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Speaker 1: It was the single most incredible experience. I mean, I'm

425
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Speaker 1: not saying even sports experience. I have ever been a

426
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: part of the energy in that in Staple Center. When

427
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: Kobe drops sixty his final game game, it was it

428
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:06,639
Speaker 1: was like the only time where everybody was there for

429
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 1: one thing, right, Like, so I was there for Game seven,

430
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: um championship. Not everybody is there for one thing, right

431
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: mostly Flakers fans there, not everybody there was Lakers fan.

432
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: I was at that game, and I was there for

433
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: the hot Dogs. Actually, I just really am a big

434
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:33,360
Speaker 1: fan of hot Dogs. Everybody in that arena was there

435
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 1: for one thing. And it's hard to even put into

436
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:43,199
Speaker 1: words the feeling. Um. I remember, like Cody started off

437
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: the game and everybody's kind of like, oh, man, like

438
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 1: always final game, he's gonna go out like this. He's

439
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,159
Speaker 1: jacking a bunch of shots, missing shots, and then all

440
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: of a sudden he's at like, you know, thirty five points,

441
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,360
Speaker 1: and you're kind of thinking like, okay, like he could

442
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: drop forty in his final game, like that, that'd be

443
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: a good that would be a good way to to

444
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: go out dropping forty. And then he sur passes forty,

445
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: and all of us who are sitting by each other

446
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 1: like with each point, we're just looking at each other.

447
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: But he's getting close to fifty and we're like, no way,

448
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: he's gonna have fifty in his final game, like that's incredible.

449
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 1: And then he passes fifty, and and then he just

450
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: keeps going and then he encroaches on sixty. I mean,

451
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: you just can't even you can't make this stuff up.

452
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: You can't make it up and we all felt it.

453
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 1: And I mean I know that when you're standing up

454
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: as a media member or like your jaws dropped as

455
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: a media member and I'm looking over at you know,

456
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: guys like Ja donde Um or Bill Plashkey, like you know,

457
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: we are taught to not show our emotion, right we're

458
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 1: covering the game. All bets were off for this one

459
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: because that was how could you not how could you

460
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: not show your emotion? You were seeing something that you

461
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 1: couldn't even put into words. So it was it was

462
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: like twenty years of the most incredible basketball player packed

463
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: into all the emotion from twenty years packed into those

464
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: three hours. I mean for me, it was more like

465
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: twenty four hours because the whole I mean, I was

466
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: there from sun up till sundown. I pulled an all

467
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 1: night or that night, I didn't sleep. I stayed at

468
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 1: Staple Center and went straight from Staples Center to the

469
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: practice facility. Actually because we had extra interviews the last day,

470
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 1: so I think I took a half an hour and

471
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: app in my car at the Lakers practice facility. Um.

472
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,959
Speaker 1: But yeah, that that was single handedly the most incredible

473
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: experience I have been a part of. Even your description

474
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: of it, it's very clear, like you trying to find

475
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: the words. I was like, I was there too. Now

476
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: I feel like thank you for that. I was, yeah,

477
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: I can just off of your even you trying to

478
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: find the words. I think even for somebody who made

479
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: you know, we have listeners who might not have seen

480
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: the game or new to the game. In that just

481
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: your description alone, I think is a very compelling. The

482
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: argument is why people should watch, go back and see

483
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: that again. But it was incredible, so that that for me,

484
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: as I was older and covering the league, favorite moment

485
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: as a fan. As a kid, my favorite moment was

486
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: point four d fish. I mean that that was my

487
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: favorite basketball moment on the court before I was covering

488
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: the league. But in terms of actually being there, I mean,

489
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:39,239
Speaker 1: nothing compares to Kobe's final games. Thread renters, we'll get

490
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: a chance to take the lead, and look who has

491
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: football with half of it. It's a play for the league.

492
00:29:51,800 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: Body parts. League's so you s this is you know,

493
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: think's legendary before this game. This is this Tysi and

494
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: actually never level. I'm absolutely another level. And like in

495
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: your time reporting, you've you interact with a lot of players.

496
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: You're in moments you're like, I'm not surprised that I

497
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: see you honest play so far, I can't believe I'm

498
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: here for Kobe's game. What's been like the most surprising

499
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: interaction or experience that you've had, like with the game

500
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: where you you learned about a new dimension of a

501
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: player or something you hadn't considered, And what is there's

502
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: anything like that you can share with us? Sure, you

503
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 1: know it's it's funny, not that this would maybe be

504
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: the most interesting one, but for me, it's the first

505
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: one that comes to mind when you ask the question

506
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: because it's probably the most recent. UM and it's actually

507
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: getting to know Rajon Rondo a little bit. M Yes,

508
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: I grew up playing basketball. Why the Lakers Lakers Celtics

509
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: rivalry And so when you're younger, right when you're in

510
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: high school, when you're in college and you're not covering

511
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: the league yet and you're watching Lakers Celtics games, um,

512
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: and you're just a fan. You see your opposing team

513
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: or your enemy, you know, like okay, um. And getting

514
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: to no Rondo a little bit over the past couple

515
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: of months after the Calves acquired him, that was really

516
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: interesting for me because I didn't know him at all, um,

517
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: except from being a fan of the NBA and growing

518
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: up watching the Lakers and Celtics rivalry. Um. So getting

519
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: to see him as a person and be around him

520
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: UM and have a completely, I don't want to say

521
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: complete different opinion because I didn't know him to have

522
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: an opinion before the kid's acquired him. But getting to

523
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: be around him and see how gracious that he is

524
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: um versus the player that I grew up watching and

525
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: yelling at at the TV. That was kind of eye

526
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: opening for me. And he's like incredibly smart, right, Like

527
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: isn't I guess he's like a very smart basketball player,

528
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: but very smart basketball player. Yet, like there was a story.

529
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: Who is which coach was telling this story? I want

530
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: to say it was carl It was either Carlisle, or

531
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: it might have been Doc obviously he played for Doc

532
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,959
Speaker 1: for so many years. But Um, one of the coaches pregame,

533
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: I was asking about Rondo and he said, usually there's

534
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: no player that would ever watch film more than a coach,

535
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: Like coaches watch more film than any player ever would,

536
00:32:54,640 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: except Rondo. And he was a guy where like in films, Acion,

537
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: you better know what you're talking about as a coach,

538
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: because if you make a mistake, he'll call you out right.

539
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: There's a Scalbrini anecdote where like, uh, I mean Scalbrini

540
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: tells it. I guess it's a Mark Jackson anecdote. But

541
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: Mark Jackson called a play that was a bluff. He

542
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: just yelled forty two cross for his team, but it

543
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: was like a bluff. They didn't actually have that, but

544
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: he was just trying to, like, you know, the way

545
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: that like a baseball catcher will like throwout multiple hand

546
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: gestures and like trying to try and confuse anybody trying

547
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: to steal signs, and like nobody would know that it

548
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: was a bluff. Rondo looked at Jackson and was like,

549
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: for you two cross, for you two cross. You don't

550
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: have a forty two cross. Mark Jackson was like, how

551
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: the hell did he just know that? But he knew

552
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: their entire playbook and also like I knew that they

553
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: didn't hadn't edit it somehow, which is why were you

554
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: talking to Did you ever roller skate with Rondo? Because

555
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: I was the one little thing I learned about him

556
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: when he was at the Celtics, and I was like

557
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: he loves roller skating, and he's like good at him,

558
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:10,720
Speaker 1: like okay, okay, no, no, no roller skating And probably

559
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: a good thing because he dealt with plenty of injuries.

560
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, hammies could be be a tough thing. So

561
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: maybe too much roller skating, you know, it was affecting

562
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: the hammies could be Yeah, but you hear about him

563
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: mentioned a lot as like if this guy wants to

564
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 1: be a coach, he's going to be like an all

565
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: time great if he's in the right situation. Um, and

566
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: his teammates like always seem to respect him a lot.

567
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's like you know what I mean, I'm

568
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: in the time outs the heddles, and I'm always listening

569
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: in and um, he's that guy that's always always yelling

570
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: or not necessarily yelling, but just like he's always involved

571
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: in the time out. You know, like coach would come

572
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: over and he's like all right, Ronald, like you know,

573
00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: sit down, I gotta hit me coach please. Yeah, things

574
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 1: like that, And I mean it sounds like you've I know,

575
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,439
Speaker 1: I saw a post where you were talking about pau

576
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: Gas Saul and that you two were close as a

577
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: Laker fan. That warms my heart, because I've always been

578
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: an admirer of his and always suspected he was like

579
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: a very genuine person, and it was very nice for

580
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: me to see your heartfelt post or you're like, no,

581
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: this is a very sincere, sweet person. He's so sincere,

582
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: he's so genuine, possibly the most genuine player I've ever

583
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: met in the league. Look, so I was a I

584
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 1: interned for the Lakers when Pau was there as well,

585
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: and as an intern, you know quiet, you keep your

586
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: head down. I was, I think I was, I don't know.

587
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 1: I was working some event and it was by myself,

588
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: and Paps came over to make small talk like just

589
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 1: you know, something as simple as all a nice shoes

590
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: like something like that, to to go out of his

591
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: way to make me feel like, hey, it's all right

592
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: to talk to me, and we're just doing being too.

593
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: And I can't tell you how much that means to

594
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: somebody um like me. So from I mean, I knew

595
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: him as an intern, obviously covered him for many years.

596
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: So I can tell you that whether I was just

597
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: a little intern or a reporter or whatever stage I

598
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: was at in my career, he was always the same.

599
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: He was always genuine. He was always gracious and he

600
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: was like that with everybody. So whatever you've heard about

601
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 1: pal Um in terms of the genuine stuff, I can

602
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: tell you first hand it is all true. Yeah, he was.

603
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: I remember so my dad was coaching the Celtics during

604
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 1: his draft and like they wanted him more than anybody

605
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: in the in the draft, and he went over and

606
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 1: interviewed in him and he was like, I think he's

607
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: going to be a doctor if he doesn't get drafted

608
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Like that's he was saying that, and

609
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: like his grades are that good, Like he's just like

610
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: a super again. Uh like Rondo, very very smart, interesting guy.

611
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like with with the with the

612
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: Rondo thing and like the intelligence, Like I feel like

613
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,240
Speaker 1: we've seen that a couple of times in the playoffs

614
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: this year, where people predict plays before they happen. There

615
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: was the Yokich thing where he like said that's something, Yeah,

616
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: that's been happening a couple of times like that. I

617
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: feel like that might be something we're also seeing with

618
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 1: just so much more tape available, guys are watching so

619
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: much film now right, and like in the playoffs, you know,

620
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: with the Calves, for example, they had books right for

621
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,280
Speaker 1: the plan for the teams, so books that had plays

622
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: in them, and they're they're watching film with the assistant

623
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 1: coaches are going over what the plays are it shoot

624
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: around right, Like there's so much more of that now

625
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: than there used to be. Yeah, I mean watching Uh,

626
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: like my dad's career developed, like it went from when

627
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: video first became a thing. Like they were the only

628
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: people who could get like the cut down of like

629
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,399
Speaker 1: all right, every offensive play, like every offensive series where

630
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: they run this play. But now like everybody can, like

631
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:12,240
Speaker 1: you could do that on your iPhone. Like that's it's wild.

632
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: I was saying the scouts, um, well, oh, the Calves

633
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: playing game against Brooklyn, and I had a couple of

634
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: scouts next to me. We got to chatting and it

635
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: was wild listening to them because we're watching the Calves

636
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,800
Speaker 1: nets and they're writing down every play. Um, And I

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Speaker 1: asked them, like, you know, it's excited. It's exciting for

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Speaker 1: you guys when you can call what the out of

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Speaker 1: downs play is, right because before the play comes, like

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Speaker 1: I can hear the guy next to call the out

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Speaker 1: of downs play to the scout next to him and

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Speaker 1: he goes no, he goes what's most exciting for us

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Speaker 1: is if there's ever a new play like we haven't seen,

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Speaker 1: because usually we've seen all of the plays and it's amazing,

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Speaker 1: you know. They it's like they don't miss a thing

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Speaker 1: um when they're there. But I don't know if they're

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Speaker 1: sat next to scouts that are watching a game for

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Speaker 1: other plays, but it's and then they give it to

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Speaker 1: the team, and so everybody knows everybody's place, right, So

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Speaker 1: the matter of studying the yeah, who's the more studious.

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Speaker 1: That's like, yeah, that's the next thing we're going to

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Speaker 1: see on the back of a basketball card. It's like

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Speaker 1: studying studiousness off the charts. Well, Serena, it's been such

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Speaker 1: a pleasure having you on Milon and Jack got Matt

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Speaker 1: Boosti's I know you have to run, but thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Is there where where can

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Speaker 1: people find you? Follow you all that good stuff from

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Speaker 1: me on Twitter at Serena Winters. You want to go

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Speaker 1: to Instagram, We're not at Serena Underscore Winters and someone

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Speaker 1: to the old Serenat We hate that. Yeah, yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: well thanks so much for joining us. This is fun.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me fellas all right, and we are

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Speaker 1: going to go to a quick break and then we'll

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Speaker 1: be right back to wrap it up with a couple

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Speaker 1: of funny clips and we're back. Um, And that was

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Speaker 1: It's like, it's there's nothing better. When I'm like, what

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Speaker 1: were they like in real life? It's the only thing

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Speaker 1: I want to know. Really, Yeah, we're blessed to be

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Speaker 1: able to pick people's Hey, Miles, you know, one of

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Speaker 1: the best ways to find out what people are like

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Speaker 1: in real life is putting a microphone on making them up.

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Speaker 1: That's right, it's Miles and Jack I mat boost Mike up. No,

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Speaker 1: I just turned into a Morning Zoo dj um. So

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Speaker 1: one is the ref Scott Foster is talking to Ed Malloy,

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Speaker 1: I'm told, uh, and the it's the Celtics Bucks game one,

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Speaker 1: I believe scanning the crowd. Who's that over there? Who's

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Speaker 1: this guy? So Jack Harlow was at the game and

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Speaker 1: like big celebrity presents and yeah, I I was personally

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Speaker 1: I know who Jack Harlow is. I like his verse

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Speaker 1: on that one little Nozac song. Um. But I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of with Scott Foster in the sense that, like I did,

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Speaker 1: I I was a little surprised by the amount of

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Speaker 1: coverage that his presence at a playoff game was getting.

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Speaker 1: But here's here's Scott Harlow's Mike Dop moment, Scott Harlow matchup,

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Speaker 1: Scott Scott Foster's here's Jack Carlow's a guy over here,

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Speaker 1: right here, it's in that white shirt behind you. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: go ask you. I've never felt more like I never

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Speaker 1: I never thought I would say this. I've never felt

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Speaker 1: more like an NBA ref in my life. I mean, like,

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Speaker 1: I know of Jack Harlow and I know what he does,

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Speaker 1: but and that that that that was I've that resonates

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Speaker 1: with me as I become an elder, geriatric millennial and

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Speaker 1: I'm not up on all the new celebrities and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: who's that huh in the white shirt? Okay, and they're cool, okay,

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Speaker 1: cool cool cool? Yeah, knew that. Uh, And then I

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Speaker 1: just liked, you know, Jordan pool Is. We we've talked

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Speaker 1: a little bit about, you know, him being the third

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Speaker 1: Splash Brother, but like he's you know, he has continued

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Speaker 1: to be like maybe the most dangerous weapon the Warriors have.

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Speaker 1: Like I don't know, it's a it's hard to compare,

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Speaker 1: but uh, he's been so good. And at one point

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Speaker 1: during so he was miked up and uh, there was

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Speaker 1: a jump all that he was involved in and he

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Speaker 1: was going up against Yokich and uh he he had

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Speaker 1: a funny moment. Yes, so they're going so so they're

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Speaker 1: about to do the jump all and he like puts

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Speaker 1: his hand up like like the players, you know, like

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Speaker 1: when they're about to do the jump all. They both

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Speaker 1: put their hand up a little bit. But he like

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Speaker 1: did almost like a kind of it felt like a

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Speaker 1: Renaissance painting of like a bohemian dandy. Yeah. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: was like, so you're supposed to like lock arms with

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Speaker 1: them or what is it? Uh? And by the way,

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Speaker 1: that was Ed Malloy that he was asking. Look, I'm

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Speaker 1: a big Ed Malloy fan. Alright, big Ed Malloy fan.

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Speaker 1: Don't make fun of me just because I have an

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Speaker 1: Ed Malloy ref Jersey. Most people don't know that that's

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Speaker 1: what it is. But I got the number. People don't know.

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Speaker 1: They said, if you and you always you always posted

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Speaker 1: on Twitter you're wearing it, and you take a picture

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Speaker 1: of the number and you always tag it I y

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Speaker 1: K y K if you know you know, all right,

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Speaker 1: a second there to do that joke, and right, all right,

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Speaker 1: and then and then Luca was miked up well during

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Speaker 1: the first round. And you know, I mean, I feel

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Speaker 1: like we see a lot of Luca highlights, but you don't.

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Speaker 1: You don't get to see the man behind Luca. And

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Speaker 1: this is a fun miked up moment. Just about every game,

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Speaker 1: different suit looks nice. He's just like talking about people

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Speaker 1: looking nice. And he's he's started to talk like like

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Speaker 1: my old uncle or something. He's like, all right, man,

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Speaker 1: new suit every night, must be nice, like you're a millionaire.

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Speaker 1: But I still like that the humility that you operate from,

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Speaker 1: which is very endearing. Luca telling him he looks nice.

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Speaker 1: You know, nobody, nobody doesn't like to hear, Hey, man,

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Speaker 1: you look great. That's a nice suit. Just don't tell

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Speaker 1: him that if it if it's not nice, because if

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Speaker 1: you tell me a nice shirt sarcastically, I will be

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Speaker 1: wearing that shirt three times a week for the next

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Speaker 1: five years. So just like, don't mess with my oceans

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Speaker 1: like that. Just it is what it is. Man. Alright,

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Speaker 1: there's another one in the books, another one, other classic

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Speaker 1: all time great uh maybe the greatest, maybe the greatest

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Speaker 1: NBA Podcast of all Time, But another another week of

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Speaker 1: playoffs to look forward to. Is there is there anything

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Speaker 1: that you're this buck series I'm very excited about. I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to get my boy Joel back. Yeah, I'm excited

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Speaker 1: for I'm honestly every there's always something fun to watch,

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Speaker 1: so I really can't complain. I'm really I've I mean,

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Speaker 1: as of now as the recording with we haven't seen

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Speaker 1: the Warriors grizz Game two. Yeah. I mean that's like

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Speaker 1: we went through this whole episode and didn't even talk

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Speaker 1: about like all time classic game one. Uh, the Warriors Grizzlies.

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Speaker 1: That game was incredible. Yeah, I mean they've seen, they've heard,

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Speaker 1: they know, but what a what a game? Man? Almost

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Speaker 1: bit my nails off at then. Hm. I thought you

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Speaker 1: weren't nervous Miles, you didn't care. Yeah, I am. I

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Speaker 1: was just really hungry. You're just you're really hungry and

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00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: waiting for this game to be over, to get a

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Speaker 1: whiz whiz. I couldn't just leave in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the game, so I said, you know what, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: eat my finger nails. That's what happened. Nervous deal. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: that has been another episode of Miles and Jack. We'll

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Speaker 1: see y'all next week. Obviously, Bye bye,