What do Cavs fans think of the Celtics this year? (Rivals Series Ep.1)

Yeah, Taylor, what the hell, man? All right, so before we jump into Cavs, Celtics, offseason stuff, we'll quickly hit on the Clippers stuff at the top of the show just because...

it's the biggest story happening in the NBA.

The only story really happening right now as well.

The biggest punishment in the history of the NBA, maybe coming down on the Clippers being docked five first round picks, a bomb and all that in the stadium that he built for the next year, fines, people suspended, et cetera, et cetera.

I know Tony too harsh of a punishment, not enough punishment.

What do you reckon?

The thing is, like, I don't know if it's too harsh or not.

I will just say I'm pleasantly surprised that billionaires can still be held accountable for anything.

I wasn't sure if we were still doing that nowadays.

And it seemed like the NBA wasn't going to do anything whenever that report came.

Came out, what, like a week or two ago where ESPN was like, yeah, nothing's going to happen.

And then all of a sudden they bring the hammer down.

And so I've seen some people argue it should have been more harsh.

I've seen other people say, very few people have said, like, it's unfair to the Clippers.

I think doing what you did so blatantly, I don't know.

you knew something was at least supposed to happen for that.

And I think if you're going to be a league that is supposed to be taken seriously and someone is committing such a blatant circumvention of the cap, like you have to bring the hammer down at least a little bit.

So I think the five first round picks obviously is going to hurt them.

I feel, I feel bad for Darius Garland and Max Truce just stuck in purgatory

now.

I don't know what, what's going to happen there, but yeah, between that, the $30 million fine, all this, like, I think it could have gone as far as making Ballmer sell the team, but I guess a year-long suspension.

I'm just glad something happened because, again, if you're going to be taken seriously, you can't just let people break the rules in broad daylight and get away with it.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think that's the takeaway.

If you read the report for any amount of time, any of the stuff that's circulating on Twitter... it's like pretty fricking blatant.