It's like it's like every year when the all star reserves are announced and it's like and you know I want you to say well who got snubbed and say you can't just answer it that way You have to say it needs to come out. You shouldn't be there right so that and that's when you kind of go okay That gets a lot harder. It's the same thing with this like we start looking at that list you're going okay. I hear you Wow like who are they gonna leapfrog

When you start getting to the does last few guys in the top 10 that that almost list are there But that's why it's a bad idea to do us versus international for the all-star game That's why it's a bad idea. I understand internationals are dominating especially up top right when you talk about the top players But to me, yes, that would make the game more exciting that would be a better But you're going to have guys that remember when debbie booger debon booger and dame lillard were like alternates Yeah, like those guys were alternates. It's hard to make an all-star game

So now you're going to say the the there's going to

be five players that might make the all-star game on the international side That wouldn't have made the all-star game on the us side So there are guys that on the us side that wouldn't make the cut and to me You're going to have guys missing out on all-star games and we know what that means for the new rules about player participation We know what that means for you know all nba all-star We know what that means for contract negotiations. So if you're trying to do that for a mid-season It's not mid-season but for a mid-season game That can affect players contracts and and shoe contracts and money for more like engagement in the all-star game I worry about that

We had 30 minutes with commissioner silver

When we did when we

It's it was again, it's a company of Several people that all work together. No collaboration. Nobody works for each other So whenever I talk about the I love the royal we I love the royal we that you include We had 30 minutes with them and and we stretch it to 45, but I really Wanted to get to point you just brought up

the idea of a post

the bronze stuff and ba and how the league is strategizing around that because You and I have seen these numbers when we did our broadcasting thing you go into the ratings of those guys you go into a poll of 10,000 nba fans who's your favorite player and it's like Well, the bronze at 18 and stuff is at 16 percent and the next person's at 3 percent There's a there's a big void whenever it happens and and hopefully it doesn't happen for a while But there will be a big void when those guys either retire

or

Have a significant drop off and obviously neither of those guys look like they're gonna have a significant drop off anytime soon But that is a problem and it's part of I think it's part of our job To help usher in the next

era of whoever that may be I do I think it's part of our job But we don't we don't choose that man. That's

the correct that's the coolest thing to me about basketball About basketball players. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, we mean I know what you're saying. I disagree with you on that

Okay, content. Tell me about your disagreement before I even finish my thoughts. I know what you're saying What

we don't we

don't choose who's on national tv Obviously we don't you and I don't choose that we also don't get to do everything we would like to do in studio

That's a fact.

Okay. It's a fact. Can I can I finish my thought?

I'm gonna agree with what you're saying that part of it. I'm gonna agree with okay.

So as I As per my last As per my last email

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basketball player on the planet transcends the game of basketball, right? That's why there's been so much hype about victor It's like you have to be able to transcend dr. J. He transcended the game Magic johnson larry bird you just say bird and magic right transcend the game mj transcendent the game, right? Like shak kobi transcendent the game. You just say those names mj. We know that so like lebron and stev those guys are in that space So the next one it's like oh is it gonna be the face of the league is this like we're hoping so I'll tell you one other step even from like how they're going to do this when lebron james move to the western conference It hurt a lot it hurt espina lot because he's your number one ratings guy

And then he is on a 10 30 and but no, but

his game was first his game was first

So all of those ratings would pull to the second game, right?