Hey, everyone, welcome into the WojPod.

Perhaps you heard the first part of this conversation with my guest, Zach Lowe, over on the

Low Post.

We essentially just stopped halfway through a longer conversation that we had there, and we're

going to pick up here on the Woj Pod.

So let's start here, Zach.

We left off talking about the legitimacy of a champion coming out of this season.

That's going to be determined, in some part, by the structure of what the playoffs look like.

And this week is going to go a long way toward the decision of who's coming back to play.

How many teams play in versus pool play, regular season games.

Let me ask you this, Zach, who do you think this week are the most important voices

that are going to determine what this looks

like. If we're going to assume Adam Silver at the very top, along with Michelle Roberts,

the Players Association, Chris Paul, where do you think the influence is right now?

Well, I think after that, it might pivot right to scientists who are going to say, you know,

what's the best way to do this?

What's the safest way to do this?

What do the protocols have to be?

I realize that's a boring answer.

I think underneath that, maybe you get some of the agents who represent some of the

superstar players who are on teams that are on the bubble of maybe coming back, maybe not

coming back, and those players themselves, what do they want? What is it going to take from them

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