Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones Jr. discuss the fine handed out to the Jazz and Pacers for reportedly engaging in tanking practices. Check out the full conversation on “The Dunker Spot” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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I understand why this happened.
Okay.
A lot of chatter, lot of chatter, lot of chatter- So much chatter – happening, around the Utah Jazz for whatever reason, considering, they’ve won, what, three of their last six games?
After losing how many?
A lot.
Now we’ve decided to circle and spin the block and act like they’re bad- – when they’ve just been bad?
We’re not Okay, it’s fine.
But, y- hey, this is very much sibling A, sibling B. I don’t- doesn’t matter.
You go to your room, you go to your room.
What?
No.
N- nah, it doesn’t matter.
G- g- give me You give me your phone, you give me your iPad.
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Give it to up, give it up.
Okay.
So Utah, hey, just know, know that I know that you know that I know- Okay … that you know that I know.
And Indiana should’ve done it better.
You know the rules.
You know exactly what you’re supposed to do.
Mm-hmm.
You had the right idea, but not like that.
Why are we fining a team who won a game?
Thank you!
Why are we They won a game, and they almost won the other one.
I’m very confused by this.
Also, Jaren Jackson Jr. is now out.
Hopefully he is well, ’cause you never want a growth in your knee.
But he’s now out.
Yeah.
And now it’s just like we’re doing so much talking about the Utah Jazz being scandalous, and it’s like, well, bro, now there’s just gonna be, like, minutes restrictions for all our guys.
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Now what?
You, you dislike how teams talk about injuries.
It’s gonna be lower tightness, 25-minute restri- restri- restriction.
Right lower.
It says shout, shout out unrivaled upward extremity- Yeah … lower extremity.
I just, I just like And stop trying to fix.
Stop trying to fix it.
Okay.
Stop trying to fix it.
I’m tired of the ideas.
We don’t need a mythological tournament that no coach is gonna wanna coach and no player is gonna wanna play in for the rights to a pick.
But who’s gonna be there?
Yeah.
Who’s gonna want to play in that?
We don’t need to freeze the season at an untimed date to These teams that you are quoting as tanking are just bad, and a lot of these teams didn’t mean to be this bad.
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You think Memphis meant to be here?
Milwaukee, New Orleans, no, they didn’t mean to be here.
No.
Utah, they earned their way here by losing a lot of games.
So did Washington, so did your beloved Brooklyn Nets.
They let Cam Thomas go home.
No one yelled at them.
Cam, Cam Thomas getting all the buckets in New Orleans.
Yeah!
Yeah.
No one called for a scandal there.
Well, that’s because we kind of, yeah, yeah.
Oh, oh- Yeah … well, we’re picking and choosing, aren’t we, huh?
Eh.
Everyone needs to just relax, okay?
Enough with the tanking talk.
E- enough, I’m done with it.
I don’t wanna hear it.
Enough.
Stop trying to fix this.