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June 13, 2025 7 mins
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver sounds off again.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Morey's melting down some more. He he hit fine, he
hit it?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Uh well, I don't well, the PGA Tour would find him.
He would get fined for the club toss and he
would also in the seventeenth toll, he was trying to
drive the green with the three wood of drivable par four,
and it looked good for a second, but then tailed
off into the bunker and he slammed the club. I
don't think he was trying to hit the te marker,
but he did, and the tea marker is now in
multiple pieces. He's going to get a receipt from the from.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Otemont or from the USBA, from the USGA that says,
mister McElroy, please pay this at your earliest convenience.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, here's the visa card. Just take it on my team.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
He still has a chance to make the cut, so
Doesdki Matsuyama, who just birdied number seventeen.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Is so he's no, he's done. He just finished with
a seventy three.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
He's plus seven, and right now that's the cut line
or the projected cut line. No, it's plus six, yeah,
but the projected line is plus seven.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm seeing plus six. Yeah. Well, that's what you're seeing
on the leaderboard.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, but we still have Nope, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Now plus a projected cut down plus seven. You need
to refresh. Oh, it's plus seven.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
I clicked refresh, refresh again. Brian Harmon is going to
be the last one in at plus seven. It was
hilarious to see and well listen, I feel so. I
feel badly for for Rory because because the world was
off of his off of his shoulders when he won
the Masters. But I do have a beef to pick
with Rory when it comes to talking to the media
because he's he's not been talking to them lately, and

(01:33):
he's the guy that came out and said we have
to talk more and we have to do things we
don't want to do, and now he's the one not
doing it. Yeah, it was him and Justin Thomas, right,
him and Jay and I don't care if you had
a bad round or a good round, you have to
go talk. You are the most one of the most
important players on the tour and everybody else is doing it.
I know that you're afraid of saying something that's gonna

(01:55):
offend somebody, or say something you don't mean because you're
upset with yourself. Uh, and his level of play since
the Masters is not up to Rory standards. I think
he has to play next week in Hartford because it's
one of those signature events, and likely he'll play the
Scottie Chopin and the Open Championship in July and then
get ready for the FedEx Cup. But Rory's got to

(02:17):
find a game and he needs to do so. It's
probably starting with the driver because the one that he
won the Masters with he can't play with anymore because
that was the one that was non conforming. Oh and
so he's got to find a driver that he can
put in play.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Adam Silver the other night addressed the state of the
NBA basically, and apparently there's some been some criticism because
the NBA Finals logos have been cgd on the on
the TV screen. I haven't noticed, but apparently the NBA
Final logo they a couple of years ago they took

(02:50):
what was on the floor.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
It was, you know, tape to the floor whatever.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
The players complained that when they got to that part
of the court that they were there was some slipping
going on. So now they don't have it on the floor.
If you're at the game, you can't see it, but
it's virtually there for the TV audience. Okay, and so
he addressed that. He also made a point that Indiana
and Oklahoma are two markets that are seeing obvious, unprecedented

(03:18):
TV ratings and watching their teams vuy for a championships.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
When you, I.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Said this earlier in the show, when you have Shae
Gildas Alexander and Tyrese Haliburton, how can you not like them?
There's no hatred, I think, towards those players unless you
just don't want them to be successful because you're rooting
for the other team. They're not polarizing, there is no
drama between them. There's an article that I saw earlier

(03:47):
in the week where Shay still drives a twenty seventeen
Honda Accord.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
To games and that's his main mode of transportation.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
He kind of kind of spends a little money on
clothes and exotic stuff like that, but he lives in
a modest house in suburban Oklahoma City. He's not showing
off his wealth like so many players do. He's not
on TMZ. He doesn't necessarily go out to clubs and stuff.
He's just there to play basketball and to living his life,

(04:15):
and he's making a ton of money. And I'm sure
he's a godlike player in Oklahoma, much like Tim was
here and Halliburton's very much the same way in Indiana.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
And so.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
When you get unprecedented high TV ratings, it's usually because
there's a celebrity that is involved in the.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
In the game.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's a Lebron, it's a Steph Curry, it's somebody that
people can relate to above and beyond just being a
basketball player. And that's the one thing that sports has become.
It's entertainment. It's a television show. The Chiefs usually raked
high in ratings on TV because of Patrick Mahomes plus

(04:59):
all all the exposure that Mahomes has with all the
commercial endorsements and stuff that he does. So I wouldn't
make a big deal about the fact that it's not
that it's not good basketball. It's that you have two
small market teams, no polarizing players, and that's why nationally
the ratings are down. But it doesn't escape the fact
that it's good basketball. Unfortunately, the marginal fan probably isn't

(05:22):
watching because of the lack of drama.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, and you know, yes, you can look at it
as well. Obviously, Oklahoma City population is not that big
indian you know, Indianapolis where they play for the Pacers,
not as big as New York or LA and things
like that. But again, I look at it from this
standpoint as well. I don't even think you should necessarily

(05:49):
look at just the ratings. You look at the quality
of the game, the quality of the basketball that it's
being played. And now we talk about it all the
time with all the sports, how embed all of these
sports are with gambling.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, and that's that's the thing too.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
But Adam Silver was quick to point out, yeah, we're
not having the ratings that we had when the Warriors
and the Cavs were playing, or the Warriors and somebody
else were playing, But we do have great ratings compared
to all of the other TV shows, and they are
winning the night, there'll be more people that There are
more people that watch Wednesday Night's game and the games
before that than they did watch any other regular show.

(06:25):
Now a lot by June, a lot of I don't
really watch that much network TV and shows, but a
lot of them are in reruns this time of the
year until the next The next fall. That's the reason
why the finals are in June is because ABC doesn't
have anything that is gonna be more important to them
and make them more money than the than the NBA,

(06:46):
and NBC will do the same thing next year.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, well, I look at it from this way as well.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
If they're specifically just talking about quote unquote the actual
TV ratings, we forget that there's so many ways to
watch games now, so they may not be adding all
the streaming services and all of the different app services
to where you can watch those games. So I can
understand the notion of well, the quote unquote TV ratings

(07:11):
are down, all right.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Brett Gardner played for the New York Yankees a few
years back and was one of their most beloved players.
There was a tragedy that happened last year when his son, Miller,
died on a family vacation. I believe it was in
Costa Rica, someplace in the Caribbean, and the investigation into
his death was ruled accidental with carbon monoxide poisoning from

(07:36):
a room. That the investigation is still going on because
they're making sure that that's exactly what it was. I'll
try to explain more and I can't imagine the grief
that this family's going through, knowing that they can't put
this to rest.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
We'll talk about that next On the Ticket
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