Fultz getting past his issues was a little surprising. Ben Simmons turning into a basket case AFTER being a 3x all-star and making an all-NBA and all-defense is shocking.

fultz being a better trade asset than simmons puts into perspective how things have changed

Props to Jacoby for calling out the ticket prices like he did.

I will never understand why we don’t get more Bill Simmons video content

I love what the kings have been doing. I remember when Mike Brown didn't get any respect for our record when he coached us to the finals. but now that he's gotten a chance to show what he's learned, he's got them looking good! Honestly, they really do remind me of how my warriors looked when Steve Kerr got here. Mike has that offense COOKING, and they're running a lot of similar stuff to what we run. Obviously it's not the exact same cause there's only one Steph, but it makes sense to put in the same concepts with their roster. They've got a big that can pass, multiple young guys who can shoot, and a really awesome fun loving culture. I can't wait to see where the Kings go from here.

I think one of the biggest problems TBH is all this money the players are making. When you give a early to mid 20 something year-old young man 100 or $200+ million, then unless you have an incredibly rare mindset like a Jordan or a Kobe or even a Giannis, where your drive and motivation is something well beyond a bag, then It would make sense that for a lot of these players who are just blessed with incredible talent and ability but may not necessarily love the game like that, that basically this max contract is their “championship” and whatever happens on the court is neither here nor there. I feel like a lot of players making all this money low-key have that mentality.

Props to Bill for calling out Adam Silver 👏

Something tells me the Udoka situation was much more serious than the Celtics, media, and NBA want to admit and they’re burying him to not be a bad look on the league.

Brunson has been amazing. But, talk about the Hart trade. Hart is shooting 61% from the field, and 63% from 3 since the trade.

Adam Silver one hit the nail on the head!!!

The Grizzlies turning heel is the least surprising thing ever Young teams that talk shit before they’ve done shit are always on a knife’s edge and one wrong move away from being hated

1:49 Bill’s facial delight when the Shannon Sharpe incident is brought up in a nutshell is why he’s my favorite basketball talking head

I miss seeing Jacoby on tv again having fun with Jalen as well as their podcast.

I live in Australia and I don’t think Ben Simmons would make a team here in the NBL. His decline is mind boggling

I WOULD PAY HIGH AMOUNTS OF MONEY TO WATCH A CONVERSATION BETWEEN AARON RODGERS & BEN SIMMONS

Kings are fun. It's nice to see their success.

Great take by bill on silver I totally agree. I’m in my mid 20s been a diehard NBA fan my whole life I’m a Celtics fan and they always play which is awesome. However, I think I speak for me and a lot of my friends when I say that 10 years ago the NBA was just better people cared more people play more games it’s just kind of a shame to see

That grizzlies take aged TREMENDOUSLY

If the season was shorter we will have the same issues because in the NBA contracts are GUARANTEED! If games played were scaled with their salary then players will actually play.

That cut mid talk about Ime Udoka was Bill telling them what happened with Ime.

That shaman sitting behind him on the bench line fucking killed me

As a Warriors fan, I could not disagree with Jacoby’s first point more. I watched Brooks intentionally injure GP2 and try to fuck over the Warriors last playoffs. I watched Ja and Brooks brag about how this is their league after winning 1 playoff series. I’ve never found these new Grizzlies likable in any way. The old Grizzlies with Gasol and Conley were way more likable.

It is great to see Jacoby! I miss Jalen and Jacoby! Give him a show on the ringer.

Did you know Simmons had Clippers season tickets? Spotted 8:20

The ultimate problem of playing less games will smack head on into the ultimate problem of games being too expensive to attend. With a 60-70 game regular season schedule, prices will SKY ROCKET. Not because it's reasonable for the league, or for fans, or for players, or for professional sports in general, but because the BILLIONAIRE owners need to accumulate MORE money and power. As an ordinary citizen, in a failing economic system, it's becoming increasingly difficult to relate to any kind of professional sport based on the sheer amount of wealth it sucks from the bottom to the top. (and as a full disclosure, I'm doing fairly well, with an upper middle class government job.)

Love that I finally got some hard truth on record by one of the best in the game on how there is a serious sitting out games problem. If I was me 25 years ago would I be watching now, I’m not sure

I totally agree with the "where's Adam Silver" thing Bill threw out around the 22ish minute mark. The lack of a parent in the NBA has become a huge problem. My dad took me to the Nets @ Bulls game on 2/24 (purchased in December), and by the time we were ready to go to the game we were going to see a Nets team without Durant or Kyrie because they decided to remain true to character and lash out midseason, whilst Simmons sat on the bench the entire game because he had a boo boo. Fans shouldn't have to cross their fucking fingers that a single star plays the night of the game they go to.

Hey I grew up going to New Jersey nets games! I loved it. Petrovic, Kenny Anderson, Coleman! Then Kidd, Kenyon Martin and RJ! I loved it!

Exactly. Popovich did this for Duncan. Not a surprise he's doing it again.

As far as the load management problem: why don’t more people talk about doing away with back-to-back games?

Fox is one of the best 2 way guards in the NBA he has great offense and defense I love his game he's legit.

I like Bill’s take on Silver. Dude has been very vacant. League has problems - don’t bury your head in the sand, Silver.

Love seeing Jacoby again bill continues to find ways to make basketball more interesting truely a brilliant basketball mind

Someone came up with great idea - teams that dont make playoff get to play march madness kind of tournament for draft picks - winner gets number 1 and so on.. that would make teams want to compete and want to have a good roster in order to win number 1 pick. That would help a lot.

I could've told you from a mile away that the grizzlies were gonna get annoying really fast. Every other team that has acted like them in the past has become unlikeable. Add onto it physical and sometimes dirty play, and it was easy to predict. As a warriors fan, I already disliked them, but Brooks injuring Gary Payton ii really made me hate them

House rocking 2 mics. This is leadership

That Fultz take is TRUTH. He is spectacular.

When Bill said "What would stern do"? It reminded me of the early 2000's WWJD (what would Jesus do🤔 ) congratulations 🎊 👏🏾 💐 🥳 Mr.Simmons, I'm going to subscribe to your channel, you have won me over.

A Jacoby sighting!! Got to give the peeeeeeeeeople.. give the people what they want!

That cut while talking about Udoka haha

Jacoby nailed it, there’s way too many regular season games. 58 games would explode the interest in the regular season instantly as well as eliminating the majority of the load management issues.

I want a draft of bill Simmons drafts

My problem with 60 games is that the games are gonna be even more expensive.

So less regular season games, and put a rule in place where you must play x number of games to be eligible for end of season awards, (MVP, all NBA etc). You'll get every star player, playing as much as possible and load management will at least be cut way back.

Light The Beam!!!!!!!! Kings.

I would pay money to hear what House had to say about the 2 Ben Simmons comparison.

2003 and 2009 All-Star games were actually solid in my opinion.

“It’s my brother pop from the barber shop told me he was in the gambling spot and got the intricate plot” 🤣 (Ja) 🤣 😂

Best take ever, (tired of Adam Silver) a league missing the parent figure.

Then Ja pulled out the whistle. FANTASTIC first pick!

Bill’s pick was crazy to hear out loud

This a far more enjoyable post that almost all the other media posts these past few months - not filled with cliches or obvious takes - good chemistry and enthusiasm . Indeed, Jacoby is much more in his element in this format than in his show with Jalen. I knew it was going to be good when Jacoby started with his take on the Grizzlies rather than some BS abut the Lakers, Nets et al.

Crazy to think that tix are expensive even for Jacoby! I'm sure he's doing pretty well as an ESPN talent, too.

I agree about Adam Silver. And who is the next guy? Right now, no idea.

Accurate on the Adam Silver take The league is definitely being ruined

Jacoby and Bill were so terribly wrong about the kings trade for sabonis and now they're sitting here smiling ear to ear about the team. 🤣

Yeah, my pick was GSW’s road record/shit record to piggyback on Bill’s last one. No one would have ever expected that.

I agree about the Terrance Mann take.

Silver refuses to address the real problems with the league (archaic technology for video reviews, too many stoppages of play, the lack of competitiveness in the All-Star game etc.) and only looks at gimmicks to improve the product (or distract us from the real issues), which they won't. In fact they will only worsen the product by cheapening it, which he'll address by coming up with more gimmicks and so on and so forth. He has hurt the game throughout his tenure outside of his strong stance against racism, which - while absolutely deserving of respect and full applause on its own - has bought him a disproportionate amount of credit for the underwhelming job he has done running the NBA. Curry and LeBron bailed him out for a while. Without them at their peak, his decision-making has been exposed.

As Jacoby was talking about Huerter and was like “I don’t know what it is”, I said out loud, “he’s an unathletic white guy who can shoot” then he said “he’s a white guy from America” 😂😂

You guys think this might make for an interesting all star game? Re-doing the All Star game as follows: 4 Teams: Best under 23's Best 23-26 Best 27-29 Best 30 and over Play half games - 2 quarters Semifinals Over 30's vs Under 23's 23-26 vs 27-29 Championship - winners of the two semifinals

Bones Hyland has got to be so pissed rn 😂

Lasor incident is low key the worst thing to happen since the malice in the palace. NBA should have done something as guns were being pointed at NBA players after a game, insane 😮

Kawhi played almost 48 minutes in a an all time classic game and Adam Silver was mad about it. The biggest stretch of Kawhi playing kind of consistently and it only upsets Silver. Silver's going to double down on the degradation of the regular season's value if anything.

To me the issue with players being load managed and only caring to play some small percentage of regular season games is a fundamental problem with the fact that regular season games meaning nothing as long as you make the playoffs. In soccer the team that wins the league in the top European leagues is the team that is consistently the best over the entire season and then the winner of the champions league is the team that wins in soccer's equivalent of the playoffs. That means that the teams play hard every week to win the league and then also play hard to win the tournament at the end as well. Ultimately if there is no incentive for teams to win every regular season game they're not gonna care to try hard in every regular season game, end of story.

I honestly don’t love Jacoby on TV but this right here is his type of environment.

Flyers' Kate Smith, the Blues' Gloria. They become mythical in their cities.

Players that don't play because of load management (non injury, non excused absences) should be required to spend 2 hours before or after a game signing autographs or posing for pics with kids.

If there's less games, wouldn't the TV rights deals from the major companies have roughly the same amount of games? Assuming the length of season is the same. That does cut off from the local broadcast though.

BEAM TEAM GETTING OUR RESPECT. Also, am i the only one who loves what the grizzlies have done this season? Theyre like must watch TV now no matter the opponent. Im from sacramento but i like the grizz even more now.

Imagine following any Thunder writer and being able to know that we are resting SGA because he's injured, not because we are trying to lose.

Idk if this is another reason why the league is losing viewership but I'm a huge basketball fan and I work 2 jobs to support myself and a lot of people I know work 2 jobs. It's impossible to catch any of the games when you're working from afternoon to early morning

Introduce a sick pay for players and and once players miss certain amount games for Load management unless example after ten games start docking pay for every after that they miss, unless they missing time due to actual injuries that their get A lot corporate companies do this they will cover you for full pay for certain amount but after a certain time amount it goes to half pay and then less after depending on situation

The Goebert trade is maybe the worst in NBA history, but, given that Ainge already fleeced the Nets a decade ago, I can't understand how ANY GM trades w/ him at all.

the St Louis Blues gimmick that beat the Bruins was 'glorious'

Simmons made him a hunnid... He won👍🏾📠💯🤣

As a Philly fan, I think of Ty Lue being stepped over in Game 1 of the 2001 NBA finals. Those guys were so cheezy. Him dressing up like AI and doing all that headgame BS. He got walked in that game. And for me that's where it all ended. I forget about the following four games and the rest of Ty Lue's playing and coaching career.

What did jacoby say y’all had to cut lmaooo

Ben Simmons to golden state - becomes an all star again…

Jacoby talks about NBA games being too expensive, what does he think happens to ticket prices if they cut the number of games

Took Bill 8 minutes to mention a Clippers game.

How to fix load management: If a player DNPs without a doctor saying it is necessary for their health, make their stats all 0's for that night.

It's the year of the comeback of the K teams Kings Knicks both young fun teams .

Light the beam!

Me first listening to this episode: "I don't really get outside of some cockiness from a young team why everyone hates the Grizzlies all the sudden". 30 minutes later: Ja Morant punches kid story comes. Me after: "Ok, I kinda get it now".

is that Mick Foley in the picture over Bills shoulder???

Jacoby looks like Nostradamus roght before the Ja gun suspension

Such a great point about players not playing. There’s been 3 chances I could’ve went to a game but was hesitant to do so because I wasn’t sure if Lebron would play. I am not going to spend my money and miss seeing my favorite player. Teams should be required to announce the injury report 1 or 2 days before. Or at least do something for the fans who spent so much money on tickets and don’t even get to see their favorite players. By the way I live in Seattle so I have to go out of state just to catch a game.

Free idea, "Durantland" but its secretly Grantland.

The answer is to stretch the schedule. Pretty simple. More rest is scheduled. Not rocket science.

The thing I wish Bill would point out is that the Load Management thing is being driven by THE TEAMS. The players are just following their front offices team nutritionists/doctors/injury experts. If this was just the players, and the owners weren't on board, does anyone with common sense think the Commish office would be fine with this?

Messi and Ronaldo are actually two good examples how you don't need a player from your country to be a great symbol of your league. What the US are living now with the european players the europeans football leagues were into in the 80's and 90's

Grizzlies were unlikeable last year with the griddying after wins, cringe

Bill can sometimes get pretentious with his "I'm the real Smart guy in the room" attitude but he also has his highlights, he was completely spot on with how little of a crap nba players care about actually doing the thing theyre paid to do and the thing fans pay thousands of dollars to pay to watch them do. And somehow if you bring it up "YOU HATE THE PLAYERS!! YOU WANT THEM TO BE SLAVES TO THE LEAGUE" like no bro theyre in the most player friendly american sports league by far, most fans actually are on board with it, its not alot to ask a player who gets paid off the fact that people tune in to watch games on tv, buy merchandise, pay the for overpriced seats, and buy the mostly crap sneakers they sell to actually do the one things theyre asked to do.

Memphis has been a heel forever

As a t-wolves fan, I hated Ja and the grizzlies last year, everything that has happened has just confirmed my bias.

When will we see Jalen in one of the pods? :)

Mike Brown is great!

What did they say David Jacoby produced? I couldn't understand the title

Hit it on the nail. Adam silver.