00:00Commissioner Adam Silver said the NBA's new 3-2-1 draft lottery process will create a world we've never seen
00:07before, Joe.
00:08All 30 teams have incentive to win all their games.
00:12So correct me, Joe, if I'm wrong here on this.
00:16Why?
00:16Because you can tank, but not tank too much.
00:20But if you're still losing, you get incentive to lose, but not that much.
00:25What is he talking about where nobody has incentive to lose?
00:27Because if you are losing, but not losing enough, you will get better draft picks than the team that loses
00:33too much.
00:34So still, if you lose, there is incentive to lose.
00:37Did I miss anything?
00:38No, you pretty much nailed it, Donnie.
00:41That's it.
00:43He's doubling down, which just cracks me up.
00:47Well, you know what?
00:48Time will tell, Donnie.
00:49Here's what's going to happen here.
00:50Because he's going to have playing teams that have no interest in winning a playing game and advancing because they
00:56know they're not going to win anything.
00:57And they're actually going to have playing teams that are likely going to land, you know, with top five picks.
01:03And let's see how the rest of the league reacts to that.
01:07Because, and again, the NBA does it to themselves.
01:09And also, it's a superstar league.
01:10They pick where they want to go.
01:11The money is incredibly crazy.
01:13So they're like, okay, I can't get an extra $20 million to go to Los Angeles.
01:17And then team owners are like, I don't know.
01:18We'll set you up with a trade company to get you that $20 million.
01:21Like, we're never going to fix this.
01:23We know, honestly, if they wanted to do something, and it wouldn't be healthy for the league.
01:26They actually come out and be like, you know what?
01:28Every single team, all 30, Joe, forget about the non-playoff teams.
01:32You get one ping pong ball.
01:33We pull them out one by one, one through 30.
01:35You know what that does?
01:36You have zero incentive to lose.
01:38This is the stupidest thing we've ever heard because, you know, tanking is rampant in the NBA because they have
01:43too many games and the players don't care.
01:44And they want to extend their careers so they're going to sit out, and it's better for the ping pong
01:47balls.
01:48This is slightly better than that, but still absolutely ridiculous here.
01:52And they want you to believe that it's going to be the ultimate elixir to fixing tanking.
01:56No, it's not.
01:57It'll never happen.
01:58But you know what helps tanking as well, Joe?
02:00How about your players not actually betting on basketball games for themselves or their team or saying, hey, guys, want
02:07to make a quick hundred grand?
02:08I'm going to quote, unquote, hurt my ankle in the first minute, and let's all cash in.
02:13How about this?
02:14NBA free agent Terry Rozier must forfeit most of his $26.6 million salary from 2025-2026 season due to
02:22his alleged role in a sports gambling scheme and arbitrator rules.
02:26Makes sense here, Joe.
02:27Gamble, get caught, lose your money.
02:31Exactly correct, Donnie.
02:33I mean, you know, you certainly didn't earn it.
02:35So why should anybody be, you know, why should the Miami Heat or whoever be responsible to pay it?
02:41So go ahead and get the money back and deliver it back.
02:45Again, all of this because of $100,000.
02:49He took $100,000.
02:50It just, it's head-scratching, Donnie.
02:52Absolutely head-scratching.
02:54You look back, Joe, like what, the Boston College kids back in, I think, the early 1980s when they were
02:59shaving games like $1,000 because they were poor as heck, and that was a lot of money, and they
03:02weren't making any money, obviously.
03:04But now you take a look at a guy that makes $20 million, like give me an extra $100,000.
03:07Call your agent, do a local ad for a radio station that has a car dealership, and get the money
03:13that way.
03:14Unbelievable that people still act this way.
03:16Darren Revell tweet, the get-in price for Madison Square Garden, Joe, that we brought up to start the show,
03:21now selling for more than $6,000.
03:22Lowers are $9,000.
03:23Courtside, Joe, starts at $50,000.
03:26Now, I disagree with the last statement here.
03:28I know Toronto's a big hockey city, but I believe in that, like, you know, rinkside seats would start at
03:34$50,000 and Toronto stopped.
03:36Like, New York is a one-off year, Joe.
03:38The richest probably city in the world.
03:40This is what happens when they're starved for a championship and endless funds.
03:43I know Toronto hasn't won a Stanley Cup or been the one in a while, but I don't know if
03:46the get-in price would be $6,000 in Toronto.
03:51No, it wouldn't.
03:53And, yeah, it might be in L.A., but it's certainly going to be more than that in New York.
03:58But, you know, listen, it trickles down, Donnie, right?
04:01I mean, the Knicks being in the finals makes a whole lot of people in New York a whole lot
04:07of money during these games.
04:10Let's get to Brunson here on what he thinks about these prices.
04:13There was a report that in the last row of the garden, there are seats on sale for $7,500.
04:19I'm curious, what show would you pay $7,500 to go see?
04:24That's a good question.
04:33A live Michael Jackson performance.
04:36Mmm.
04:38That's a good one.
04:39That's a good one.
04:42But, honestly, like, he's been passed away for quite some time.
04:45If Michael Jackson was alive, you still wouldn't pay $7,500 there to get involved with a Michael Jackson concert.
04:51My answer would have been quick, Joe.
04:52It would have been, no, none, never.
04:54$7,500.
04:55I'd make hundreds of millions of dollars.
04:57I'm out on that here.
04:58I'm out on that here.
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