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With this article that he 14 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: had that just came out over the weekend and Luca 15 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: himself talked about it. It was for men's health, It was 16 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: a feature on him and essentially just to get to 17 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: the gist, he says, I always work on something, always 18 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: work on my body. 19 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 3: But he added motive. 20 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: He had added motivation coming off of the injury, being 21 00:00:57,680 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: nicked up all season, only playing fifty games between the 22 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: two teams, and it also getting traded, so he had 23 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:04,959 Speaker 1: that in these and more than anything. 24 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 3: He said. 25 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: He slimmed down, he's tone, and he says, quote just visually, 26 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 1: I would say, my whole body looks better. He said 27 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: that in Arka, and it does, and it does. So 28 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna jump out on this. 29 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 3: For me. 30 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: I love what I'm seeing from Luca. I love the 31 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: fact that he acknowledged it because to me, sometimes when 32 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: people call you on your flaw, when they call you 33 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: out on your is ish, when they call you out 34 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: on your thing, it takes really a real man or 35 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: a woman to say, you know what, You're right. You 36 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 1: know what I mean, You're right. I am being deficient here. 37 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: I'm not being efficient here, I am slacking in this area. 38 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: And I liked it. Luca didn't just say no, I'm fine. 39 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: I am what I am and it is what it is, 40 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 1: and it's gotten me the five All NBA, First Team 41 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: All NBA. Deal with it. I dragged the team in 42 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: the finals. It is what it is. I'm good enough. 43 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: I like that he took it to heart. I like 44 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: that he took it personally, and I like that he 45 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: went to work and whether he got some advice from 46 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: a somebody like a Lebron who's in year sixty eight 47 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: and still looks amazing and still obviously in great shape. 48 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: Whether he just took it personally, that man, I could 49 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: get traded from the team that I thought would be 50 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 1: home and I thought I was untradable, and that's now 51 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 1: we now see that's the case, and really set the 52 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: NBA on alert. This is not the case. Anybody can 53 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: get to smoke, whether it's Luca, whether it's Ann Edwards, anybody. 54 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: If Luca could get it, anybody can get it. But 55 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: more importantly, I like that he's activated with this, that 56 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: he's taking it on his shoulders, that he's out here 57 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: shooting text messages. We hear de Marcus smart, he's shooting 58 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: text to DeAndre and trying to build a team, trying 59 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: to be participatory and now being a Laker as he 60 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: looks like he's gonna get the deal eventually, a four 61 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: year deal worth you know, two and a quarter one 62 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: hundred million. So I actually like what I'm seeing and 63 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: the fact that he's bounced back. And we talked about 64 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: this last week, I believe it was Friday. I expect 65 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 1: Luke and now to get a ring in the next 66 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,399 Speaker 1: four years because to me, you're you realize you can 67 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: be better. 68 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 3: You're great, was great. 69 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: MVP candidate all the time, kind of one of those guys, 70 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 1: but you can be better. And now you put yourself 71 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 1: in a situation to me where you got a couple 72 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 1: of players I don't think they're good enough to really contend. 73 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: But I do think he put himself in a position 74 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: Martin where he can really be an MVP candidate again, 75 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: because I think that's gonna work in his favor. Usually 76 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: you ain't have these criterias. You're the best player on 77 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 1: the best team, so they kind of give it to you, 78 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: even if it's like some other person where you had 79 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: a number one seed by far, we gotta give it 80 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 1: to you. 81 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 4: And Luka Rashid the MVP votes in that scenario before, right, 82 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 4: And I think he's gonna get it this year because 83 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 4: his team won't be loaded and he's gonna ball out 84 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 4: and keep his team in a you know, four to 85 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 4: six seven seed ish and people will be like, man, 86 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 4: this might be the year he gets that MVP. 87 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: But bottom line for me, I like this, and again 88 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: they got Lebron ain't gonna be here much longer, so 89 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: I think the window is now open for the Lakers. 90 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: The Lebron or the Luca era no longer the Lebron era. 91 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: And I like that he's took it personally. And I 92 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: like again that he didn't just say I've been good enough. 93 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: He went and wanted to get better. And we'll see 94 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: how hall long it lasts. But lighter, healthier, motivated Luca. 95 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: I like that for La. 96 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 5: I mean I like it too. Absolutely. 97 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 4: You know, there's no way not to like it, right, 98 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 4: there's nothing to not like about this if you're a 99 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 4: Los Angeles Laker fan. But I just wanted we should 100 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 4: all just take a moment as a country and just. 101 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 3: Okay, we're plotting. What are we are plotting? 102 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 4: Shout out to Luka Doncis for showing up to work 103 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 4: this summer. Congratulations America. He did something that you and 104 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 4: I and everybody else here does all the time. Professional 105 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 4: athlete works out more at eleven. I mean, like, ultimately, 106 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 4: you know what the take is from this? Nico Harris 107 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 4: has to print this article out and pin it on 108 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 4: his fridge. You mean to tell me that this article 109 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 4: said that Luka Doncic said, for the first time, build 110 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 4: a weight routine to help them build total body strength. 111 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 4: Luca's been in the NBA for five years now, six 112 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 4: years now, right, six years now. This has also that 113 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 4: so when he was in Dallas, he listened to everything 114 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 4: the Mavericks had to say, but then when he would 115 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 4: go back to Europe would get limited information. You mean 116 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 4: to tell me that the Mavericks are just you know, hey, 117 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:13,119 Speaker 4: figure it out on your own. I refuse to believe 118 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 4: that's the case. 119 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 5: Now. 120 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 4: I can't believe that's the case, especially an organization like Dallas, 121 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 4: which is scouted internationally so well, they draft, they got 122 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 4: people over there right now, right, there's somebody's job over 123 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 4: there to work Luca Dodgers out, and you know it 124 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 4: is somebody. It didn't work. This whole team Luca, though, 125 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,119 Speaker 4: seemed like it was happening more and more and more. 126 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,159 Speaker 4: You mean to tell me that now we are just 127 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 4: now intermitted fasting. We're just now figuring that intermitted fasting. 128 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 4: I've been doing it for the last eight months, and 129 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 4: people keep coming. People think I've been in the gym. 130 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 5: I haven't stepped into gym once. All I do is 131 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 5: I don't eat before two o'clock. 132 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: Right. 133 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 4: But I'm just saying this, like Nico Harrison is vindicated 134 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 4: off of this because if you're telling me that none 135 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 4: of this was happening before, that's the implication that none 136 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 4: of this was happening before. Then he never was going 137 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 4: to do it, especially if you gave him that money. 138 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 4: Now it worked out for the Lakers, and more than 139 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 4: likely to your point, I'm not saying this to refute 140 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 4: anything that you just spent the first however long, laying out. 141 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 4: I think all of that is true. MVP is on 142 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 4: the floor for absolutely championship. I mean we saw it. Yeah, 143 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 4: we saw fat Luca do it, so why can't skinny 144 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 4: Luca do it? 145 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 3: Right? 146 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,039 Speaker 5: You think it only be better? Right? 147 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 4: But that was my initial takeaway from this is two takeaways. First, 148 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 4: interesting that he only mentioned Lebron's name only the writer 149 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,919 Speaker 4: mentioned Lebron's name and Luca didn't mention it once. The 150 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 4: narrative once Luca got traded here was that he was 151 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 4: gonna study with Lebron. He references Michael Jordan and Kobe 152 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 4: Bryant in the article, not Lebron. James found that interesting, 153 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 4: but more than anything, to me, this was vindication, like 154 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 4: you had to get what you could because if you 155 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 4: paid him everything, he was never going to do this 156 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 4: type of stuff. 157 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: Here's where I have issue with what you're saying on paper. 158 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: I get what you're saying, and I wouldn't be mad 159 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,480 Speaker 1: if it was for Luca, for Ann Edwards, wouldn't have 160 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: been mad, if it was looking for Tatum, wouldn't have 161 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: been mad, if it were looking for you know, Sga, 162 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't have been mad. But you can't tell me we 163 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: believe a catastrophic injury is on the way for him 164 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: because he doesn't take care of his body. And then 165 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: you go and get Anthony Davis and then you pair 166 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: him with Kyrie Irving, six year older Anthony Davis. You 167 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: know what he's not even I'm not saying saying a 168 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: catastrophic injury. No, I'm talking about what Nico. Nico's saying. 169 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: We believe a catastrophic injuries around the corner, and you know, 170 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: we believe in all of this. And I'm my biggest 171 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: issue with it was I'm I that would have been 172 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: shocking because anybody waking up reading Luca is traded, it's crazy. 173 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: But if you're doing it and you're getting Anthony Davis 174 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: not a haul of picks, that to me is the 175 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: crazy part. Because he's often injured you're pairing would often 176 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: injured Kyrie. 177 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 3: He's six years older. The math wasn't mathing that to me. 178 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 4: I'm not saying that the Hall was great, right, but 179 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 4: I'm saying the if I'm staring down a barrel of 180 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 4: making Luca Doncies the highest paid player in the NBA 181 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 4: or moving him, and I'm reading this article expected to 182 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 4: think that this is groundbreaking news right now, there's no 183 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 4: way as a GM on time my future to that guy. 184 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 5: Only. 185 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: The other issue I have with that is, and I 186 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: mentioned this at certain points, this happens with athletes, This 187 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: happens as applicable in any walk of life. 188 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 3: When you and we know this. 189 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: We talk about people who are overly talented, naturally talented, 190 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: you name the thing in life, they've been able to 191 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: rely on that talent. 192 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 3: Luca's been a professionals. 193 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: He was like thirteen literally, and to me, what I 194 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: read is he's worked hard, you know, but that next 195 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: level you talk about a Kobe Bryant, that maniacal level, 196 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: he probably hadn't approached that. And I think to me 197 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: was that what was Dallas doing to get him to 198 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: that level? And maybe he couldn't, you know, maybe they 199 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 1: just couldn't. Maybe he needed to kick in the butt 200 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: of being traded to kind of take it to that 201 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: next level. But I do believe some people have to. 202 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 1: There are a there's an ability to take it to 203 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: another level. And you just didn't know that because all 204 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: I've ever been was good like Lebron James as hard 205 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: as he works now and we know and all this, 206 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,359 Speaker 1: I guarantee you if he would say I wasn't twenty 207 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: two three four, I was working out and I was 208 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: in a gym, But that next level I had to 209 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 1: go to Miami and learn. Oh shoot, I got with 210 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: d Waite. He talks about it. I got with dv Wade. 211 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 1: I saw work on levels. And so I think sometimes 212 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 1: people have to get to another level, they have to 213 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:28,439 Speaker 1: see it, they have to have a kick in the butt, 214 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: that something to having an experience before they take it 215 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: to the next level. Which is why Kobe is so 216 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: revered in that regard, because he seems to be somebody 217 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: at that engine from go, and I think not everybody's 218 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: born that way. And again, I don't care if it's 219 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,959 Speaker 1: a salesperson. I don't care if it's a singer. I 220 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: don't care if it's a dancer. I don't care if 221 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: it's an NBA player. Some people, it takes a moment 222 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: when you go, oh, that's the Kobe Bryant come into 223 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: the Olympics, Lebron and mellow they all stars, first team NBA, 224 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: you know, we the guys and KD Then they see 225 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: Kobe and they go, oh, there's another level. And I 226 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: just think some times you need that. I think Luca 227 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: through this situation, got that. But I totally get what 228 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: you're saying. If they don't trade him, does he ever 229 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 1: get there? We don't know, But I get what you're saying. 230 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 4: For this article to come out like this, and I 231 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 4: get what you're saying about the Lebron and going to 232 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 4: see and being at the next level. 233 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 5: The problem is now the author in. 234 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 4: This actually wrote that Luca jumped forty two inches at 235 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 4: the combine, which A didn't have any go to the 236 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 4: combine and beef Luka never done forty. 237 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 3: Inches forty two inches. 238 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 4: But if you go back and watch Luca and then 239 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 4: bubble highlights with nobody in the stands and education reform 240 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 4: on the back of people's jerseys, Luka Doncis. 241 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 5: Was dunking the ball. 242 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 4: He was going to the rim aggressively and dunking the ball, 243 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 4: and you could see a progression in his game to 244 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 4: a more on the floor type of game going year 245 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:45,199 Speaker 4: in year round. 246 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 5: He was getting. 247 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:51,719 Speaker 4: Heavier, like he was moving physically in the wrong direction. Right, 248 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 4: And so that's the thing is, like you look at 249 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 4: sure like even a guy like Dwight Howard, right, he 250 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 4: was never all the way locked in super talented, but 251 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 4: never I think, to his own admission would tell you 252 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 4: that was never all the way locked in, never locked 253 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 4: in on diet, never, But he never like got. 254 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 3: Out of shape. No, no, no, you know what I'm saying. 255 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 4: Like, if he had took it to another level, we 256 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 4: would have seen whatever that could have been. 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Now this is where correct me if 302 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 1: I'm wrong, Rober, This is where gets sketchy. Some reports 303 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: are his bladder was removed period. Others are some of 304 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: his bladder was removed, right, Yes, part of it with 305 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 1: the tumor part of it with the tumb I should 306 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:18,199 Speaker 1: tell you for sure. 307 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 4: He said today he depends on depends. That's a quote 308 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 4: from him. No, it's absolutely a quote from him. So 309 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 4: he's up and using the bathroom four or five times 310 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 4: a night into a klostomy bag. 311 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I saw the bag. 312 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: If you follow him on the gram he uh, there's 313 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,079 Speaker 1: a video of him, you know, fishing, and then he 314 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: kind of like fades pans and then you see the 315 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: bag just sitting on I don't know a bench or so. 316 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 1: So obviously a tough situation for him, what he's going through. 317 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: He's been through so much physically over the last decade 318 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,839 Speaker 1: twelve years or so. He had a staff infection, he 319 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: had infection in his leg after getting some some footwork 320 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: done to the tune of where his he's got kind 321 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: of rough legs, scarred up leg and then obviously he's 322 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: missing toes on his foot and now all of a 323 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,840 Speaker 1: sudden this he's had blood clots and he's just had 324 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: a lot going on physically. And one of the things 325 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: I love about them Martin is that, and it's a 326 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: trait that honestly, I want to have more of. I 327 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: think I'm okay with it. I think he found the 328 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: perfect balance of not telling you what's going on per se, 329 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 1: but also telling you and keeping a great disposition, keeping 330 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: a very you know, he's his faith in God and 331 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: his faith in you know, the power of God in 332 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: his life, and he just keeps a great attitude of 333 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: moving forward and encouraging. And I said that to say 334 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: he's not hiding things where we are. You know, some 335 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: people hard and then you find out they're going through 336 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: it and maybe something bad happens because they've been harboring something. 337 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 3: He just doesn't overly have to share. But he even 338 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 3: when he does. 339 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: When he was going through the foot stuff, he's like, 340 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: hey man, he kept his faith and I love that 341 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: about him. As he's been going through this, and he 342 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: said he's ready to coach. He's ready to go year 343 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: three Colorado, and he's up for the task. Obviously he's 344 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: going to be difficult. Obviously we're all see him the 345 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 1: best with this. But just remarkable all that he's been 346 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: going through. Now knowing this and given everything that's going on, 347 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: right you're coaching, you got you know, you got sons plural, 348 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: you got other kids that you're an adopted son if 349 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: you will, and Travis Hunter and all trying to go 350 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: into the league, and sure, I just think that's remarkable 351 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: all that he's been able to do, and again coming 352 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: off of so many other surgeries that he's had to 353 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: go through. 354 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, he said today, I listened to the first five 355 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 5: ministers of his availability. 356 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 4: He said today, he's had fourteen surgeries in the last 357 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 4: two years. He has had more surgeries out of the 358 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 4: game than he did in the game, which is generally 359 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 4: works in reverse for most NFL players, you're going under 360 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 4: the knife while you're playing, as opposed to after the fact. 361 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 4: But and I k everything you say in terms of 362 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 4: he looked like he was in very good spirits today. 363 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 4: He looked like I think, I think to your point 364 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 4: of he keeps his faith so on, he also does 365 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 4: a good job of presenting a very strong front in 366 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 4: moments like this. And I think, not to go off 367 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 4: on a too far of a tangent, but like a 368 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 4: lot of people who are like twenty years old or 369 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 4: twenty five and under could take note and like, you 370 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 4: don't have to post everything every single step off the 371 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 4: way yep, you know. And I think that's something that 372 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 4: we see a lot out of a lot of people 373 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 4: who are younger and have grown up on the internet. 374 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 4: Deon Sanders, at each moment of these different health instances 375 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 4: that he's had, has both shared what happened, but also 376 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 4: shared in a way that projected his strength and his 377 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 4: ability to deal in his faith and so on. 378 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 5: My secondary takeaway from this was. 379 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 4: We might have to give Dion some grace here and 380 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 4: also shoudure Sanders from grace and ultimately it's not about 381 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 4: what happened today. But about the draft, I think that 382 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 4: if you went back to the way that we talked 383 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:07,199 Speaker 4: about Shador leading up to the draft process and the 384 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 4: way that leading up to the draft process and immediately following, 385 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:16,439 Speaker 4: there was a lot of how on earth My biggest question, 386 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 4: how on earth could they have been so wrong? They're 387 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 4: not having that Day one draft party if he thinks 388 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 4: he's a fifth round pick, right, Like that's Deon Sanders 389 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:28,120 Speaker 4: knows enough to know. 390 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 5: About the optics of what this looks like. 391 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 4: You know, if your son's not going to be drafted 392 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,199 Speaker 4: for seventy two more hours, and maybe you order the 393 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 4: catering for Saturday afternoon instead of Thursday night. 394 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 5: But and I have no reason to believe he's lying. 395 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 4: But what Dion said today was, you know, I was 396 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 4: essentially lying to my kids, telling them that the reason 397 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 4: I was going to the doctor so much was from 398 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 4: my feet, right, because I wanted my boys to focus 399 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 4: on their once in a lifetime opportunity to make it 400 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 4: to the NFL and play at a high level. And 401 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 4: so fourteenth surgeries in two years, you know, dealing with 402 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 4: all of this this offseason. He just recently he still 403 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 4: got a colostomy bag and he's going to the bathroom 404 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 4: four or five times a night. Tells me that this 405 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 4: is not something that was resolved months and months ago. 406 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 4: This was something that resolved weeks. 407 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 1: Ago, right, and may not even be yeah, right, they 408 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 1: say he's cancer free, but obviously the posts right and 409 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: he's not all the way resolved. Resolved is probably the 410 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,239 Speaker 1: wrong verb to you, But to me, it's like, I 411 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 1: went and I came on these areas and was like, 412 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: how could Dion Sanders, one of the most plugged men 413 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: who could seemingly hire just go through his contact list 414 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 1: and his iPhone and hire the next It's just a 415 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: coach of Colorado because all of them played football, all 416 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: of them Hall of famers. 417 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 5: You want to name Michael, you name it, can go 418 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 5: get on the sideline. 419 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 4: You know, it's a Hollywood Walk of Fame on the 420 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 4: sidelines of Colorado. How could he even so off about 421 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 4: the way the NFL felt about his son, because I 422 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 4: always thought the should door it was a probably a 423 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 4: second or third round pick that they got drafted in 424 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 4: the fifth round because he failed the interviews, right, he 425 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 4: failed the job interview part of it. Well, now I 426 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 4: have maybe a little bit of a better understanding as 427 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:17,439 Speaker 4: to why the perception seemingly out of Boulder and in 428 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 4: the NFL was so wide. Dean had a lot more 429 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 4: going on than just getting his sons ready. 430 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 3: For the draft. 431 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he might have been for the first 432 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 1: time disconnected, or I mean, listen, two things can also 433 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: be true. Or why don't know exactly your your take 434 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: on it, or well my thought still being because of 435 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 1: the interview failed, because of Dion being so much, and 436 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: because of how NFL sometimes feels about backup quarterbacks and 437 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: guys who are going to be the circumstance around them, 438 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: the pomping circumstance. 439 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 3: I don't want that around. 440 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: Hey, if I'm not going to play this kid for 441 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: another two years, three years, he's I view him as 442 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 1: a backup, a third or fourth round pick ultimately would 443 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: be a fifth, then why do I want to bring 444 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 1: him his fanfare, his X amount of millions of followers 445 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: I'd have to deal with, put him in, put him 446 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: in people who might come to the stadium, and obviously 447 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 1: his father, what y'all doing, baby, play my son, baby? 448 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: You know, going through all the day. And so I 449 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: think there's an element still that people are like, I 450 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: don't want to deal with that for a guy that 451 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:16,919 Speaker 1: I view as a backup and a year where not 452 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,360 Speaker 1: a lot of guys teams needed quarterbacks. So I think 453 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: two things he could have been clearly not could have 454 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: He was clearly going through something dion and maybe not 455 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: as tapped in as he normally would be. When you're 456 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: dealing with cancer. The word now, I'm dealing with a 457 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: bum knee, right, is that like a torn ligament or 458 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:36,360 Speaker 1: something like that. 459 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 4: That's something he has experienced with, even a toe unfortunate 460 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 4: if they say, hey, we gotta cut another toe. 461 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 1: He's been through that. Cancer is a whole different bag 462 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:44,959 Speaker 1: and a different part of your body. So I do 463 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: think there's an element of what you're saying that he 464 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:47,959 Speaker 1: had to deal with this. It may not have been 465 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,879 Speaker 1: as locked in or tapped in, but I still believe 466 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:54,439 Speaker 1: there's an element of we didn't like hole cocky, how arrogant, 467 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: how he thinks he knows it all. 468 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 4: So I think that's valid. I'm not taking that away. 469 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 4: My thing is I think that dim probably would have 470 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 4: heard more about that, like about Hey, guys, this is 471 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 4: the current perception of how you're being viewed, right, You 472 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying like I think that maybe if 473 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 4: there had been like I just say this, it makes 474 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 4: sense now, or it makes more sense at least there's 475 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 4: a plausible reason why there was no change in attitude 476 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,679 Speaker 4: or change in direction, or change and approach to that, 477 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,959 Speaker 4: to that perspective up until I mean after draft day, right, 478 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. It was a day of 479 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 4: the draft. They are moving like it was like he 480 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 4: was going in the first round. Yeah, And so that's 481 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 4: why that just makes it makes a lot more sense. 482 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: I just still also think Dion has been Dion since 483 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: literally he was drafted with gold chains and you know, 484 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,199 Speaker 1: the sunglasses on. And I think part of them is 485 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: like do I want to deal with that with this 486 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,439 Speaker 1: kid who isn't Andrew Luck Sure, who isn't Caleb Williams. 487 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: You know, as far as that type of prospect, I 488 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: don't want that fan fear. I don't want that pumping 489 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: staf circumstance for guys gonna sit on my bench for 490 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: two to three years. 491 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 3: Maybe I think that played a role as well. 492 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: But wishing d I think we both can speak for 493 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: both of us wishing him all the best players of 494 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 1: for Dion and just wishing him the best coach prime 495 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: get back on your feet and be able to do 496 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: what you do. 497 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 3: For sure. 498 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 499 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 2: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio 500 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to 501 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 2: listen live. 502 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 3: Wanted to do this a little bit the last week. 503 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: We didn't really get a chance to so interesting conversation 504 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 1: that Jokic leads perfectly into. So the conversation was basically 505 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: around when Scheffler wins again, he wins another tournament. They 506 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: started to look at some of the Scott Scheffler the 507 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: numbers and he's on pace right now. Again this sounds 508 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,400 Speaker 1: crazy saying out loud, but some of the stuff he's 509 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: doing is the same timeline as Tiger Woods once he's 510 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: got started winning and the rate in which he was 511 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: winning some big tournaments. 512 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 3: And so it's like the. 513 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 5: Same thing as Shane well Homes is on a Brady track. 514 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: There's a long way to go, but you gotta ignowledge 515 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 1: the effects he is. And so Jordan Speed, who was 516 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 1: that guy for a hot year or two, talked about that. 517 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: He said, look, man, he doesn't like to kind of 518 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: embrace that. You know you're the man, the Mantle Jrs. 519 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 1: You know, big up the league He's written and within 520 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: the week before that, I think you and I talked 521 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 1: about that with Scotty Scheffer talking, Hey man, I just 522 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 1: kind of want to golf his bigger things. My family matters. 523 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: You know, I have things that I care about. I 524 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: want to be good. I work hard at it. I'm 525 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: a niacole about that. But at the end of the 526 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: day those this isn't as fulfilling me winning the Masters 527 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 1: as you know, being home and there's other things that 528 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: fulfill my life. Sure, So Jordan Speed kind of echoed 529 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 1: those sentiments about his friend Scotty Scotti Chefley said, I'm 530 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:44,679 Speaker 1: with him. 531 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 3: I know how he is, I know how he operates. 532 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: And it tied us into what just happened over the 533 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: weekend as Nicolaoki, superstar in the NBA, is once again 534 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: a champ. 535 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 3: That's because he is a horse owner. We all know that. 536 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 1: At racing event in his native of Serbia where his 537 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,159 Speaker 1: horse is the winner, and the funny memes, funny jokes, 538 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 1: all the stuff came out of it because everybody was 539 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: like wait wait, wait, wait, wait, wait wait, this man 540 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: has got the biggest bottle of champagne, spreading it on 541 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 1: the horse, going crazy, spraying himself and high five and 542 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: a couple of years back on the NBA title and 543 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that's cool, cool, Yeah, no, no, no doubt, 544 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: no doubt. 545 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm excited. Woa yeah, wait, can't wait to get 546 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 3: back to my horses. 547 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:29,879 Speaker 1: Now we see you win his horses and they win, 548 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: and he was excited, and so he was going crazy, 549 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 1: and it got me to thinking. And this is why 550 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,679 Speaker 1: I said, we'll take some phone calls on this one too, Martin. 551 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,719 Speaker 1: Do you feel that the superstar or the head of 552 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: a league or a you know, franchise or a sporting event, whatever, 553 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: is obligated to kind of take on that mantle He's 554 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 1: so here's what I mean. Golf has been looking for 555 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 1: their tiger Woods. Remember he was really bad for a while. 556 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 1: Then he kind of popped back up twenty nineteen is 557 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 1: but they were, look, is it your speed? 558 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 3: Is it gonna be Roy McElroy, Is it gonna be 559 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:02,399 Speaker 3: who is? 560 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: And then oh, hey can be Scotty Schuff and Scotti 561 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: Scheffer kind of saying no, I want to be good, 562 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: but I don't want all of that. 563 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 3: I don't want this to be my life. I enjoyed 564 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:10,880 Speaker 3: fulfillment Elsewhere. 565 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: We go to the NBA, who's the best player, most 566 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,919 Speaker 1: people will say Nicole Okic for the hand last handful 567 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 1: of years. We know he ain't trying to embrace all 568 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: that that comes with that. He's just kind of I 569 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: want to be really good. I want to try to 570 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: win with my team and go home and race horses, 571 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:28,159 Speaker 1: and now I have champion horses. Naomi Issaka Hers is 572 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 1: a little different, you know. She was she was getting 573 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: right there to kind of be the new face of tennis, 574 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: and she stepped back. She knows very vocal about her 575 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,400 Speaker 1: challenges and mental health, and then she became a mother 576 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: as well. Uh so she she's kind of didn't that 577 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 1: just didn't work out. So I say all that to say, 578 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 1: do you believe that you have to be that? If 579 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 1: you're Mike Trout? A lot of people wanted more from 580 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,120 Speaker 1: him when he was kind of the guy more for me, more, 581 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: be more vocal, do more. 582 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 3: You're Mike Trut, you arguably be one of the best ever. 583 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 3: We want more from you. 584 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: And when I thought about this, to me, there's a 585 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: few things that kind of had to happen. I don't 586 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: think you can manufacture it. I think some things just happen, 587 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,639 Speaker 1: whether it's fate, whether it's God, whether it's just you know, 588 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: you embraced it in the league. And then timing of things. 589 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: I'll give you a couple examples. Then I want you 590 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: to jump in on this. The NBA is flailing. We 591 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,199 Speaker 1: got stars, but we don't have a face of it. 592 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. We got Kareem, we 593 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 1: got this person, we got all these big star but 594 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: George Gervit it ain't really working well. 595 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 3: Then you get Magic, Then you get Larry Bird. 596 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 1: Two guys who couldn't be in a different ones kind 597 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: of to himself and the others loud, smiling, wants to 598 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: be the life of the party. One goes to Boston, 599 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: hard working, blue collar on the East coast. One goes 600 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: to the West coast, Hollywood. And you got these two guys, 601 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: different personalities, different ends of the coast, different you know, styles. 602 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: One more of a passer, one's more of a score. 603 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: And it ended up being the greatest thing that could 604 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: have ever happened to the NBA. You couldn't oh, I 605 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: love about the headline. They just played in the biggest 606 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 1: national championship game. Will never see numbers like that again, 607 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 1: thirty some bi million people watching. So you have that happen. 608 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: And then you look at guys Lebron. His name is 609 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 1: James King, James, he's a chosen one. He's from Akron, 610 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: right near Cleveland, who has a number one pick Cleveland. 611 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 3: We don't know how to happen. 612 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 1: But my point is it just happens, and he happens 613 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: to be good, and now you got the guy facing 614 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 1: the league. I think things have to sometimes you can't 615 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: just force it. There has to be storylines. Tiger Woods 616 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: is a person of color. He's black, is he Asian? 617 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: This he has a story, he has an interesting name, 618 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: He's Tiger. He's doing stuff we haven't seen. He's aggressive, 619 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 1: he's fist pump, and he's fiery out there. You can't 620 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: design that, you can't force that. So I believe you 621 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: can't force a Scheffler if he doesn't want it. And 622 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: Naomi Osaka, she's kind of going through mental health things 623 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: in motherhood, Yokich. He kind of just doesn't have it 624 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: for the NBA like that. I don't believe you can 625 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: force it. I think things just happen where your face, 626 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 1: your star, the person takes the league by storm and 627 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: we all watch and enjoy it. 628 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 4: I mean, it's absolutely what happens is generally there will 629 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 4: be some mark or moment of firestorm, and you think 630 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 4: back to the last person who generated this type of feeling, 631 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 4: and it was Kaitlin Clark and Angel Reese. It was 632 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 4: the moment if you go back to the beginning of 633 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 4: of when this became transcended just women's basketball to now 634 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,160 Speaker 4: becoming a national story, and it was when Angel Rees 635 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 4: and LSU and bounced Caitlyn Clark out of the tournament. 636 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 4: She did the Aaron Donald ring me move, and all 637 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 4: of a sudden, Joe Biden is, maybe should we should 638 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 4: invite the losers to the White House and the winners 639 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 4: because everybody tried, right, like that's the now time. Ever, 640 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 4: right now it becomes this whole big discussion. Right, so 641 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 4: there's a flashpoint moment. I got, like Jokic the thing 642 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 4: that I honestly I kind of resent because if it 643 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 4: is true that this is the case, then these people 644 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 4: are just God was cheating when he made them compared 645 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 4: to me. But I don't think you can be as 646 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 4: good at basketball, as you k Is are as good 647 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 4: at golf as Scotty Scheffler is, especially as good as 648 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 4: golf individually as Scotty Scheffler is to and not have 649 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 4: an intense and insane level of dedication drive motivation, for sure, 650 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 4: right that doesn't exist. You cannot get that good without 651 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 4: having that because just the drive to get up and 652 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 4: do it again and again and again, and that is 653 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 4: repetition that gets you to be able to get to 654 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 4: that level. 655 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 5: So I think Scotty. 656 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 4: Scotty's statement is more, do I want to put in 657 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:38,360 Speaker 4: the time it takes for me to be as consistently 658 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 4: great as I am in this while like my kid 659 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 4: is taking his first steps, Like that's a real thing, 660 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 4: especially for a guy who's won that much. But for Jokic, 661 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 4: I think that we just downplay the idea, like, yeah, 662 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 4: he looked really happy, He looked really really happy and 663 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 4: he was celebrating. 664 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 5: But you know what he also didn't do. 665 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 4: He wasn't fresh off of one hundred on my basketball 666 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 4: games of getting his ass kicked. You watch Jokis look 667 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 4: like one of them from the laugh to us after 668 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 4: a game because he looked like he's about to turn 669 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 4: right like or like he was fighting off a werewolf 670 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 4: instead of it was just the seven players are using 671 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 4: to defend him. 672 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 5: So like, yeah, maybe after the finals he's like. 673 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,479 Speaker 4: I'm tired of hell Man, And you know what, maybe 674 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 4: the NBA is not the biggest deal for him. I 675 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 4: bet you if he said this to yo kid, said, 676 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 4: listen all your MVPs, I'll spot to another championship in 677 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 4: the NBA, would you trade him off for a gold 678 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 4: medal for Serbia? You watch that start and five documentary 679 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 4: on Netflix, I bet you, and he'd do it in 680 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 4: a heartbeat. 681 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 5: Wouldn't think twice, wouldn't blink twice? 682 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 3: Absolutely not. 683 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 4: So he has a intense level of passion and desire, but. 684 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: It's also too like you can have fun doing other 685 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: things without a doubt. 686 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 3: And I think too, you brought to a great point. 687 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: I think there's something to we kind of we get 688 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: into it with when we have our Olympic teams and 689 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 1: whatever they I don't care the sport. We all get 690 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 1: into it and we don't care about Typically we don't 691 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 1: care about swimming until its the Olympics. Typically we don't 692 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: care about track and feel like that until his the Olympics. 693 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: So on and so forth. But I do feel like 694 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 1: other countries we forget they're kind of working here to 695 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: get a visa to come work, but really home is 696 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: home for them, if you give what I mean, Like 697 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: Lucas here, he's in la He's in Hollywood, but this 698 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 1: ain't home. Lithuania is home for him. Serbia is home 699 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 1: for Yokich, you know you name the player. Home is home. 700 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: I got a second home here, I got a nice crib. 701 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 1: Maybe I met my wife here, I met my girlfriend, 702 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: but home is home. And I think sometimes we forget 703 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: for these players. They're spending so much time away from grandma, 704 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: sure her mom, from my favorite uncle, for my best 705 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 1: friend who couldn't come with me because he's got his 706 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 1: own family back in Serbia or back in Argentina, or 707 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 1: back in Germany or back in Cameroon. And I think, 708 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: so it's not that I don't care and not that 709 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 1: I'm not all in, but you just mentioned it. That's 710 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: why those France teams have so much pride, like I 711 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 1: love it here, but France is home, you know, And 712 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: when they get to the those international games, they're like, man, 713 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 1: this is my guys, just for the country. I'm all 714 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 1: in and I think we sometimes forget like, no, you're 715 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 1: in the NBA, this better be the greatest and the 716 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: biggest thing in your life. And they're like, yo, basketball 717 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: is I love the game, but I'm away from home 718 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 1: for so long. And I think we sometimes forget that 719 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 1: and can understand that. 720 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:23,240 Speaker 4: And there's a real pride of country, the real patriotism 721 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 4: from their individual countries. You think, you think Team Slovenia 722 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 4: left weights. You think maybe if you caught Luke on 723 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 4: the Olympic year, he might work out in the offseason. 724 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,280 Speaker 3: Well maybe you'd hope, you know, so. 725 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 4: You hope, because that's the thing about Jokics, Like seriously, 726 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 4: when people kind of say he doesn't like you've seen 727 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 4: him now, has his body improved? 728 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:47,160 Speaker 5: I'm not. 729 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 4: I'm not gonna sit here and say that. He you know, 730 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 4: looks like Anthony Edwards without a jersey on. 731 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 5: Right. 732 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,040 Speaker 4: But you can watch him run up and down the court. 733 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,480 Speaker 4: You can watch him not get tired. You can watch 734 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 4: him play forty five minutes in a double overtime game, 735 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 4: and he's got he's the one with the gas left right. 736 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 4: You can watch You're seeing that, and so it's like, yeah, 737 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 4: he loves he loves he loves the game. Got a doubt, 738 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 4: but like, it's a lot more fun racing horses and 739 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 4: drinking champagne and being with your family, being head and 740 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:16,959 Speaker 4: you're man.