NBA Evolution Issues: Loyalty and Team Dynamics in Flux

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00:00What we're getting at, folks, is the NBA is different than when I, than when we were kids.

00:06You know, like I look now, I'm in my office, I'm over here, I have a picture of Magic Johnson

00:12with the Lakers and Jordan with the Bulls in a 91-5 on the other side, you know, I got

00:19Iceman, George Gerber, I got a poster of him right over here, over my shoulder.

00:24When you put on the NBA, you knew Iceman was in San Antonio.

00:28You knew Magic was in L.A. You knew Ewing was in New York.

00:32You knew Olajuwon was in Houston.

00:33Robinson was in, obviously, in San Antonio.

00:38You know, so I got to see guys through the totality of their career.

00:43Guys are switching teams like people switch underwear.

00:47And the problem is, is when guys aren't happy with what's going on, they get up and they

00:52leave.

00:53I don't want to be here.

00:54I want to go here.

00:55Liners!

00:56Liners!

00:57Hey, can you imagine back in the day, in the 80s, when Jordan was getting these, you

01:02know what, kicked by the bad boys?

01:05You imagine Jordan saying, yeah, you know what, I'm going to go play for Detroit.

01:09I can't beat them like what Kevin Durant did.

01:11Can you imagine that?

01:12Back then?

01:13That's why we loved it back then, and maybe this is me being an old man of 48, sitting

01:19on my soapbox, but folks, guess what, I'm on air, you're not, I don't care.

01:25This is the way we love basketball, and we need to get back to that some way.

01:29And it starts with the players and Adam Silver holding these guys accountable.