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Speaker 1: But here's what's fun?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: You're still guessing at your coaches a big well yeah,

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Speaker 1: well it's either gonna be me or down Staley according

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Speaker 1: to what it was in my timeline this weekend, or

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Speaker 1: doc rivers or you know what at this point, Hey man,

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Speaker 1: he's still out there. What did I tell you? I said,

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Speaker 1: Mike Brown should be the guy Night one, I said,

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Speaker 1: Mike Brown, what do we find out today he's the

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Speaker 1: first guy the Knicks are gonna talk to again or

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Speaker 1: repeat interview from Mike Brown. It's gonna wind up being

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Speaker 1: Mike Brown. I could have saved the Knicks heartache and

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Speaker 1: money and embarrassment. Don't call for permission. No one's gonna

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Speaker 1: get Just hire Mike Brown. I feel like, uh, what's

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Speaker 1: her name from?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 1: From deep when uh Anna Klemsky who just kept saying, Selena,

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Speaker 1: Tom James, you, Lourie, make Tom James your vice president.

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Speaker 1: No one listened to her. She kept saying Tom James,

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Speaker 1: just Tom James. And then like at the end of

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Speaker 1: the episode, she goes, you know who might be good?

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Speaker 1: I thought about this today is Tom James? And Anna

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Speaker 1: Clemsky like banged her eatiquainst the wall. I Ala said

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Speaker 1: Mike Brown. Mike Brown from the beginning, Mike Brown, betting

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Speaker 1: favored for two weeks, Mike Brown, two weeks, first guy

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Speaker 1: get sitting there, steriity in the face, Mike Brown. Mike

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Speaker 1: Brown betting odds told you all, you didn't need it,

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Speaker 1: make any backchannel calls or whatever. And if it's gambling out,

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Speaker 1: I've told you. And if it's Mike Brown, I'm fine

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Speaker 1: because he's Look, he's one hundred and eighty degrees from Tibbs.

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Speaker 1: He is a player's coach. He has coached in big markets,

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Speaker 1: he has coached big players, he has achieved, he has

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Speaker 1: And that was my big worry about Tibbs was always

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Speaker 1: at Okay, he's gonna get them so far and then they're

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Speaker 1: going to tune them out. Eventually that was gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: Probably that's what happened. Repeated, Yeah, you couldn't get Cat

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Speaker 1: with Jalen Brunson, right, but with a different approach and

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Speaker 1: the offensive philosophy that Mike Brown has works with the

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Speaker 1: Knicks possibilities and their roster. Okay, okay, Mike Brett, go

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Speaker 1: get mom. Okay with it, Mike Brown, And now it

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Speaker 1: looks like he has been the fre look. We talked

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Speaker 1: Mike Brown is the is the front runner for the

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Speaker 1: next job. Right, said that Friday night to us, and

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Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, No, that's everything I've heard. Mike Brown

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Speaker 1: is a front runner, super genius insider, Mark Madena and

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Speaker 1: here we are, Mike Brown. Yeah, as I said, the

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Speaker 1: Betty Gods had that for you long long ago. I said,

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Speaker 1: Mike one, Taylor Jenkins, we've been first. I have one question.

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Speaker 1: I gotta go back in Mike Brown's history. Did he

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Speaker 1: ever get a thirty plus million dollar parachute like Tom

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Speaker 1: Thibodeau did, because I don't know that he's matched that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe in each stop it's it's a cumulative effect. But

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Speaker 1: I think sometimes you work say no, he hates you, Right,

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Speaker 1: you have a good who hates me? Mike Brown? JJ Redick, No,

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Speaker 1: JJ Retic hates me Mike Brown. Mike Brown. How does

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Speaker 1: Mike Brown hate me? You cost him when he was

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Speaker 1: I freely admit yea when he came on. Yeah, Indiana,

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Speaker 1: we have to look Sham Shams has promised a lot

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Speaker 1: of movement tonight, we've already we've seen a lot of movement.

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Speaker 1: Two big bold predictions after what we've seen so far.

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Speaker 1: But speaking of the Knicks, right looking for that depth.

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Speaker 1: Who's gonna come in play some minutes. Jordan Clarkson, who

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Speaker 1: Like I said the end of last week, after what

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Speaker 1: crazy making additions that. You know, if this was a

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Speaker 1: and they were gonna be back, but they're not. Right,

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Speaker 1: you're there already. They're already dismantling their team and Jason

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Speaker 1: Tatum's out for most, if not all, of the year.

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Speaker 1: Uh okay, don't have to worry about that. The Pacers

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Speaker 1: take the let's just supplement around what we have and

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Speaker 1: like that's gonna be the I said the beginning. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna do something bold. Karl Anthony Towns is gone. But

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Speaker 1: the way the the offseason has gone in the East,

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Speaker 1: with two big powers now either reloading or hitting pause

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Speaker 1: for a majority of the season, the Knicks are gonna

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Speaker 1: we're not gonna look, we don't need to go crazy,

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Speaker 1: and that's what's gonna help us. That's what the Knicks

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Speaker 1: are gonna do. It's gonna be moves like this with Clarkson. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all this stuff today. This is what I love about

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Speaker 1: right Houston, Oh, that's great you talked about you know,

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Speaker 1: the Clippers. It's nice. Hey, it's it's a first day.

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Speaker 1: And look, the biggest trade obviously was the Michael Porter

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Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna make trying to make some noise. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: But I do have two big bull predictions for you

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Speaker 1: until Kyrie comes back. Right, great move. Two years, thirteen million.

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Speaker 1: Magic made a big move today as well. Uh, these

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Speaker 1: The Mavericks. The Mavericks are deep, right, The Mavericks are deep.

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Speaker 1: They adding Cooper Flag, right, They're deep in in the

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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag coming in, Okay, I think you feel alright

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Speaker 1: with that. They're dynamic enough, they're deep enough. They kind

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Speaker 1: just like the just like the Rockets and the Thunder

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Speaker 1: the spotlight. We got some really high draft picks, wait

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Speaker 1: and getting Baine to come in, who's going to bring

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Speaker 1: after the Luca trade, but they've gotten better and the

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Speaker 1: a lot. We're gonna Justin Fields, he's gonna throw it

424
00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,840
Speaker 1: a bit, right, but he's gonna run. He's gonna run

425
00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,120
Speaker 1: for a thousand yards. And the Jets are gonna try

426
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,520
Speaker 1: this year. The Jets are gonna try to win Game six,

427
00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,680
Speaker 1: sixteen thirty, right, that's I get that that's the plan, right,

428
00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,800
Speaker 1: I can't. I don't love the plan, but at least

429
00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:57,239
Speaker 1: I get the plan, right. I understand it. I digested it.

430
00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,040
Speaker 1: I like that line. I may have thrown up in

431
00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,040
Speaker 1: my mouth a little bit, but it mostly stayed down.

432
00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:05,200
Speaker 1: I think it's Joe Versus the Volcano with Dan Hidayah

433
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 1: is in it. And he keeps in the very beginning

434
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:08,960
Speaker 1: of the movie, he's on a phone call. He keeps saying,

435
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 1: I know we can get the job. Can he do

436
00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,920
Speaker 1: the job? I never said that. That's not what I said.

437
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 1: I know he can get the job. Can he do

438
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 1: the job? I didn't say that, I know we can

439
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,359
Speaker 1: get that, he keeps saying. I'm like, I'm not saying

440
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,040
Speaker 1: I like the plan, but I get the plan. I understand.

441
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 1: I don't like the plan. I don't know what the

442
00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 1: Dolphins plan is. I don't know. They don't seem like

443
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:34,720
Speaker 1: they have a blueprint except let's just do stuff every

444
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 1: couple of months because we're gonna be reactionary. Like that's

445
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,760
Speaker 1: the Dolphins plan. Hey, after going going to the off

446
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 1: seat and McDaniel gets hired, Hey, his offensive system coming in,

447
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,359
Speaker 1: We're gonna get really fast. We're gonna be fast everywhere

448
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill a chan. Watch Watch how good we are? Right? Watch?

449
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 1: How do we are? Wattle? We're gonna be really really good?

450
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 1: And then over a year it's oh, maybe it's not

451
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 1: that good. Maybe two is not the guy, maybe he's

452
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,240
Speaker 1: not gonna be healthy. Okay, we have to do something

453
00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 1: else because now we suddenly can't win. But now the

454
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,960
Speaker 1: off season comes and what have they done. They've gotten

455
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:08,920
Speaker 1: rid of every one of their captains from last year.

456
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,439
Speaker 1: All four captains are gone, right, all four caps. So

457
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,440
Speaker 1: now two is gonna be more of a leader. But wait,

458
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 1: I thought to be in the middle of last year.

459
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,359
Speaker 1: You're worried about too. Is he gonna be healthier? But

460
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,919
Speaker 1: now Tua is gonna be one of your leaders. Okay,

461
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 1: So if he's one of your leaders and you're young,

462
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 1: let's build for now because you can win now. No

463
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,679
Speaker 1: no no, instead of winning, no no, we're gonna win

464
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 1: to try to build for the future. Okay, why are

465
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,640
Speaker 1: you doing that? Why are you trading away two players

466
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 1: that would help you big time? Not to mina Fitzpatrick's

467
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,439
Speaker 1: not gonna help. But he's a safety. Okay, he's a safety.

468
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,719
Speaker 1: I'd love having all pro safeties. That's great. I'd love

469
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,160
Speaker 1: having great safety, but I'd rather have an all pro

470
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,160
Speaker 1: cornerback and an all pro tight end, right, but instead, no, okay,

471
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,640
Speaker 1: so now we're we're gonna get rid of that. But wait, okay,

472
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,159
Speaker 1: so which way are we going? Like I don't know.

473
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,199
Speaker 1: The Dolphins. You must come to they must come to

474
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:53,920
Speaker 1: work every day and go, okay, you know it's scrab

475
00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna plan it that, We're gonna plan

476
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 1: things differently. Like I always said, McDaniel looks like one

477
00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 1: of those young tech geniuses from from one of those

478
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 1: new companies that all of a sudden like comes out

479
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 1: with new with new plans and and and all sorts

480
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 1: of of creative slogans. And you know, you go to

481
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,200
Speaker 1: the office and it's ping pong tables and and video

482
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 1: games and and everybody's on a scooter and nobody has windows,

483
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 1: nobody has a partitions up at their desk, a big

484
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,639
Speaker 1: open floor plan, and there's someone making machiato's for free.

485
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 1: Like that's what I feel like. That that that's that's

486
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's McDaniel. You're describing my late twenties and

487
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 1: early thirties before I left Yard. I feel like it's

488
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 1: like Google, right, Like that's a that was Silicon Valley,

489
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 1: that was the blueprint. But then they floor plan for everybody.

490
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: But they come in and go, hey, Crypto crashed, so

491
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,239
Speaker 1: we got to change. We're we're gonna pivot right now,

492
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 1: We're gonna put but this is our third pivot in

493
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,399
Speaker 1: the last month. Yeah, we're pivoting. Like I feel like

494
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are on a perpetual pivot and I don't

495
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:46,880
Speaker 1: know what they're and for this team to be run

496
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,440
Speaker 1: this way, I'm like, they have a mass so much talent, right,

497
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 1: they seem to they seem to buy into McDaniel's philosophy, right,

498
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 1: they seem to buy what But then you get guys

499
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: like Raheem Moster who tweets out today how you know

500
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,399
Speaker 1: how how you know John new Smith was treated by

501
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,640
Speaker 1: the Dolphins because he felt he was treated the same

502
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 1: way on his way out, because you know, he's not

503
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 1: there anymore after having a couple of great years in

504
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: McDaniel's offense. I just I really, I mean, of all

505
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 1: the teams in the NFL, and this is saying something

506
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 1: of all the teams and even the Cowboys, I can

507
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 1: understand more. Again, I don't agree with it, but I

508
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 1: can understand it. The Dolphins of the team I understand

509
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: the absolute least, because I really I want to be

510
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 1: the answer guy. I want to be able to tell

511
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 1: you I got this, I got I got it, I

512
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: got I got it. But once in a great while,

513
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: there's that great white whale that escapes you that call

514
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 1: me Ishmiel, and all of a sudden, it's like the Dolphins.

515
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:34,879
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just can't tell you what they're doing.

516
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 1: I don't know that they know. I don't they know

517
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: what their plan is. I wouldn't be surprised that a

518
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: completely different quarterback next year, hey two is not going

519
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,679
Speaker 1: to work and he's hurt, and he's hurt again, I know,

520
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,120
Speaker 1: and we're going a completely different direction. Like that's that's

521
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: why I see the Dolphins. So I can't if they

522
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 1: don't have a plan, I can't tell you what their

523
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,440
Speaker 1: plan is. I know we can get the job. Can

524
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,400
Speaker 1: he do that? If I can't tell you their plan,

525
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: I don't think they have a plan, So I can't

526
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: tell you what's gonna happen. No, it's the curiosity, right

527
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 1: of what do you value at this point, and have

528
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,399
Speaker 1: you decided to take the keys away from McDaniel to

529
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 1: some degree because it was all about speed and efficiently

530
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: that's part of the raheem mostered appeal. Now he goes

531
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: and he's part of a crowded backfield with the Raiders,

532
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: and we'll see how that flows. You talk about Mayor

533
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: and him being the guy behind Bowers just a couple

534
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 1: of years removed from being a top pick would be

535
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: a nice cheap option and to bring in you know,

536
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,199
Speaker 1: you mentioned Cole Comet. He's still in the middle of

537
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: a four year, fifty million dollar deal, so his per

538
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: annum is one one million less than what Johnny Smith

539
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 1: just signed the one year deal with the Steelers for. So,

540
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: you know, trying to figure out exactly where the gap

541
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: was in trying to retain him or whether they were

542
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: bothering it all to your point of whether you just

543
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 1: strip it down to studs and begin to build again.

544
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: But for Tua Tonguevai Looa, we've talked about him and

545
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and a number of the quarterbacks that we

546
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: want them for a couple of years. Are we convinced

547
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 1: they are the guy? Well, no, we're not. And by

548
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: any way, anyway, stretch up on they They've had a

549
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: couple of good games here and there and had glimpses

550
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: flashes as you call them, but consistently putting up numbers. Yeah,

551
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: the final stat line could look great, you know, the

552
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: touchdown to interception rate and whatever. There's plenty of ways

553
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 1: we've watched guys manipulate that for years, like did he

554
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: have a really good year? No, because they weren't a threat.

555
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 1: They weren't they were threats to win. It was a

556
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 1: nice box score reading for some of these guys, and

557
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: for this Miami squad again built on speed to try

558
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 1: to use that as an advantage against defenses that have

559
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: been built maybe for the old era of the NFL

560
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 1: in the AFC's guess what, they've all caught up. Yeah,

561
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: so that advantage of advantage is lost. But your ability

562
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:59,439
Speaker 1: to pivot quickly is obviously important. But I don't know

563
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: that the this deal does it make you? This makes

564
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: you that much worse. I understand. Here's what we're gonna do.

565
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: We're gonna move it, but we're gonna go get another

566
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: tight end at some point somewhere that's not as good

567
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: as John hus Smith. I really I don't get it,

568
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: and and the part of it is and look like

569
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: I said, this is a league that has the Jets

570
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys and the Raiders, and I can't understand

571
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: what the Dolphins are doing. Jason, it's so awkwill fake spike. Yes, yes,

572
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: going all the way best. I'm gone over it. It's

573
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,360
Speaker 1: been a long time. He still out there. I've had

574
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: some time to get over that. He wakes up with,

575
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: I'm still I'm still with the fail Mary. I'm still

576
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: I'm still kind of with the fail Mary or something

577
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,919
Speaker 1: I'm not on. Yeah, no, it was, but it was.

578
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 1: It was also the first one. Okay, you know what

579
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: the laugh on blankety. Oh by the way, do you

580
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: know who the defensive back was that that was on

581
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: that the only guy on the field that saw the fit.

582
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 1: That's why it was such a tough pass to compete

583
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: because he was on Aaron Glen was the dB on

584
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: him on that play, and he was the only guy

585
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: in the Jets defense that knew the play was coming.

586
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 1: He was just too far off and didn't get their help. Coach.

587
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,440
Speaker 1: He was the only guy. So justin what he's saying

588
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: is they won't be fooled by that one. This year

589
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: he was the only sideration at the get you're not

590
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: being no no Mike on them every time they get

591
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 1: a team gets inside the ten yard like Eric Glenn

592
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: yelling out, what's a fake spike? What the fakes? Fag

593
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 1: just holding up a damn Marino fat head? Host coach

594
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: doing didn't mean back in nineteen ninety one. Come on,

595
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: it was thirty five years ago. Coach really getting a

596
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: lot of mileage out of that Marino fat head on

597
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: the sideline follies all the time, right, all the time

598
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: they showed it on the follies. Don't get caught with it.

599
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: Don't get caught How often has he used that as

600
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: the I didn't get fooled? But so one of his

601
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: interview process, why these people got like watch the fake spike,

602
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: like you know, people have the the Mandela effect of

603
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: the fake spike, like it was just a fixed bike

604
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: ever and Ingram is wide opening the end zone. But

605
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: he had to kind of bullet it into the side

606
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: because because Glenn was cla he knew what was going on,

607
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: the rest of the jets just stood around like him. Yeah, okay,

608
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: by the way, just think about this. They were fake

609
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: spiking and there was like thirty eight seconds left on

610
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: the clock like that. That seems so ridiculous now, but

611
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: it's all hiking with thirty eight surprise. You could get

612
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: six plays in thirty eight seconds in the NFL. If

613
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: he knew the play and he wasn't able to stop it,

614
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: You're not he was, hey, sound like he knew going

615
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: in Like he wasn't Tom Brady, he knew the plays

616
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: ahead of time. No, he could tell that it was

617
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: a fake spike and he stayed with the receiver. He

618
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: still was slow. Yeah, it was okay. See now he's

619
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: gonna drag. Can't play defense? You want on eleven in

620
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: the NFL, I want to go crush something out of Buffalo,

621
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: just to take down everybody has excuse making for the

622
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: hapless Jets. Yeah, you know they were cheating the bill

623
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: that guy did that Bills had all the plays too,

624
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: just you just don't know about it. The Bills had

625
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: all the players. Marv Levy was no question about it.

626
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 1: Had all the killed you with kindness and what was

627
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: going on behind such a nice guy. Even even that

628
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: NFL Films thing of Marv Levy where he goes, hey,

629
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: you over a fish jerk? Hey, you jerk, You're like

630
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: whoa and he turns fright his odd. I'm just kidding.

631
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: I went to college with the guy. I went to

632
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: college with him. Over over officious time out to find

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Speaker 1: out what's trending in the wide world of sports. Man

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Speaker 1: has been called the Marv Levy of Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: He's really nice. You should see what he says in

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Speaker 1: the hallways. It's Steve Disager. I thought, it's because I've

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Speaker 1: been to the finals four.

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Speaker 4: Times, four straight years. Can we just accentuate the positive

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Speaker 4: here people. NBA free agent negotiations started tonight. Official signings

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Speaker 4: can't happen until Sunday. By the way, the Las Vegas

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Speaker 4: Summer League starts July tenth. The new salary cap in

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Speaker 4: the NBA is set at about one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 4: five million dollars per team. The minimum team salary is

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Speaker 4: about one hundred and forty mil. Utah is finalizing a

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Speaker 4: buy out of Jordan Clarkson. He's due to sign with

646
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Speaker 4: New York this week. Utah wave Johnny jusaing Denver traded

647
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Speaker 4: Michael Porter and a first rounder to the Nets for

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Speaker 4: Cam Johnson and the Nuggets signed Bruce Brown to the

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Speaker 4: veterans minimum. Milwaukee resigned Kevin Porter junior. Chicago resigned Trade Jones.

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Speaker 4: Detroit re signed Paul Reid and got Kris LeVert. Minnesota

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Speaker 4: re signed veteran Joe Ingles. Oklahoma City's Jalen Williams, who

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Speaker 4: just averaged twenty one points per game. We'll have wrist surgery.

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Speaker 4: The Memphis Grizzlies are giving Jaron Jackson a MAX extension

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Speaker 4: four years plus a player option, potentially where two hundred

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Speaker 4: and forty million dollars. The team first needs to clear

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Speaker 4: enough cap space for that deal. Memphis is resigning center

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Speaker 4: Santi Aldama and signing guard Ty Jerome. Dorian Finney Smith

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Speaker 4: leaves the Lakers for Houston and a four year contract.

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Speaker 4: The Lakers signed Jake Laavia from Sacramento and the Kings

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Speaker 4: are signing Dennis Shrewder Houston.

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Speaker 1: The Lakers signed Jakelmatta the Raging Pole. Wow stop him, Okay,

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Speaker 1: he's raging.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure about okay, all right, anything else?

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Speaker 1: I mean, little old, little old, but I didn't think

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Speaker 1: it'll be pretty good that would be a Lakers signing.

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Speaker 4: He's currently ninety five years old, but he comes in

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Speaker 4: under the cap, so Hey he takes up space. Houston

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Speaker 4: is signing center Click Capella three years worth over twenty

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Speaker 4: million dollars guaranteed. Kevon Looney left Golden State for New Orleans.

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Speaker 4: Guardian Angelo Russell agreed to a deal with Dallas. The

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Speaker 4: Clippers are signing Brook Lopez and resigned Nicholas Patoom. Milwaukee

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Speaker 4: resign Torrean Prince. The Spurs gave center Luke Cornetta four

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Speaker 4: year contract. Boston is getting center Luca Garza and Nikiel

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Speaker 4: Alexander Walker goes to Atlanta four years sixty two million dollars,

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Speaker 4: while the Hawks get Luke canard As for Tias Jones,

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Speaker 4: the guard goes to Orlando. Center Mason Plumley to Charlotte.

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Speaker 4: The WNBA is off. The Steelers acquired All Pro defensive

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Speaker 4: back Jalen Ramsey from the Dolphins. In late night baseball,

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Speaker 4: the Orioles are tied at Texas three to three. In

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Speaker 4: the top of the ninth, there's a game on FS

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Speaker 4: one from Arizona. The Diamondbacks, who've lost four straight, are

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Speaker 4: leading the Giants one nothing. In the top of the fifth,

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Speaker 4: Kansas City tied one one at Seattle. Bottom of the fourth.

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Speaker 4: By the way, there were at least three team shutouts

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Speaker 4: on each of the last five days, the longest such

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Speaker 4: streak in Major league history. We've had two shutouts so far. Tonight,

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Speaker 4: Pittsburgh seven nothing over Saint Louis. Philadelphia beat the Padres

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Speaker 4: four nothing, winning pitcher Zach Wheeler eight and three win

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Speaker 4: eight innings with ten strikeouts, no walks. The Phillies first

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Speaker 4: in the NL East, now two games over the idol Mets,

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Speaker 4: who've lost three straight and lost thirteen of their last

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Speaker 4: sixteen games. The Pirates win was their fourth in a row,

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Speaker 4: beating at Saint Louis team that had only been two

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Speaker 4: and a half back at the idle Cubs.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden. Pittsburgh's not bad all of a sudden. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's pretty good. One weekend like that.

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Speaker 4: It was I think since the nineteen thirty since they'd

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Speaker 4: beate an opponent all weekend by at.

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Speaker 1: Least seven runs every game until that happened this week.

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Speaker 4: I don't know who they were playing, but it did

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Speaker 4: happen with Potwbergh.

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Speaker 1: I'll find it. I'll find it.

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Speaker 4: Will take a lot of research. Boston beat the Cincinnati

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Speaker 4: thirteen to six Red Sox with seven runs in the

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Speaker 4: first Toronto beat the Yankees five four, and the A's

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Speaker 4: with two in the top of the ninth win at

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Speaker 4: Tampa Bay six to four. And by the way, happy

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Speaker 4: Max Schurzer day as he started in Toronto.

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Speaker 1: Tonight back to you, Thank you, Steve, the Jason Smicher

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Speaker 1: with Mike and coming up next, we got the play

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Speaker 1: of the day and the one big move in the

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Speaker 1: NBA so far. I just can't understand how this guy

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Speaker 1: keeps getting paid. That's next, Jason to Mike Fox. Be

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Speaker 1: sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific,

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 1: the play of the day.

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Speaker 2: Wheels is ready to go, looks back at second swag

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Speaker 2: gonna miss.

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Speaker 1: He got him.

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Speaker 2: Not only does he have eight shut out hittings, but

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Speaker 2: he reaches double digits and strikeouts and doing so. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's a night time. The set offs of fireworks. What

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Speaker 2: a spectacular outing by Zach.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot. How does that make you for you

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Speaker 1: don't know that that's cacular. I don't know that that's

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Speaker 1: a proportional Uh, fireworks for what we saw there. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. It wasn't a no hitter, It wasn't. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's a lot of fireworks for you know. Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler had a good spectacular Phillies TV on the call. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I did hear tacular. Yeah, spectacular, spectacular. Yeah. But in

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Speaker 1: a day and age where we don't get many guys

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Speaker 1: pitching past the sixth, I think you get fireworks as

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Speaker 1: soon as you get one out in the seventh. Oh okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, you give him nine runs? All right, as

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Speaker 1: long as you're not Keith k Hernandez coming in to

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Speaker 1: pitch and you're the running joke here, Jason, you know

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Speaker 1: who could have used them this weekend, let me mass

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Speaker 1: met the Mets. Here's the thing. Here's the thing about

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Speaker 1: the Mets. Okay, going back to the world in twenty fifteen. Okay,

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Speaker 1: think about all the guys they had, right, all the

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Speaker 1: starting pitchers that were supposed to dominate baseball for the

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Speaker 1: next ten years. Matt Harvey, Jacob de Gram, Steven mattz Right,

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Speaker 1: Noah cinder Guard, Zach Wheeler. I believe there's any kind

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Speaker 1: of mocking you in an open about those. Those were

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00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,839
Speaker 1: all the guy they were going to dominate baseball, right,

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Speaker 1: the Mets decided we're gonna keep every single one of

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Speaker 1: them way too long. But the one guy we're gonna

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Speaker 1: let go is Zach Wheeler eight and three, ten strikeouts

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Speaker 1: today in his eight innings of work. CRA's down. I mean,

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Speaker 1: wait two seven, he was spectacular. De Gram is having

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Speaker 1: a good year and finally he's back. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: the guy's not been healthy, he's been out for so long.

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Speaker 1: But no, no, the Mets stuck with all those other guys

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Speaker 1: that Matt Harvey was never good again. Steven match is

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Speaker 1: still you know, hanging on in in uh in baseball.

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Speaker 1: Cinder Guard just got signed by White All these other guys,

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Speaker 1: the one guy that say, if you had just kept him,

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Speaker 1: why didn't just keep him too? No, no, no, we

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Speaker 1: got to get rid of the okay, and he's had

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Speaker 1: the best career. He's now up to sixty three career wins. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: that's great, Phils, Yeah, that's great. That's great. That's good. Now,

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Speaker 1: as we are on day one of NBA free agency,

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Speaker 1: we'll have more an NBA free agency coming up in

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Speaker 1: about ten minutes when it comes to the biggest domino

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Speaker 1: in NBA free agency, But James Harden is staying a Clipper,

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Speaker 1: not going back for one year thirty five million, going

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Speaker 1: back to the Clippers now for two years and eighty

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Speaker 1: one million dollars. He has been in absolute basketball business genius. Right,

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Speaker 1: we say this about a lot of players has been.

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Speaker 1: He has found a way to get to the last

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Speaker 1: year of his contract and find a way to have

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Speaker 1: a good enough year where hey, I'm gonna now get

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Speaker 1: more money for the next two years. And he gets

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Speaker 1: it and he finds a way. Even though James Harden

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Speaker 1: did have a better year last year that I thought

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Speaker 1: he was going to have, right, he's no longer the

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Speaker 1: big dynamic thirty points score. He was, but he's still

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Speaker 1: someone who can be at the top of the of

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Speaker 1: the stats with assists. Right, he's we had a good

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Speaker 1: year last year. Didn't think he could have that kind

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Speaker 1: of year, but he has found a way. When it's

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Speaker 1: turned into a contract type yere, Hey, I'll give you

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Speaker 1: just enough for you to think that I'm great, and

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Speaker 1: here's two more years. He's better than Snell and you

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Speaker 1: know yeah, oh no, no, I'm not saying I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying he's no good. But what I'm saying is that

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Speaker 1: James Harden at this point in his career, is not

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Speaker 1: worth the money that you're paying him. What he is

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Speaker 1: taking up of your salary cap. He's not worth forty

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Speaker 1: one million dollars for you for this year, Lebron. James

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Speaker 1: is not worth fifty million dollars, right, just talking about

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Speaker 1: a third of the salary cap. You're not going anywhere

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Speaker 1: with James Harden. Okay, I know this because why he's

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Speaker 1: not taking a team anywhere since he was with the Rockets,

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Speaker 1: and the same thing that happened with the Rockets happens now,

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Speaker 1: except he's not quite as dominant the player. He's really

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Speaker 1: good in the regular season but in the playoff, what happens.

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Speaker 1: He gets tired at the end of games, he can't

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Speaker 1: give you what he normally gives you, and his team

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Speaker 1: goes out. You can't build around thirty five year old guys, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen this. It's not the James Harden stinks.

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Speaker 1: It's not that he's terrible, but you have seen in

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Speaker 1: the NBA if you try to build around guys in

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Speaker 1: their mid thirties, you're not going to win. I don't

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Speaker 1: care if it's Kevin durant Oka, you're not gonna win

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Speaker 1: because they don't have anything left in the playoffs and

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Speaker 1: when the when the defense gets a little bit bigger,

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Speaker 1: a little more of an uptick, look what happens. Look

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Speaker 1: what happened hard in game seven, seven points. I mean,

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Speaker 1: come on, man, you can't have he had two really

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Speaker 1: good games in the first round series, three bad ones

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Speaker 1: and one okay game. You can't have that from a

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Speaker 1: guy you're paying forty one million dollars to. He's not

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Speaker 1: worth that money. What he takes up of your salary

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Speaker 1: cap Well, because it's funny because they while they make

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Speaker 1: that move, the Brook Lopez addition is actually pretty solid

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Speaker 1: for what they're going to pay him to pair up

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Speaker 1: with a Zubach. So you had your help there, So

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Speaker 1: I guess dollar cost averaging you win? Can I Can

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Speaker 1: I argue it that way? Not when one not when

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Speaker 1: one guy is taking up so much. No, no, no, I

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Speaker 1: know you're not. I just threw it up as word

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Speaker 1: as I wanted to see your brains. You you're still throwing.

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Speaker 1: We're still gonna build around Kawhi. We're still gonna Steve

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Speaker 1: Balmer is still no. I'm gonna do it for year

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Speaker 1: twelve in a row. We're gonna go through with Kawhi.

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Speaker 1: Is gonna be Kawhi and and Harden are gonna do

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Speaker 1: it o Kawhi and Paul George couldn't do like. I

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Speaker 1: know how it's gonna end for the Clippers. They'll win

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Speaker 1: forty five to fifty games. They'll lose in the first

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Speaker 1: round of the players. That's how it's gonna go. What's

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Speaker 1: the ancillary uh support staff look like? Because they played

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Speaker 1: well in stretches, right, but then you have to lean

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Speaker 1: on Harden at the end, and well we all saw

844
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: how that went. Exit ab out a Fresco exit swallow?

845
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: Do you congratulations? Keep getting paid I don't know how

846
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: he keeps getting paid. That wizard coming up next? What

847
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: is next for Lebron James now that he's returning to

848
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: the Lakers. In theory, Lucas couch eight seven seven night

849
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: and I'm hanging out or they're you know, just dieting together,

850
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: you know whatever. It is, just eating vegetables. Yeah, that's

851
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 1: all we're doing. Look how Lucas carrots hanging out together.

852
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: But I feel like, okay, snap, I get it that

853
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: you know, in the NBA world, this has been a

854
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: really really big day in NBA. Okay, free AME's first day.

855
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: But you said, don't sit here and tell me what

856
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,919
Speaker 1: an unbelievable day it's gonna be. I'm like, okay, you're

857
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:14,720
Speaker 1: you're talking about deals that don't have the cross entirely

858
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: cross country promotional. You're not talking about superstars that are changing,

859
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: but they are changing teams. We're talking about moves that

860
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 1: that teams have made that hey, this can vault them up.

861
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 1: That's really what it is. But i mean, come on,

862
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: Michael Porter Junior is the biggest name, you know. Don't

863
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: don't sit here tell me what an unbelievab day it's

864
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: gonna be. Okay, I get it, but I think you

865
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 1: know what the world of the NBA versus what it

866
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 1: is to everybody, that that's two different things, right. It's

867
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: it's kind of we're kind of not quite seeing what

868
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: we've been promised over and now it could change. Giannis

869
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: could go to the Knicks, you know, any minute now,

870
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,439
Speaker 1: Jannis and Doc could wind up go to the Knicks

871
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: as a package deal. Ho don't we go together? Not

872
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: at all that could act. But so far, I'm like, okay,

873
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: this is this has been a day for the big

874
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: NBA fan who was watching what his team is doing

875
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: and seeing, hey, is this gonna make us better? Like

876
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: there's there's that kind of appeal, but the whole Hey,

877
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:06,359
Speaker 1: you know, Kevin Durant, even though the guy's thirty seven

878
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: and I don't know what he's gonna have left, He

879
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: hasn't led a team. He's a guy getting paid a

880
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: lot of money for for what he's gonna take it

881
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: for the salary cap. He's always been that guy. But

882
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: he's a big name that everybody cares about. Like, Yeah,

883
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, you got if you're gonna tell me

884
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: a night's gonna be big, you gotta you gotta you

885
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: gotta give me some big names. You're gonna wind up

886
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: moving places. Not that Hey, this is happening. And oh,

887
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: by the way, the Knicks are getting Jordan Clarkson. No,

888
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: you know, I I love that move, and I'm like, okay,

889
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: I get it. I like that move. But okay, you

890
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: know this isn't KD. It's not Giannis, it's not it's

891
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: not Embiid, it's not any it's not anything else. It's okay, yeah,

892
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: not even the big marquee teams. It's not even the

893
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 1: Lakers or the Knicks, the sub It's okay. Well, we've

894
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 1: got the Hawks, make big moves Hawks and the magic

895
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: right in the Rockets. Sure, with their new front office

896
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 1: made a bit, made that big trade in the Brooklyn Nets.

897
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 1: I mean we we did technically land in New York

898
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: one of these, right, yeah, all it up. I mean,

899
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: he got a lot of money changing hands, and that's

900
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:12,479
Speaker 1: all finding good. But for Shams, Chams Shams right now,

901
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,959
Speaker 1: his whole thing is that he's got to uh, he's

902
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: p T. Barnum. He's got to go in there and

903
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: sell sell. Everybody else's been vanquished. Wendy's kind of been

904
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: neutered and all this ever since Lebron kind of you know,

905
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: sunned him with the you know, like we're best friends thing.

906
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: All that guy did was give you love and adoration

907
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: and headlines that were just glowing for years. Now, Shams

908
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: is that guy. Sharania is now the torch carrier for

909
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: Lebron James Enterprises and Rich Paul and Clutch Sports. I

910
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: get it, it's all there, but it's it's all on him,

911
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: and he's got to try to sell it as best

912
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: he can. The groundbreaking move might come through on this

913
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: next text message I got. Oh, no, it's someone asking

914
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: me to vote in a local election. Damn it. No,

915
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be the big one.

916
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to movie pote set. Now. Speaking of

917
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: guys taking up too much money from the salary cap

918
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: team salary cap, Lebron James over the weekend decided to

919
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 1: opt in to his fifty two million dollar option with

920
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: the Lakers for this year. Part of this announcement was

921
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: that he is also going to be watching to make

922
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: sure the Lakers make moves to stay competitive. He understands

923
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: the Lakers are going I know, I'm trying to do

924
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: this with a straight faith. It's very difficult. It's very difficult.

925
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: You know, I understand the Lakers. They was hand picked Towel,

926
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:43,879
Speaker 1: he was handpicked that he understands the Lakers are going

927
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: in a direction where it's you know, behind Luca, that

928
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,959
Speaker 1: they're building around him. But you know, I still want

929
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 1: to win and be competitive and all this stuff, and

930
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: I'm watching the Lakers to see like the threat of

931
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:58,760
Speaker 1: him demanding a trade is actually going to happen. Okay,

932
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: let me tightly strip all the way. Here's what Lebron

933
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: is doing because this whole I'm watching the Lakers to

934
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: see what they do. It is what I call a loak,

935
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 1: which is a load of crap. This is a load

936
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: of crap and simply a spin by Lebron and Clutch

937
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: Sports to make it seem like Lebron is still controlling

938
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 1: the narrative with the Lakers.

939
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 2: Right.

940
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: He did for a long time, right did for a

941
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: long time. The zenith of Lebron's control was the Lakers say,

942
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: we can get Buddy Healed this guy. No, no, no, we

943
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: want Westbrook. I don't know, let's go get Westbrook. And

944
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: they're still up until but maybe now they's kind of

945
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: get out of it, but they were still up until

946
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: last year suffering from hey, we went out and got Westbrook. Right, Yes,

947
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: he used to be that guy. But when the Lakers

948
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: traded for Luca and now the team is being sold,

949
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 1: Lebron is being kept at shoulders length. And I told

950
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: you this is his last year with the Lakers, and

951
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: he's not gonna take less money. And again, now this

952
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: hamstrings the Lakers because Lebron, as good a player as

953
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 1: he is, is not worth thirty five to thirty seven

954
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: percent of the salary cap whatever it's gonna be. Unless

955
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: the Lakers saying, hey, we'll go over second Apron all

956
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 1: this fun like that's what he is. Like, he's a

957
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 1: really good player still, but is here he's not worth

958
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: campaign fifty two million dollars. But this is where the

959
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: Lakers are stuck with. They're stuck with each other for

960
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: this year. No one's trading for Lebron James with that

961
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: kind of salary, and that's not happening. But this will

962
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,720
Speaker 1: be his last year in Los Angeles because the Lakers

963
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: will spend this year again. And I understand because it's

964
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: gonna be well, Luca and Lebron really only had a

965
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: couple of months. We want to get Luca in the

966
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: right place. And now Luca, every video you see of Luca,

967
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: he looks so skinny in his new short sleeve shirts

968
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: and everything else. Maybe now he's listening to the Lakers

969
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: and getting in shape. Okay, that's great, and we want

970
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 1: to give him a chance with Lebron to see what

971
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: they can do. And this is gonna be not a

972
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 1: free year, but a year to say, Okay, maybe we

973
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 1: catch lightning in a bottle and Lebron understands his basketball

974
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,919
Speaker 1: mortality in La is going to be this year and

975
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 1: something big happens and they go fall and they surprise

976
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: a lot of people, and then maybe something changes. But

977
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 1: this is gonna be year or the Lakers are going

978
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, what do we do over this year

979
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: and how do we build around Luca? What's the what

980
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: changes do we need to make next off season? Like

981
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 1: this offseason for the Lakers is going to be if

982
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: they can do one big thing, I'd be happy. If

983
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 1: they can do one big thing, I'd be happy. And

984
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: it doesn't need to be something un like Yiannis, but

985
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 1: if they can do one big thing and bring in

986
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 1: one big player, one big rim runner, one big, one

987
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: big player that can say, okay, this can allow us

988
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: to trade Austin Reeves if we need to whatever. If

989
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: they could do one thing, all right, that's great. But

990
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: other than that, this is gonna be a year where

991
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: it's where it's going to be. All right, how do

992
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: the next eighty two games and playoffs go? What do

993
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 1: we need? Behind Luca, We're gonna be have that fifty

994
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: million dollars worth. Good. Now you don't have worry about

995
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: Pandoran Phinney Smith because he opted out and now he's

996
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: gone to the rockets. So you're gonna have money. You're

997
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 1: gonna be flush with more cash next year. So that's

998
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. This is just Lebron wanting the optic

999
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 1: of I'm in control. Dude, you're not. You're not in control.

1000
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: Don't tell me you're monitoring like the Lakers aren't tank.

1001
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,919
Speaker 1: You're not gonna suddenly suck that we're gonna get Cooper

1002
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: flag again. We'll just call Nico for Cooper Flagg in

1003
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:11,760
Speaker 1: a couple of years, will tradehim.

1004
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 2: Do it.

1005
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: Let me be worried about like he's all he's doing

1006
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: is trying to control the narrative that I'm still because

1007
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: because that's been who his whole career has been about finals,

1008
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: his impact on the game. But I am still the

1009
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: biggest of the big dogs, right And I'm gonna try

1010
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: to put this out to the Hey, I'm kind of

1011
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: above the team, and I want to look and see

1012
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: you're doing the right thing. If I'm Mark Walter, if

1013
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: I'm ge but probably I'm gonna say what are you

1014
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 1: gonna do? I'd get very public, I go, what are

1015
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: you gonna do? What are you gonna do? You're gonna

1016
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: opt what? What do you do? You can't you opt

1017
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: it in? What are you gonna do? Sit out? What

1018
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:44,959
Speaker 1: do we go trade you? We can't trade you because

1019
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: you said no, I'm gonna take fifty two million dollars

1020
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: because I'm never gonna take less money. So I'm taking

1021
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: fifty two million dollars. What are you gonna do? Lebron? Yeah? Again,

1022
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: But what are you gonna do? That's what I would say,

1023
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 1: very outline, very chesty, like I wanta fight, Hey, what

1024
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? What are you gonna? What do

1025
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: you really? He's not gonna do anything. He's not gonna

1026
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: do anything. He is here until the season ends and

1027
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 1: the Lakers say thank you, and he's calling Cleveland saying, hey, guys,

1028
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,879
Speaker 1: you know I started here, I came back. We won

1029
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: love to finish here. I think you guys need a

1030
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: little bit of leadership, you know. I see you guys

1031
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,839
Speaker 1: got a lot of young, good young players. Maybe hey,

1032
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 1: maybe I could finish it home. That's kind of what

1033
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:20,959
Speaker 1: I'd like to do. That's what this is all about,

1034
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:22,800
Speaker 1: Julie grit if he wants to play for no money.

1035
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 1: I had the blessing that this statement, whatever this is

1036
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: you want to call it and categorize it, came out

1037
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 1: while I was on air doing the Fox Sports Sunday

1038
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: Show and had a good laugh at it. And yeah,

1039
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: it's Lebron trying to keep control when he doesn't have

1040
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 1: it right. This is the ah, you broke up, Hey,

1041
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: I broke up with her. Okay, it was all my idea.

1042
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: It wasn't gonna work. You know, we couldn't. You couldn't

1043
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,720
Speaker 1: have this happen. You know, you don't want the stink

1044
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: of it on you. Or it's the I'm gonna go

1045
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: out on a hiking trail and you know that sign

1046
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: that says, hey, be where the Mountain lion. But if

1047
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: you do see one, look real big. Lebron's trying to

1048
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: look real big here. The problem is that doesn't work

1049
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: because everybody sees right through it of trying to own

1050
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 1: the narrative that the Lakers, there's no way they can

1051
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:16,280
Speaker 1: trade you. Right, nobody's giving you fifty three million dollars

1052
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: worth of assets, right if you wanted to go home

1053
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: to Cleveland. Guess what to make it work? They give

1054
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: up five guys like it's a burger and you know,

1055
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: the the peanut oil fries and all of that stuff,

1056
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 1: and go around contenders. Because that's the thing, right, still

1057
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: wants to be on a contender. No contender can take

1058
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: on that salary without gutting what they are and the

1059
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:40,879
Speaker 1: identity of who they are along the way. So that's one.

1060
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 1: The other is, I'm sure he would have liked a

1061
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:46,280
Speaker 1: James Harden like deal, making sure he got every penny

1062
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: along the way. Oh yeah, sure. You mentioned in passing

1063
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: Finney Smith that guy really would have helped, right, And

1064
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: I'm not a guy that's looking for any player to

1065
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 1: really go in and give up a bunch of money. Now,

1066
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:01,280
Speaker 1: if you could stretch things out to where your perannum

1067
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: makes you feel a whole, especially when you're forty two,

1068
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: forty three, forty years forty four years old. To give

1069
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:11,359
Speaker 1: you some flexibility now, because I mentioned him before, Brook

1070
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: Lopez might not be a world beater, but damnit, he

1071
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: looked really good in the Laker uniform for fifteen to

1072
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: twenty minutes a night. Whitney in terms of trying to

1073
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 1: solve what you need as a big man. Instead he

1074
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: goes to the Clippers at what nine million a year?

1075
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 1: So we're talking on the periphery. Finney Smith's deal with

1076
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 1: Houston was four for fifty three. They were fourteen and

1077
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 1: six with him as a starter last year were the Lakers.

1078
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 1: And you look at a guy defender pretty good from

1079
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 1: outside about thirty six and change from three point range.

1080
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: All of that to say is he's a guy that

1081
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: could have continued to eat minutes. But if you're not

1082
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: going to opt in, you know, with the negotiations, And

1083
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 1: this is where Mark Walter and the new look Laker

1084
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: front office in business dealings going forward is at a

1085
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: hard reset for the year following kind of looks like it,

1086
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: doesn't it when you wipe that fifty three million dollars

1087
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 1: off the board and you say, all right, we're now

1088
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 1: open for business because you can only do the when

1089
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 1: we talk about the second apron, right, it really screws

1090
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: you draft wise and asset wise if you do it

1091
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: multiple times over a five year period. It's supposed to

1092
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 1: be punitive to go into that space. So are you

1093
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,800
Speaker 1: gonna do it when Lebron's taking up fifty three million

1094
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,919
Speaker 1: dollars of cash space? No, you're not right. It would

1095
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: just be bad business that hamstrings you down the road

1096
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 1: to try to make him happy. So the all the

1097
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: I'm watching you like he's de Niro and Meet the Foxers.

1098
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: It's all bluster. So it's all it's all fun and

1099
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 1: game and fugazy. But it helps him keep the narrative

1100
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: and lets him sleep at night, whether he plays somewhere

1101
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: else next year, whether his wife gets what she's wanted.

1102
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: Screaming in the background, retire already, damn it? Yeh wait, wait, really,

1103
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 1: where do you think you're It's like in the movie

1104
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 1: where the the uh Uh, where the hero is running

1105
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 1: and then running away and the bad guys chase them.

1106
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: Going where you're gonna go, there's no way out, And

1107
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 1: this is like Lebron is a running trying to find it.

1108
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 1: Where you're gonna go, there's you gotta fight me in

1109
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: the alley. There's no way out of this alley. You

1110
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: gotta fight me. There's no way where you're gonna go,

1111
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: where you're gonna go, there's no place to go. You're

1112
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. You're here, Okay, there's no influenza. It's

1113
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 1: your last year. Enjoy it and then go back, and

1114
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: then go back to playing in Cleveland. Go go back.

1115
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:27,240
Speaker 1: He could have had a lot more fun this offseason

1116
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: if he'd opted out. See wants him at whatever rate

1117
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: he was willing to play for. That would have been fun.

1118
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: Theater