Today's podcast. We'll talk about a shorter season from that of silver.

Maybe a commission and why the seasons actually been very short for a lot of the best players in the league already.

George Neang, the Philadelphia 76ers, little story time with him, spent time with the Warriors, got cut,

almost out of the league, found his way through Utah and Philly, also his thoughts on the Celtics turnaround and who he likes in the finals in like advice.

I want to start today's podcast, talk about rest in the shorter NBA season. Adam Silver just days ago,

adjusting the media as he does around this time of the year every year, talked about potentially short in the season.

He was asked straight up and Silver said, quote, I'm not against it. And I thought he made some really good points, but he also felt like

based on last season he had said, hey, there were 10 fewer games and we didn't really feel like it was an impact.

He said, quote, no impact on injuries. I've talked to teams about this with all the information that have been flying around

the last few years. I think there's been more of a push. I wouldn't say 10 years ago, maybe seven years ago,

you know, the Spurs are resting guys, remember the Warriors resting guys on a big Saturday night game,

the heat would rest players and it kind of felt like everybody's kind of resting players to mess with each other.

And then you're starting to think like, all right, I get that each team's goals are more important than anything else, but you also don't want to be a

bad business partner and there were times where it felt like the NBA wasn't a great partner on some of those Saturday night broadcasts.

So some of the Thursday broadcasts, right, those are your marquee lineup games, Thursday and Saturday during the season when people start tuning in and

like you tune it in and you're like, wait, why are these guys resting because it felt like rest had gained a lot of momentum as an argument.

And I don't know if that's just social media, social media is usually a terrible barometer for how everybody really feels,

but at least felt on social media that people were very pro-rest. And of course the players are pro-rest because guess what?

Like if all of us could work less, we would work less. So I'd really blame them for doing that.

But silver, as he had said, there was really, he didn't feel like there was any impact to be fair.

You could counter that and say that last season was condensed, but players it felt like we're going down left and right during the playoffs,

which feels like it's a story of every playoffs. Towards the end, it's really hard to do this and guys go down.

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