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We welcome back Big Wos and Nate Jones, two of my favorites in the NBA business/culture space. Today we discuss a range of hot button issues, including this forbidden zone that is the Andrew Wiggins situation.

* Air fryers? A perfect life hack or a monstrosity?

* Wos “Žižek” Lambre on why sports ceasing to care about fans is, indeed, capitalism

* Wos with a take on the cringe/fake way LeBron becoming an owner would be advertised as representationism

* Nate speaks on how the surrounding NBA organizational pressure is why players miss games that fans want them in

* We get into the Andrew Wiggins situation with the Warriors. What expectations are fair and under what circumstances?

* Are the NCAA women’s players more famous now than the men’s players?

* Nate with a theory on how the NCAA women overtook the men

* We get into how NIL changed the women’s game

* Is the selling of sex appeal a problem for the NCAA? Or a benefit to those sports?

* The “hoop dollar” vs. the “horny dollar”

* Nate talks about what recruiting athletes for NIL is like.