According to Sports Business Daily,

The NBA, beginning this week, is requiring coaches to wear a microphone during national games and do one in-game interviews, and there "will also be a camera in the locker room to look in on pre-game and halftime meetings,"

WHAT! YOU MEAN NOW I CAN HEAR WHAT KOBE REALLY THINKS OF MR. BYNUM AND HOW SKILES USES TYRUS THOMAS AS A VERBAL PUNCHING BAG IN THE LOCKER ROOM TOO??

In all seriousness though, this is absurd. The sanctity of what goes on "inside the locker room" is being ignored. Coach Skiles actually put it best by saying

I don't know that I'd be comfortable [as a player] being frank with the coach if I knew he was miked and it could be on TV. Quotes get taken out of context. And people make judgments on those quotes

. There's a level of separation that needs to be maintained between spectator and the players and coaches and this is crossing it. This idea needs to be canned before it does more harm then good...besides, we dont want anymore Kobe videos popping up again do we Kupchak?