00:00 Tyrese Halliburton wants an NBA in-season tournament banner.
00:03 Damian Lillard says just give him the $500,000.
00:05 What do you think?
00:06 Should the winner hang a banner?
00:08 - No, absolutely not.
00:09 Hell no.
00:10 I feel like, I feel like Damian's absolutely right.
00:12 Just give me my money and let me go about my business.
00:14 Like a banner is associated with an NBA championship.
00:18 Think of it like the attrition in getting through a season,
00:20 regular season and post-season
00:22 that leads to you winning an NBA championship
00:24 and you get that banner hung.
00:25 The in-season tournament is done before the All-Star break.
00:28 Like there's no even true attrition to it.
00:31 I feel like the in-season tournament has been great
00:33 for players feeling like the regular season matters,
00:36 but hanging a banner to me is just excessive.
00:40 - Why not?
00:41 There's literally no downside.
00:42 And you want it to get more and more important every year.
00:45 You want it to grow into an institution.
00:47 You know, an NBA championship
00:49 only has the meaning that we give it.
00:51 Otherwise, it's just a piece of jewelry.
00:53 It's just a trophy.
00:54 Same thing goes for this NBA in-season tournament.
00:58 And if you're a team like the Indiana Pacers, right?
01:01 Why wouldn't you celebrate that?
01:02 Or the Pelicans?
01:03 What has that franchise ever done?
01:05 Why wouldn't you celebrate that and hang a banner?
01:07 Not to mention the discussion we've already had
01:09 about LeBron, you know, it would be something to add
01:13 to his already very long resume.
01:14 So I just don't see a downside.
01:16 - But to me, that goes to the standard.
01:19 Like if you're the Pelicans or the Pacers,
01:21 if you're glorifying like,
01:22 "Oh my God, we won an in-season tournament."
01:25 That's part of the reason you can't win NBA finals now
01:27 because you don't value what's really important.
01:30 Now again, I agree with you.
01:31 I think the in-season tournament is great.
01:33 And I think for the league in terms of marketing,
01:36 hanging banners would be great for the in-season tournament,
01:38 but for the morality of the actual,
01:41 like what it is and the significance of an NBA player
01:45 to say, "Hey, we won this in-season tournament
01:48 like three months into the season.
01:50 I feel special."
01:51 Like, no, just give me the cash.
01:52 Let me go buy my business card.
01:54 - You heard me before.
01:55 I was getting choked up just talking about it.
01:57 - Thanks so much.
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