‘The NBA has a MAJOR PROBLEM!’ 🗣️ Mad Dog on the Lakers sitting starters | First Take YT Exclusive
On First Take, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo and Chiney Ogwumike join Shae Cornette to discuss the Los Angles Lakers sitting all of their starters against the San Antonio Spurs. Then, they debate what the New York Knicks’ identity is.
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I get tickets to only one or two NBA games per season. Do you know what these tickets cost now? I don’t think I can keep trying to watch games in person with these teams resting all these players like this! SMH
Luka or Bron shouldn’t play in the ASG
0:38, 2:22, It's time to start giving the fans a refund. This "injury" management will destroy the game if they don't do something about it.
So when other teams sit their players no one made a big deal about but because it's the Lakers and Bron, now we want to make a big deal about it like be for real
The only problem I have with disrespecting the fans is when the players all hug and laugh with each other and swap jerseys right when the clock runs out like the game didn’t even matter to them
Bron is a scoundrel
Those tickets cost way too much for this type of fuckery
3 nobodies talking about the NBA
why tf does everyone start their responses with "so" now?
NBA is going downhill quicker than I thought. Stop paying all these podcast babies all this money. Got to stop labeling all these players pro when they can barely shoot and defend.
Im a Spurs fan who lives in Los Angeles. I drove from Los Angeles to San Antonio to see the Spurs play OKC on Feb 4. Got a rental car, hotel, 470 for two tickets. Once we get to the game we find out all of OKC stars weren't playing. They had eight players which we barely knew. We won but I felt ripped off. What was worse was their next game all but SGA was playing. To make things even worse is I also have the nba package which I pay for but when the Spurs play any California team I can't watch it unless I pay for another app ESPN, spectrum or just don't watch it all together like last night. Players in the 80s,90s and early 2000s were paid way less and played almost every game. I play basketball for recreational and exercise and I got more heart than these guys. I've played hurt for free then go to my job the next day after icing my knee at night because I love the game that much. These players don't.
These guys say the same oh thing every year ppl stop listening to this
Duck the smoke 😾 SpursNation coming y'all act like you seen deebo😂
Well they knew they would lose. I guess that was their “way out”. I don’t get why people love the Lakers so much
Knicks are stiff y'all tripping they just underestimate the pacers cause they're stars hurt 🤕. I still think Knicks are going to take the Eastern conference
Stop making excuses for the lakers and Lebum, you're killing yourselfs.
$500 ticket just to watch BRONNY😝😝
7 games is a disgrace. When the precedent for this was 25 games.
ADAM Silver is presiding over blantant tanking, cap manipulation, failing officials who dont know the rules, disgraceful all-star games, and now the most egregious behavior get less than ever.
The NBA with Silver is a disgrace.
ducking
load managing
if ur injured dont play for a soan of time, not play now not gonna play the next game then gonna play again,
load managing is killing the nba
the nbgay has been trash the last 15 years!
The NBA season for me is from April to June, thats it, all those other months are pre season.
His level of ignorant of TOS is prodigious
Ok tanking and resting players was started by LeBron James in his so call crew who now run the laker and lot of league until he is retired or gone that will never change this league is going in wrong direction compared to Jordan and Koby era that star respected that fan came to see them if wasn’t all about what was best for the players red lines have been crossed by LeBron to many and other like him and until the owners pull back on this issue it won’t be resolved in my opinion.
stephen A has a point
I hate that I have to agree with Stephen Smith. Totally screwed the fans that paid for tickets. It's also ridiculous that Luka is not going play against the Mavs tomorrow but he is going to play in the all-star game 3 days later. Major slap in the face to the fans.
I feel it is more of a culture problem then anything else with the Lakers. The Lakers hired Lebron podcasting buddy. So how seriously does Lebron take JJ. Also Lebron is one of the biggest stars in the NBA. So his word carries a lot of weight in that locker room. In my opinion and I have no proof of this. But I think Lebron has taken over and JJ is more of a place holder with a face.
I almost stopped watching the NBA a few years ago when the Mavs tanked when they still had a chance. Resting players too. Is the game basketball, or is the game management? All the betting makes it a circus rather than a sport.
If I were D. Ayton I would have REFUSED to sit out this game. As a Center, they would NEVER get me to back down from an opposing Center. Like EVER.
LeBron James ruined the all Star game and the league with the younger players following LeBron James soft no defense league.
You get what you get. They could have played all 5 starters and lost by 50. You still crying then?
The Lakers are garbage. And yet y'all talk about them. By default y'all are garbage you ESPN bums
It’s your job to play. These guys are professional athletes. Resting is BS. Guys are healthy ready to go. If you’re healthy you play, period end of story. What are they resting for? Garbage
That black lady fineeeee
$500 to watch the G league players on the Lakers
Anyone calling James a GOAT, basically missing Biryani.
This is all because the pace of the modern game is too fast. A good fix for this would be what Euroleague does, remove the 3 second defensive rule, that would allow players to stay in the paint for longer leading to less constant movement defensively and offensively.