Speaker 1: Welcome to this league, uncutting in the world of twenty
Speaker 1: four NBA news. Just dude, you lose Chris Shine did
Speaker 1: go time? Mark Stein did show time. Shuklaka Christine and
Speaker 1: Mark Stein. This link uncut, just underway and on fire.
Speaker 1: This should be a good one. Yes, this will be
Speaker 1: a good one. I know I say this all the time,
Speaker 1: but no, this this is a good one. Right here.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing on my guy. Y'all know who he is, man,
Speaker 1: I've been covering him his whole NBA career, his path
Speaker 1: from Weeber State to NBA Star, seven time NBA All Star.
Speaker 1: Here in Salt Lake City, Portland Trail Blazers All Star,
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard, Dame Man, thanks for coming on with me
Speaker 1: and Mark Stein on this league uncut man. How you feeling, brother?
Speaker 1: You know you in Salt Lake right now? What's going on? Burgess?
Speaker 1: Headed to practice? Headed to this All Star practice? The
Speaker 1: sprainer of my family just headed down. Man. It's baking
Speaker 1: my way through the weekend. Is this even more special?
Speaker 1: You know we were State is right not too far
Speaker 1: from from Salt Lake. Is this any more special than
Speaker 1: any other All Star appearances? I think it is just
Speaker 1: the warnest I feel like every other All Star Wars,
Speaker 1: I feel like the New Orleans short that you know
Speaker 1: it's on site of the city Atlanta. I think LA
Speaker 1: was probably the closest, but you know that it be
Speaker 1: from northern California. That's only tides I really had there.
Speaker 1: But the fact that I went to school here and
Speaker 1: lived here four years, you know, and I didn't moved
Speaker 1: around these parts, you know a lot, so a lot
Speaker 1: of familiar faces, a lot of you know, friends and
Speaker 1: the family that I may hear. So I think that
Speaker 1: makes it a little more special one with so many
Speaker 1: guards in the West, Like is there a point where
Speaker 1: you're worried that you might get xed out? Because obviously
Speaker 1: you guys are basically in the five hundred zone winning wise,
Speaker 1: Like how do you approach Like obviously you've been an
Speaker 1: All Star a zillion times before, but is it something
Speaker 1: that you stress over? I would say in the past
Speaker 1: more so, you know, being Hayes had those conversations like man,
Speaker 1: what it is looking like right now? Like our record
Speaker 1: versus other people's records and stuff like that. But I
Speaker 1: just think this time where I would say, these days,
Speaker 1: I don't really you know, stress or press about it
Speaker 1: as much, you know, like you said, I've made it
Speaker 1: quite a few times now. You know, you when you're younger,
Speaker 1: you want to be in the mix. You know, you
Speaker 1: want to be there and you want that experience, you
Speaker 1: want that acknowledgment. And I think the older you get,
Speaker 1: obviously it's still an honor and it's still a pleasure
Speaker 1: to to you know, to get picked. But you know,
Speaker 1: I just don't think it's as much of a stressor
Speaker 1: you know, once you get later in your career as
Speaker 1: it is in the beginning. So you know, now I'm
Speaker 1: not obviously you're gonna look around and be like, man,
Speaker 1: you know, you know what you do, look at what
Speaker 1: the chances are. But I wouldn't say I press over
Speaker 1: it at all. Start. Let me tell you this stun
Speaker 1: when Um he sat out last year. We most of
Speaker 1: last year he got he had his um surgery on
Speaker 1: his APTNOM and he was recovering, you know, working his
Speaker 1: way back, rehapping back, and he would send me clips
Speaker 1: of his workouts. You know, as he's progressing in each
Speaker 1: year he'll be like, Haynes, I'm getting there, Like I'm
Speaker 1: getting there. And I think I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people felt like he might be on the decline, you know, Dame,
Speaker 1: is his his body is breaking down. You know, more
Speaker 1: injuries are compelling now at this stage of his career.
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be able to return to form? He
Speaker 1: got that big new extension, a big max extension um
Speaker 1: last summer, and now you look at this season he's having.
Speaker 1: He had the most he had the sixty point game
Speaker 1: was the sufficient sixty point game in NBA history. And
Speaker 1: he's having the best year of his career right now
Speaker 1: statistically all across the board. Dame, are you surprising yourself?
Speaker 1: Like you knew you're gonna come back, but the level
Speaker 1: you're playing right now, Like, is there any surprise whatsoever? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised, because you know, I was, I was playing,
Speaker 1: I was having big years the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: Frank's last year when I just I had to have surgery.
Speaker 1: But once I realized, once I started to get healthy,
Speaker 1: and I realized how hurt I was, as I got
Speaker 1: back to at the bounce of my step and I
Speaker 1: could move more freely and I was more comfortable out there,
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, it's gonna be troubled out there.
Speaker 1: And I told you that before before the season started,
Speaker 1: and you thought I was just talking. No, I think
Speaker 1: you was talking, Yes you did. I was telling you
Speaker 1: Chris is exactly right. Then. In the media, that's how
Speaker 1: we think. How does the athlete block out thoughts like that?
Speaker 1: How do you block out doubt? Well, I think because
Speaker 1: as media, y'all don't feeling y'all just are you guys
Speaker 1: are just watching from the outside. So people that just
Speaker 1: say stuff, you know sometimes when they're trying to get
Speaker 1: what they're trying to convince you, y'all. And I just
Speaker 1: felt it once I started training, started getting back to
Speaker 1: full speed, I could just feel it in my step
Speaker 1: and I could feel it in having the time away
Speaker 1: from you know, I missed like ficking games, so just
Speaker 1: not having to travel as much, not having to demand
Speaker 1: of like having to perform and you know, have all
Speaker 1: these big performances to win games and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You know, I was just kind of rested training during recovery.
Speaker 1: I was just I had all that time off. It
Speaker 1: was a mental break of physical brain. I was able
Speaker 1: to get all the way back healthy. So I just
Speaker 1: knew like I felt it. So I think that's that's
Speaker 1: something that you guys just can't. There's no way for
Speaker 1: you guys to feel that same way or two to
Speaker 1: have that same understanding, because it's you guys are just
Speaker 1: watching it. You know, y'all got to just take our
Speaker 1: word for it. You know a lot of times people
Speaker 1: are just just saying it, and it's not hard to
Speaker 1: tune that noise out. I think it's hard to tune
Speaker 1: it out because you sometimes you get anxious for the
Speaker 1: time to come for people to see, you know. But
Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't even say I tuned it out.
Speaker 1: I just, you know, documented I just recognize it what
Speaker 1: it is, and I also know that it's it's justified.
Speaker 1: It's justified, so I don't tune it out like it's
Speaker 1: just not possible. Um. You know, I just had more
Speaker 1: belief in what I felt, you know, but I felt
Speaker 1: it myself, you know, I just outweighed what the doubt was.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that I just didn't acknowledge it or didn't
Speaker 1: know that that it was possible reality, this is happening before,
Speaker 1: it'll happen more, you know. But in a specific situation,
Speaker 1: I didn't have a concern because of how I feel
Speaker 1: about big trades made across the League. Kevin Durant going
Speaker 1: to Phoenix, you know that was a blockbuster. You know,
Speaker 1: Kyrie going over to Dallas. The Western Conference is getting
Speaker 1: deeper and deeper. You guys made some moves, added motifs
Speaker 1: stable um, you added Cam Reddish Um. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: there's still some work that needs to be done to
Speaker 1: get you guys to where you want to be ultimately.
Speaker 1: But one guy I want to talk about, particularly the
Speaker 1: Gary Payton situation. I was caught off guard by that,
Speaker 1: you know, trading them back to Golden State. First of all,
Speaker 1: what was your thoughts, you know, him going to Golden State,
Speaker 1: how did you feel? And then ultimately the Gary Payton
Speaker 1: fiasco that it was Honestly, I wasn't even the word
Speaker 1: that that trade was gonna happen. We was actually sitting
Speaker 1: to each other on the training table when he went
Speaker 1: when he went into the meeting, and even then, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't think, you know, I didn't think
Speaker 1: it was gonna really go down like like that. But
Speaker 1: you know, his time here, I just know that he
Speaker 1: was coming off the injury. He had the same surgery
Speaker 1: that I had, but he had a procedure prior to
Speaker 1: that so he had to. You know, anytime you got
Speaker 1: to go back in twice, you know, it's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be a little bit longer of the process because you
Speaker 1: already got scar tissue built up in there and then
Speaker 1: you know, having another surgery. So I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: the team was patient. You know, it was a lot
Speaker 1: of time went by before he before he actually uh
Speaker 1: before he played, and it was you know, me and
Speaker 1: him but joke about it, you know, when he was
Speaker 1: gonna play. Stuff like that, And I've been on him
Speaker 1: a long time obviously, but once he got back on
Speaker 1: the floor, I think his presence was it's like obvious,
Speaker 1: you know what he brought to a team. He knew
Speaker 1: that he was bringing something different to our team with
Speaker 1: his field, with his his ability defensively is toughness, and
Speaker 1: I thought he, you know, he was showing us that.
Speaker 1: But you know, obviously, when you've missed that, many games
Speaker 1: don't take time, and then you know, the trade happens,
Speaker 1: all these things come out out performing staff, all of
Speaker 1: those things, And I honestly don't know the exact dynamic
Speaker 1: that it was because I just you know, you just
Speaker 1: assume that they're giving him a playing and he's or
Speaker 1: whatever that playing is. But what I do know, so
Speaker 1: it was a lot of a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: I did see that I don't I don't see that
Speaker 1: happening though. I think Jeff Parton, who's the head of
Speaker 1: our our performance staff, has been around a long time.
Speaker 1: I've been around on my own career. He's always been
Speaker 1: on point, even you know, when he dealt with my surgery,
Speaker 1: when he's dealt with all of my injuries, He's always
Speaker 1: been on point and had the best interest of the player.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I don't really go all the four details,
Speaker 1: but you know, obviously it was a major disconnecting, a
Speaker 1: lot of miscommunications that happened. But obviously with it being
Speaker 1: looked into, we've seen running backs come out. You know,
Speaker 1: Gary is still dealing with some pain and with stress,
Speaker 1: which is something that's possible when you come up with
Speaker 1: surgery and you start playing get back out there. You
Speaker 1: don't know what can happen. But I just hope that
Speaker 1: he gets healthy. And I didn't want to see him
Speaker 1: go back to go to State because I know he
Speaker 1: makes it feel better. So I didn't want to see
Speaker 1: that happen. In all my years covering League, I kind
Speaker 1: of feel like the Achilles is the most dreaded injury
Speaker 1: that a basketball player can suffer. But how high up
Speaker 1: there is a core injury that requires surgery that has
Speaker 1: to be not good. I don't think it's anywhere near
Speaker 1: the Achilles because the core injury is it does like
Speaker 1: it takes a lot away from you when when you're
Speaker 1: playing with it. So the whole time and I was
Speaker 1: playing with it's like I can feel myself kind able
Speaker 1: to play at like a fast pace and stop or
Speaker 1: be moving fast and change direction or jump or shoot
Speaker 1: a pull up three on the time, you know, it
Speaker 1: was just tough to like brace and to just kind
Speaker 1: of control my body, uh in ways that I can't
Speaker 1: down so I just fitn't doing it, or like at
Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter, you know, it would
Speaker 1: get really irritated and I would just have so much
Speaker 1: stiffness assortness that it would be like once I come
Speaker 1: out of the game and I sit down, I'm on
Speaker 1: the bench for a while, I would be like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can I don't know if
Speaker 1: I can go back out there and move it getting
Speaker 1: you know, like I could just tell it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a bad night as far as like my comfort. But
Speaker 1: I think the surgery I went to do the vain
Speaker 1: guy doctor Meyers, and feeling and uh getting back from
Speaker 1: the surgery wasn't process. You know, it was like the
Speaker 1: first month and they have two months, was like, man,
Speaker 1: am I getting anywhere? And then you know that next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks seems like a lot of progress, but
Speaker 1: you gotta uh stay on top of it. You know,
Speaker 1: you came having the slimmage in that process getting back
Speaker 1: and I didn't. And then once I got back and
Speaker 1: was as good as new. So um, when you're dealing
Speaker 1: with it, it is a tough one to deal with,
Speaker 1: But once you come back from it in process the
Speaker 1: right way, I don't think it's even great here and
Speaker 1: it gives your team is sitting in twelfth place right
Speaker 1: now again, like I said, other teams got better. Where's
Speaker 1: your state at as far as like you on board
Speaker 1: with the plan and what you guys plan to do
Speaker 1: moving forward, especially in this offseason. Where are you at?
Speaker 1: Oh as far as where we stay right now? Understandings?
Speaker 1: You know, I can only control what I can control.
Speaker 1: You know what I doing before and what type of
Speaker 1: attitude has been talent, he and I have what you know,
Speaker 1: how I operate to that stuff. So uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm going to enjoy this this the next two days
Speaker 1: and All Star and then Sunday when I get you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna strapped back in and get ready to try
Speaker 1: to push that line and try to make it happen. Uh.
Speaker 1: And as you know, we're so tight in the West
Speaker 1: right now, you can win three in their own. A
Speaker 1: couple of teams loose two out of three, and you
Speaker 1: know you don't finn play. So you know, as bad
Speaker 1: as a place sounds, you know, it's more about you know,
Speaker 1: if we do end up going on a run and
Speaker 1: end that poor fifth place, like all right, do we
Speaker 1: what is it gonna look like in the postseason? Can
Speaker 1: we actually compad And that's the most important thing to
Speaker 1: be So I'm gonna handle it how I always ended
Speaker 1: the soldier, ugush the line, make it happen, you know,
Speaker 1: the close out of the season. And then you know,
Speaker 1: when it comes to what what what our vision is
Speaker 1: as an organization, as a team, I can definitely understand
Speaker 1: you know, what we want to do, what we're trying
Speaker 1: to do, just a matter of you know, actually execute
Speaker 1: that plan and uh being able to get things done
Speaker 1: in a way where we come back and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got a chance to truly give people a championship
Speaker 1: within So I understand it now was just time to
Speaker 1: make it have the I think, you know, that's just
Speaker 1: what it's time. I consider myself a basketball romantic. I
Speaker 1: always love the idea of players who stay with one team.
Speaker 1: You know, I always said, you know, living in Dallas
Speaker 1: and covering Durk Navitski's whole career, he won one championship,
Speaker 1: but I on my scorecard, you know, staying with one team,
Speaker 1: I kind of consider that like a championship of its own.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, Kobe and Duncan felt the same way.
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller and John Stockton are guys who didn't win
Speaker 1: a championship, but you know, nineteen and eighteen years with
Speaker 1: one team. But like, it just strikes me as the
Speaker 1: way the game has changed, people are always urging you
Speaker 1: to leave. It's just different. I feel like ten years
Speaker 1: ago everybody would have said stay, stay, stay, but now
Speaker 1: it's like dangn get out of there. How do you
Speaker 1: view the discussion of your career like that? I think
Speaker 1: I think it's just because of the the way the
Speaker 1: game has changed. I think it's become much more common,
Speaker 1: just like, oh, you need a ring, you know. I
Speaker 1: think it's about the outside pressure of you need to ring.
Speaker 1: You gotta win a championship. You know, it's tough out here.
Speaker 1: You know, it's tough right down, especially with the access
Speaker 1: we will have to us through social media. How often
Speaker 1: you know, to discussed every little thing on TV. So
Speaker 1: it just comes with a lot of a lot of heat.
Speaker 1: You know, we're under a microscope as far as you
Speaker 1: know what other people think of it. So I think
Speaker 1: that leads guys to feeling like I gotta do what
Speaker 1: I gotta do win the power of the player. I
Speaker 1: just feel like, you know, I love the organization I
Speaker 1: played for. They haven't won the championships in seventy seven.
Speaker 1: I want to bring one. I want to bring one
Speaker 1: back here. I think people are just they just love
Speaker 1: discussing what I should do, because you know, one of
Speaker 1: the only one of the few guys that have laboring teams.
Speaker 1: I think, honestly, I think a lot of people just
Speaker 1: love to to see things just get mixed up. You know.
Speaker 1: They love the drama and you know, then once it
Speaker 1: happened and they die off of it, and then it's
Speaker 1: like on to the next thing. But I just understand
Speaker 1: that nobody, nobody's gonna have to walk in my shoes
Speaker 1: or live with any of the consequences or anything. You know.
Speaker 1: I never let that way into any decision or phil
Speaker 1: about it. You know, it does get irritated sometimes it's
Speaker 1: like what's the big deal? You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like everybody's telling me what I need to do and
Speaker 1: what I should do, as if they actually care, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, they say it from a placement,
Speaker 1: if they actually care, when I know they don't, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's just like it's just funny.
Speaker 1: How long did it take you to feel about Portland
Speaker 1: the way you can do? So that we restinct? You know,
Speaker 1: we play all the big sky Country School, Montana, Montana State,
Speaker 1: Idahole State, you know, so we was always in these
Speaker 1: like small bad town you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: and then we played Portland State. So like when we
Speaker 1: were coming to Portland State, like that was the city
Speaker 1: we all I was looking forward to going to your conference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like downtown, they had stores we could just
Speaker 1: kind of move around restaurant and stuff like that. So, uh,
Speaker 1: that was when I first started to like Portland and
Speaker 1: my two best rooms out of high school they also
Speaker 1: went to college in Portland, so I always liked it,
Speaker 1: you know, they liked it, so it was, you know,
Speaker 1: it kind of was a match making ever close to
Speaker 1: home too. Jane, I've never I've never told you this.
Speaker 1: I want to see if you confirm it and see
Speaker 1: if you could provide details. So a couple of years ago, Dane,
Speaker 1: I was talking to Kevin Gardnett and he told me
Speaker 1: he reached out to you, and I think this was
Speaker 1: at the point when you were considering what you were
Speaker 1: going to do with your future a few years ago.
Speaker 1: But it was after we lost the Nuggets in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: so it was that summer. It was that summer. So
Speaker 1: I asked him, I asked him for details, and he
Speaker 1: was like, asked your man, Dane, what was about? Tell us, Dave,
Speaker 1: what was that conversation? Like Kevin Gardnett talking to you
Speaker 1: and this is when you lost that series of Denver
Speaker 1: and then you were kind of questioning your future. I
Speaker 1: mean he called me or he texted me and he
Speaker 1: was like, give me a call when you get a
Speaker 1: chance this ticket. I was like, all right, so, uh,
Speaker 1: I'm tired him. And he was like, he was like, man,
Speaker 1: I know how you feel. I've been. I've been where
Speaker 1: you at Minnesota. I loved playing there. I wanted to
Speaker 1: win it, and you know my heart was in it.
Speaker 1: But you know, here here and get draining. You know,
Speaker 1: it could be tough. You know, That's all you know.
Speaker 1: And he was like, you know, once I decided I
Speaker 1: was gonna go to Boston, I got there. We had
Speaker 1: Rando all peers Bray, you know, he started just running
Speaker 1: down and he just started talking about how less stressful
Speaker 1: it was, how the bonds they had, you know, how
Speaker 1: together they were, and it was just a different experience.
Speaker 1: And he was like, I didn't know what I was
Speaker 1: missing out on, you know, I just I only knew
Speaker 1: what I knew. And he was like he wished he
Speaker 1: had done it sooner. I wish I had done that
Speaker 1: that sooner because it was a better experience than I
Speaker 1: actually won the championship, which I respect. I saw that.
Speaker 1: I saw that hap him in real time because I
Speaker 1: was following the big heavy during his time in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and you know, really to Boston, but I just feel
Speaker 1: like to eat his own. I do think, I do think,
Speaker 1: you know, my situation is very similar. It is, but
Speaker 1: like I said, everybody's everybody's actual situation is different. In general. Though,
Speaker 1: how helpful is it just to be able to talk
Speaker 1: to guys on the outside We can't really identify with
Speaker 1: a lot of these things. You know, how many people
Speaker 1: like Garnett would you say that you talk about your
Speaker 1: just your career with not many. I've been in the
Speaker 1: eleven here and so I know a lot of people,
Speaker 1: but I don't really know a lot of people. But
Speaker 1: as far as talking just talking like you know, these
Speaker 1: types of conversations, you know that I spoke to him
Speaker 1: about it. You know, other than that, it'll be like,
Speaker 1: oh Williams being him, were talking all the time, mellow
Speaker 1: Tina Thompson. You know, it'd be people like that. I
Speaker 1: ain't just parted to anybody. You actually lead me into
Speaker 1: one of the other questions. About a month ago, I
Speaker 1: was fortunate to sit down with Steph who is turning
Speaker 1: thirty five in March, and like, I like, I had
Speaker 1: to look up your Yeah, I had to look up
Speaker 1: your age, and I was like, how is Dann thirty
Speaker 1: two already, like I just I can't, I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: But I asked him the same question. You know, I
Speaker 1: think at thirty two we can say it without insulting
Speaker 1: you that you're you're somewhat of an old head. Now
Speaker 1: you just said it yourself. You've been around for eleven years.
Speaker 1: Do you like do you like that? Do you like
Speaker 1: having more of the I've seen it all or I've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of it at this point in my
Speaker 1: career and being able to mentor guys and coach up
Speaker 1: guys because you've been around more than a decade. I mean,
Speaker 1: I always look at myself like a young I'll always
Speaker 1: look at myself like I'm wanted the young players, like
Speaker 1: one of up and coming players. Last night, I was
Speaker 1: leaving like an all star function. I saw tyres Manxi
Speaker 1: and he liked shook my hand and he was like, well,
Speaker 1: what's up, Oge? You good? And I was like, oh gee,
Speaker 1: But I think it's a It is good to just
Speaker 1: looking around and you're like out of scene. I've been
Speaker 1: there and done that. You know, with a lot of
Speaker 1: these things, we've seen it time to time you get
Speaker 1: and I think that's a good feeling. But I don't
Speaker 1: think nobody's looking around like man in eleven years, Like
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I think we all want to stay
Speaker 1: young and stay fresh. But um, you know that's part
Speaker 1: of it. Your time come and comes and goes, and
Speaker 1: you just try to try to try to, you know,
Speaker 1: stretch it as much as you can, you know, without
Speaker 1: you know, doing it and not being you know, who
Speaker 1: you've always been. So I just try to stay on
Speaker 1: top of everything and stay young physically, stay young mentally,
Speaker 1: and then go from there. All right, Dane, this this part,
Speaker 1: this part is gonna drop Monday morning, and so it's
Speaker 1: gonna be before you go this All Star game. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get you out of here. Um three point contests?
Speaker 1: How are you feeling about your chances day? Like? What
Speaker 1: what are you calling it? Are you calling game winner
Speaker 1: right right now? How you feel? Man? I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I'm winning. I will say in
Speaker 1: the past, I was just you know, going in there
Speaker 1: and shooting. You know, I'm like whatever. But this time,
Speaker 1: like I feel like I actually want I don't want
Speaker 1: to do it no more after this, and I want
Speaker 1: to win it at least one time. So I'm definitely
Speaker 1: shooting to win. Do you practice off the rack before
Speaker 1: you get to Salt Lake or not? The first time
Speaker 1: I ever did it, I practice off the rack, but
Speaker 1: I did in this time. I'm just going in. My
Speaker 1: second year covering League was Dane's rookie year, and I
Speaker 1: remember his second year he made history and I actually
Speaker 1: broke that story, probably my biggest story at that time,
Speaker 1: where Dane would compete it in the Dunk Contest, the
Speaker 1: Three Point Contest, the Skills Challenge, the Rookie Sophomore Game,
Speaker 1: and the All Star Game. No other players could participate
Speaker 1: in all five events All Star was doing since and
Speaker 1: I performed. I performed it All Start Saturday at in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, So I really have done everything everything. Hey, well,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna get you with that. Hey that's that's six.
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna get you with that last one you just mentioned.
Speaker 1: I did all of literally everything you could do on
Speaker 1: All Start Saturday and Sunday. I do so amongst Star players.
Speaker 1: Do you guys talk about the Dunk Contest like you know,
Speaker 1: for us on the outside, we always want big names
Speaker 1: and the Dunk Contest, and we just get farther and
Speaker 1: farther away from away from it. What do you all
Speaker 1: stars talk about when the dunk contest is brought up? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I ain't never heard nobody really talk about it. Man.
Speaker 1: That's painful. I think we get into the point where
Speaker 1: it's like, what else is are they gonna do? I
Speaker 1: feel like the dunk contest is getting worse exactly. Dame
Speaker 1: and Harry Gordon was like that dunk contest where I
Speaker 1: was like, it's a real this is real, like dunk
Speaker 1: off right here, this three point this the main event
Speaker 1: now like it's it's become that over the last few years,
Speaker 1: and it might it might end up being that way.
Speaker 1: But most you know, hopefully we get a you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully we see something good. But Dane, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: you out of here, bro, Man. I appreciate you. Man,
Speaker 1: you and a sprinter on the way to practice. Man
Speaker 1: giving us some time. Man, you know, I ain't got
Speaker 1: a number of for you. Man. Appreciate you, Thank you, sir,
Speaker 1: good luck the rest of the season. Haynes in the
Speaker 1: clutch again, making interviews happen that otherwise would not. That
Speaker 1: was awesome to get Dame Lillard on the way to
Speaker 1: All Star practice because it's a circus. I mean, these
Speaker 1: guys are running from one event to the next. So
Speaker 1: that was that was a very nice surprise. Another point
Speaker 1: for Haynes in the scorebook. That does it for this
Speaker 1: edition of This League Uncut. Chris and I will be
Speaker 1: back very very soon with Moore and as always everyone,
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