In a mega-Las Vegas episode, Zach talks to Ian Begley of SNY about the Knicks offseason and outlook, crashes Larry Nance Jr. (34:20 ) to talk Pelicans and Zion, and then visits with the NBA's Evan Wasch (1:07:18 ) to discuss the new play-in tournament and the craziest ideas the league office has ever discussed.

Begley

No need to rush things (5:38 )

The big swings the Knicks could take (9:33 )

Knicks monitoring Embiid (16:05 )

Trading Obi Toppin and where we are on Randle (20:41 )

Immanuel Quickley extension coming (25:55 )

Knicks are in a good place (31:47 )

Nance

Loves seeing the success of former Laker teammates (36:24 )

clapping back at media report about Zion’s work ethic (38:07 )

Not crazy to say that Zion is a top 5 offensive player in the league when healthy (43:04 )

lot of buzz around Trey Murphy (46:32 )

on his journeyman career (49:21 )

on how he traded houses with Josh Hart (54:18 )

stories from the cast of characters on his team as a rookie (57:15 )

Wasch

Details of In-Season Tournament (1:09:31 )

Tournament nights (1:11:58 )

Any thought to including G League or International teams? (1:15:05 )

Figuring out compensation for winning team (1:18:39 )

Rules, gameplay, and structure questions (1:24:06 )

Out of the box ideas that have been discussed at the league office (1:27:58 )

How tanking has been disincentivized (1:31:47 )

How far are we going to go with automated officiating (1:35:34 )

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