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Now the biggest story of the day, 19 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 2: What time did you wake. 20 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: Up this morning? 21 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 2: By the way, seven thirty Jackson What time were you 22 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 2: up this morning? 23 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: Six o'clock? Okay, I was about six block as well. 24 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 2: The first thing I saw was the story from Shamscharania 25 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:10,960 Speaker 2: involving the plan for the NBA and the owners and 26 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 2: the Bord of Governors that will start going down next 27 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 2: week in New York City. Instead of having me explain 28 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: it to you, let's go right to the shore. The 29 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 2: source Shams Charania this morning on ESPN Television regarding the 30 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 2: future of expansion and Sonic Basketball with the NBA. 31 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: Welcome back to get up. Shawn's is here. We have 32 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: breaking news. Shaanstrania, take it away. 33 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 3: So Peter sources tell me that the NBA will hold 34 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 3: a vote next week at the Board of Governor's meetings 35 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 3: on March twenty fourth and twenty five to allow the 36 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 3: league to go explore two new expansion teams exclusively in 37 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,559 Speaker 3: Las Vegas and Seattle. And so these two teams would 38 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 3: be targeted for the twenty twenty eight twenty ninth season. 39 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 3: And there is momentum within stakeholders here to try to 40 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 3: go out there and see what is the market here 41 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 3: and what could those proposals look like. Because industry executives 42 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 3: tell me that you're looking at somewhere between seven to 43 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 3: ten billion dollars per team for Seattle and Las Vegas. 44 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 3: And so this first step right now, this first vote 45 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 3: is looked at as a formality. There is momentum for 46 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 3: the owners around the NBA to approve this vote to 47 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 3: go allow the league to go see what those bids 48 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 3: could look like. Then you have a final vote later 49 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six to approve the move to thirty 50 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 3: two NBA teams. 51 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: All right, so here's the thing. 52 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 2: I absolutely, Dick and you and I have kind of 53 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 2: been a little bit in disagreement over this over the years, 54 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 2: and I get it. I don't blame any Sonic fan 55 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 2: for being skeptical, right, I mean, when you've been waiting 56 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 2: and waiting and waiting, and you feel like there's been 57 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 2: moments and you feel like maybe you're a little bit scarred. 58 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 2: Maybe the scarring is also maybe kind of have embellished 59 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,239 Speaker 2: a bit by the pain that you felt from when 60 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 2: they took off in two thousand and eight. Maybe you 61 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 2: just don't want to give the NBA any benefit of 62 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,239 Speaker 2: the doubt whatsoever. Maybe you just don't trust the bastards 63 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: after what happened eighteen years ago, in two thousand and eight. 64 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 2: I totally get that, and so I'm not here to 65 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 2: tell anybody how to feel. I'm not here to tell 66 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 2: anybody what they should believe, how to think. Whatever you 67 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 2: want to be skeptical, be skeptical. All I can do 68 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 2: is speak for myself. Okay, it's over, They're coming back, 69 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 2: and we're playing basketball here in two and a half 70 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 2: years in Seattle. I think this is the most significant 71 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 2: day that we have had in this process, at minimum 72 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 2: since the NBA turned down the Sacramento Kings moved to Seattle, 73 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 2: and maybe the most significant day Dick since they moved 74 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 2: to Oklahoma City in June of two thousand and eight. 75 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: Because this is the NBA's timeline now right. 76 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 2: This isn't somebody showing up and striking a deal with 77 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 2: a group of owners and a pair of brothers, the 78 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 2: Malu Hoofs, and then the NBA having to step in 79 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 2: and say yay or nay. 80 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: This is their timeline. 81 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 2: This is all thirty NBA owners getting together deciding whether 82 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 2: or not we want to do this. 83 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: And they're not doing this. 84 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 2: They're not scheduling this meeting next week in New York 85 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 2: City unless they are ready to do what they're talking 86 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 2: about doing, which is taking bids on two expansion teams. 87 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 2: When Sham said it's exclusive to Vegas and Seattle, no 88 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 2: other teams are involved. You can forget the Mexico City. 89 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 2: You can forget the dream of the Colonels returning to Kentucky, 90 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 2: or the Kings returning to Kansas City, or the Clippers 91 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 2: returning to San Diego. This is done. It's done, And 92 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 2: if I had kids, I would tell them it's done. 93 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 2: You don't want to go down that road. As a parent, 94 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 2: that's fine. You've waited eighteen years. You can wait four 95 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 2: or five more months until it's official. 96 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 1: I get it. But to me, I have not been 97 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: this excited. 98 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 2: I almost started crying this morning when I saw this 99 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 2: report from Sean Charania. The conviction in his voice, the 100 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 2: look on his face. We are going to explore whether 101 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 2: or not we're going to be taking bids the exclusive 102 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 2: to Seattle in Las Vegas. Now he's even kicking around, 103 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 2: I think in a different clip. By the way, what 104 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 2: would happen to a team in the West having to 105 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 2: move to the east, and they're saying it could be Minnesota. 106 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: That's how deep this thing is. 107 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 2: Now getting if they start taking bids, and they announced 108 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 2: next week they are taking bids, which I believe they will, 109 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 2: that means they have something to sell. They don't have 110 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 2: something to sell, and they're not going to start taking 111 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 2: bids from people unless they know what they want is 112 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 2: out there, because nobody's wasting that time for a process 113 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 2: that will lead them nowhere. So look, I don't want 114 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 2: to say congratulations yet to Seattle. I don't want to 115 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 2: have a party yet. I don't want to pop the champagne. 116 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 2: I don't want to drop the confetti. I don't want 117 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 2: to go nuts and run down the streets screaming in 118 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 2: the Ellen Honkin horns like we did when they beat 119 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 2: the Bullets in nineteen seventy nine. What I do want 120 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 2: to say is that I believe now more than ever 121 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 2: that outside of a catastrophe, and I mean a catastrophe 122 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,359 Speaker 2: like an asteroid hits the Earth and wipes out the 123 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 2: Dinosaur's catastrophe, this is finished. 124 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: They are coming back, and two. 125 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 2: And a half years from now, Dick and Jackson, we 126 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 2: are playing NBA basketball at Climate Pledge Arena. Twenty years 127 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 2: almost to the day that they took off, this weight 128 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 2: will be twenty years from June oh eight to late 129 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 2: September October, whenever they play that first game. I don't 130 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 2: know when the NBA preseason starts, right in mid September whatever, Dick, 131 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 2: but it'll be a twenty year. 132 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: Weight and it's over. 133 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 2: I have butterflies in my stomach, I have tears welling 134 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,919 Speaker 2: up in my eyes. And we are on the doorstep 135 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 2: of righting a wrong. Chris Daniels will join us to 136 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,919 Speaker 2: five o'clock tonight. I did a little bit of a 137 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,039 Speaker 2: TV hit with him a couple hours ago when he 138 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 2: asked me why this is so important for fans to 139 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 2: get this team back, because I do not believe that 140 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 2: this city is whole without Sonic basketball. I do not 141 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 2: believe the city's DNA is in proper order without the 142 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 2: NBA and without the green and gold in this town. 143 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 2: And once they come back, we have it all. We 144 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 2: have it all, and it's exactly what this team and city, 145 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 2: excuse me, should have is everything professional sports has to offer. 146 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 2: So again, I get the skepticism that some people have, Dick. 147 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 2: We ran a poll this morning that's still out there, 148 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 2: asking people what are their emotions, and you know, there 149 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 2: were a lot of people that were voting for being skeptical. 150 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: And that's fine, that's you guys. Do whatever you gotta do. 151 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 2: You want to protect yourself against that asteroid hitting the earth, 152 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 2: all right, You're not ready yet emotionally. 153 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: To open yourself up. I get that. 154 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 2: But I feel today, guys, now more than ever, we're 155 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 2: in this entire process that they are coming back, and 156 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 2: they are two and a half years away from giving 157 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 2: us what was taken from us eighteen years ago, and 158 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 2: I cannot freaking wait. 159 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: This is the day. 160 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 2: This is the day that we've been waiting for, and 161 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 2: the rest of this and my opinion is a formality. 162 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 4: You may be right, and you and I have been 163 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 4: in cahoots for years that this team was coming back. 164 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 4: You and I have said that forever, and we have 165 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 4: not been skeptical that this team was going to come back. 166 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,559 Speaker 4: So this isn't a massive surprise to either one of us. Now, 167 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 4: how I broke it down today this morning when I 168 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 4: when I read it, and I heard shams obviously like 169 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 4: like what did we learn and what is the surprise? 170 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 4: Here's what we learned today. We learned the timing, We 171 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:45,319 Speaker 4: learned that the vote is a formality. On whether expansion 172 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 4: bids will actually be looked at. We learned that it 173 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 4: is Seattle in Vegas, which we really knew all along. 174 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 1: The whole Mexico City, louis I mean, that was just all. 175 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 4: Smoke, all smoke. I hope nobody bought into it. I'm 176 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 4: sure people did because I read it on Twitter. What 177 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 4: about Mexico? What about Louisville? Well, what about NBA Europe? 178 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 4: You know, the price tag was the one surprise to me. 179 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 4: We heard seven to ten billion dollars and that's a 180 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 4: billion issh to two billion more than I've ever heard before. Yeah, 181 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 4: so the price tag did grow. The quote that was awesome, 182 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 4: I thought was a growing number of owners or believed 183 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 4: to support expansion because of the long term revenue growth 184 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 4: for the league from Seattle and Las Vegas. So that 185 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 4: was very exciting that the ownership sees it as a 186 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 4: long term growth period because I think the one concern was, hey, 187 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 4: would the owners just see it as a money losing 188 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 4: entity having to split their shares one thirty second instead 189 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 4: of one thirtieth. 190 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: And now a growing number of owners realize. 191 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 4: What we've been saying all along, that it is going 192 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 4: to be a money making entity by having Vegas and 193 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 4: Seattle as a part of the NBA, and for the 194 00:09:55,920 --> 00:10:02,239 Speaker 4: Cynics out there, I would just ask, are you spouting 195 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 4: sour grapes just to spout sour grapes? Or would you 196 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 4: be willing to wager on your position at this point? 197 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 4: Would you be willing to stick it out with somebody 198 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 4: that believes the Sonics are coming back and say, hey, 199 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 4: fifty to fifty, I saw your poll, it's fifty to 200 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 4: fifty skeptical, Okay. Would you be really willing to go 201 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,319 Speaker 4: dollar for dollar yeah, with somebody that thinks the Sonics 202 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 4: are gonna come back and actually wager that person that 203 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 4: the Sonics wouldn't be coming back. And I would just ask, 204 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 4: leave the vitriol in the past. It's obvious everyone else has. 205 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 4: It's obvious the NBA has. It's obvious Seattle Basketball has. 206 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 4: Leave the vitriol in the past, because it would be 207 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 4: really sad if a majority of the city was celebrating 208 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:47,959 Speaker 4: the greatest sports day. 209 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 5: Now. 210 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: I'm not saying today is that day, but the day 211 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: is coming. 212 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 4: In my opinion, the greatest sports day that this city 213 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 4: has had in twenty years, including Seahawks championships, it would 214 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 4: be sad if a small minority of the fan base 215 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 4: was spilling out all the NBA sucks, we hate it, 216 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 4: we don't want it anyway. 217 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: That would be sad to me as a Seattle basketall. 218 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 2: I don't think that's gonna be the over writing voice 219 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 2: from the sports fans in Seattle. 220 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 1: I don't think you'll hear a lot of that. 221 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 2: And I just again, you and I Dick have agreed, 222 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 2: and we've disagreed on a lot of stuff. The way 223 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,559 Speaker 2: the fans have reacted in this whole process, we've completely 224 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 2: disagreed on. People want to be skeptical, I'm fine with that. 225 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 2: I mean, they robbed us like they did us, dirty, dirty. 226 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 2: I mean, how many sons never got to watch games 227 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 2: with their dads, or how many dads never got to 228 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 2: watch games with their sons. You know, Lenny Wilkins died, 229 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 2: Slick Watts died before this thing came back. So if 230 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 2: there are people out there, look, I'm excited for this, 231 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 2: You're excited for this. Jackson's excited for this. But I 232 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 2: can at the same time also acknowledge the pain that 233 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 2: this thing caused a lot of people. And there's a 234 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 2: lot of scars there, man. I mean people, you grow 235 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:58,439 Speaker 2: up as a Sonic fan or a Mariner fan, or 236 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 2: a Seahawk fan or a Sounder fan and whatever, and 237 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 2: you give them everything you've got emotionally as a sports fan. 238 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 2: You spend money that in some ways you don't even 239 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 2: have on those teams, and they turn around and stab 240 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 2: you right in the back. I get that, and I 241 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 2: think people will come back at their own pace. They'll 242 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 2: they'll handle it the way they want to handle it. 243 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 2: The good news is is that they're gonna have the opportunity. 244 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 2: And that's all I ever wanted right for this town, 245 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,719 Speaker 2: was for people to have that opportunity to decide if 246 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 2: they wanted to go to an NBA game in Seattle 247 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,320 Speaker 2: or not. You don't want to go to the NBA, 248 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 2: you don't want to go see the Sonics version two 249 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 2: point zero when they returns, that's you or tickets for 250 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 2: that's on you. Well, but that's on you, right, that's 251 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 2: on you. But the fact that you're going to have 252 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 2: that decision is all that I ever gave a damn about. 253 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 2: We should have that decision, We should have that opportunity, 254 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 2: and we're going to have the opportunity and the better 255 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,080 Speaker 2: they do, the more people will come back and jump 256 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 2: on the wagon. 257 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 1: And be a part of it. 258 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 2: And I guarantee you there's going to be some people 259 00:12:57,559 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 2: that will take their time jumping back on the way 260 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 2: for this thing. But the idea that people are just 261 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 2: going to have a choice to make when right now 262 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,560 Speaker 2: and for the last eighteen years they've had no choice 263 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 2: is what really does it for me, And that's what 264 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 2: gets me fired up, and that's what gets me emotional. 265 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of things to do now 266 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 2: in this town that weren't around twenty years ago. Right, 267 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 2: It's great the fact that we have all these options 268 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 2: now with sports fans. 269 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: So I love it. I think it's fantastic. 270 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 2: People do what they'll do, they'll say what they'll say, 271 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 2: but this is a runaway train that cannot be stopped 272 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 2: at this point. Todd Liwicki is already a hero for 273 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,559 Speaker 2: what he did with the Seahawks and what he's done 274 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 2: with the hockey team, and he's about to be a 275 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 2: hero three times over because this thing is on the 276 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 2: way back. So here's what I want to do. I 277 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 2: want to get some talkbacks. If we can, we can 278 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 2: pick a spot Jackson to put him on the air. 279 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: Jackson. 280 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 2: Want to get your thoughts on this obviously as well. 281 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 2: Just get to the iHeart app hit the little talkback 282 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 2: Mike there, give us your thoughts. Are you now willing 283 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 2: to allow yourself to believe this is happening? All right 284 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 2: the app? Leave us a message and we'll get your 285 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 2: thoughts on this. Coming up on it on a big Monday, 286 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 2: Christy Angels will join us. You mentioned the seven to 287 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 2: ten billion dollar number deck. I wonder if that's even accurate, 288 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 2: and we'll talk to Chris about that at five o'clock 289 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 2: as well. Coming up on ninety three three KJRFM, I 290 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 2: run us comedy. 291 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: I thought about the lose You're out. It is March madness. 292 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 6: Now back jasathianduck on your home for college basketball shining 293 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 6: Moments on Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM. 294 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 7: Hi for one, I'm excited about the Sonics return. Don't 295 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 7: know how you can't be already beefing with the thunder fans, 296 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 7: them saying once they remove the Sonics records, they have 297 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 7: the highest winning percentage of any franchise. They can't wait 298 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 7: to beat us by thirty. I'm for it and even 299 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 7: got some saying that they open up their new arena 300 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 7: in twenty twenty eight, they'd like to see the Sonics 301 00:14:58,360 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 7: first game. 302 00:14:59,600 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: You know that. 303 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 2: It's interesting because I've thought about that a lot. 304 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: I think about some. 305 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 2: Random weird stuff, Dick that has nothing to do with 306 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 2: reality the team when they do come back, day one, 307 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 2: game one of eighty two, right October of twenty twenty eight, 308 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 2: do you want the first game to be against the 309 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 2: Thunder in Seattle? Or do you want it to be 310 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 2: against somebody else? And maybe save that storyline for later 311 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 2: and have that first game just be all about the 312 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 2: Sonics and embracing the NBA, not giving a damn if 313 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 2: they win or lose that first game, right, Like when 314 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 2: the Krakens showed up here, there was a little bit 315 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 2: of time there where it was all just about hockey. 316 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: Hey man, we're going to a hockey game. 317 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 2: Great, yay, Nobody cared if they won or lost, and 318 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 2: then all of a sudden we started the care because 319 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 2: they were around for a while. So do you do 320 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 2: you want that first game when they do come back 321 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 2: to be against the Thunder? 322 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 4: That would be an absolutely horrendous decision, right, are one 323 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 4: hundred percent horrendous decision. Game one should be about c 324 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 4: and then guess what you can market a big time 325 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 4: national TV game three weeks down the road for Seattle 326 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 4: and Oklahoma City and get more eyeballs on that one. 327 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 2: Right, I agree with you because number one, they'll likely 328 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 2: get killed in that first game by Oklahoma City. Number two, 329 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 2: I don't think that they deserve Sonic fans deserve to 330 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 2: have that night kind of tainted by that conversation, right, 331 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 2: I mean that's like, you know, come on, man, I mean, 332 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 2: really you want to go ahead and make them deal 333 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 2: with that pain on the first night of the return 334 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 2: of the Sonics. 335 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: So I agree with you one hundred percent. 336 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 8: I think I think you need to schedule a middling 337 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 8: bad team, not not only not a team who got 338 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 8: the number one, number two pick, who's got a great 339 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 8: player bringing the Wizards. 340 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: You bring in David Locke's Utah Jazz teams, if you bring. 341 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 8: In just a nobody who's gonna come in here and 342 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 8: put up you know nothing, and just you set it 343 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 8: up as best you possibly can for a Sonics win. 344 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 2: Right, Well, it's like the first game of Gino Smith's 345 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 2: career as a starter when they beat Denver. 346 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: Right, It's like, hey, we won, right, this is great. 347 00:16:58,600 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: No matter what happens, we got tonight. 348 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 2: I'm totally with you, guys. I don't want to see 349 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 2: any of that crap in the opener. But I'm ready 350 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 2: to start talking about stuff like this, Like I'm ready 351 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 2: to start talking about you know, what uniform combo do 352 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 2: you want to go with? I know a lot of 353 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 2: people have been tweeting out all the different uniforms over 354 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 2: the years, and which one's your favorite. I actually prefer 355 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 2: the late seventies early eighties myself, but that's just me. 356 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 2: I think the cartoon they wore when they went to 357 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,120 Speaker 2: the NBA Finals in ninety six should be retired forever. 358 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,919 Speaker 2: But Burnett, yes, we can have a bonfire, so freaking lily. 359 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: But I'm I'm ready to start diving into this. 360 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 5: Man. 361 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 2: I feel so good about this happening. And look, I 362 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 2: understand it. We've waited eighteen years now, we can wait 363 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 2: another couple of months before we start going nuts. But 364 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 2: I really honestly believe that this is so far down 365 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 2: the road. I think getting over a hump of not 366 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 2: having every owner on board was cleared. Otherwise they're not 367 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 2: calling this meeting talking about whether or not they're gonna 368 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,640 Speaker 2: start taking bids. Now, the opposite side of that coin, 369 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 2: just for a quick second, is if it doesn't happen 370 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 2: after the monologue you heard from me and Dick in 371 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 2: the last segment, they can rotten hell. Okay, burn in 372 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 2: hell for eternity. But I'm not worried about that right now. No, 373 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:13,919 Speaker 2: absolutely not. 374 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 8: I'm so ready to talk about jerseys and logos and 375 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 8: colors and what you all those tiny little I'm ready 376 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 8: to start looking at at you know, potential drafts ahead. Okay, 377 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 8: what does that twenty twenty eight NBA draft look like? 378 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 9: Yes? 379 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 8: What kind of expansion players could we even think about 380 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 8: getting in that? I am ready to start on all 381 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 8: of that, because here's the reality. And Dick, you've said 382 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:38,919 Speaker 8: this a thousand times and you're one thousand percent right 383 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 8: on this is Adam Silver is not going to go 384 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 8: down these roads. If there's any doubt in my mind, 385 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 8: it's gonna hit a hit a stop sign. Like he's 386 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 8: a pretty brilliant commissioner, and he gets crap on a 387 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:53,679 Speaker 8: bunch of different things, and it's fairly so for various 388 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,360 Speaker 8: things like like load management all that. But the reality 389 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 8: is when it comes to business stuff, he's pretty darn smart. 390 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 8: He's not and he he used the disciple of David Stern, 391 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 8: who obviously screwed us, but overall he grew the NBA 392 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:06,360 Speaker 8: quite enormously. 393 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 4: AIA is completely different entity than it was Adams two thousand. 394 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 8: Adam Silver knows what he is doing, and he's not 395 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 8: going to go through the process of a vote and 396 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 8: this whole timeline. 397 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: If he didn't know that this thing's gonna happen. 398 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 4: It'd be the biggest slap in the face that any 399 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 4: commissioner has had and ever, maybe ever. I mean, so 400 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 4: you're exactly right, there's no way that he's going down there. 401 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 4: I still want the day though, where I can celebrate 402 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 4: and like cry, and that's I haven't read today. 403 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: Wasn't that for me? 404 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 4: And maybe that'll never come for me because I've always 405 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 4: known it was going to happen, So that might so 406 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,919 Speaker 4: maybe the element of surprise will never exist in my 407 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 4: you know, in my DNA, because I've always known it 408 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 4: was going to happen. I just didn't know what year 409 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 4: it was going to happen. 410 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think the question is, did you think 411 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 2: it would take twenty years, No, of course, not not 412 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 2: even I mean when was was it twenty eleven when 413 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 2: Chris Hansen bought the Kings and got denied by the NBA? 414 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 2: Whatever year that was, So we're talking four or five 415 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 2: years later, right, three four years later after they took off. 416 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 2: It was four or five years after Clay Bennett bought 417 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 2: the team, So that happened pretty damn fast. Nobody thought 418 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 2: this would take twenty years. That's where I think some 419 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 2: of the okay, is this really good? 420 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 3: Like? 421 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: How many years. 422 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 2: Would have had to have gone by before everybody would 423 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 2: have understood why somebody is skeptical? 424 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 10: Well? 425 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: How many years were our right though? 426 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 4: Because from two thousand and eight to twenty twenty one 427 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 4: you didn't have a place to play. 428 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 2: I just don't think it really matters for people. I 429 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 2: think a weight is a wait. Twenty years is a wait. 430 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 2: I mean, what if it's twenty five, what if it's thirty, 431 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 2: What if it's thirty five? I mean how many how 432 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 2: many years would you have had to have gotten to 433 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 2: where you say, okay, this is crazy, And I get 434 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 2: why you're skeptical, So I understand it. 435 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: Man. 436 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 2: I'm not even worried about that aspect of the whole thing. 437 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 2: What I'm worried about is this basketball team getting the 438 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 2: right owner. What I'm worried about is this basketball team 439 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,159 Speaker 2: hiring the right coach. Worried about them pricing their tickets 440 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,160 Speaker 2: properly so fans can afford to go. 441 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: The NBA is an expensive entity, just like the NHL is. 442 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 2: And the one thing that we have in this town 443 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 2: that we did not have about twenty years ago or 444 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,640 Speaker 2: so is real big time competition. You don't do well, 445 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 2: fans won't go. There's other things to spend your money on. 446 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 1: In this city. 447 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 2: And what else I love about it is that I've 448 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 2: always wondered, what did it feel like in nineteen seventy 449 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 2: six when the Seahawks started to play, or in nineteen 450 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 2: seventy seven when the Mariners began to play. It's been 451 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 2: so long that this will feel like starting over. For 452 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 2: a lot of people that will be the first time, 453 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 2: because if you're twenty five thirty years old, you don't 454 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 2: have any memory of them back in the day. 455 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 1: This is all new to you as well. 456 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 2: So now we have a whole generation dick of basketball 457 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 2: fans that will get to know what it felt like 458 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 2: in the seventies and in nineteens, at sixty seven, nineteen 459 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,239 Speaker 2: sixty seven, when the Sonics showed up, what that felt like, 460 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 2: I was too young to even process it. I was 461 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 2: three when the Seahawks began, and I was four when 462 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 2: the Mariners started. So outside of the Kraken coming here, 463 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 2: that's the only thing that I have to gauge what 464 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 2: it feels like to get a brand new team in 465 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 2: your town. And with basketball, football, and baseball my three 466 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 2: favorite sports, obviously, I have no idea I'm about to 467 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 2: find out. 468 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think cool, and I think the Sonics 469 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 4: can learn a lot from the Kracking and both positively 470 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 4: and negatively, right, I mean the Kraken their game presentation 471 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:37,640 Speaker 4: is unbelievable at is I mean unbelievable, and the Sonics 472 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 4: will be able to tap into that and they will 473 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,959 Speaker 4: have that type of game presentation. I think some of 474 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 4: the some of the financials that go on at Climate 475 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 4: Pledge Arena, as far as ticket prices, and especially in 476 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 4: the past, they're starting to come down, but season ticket 477 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 4: prices in the past, concessions in the past. I think 478 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 4: that the Sonics will be able to learn from some 479 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 4: of the things that the Kraken didn't do in the 480 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 4: first few years that will now start to do now now. 481 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 2: On the fact that Todd's involved with both of them, right, 482 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 2: I mean, he'll obviously he's got a lot of experience 483 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 2: in the NBA, as do a lot of other people 484 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 2: that will be involved in this thing. But we want 485 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 2: to get some talkbacks. We'll get more at five point 486 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 2: thirty tonight. Your thoughts on you know, is this now 487 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 2: kind of the day that you were hoping to hear? 488 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 2: I mean, obviously there's one big day where they can 489 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 2: say it's official and we'll have that day like we 490 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 2: had Henry's that night on Lake Union when they announced 491 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 2: the Krack and we're actually coming to Seattle. We were 492 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 2: getting a hockey team that night. You know, when they 493 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 2: announced the return of the NBA, do they call it 494 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 2: the Sonics from the start? Do they call it the 495 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 2: Basketball Club of Seattle? And there's going to be a 496 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 2: process to create a nickname for the team. I mean, 497 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 2: I think we all know what they're going to be called. 498 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,400 Speaker 2: We all know they're going to be called the Sonics. 499 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 2: But you know, like when they announced the Vegas team, 500 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 2: Let's say, for example, Adam Sover goes to the podium 501 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 2: on give me a date. 502 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 1: I don't know. 503 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 2: July twentieth of twenty twenty six. We have awarded expansion 504 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 2: teams to both Seattle and Las Vegas, the Sonics and 505 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 2: the yet to be named Vegas team. That's probably we'll 506 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,400 Speaker 2: start playing in the fall of twenty twenty eight. 507 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 1: Because is that Is that how the NBA is going 508 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: into this? 509 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 2: Are are they going into this just knowing it's gonna 510 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 2: be the Sonics and that's it. Or does the NBA, actually, 511 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 2: God forbid, want to have some kind of a process, 512 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 2: or maybe they decide if the name still. 513 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 8: Fits and Adam Adam Silver again, this is a he's 514 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,919 Speaker 8: going to say Seattle in Vegas. 515 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: He's never going to say Sonic. He will not say 516 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: so Seattle. 517 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 2: Well, let's do this is three forty of the Fun 518 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 2: with Audio, which includes a lot on this topic. Next 519 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 2: to Milon at four on ninety three three kJ. 520 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 6: RFM, it's now time for Softy in Dig's Fun with Audio. 521 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,160 Speaker 3: Jimmy GA Star, Jimmy mister Garoppolo. 522 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: Now let's have some fun with audio. 523 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 2: I hear me a little well, join us by the way, 524 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,120 Speaker 2: four o'clock A little more four with Hugh. By the way, 525 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,640 Speaker 2: for those that are wondering, the College Basketball Crown tournament 526 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 2: that's by Fox and held in Vegas every year, kind 527 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 2: of a replacement for the old CBI came out with 528 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 2: their eight teams, and Washington is not among the eight teams. 529 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 2: So the Husky basketball season, not that this surprises anybody, 530 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 2: is over. No NIT, no NCAA, and no College Basketball Crown. 531 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 2: So year two ends with no postseason appearance for Washington. 532 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 2: All right, here we go a little fun with audio slash. 533 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 2: Hey did you hear that a dick? Did you happen 534 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:26,199 Speaker 2: to hear that? 535 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 5: What? 536 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: What's that dick? 537 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 2: This morning on Get Up ESPN host Pete Schrager jumping 538 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 2: in with the breaking news from NBA insider Shams Charandia 539 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 2: regarding NBA expansion to Seattle and Las Vegas. 540 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Get Up. Shawn's is here. We have 541 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: breaking news. Seanstronia, take it away. 542 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 3: So Peter sources tell me that the NBA will hold 543 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 3: a vote next week at the Board of Governor's meetings 544 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 3: on March twenty fourth and twenty five to allow the 545 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 3: league to go explore two new expansion teams exclusively in 546 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 3: Las Vegasvegas and Seattle. And so these two teams would 547 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,639 Speaker 3: be targeted for the twenty twenty eight twenty nine season. 548 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,159 Speaker 3: And there is momentum within stakeholders here to try to 549 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 3: go out there and see what is the market here 550 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 3: and what could those proposals look like, because industry executives 551 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,959 Speaker 3: tell me that you're looking at somewhere between seven to 552 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 3: ten billion dollars per team for Seattle and Las Vegas. 553 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 3: And so this first step right now, this first vote 554 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 3: is looked at as a formality. There is momentum for 555 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 3: the owners around the NBA to approve this vote to 556 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 3: go allow the league to go see what those bids 557 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 3: could look like. Then you have a final vote later 558 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six to approve the move to thirty 559 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 3: two NBA teams. 560 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 2: All right, so we're gonna talk to Christianiels at five 561 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 2: o'clock and see if that's seven to ten billion dollar 562 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 2: figure is accurate. Dick, by the way, we'll also get 563 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 2: his thoughts on what this potential. 564 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,160 Speaker 1: Meeting next week means. 565 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 2: I want to roll this though right into number two 566 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 2: if I can, and get some thoughts on this clip 567 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 2: on NBA today this afternoon on ESPN, Brian Windhorst had 568 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 2: this to say about the latest NBA expansion news and 569 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 2: the money involved. 570 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 10: Been some stops and starts in this, and there's definitely 571 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,440 Speaker 10: a process as Shams is describing. But for the first 572 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 10: time really since two thousand and eight, I think if 573 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 10: you're a Seattle Sonics fan, you can truly start to 574 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,400 Speaker 10: believe that the Sonics are in the process of coming back. 575 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 10: And that's what's most important. I think there's a lot 576 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 10: of things to be ironed out, but I will tell 577 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 10: you this, there are going to be multiple bidders offering 578 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 10: lots of money for both of these markets, and I 579 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 10: think because of the money, that will solve the other concerns. 580 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 10: You can ask concerns about talent, you can offer concerns 581 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 10: about expansion draft, you can offer concerns about how who 582 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 10: might have to move to the Eastern Conference. All of 583 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 10: those will be interesting. The panacea for all of it 584 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 10: is the amount of money we're talking about here, which 585 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 10: it's going to win over the owners who are on 586 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,120 Speaker 10: the fence and get this process. 587 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,120 Speaker 2: COO here you go, Well, I mean again, it's there'd 588 00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 2: be a lot of people that go on their face 589 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 2: if this thing doesn't happen, but I thought it was interesting. 590 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 2: I would talk to Chris about this as well, Dick 591 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 2: at five o'clock tonight. Multiple bidders, So outside of the obvious, 592 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 2: which is the team or the ownership group led by 593 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 2: Samantha Holloway, who is David Bonderman's daughter, who else locally 594 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 2: is going to step up and put a team together 595 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 2: and make a bit At least it's a. 596 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,879 Speaker 4: City that has multiple billionaires, so we don't have to 597 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,159 Speaker 4: worry about that as much as most cities do. But 598 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,479 Speaker 4: I mean, I just think, I think Adam Silver has 599 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 4: been a convenient target for people over the last ten years, 600 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 4: and I think Adam Silver wanted expansion from the get go. Jackson, 601 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 4: you and I commented about how excited Adam Silver was 602 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 4: in that first press conference. I believe it was last 603 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 4: July when it was just him, and then he had 604 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 4: the next press conference in October after he talked to 605 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 4: the owners and he wasn't nearly as excited. People, Adam 606 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 4: Silver wants this to happen for you, Let's stop throwing 607 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 4: crap on him. There was pushback from owners, and now 608 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 4: there's less pushback from owners because of the reasons. 609 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: Brian Winhorse just described, all right, Hey, Dick, did you 610 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: happen to hear that? 611 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 5: Was that? If? 612 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: What's that? 613 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 5: Dick? 614 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: Portland had a former showtime Laker, A C. 615 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 2: Green, joined Matt Moore of The Action Network last week 616 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 2: and said he's in conversations to be a part of 617 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 2: the new ownership group of the Sonics. We're talking about 618 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 2: the NBA's possible return to Seattle. 619 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 11: Yeah, there's a lot of talk about expansion and you know, 620 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 11: losing Seattle. I think is that for anybody that grew 621 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 11: up watching the league and they had such a history 622 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 11: there if Seattle is chosen as an expansion team or 623 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 11: are you gonna be glad to see them back in 624 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 11: the NBA, especially. 625 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 5: If I own them. Yeah, that would be that would 626 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 5: be awesome. Yeah, absolutely, And being the Northwest guy, I'm biased. 627 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 5: I would love to, you know, see that just for 628 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 5: the sake of basketball back in the Northwest outside of Portland. 629 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 5: Uh So, yeah, I would. I would love seeing that. 630 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 5: I'm all for it, And yeah, I would love to 631 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 5: own the team as well. 632 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 3: Have you been in those talks. 633 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 5: I'm always in those kinds of conversations. 634 00:29:55,680 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 2: All right, So, according to Celebrity Network, which is a 635 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 2: very trustworthy website. Ac Green's worth about fifteen million dollars. 636 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 2: He can have a concession stand, is what he can 637 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 2: have for fifteen million? 638 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: One popcorn stand? Is he still a virgin? By the way, 639 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: it might be a C. 640 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 5: Green? 641 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 2: You wear that story about Ac Green claims that, well, 642 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 2: he played in the NBA, he never had sex with anybody. 643 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 4: He came out in Sports Illustrated and he was like, 644 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 4: he was like thirty five years of age. 645 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, tell you what? I tell 646 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: you Green? Ac? 647 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 2: How old is he now? By the way, you think 648 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 2: it's got to be six sixties, right? Ac Green is 649 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 2: sixty two years old. 650 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 1: Ac. 651 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 2: If you can prove you're still a vision, you can 652 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 2: have one one millionth of the franchise. 653 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 1: All right. 654 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 2: If not, you're out. We don't hire no perverts around here, man. 655 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 2: All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that? 656 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: What's that? Dick? 657 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 2: On Saturday's ESPN NBA tip Off, Charles Barkley sounds off 658 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 2: while talking about Bam out of Bio's eighty three point 659 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 2: game from Miami last week. 660 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 9: Well, he is so lucky he's playing in twenty twenty six, 661 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 9: so we would have knocked him on it, and exactly 662 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,479 Speaker 9: we would have killed I'm back in the day, exactly, 663 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 9: I listen and I'm not doing no how verbally or 664 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 9: anything like BELLOK, tough guy. Let me tell you something, Ernie. 665 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 9: In my day, if you up twenty and shoot a three, 666 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 9: we gonna put your ass in the stands. That was 667 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 9: like an unwritten rule. I've asked it. We called like, hey, 668 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 9: they're up twenty, if they shoot a three. Every time 669 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 9: you knock the hell out of somebody who's shoot a three, 670 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 9: we gonna call that. You get a bonus. You get 671 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 9: out of the kiddick pool. 672 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: You know, we've said this before. I've said this before 673 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: on the ear. 674 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 2: I don't know what it is about these guys that 675 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 2: are on the air, especially those three on TNT are 676 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 2: now ESPN right, Kenny Smith, Shack and Charles Barkley. But 677 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 2: there is a these young whipper snappers that play today 678 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 2: in the NBA have no idea what we went through 679 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 2: twenty five thirty years ago. It's unbelievable, like there's not 680 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 2: even any complementary commentary from those guys. It seems like 681 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 2: about today's NBA anytime they have a shot to rip 682 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 2: on somebody, criticize, somebody, ridicule somebody. 683 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 1: God, it feels like they're taking it, does it not? Yeah, 684 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 1: I mean they're we're hearing snippets. 685 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 4: I listen to a lot of them, and they are 686 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 4: very complementary of the BET are a lot of people 687 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 4: app But yes, I see what you're saying, and I think, honestly, 688 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of jealousy because they know 689 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 4: that the skill level of NBA today players today is 690 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 4: far greater and far more deep, and it transcends all 691 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 4: five positions. Right, how many fours and fives thirty years 692 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 4: ago could actually dribble and shoot the basketball. 693 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 2: And guess what that conversation you're having right now is 694 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 2: going to be the same thing in thirty years from now, 695 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 2: and in sixty years from now, and in one hundred 696 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 2: years from now. It's called evolution. People get bigger, they 697 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 2: get faster, they get stronger, they get quicker. And I 698 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 2: saw a guy over the weekend, some dude I don't 699 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 2: even know who it is, who's seven foot nine. I'm 700 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 2: telling you, Dick, in our lifetime, we might see an 701 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 2: eight foot tall basketball artist. He's a different dude, this 702 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 2: is the Olivier reu guy you're talking about. This is 703 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 2: somebody else. It's on my Twitter account. I think it's 704 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 2: like fifteen years old. He's a freak. He looks like 705 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 2: something that crawled out of the spaceship from Close Encounters. 706 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. I'm like, yeah, of course, and then these 707 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 2: dudes that are playing right now, when they're on the 708 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,800 Speaker 2: NBA on TNT in twenty. 709 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 1: Five years, they'll be saying the same thing. Yeah, probably 710 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 1: that era. It's unbelievable. 711 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 4: But the thought that, like lord A starting five forty 712 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 4: years ago could be the starting five of today is 713 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:31,840 Speaker 4: de ludicrous. 714 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 2: I don't think that'll ever be the case in any generation. 715 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,240 Speaker 2: This generation will always be able to beat the previous generation. 716 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 1: That's right. 717 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 2: Just again, that's evolution. People don't want to believe it. 718 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 2: We're gonna break. Hugh Millon joins next on ninety three 719 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 2: to three KJRFM.