00:00Adam Silver came out and was asked yesterday about the cost for regular fans, blue-collar people, to watch NBA games,
00:07considering so many games are now on streaming services or different networks, and you have to pay money to see the games.
00:15So we went from a time where you could watch all 82 of your team's games, where you might only get 50 games without taking money out of your pocket over regular TV.
00:24Hey, Adam Silver came out and said in his, like, Marie Antoinette let-them-eat-cake moment,
00:31listen, if you can't afford to buy it, that's your problem.
00:35We're a highlights league anyway.
00:37Just wait for the highlights and watch the highlights, which is so dismissive of the fandom a lot of us have,
00:44me for the Knicks, you for the Nuggets, Tyrone, you for the Sixers.
00:47I want to see every minute of every Knick game this year if I can.
00:51And if I can't afford to watch it on certain streaming services, the answer shouldn't be suck it up,
00:58just wait for the highlights to come out.
01:00It's like it's disrespectful to my fandom.
01:03Completely tone-deaf.
01:04Yeah, it is tone-deaf.
01:06And, like, I lived this with the Nuggets for years in Denver, where you couldn't watch the Nuggets in Denver.
01:13Right.
01:14And so you're watching, you're seeing a team win a championship over that time,
01:17you're seeing a guy in Jokic win three MVPs in that time.
01:21You're watching, like, the golden age of Nuggets basketball,
01:25and there's a whole generation of fans, your next generation of kids,
01:307, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, whatever they are,
01:33that are going to be your consumers in a few years,
01:35that you are neglecting letting watch this unbelievable run they've been on.
01:41I just, again, I'm with you.
01:43Absolutely hate it.
01:44The thing is, I get the business aspect of it.
01:46Make money, who's going to say no to capitalism, right?
01:49That be, other than the new mayor of New York,
01:52it's coming, it's coming.
01:57That being the case, though, listen, you have to have a better answer.
02:01You need a more sensitive answer.
02:03You got to come out, ask commission, go,
02:05I totally respect where fans are coming from.
02:07Unfortunately, this is the business we're involved with.
02:10This is the only way to monetize things so we can pay the players.
02:13Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
02:14Don't come out and go, hey, if you can't afford it,
02:17wait for the highlights, and then to tell everyone
02:20we're just a highlight league anyway.
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