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Mark Cuban, This League, And Guys On Chicks

Wednesday, February 5, 202013 takes

The NFL is gone and it's time for THIS LEAGUE. Ja Morant vs the Warriors and Ben Simmons vs his own team ( - ). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Mark Dantonio and the Iowa Caucus ( - ). Dallas Mavs owner and Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban joins the show to talk about whether or not he regrets not investing in Big Cat's brain, the future of the NBA, investing on Shark Tank, and all the different companies he owns ( - ). Segments include bachelor talk for guys that don't watch the bachelor, hope he sees this king, and guys on chicks..

This League

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Take Slip·Feb 5, 2020·This League
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Big CatBig Cat

The recent NBA drama between the Warriors and Grizzlies was likely scripted

I'm convinced that there was a script going around to the Golden State Warriors to the Memphis Grizzlies... This is like sweeps week. Everyone in the NBA knew now's our time to strike and they did it with a perfect timing... It was almost a little bit too perfect and too coincidental.

The NBA does not literally script player beefs, though the timing was fortuitous.
Win
Take Slip·Feb 5, 2020·This League
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Big CatBig Cat

Ja Morant will win Rookie of the Year

And Ja Morant, who I love, future Rookie of the Year, responded with Kevin Durant being like hey who won those rings Kevin Durant?

Ja Morant did win the 2019-20 NBA Rookie of the Year award.
Win
Take Slip·Feb 5, 2020·This League
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Big CatBig Cat

Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons cannot play together

I mean the Sixers are in a big trouble. I'm prop trust the process. They don't know what to do. They have two guys that can't play together.

The pairing eventually failed, resulting in Simmons refusing to play and being traded in 2022.
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Take Slip·Feb 5, 2020·This League
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Big CatBig Cat

Always bet against cold-weather teams when they play in Miami

I've had a long-standing theory that any team from a cold-weather city or a city that's going through cold weather whenever they go to Miami bet against him. Yeah, of course and I mean, it's doubly true when you can see you can literally go on Instagram and see them at the game having a great time.

This is a subjective gambling theory, though many bettors subscribe to the logic.
Win
Take Slip·Feb 5, 2020·This League
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Miami Heat will make the Eastern Conference Finals

In the PFT basketball prediction Market, I think the Heat are going to make the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Miami Heat did make the Eastern Conference Finals (and the NBA Finals) in 2020.

Hot Seat Cool Throne

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Take Slip·Feb 5, 2020·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Jaguars are only playing back-to-back London games to pay for a stadium renovation in Jacksonville

What's actually happening is the Jaguars are doing two games back to back just so that they can have enough money to totally redo their stadium in Jacksonville... Better Fan Experience... Listen honey, I'm not I'm only having sex with this other woman so that she can teach me new ways to not make you come right?

While the Jaguars claimed London revenue helped Jacksonville, the logic of playing away to stay home is inherently contradictory and mocked here.
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Take Slip·Feb 5, 2020·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Big CatBig Cat

Urban Meyer would be a great fit at Michigan State so he can beat Michigan from another angle

How bad would it be if Urban Meyer went there? Oh, that'd be so fun and beat the fuck out of Michigan from the other angle. Yes, you know the thought has occurred to him in the last six hours.

Urban Meyer did not go to Michigan State; Mel Tucker was hired.

Interview

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Take Slip·Feb 5, 2020
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Mark CubanMark Cuban

Fortunes are made by creating products that make people say 'why didn't I think of that' combined with luck

The biggest fortunes are made with two things something that somebody does where everybody says fuck why didn't I think of that and then you need a little bit of luck... I made a shitload of money because I was lucky to stock market was happening.

A subjective business philosophy.
Win
Take Slip·Feb 5, 2020
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Mark CubanMark Cuban

NBA ratings are only down on TV because younger fans are cord-cutters

NBA ratings have taken a little bit of a dip totally different right... cord cutters, right? If your shows on television a nobody watch it... our numbers are down primarily on TNT which doesn't have as much carriage and as much linked to younger audiences... our streaming numbers the really really good.

While TV ratings have declined, the NBA has consistently pointed to social engagement and streaming as counter-metrics, supporting Cuban's claim.
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Take Slip·Feb 5, 2020
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Mark CubanMark Cuban

NFL games only have 12 minutes of actual action while the NBA has 48

The thing about football on TV... you only have to watch 12 minutes. There's only 12 minutes of action. In an NBA game, it's a little bit harder. Yeah, because you're watching 48 minutes of action, there's always something going on.

Wall Street Journal and other studies have consistently found roughly 11 minutes of actual play in an NFL game.
Win
Take Slip·Feb 5, 2020
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Mark CubanMark Cuban

Major League Baseball is 'fucked' because they restrict highlights on social media

Major League Baseball because they are very strict about what you can post on social media. They're fucked like you can't you can't take a highlight... their logic is they want to monetize all those views through their own proprietary feeds. The NBA is the exact opposite.

MLB eventually loosened these rules, acknowledging that the previous policy hindered growth among younger fans.
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Take Slip·Feb 5, 2020
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Mark CubanMark Cuban

AI will allow podcasts to be seamlessly translated into native languages like Chinese while preserving the original voice

I got this company Synthesia right where we can just over we could take train a voice to put on anybody... it looks like I'm saying it right because it matches all up... if we get you guys sitting there and training it for like 20 minutes and you want to have it done in Native Chinese or native Spanish or whatever. So it looks like you guys are doing the podcast.

In 2023, Spotify launched exactly this feature using OpenAI's voice-cloning technology.

Hope He Sees This King

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Take Slip·Feb 5, 2020·Hope He Sees This King
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Big CatBig Cat

LeBron James is using his name to help the Knicks front office as leverage for his son's future

Rich Paul being the president of the Knicks... LeBron James being like hey use my name to get my son drafted... This is LeBron James being like hey use my name to get my son drafted... LeBron James never plays for the Knicks. No, absolutely no no chance in hell.

Rich Paul did not become the Knicks president (Leon Rose did), and LeBron hasn't played for them, though he did exert influence to get Bronny drafted (by the Lakers).