The NBA needs to bring back the storytelling It's the only of the 4 major pro sports leagues that doesn't have an opening paying homage to the history amp soul of the sportleague for the biggest event of its season Eg here are the openings for the most recent World Series Stanley Cup amp Super Bowl

Puck Hamby If big mainstream media outlets arent touching your Pablo Torre scoop to me thats not defending Steve Ballmer the NBA or the Clippers Thats like Is there anything here and are you just presenting this story for your audiencefor clout and clicks and building your audience

Adam Silver We discussed ongoing negotiations with the Euro League We believe that NBA Europe would be strengthened by joining forces with the Euro League It doesn't have to happen but I think we would all be better off as a unified front in Europe in terms of the potential investors

Kevin Durant on the drama surrounding the WNBAAll that stuff is to be noise man WNBA is flourishing Look what these women are doing Look at the money they made over the last few years Look at the visibility of their league They got 4 5 signature athletes on major brands that are representi

Pablo Torre and Stavros Halkias discuss the sports bubble with Stavros arguing that private equity is ruining sports franchises If they destroy the Lakers guys with Kobe back tattoos are going to start fucking like the proletariat revolution

Ben Taylor of Thinking Basketball questions why the NBA has stopped calling offensive fouls when players charge into someone or use their off-arm showing clips from just a decade ago where those moves were illegal and the players didn't even argue the calls when they happened

Bill Simmons does a quick breakdown of the Clippers organizations lowlights through the years What more could we have expected from the most incompetent sports franchise of all time