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Jim discusses the impact of the 2nd in-season NBA Cup and how it’s been received by players and fans, the league’s changes of the NBA All-Star Game, and the criticism of Caitlyn Clark being named Time magazine’s Athlete of the Year. 2008 NBA Champion and NBC Boston NBA Analyst Brian Scalabrine joins the show to discuss the current state of the game, the chances of the Boston Celtics repeating as NBA Champions, and how accepting his role on his team led to an 11-year career in the NBA. You might be surprised to learn which current Celtic Scalabrine calls “a bonafide savage”.

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You can follow me at Jim Jackson Show on IG, but also too on the platforms that you generally get your podcasts from, whether that's Spotify, Apple, or whatever you log into. Listen, it's been a great week. Basketball, we're heading into the holiday season. We know it's a big, big day for the NBA on Christmas, despite the NFL kind of encroaching upon our day, so to speak, with Netflix having two games, but that's all right.

We'll let them go. I understand the marketing behind it, but a few things happened this week. Kind of just want to discuss as we tip off the show. Congrats to the Milwaukee Bucks for winning the second annual, the Emirates Cup this year as the official name of it, but being able to win that. And I thought that, you know, I thought teams and fans got a better understanding of what the cup was all about.

The designation between when it was played on a Tuesday, Thursday, the courts were toned down a little bit as the NBA took more control over the coloring and the platforming and the layouts of the court. But I thought that, one, the fans felt more in tune and understood it, and being at different games and watching different games, it felt a little bit different this year now that everybody was on the same page as to what the cup was all about. But I also thought, more importantly, that the players took it more serious this year. Not that they didn't last year, but they really honed in and really identified with these certain games. And I thought that it developed a better product and it will continue to get better. I know still some people are up in the air about the cup. It's a gimmick. I don't think it's a gimmick. I think now, whether it stays in this current format at this time period, whether it stays at the beginning, or I know it's been some conversation about moving into January, which kind of defeats the purpose of getting eyeballs on the NBA in late October, early November, and before Christmas to kind of compete with basketball.

Why would you move into January? Just maybe some strategical things. But shout out to the Milwaukee Bucks, the NBA, for the second iteration of this cup and the Bucks winning it. And to our fans who enjoyed it, you know, came out to Vegas, went out to Vegas and watched it.

I thought from a TV perspective, it was put on well. And it's only going to get better. Again, when something is new, you tend to fight it.

You tend to push it back, i.e. to play in games. But now look at what it's been able to produce over the years, the kind of excitement at the end of the year.

I don't think this cup will be able to do that as well during the season as we continue to roll along with it. What else is in the news this week? Changes in formats to the NBA All-Star game.

I'm just going to keep it real. I'm not going to jump into what's right, what's wrong, why they did it, why they didn't. I'll tell you why they did it. The players have to take responsibility of this. I know Kevin Durant came out and said that he would like to see it go back to the old format.

Well, the old format didn't work because the players didn't play. The players don't take it too seriously, but serious enough to make it where the fans who are paying the money to come see it. The TV companies who are paying the big bucks to put it on, they don't take it serious. So that's why the NBA over the last three, four, five, six years had to figure out ways to reinvent the All-Star game because players, i.e.

the leaders, don't take it serious. When a Luka or Jokic or Ja Morant or whoever it may be doesn't play hard and it's just layup basketball, then the product is not going to be worth watching. So the NBA cannot not have the All-Star game.

It's part of their TV deal. So that's why they're tweaking and trying to figure out what can we do to salvage it? What can we do to make it interesting? But at the end of the day, guys got to want to play. Guys got to want to play.

And I hate to be the old guy, you know, get off my lawn, but there was a time in the 80s and in the 90s when the All-Star game meant something. When it meant, one, you were prideful because you were part of a select group of people who got selected to play. Second, now you wanted to compete on a national stage, whether it's East versus West to prove who was the better conference. And third, you competed against the competition, against those other players that you have been competing with, you know, against all year to prove a point.

And maybe somebody you liked, somebody you was a friend, but you still want to go at them. That competitive spirit was lost. Hence, this is why the NBA is trying to figure out ways to reinvent the game. So the players you're going to complain about it, but at the end of the day, you have to take this serious enough to be able to go out and play. Even if that means you're playing less minutes, if you're a superstar, maybe you play five to eight minutes in that first quarter, second quarter, stuff like that. Other players want to play hard.

They'll play hard when leaders, the leaders, the true players, go out there and play hard on both ends of the floor. Third thing, congratulations to Kaitlyn Clark for being named Time Athlete of the Year. I get why people are so upset.

I'm a basketball player and a basketball fan. It's a lot of dynamics and a lot of layers to this thing when it deals with Kaitlyn Clark. But I will say that this is just my opinion. It's certain people, I don't care if you're black, white, Spanish, from Europe, it doesn't matter that have it, that draws something.

And Kaitlyn is one of those. It's the reason why Steph Curry, who may not be the best player in the NBA, but he draws differently. He draws different. He can be marketed differently than other players. Some players who may be considered better, maybe Kevin Durant, but to market Kevin Durant is a lot different than marketing Steph Curry. People resonate with Steph Curry a lot more than a KD. Now that may be KD's personality.

He doesn't really care. And I'm just using KD as an example of a player that physically is, I think, a better overall player than Steph. But Steph, from a marketing perspective, is more valuable in terms of marketing and what he brings to the table. And that's what I see with Kaitlyn Clark. Kaitlyn may not be, Asia Wilson is the best player in the WNBA, but Kaitlyn is more marketable because people tend to resonate.

I don't care black, white, whatever it may be. And now there is a race component to it. It always will be, in some regards. But the player itself, the person, what she was able to do, how she resonated, how she drew eyes to the TV. I don't agree with the Mystics owner saying that the whole WNBA should have been named that because that's not true. The whole WNBA benefited this year from the viewership increase because of the excitement between Angel Reese and also Kaitlyn Clark. But from a marketing, pure marketing perspective, Kaitlyn Clark was it.

Angel Reese added to that because of that duel and that rivalry. But some people, keep in mind, this is a business. When Nike signs a athlete, they want to get an ROI, return on their investment.

How do they do that? Because that athlete resonates. You understand that Kaitlyn Clark, her jerseys, her apparel, if she has an apparel deal, her shoes will sell. There are some other players that get deals, men and women, that have signature shoes that despite how good they are as a player, great as they are as a player, they don't move product because it doesn't resonate. It doesn't translate. What translates is when Kaitlyn Clark came into the league and 30,000 jerseys were already ordered, that the Indiana Fever, the season tickets were already sold out. When you go on the road to the Mystics and they have to change the venue in which it's going to be played to play where the Wizards play on a couple of occasions.

It's only certain people that do that. Whether you like Kaitlyn or not, are you interested? If you're a ballplayer, it's certain aspects you got to love about Kaitlyn's game. If you just truly love basketball, all the other stuff we can debate. There are some other factors that go into this, don't get me wrong, but purely from a basketball perspective and what she brought to the WNBA, along with Angel Reese and the other players, I think in the last three or four or five years from a marketing perspective, have really added so much value to where they're going. Hence, they signed a new TV deal that she deserved it.

Now, other stuff we can get into later on different conversations, deeper, but to me, that's where it's at with Kaitlyn Clark. So shout out to that. Kaitlyn Clark, shout out to the NBA, Emirates Cup, but also All-Star Game, I'll go back to this. Players, players you got to play. You play hard, you benefit TV, people love it.

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Terms and points can't apply. Learn more at AmericanExpress.com slash Amex Business. It is my pleasure, my honor, to welcome in a great friend of mine, Brian Scalabrini, aka the White Mamba. You know, listen, I know you do games with the Boston Celtics, but you have, you, you're a co-host to one of the, I think one of the best NBA talk shows on NBA radio, you know, with Frank Isola. You also coach AAU, so you're tied in from the basketball end, and being tied in with the Boston Celtics, where I was teasing you this summer, during the parade and celebration, you celebrated more on the banana boat than anybody, bro, because it's not a banana boat. It's a duck boat. It's a duck boat.

Okay. A duck boat on the duck boat. Didn't we have a, uh, a victory game? You let it came back. Yeah, you were exactly. So I got off the duck boat. I was popping bottles, spraying the crowd, and I didn't even bring a change of shirt. My shirts, no champagne on the plane. I'm like, Hey man, this is the way I'm rolling in, man.

This is what it is. So yeah. I mean, you know, like, I'll tell you what, when we won a championship in 08, I don't think I celebrated to us, to the fullest extent. I wish I would have celebrated more. So I was like, you know what, 2024, it's like the new 2008 for me.

So yeah, I was definitely, I was living through that, uh, that 2024 team, no doubt about it. But why wouldn't, if you go back and look at it in that 018 and you want it, you said you wish you would have celebrated more. I know you, I know you, it was a long season. You had to finally had a chance to get there again.

You're broadcasting compared to playing. It's more like a relief, like getting it off your chest, but I haven't been there. So when you, when you say wish you would have celebrated more, what does that mean? What does that entail?

Like what? Drink all night, hang out with the people of the city. That's it.

He was going to be outside, you know, you got your family there. Right. We take the pictures with the trophy. Okay. And you, and you hit her with the, you know, I, I love Mrs. Scali, you know that, right? It's like, all right, Mrs. Scali, time to go. And I'm going to go out and I don't know when I'm coming back, but it's going to be when the sun comes up.

Right. And I'm going bar to bar with the people, man, because when you win a championship and like, I didn't know at the time, but now being a part of Boston and like living here and doing all that, like, it's really up for the city. Like it, you know, you, you win it and you're like, man, we accomplished our goal, but like, you realize how important it is for the people. And then you, you know, you get a chance to go in the duck boat, you see it, you're like, oh yeah, like there's millions of people out here. Like, you know, they haven't done this since 1986.

So that's, that's the way that I, in hindsight, I looked at it and I would have loved just to, you know, hang out all night. And, and, and, you know, like when you're in and you know how it is, JJ, when you're in a playoff, man, like the world could be burning down around you and you have no idea. You have no idea what's going on in the world. Like it's like, you're worried about guarding a pick and roll or, you know, what happens on this screen down?

What are we doing? And you, you have no concern of anything. Sometimes you have no concern of things going on in your own family.

Right. So, so like when, after you win it, then you start to be like, man, this is a, it's a big relief and all that stuff. But no, I would've, I would've definitely hung out with the city, no doubt. The further you've gotten away from, to realize, but you watched it through the eyes of the celtics of this team. It seemed like you gained that appreciation for it a lot more. I know I did like, and I know what you mean by taking it for granted, because when I played, I wasn't fortunate to have, you know, success winning wise early in my career. So it was always, okay, the next year, the next year you prepare. So you'd never get a chance to, I never got a chance to really enjoy, I had fun in NBA, but really enjoy it.

You know what I mean? It was when I finally started to win near the end of my career that I took a deep breath and I was like, man, this is what it's about. This is, but I knew also too, I was near the end of my career. So I looked at it different. And now that I've been retired for 18 years and I view it, I'm like, man, I wasted probably some years of really enjoying playing in the NBA. And it's a catch 22 because I was so focused on trying to get better, trying to win, trying to figure it out. But when I was in the moment, I could never really, really embrace it and enjoy it until later on.

Yeah. One thing that people have to realize, and I know, you know, and like there's NBA players, but there's not one road to being an NBA player. Like you're, you're a top draft pick going on a team, you know, with, so you had Jamal Mashburn, Jason Kidd, like you guys, it's, that's a whole different road than me being a second round draft pick and being really lucky that I got drafted by the Nets. And then that led to, you know, two finals appearances. And then you're with a real serious organization and you know what they do when you win, you bring back to 10th, 11th, 12th man. Like my career looks totally different if I go to a different place. So I like that thing that you were talking about, like, look, I was winning, but I'm not going to, this is not, I was winning because of Jason Kidd. I was winning in Boston because of Garnett Pierce and Ray Allen, Rondo, those guys.

Right. So it's like, I'm just trying every day to fill my role and to stay in the league. And you're trying every day to become an all star, play for a legacy, you know, like looking at, okay, am I going to make this much money or that much money?

Like it's very, very different. And I, and one thing about me, like my superpower at the time is knowing exactly who I am and who I'm not. So like when, when you say like, man, I didn't, I didn't enjoy it. Like I could have, or like when I say that it's like, because like I said, man, I'm just trying to hang on and get one more year or I'm just trying to, how can I stay two more years in this thing or three more years in this thing?

And that's, and that's my mindset all the way through. And I, I didn't even enjoy it until like I retired and I was like, man, that's pretty amazing what I accomplished. But when someone asked me, I go to talk to kids, like you talk about the AAU and kids asked me, when did you feel like you made it? I was like, man, when I was done, like when I was done, that's when I was like, dang man, like how the hell did the kid from the middle of nowhere pull out an 11 year career and now, you know, got a championship and, you know, been to four finals and no countless hall of famers.

Like I don't even know how I got to that point, but, but that's kind of how my mindset was. Well, but you also too, it's, I think you brought up a point where you get drafted too, good or bad. You know, that's, that's the key to a lot of players in the league, even a top draft pick, because you can be a top draft pick and get drafted to the wrong team. And it doesn't work out. I'll take an example like Chauncey Billups who got drafted high, which started in Boston. It didn't work.

He ended up in Toronto and Minnesota, then finally got to Detroit, Minnesota kind of got his legs up underneath him, finally got to Detroit and then boom, it took off, but it took him time to kind of figure that out and find the right team. And I think a lot of players and its parents too, and you, you're around this a lot with the AU, want things right now. They want it to happen right now. And not understanding the situation that you're in sometimes dictates whether you play a lot or you score a lot or you're successful, what your role is in today's world.

And it was like that before too, but I think more so now, do you see more of the impatience with not just the young men and women, but with the parents and I say the parents because the parents heavily influenced how the young men and women think and react to disappointment and success. Yeah. So, so let's unfold that. I actually never got a chance to talk to Chauncey Billups about this. I know Chauncey, like, you know Chauncey, but I would, I wonder if he thinks I'm not a hall of famer if it's not for those things that happened to me earlier.

I don't know if he thinks like that. We had Brad Daugherty on the show today and he was talking about Michael Jordan. And I didn't know that Buzz Peterson was the player of the year in North Carolina, you know, Michael's senior year.

So Brad Daugherty is like, man, I don't know about this Mike Jordan, but I know Buzz Peterson's the man. Right. So like Jordan was slighted, you know, we know he got cut from the varsity team when he was a sophomore.

Then he went to, you know, North Carolina and he wasn't on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Right. Like I, and you know, the hall, then you can go to the hall of fame speech and, you know, like he's still a little bit sour about it.

You know, he's the greatest player ever. And yeah, he's sour about being slighted. Right. So I wonder how a lot of people take that, you know, I think now people fabricate their own stories and say, man, this guy don't believe in me.

This guy don't believe in me. Right. But it's like back in the day, like we all as players find motivation in those and going through those things.

Right. But I'll say this from the, from the youth basketball standpoint. And like, I thought I was really lucky last year. So my top players, I had a kid going to Colgate and, uh, you know, Cooper flags, brother, and that's a, you know, a sub flag and like, I'm going to be me, but I was really lucky that the parents were really cool with that because they allowed me to push those kids. And I felt like, especially with Andrew, cause I spent a lot of time with Andrew that he went to a completely different level with my ability to push him. And a lot of people aren't gonna like that. You know, they're just, they're just, it's not, they're not comfortable with that kind of stuff. And you know, and I think, I mean, everyone grows differently, I guess, but I really felt like, like I just, you know, going back to the Chauncey Bill thing, if there's people that are behind you, pushing you, motivating you good, bad, they care about you. They don't care about you. I feel like it all goes into the pot.

And the end result is usually if you're a competitor, the end result is going to be something good that comes out of it. Go back real quick. You were talking about Andrew. Was that Andrew Flag?

Who were you talking about? So Andrew, his name is Allasenko. His parents are Russian kids going to, he's going to Colgate and Ace is Ace Flag. So both kids, I was allowed to push, but Ace like works out with Cooper all the time.

So I didn't get a chance in the off season to spend time with him. This kid, Andrew Allasenko, who's going to Colgate, who I, I believe like he's a much better player than that, but it's fine. Like it's good. Like he's family's into education and everything like that. But I just think when you are going back to the point, it's like, and I'm sure like you push your son, like the way you want, like when kids are receptive to go into levels that are uncomfortable, I think that's where the real growth really happens.

I love it, man. I love it to keep doing that too, man, because I think that's, that's a, kids want to be coached. I learned that kids want to be coached. Kids want to be pushed the right way when they respect it. But it's also this, this dynamic that they're dealing with, with overbearing parents at a time or friends that want something more or something different than what they actually see. So you have this conflict between whether that's the coach or the AAU coach or the high school coach that wants to direct them one way and understand you've got to go through a process to get to a point to where you need to be. And sometimes it has to hurt. Sometimes it has to be disappointing, but you have to learn to fight through that.

And I think at the end of that, the young men and women can look back at it like a Michael Jordan had to go through that process of being hurt, being cut and not being looked upon as a certain way to push himself. And as I transitioned and I think about that, I'm talking about pushing yourself with the Celtics. You win it last year, you go through a, a weird summer where it's like, okay, the Celtics won it. Yeah, they won it. They were great, but it's like a, but is that that fuel this team coming in? Cause I feel like they're playing now, like they have even more to prove as a team, as a group than they did last year. Am I off on that? Jimmy, I think that you would be better to answer this question than me because the Celtics success and their growth and everything happened when Tatum and Brown became playmakers, when those guys all of a sudden started moving the ball and trusting everybody, that's when the Celtics have the cheat code.

I get it. Like Brad Stevens, as you holiday or Zing, as they added, you know, some players around them, some spacers, but they still have to trust everybody. So I don't like, think about it. They had 19 assists in the NBA finals game. Think of 19 assists. I would, you could bet a million dollars that those guys would never three years ago, that those guys would never combine to have 19 assists in the NBA finals game. So when that happened, that their growth as young star players positioning themselves in this league, I'm not a hall of Famer.

Am I an all star? I don't even know what it's like to think like them, but once they did that, then the Celtics became unbeatable last year. What now was that thinking process?

And again, it's layered because you know, you got to go through some stuff. They kind of accomplished some individual goals. They've gotten to the Eastern conference finals, finals, stuff like that, but they didn't get over the top. How much do you think that played into the maturity as, and again, another year of maturing as a young man, not just from a basketball perspective, but you know, growing in his mind as a young man, how much do you think that played into that part of, and also the makeup of the team? Yeah. So I'm going to, this is only my opinion, right? Right.

This is nothing that they have told me, but like, you know, Brad Stevens is a really smart guy. And he said, when he resigned and wanted to become president, that it was time for him to go, right? Like it was time for me to move on. Then he got Imei Doka in here and Imei Doka was the first, I mean, listen, this is from the outside in where he really pushed Tatum and Brown.

Like it looked like on the daily, he pushed those guys to become something more than what they could like every day, pushing those guys to do something, right? Okay. You're going to do this. You're going to be this. You're going to handle the ball more.

You're going to, it was, it was constant. You got to move the ball. It was like, we would win games and he would be like, Tatum and Brown got to be better. You know, like we put a lot of responsibility in their hands.

They're the best players on this team. So like that uncomfortable conversation. And listen, I don't know what happened behind closed doors. It may be different. And you know, it could be like that. Some coaches are cool, you know, saying things to players in public, you know, some, some coaches only do it in private, but it just felt like Imei Doka was pushing those guys to do like to push, like to, to get beyond their comfort, comfort zone. You know, the thing happened with Imei Doka, then Joe Mazula takes over.

It's a weird situation. A week later, he's taking over the Boston Celtics. The Celtics really don't know.

They can't talk about it, whatever it is. Right. But Joe Mazula did the exact same thing. And he pushed those guys to get out of their comfort zone, to do more, to play, become better playmakers. And I think like all that led to, you know, the Tatum and Brown. So maybe, maybe, and you know how it is, man, like combinations, you talk about draft places, maybe it was the perfect combination of Brad Stevens and then Imei and then Joe Mazula is what exactly got those guys over the hump. I mean, you know, if Imei was here, maybe they would have won a championship, but like the end result is what it is.

And for whatever reason, the combination of all those guys and all the people in their lives made these guys into what it is. And, you know, like people don't, they have to understand that the NBA is so much more than just like, all right, the players worked out and they got really good. No, man, like it's getting uncomfortable. It's growing.

It's like failing. It's a, it's a lot of things that go into when you see a really good dominant team, a championship level team. It's just like, you cannot talk about the Golden State Warriors without bringing up Mark Jackson. You have to bring up Mark Jackson.

You have to bring up what he did, Steph Curry and Klay Thompson, though he was, he loved those guys and he allowed those guys to grow and Steve Kerr came and they took them to a new level. Like it's all part of the story. No, I love it because it was the, the dynamic, it goes back to patients and in today's world style, you know, this organizations generally are not as patient when they, when they built the roster and a team and spent money and gotten close, we couldn't get over the top. That all of a sudden, boom, they blow it up and they do something. The, the, the steps that the Celtics had to take to kind of feel the losses and grow and mature and add the right pieces, bring in a Porzingis in, even though he was injury prone, but his presence got Boston to a certain place, bringing Al Horford back.

You know what I mean? Getting Drew Holliday, you know, Derek White's emergence, you know, Peyton Pritchard getting better and better each year. Even when Sam Houser struggled with a shot early on, he continued to stay with it. All these things had to come together in order for what happened last year to happen. And ironically, because of how things went down, I don't think you have, and this is my opinion from outside looking in, a Boston team that's satisfied because of all the dynamics of what happened. Like Joe Mazzola didn't need to soak the fires early with this team to understand that now you're the hunted because you won. I just, I felt that coming into it and, you know, it's going to be, it's going to be interesting to see stuff cause you're around it every day. As the season goes on, we go through those doldrums of right before, you know, all-star break when it's like getting monotonous, kind of how this team continues to push, even though Milwaukee is playing a lot better right now.

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A complete unknown only theaters Christmas Day rated R under $17.90 without parrot. So I got the answer for you, Jim. When Peyton Pritchard is a bona fide savage too. I don't know if I've said this publicly. I think that in a good way and you know what I mean. I think people in the NBA would know what I mean. He got to screw loose in a good way. Every day Peyton Pritchard is going out there trying to score 30 and have 10 assists and lock up the best player and outplay the star player on the other end. Every single night he's thinking that. Every single night he's playing, and you can attest to this, for Joe Mazzola to not take him out of the game at the first half. There's been points in the first half where he checks in with like six to go and he just plays till the half and then the second half he'll check in in the third quarter with like six to go and he won't come back out of the game.

So every day and then there's a game where he gets taken out and he's not on the floor in the fourth quarter and I'm telling you he's pissed like he's mad. So when you have bench players that are like that that are pushing like that and Joe for whatever reason like he like I don't want to say tugs those strengths because that's kind of disrespectful to Peyton Pritchard but he knows exactly how to keep those guys completely motivated. I think it's going to be really hard for the Celtics to like mail it in if you know what I mean. Peyton Pritchard comes out and played and he gets 27 and 10 and Jaylen Brown and Tatum are like deferring to him as a lead guard. So I think when you have guys like that got a little screw loose coming off the bench dude it puts a lot of pressure on the starters to play well like maybe not Brown and Tatum even though the other night you know Jaylen Brown against Washington went to the bench never returned he just rolled out with some guys or Drew Holliday went to the bench didn't return like there's been moments where he just rolls with Peyton Pritchard and a bench guy and he kind of does the same thing with the big kid Cornette and Kata. So he just like really knows how to tug those strings which I don't think these guys will have a mail-in week or month or anything like that. It's interesting man it's um the dynamics of the way their roster is built and you know we always say this is what tend to say tend to say is the copycat league are you for the amount of threes that are being shot not just from Boston's perspective but as that being the focal point right now and two-prong answer that the number of threes and does that have an effect on how people view and watch and enjoy the game in your opinion? Yeah of course of course it's an easy fix though Jimmy an easy fix just eliminate three in the key just allow teams to go get monster bigs to guard the rim that they don't have to clear the lane or whatever coaches will design defenses around funneling to bigs then they'll pill they'll you know kind of peel off or build out to three-point shooting and they'll trust their bigs at the basket so if the NBA is shifted like we're playing the European game with a screwed up rule now like a three-second defensive three-second violation if the guys okay that that was in the lane for the purpose of like guys having more room to work now we have three-point shooters so everyone has more room to work there's no need to have three seconds if you want to really this you can fix the game without moving the three-point line you can also take that charge circle and extend it out without about two feet so now all of a sudden you don't have plays at the rim where guys are getting turnovers or taking charges or anything like that which is a better game by the way it's an unnatural play to take a charge at the rim when a guy elevates and you stand there and take a hit like and this is coming from a guy that took a bunch of charges right like it's just you want to fix this game you think inside out not outside in but and i think that there'll be a drastic move i don't know if they're thinking the way that i'm thinking but just eliminate three in the key put the charge circle out we'll get my favorite play in basketball is dude elevates big elevates chest to chest action and then guy lays it up or big man goes straight up and the guy misses like it's the best play in basketball that we eliminate so we can put insert more of those plays into the game by changing the rules in the paint and leaving the three-point line out there i guarantee you like three-point shooting will go down like 20 attempts as a group per game just by fixing the lane a little bit yeah i get it because now the the intricate changes again it's so much space now being utilized on the court because of the three-point shooting plus and because you don't have the typical big inside that you're not just posting the ball up so you do have the space you know what's interesting though is that when people talk about this and i may be off on it but talk about copycat league but the last three champions all play different styles of basketball even though boston and and and golden state utilized the three-point line they utilized it different so golden state style was different than boston's denver's was much different than those two because they utilized aaron gordon and jokic more inside um jamar mori mid-range you had kcp who shot it and and michael porter jr but they didn't rely on the three so as much as it's a copycat league our last three champions have played a different style of game and won it in a different way yeah you feel me no i agree i agree the the only thing is you you can't replicate steph curry as much as you want to you can't right that's a different dude you can't replicate nikola jokic but i think teams are like we can replicate spacing the floor and moving the ball and knocking down shots but you know if you watch the mba and i know you like you watch it like the way i watch it like the newest thing that's happening now is the sacrificial cut right so you got dudes cutting from the wing and that play is going to be open or the three-point shot is open off of dribble penetration so that's like the new wave of playing and there's some teams that are picking up on it and are becoming really difficult to guard and other teams that are like playing a little bit more methodical and just trying to bomb threes but you know the game will continue to change and that's not a celtic thing that's just an mba thing people are figuring out more ways to become more efficient the offense is best as it's ever been like the defense is a major disadvantage with the skill level of players nowadays but you know i think the league's in a good place its ratings are bad right now because football is king once football is done everyone's going to be talking mba mba mba playoffs are amazing they're going to forget like these like this early on session of the mba and everyone was going to be right on board again and by the way for all these coaches out there if they don't want the three point shots and take it away find ways to take it away but i think there'll be a correction a slight correction that will make a big difference yeah but the play and i do believe too some impacted earlier season when you had key players who got hurt early that didn't play um especially in some of the marquee early games that could have been like staple points look at what's happening to new orleans i mean decimated just by injuries i mean when mb was out you know kawhi's been out of course marquee players you know the tv schedule is set up at the beginning to have these marquee teams marquee players marquee markets be on full display during football season and when you don't have those superstars playing especially going up against the nfl it does have an impact now i don't know scout if the ratings are just from a linear perspective you know just linear tv and then adding cable but not having streaming in that because young people watch the game and tuning in differently so the numbers are saying one thing down 28 okay is that linear tv is that a combination of linear linear and cable because young people attention span as you know okay i'm gonna watch i'm watching it but i'm just not watching it fully all the time so that number doesn't really tell the whole you know what i'm saying it doesn't tell you know i i agree i mean the whole it's like when we were negotiating our deal our ratings were at the all-time high and now that the deal is negotiated you know if they want it's yeah this is just my opinion if the nba wants to change into something they're gonna say ratings are down so they can make a change let's just say they want to make it less three-point shooting they'll get information out there so they can make a slight change improve the game and they can hide behind ratings they can do whatever they want whatever they want but the number it's like analytics in basketball you want to move those analytics however you want to move them to to justify your point i think the nba is kind of doing that right now all right before i let you go okay so the mamba is going to invite me on the show when when i finally get are you on the west side mike i come on when i'm when i'm on the west when i'm on the east coast i could do it all right so this is what you got to do is this easy and we love to have you you would be an all-time great guest for us and by the way we played all your clips with you and iron eagle or uh that was great man i don't know what the hell they're talking about but you gotta rip the scab off but but uh listen just text me when you're east i'm about to be east for a week and i'm gonna be like me and jimmy played this game i don't even say it on the podcast you can edit this out oh yeah oh yeah what are you doing where you going my favorite game yeah i live my life with my car that's the first thing you say to me when we hold on we're at big three that's the first thing that's the first every day you're always like a moffie coast oh and i don't even want to talk about what you're doing so anyway i'm like yo i'm in the midwest yeah in the midwest done all right you tell me you're definitely coming on you're definitely going on just just make sure you get to bed before two o'clock that's all i have to say hey man i'm a night out by nature hey man listen man i know you got a game you got a heart out you got to get ready i got a game tonight because we're in dallas for that home and home but love you bro keep doing your thing i love listening to you on the show uh good luck with the celtics until we play them then other than that i don't care you can win them but uh i appreciate you brother you got it jj man you know what always a massive fan of your work man i really do look up to you as a broadcaster man i learned a lot from you so keep keep it how you keep it all right man keep it real all right all right all right white mama later brother all right see you happy holidays to you all just uh quick note to let you know we'll be dark next week because of the christmas holiday but we'll be back jim jackson show we'll be back on january 2nd so look forward to that but uh until then with your family your friends your loved ones a healthy healthy holiday season merry christmas and a happy new year enjoy my world with jeff jarrett takes wrestling fans behind the scenes along with king of the mountain conrad thompson i wanted to ask you about what you know if anything on the new wwe id program where they're apparently going to be working with some independent wrestlers my encouragement to any 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