Colin Cowherd fixes the NBA | THE HERD 

I need to see full podcasts. Freaking love Colin

This is why I can't stand the NBA fan base Apparently Tony Parker is better than Allen Iverson cause he has titles. No logic

TORONTO????? bruh 4th largest city in north america. the american bias IS REAL

San Antonio, Cleveland, Orlando, Oklahoma City, Detroit, New Jersey, Indiana, and Utah have all played in NBA Finals in the past 20 years. According to Colin's NBA, none of those teams would be in the NBA. Maybe there are too many teams in the league, but 14? That's way too low. Plenty of room in the NBA for mid-market teams. Will they ever win as consistently as the Lakers? Probably not, but look how much that title meant to Cleveland this year or how much making the finals meant to Orlando. Those seasons also make sports great.

Making the league smaller doesn't help parity. Back when the NBA was 8 teams the Celtics still had most of the good players and won the title every year.

Kristine looking good as usual

Insane to not include the raptors. 4th largest city in North America, and is in Southern Ontario which has a population of over 10 million. If you look at their players, everybody seems to love playing there.

Just another video where Colin essentially mocks middle America. He loves to make fun of, "small town football guy" and "hillbilly college fan." In Colin's world only big cities and elitists should be able to enjoy live sports, the rest of the country can watch, "their local high school team," because they don't have a Fortune 500 company near by. Ridiculous. I agree the sports market is over saturated, however, Colin's prescription for that is ridiculous. A 14 team league would get old fast.

I just don't understand. Why is this all of a sudden a big issue, Lebron has sat out plenty of games. The Heat sat out games all the time, Pop has been doing it for years with the Spurs

I agree. Think 20 teams should be sufficient for the NBA. Hate to see stars stranded on these teams that you just know can't compete for playoff spots. Utah management keeps the Jazz competitive, the location keeps Superstars away. I do feel the NCAA should go away from zone style defenses..doesnt really prepare them for the NBA to me.

First things first, Orlando has had 4 franchise players NOT 2. 1. Shaq 2.Penny Hardaway 3. Tracey McGrady 4. Dwight Howard Second thing, 1,000 people move to Florida a day since 2005 The Orange County "Orlando Area" has grown from 801,000 in 1996 to 1,146,000 in 2016. Throw in Disney/Universal Studios to make us the #1family destination, top 3 in tourist via North America & 2nd in Conventions behind Las Vegas. Orlando Magic was most necessary 😌

LeBron is a city 😂😂

I would add Phoenix and Toronto

No Toronto ??????? 4th biggest city in North America

Montreal should have a nba team. They love basketball over there. With close to 3.5 million peeps, that's a good city for a team to relocate . San Jose. I'm still dumb founded how the south bay area gets no love. It's freaking silicon valley.

why the hate on Orlando? we're not that small and it's nice and warm here with no state tax. I'd live here over NY or Chicago any day

Sooooo accurate. The NBA is a mess. Bring back the Sonics

You skipped Phoenix. The largest city in the Southwest

Colin's NBA map is so f'd up.

Colin is so right lol.. People want to troll guys on Twitter about rings but when they sit out regular season they get mad 😂😂

Milwaukee has an MLB team, NBA team, and basically an NFL team

This is why Colin doesn't own anything

the point is that its not a good look for league to have players sitting out, he's not wrong on the point that you could teams from each league and the product would be better. you look at hockey, a more physically demanding sport, same amount of games as basketball, and i dont see any of them take games off for rest, you might see it very rarely.

if you start with 14 you will eventually have expand because of the pool from the ncaa would make it impossible to motivate players to play college basketball and everyone would loose money

NBA will be boring with only 14 teams. Of course a guy from a big city will say something idiotic and selfish like this. Wouldn't watch the NBA if they only had 14 teams. Some small market teams their NBA team means a lot because they dont have much to do.

Colin is wrong because he's just assuming that all stars have a problem with living in a small market

is he serious? he had me til he said 14 teams... that's crazy... lol... maybe like 24 teams... but how boring us a 14 team league

They shouldn't be taking road games off. Should have taken the first home game off.

The problem here is that a lot of good players lose their jobs if you reduce it to 14. A lot of good role players would have to find jobs elsewhere. I like the current NBA- everyone has a chance to win. There are plenty of times that people have succeeded in small markets and brought those teams success. At this point, the NBA would destroy its reputation if it cut just over half of the league. Every team has a rich history. Every team has a story. Every team has had a chance to win. Now, some places don't know HOW to win, but if you deflate the league, it's less fun. Here's what you do, Mr. Cowherd: take the 16 best teams and do the playoff bracket that way. Don't destroy the conferences, but take the 16 best teams and make the playoffs happen from that. And...also make the All-Star Game mean something. Have home-court advantage be decided at the All-Star Game like the MLB used to do. Then, it's more competitive. I, for one, like the new CBA. That means that there's less of a chance of stars going to bigger cities and forming superteams and making the league less competitive. What's the Finals matchup going to be? Probably Cleveland VS. Golden State, unless San Antonio makes a meaningful playoff run like in 2014. Either way, those are all superteams, with San Antonio being less talked about than the other two. Just make the league spread farther, and make it more competitive. Make the draft mean something. In some cases, great players leave after 5 or so years and wind up on contenders because their team didn't want to commit. In the 1950s and '60s, contenders were built on the draft, and big trades were a rarity. Now, big trades are a dime a dozen, and the draft doesn't mean diddly-squat.

Colin's idea would cut the number of NBA jobs in half. I can't see either the league or the NBA Player's Association throwing their arms around this idea.

Orlando has had 4 stars. Shaq, Penny, D Howard, T-Mac

When you make millions of dollars who cares where you live. When the season is going on you are training/traveling all over the country and for the most part dont get to enjoy the city you are in. In the office seaon if you want to be in LA, NY, or any other big city just fly up there for as long as you want.

It's actually former players that have built this delusion that you're only a HOF/Winner/Legend if you have so many titles ;) It's former players that make fun of the Charles Barkley's and Karl Malone's of the HOF who have no rings.

Lebron James is my favorite player. Last year I drove 6 hours to go to an NBA game to see him play. I figured I wanted to see him play in person at least once. He sat for that game. I was crushed. I bought tickets to attempt to see him again for next month. I am hoping and praying he plays this time.

What about defending the NBA fan over the player? Ultimately without the fan, there are no players.

Sorry Colin but New York needs 2 teams for each popular sport. Knicks and Nets, Yankees and Mets, Jets and Giants, Rangers and Islanders. 2 teams for LA also.

Don't want players sitting out games? Shorten the regular season. 82 games is insanely long for basketball and the amount put into it. When you start featuring back-to-back games and 4 games in a week, it's ridiculous.

First round 3 game series then next couple rounds go 5 then the finals go 7, that’ll make the playoffs exciting

Insane not to include Phoenix. I believe 5th most populated city in US. You gave Denver a team, but not Phoenix?

The problem is with only 14 teams the majority of the nation will not have a near by team and they will not follow the sport.

I like this idea, once Colin pointed out that star players would just be group together by force it made me think of a NBA everyone would want.

Magic had P. Hardaway Shaq Dwight Howard Steve Francis Tracy mcgrady

Damn! There goes my Milwaukee Bucks vs Phoenix Suns dream Finals, matchup.

I actually agree 100% even tho he axed my City out (Milwaukee). The competition would be so amazing and every year we would probably get a new champion

Socialism? Lmao if players want to leave they can. i.e Durant

I love this take. An ideal NBA, an urban league dependent on urban culture and player pool, needs to be in big multi-team, multi-event markets. Minneapolis, not Milwaukee; Philly, not D.C. (I kinda disagree); L.A., not Portland; Dallas, not San Antonio.

What about Phoenix ?

How I gauge Kristen's appearance on this show: Colin begins to Drool at 9:15 One of her best days.

lol kristine's face at the end.

well the columbus blue jackets are on a 15 game win streak haha

Colin is wrong on this one.

The suns should be on the list honestly

I would add a team in STL to your map because that would take care off the Midwest.

I'm going to call into work on Monday every week and say that I won't be back till Friday so that I'll be rested and work better.

So you're saying players don't want to play in San Antonio? Manu, Parker, and Duncan were all all stars and likely future hall of famers and they took pay cuts just to stay in San Antonio and have a good team built around them!

Colin, please make a new map for the other leagues.

This is savage Colin! Love it

For NBA cities, I would add Toronto and (instead of wherever LeBron is) New Jersey. For the West it's either Portland or San Antonio/Austin.

I agree and disagree - 14 is too few teams, but there needs to be a cap on the numbers of teams in any league which means more dilluted play and terrible teams for mediocre franchises. That's what some of the leagues are trying do. Put NFL/NBA/MLB to places where players do not want to play or places where the citizens are not asking for a team. I never understood moving a team to place with non-supportive fan-base. With the same team being able to keep its superstars and key players with low attendance.

Last time I was this early the Orlando Magic hadnt choked a 3-1 lead

The NBA owners also gave LeBron more as the face of the league then they have ever given anyone.

she said "oooh nooo" hahaha

The jackets are pretty big in hockey, the struggling franchises are carolina and arizona

no team for toronto???? its the fourth biggest market in north america. Most multi cultural city ever ....even more so then NYC. you just talked about players wanting to be invisible.

Kristine is one of the most beautiful women in the world, no lie

This doesn't make sense. There will always be a worse destination. If you go to those 14 cities as the only franchises, then Dallas or Cleveland becomes what is current day Orlando or Utah. There's always going to be worse/better situations regardless of how many teams there are.

Awww he got rid of Detroit 😡

This is true but the thing is us NBA fans could care less how much the owners make, we want to see some good basketball games. you think it's fair that a person should drive 4 hours to go watch a basketball game with LeBron on the roster because his or her city doesn't have a basketball team and LeBron doesn't even play? these athletes get payed way too much money to take "days off" smh.

A more accurate title for this show is "The Kristine Leahy Adoration Club with special guest Colin Cowherd."

Sorry, but when you sign up to make millions of dollars, you don't get to complain about where you play as far as geography is concerned. You know what you are getting yourself into.

You can thank David Stern for the movement of teams to "small markets." He was the one who saw how popular the Portland Trail Blazers were in the 70s and thought, as the lead legal counsel for the league at the time, "we need more of this." So when they merged with the ABA, he was the one who pushed for the inclusion of San Antonio and Louisville (which they got San Antonio), he pushed for the Jazz to move to Salt Lake City, he pushed for the Kings to relocate to Sacramento, he pushed for Charlotte and Orlando to be included in the 87/88 four team expansion (Charlotte didn't have the Panthers yet), he was the one who pushed for the Grizzlies to move to Memphis, and the one who pushed for the Sonics to move to Oklahoma City. He admitted that he hated competing against the NFL and MLB for fans and sponsorship dollars.

Vancouver's failure as a franchise wasn't due to economics, per say, but due to timing. The city just wasn't ready to commit and unfortunately, now it is. I'm sure LeBron, Kyrie and Love would much prefer to travel to Vancouver than Memphis.

Compared athletes saying good things about playing in Toronto, yet does not give them a team.

what about clippers, nets, toronto???

Preach on ✊

The new cba doesn't force you to stay anywhere. Yeah they can give you more money but you don't have to take it and if you choose the money then it's your problem you're living somewhere you don't want to. As for the whole sitting out debate I think players need to remember that without the fans they wouldn't be getting paid millions to play basketball.

My priorities are out of whack. I kept thinking, "Man, that's a nice microphone. It's shiny, looks sturdy, produces good sound. If I had a radio show, I'd want to use a microphone like that." Then at 9:50, I thought, "Man, that's a nice looking co-host. If I had a radio show, I'd definitely want to work with someone like her."

expansion also increases the number of players in the league, increasing the chances of making and staying in the league

where do the fans of small market teams fit into this big market only approach?

No pro basketball player wants to play in Minnesota or Denver. Atlanta and Miami's fan base support doesn't justify you having teams there. Just because Seattle has 1.2 million Indian software engineers doesn't justify them having a team.

Sucks to be small market team. You get someone good for about 2 years and as soon as the leash comes loose they bolt to Cali Hurts man. Feels like having a team is just a formality at this point

Detroit?

Can't defend Utah, but every city Colin mentions has either a NFL or MLB team that is at the least equally revered, if not more than the NBA team that is there. The small market teams help sustain it precisely because they are the only pro game in town.

Las Vegas and Seattle should be added into the NBA.

Why would you sit your biggest stars, if you didn't repect the FANS....... Labron really thinks he is the KING of the sport......smh.

as usual Colin is right..the league is so watered down now..theres more bad teams than good..this is why ratings are low..why would i stay up to watch the lakers?..idk the numbers but i bet 2012 broke records for the league..every big market team (MIA/LAL/LAC/NYK/BOS/CHI) all were contenders..now they're all terrible or meh..we'd get better teams if 5 teams were cut.

The problem is some people go on the road to see these players and spend hundreds-thousand dollars for hotels, food and tickets, and the player you want to see or the way to see the best game isn't happening because they didn't come. Sitting players at home games is better, but not on the road.

I'd go with 20 teams. Add Toronto, Las Vegas, a team in the southeast, Arizona, another East Coast team and another Midwest team

Still finding it difficult to fathom why Mr. Cowherd's name wasn't on that ballot back on November 8th✔️

Very well said.

Jordan didnt take games off like this though

Kansas City and St. Louis need NBA teams.

Tennessee, Louisiana SEC football country, Grizzlies and Pelicans go too

Minnesota over Phoenix and Toronto? You're on drugs.

Detroit is the greatest sports city in the US. Downtown Detroit is beautiful and all the stadiums are 15 years old or less, one brand new. There is 4 million in Detroit and the suburbs and plenty of places for the players to live. The weather is nice for 3/4 of the year. Yes, I'm from Detroit but I've lived in Chicago, New York, and Florida and they aren't even close. You couldn't walk a block without seeing a Cabrera, Stafford, or other jersey topped off with the Old English D. We love our teams and our players love it here too!

CC , this segment was a Slam Dunk.

Is KL doing anything anymore????

Great view against the business bullies!

Idk about Colins map. What i would do is move OKC back to Seattle as the Sonics. Then I would move the Clippers to OKC as the Thunder. Im not in favor of getting rid of small-mid market teams. Theres a lot of die-hard, loyal fans.

I see Bill Hader's found a new gig.