solutions to a pretty pervasive problem and whether or not it's something

that can actually even be fixed so it's a fun show we do keep it light-hearted but

it's a very serious problem that the NBA is facing right now. Pete, we were, I want to start today's show with this, because the National Championship

game is on in the background. I was watching it right before you and I started talking.

And once again, like I find myself jealous of what football fans get to get to listen to when they're watching their game, especially big games, right?

And Kirk Herp Street has his own problems and college football in general has its own inherent problems. Without touching that, I just listen to the amount of excitement and love and glee for the sport that they have that they're talking about as it's happening and I just keep going back to what I listened to on especially nationally televised games.

And man, like if you were looking for reasons, if you were trying to, if you were to power rank reasons why football might be leaving basketball in the dust

ratings wise I have to think that the packaging is pretty high up there.

Yeah, I know I think it's it's number one honestly. I was talking to somebody this weekend

about this watching one of the football games which I don't do a ton but I been doing more recently, and a lot of it's for the presentation stuff. I make videos, right? And so I look very closely at the shots that they take, like the different camera angles.

And the thing that really stood out to me,

now this is with the caveat that the NFL pauses in between plays,

like, right?

You run a play, unless it's a no-huddle situation,

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