Speaker 1: Some reflections on a rare trip that had both Chris
Speaker 1: Haynes and me Mark Stein in the same city. Of
Speaker 1: course we could not resist. We're also going to talk
Speaker 1: about the Western Conference, who is the foremost threat to
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets, and the Eastern Conference. Name your foremost
Speaker 1: threat to the Boston Celtics. We do all that next
Speaker 1: here on this League Uncut.
Speaker 2: Welcome to this League Uncut. In the rule of twenty
Speaker 2: four hour NBA news, this news you love, Chris Haynes.
Speaker 2: It's time, Mark Stein, It's so time. This League Uncut
Speaker 2: is underway and on fire.
Speaker 3: This should be a good.
Speaker 1: One, the new edition of this League Uncut. Mark Stein
Speaker 1: here with Chris Haynes. We were actually in the same place,
Speaker 1: same city, say building, same Dais in Indianapolis, only the
Speaker 1: second time this season that was actually cross pass and
Speaker 1: seeing each other, mister Haynes, like obviously because last week
Speaker 1: we all had a circus schedule, including Producer Ryan. I
Speaker 1: think Producer Ryan had the longest All Star breakout of
Speaker 1: any of us on this any of us in this squad.
Speaker 1: But uh was your All Star Okay? I saw you
Speaker 1: Sunday morning, but then I didn't see you out didn't
Speaker 1: really get to say goodbye to you. So how would
Speaker 1: you rate your All Star experience? Was it okay in
Speaker 1: the end? I know, snowy cold Indianapolis is tough for you.
Speaker 3: Yes, not a fan of the snow, but now it was.
Speaker 3: I would just say it was productive. I was drained,
Speaker 3: like I they. You know, I had a ton of
Speaker 3: assignments over the weekend. I did not hit up one party.
Speaker 3: I did not hit up one brunch, one event.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm finally rubbing off it.
Speaker 3: It wasn't because it wasn't because of nah, nah, I
Speaker 3: had nothing. I had nothing to do with it. It was
Speaker 3: just all the assignments that I had, And I'm not complaining.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed it. I did the Rising Stars game Friday,
Speaker 3: and I had to have rehearsal for the Rising Stars
Speaker 3: m VP and Championship presentation that I did Saturday night.
Speaker 3: I had the All Star practice that morning. Then I
Speaker 3: had to work the HBCU game sidelines. Then I had
Speaker 3: to work the Saturday night sidelines for the Dunk Contest
Speaker 3: three point and all that. So my day was pretty
Speaker 3: much filled up. But no, it was cool. I got
Speaker 3: to hang with you know after at you know, at
Speaker 3: the end of the night, because you know, we have
Speaker 3: our We stayed at the Hilton where the T n
Speaker 3: T employees were housed, so got to hang with my
Speaker 3: guys Chuck and Kenny a few nights after the games.
Speaker 3: And uh, it's always cool, Uh when when you hanging
Speaker 3: with those guys and they're a little bit more looser,
Speaker 3: a little bit more looser at night when you when
Speaker 3: you get you know, you get to get the drinking
Speaker 3: and you know, I mean, like you know how it is,
Speaker 3: So yeah, I had to.
Speaker 1: Say I had a I had a really surprising bonus
Speaker 1: evening with the Chuckster, completely unplanned because the Hilton, the
Speaker 1: Turner Hotel was right around the corner from the Sheraton
Speaker 1: where the media was and on Saturday night after I
Speaker 1: Saturday I hosted a panel with Grant Hill and Chelsea
Speaker 1: Gray and Jim Tooley and Martin Dempsey from USA B.
Speaker 1: That was Saturday around five ish. Then I dropped in
Speaker 1: on my pals at Panini because they had an awesome
Speaker 1: three story setup that was about a mile away from
Speaker 1: us but also in downtown Indy. So Saturday night I
Speaker 1: was not going to go to the dunk contest or
Speaker 1: the three point contest. I was going to watch all
Speaker 1: that on TV. Your wonderful hotel had a McCormick and
Speaker 1: Schmick's restaurant attached to it. Saturday night, I go in
Speaker 1: there to meet my friend Lou, who is an Indianapolis resident,
Speaker 1: not in the business. Just went to meet him for
Speaker 1: a nice quick bite. And what what do I see?
Speaker 1: Who do I find the Chuckster? Because the Chuckster was
Speaker 1: not on any of the Saturday night broadcasts. He was
Speaker 1: all suited and booted. He did something Saturday pregamer in
Speaker 1: the afternoon. But I ended up in the same place
Speaker 1: with the Chuckster for a few hours. Nice, completely bonus
Speaker 1: bonus evening with Charles Barkley, which was great theater. And
Speaker 1: Sunday morning got to hang out with you. We had
Speaker 1: our nice interview with Chris Finch.
Speaker 3: Yeh hit.
Speaker 1: I hit Saint Elmo's three times. The over under was two.
Speaker 1: I got to Saint elmos Steakhouse three times, three three
Speaker 1: shrimp cocktails I got.
Speaker 3: I got there. I got there Thursday night. I was
Speaker 3: able to get in and those shrimp cocktails. I didn't
Speaker 3: try it, but my wife is a big shrimp connoisseur,
Speaker 3: so She tried it and staring it completely cleared her
Speaker 3: sinuses up. She started coughing, eyes getting watery. What is
Speaker 3: it though, horse radish is That's what?
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, Perry, spicy horse radish sauce glorious, the best
Speaker 1: shrimp cocktail in the United States. Had it three times tremendous.
Speaker 1: Also found a great coffee place in Indianapolis, Tinker Coffee.
Speaker 1: Went there every day, do some work, did some writing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I had. And let me tell you this Friday,
Speaker 1: it snowed. It was freezing Friday, it was cold, still
Speaker 1: cold Saturday, it was still cold Sunday. And I did
Speaker 1: not have the proper winter gear with me. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, I still loved it because today in Dallas,
Speaker 1: we're taping this on Monday nights in Dallas. Today, on
Speaker 1: this Monday, the temperature hit ninety one degrees at DFW Airport. Scandalous.
Speaker 1: It's it's till February, so give me that winter weather
Speaker 1: all day long. It's gonna be ninety again Tuesday. Ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's not even March yet.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, crazy, you're crazy. Man, you're crazy.
Speaker 1: Give me that, give me give me the snow crazy
Speaker 1: talk all right, let's get to the basketball. We are
Speaker 1: into the final third of the season. Now, common misconception
Speaker 1: is that the All Star break represents the first half. No,
Speaker 1: not in the NBA. There are exactly twelve hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty games in an NBA regular season. Amazingly, this season,
Speaker 1: eight hundred and twenty were played before the All Star break,
Speaker 1: exactly sixty six point seven percent of the season, exactly
Speaker 1: one third remaining when we resume play last Thursday. I
Speaker 1: think the thing we can say definitively when you look
Speaker 1: at the standings, I mean, the battle for seedings remains
Speaker 1: feverish in both conferences. In the West, it goes all
Speaker 1: the way down to ten. Five to ten is an
Speaker 1: almighty jumble. In the East, the drama really is more.
Speaker 1: It's probably more two to six ish, although look, Miami
Speaker 1: and Orlando aren't far off as well. They're still I
Speaker 1: guess it's two to eight in the East. But I
Speaker 1: think the one thing we can say for sure in
Speaker 1: either conference, you look at the Boston Celtics have clearly
Speaker 1: established themselves as the best team in the East. I
Speaker 1: would still argue that the Denver Nuggets, the defending champions,
Speaker 1: are the most feared team in the West. On this
Speaker 1: Monday night, the Nuggets are only third in the West,
Speaker 1: Minnesota and Oklahoma City a game and a half ahead
Speaker 1: of Denver and the Clippers a game behind. But I
Speaker 1: think based on pedigree, based on the way Jokic is playing,
Speaker 1: we have to say that the Nuggets are still the
Speaker 1: favorites to come out of the West. But let's start
Speaker 1: with the East. Who do you like the best to
Speaker 1: possibly upset Boston? Who who is the biggest threat to
Speaker 1: the Celtics. The Celtics have a seven and a half
Speaker 1: game lead over number two Cleveland. Is it the Calves?
Speaker 1: Is it Number three Milwaukee? The Bucks have had a
Speaker 1: couple of big wins here lately. If the Knicks get healthy,
Speaker 1: are they actually the foremost threat to Boston in the East?
Speaker 1: If Philadelphia can get Joelle and bead back, are the
Speaker 1: Sixers the foremost threat to Boston in the East? Producer
Speaker 1: Ryan he can I think he can guess who you're
Speaker 1: gonna say, But just for.
Speaker 3: Case, why is that?
Speaker 1: Why is that because we know there's one team in
Speaker 1: the East, in particular that you are on the record
Speaker 1: as saying you do not miss any of their games.
Speaker 1: So that's my.
Speaker 3: Pers There's a handful of teams where I don't miss
Speaker 3: any of their games, but Milwaukee is one of them
Speaker 3: for sure. But I'm yes, you're correcting this this time,
Speaker 3: this instance, you're correct, I'm going with Milwaukee. I like
Speaker 3: what Doc Rivers is doing over there. I know he
Speaker 3: got off to a slow start, but he's slowly but
Speaker 3: surely implementing his style of play. And one thing I
Speaker 3: do know is that I believe what day is this Monday?
Speaker 3: So last week sometime, I know that he doing a
Speaker 3: practice session or a shoot around or whatever. He went individually,
Speaker 3: play by player and went to them and told them
Speaker 3: what he wants them to do and told them what
Speaker 3: he doesn't want them to do. He's clearly defining roles
Speaker 3: and for a lot of these guys, they're now being
Speaker 3: asked to do things that that they were not doing.
Speaker 3: You know, in the Adrian Griffin era, you know some
Speaker 3: guys who probably had a longer rain to do whatever.
Speaker 3: It's over now and there's some then there's the other
Speaker 3: players that they're asking for them to do more, and
Speaker 3: they're telling players this guy should be doing more. So
Speaker 3: you know they're getting into that. This is Doc Rivers
Speaker 3: right now, if you look at the way they've been
Speaker 3: playing over the last couple of games, you can definitely
Speaker 3: tell that they're doing things differently. The offense is is
Speaker 3: moving better. Defensively since Doc Rivers has taken over, they
Speaker 3: are six in defensive ratings, so you know they are
Speaker 3: they are getting better there. And I just like the
Speaker 3: trajectory in which they are headed, and so no, they're not.
Speaker 3: I don't think any team is going to catch Boston
Speaker 3: for say, you know, before the conclusion of the regular season,
Speaker 3: But if there's a team that has a legitimate shot
Speaker 3: and knocking him off in the postseason, I'm going to
Speaker 3: Milwaukee because I think they have the most upside because
Speaker 3: all the changes that they're making and it's it's almost
Speaker 3: like this is a new team. And so that's that's
Speaker 3: why in Philly, I mean, you could say Philly could
Speaker 3: argue for Philly with Jorlan bid coming back, But will
Speaker 3: he be healthy once once he comes back?
Speaker 1: Is he coming back? We still don't have official We
Speaker 1: assume he's coming back, but we don't.
Speaker 3: Know for sure. I think he will. I don't have
Speaker 3: any concrete evidence, but I think he will come back.
Speaker 3: But I just wonder. You know, he would have been
Speaker 3: set out for months, multiple months, Like, do you expect
Speaker 3: him just to come in and play at the MVP
Speaker 3: level he was playing that before the injury. I don't.
Speaker 3: I think that's hard. That's a that's a tall task
Speaker 3: for anybody to kind of live up to. But uh yeah,
Speaker 3: I Philly, they give themselves a shot. But no, out
Speaker 3: of all the teams in the right now, I give
Speaker 3: him Milwaukee as the favorites to have a shot to
Speaker 3: take down.
Speaker 1: Boston, I would probably have to echo that I was
Speaker 1: super high on Milwaukee coming into the season. We haven't
Speaker 1: really seen this team approach its ceiling yet, but I
Speaker 1: do think Doc Rivers is making a difference. Everyone focused
Speaker 1: on the three and seven start and how bad it
Speaker 1: was and all the comments that Doc was making. But
Speaker 1: you know, I do feel a need to say something
Speaker 1: about that because I think there's this perception that Doc
Speaker 1: Rivers was seeking out any reporter he can find to
Speaker 1: make excuses for the three and seven start, and that's
Speaker 1: really not the way it was. Now. His quotes, what
Speaker 1: he says, his words are his words, and some people
Speaker 1: don't like what he says. Some people don't think he's
Speaker 1: taking enough accountability. I'm not going to sit here and
Speaker 1: defend every word he has said about his time since
Speaker 1: he's become the Bucks coach, but I would just say, like,
Speaker 1: this is not Doc Rivers on a campaign because all
Speaker 1: of these instances, all of these quotes come from him
Speaker 1: taking questions from us. And I've said this as I've
Speaker 1: said this many times, but just to reiterate, in the
Speaker 1: modern NBA, the way media access has evolved, the coach
Speaker 1: talks more than anyone in the organization, more than the players,
Speaker 1: more than the executives. The coach talks a ton. And then,
Speaker 1: because of the Riley Rule, because Boston's coaching staff couldn't
Speaker 1: go to the All Star Game two years in a row,
Speaker 1: and the Bucks staff had to coach in the All
Speaker 1: Star Game, that had even more reporters chasing Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: and stacked more media availabilities into his schedule because at
Speaker 1: All Star he's got to do all these interviews. So
Speaker 1: I really think like most of this, most of the
Speaker 1: comments we've heard from Doc in recent days, it's because
Speaker 1: he's fielding questions about it. I mean, I the MAVs
Speaker 1: were in Dallas on February third, and I couldn't wait
Speaker 1: to try to corner Doc and get a few questions in.
Speaker 1: And when I talked to him, I asked him, I said, Doc,
Speaker 1: I mean, you realize that any team you coach at
Speaker 1: this point, it's championship or bust. Those are the expectations,
Speaker 1: and you're you know, he knows it. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's running from it. I think he understands that if
Speaker 1: the Bucks don't win, there's gonna be harsh criticism for
Speaker 1: him and for Giannis and for Dame and with me.
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers was, I thought, pretty open about it and
Speaker 1: pretty humble about it. He said, quote, that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: That means you've done a pretty good job as a
Speaker 1: coach where you go and people expect that team to win.
Speaker 1: That's been good for me, and that's bad for me.
Speaker 1: Teams that haven't won, then you get the blame for that,
Speaker 1: and that's okay. You've got to be willing to put
Speaker 1: yourself into that. So he knows he's under the microscope.
Speaker 1: And you know, again in our conversation, which was February third,
Speaker 1: he certainly wasn't running from it. But look, I like,
Speaker 1: I really like the Knicks went healthy, and I still have.
Speaker 1: I'm not writing Miami off either. I know the Heat
Speaker 1: have had a really up and down season, and now
Speaker 1: they're dealing with ninety five suspensions and you know they
Speaker 1: don't have their full team again. But you know, Miami
Speaker 1: is in seventh in the East as we're taping this,
Speaker 1: only a half game out of the sixth seed. I
Speaker 1: know you're gonna see the Heat this week in Denver.
Speaker 3: Well, see, I'm gonna see some of them.
Speaker 1: I think you will see Jimmy because he'll be back
Speaker 1: from the one game suspension. But I can't keep.
Speaker 3: Up with you. You're right, keep up with.
Speaker 1: How many guys you're gonna miss? How many other No?
Speaker 1: Jovis right? He is he he's the one you got
Speaker 1: the three gamer?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he got three games? Correct.
Speaker 1: Thomas Bryant.
Speaker 3: Thomas Bryant three games? Yes, So Jimmy will be there.
Speaker 3: Cool cool TNT could keep the game.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I somehow, I still think they're going
Speaker 1: to factor into things by the end of the season.
Speaker 1: I know they've been very up and down.
Speaker 3: Of course, I mean, yeah, of course. Don you always
Speaker 3: expect the Miami Heat to be there when it's all
Speaker 3: said and done, even if they are a seventh or
Speaker 3: eighth seed going into the playoffs. Therefore, you saw what
Speaker 3: they did last year.
Speaker 1: Like this Knicks team was so good in January after
Speaker 1: getting og Anobi. I mean they went fifteen and two
Speaker 1: after that trade. But now we just don't know is
Speaker 1: Julius Randall coming back? And Nnoby will come back at
Speaker 1: some point, but are they getting Julius Randall back?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the that's key right there. Julius came up.
Speaker 3: When did Julius come on our pod? Was that in January?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Before before the All Star Game?
Speaker 3: Okay, before the All yes, right before the All Star Game. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's just so confident and he's you know,
Speaker 3: he's so comfortable, I should say, and playing in New
Speaker 3: York now, which we all know that is a hard
Speaker 3: market to perform at with all the expectations. But so,
Speaker 3: you know, I definitely feel sorry that he had to
Speaker 3: go down with his injury. Now he's losing rhythm and
Speaker 3: you don't have a chance to play in the All
Speaker 3: Star Game as well. So I'm hoping, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: hoping all these teams getting healthy, can't get healthy so
Speaker 3: we can see them at full fours come playoff time.
Speaker 1: All right, well, what about the West? If you agree
Speaker 1: with my claim that Denver has to be the favorite
Speaker 1: to win the West? And I think they deserve that.
Speaker 1: And look, Yoki, which has been the dude is playing
Speaker 1: basketball from another planet since he returned from the All
Speaker 1: Star Break, the first player in NBA history to record
Speaker 1: at least eighty points, fifty rebounds, and forty five assists
Speaker 1: over a three game span, just the second in history,
Speaker 1: the first since Wilt Chamberlain way back in March of
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight before I was born. So Jokich is
Speaker 1: on an absolute heater. But who do you like in
Speaker 1: the West? Who is the team that should have Denver
Speaker 1: the most concerned? Is it Minnesota? Is it Oklahoma City?
Speaker 1: Is it the Clippers? Is it one of these teams
Speaker 1: in the jumble from I mean five to ten, Sacramento, Phoenix,
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Dallas, Lakers, Warriors? Who should Denver be the
Speaker 1: most worried about?
Speaker 3: Let me say this, and I haven't said this about
Speaker 3: this team in four maybe five years, I don't know,
Speaker 3: just because they've always feel short due to injuries. But
Speaker 3: it's looking like Stein. It's looking like this team that
Speaker 3: I'm about to mention it's looking like they might have
Speaker 3: it together. It's looking like injuries could be a thing
Speaker 3: of the past, or at least, you know, at least
Speaker 3: some somewhere close to that. Los Angeles Clippers. I think
Speaker 3: if they finally go into the postseason healthy, which they've
Speaker 3: never done, you know, in this Kawhi Paul George Err,
Speaker 3: they're a threat. They are a serious threat. And it's hard, like,
Speaker 3: even with me saying this, it's hard for me to
Speaker 3: fully commit to that because of just what we've seen
Speaker 3: in recent years, you know, a recent time with this team,
Speaker 3: something seems to always happen. But stein they're playing good,
Speaker 3: they're playing really good basketball right now. They are you know,
Speaker 3: they got the same amount of losses as the Nuggets.
Speaker 3: They played two less games then the Nuggets. They're right there.
Speaker 3: I mean, they have a shot to take over, you know,
Speaker 3: at two and a half games behind the Timberwolves, who
Speaker 3: had a number one seed in the Western Conference standings.
Speaker 3: But to your point, Dener, Nuggets are my favorites now,
Speaker 3: are they?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: I think it's a little bit more parody in the
Speaker 3: West than it is in the East. I would say
Speaker 3: it's Boston Celtics. And then you know there's a little
Speaker 3: bit of a gap as of right now and that
Speaker 3: team after that gap, I will probably say Milwaukee. But
Speaker 3: over here in the West, you know, I still got Denver.
Speaker 3: But you know you got teams right there. You know,
Speaker 3: I don't want to dismiss Minnesota, don't want us dismiss OKAYC.
Speaker 3: But Stein, I just I think there's something to be
Speaker 3: said about teams having some postseason success before we anoint
Speaker 3: them to that next tier of elite teams. And you know,
Speaker 3: most times teams have to go through the rigors of
Speaker 3: facing disappointment in the playoffs before they reached that hunk.
Speaker 3: Maybe not maybe Okay, maybe this is okay C's year,
Speaker 3: Maybe this is Minnesota's year. I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 3: not your nostra Damas, but right now, you know I'll
Speaker 3: echo what you stated already about Denver for sure.
Speaker 1: Well, remember when Chris Finch sat with us in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: You know, I brought up how the Timberwolves as a
Speaker 1: franchise in thirty four seasons, they've won all of two
Speaker 1: playoff series, both in two thousand and four when they
Speaker 1: went to the conference finals, so twenty years ago. The
Speaker 1: only year that the Wolves even won a series. They
Speaker 1: won two with the with Kevin Garnett's best team made
Speaker 1: it to the West Finals. And you know, Chris Finch
Speaker 1: was like, really, I had never heard that, obviously, being
Speaker 1: here's that every day.
Speaker 3: So what was that Againsteine? So because I'm trying to
Speaker 3: because I remember when you said that to Finch and
Speaker 3: I was kind of looking at you strange. So how
Speaker 3: did you say it again? What did how did you
Speaker 3: say it to Finch?
Speaker 1: In thirty four prior seasons of Minnesota Timberwolves basketball, this
Speaker 1: franchise has only won two playoff series and they were
Speaker 1: both the same year. Twenty years ago. Spring of two
Speaker 1: thousand and four, the Wolves made it to the West Finals.
Speaker 1: KG your guy Spree, Will Sam Cassel, great tough team,
Speaker 1: the best team of cag he ever had. Yep, and
Speaker 1: they have not won a playoff series in twenty years.
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, they they they have to prove it
Speaker 1: in the postseason as great as their regular season has been.
Speaker 1: And again, as we're taping this, the Wolves are forty
Speaker 1: and seventeen, one of only two teams in one of
Speaker 1: only three teams in the league with forty wins. But yeah,
Speaker 1: both Minnesota and Oklahoma City have to prove it on
Speaker 1: the big stage.
Speaker 3: So Stein, So I'm glad you repeated that because when
Speaker 3: you said it like that, when you phrased it like
Speaker 3: that to Finch, I was looking at you a little
Speaker 3: crazy because when you said that there's only two what
Speaker 3: two teams? Only twice since whatever advanced advanced to win
Speaker 3: a series. I was just thinking, I'm like, hold on, nah,
Speaker 3: they did. They did this a few years ago. And
Speaker 3: the memory of pet Bab jumping on the scorer's table
Speaker 3: and crying, I was like nah. So I was tripping up,
Speaker 3: like nah, because I was just about I was about
Speaker 3: to interject. I'm like, Stein, are you sure that didn't
Speaker 3: hit me off? That was a play I swear I forgot.
Speaker 3: You're just thinking that moment, you know, he's busting out
Speaker 3: cry jumping on the scores table.
Speaker 1: That's how bleak it's been in Minneapolis. And that's why
Speaker 1: we're probably gonna get an email from our boss, Scott
Speaker 1: Shapiro when he hears this podcast, and he will not
Speaker 1: be happy that we have discussed the Timberwolves playoff history
Speaker 1: in such painful detail. But it's true and just look,
Speaker 1: you know again, we're recording this before Miami, a very
Speaker 1: shorthand in Miami is just getting started at Sacramento in
Speaker 1: Monday night's late game, so we do not have that
Speaker 1: score yet. But as we stand as we're doing this pod,
Speaker 1: the playing teams in the West, the Pelicans at number seven,
Speaker 1: the MAVs at number eight, the Lakers at number nine,
Speaker 1: and the Warriors at number ten. So just the playing
Speaker 1: round in the West is going to be great. I mean,
Speaker 1: if it stayed this way, just think about it, Zion Williamson,
Speaker 1: Brandon Ingram CJ McCollum, Luka, Doncic, Kyrie Irving, Lebron James,
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, Stephen Curry, all in the playing round, if
Speaker 1: it stays the way it is right.
Speaker 3: Now, it's going to be fine regardless, even if you know,
Speaker 3: even if these scenes change a little bit, move up,
Speaker 3: move down pretty much, I think I feel confident that
Speaker 3: those teams will be in the equation. Like I don't
Speaker 3: see like the bottom let me see the bottom five teams,
Speaker 3: which are Jazz, Rockets, Grizzlies, Blazers, and Spurs. I don't
Speaker 3: see them moving into the top ten.
Speaker 1: So that's regardless, I think in the in the West,
Speaker 1: We've got our ten. Yeah, we've got our ten that
Speaker 1: it will at least be in the playing round. And
Speaker 1: you know what, in the East, really the only doubt
Speaker 1: now is I mean, Brooklyn's been going in the wrong
Speaker 1: direction for ages. But Toronto now, by virtue of Trey
Speaker 1: Young and this injury that's gonna knock Trey Young out
Speaker 1: for a month, Toronto could move past Atlanta for number ten.
Speaker 1: That's really I think the only mystery in terms of
Speaker 1: top ten in the East. But you know, the Warriors
Speaker 1: also made news the Warriors have extended Steve kerrz contract
Speaker 1: two year deal, two extra seasons worth thirty five million.
Speaker 1: I've believed all season this was going to happen. I
Speaker 1: didn't think there was any doubt, and you know what,
Speaker 1: I still believe that they're going to find a way
Speaker 1: to get a new deal done with Klay Thompson as well.
Speaker 1: Clay is now the only member, the only holdover from
Speaker 1: the Glory days now whose future is not secure. Draymond
Speaker 1: Green has a new contract, Stephen Curry and Steve kerr
Speaker 1: both have contracts that are aligned now that go for
Speaker 1: two more seasons together. So really it's just the Clay mystery.
Speaker 1: I do think in the off season they're going to
Speaker 1: find a way. I think they're going to find common
Speaker 1: ground on a new deal because I just look, there
Speaker 1: have been rumbles that Orlando is interested in Clay. Certainly,
Speaker 1: the LA teams are always going to be mentioned as
Speaker 1: a potential destination for Clay Thompson because of his Southern
Speaker 1: California high school past. But I just I think Clay
Speaker 1: wants to be a Warrior start to finish. And I
Speaker 1: think the Warriors key stakeholders, the other ones, Curry Kerr,
Speaker 1: Draymond Green, Joe Lacup, I think they all want Klay
Speaker 1: Thompson to finish as a Warrior. And somehow, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying there won't be changes to the Warriors roster in
Speaker 1: the off season, but somehow, I just think they will
Speaker 1: find a way to get a new deal done with Clay.
Speaker 3: Being that we're recording this February twenty sixth, I would
Speaker 3: agree with you and say I would think somehow, someway
Speaker 3: they will work out a deal. But I will be
Speaker 3: remiss if we didn't mention that Clay is now coming
Speaker 3: off the bench. I just did their game. I came
Speaker 3: off of their game last week, but was that it
Speaker 3: was the Warriors and Lakers. Warriors and Lakers, and Clay
Speaker 3: came off the bench that game. I believe that was
Speaker 3: a second game coming off the bench. Didn't have a
Speaker 3: good shooting night. But you just gotta wonder throughout this season,
Speaker 3: like it's Clay gonna find a rhythm because they're sticking
Speaker 3: with that lineup. Is Clay gonna find a rhythm off
Speaker 3: of the bench. I know its first game, he exploded,
Speaker 3: went off, first game off the bench. But is this
Speaker 3: something he's gonna accept embrace, not just for this season
Speaker 3: but next season if he were to resign, so things
Speaker 3: can change, is basically what I'm saying. But as of
Speaker 3: right now, Yeah, it's hard to believe that Clay will
Speaker 3: be playing in a different uniform next season.
Speaker 1: And look, yeah, I don't think he loves coming off
Speaker 1: the bench. I guess.
Speaker 3: Take hold on, stein stein, hold on, hold on, take
Speaker 3: the think remove think remove, think you don't think remove it.
Speaker 1: I'm quite sure that Clay is not fond of coming
Speaker 1: off the bench. I get it, but I just struggle
Speaker 1: to imagine him wanting to go somewhere else. I just
Speaker 1: I'm look, I haven't talked to Clay about this. I
Speaker 1: haven't talked to Clay in ages about anything, so this
Speaker 1: is just my read from far away. But it's just
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to imagine him wanting to be elsewhere.
Speaker 1: And yeah, this is a season of major adjustment. He's
Speaker 1: adjusting to a new role. And I guess we'll see,
Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, I guess we'll see over
Speaker 1: time how he really feels about things. But it's just
Speaker 1: I am still struggling to imagine a scenario in which
Speaker 1: he's angling to go somewhere else because that means he
Speaker 1: can start again. It's just hard for me to picture.
Speaker 3: I talked to Brandon Poziski, who who is now starting
Speaker 3: in Clay's place, and I asked him about, like, what's
Speaker 3: been the dynamic since you've entered the starting lineup, you know,
Speaker 3: between you and Clay, And he said it is awkward.
Speaker 3: He said it's awkward because he understands, you know, what
Speaker 3: Clay means to this team and the run that they had.
Speaker 3: But he said Clay has been supportive. He said, he's
Speaker 3: you know, helping him, you know, sharing with him where
Speaker 3: he should be at on both ends of the court
Speaker 3: in different sets, you know, they do play together. They
Speaker 3: still play together, you know, in the rotations that they use.
Speaker 3: And he said, Clay has made it cla feeding the ball,
Speaker 3: like get me the ball, like when I'm in there,
Speaker 3: So Clay is looking to shoot, shoot that bad boy
Speaker 3: when when he gets in so and I think that's
Speaker 3: a positive for Clay right there is just the fact
Speaker 3: that you know, you could come in gun slinging even
Speaker 3: more now. So, uh, it's going to be an adjustment
Speaker 3: period for sure. But that's just something that I will
Speaker 3: continue to monitor throughout this season.
Speaker 1: Brandon Pajemski came on this pod to fuel his bid
Speaker 1: for a spot in the Panini Rising Stars Game, and
Speaker 1: he he got more than that. He got a starting
Speaker 1: job after coming on this pod.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go, there you go. I got the interview.
Speaker 1: Will he get that elusive spot on the all Lefty
Speaker 1: team though, that is the question.
Speaker 3: That's a tough You gotta you know what you gotta do.
Speaker 3: You got to open up more ross with spots.
Speaker 1: Well, I thought of a way to add one that
Speaker 1: would be the easiest to just say all Lefty Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year. And if I do that, he's got
Speaker 1: he's got a real chance.
Speaker 3: Now that's a nice one. Yeah, Lefty Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 3: that's a nice one. There you go.
Speaker 1: Stein, Yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying to be I'm
Speaker 1: trying to be more open minded.
Speaker 3: And that is a and Stein. Yes, yes, you know
Speaker 3: why I like that, Stein, because I'm always urging excuse me,
Speaker 3: I'm always urging you and encouraging you to extend to
Speaker 3: the youth. That's why I be telling you to come
Speaker 3: into these locker rooms and come meet some of these
Speaker 3: young guys. You'd be like, nah, I want to go
Speaker 3: in the locker room. But you know what this Lefty
Speaker 3: New Lefty award that I advocate for, that is a
Speaker 3: way to have your foot in the door and reaching
Speaker 3: out to the youth. And this could be something that
Speaker 3: each lefty when they're in college and high school, you know,
Speaker 3: they dream. You know, there are certain steps you have
Speaker 3: to have to be a not to be, not to be,
Speaker 3: but there's certain steps you that people that want to
Speaker 3: be high lottery picks that they want to achieve. One is,
Speaker 3: you know, be a McDonald's All American. The other one
Speaker 3: going to a top flight college D one college lately
Speaker 3: is being Kentucky. You go there and start there. You
Speaker 3: definitely going hit the lottery. Next on their list needs
Speaker 3: to be if you're lefty, to make the get Rookie
Speaker 3: of the Year and to make Stein's Lefty Rookie of
Speaker 3: the Year award list. So think about it.
Speaker 1: Stein, I'm always thinking about the All Lefty team. It's
Speaker 1: a twenty four to seven three sixty five process. It
Speaker 1: will be announced in August. You'll have to wait to
Speaker 1: August to see what we to see what the committee
Speaker 1: of one decides.
Speaker 3: You know what, we should make this a bigger deal.
Speaker 3: We need to have an award show. I don't think
Speaker 3: anybody would show up, but we need to have an
Speaker 3: award show. Just put it live.
Speaker 1: We can do that in a Yeah, you can do
Speaker 1: it in August. So you're going to Denver this week?
Speaker 1: Where does Denver rank on your favorite cities list?
Speaker 3: Oh? Here, you trying to get me in trouble star.
Speaker 3: You have to trying to get me in trouble Listen.
Speaker 3: Not only am I going to Denver this week, I
Speaker 3: got two more Denver games next week.
Speaker 1: We were just in Indianapolis, a great former ABA city,
Speaker 1: and now you're going to Denver, another great former ABA city.
Speaker 1: I love the ABA stot we only have. There are
Speaker 1: only four, so I mean I love to go to
Speaker 1: these places.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well really.
Speaker 1: There are only three because the nets weren't in Brooklyn
Speaker 1: when they were in the ABA. So it's like going
Speaker 1: to Denver, going to Indiana, going to San Antonio. That's
Speaker 1: the last links to the glorious ABA. You should be pumped.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I'm find that you have such a such
Speaker 3: a passion for your ABA history. But as far as
Speaker 3: we're Denver ranks on my favorite stops, it really doesn't rank.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: You at least have a director of light come on
Speaker 1: Sacramento to Denver camp direct.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I have a direct flight and it is nothing. Again.
Speaker 3: The people are cool, The people hell are cool. I
Speaker 3: just you know, for a brother like me, I'm not
Speaker 3: doing no snowing, no surfing. You know, I ain't doing
Speaker 3: no skiing, no no sky diving. That's not for me.
Speaker 3: Those sports are not not for me. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Star, Who are you on the game? Who are you
Speaker 1: on the game with? Thursday night?
Speaker 4: Thursday night I am with is Miami at Denver. It
Speaker 4: is Kevin Harlem, Reggie Miller and myself and then start again.
Speaker 4: I told you I'm going to Denver. I got three
Speaker 4: straight Denver games.
Speaker 3: So the week after that Phoenix at dem On Tuesday,
Speaker 3: and then that Thursday, Boston at Denver. So it's it's
Speaker 3: some good games.
Speaker 1: I'm a lot in your life. NBA potential NBA Finals
Speaker 1: preview Boston at Denver.
Speaker 3: For sure, I could listen. Listen. Mike Malone is one
Speaker 3: of the best. Man, that's my guy. I messed with
Speaker 3: Mike Malone. Yeah, it's just you know, it's Denver. Aside
Speaker 3: from that, you.
Speaker 1: Know, and you are hard to please.
Speaker 3: I'm good man. Nothing Listen. I know I'm gonna get hate. See,
Speaker 3: I know I'm gonna get Listen. Why do y'all gotta
Speaker 3: hate people who if they don't, you know, if if
Speaker 3: your city is not one of their favorite stops, there's
Speaker 3: nothing wrong with that. I don't hate the city of Denver.
Speaker 3: I don't. It's history there. Like you said, you know,
Speaker 3: I'll find something to do.
Speaker 1: All right before we go. Is there anything else you
Speaker 1: want to get off your chest?
Speaker 3: Yes? I do, Starr, thank you for asking and listen.
Speaker 3: This part of the section. I think we need to
Speaker 3: have our social team clip. This put it out because
Speaker 3: I need the people's involvement on this. I need to
Speaker 3: know if what I'm about to share with youall need
Speaker 3: to know if my friend was out of pocket or not.
Speaker 3: Was was NERVs Ryan and I look right now, Well
Speaker 3: that's that's fine. This is the podcast. We can always delete,
Speaker 3: but I don't think we don't think we'll be deleting
Speaker 3: any of this. This is uncut, This league uncut, right,
Speaker 3: So anyway, start let me tell you this story. Everybody
Speaker 3: listen to me. Let me know if my friend is
Speaker 3: out of pocket or not, because I believe he is,
Speaker 3: so y'all. As y'all know, I'm in two basketball leagues.
Speaker 3: My Saturday league is the Filipino League I'm in, and
Speaker 3: then on my Sunday league, it's a Sacramento Recreational Recreation league. Right,
Speaker 3: So my Sunday Recreation league, I've been playing with a
Speaker 3: group of guys who invited me onto their team. I've
Speaker 3: been playing with them for three seasons. Three seasons. Now,
Speaker 3: remember these seasons. These are these seasons last two months
Speaker 3: and then they take two weeks off and start the
Speaker 3: season back over. So it's not it's not like three years,
Speaker 3: but three seasons I've been playing with these guys and
Speaker 3: they are a group of they are they are all friends.
Speaker 3: So I'm on their team, right, But we've always come
Speaker 3: up short. You know, we get to the final four
Speaker 3: and we lose. Final four, lose, final four, lose. As
Speaker 3: you know, Stein, I don't like losing. That's not me.
Speaker 3: So you know what I said. You know what I'm recruiting.
Speaker 3: So I have a friend, a childhood friend. His name
Speaker 3: is Aaron Hayes. We grew up together in Fresno. He
Speaker 3: lives here in Sacramento. He played we played college ball together.
Speaker 3: He went and had a Hall of Fame overseas career.
Speaker 3: In Korea. He's the number one all time scoring import
Speaker 3: in Korean Basketball League history. He's six ' eight. So
Speaker 3: I said, I'm gonna get Aaron on my team and
Speaker 3: we're gonna kill this league. Okay, Stein for this season,
Speaker 3: That's what I did. I got Aaron on our team.
Speaker 3: We're undefeated with Aaron Plaine. Okay, now, let's get to it.
Speaker 3: Let's get to it. I'll give you all the context.
Speaker 3: I gave you the background. So yesterday Aaron couldn't make it.
Speaker 3: We lost. So I text Aaron. I said, hey, we
Speaker 3: lost the game, and I said, we lost our big man.
Speaker 3: He had a meniscus injury, so he's going to be
Speaker 3: out for the season. And remember my friend Aaron. He's
Speaker 3: only played about four games with us so far. And
Speaker 3: he hits me back with a response saying, okay, man,
Speaker 3: all right, Well, I got a friend that can replace
Speaker 3: him and he can help us out. Can we add anybody?
Speaker 3: I said, you know what, why don't you text Gerald?
Speaker 3: Gerald is one of the captains of the team. I said,
Speaker 3: text Gerald if you could add a guy, because I
Speaker 3: don't know if it's too late or not. You know
Speaker 3: what Aaron does? Stein and Ryan are producer, Ryan jumping
Speaker 3: him because I'm gonna need your input. Two, Aaron texts
Speaker 3: the team. He texted the team this is what he said, Hey,
Speaker 3: now that we have an injury, an injured player, can
Speaker 3: I bring on my friends? And so I'm like, hold on,
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, so he text this to the team.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh. I text Aaron back individually. I say, Aaron,
Speaker 3: hold on, bro, the guy just hurt himself, I said he.
Speaker 3: I said, he's on the court right now holding his
Speaker 3: knee and he's getting a text by you talking about
Speaker 3: can't you bring can you add another player? Since we
Speaker 3: got an injured guy? You ain't even say hey, man,
Speaker 3: sorry for your injury. Didn't there was nothing? And so
Speaker 3: Aaron responds back to me saying, so what that's what
Speaker 3: we're doing overseas. Somebody gets hurt and you just you
Speaker 3: just you just replace them. I said, bro, this is
Speaker 3: not overseas. This is a rec league that everybody paid for.
Speaker 3: And this is a team again, this is a group
Speaker 3: of guys that they've been playing like they're all friends,
Speaker 3: and I've come on to their team and I'm brought
Speaker 3: in my guy on their team. And now you're just
Speaker 3: texting this guy in the team chat about replacing them
Speaker 3: soon as he has a moniscus injury. So I asked you, guys,
Speaker 3: he didn't see nothing wrong with it. So I asked
Speaker 3: you guys, should he have like I told him, just
Speaker 3: text individually to one of the captains, asked if you
Speaker 3: can bring on a replacement or was he within his
Speaker 3: right to text in the group saying hey, now that
Speaker 3: we have an injured guy, can I bring my guy
Speaker 3: on to play with us?
Speaker 1: That will have to be classified as an international incident.
Speaker 1: He took.
Speaker 3: He took it to I agree. I agree. I'm like,
Speaker 3: how are you? How you going to the dude just
Speaker 3: suffer the meniscous injuries out for the season.
Speaker 1: What did the poor guy who got hurt say?
Speaker 3: He didn't respond, He didn't respond. Did anybody response, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they said, one of them said they'll look into it.
Speaker 3: It was just awkward, Ryan, What do you think, Chris?
Speaker 5: I gotta be honest. I think this is on you,
Speaker 5: my friend. Wow, you brought the guy. I think you
Speaker 5: brought the guy to the party. You gotta answer for
Speaker 5: his behavior. So if you bring a guy to a
Speaker 5: party and he makes a mess at the party, everyone's
Speaker 5: looking at you to answer for his behavior.
Speaker 3: Chris.
Speaker 5: You know, look, it's not fair.
Speaker 1: It's not fair. I did not see this reaction coming. Yeah,
Speaker 1: producer Ryan, who has never spoken an ill word about
Speaker 1: either of us in thirteen months of podcasting. But that
Speaker 1: was a strong take, and I think I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to agree with him.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, Well it.
Speaker 5: May not be fair. You may not like it, but
Speaker 5: you brought you brought him in and he stepped out
Speaker 5: of line.
Speaker 1: Now it is also on him.
Speaker 3: He did step out line.
Speaker 5: Huh Yeah, I mean yeah, guys down on the ground.
Speaker 5: His season just said.
Speaker 3: I told I gave him instructions. Hit the captain up individually,
Speaker 3: not in the team. And if you and even if
Speaker 3: you're going to ask in the team group text, at
Speaker 3: least extend your condolencens Hey, bro, I'm sorry to hear this,
Speaker 3: but you know what I mean. At least do that
Speaker 3: part right. He just jumped in and said, hey, since
Speaker 3: we have a guy injured that can't play, could I
Speaker 3: bring in my guy?
Speaker 1: But you know what, ryanes the same way as you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we spelled the same exact way. No no relation.
Speaker 3: Our families grew up together though, no relation.
Speaker 5: But yeah, let's listen when you when you want to
Speaker 5: start hiring mercenaries, the work gets dirty, it does, I
Speaker 5: think the ramifications of the game you're trying to play.
Speaker 3: But you know what, Ryan is worth it because we're
Speaker 3: undefeated when he plays. But it's just I got I
Speaker 3: gott so I told him I was going to bring
Speaker 3: him up on this pod. So, uh, I said, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get some feedback. I want to know. I would to.
Speaker 3: I want to see if I'm not if I'm wrong
Speaker 3: for thinking you out of pockets. I think you were
Speaker 3: out of pocket, buddy. So that's all. Yeah, y'all let
Speaker 3: me viewers, Twitter, Instagram, whatever, let me know is Aaron
Speaker 3: Haynes out of pocket for what he did? I gave
Speaker 3: him clear.
Speaker 1: I think what Ryan is saying is the question should be,
Speaker 1: is this Chris Hanes not on Aaron Haynes. I think
Speaker 1: that's what the question.
Speaker 3: Needs to be. Well, listen, I will say this, even
Speaker 3: if my team felt some type of way by that text,
Speaker 3: we're not cutting them. No, nobody's gonna be. Nobody's gonna
Speaker 3: be in a favor of cutting them.
Speaker 1: Maybe you should send a private text to the captain saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm really sorry, I'm going to have a talk with you.
Speaker 3: What about Yeah, maybe what about the poor guy that's injured?
Speaker 3: Does he deserve a text?
Speaker 1: He deserves more than a text, He deserves a selfie
Speaker 1: with you, maybe some Twitter love?
Speaker 5: You know, now that I think about, how long has
Speaker 5: it been? When did this all go down?
Speaker 3: This could just happen over the week just happened over
Speaker 3: the weekend, Yes, so, but it's it's been this.
Speaker 5: It's Monday, almost almost three days, you know, by by
Speaker 5: tomorrow morning too, and he still hasn't said anything. You
Speaker 5: can't say anything now.
Speaker 1: What happened in the game without Aaron? Why couldn't Chris
Speaker 1: Haynes carry the squad to victory?
Speaker 3: I scored twenty one. But it's just, you know, when
Speaker 3: you used to having Now that we got Aaron on
Speaker 3: the team, we're used to playing at a certain level.
Speaker 3: Now we don't have to do certain things, you know,
Speaker 3: you know, you just get used to playing like like
Speaker 3: the Sixers. You see what the Sixers are going through right.
Speaker 1: Now, so you're Tyrese Maxie just trying to keep them afloat.
Speaker 3: It's different. It's different. We run everything. Our offensive sets,
Speaker 3: our defensive sets are running through Aaron, and we don't
Speaker 3: have them. We're kind of lost.
Speaker 1: In your advanced age. What you're saying is you need
Speaker 1: to play off an elite big to maximize your skills.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think so. I mean I could still get
Speaker 3: it done on certain nights style I don't don't. Don't
Speaker 3: sleep on me. But you know, we we just were
Speaker 3: not ready yesterday. That's all. We lost by six, so
Speaker 3: we still could have won the game. We came back.
Speaker 3: I wasn't mad because this is a season where we
Speaker 3: got airing. Now I don't care if we go into
Speaker 3: the playoffs as the third fourth to fifth seed, we're
Speaker 3: the most dangerous third fourth, fifth seed in this playoffs.
Speaker 3: We're good, We're the favorites. We're the favorites periods.
Speaker 1: Are not worried any footage anywhere for us to look at.
Speaker 3: I would have Footage'm gonna start. I'm gonna start. Uh,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna start documenting, you know, video documenting these games,
Speaker 3: because it's serious around here.
Speaker 1: You could at least send it in our group chat,
Speaker 1: just so Ryan and I can look at it and
Speaker 1: scout you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'll do that. But I don't have no
Speaker 3: problem showing the world stile. I don't have anything to hide.
Speaker 3: But that's just funny.
Speaker 1: Like the media All Star Game ever, coming back.
Speaker 3: We gotta do. I think we have to. Wife has
Speaker 3: been on me about putting it together. We have to,
Speaker 3: and I think I want to do because remember I
Speaker 3: had you know, we had real broadcasters, right. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you're familiar with that game, man, it was
Speaker 3: a pretty it was well done. Really, you know, we
Speaker 3: had we had those I don't know what you call
Speaker 3: those cameras that that fly in the air, go from drones,
Speaker 3: like we had those type of camera drones like going
Speaker 3: right to left and just we had all type of
Speaker 3: aerial footage. It was. It was great, man, it was
Speaker 3: really well put together. But no, we we gotta do
Speaker 3: that for sure. I got to are you going to
Speaker 3: be a part of broadcast at least time? Because I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure you're not.
Speaker 1: If you organize it, I will not miss it. I promise.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll do that. We'll do that. We'll do that,
Speaker 3: We'll do that. It was just really convenient that time
Speaker 3: because I was the finals were in the was in
Speaker 3: the bay and I was standing in the bay. But uh,
Speaker 3: we can no excuses. We can put it together anywhere.
Speaker 1: All right. I think that's gonna do it for this
Speaker 1: edition of this League Uncut. We will get together one
Speaker 1: more time this week. Not exactly sure when that is
Speaker 1: because Chris has the trip to Denver. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to work around that, but we will figure it out
Speaker 1: and we will have another episode for you before weeks.
Speaker 1: And great to be back after a very good trip
Speaker 1: to Indianapolis. Always good when we can hang out together.
Speaker 1: But man, some when are we gonna see Ryan? When
Speaker 1: are all three of us going to be somewhere I never.
Speaker 3: I don't know how tall Ryan is. I don't know
Speaker 3: how big and wide he is. I've never seen the
Speaker 3: guy in person, have you star?
Speaker 1: Now that you mentioned we know this is not an AI.
Speaker 3: We know this is not a AI.
Speaker 1: Because of that last scalding take he just gave when
Speaker 1: you were trying to put three two one, When you
Speaker 1: were trying to pin all this on your new teammate
Speaker 1: and producer, Ryan said no, the bunk stops first with you,
Speaker 1: Chris Haynes. That's when we knew this was not an
Speaker 1: AI generated producer.
Speaker 3: Well, you would think so, Stan, But these Ais, they're
Speaker 3: very creative. Nowadays, they're trying to take over jobs to Stein,
Speaker 3: so I wouldn't put it past them. If these Ais
Speaker 3: can get producer jobs as.
Speaker 1: Well, nobody can replicate this podcast. Nobody, All right, that
Speaker 1: will do it.
Speaker 3: He has a nice beard. I give it.
Speaker 1: Podcast by making him turn his camera.
Speaker 3: Look at him. He cut thember, he had the whole
Speaker 3: he had the baby face not too long ago. Now
Speaker 3: you got a full beard back. It don't take long
Speaker 3: at all. He's out of control. He's out of control. Now.
Speaker 1: You know way more about producer Ryan Music than you
Speaker 1: ever thought you would or ever wanted to. I am
Speaker 1: going to put this edition to bed. Please remember follow
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Speaker 1: this week with another edition of This League Uncut. For
Speaker 1: Chris Haynes, I'm Mark Stein and producer Ryan Music. For
Speaker 1: both of them, allow me to say farewell and we'll
Speaker 1: be back with you again to see and that'll do
Speaker 1: it for us.
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