NBA moves closer to anti-tanking measures with drastic change to draft lottery odds

I mean just get starting with the thing that’s kind of been hanging over you guys for the past couple of days. You guys are absolved from that investigation. They showed you guys did nothing wrong. What was the past few days like for you in dealing with that? Fine. Walked my dog, hung out with my family, came to practice, see my guys, uh, everything’s good. You had the comments obviously about anti being anti-tanking in Utah the other night, um, and then kind of seeing this kind of hang over there. It’s one thing for fans and media to kind of ask about that. Do you have another player that’s kind of insinuating? How does that kind of sit with you? I mean, I know who we are and what we do, so it doesn’t bother me just because people have comments doesn’t doesn’t mean anything. I, I would never put our organization. I would never put Scott and BJ in any type of position like that. I have too much respect for the game. I have too much. For our players. I have too much respect for this city. Uh, just wouldn’t do it, period. We’re out there to win and our guys are going to play hard until the very end, period. So when you, you hear this, what, why don’t you describe to us what went through your head in that moment? In which moment in the moment where you called *** timeout, um, well, I should have called *** timeout actually to play before that when it was 3:49 on the clock, but doing the math, that’s 24 and 24 is 48. Figured we’d go get *** quick shot and then I’d still be able to use the timeout. I wanted to give our guys rest, but at the same time, uh, didn’t want to waste the timeout. So we went down, the clock kind of dragged on, and the ball went out of bounds after we scored *** bucket, and they kind of let it drag for like. You know, 5 seconds or so, so it started getting low. So I still wanted to get it. Didn’t realize that they were in the penalty. Looked across the court though and, and see, you know, who we would have fouled, but they had their two best players getting ready to do *** pick and roll. So I just told Doug to foul. Should have told him who to foul, but he fouled and, you know, not *** big deal. I, I still got the, the time out in that, in that moment, learned *** couple of valuable lessons. 1 under 4 minutes to just call your time out and and do what you need to do. Also make sure that I’m checking before I I I say foul and make sure that those guys aren’t in the bonus. But you know, basketball is all about learning. Cool. And it’s *** use it or lose it situation, right? And we’ve we’ve lost it before and you know, had I known that they were in that in the in the bonus, we would have lost it then. But you know, he did miss *** free throw. What are those, uh, therapeutic moments like when you’re walking the dog? Oh, when I’m walking the dog, you know, I mean, it’s great, man. He’s ***, he’s *** wild guy. His name is Ghost. Uh, he’s *** staffy and he, he’s, he’s wild. So we, no, we have *** good time, man. Um, that’s, that’s really you’re out in the sunshine and, you know, breathing some fresh air, and he knows absolutely nothing about what’s going on, so it’s all love. No doubt, no doubt, for you guys stepping in that arena for the final time tomorrow this season, just what are the emotions like? What do you want this fan base to know? Um, we love them first and foremost. We appreciate all of their support and we are going to work day and night to get it right how they know that it’s supposed to be. And we won’t let them settle for anything less. So we appreciate everything that they do, coming out, supporting, bringing the energy into the arena. It’s *** special place and we will continue to define it. I know the record may not reflect it, but are you, do you see the foundation that you’ve laid with *** lot of these young guys, new guys in the NBA to let them know what this business is all about? Um, I, I think like when you watch the games and these guys have been playing lately, there’s *** proof of concept about the defensive intensity, the picking up on the defense, the movement of the basketball in 0.5. And they’re they’re playing good basketball. I think that, you know, some of these young guys have grown immensely, not, not even since they’ve got the opportunity, but even from the beginning of the season watching them in summer league and all of that, uh, their bodies getting stronger and their reads on the floor and just the kind of corporate knowledge that comes along with the NBA and that is probably the biggest blessing to watch them grow that way. Stephen Curry look like? He never looks bad to me. I mean, he’s always looked scary because you know the gravity that he possesses and what he does on the court, and I think for all of us, the NBA, you know, Warriors fans, it’s beautiful to see him on the court because he has been *** special. Generational player and regardless of competing against him, he brings out the best in you because when you play against *** player that is at that level you have to raise your level and that’s always fun to compete against whether he plays tomorrow night or not DeRosa is going to get his own night if he’s kind of celebrated. How awkward could that be playing in *** game if he’s playing where they’re going to have *** bunch of things in your honor? No, I mean, it’s well deserved, to be honest with you, so I don’t think there will be any awkwardness. I think that the biggest piece is that he gets the love from *** fan base that he’s come to and showed what type of true. that he is night in and night out, day in and day out, he comes in, brings everything to the game, and he comes in at nighttime and gets his work. He goes straight from the plane and gets his body worked on. So you know that’s for him, but it’s also for us. It’s also for the fans because if he doesn’t do that. And there’s *** little kid that’s got *** tan jersey on and he’s coming to see him and guess what, he’s not playing. Well that doesn’t happen with him because he’s he’s pretty much always available and that’s uh probably the best ability is availability. Yeah.