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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports.

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Speaker 2: So I played in a golf tournament earlier today, low

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Speaker 2: charity golf tournament, beautiful day where I live. I got

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Speaker 2: out and about it was a ton of fun. Not

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Speaker 2: that anybody's worried about that. There was one hole that's

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Speaker 2: a drivable par five. I'm sorry, drivable par four. You

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Speaker 2: got to get the ball over a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a gully. Eve from I caught a good one. It happens.

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Speaker 2: I caught a good one. But also my buddies look

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Speaker 2: at me after I hit it, and they're like, did

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Speaker 2: it clear the gully? And I go oh, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: The old me would have been like, hell, yeah, I

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Speaker 2: hit that good. What do you mean did it clear

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Speaker 2: the gully? A curs of course it cleared the gully.

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Speaker 2: But I looked at him and I said, I've learned

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Speaker 2: something as I get older. Sometimes I watch the ball

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Speaker 2: fly off the golf club and it looks exactly like

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Speaker 2: it used to look. And then I get up to

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Speaker 2: the ball and I go, oh.

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Speaker 1: That didn't go anywhere near as far as as it

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Speaker 1: used to go. And uh.

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Speaker 2: I take that conversation to Lebron James and Steph Curry who.

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Speaker 1: I believe their.

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Speaker 2: Days being an NBA one the way they used to

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Speaker 2: be have probably come to an end.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk it out. How you doing, buddy, I'm good.

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, man.

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Speaker 3: I mean a lot has changed since the last time

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Speaker 3: we talk.

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Speaker 2: Right, Well, the Golden State Warriors don't play basketball anymore.

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Speaker 2: If that's that's what you're refering, Well, no, that's we're

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Speaker 2: gonna start right there.

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Speaker 1: That's fine.

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Speaker 2: I know, I know you're not aware of what the

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Speaker 2: rest of us are aware of, which is the.

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Speaker 1: Those three more losses to the Nuggets are coming. Now.

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Speaker 2: I hate to tell you that that's coming. And that's

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Speaker 2: not a shot, that's just that's the Nuggets. That's this matchup,

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Speaker 2: and you know that it's a tough one for the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 4: And the crazy thing is, you know, my brother, who's

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Speaker 4: a hater and a Bulls fan, Jesus straight hater and

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Speaker 4: a Bulls fan, he was just like, he has so

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Speaker 4: much to say in.

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Speaker 3: Terms of.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I mean, it doesn't matter, y'all about

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Speaker 4: to get swept anyway. And I was thinking to myself,

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Speaker 4: I'm like, that's a weird thing to say, because at

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Speaker 4: the beginning of the year, everything is about making the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Right at the beginning of the year, everything is about

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Speaker 4: making the playoffs. Is your team going to be able

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Speaker 4: to make the playoffs and are you going to be

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Speaker 4: able to cheer them on and watch them. It's like

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Speaker 4: that I have a group and everybody has different teams.

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Speaker 4: Most of the Bulls fans for whatever reason, they haven't

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Speaker 4: been relevant this, you know, since the nineteen hundreds basically,

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Speaker 4: and so it was. It was one of those things

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Speaker 4: where it's like, yeah, I hate the matchup, but I'm

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Speaker 4: happy that I get to watch my team in the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: And we have a couple of guys who are Golden

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Speaker 4: out a text message on Friday night and I said, Hey,

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Speaker 4: who All's team is in the playoffs and excited to

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Speaker 4: watch this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Raise your hand.

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Speaker 4: It was one other person raised their hand and they

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Speaker 4: happen to be a Laker fan as well. So, yeah,

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Speaker 4: this is a tough matchup for us. We knew this

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Speaker 4: was going into it, absolutely, but the fact that the

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Speaker 4: Lakers are in the playoffs again gives them a shot,

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Speaker 4: gives them opportunity.

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Speaker 3: Anything can happen.

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Speaker 4: It's a tough matchup, and look it is, it's gonna

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Speaker 4: be what it's gonna be. But the bottom line is

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Speaker 4: we're there with the chance.

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Speaker 1: You are.

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Speaker 2: But I also understand this is one where I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: let me paint a picture for both sides.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing there that you said that is incorrect.

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Speaker 2: And I will never be the person who says, well,

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Speaker 2: what the hell is one round worth or two rounds

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Speaker 2: worth or three rounds worth? I'm like, if nothing else,

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Speaker 2: it's fun, Like I mean, at least you get to

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Speaker 2: sit down with popcorn and watch your team, right like,

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Speaker 2: sign me up.

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Speaker 1: All the teams that.

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Speaker 2: Are not in the playoffs right now would like to

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Speaker 2: be potentially getting swept like they would love that.

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Speaker 1: So I'm never gonna say that.

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Speaker 2: However, Ephraim, I would also push back a little bit

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Speaker 2: because Laker fans have made their bed here. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: you have been very, very firm through the years that

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Speaker 2: nothing matters but a championship. So you can't then turn

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Speaker 2: around and be like, but we're having fun in the

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Speaker 2: first round. Is the seventh seed? This is great? Like

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Speaker 2: it's not that and and and that, like the pathway

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Speaker 2: for that was very much laid by Kobe Bryant and

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Speaker 2: by attitudes like that. Cob would have called you know what,

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Speaker 2: Kobe would have spit on this, you know that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So I don't know what's going to happen in these playoffs. No,

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Speaker 4: I know what. I hope doesn't happen. But all we

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Speaker 4: need to do. Look, the playoffs haven't they haven't even

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Speaker 4: started yet. It's been two days of playoff basketball. And

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Speaker 4: when do I'm gonna ask you, as someone who's followed

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Speaker 4: and knows, and exactly when do the playoffs actually start?

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Speaker 1: The playoffs actually started yesterday.

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Speaker 4: No, the playoffs start when a road team wins a game.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I see what you mean. I thought you were

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Yes, yes, And that's.

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Speaker 3: When they start. And that's formula forever.

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Speaker 1: I never really buy that statement.

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Speaker 2: I always thinks it's funny because, like what happens after

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Speaker 2: seven games? If the home team wins all seven games,

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Speaker 2: it's like, well it started because someone's going home.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, then it's a sweep. It's it's not even a contest.

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Speaker 4: It's not it not.

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Speaker 2: Even if it goes seven games, it's a practice team

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Speaker 2: wins all seven games, it's a four to three series

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Speaker 2: and one team moves on, and you'll be like, but

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Speaker 2: it hasn't started yet.

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Speaker 3: I might it started over. It hasn't started yet, man.

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Speaker 1: So but I get what you're saying.

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Speaker 2: I get what you're saying, and and there's no two

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Speaker 2: ways about that.

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Speaker 4: But to answer your question, yes, about Steph and about Lebron,

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Speaker 4: about if they are the ones, can they get it done?

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Speaker 4: So Steph averaged twenty six points a game this year.

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Speaker 4: Lebron averaged twenty six points a game this year. Comparable minutes,

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Speaker 4: Lebron actually was twenty six, seven and eight. Now, if

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Speaker 4: you would have told me that I'm a build around

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Speaker 4: a guy that's going to give you twenty six, seven

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Speaker 4: and eight, what would you say?

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Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that. I'm okay

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Speaker 4: So with the numbers just being the numbers, their contemporaries

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Speaker 4: are Jalen Brunton at twenty eight a game, Kevin Durant

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Speaker 4: at twenty seven a game, Darren Fox at twenty six

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Speaker 4: a game, Jason Tatum at twenty six a game, Nikola

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Speaker 4: Jokic at twenty six a game, Tyrese Maxi at twenty

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Speaker 4: six a game, and Anthony Edwards at twenty five a game.

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Speaker 4: So when you ask me that question, can they still

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Speaker 4: get it done as being the ones? Then absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 4: If you build your roster as a GM, like let's

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Speaker 4: say Minnesota did around Anthony Edwards, then why wouldn't they be.

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Speaker 2: Because all you did was just give me numbers, and

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Speaker 2: I can give you numbers.

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Speaker 1: Right back, which is that, Yes, at.

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Speaker 2: Their ages, they keep putting up all the numbers you

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Speaker 2: want them to put up.

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Speaker 1: And then here's another number. They can't get to. Six.

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Speaker 1: Neither one of.

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Speaker 2: Them, in largely healthy years, with wonderful statistics, neither one

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Speaker 2: of them has been able to get out of the

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Speaker 2: play in tournament. True, incorrected. The Warriors were the six

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Speaker 2: seed last year, but neither one of them has been

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Speaker 2: able to get to a viable spot to do anything

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Speaker 2: when they get to the playoffs. And so I'm not

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Speaker 2: sitting here before this conversation goes any further, let me

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Speaker 2: remove this from everyone's mind. I'm not saying they're done.

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Speaker 2: Didn't say it, won't say it. It's not true. Why

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Speaker 2: would I think it? They are not done? However, one

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Speaker 2: thing I really noticed as Golden State came down the stretch,

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Speaker 2: And I do wonder about Lebron as we get to

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Speaker 2: games like this where you're pounding up against the Aaron

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Speaker 2: Gordon's and Nicola Jokic's of the world. I do wonder

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Speaker 2: about June because Curry, there was a constant talk in

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Speaker 2: the last three weeks of the season. They're like, he

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Speaker 2: looks exhausted, he looks absolutely exhausted. And then he rested

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Speaker 2: twice toward the end of the regular season because Steve

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Speaker 2: Kerr new you had to get ready for that one

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Speaker 2: game situation. They had that one game situation, and everybody

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Speaker 2: looked awful. And so I'm sitting here going, you can still,

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Speaker 2: like you said it, you can put up your twenty

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Speaker 2: sixty game, you can have really nice numbers. But winning

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs is different than that. Do you have

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Speaker 2: anything left when you get to April? And if you do,

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Speaker 2: do you still in May?

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Speaker 1: And do you still in June?

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Speaker 2: And so I look at these players right now and

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Speaker 2: I simply think their roles need to be adjusted. The

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Speaker 2: days of a franchise being on their shoulders is quite

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Speaker 2: frankly no longer fair.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's very difficult to have someone who that great,

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Speaker 4: uh be on a team and it not go through them, right,

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Speaker 4: It's not. It's not like Steph is coming off the bench.

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Speaker 4: It's not like Lebron is coming off the bench. And

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Speaker 4: the size it plays into it too, the wear and

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Speaker 4: tear of someone Steph's size opposed to someone Lebron's size

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Speaker 4: in terms of the rigors and the banging and the

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Speaker 4: physicality of the game, there's a difference. Obviously, Lebron can

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Speaker 4: take more of the aggressive approach when he puts his

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Speaker 4: head down and goes to the basket. There's still nobody

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Speaker 4: in the league who can stop it.

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Speaker 1: Correct.

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Speaker 4: Steph is when he's on fire, he's on fire. When

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Speaker 4: he's not, he's not, and he spends less and less

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Speaker 4: time in the paint, although he is deadly off the

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Speaker 4: dribble yep. But when you're dribbling like that, and either

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Speaker 4: the one thing the Lakers did they wouldn't got a

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Speaker 4: point guard or retained a point guard this year and

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Speaker 4: uh D'Angelo Russell ye, right, So you can rest Lebron

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Speaker 4: when it comes to bringing the ball up the court

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Speaker 4: now and crunch time coming down the end the end

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Speaker 4: of the quarter or the half or something like that.

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Speaker 4: Of course, Lebron is gonna you know, run through Lebron.

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Speaker 4: But having a d their helps and all of that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the Lakers have a good team. And the

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Speaker 4: crazy part about it is the Lakers would be the

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Speaker 4: favorite in any other series except for against the Denver Broncos.

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Speaker 4: I mean the Denver Nuggets. Denver Nuggets. They would be

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Speaker 4: the favorite in any other series against any other team

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Speaker 4: in the West.

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Speaker 3: In my opinion, I was gonna say, is that opinion

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Speaker 3: or that that's not that's just opinion. That's just an

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Speaker 3: opinion because when you look at the matchup with the

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Speaker 3: other teams in the West in terms of the youth

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Speaker 3: and the charisma of an ok C, nothing about that

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Speaker 2: But have you thought about it, Ephraim? When the Nuggets

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Speaker 2: No, none, I know, Miami got everybody all turned up

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Speaker 3: Well. The difference is Golden State is discussing them now and.

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Speaker 3: For next season.

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Speaker 4: The decline isn't prevalent enough for you to start scratching

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Speaker 3: Tie a bowl around the story. Why wouldn't I?

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Speaker 2: And what's what's Lebron giving back to the organization for

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Speaker 3: And well, first of all, what pick?

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Speaker 4: What value are they going to have? In the second round.

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Speaker 4: We don't even know. We don't even know any of

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Speaker 2: Hey, I can shoot, But but that's not even what

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Speaker 1: Like, who knows what you could do now? Could draft

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Speaker 2: I mean, my, I mean the league is littered with

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Speaker 4: Yeah, not so much so as of of recent because yeah,

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Speaker 4: he's not even a late first He's a lottery pick.

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Speaker 4: He is the lottery pick of our draft here at

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Speaker 3: And that is one Stephen L. De Saber.

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Speaker 7: Very kind words and a good evening to you both, gentlemen.

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Speaker 7: minutes to go in the third quarter. Damian Lillard in

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Speaker 7: the first half had thirty five points. The Pacers as

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Speaker 7: a team had forty two. Lillard is right now six

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Speaker 7: to ten from three point range, perfect on free throws

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Speaker 7: seven of seven, thirty five points out of the seventy

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Speaker 7: three for Milwaukee, and mentioned the late game is about

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Speaker 7: an hour away. Three more NBA games tomorrow night. Among

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Speaker 7: the NHL playoff openers, Florida at home beat Tampa Bay

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Speaker 7: three to two. The one seed Rangers at home beat

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Speaker 7: Washington four to one. In progress at Winnipeg, It's Jets

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Speaker 7: four to three over Colorado in the second period. The

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Speaker 7: late games at ten pm Eastern Predators at Vancouver. The

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Speaker 7: NFL Draft starts this Thursday night with live coverage on

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Speaker 7: Fox Sports Radio. Tyler Reddick won the NASCAR Race at

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Speaker 7: Talladega to Major League Baseball. The Atlanta Braves are in

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Speaker 7: action tonight and now trailing at home. It's Rangers four

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Speaker 7: to three over Atlanta in the bottom of the sixth inning. Colorado,

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Speaker 7: losers of six straight, ended that skid with a ten

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Speaker 7: inning win at home against Seattle two to one, and

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Speaker 7: that was the first of a double header. Colorado's up

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Speaker 7: two to one in the second inning of the nightcap.

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Speaker 7: You see, Friday's game in Colorado was snowed out. They

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Speaker 7: did play last night, played in some snow, and here

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Speaker 7: they're getting two games in tonight. The Dodgers, who had

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Speaker 7: lost seven of nine, shut out the Mets ten to nothing.

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Speaker 7: Wins for San Diego, Arizona and Cleveland six ' two

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Speaker 7: over Oakland. The Guardians have not only won four straight,

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Speaker 7: they're sixteen and six And finally, the golf will conclude

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Speaker 7: on Monday at Hiltonhead Island. It is a five stroke

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Speaker 7: lead late in the final round for Scottie Scheffler, but

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Speaker 7: they'd had a weather delay earlier that set the schedule back.

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Speaker 7: American Nelly Corda took the LPGA Major in Texas. And

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Speaker 7: how about this a fifteen year old goal for fifteen

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Speaker 7: Miles Russell, a couple days after he became the youngest

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Speaker 7: player ever to make the cut on the corn Ferry Tour,

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Speaker 7: finish tied for twenty in the event. With this top

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Speaker 7: twenty five finish, the fifteen year old earns another start

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Speaker 7: on that tour, so he already makes the historic cut.

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Speaker 7: And this is a high school freshman we're talking about,

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Speaker 7: you know, he's got to go back to school. As

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Speaker 7: for the golf for this weekend, his first three holes

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Speaker 7: on Saturday he was four overpart he still finishes with

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Speaker 7: a one under seventy and today it was a five

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Speaker 7: under sixty six, so fourteen under for the weekend, youngest

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Speaker 7: player on record going back forty plus years to notch

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Speaker 7: a top twenty five finish on the corn Ferry Tour

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Speaker 7: or PGA Tour for that matter. So he qualifies for

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Speaker 7: their event next week in the Dallas area. But prior

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Speaker 7: to turning eighteen, you see, players are not eligible for

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Speaker 7: the points towards special temporary membership. Nonetheless, he said it

489
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Speaker 7: was a blast. You might get a couple of weird

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Speaker 7: looks saying, who's that little kid on the range, But

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Speaker 7: people were nice, very helpful.

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Speaker 3: With every thing.

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Speaker 7: This is a Florida resident at age fifteen and five months.

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Speaker 7: He makes the cut on the corn Ferry Tour and

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Speaker 7: then finishes, as mentioned, tied for twentieth. The amazing thing is, yes,

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Speaker 7: he's the top ranked junior. He cannot join this tour

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Speaker 7: this year or next year or the year after for

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Speaker 7: that matter.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, yeah, yep, yep. Got to sit there

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Speaker 1: and wait.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's an incredible story, though, Steve Desager, everybody back

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Speaker 2: with Mark Willerty from Salaam ti Raq dot com Studios.

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Speaker 2: You know, Steve mentions what Dame Lillard is doing. Sometimes

504
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Speaker 2: I scratch my head. It's absolute insanity. I don't know

505
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Speaker 2: why teams build themselves this way. Maybe you could help me.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's organic. We'll get back to that Laker and

507
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Speaker 2: Warrior discussion. But the Indiana Pacers, I know it's only

508
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 2: one game, and I know it's only the third quarter EPROM,

509
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Speaker 2: but they're not gonna win in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna win this series. They're not gonna win.

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Speaker 2: And it was hilarious last week to hear people be like,

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Speaker 2: watch out for the Pacers, man, because.

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Speaker 1: They can score. Wow can they score?

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Speaker 2: Remember when you faced the Minnesota Vikings and everyone was like, wow,

515
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Speaker 2: they can score. They're so good at scoring? Could they could?

516
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Speaker 2: And soaking the Pacers. They average one hundred and twenty

517
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Speaker 2: three point three points per game.

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Speaker 1: You know what else they do?

519
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Speaker 2: They ranked twenty fourth in terms of defense in the NBA,

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Speaker 2: stucked right in between the Blazers and the Pistons, right

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Speaker 2: in there, just right in there between those two complete

522
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Speaker 2: and total non factors. Why why even build your team

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Speaker 2: that way? You know, damn well, what's gonna happen when

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Speaker 2: you get to the playoffs?

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Speaker 4: Mentality? Right, We're going to outscore them, and we're gonna shoot.

526
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Speaker 4: And when they are shooting and scoring at a clip

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Speaker 4: at that fast paced, then they are dangerous. Now they'll

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Speaker 4: get They're gonna get one of these games. Of course, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: of course they're gonna win one or two because they

530
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Speaker 4: will be shooting lights out. But you're right when it

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Speaker 4: comes down to a playoff series. And I was one

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Speaker 4: of those people like, hey, would they honest injury be

533
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Speaker 4: on the lookout for this. I didn't know Dame was

534
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Speaker 4: about to go on demon time and he is, because

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Speaker 4: you know, he hasn't been the Dame that we had

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Speaker 4: been accustomed to this season.

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Speaker 3: Let's not.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's no, it's not front right, but this

539
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Speaker 4: playoff Dame, the Dame we'd seen in the past taking

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Speaker 4: a team on his shoulders and literally carrying them. Well,

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Speaker 4: he's he's brought that bag with him today and it's evident.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they have no answers for him. The ball

543
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Speaker 4: is on a on a string and he's you know, playmaking,

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Speaker 4: facilitating and scoring. And this is without Giannis. So Jannie

545
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Speaker 4: is sitting back like, man, I can really heal up,

546
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Speaker 4: I can take my time time, can I get take

547
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Speaker 4: my and and let's not I'd be remiss if I

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Speaker 4: didn't mention Bobby port Is coming off to Bobby is

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Speaker 4: the glue to that team. He is the guy that

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Speaker 4: that team rallies around. The fans love him, the organization

551
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Speaker 4: loves him, and and just having him come off the

552
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Speaker 4: bench and kind of settle down that second unit, it's

553
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Speaker 4: a tremendous it's a tremendous force to have. So they're

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Speaker 4: in prime position now. One game doesn't make a series

555
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Speaker 4: because we can come out and Dame could be off

556
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Speaker 4: and the Pacers could be on.

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Speaker 3: It happens. The fact that they averaged over one hundred

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Speaker 3: and what was it again, one hundred and twenty three

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Speaker 3: three that's a lot of points, a lot of points,

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Speaker 3: and so you would have to agree or would think

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Speaker 3: that they're going to get one of those or two

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Speaker 3: of those games this playoffs. Shoot, can you weather that,

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Speaker 3: you know for Milwaukee, right, Like, can you weather that

564
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Speaker 3: most most teams don't shoot like they shoot at home

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Speaker 3: on the road, especially the younger players struggle.

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Speaker 1: So absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I just look like the top ten defensive rated teams

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Speaker 2: in the NBA, only one is not in the playoffs

569
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Speaker 2: bottom ten defensive rating, only one is in, and that's

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Speaker 2: the Indiana Pacers. And so yes, they'll get a game,

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Speaker 2: they'll get two, and then they'll go home. And I

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Speaker 2: just sometimes I wonder it's like, why why do you

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Speaker 2: build your team in this fashion if your goal is

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Speaker 2: to actually get somewhere in the end. But coming up next,

575
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Speaker 2: there's a lot more meat on that bone. If you

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Speaker 2: draft Bronnie, what's lebron do for you? And how does

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Speaker 2: that change the Lakers again, on the premise that they

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Speaker 2: don't go crazy and win the whole thing here in

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Speaker 2: the next two months. I have to do that for you, Ephraim.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, mar Matt coming up on Fox sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 5: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's live in the Tirak dot com studios. That

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Speaker 2: is e from Salam. I'm Mark Willard. We've been talking

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Speaker 2: about whether or not Steph Curry and Lebron James can

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Speaker 2: even be NBA ones anymore if the goal is to

589
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Speaker 2: really boogie into May and June. I think that both

590
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Speaker 2: players had individually fantastic years, and I am in interested

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Speaker 2: by what you said with regard to well, it's kind

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Speaker 2: of hard to diminish the role of people who have

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Speaker 2: such presence in the NBA and within an organization, and

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Speaker 2: I acknowledge that completely. I mean, there's big discussion here

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Speaker 2: right now with regard to Klay Thompson, like, is that

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Speaker 2: something that you could do? Could you have him back,

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Speaker 2: pay him half as much and just be like an

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Speaker 2: off the bench guy. Is that something that works? Or

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Speaker 2: is just the weight of history too much? So I

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Speaker 2: understand that. But when I respond by saying I think

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Speaker 2: both of them are still fantastic, I think both of

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Speaker 2: them can be a part of something really great on

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Speaker 2: the way out in their career, and they can even

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Speaker 2: be Again, when I say a one I don't even

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Speaker 2: mean like that doesn't just mean the leading scorer, like

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Speaker 2: you go out there and get you twenty six a night,

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Speaker 2: that's that's fine, But there's more to it on a

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Speaker 2: night in a night out basis, when an entire organization

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Speaker 2: just looks to you. For instance, when it's a big

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Speaker 2: game and it's close in the fourth quarter, we extend

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Speaker 2: those minutes.

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Speaker 1: We ask them to play the whole fourth.

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Speaker 2: We ask them to handle everything both on and off

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Speaker 2: the court, emotionally, physically, spiritually, everything like it's all on

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Speaker 2: their shoulders. And I don't know if you can see

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Speaker 2: it as much in Lebron as we did with Steph

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Speaker 2: over the last few weeks, but you can see it

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Speaker 2: wearing on them, and quite frankly from you can see

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Speaker 2: it in the standings.

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Speaker 4: You make a great point, and you know, I felt

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Speaker 4: bad for Steph at some points during the season, especially

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Speaker 4: with the whole Draymond side that they can it's never ending.

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Speaker 4: It won't end for whatever reason, growth, maturity, whatever you

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Speaker 4: want to call it. It's just it's weary. Not only

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Speaker 4: are you trying to beat Father Time and put your

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Speaker 4: team in the right position to continue continue to compete

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Speaker 4: for a championship. Having the help you need is it's

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Speaker 4: the most important thing. Having people you can rely on,

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Speaker 4: Teammates you can rely on that share the same sense

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Speaker 4: of urgency and the same focus that you do. And

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Speaker 4: they don't have that in Golden State. That's the problem.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on with Clay. Its psychologically,

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Speaker 4: emotionally you can tell just by the way he plays,

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Speaker 4: the whole bench, saga, all of those things.

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Speaker 3: Something is not right now.

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Speaker 4: I know injury has a lot to do with mental

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Speaker 4: fatigue and for players, because you realize you can't be

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Speaker 4: what you are. That's the number one thing players who

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Speaker 4: are getting older and coming off injury deal with. Mentally,

640
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 4: you're the same player, but physically your body won't respond.

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00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 4: It plays a nasty trick on your mind, and it's

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Speaker 4: difficult for some players to be able to push through that.

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Speaker 4: When I watch Clay, that's what I see. When he

644
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 4: makes a basket, it's yeah, that's right, But when he

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00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 4: goes over for ten, you can just see him going

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Speaker 4: into a hole.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 4: When you look at the cast around Lebron, the way

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Speaker 4: ad played, the way the team played after the All

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Speaker 4: Star break, it would be nice to have a team

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Speaker 4: playing at this level.

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Speaker 3: From the beginning of the season.

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Speaker 4: Now, I will say this, the Lakers were ravaged by injury.

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Speaker 4: I don't think any other team had to deal with

655
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 4: as many injuries, and you know, any playoff team, at

656
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 4: least at the Lakers it now a d and Lebron

657
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 4: didn't have serious injuries. But when you look at how

658
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 4: many games Cam Reddish Vincent gave, Vincent Vanderbilt, when you

659
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 4: look Woods, they were I mean the whole year, they

660
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 4: were decimated. And so what does the healthy Laker team

661
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 4: look like all year?

662
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 2: Well, so this always comes down to a Chicken of

663
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 2: the eight thing for me because everyone in the Bay

664
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 2: Area has been doing the same thing. You know, if

665
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 2: Draymond hadn't gotten suspended, well that's a different thing than

666
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 2: injury totally. Well, they've dealt with their share too, whether

667
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 2: it be you know, Steph missed some time and Wiggins

668
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 2: absence and all of these things, and people go, well,

669
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 2: what would they look like if they were at full strength?

670
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 2: And it's like, is it realistic to ask them to

671
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 2: be at full strength?

672
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 3: Right?

673
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:04,919
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

674
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 2: But Draymond got suspended, well, right, because Draymon gets suspended

675
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 2: like so you can, you can do the whole if

676
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 2: they were healthy for a full year. At part of

677
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 2: why they keep finishing further down is because older teams

678
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 2: can't do that.

679
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the older that's the whole thing. The older

680
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 3: players weren't getting hurt. It was it's the young players

681
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 3: who were or that.

682
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Speaker 4: And if it was the other way around, you would

683
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 4: be absolutely right and that would make sense. But Lebron

684
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 4: the amount of games Lebron and ad played this year

685
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 4: is crazy. It's crazy, and so just not having that support,

686
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 4: supporting cast healthy and available, I mean, it wears on you.

687
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:50,879
Speaker 3: That that's the whole point of it.

688
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 4: They put together a good roster, but you know, gave

689
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 4: Vincent and played until after the All Star break.

690
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 2: If the Lake were to draft Bronnie James, what is

691
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 2: coming back in their direction for that? That and much

692
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Speaker 2: more coming up next on Fox Sports Radio. All right,

693
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Speaker 2: first to play Devil's advocate with regard to the conversation

700
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 2: we were just having over the last hour. I get it.

701
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 2: Lebron is Lebron. He's still at a very very high level.

702
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 2: The man is about to turn forty years old in

703
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 2: this next calendar season. And so again, allow me to

704
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 2: play Devil's advocate. You said, absolutely, the Lakers with their

705
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 2: second round draft pick should pick Bronny James to appease

706
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 2: or whatever word you used, Lebron James, who is going

707
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 2: into a player option year. What if I simply looked

708
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 2: back at you and said, why, what's in it for

709
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 2: the Lakers.

710
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: To do that?

711
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 2: Well?

712
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 4: Number one, the Lakers are a brand and that brand

713
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 4: is built on stars and winning in all of those things. Right,

714
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 4: did the Lakers think Kobe was going to win a

715
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 4: championship his last few years in La?

716
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: No?

717
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 4: Right, No, that was evident. Okay, that it was evident.

718
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 4: But the Lakers have a way of you know, having

719
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 4: a Lebron James on the Lakers is is good business.

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00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 3: It's good business.

721
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 4: And so the answer to why would be because it

722
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 4: be a great business move.

723
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Speaker 3: M That's why. And when is.

724
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 4: The next When is the next person that we can

725
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 4: bring into the organization? Who is that next person that

726
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 4: can carry a team, the team the Lakers to competing

727
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 4: for championships? Where's our Jason Tatum? Are our uh? Anthony Edwards?

728
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Speaker 3: Are you know?

729
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 4: The the young talent that you can build around and

730
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 4: the brand?

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00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:57,240
Speaker 3: Uh?

732
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 4: And you take you to the next level because that's

733
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 4: what the Lakers do. They've always done that. They've always

734
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 4: done that, and they will continue to do that. Just

735
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 4: like Kobe was gone, Lebron will be gone, Magic was gone,

736
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:18,879
Speaker 4: Kareem was gone, Shaq was gone, but the brand itself

737
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:24,760
Speaker 4: is there. So the answer to your question of why

738
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 4: because of that.

739
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 3: That's why.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it is interesting that you're sitting here

741
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 2: talking about this, like where would they find the next star?

742
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 2: And I'm wondering, at age thirty, why you don't think

743
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 2: that you already have that. Why don't you think that

744
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 2: you've already got someone who supposedly can every bit be

745
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,800
Speaker 2: an NBA one and it's only thirty years old, and

746
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 2: build around him. In other words, if you tell most

747
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 2: Laker fans don't don't worry we're doing what we're doing

748
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 2: now because it's good business.

749
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Speaker 1: That's not gonna fly.

750
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 3: No, that's not gonna fly. Like we're not gonna find you.

751
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 3: These are trying to win again. You don't say that

752
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:16,280
Speaker 3: out loud, man.

753
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 2: Well, of course, but but like it's also obvious. And

754
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 2: I guess my question is born from from this. Why

755
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 2: at age forty, in a player option year, would you

756
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 2: need to do something like that to appease Lebron James?

757
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 1: Like you're I know you, maybe you don't value it.

758
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:40,399
Speaker 1: I do.

759
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 2: I'm not blowing a second round pick just because I

760
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 2: feel like it or because Lebron wants me to, especially

761
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 2: if he can't offer in return one of two things.

762
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 2: Either you're so good that you might win me the

763
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 2: championship next year, so I'll do whatever you say, not

764
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 2: the case, play in tournament two years in a row,

765
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 2: or opt out of your contract and take the veteran minimum.

766
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: That's what like, this is what you want? Right?

767
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 2: You said the only reason you're still gonna play is

768
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 2: to play with your son. Prove it, I mean, because

769
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 2: then you could go get another guy who or two?

770
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Speaker 1: What do you mean?

771
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 3: Who?

772
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 4: Who's gonna be free agents? This year, there's plenty of

773
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 4: people like, Okay, well let's look at it. Let's look

774
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 4: at the list. Tyrese Maxi, Tyrese MAXI.

775
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Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I'm talking out of the wahoo a

776
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 2: little bit here because I don't know.

777
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Speaker 1: I don't know what the salary rules are for the Lakers.

778
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 2: In terms of that, but I do know this, if

779
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 2: he opted out and took the minimum, hell, it would

780
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Speaker 2: free so up for someone that I know. I don't

781
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 2: know what the number is. I don't know exactly how

782
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 2: what the rules would do.

783
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 3: You want them on one of them Westbrook deals?

784
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 2: Well, look, put your lack of money where your mouth is.

785
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 2: I guess is what I'm saying, like, what do we like?

786
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Speaker 1: You said it? E.

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Speaker 2: You're the Lakers, You're a brand, a global one, a

788
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 2: multi billion dollar one. You're gonna let this guy at

789
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Speaker 2: age forty come in and start telling you what to

790
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Speaker 2: do with your assets. I don't know, man, No, No,

791
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Speaker 2: he would not where he's at if he were twenty

792
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Speaker 2: nine years old.

793
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Speaker 1: Dude, I would.

794
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Speaker 2: If I were my last name were Bus, I would

795
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Speaker 2: drive a bus.

796
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Speaker 1: I'd run naked in the streets.

797
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Speaker 2: You're forty and you're telling us potentially what to do

798
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Speaker 2: with our draftis.

799
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Speaker 4: Now, that's where you lost me, because I never one

800
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Speaker 4: time said Lebron went to them and said, hey, draft

801
00:46:57,880 --> 00:46:58,359
Speaker 4: my son.

802
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,399
Speaker 2: Well, but but what if somebody else drafts his son,

803
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 2: then he would go to opt out?

804
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 4: Then he would them he would opt out. Well, that's

805
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 4: the that's the beauty as a player, as a Lebron

806
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 4: James in this situation, that's the beauty of it.

807
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 3: He played well enough this year.

808
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 4: That there will be There are a bunch of teams,

809
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 4: some playing right now today and yesterday and again tomorrow

810
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:30,760
Speaker 4: who would love to have Lebron James on their roster.

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Speaker 2: Well, but then then that begs this question, why wouldn't

812
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,479
Speaker 2: Bronni James be the number one overall pick?

813
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 3: No, no, you're not gonna do it. Why not?

814
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,959
Speaker 2: There's nobody that great in this draft. Nobody's excited about

815
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:43,720
Speaker 2: any of these pickles.

816
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, potential is the only thing the NBA,

817
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:52,720
Speaker 4: outside of a few outliers that is all the NBA

818
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 4: drafters potential. But the NFL, the NFL first round draft

819
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:58,320
Speaker 4: pick is not on potential.

820
00:47:58,360 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 3: It is on I'm be bad to come play in

821
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 3: well right now, listen, I don't.

822
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's different the number one pick, and

823
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 2: obviously it's probably a team that's not ready to compete

824
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 2: at the highest of levels, probably, right, that's that's so,

825
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 2: that's actually the answer to my my somewhat rhetorical question.

826
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 2: But but if you're telling me that if I draft Brownie,

827
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get Lebron, well, how the hell's he still

828
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:26,760
Speaker 2: going to be available to the Lakers in the second

829
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 2: round because someone's definitely gonna take him.

830
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 4: If you're telling me it's that a to b No,

831
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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a to be. What I

832
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 4: said was I would I mean to me, that would

833
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 4: make sense, right. I don't think there's a line of

834
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 4: teams because they don't know for sure if that'll happen. Now,

835
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 4: the only team that can really know for sure that

836
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 4: will happen is a team he actually plays on because

837
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 4: he can have those conversations.

838
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: Right.

839
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 3: He can't talk to anybody else about any of this, No.

840
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 1: Sure he can, surey can you know what I mean?

841
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:01,359
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna put it on last twelve oh one

842
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 2: and there's eight contracts inside.

843
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: It's like, how the hell y'all do that? Right?

844
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 3: Right? Right?

845
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 4: But look to your point about top free agents Klay Thompson,

846
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 4: Tobias Harris, James Harden, Pascal Siakam, Gordon Hayward, Kyle Lowry,

847
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,359
Speaker 4: DeMar Deroz. And stop me when you got the guy.

848
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 4: You stop me when you.

849
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 3: Got the guy like Buddy Hill.

850
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: Who are those players?

851
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:30,280
Speaker 3: They're all good players, right, Yeah, there's a difference.

852
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 4: There's a difference between the good player. And you know

853
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards right for sure that that's that's that he

854
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 4: has the potential to be the guy. So I can't

855
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:52,320
Speaker 4: wait until he's available.

856
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 3: What do I always say?

857
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 4: I can't wait to get him in a laker, I

858
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 4: can't wait to get.

859
00:49:56,440 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 3: Him to know I have, like you already.

860
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 2: Know well, but and you also know how much more

861
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 2: difficult that's becoming on of course your it is, Yes,

862
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 2: it is because it's not like it used to be, right,

863
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,319
Speaker 2: it's not because the max money now that is available

864
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 2: makes the world much much smaller. Yes, And if you like,

865
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:20,879
Speaker 2: if you're gonna make fifty five million dollars a year,

866
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 2: quite frankly, I mean Blake Snell said this best when

867
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 2: he signed his contract with the with the San Francisco Giants.

868
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 2: There they became this big question because they like this

869
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 2: has been a question. There are some free agents and

870
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 2: even the giants themselves that talked about, oh, the city

871
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 2: of San Francisco might actually be a detractor in free

872
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 2: agency because oh, the city's going through a tough time

873
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 2: and I'm sitting there going that that sounds a little ridiculous.

874
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 2: I don't know any baseball players who are are are

875
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 2: living on skid row. I'm pretty sure they can find

876
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 2: a safe spot. And I loved Blake Snell's answer. They

877
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 2: sort of asked him about it. Why San Francisco. He goes,

878
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 2: I don't care where I play? You think I care

879
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 2: where I play? Like we're at the stadium and we

880
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 2: travel half the days, and my deal's up in October,

881
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 2: so like a one year deal, why would I care

882
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 2: where I play. We're going to see every city in America.

883
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 2: If we don't like somewhere, we'll leave in six months.

884
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 2: And even when I'm at home, I'm showing up at

885
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,240
Speaker 2: the ballpark at noon and I'm getting home at midnight.

886
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 2: Like they don't care anymore. You want to be in

887
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 2: La for dinner, Be in La for dinner, get your

888
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 2: private jet. So that whole that's getting harder. That's getting harder,

889
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 2: I think, and you're seeing players like Giannis stay in

890
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 2: Middle America when offered the opportunity to do so.

891
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 3: I can't wait till he come to l A.

892
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get tired of that of that game. By

893
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 2: the way, we'll get like fantasy. No, we'll get him

894
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 2: to we'll offer him.

895
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, starts with a teh. I don't even know

896
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: what that.

897
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 3: One of his brothers already won a championship with us,

898
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 3: so hey.

899
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 2: I mean like, I get tired of the game of

900
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 2: looking around the league every year and going, okay, who

901
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 2: might get mad? Who might get mad at their team?

902
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:46,359
Speaker 2: And then become available and do what Anthony Davis did

903
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 2: once upon a time. Fanasas is his name. By the way,

904
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 2: Fanasas Fanastas attempt to compo.

905
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:58,280
Speaker 3: We'll both of y'all max deals. Come on, he's.

906
00:52:57,760 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: Making two point one million.

907
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 3: Listen.

908
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 4: But look, do you did you see the story where

909
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:09,879
Speaker 4: Jannis didn't sign with Adidas because they lied and said

910
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:12,359
Speaker 4: they were gonna sign him and his brother, and they

911
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 4: when he went and met with everybody, they gave Jannis

912
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 4: his contract. He was like, well what about my brother?

913
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 4: And they were like, oh, well, you do yours this

914
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 4: week and then next week we'll do his. And he

915
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 4: was just like, no, I'm good, I'm good. I'm good.

916
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 4: I can't be mad at him, man, I will not

917
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 4: be mad at him. I won't be mad at as

918
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 4: a father. I'm not mad at anybody.

919
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 2: I do think that some of this stuff not the

920
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 2: lebron wants to play with his son. I don't think. Yeah,

921
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:42,919
Speaker 2: I don't think, and I don't think at this point.

922
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 2: I don't think he's strong arming anymore. Well, it's a

923
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 2: lot of dudes in the NBA. You like, how the

924
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,720
Speaker 2: heck did you get to the league? Jannie is strong

925
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 2: arming people, and it's kind of lame.

926
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,399
Speaker 3: I like it, like, I love it. I love it.

927
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.

928
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: We're holding a roster spot for you? Yes, Why does

929
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: it stop there? By the way? Why?

930
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 3: Why not?

931
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 2: Why is my uncle not the coach? Why they hired

932
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 2: Doc Rivers and not my uncle?

933
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 4: You want to talk about uncles, ask Kawhi Leonard about

934
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 4: his uncle and the concessions that the Clippers have made

935
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 4: right for uncle Dennis and Kawhi. So hey, man, if

936
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 4: you're that great, it's a little different than demand if

937
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 4: you're that great vendom, they're not. Look, we very rarely,

938
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 4: we very rarely get to see players twelve and thirteen

939
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 4: and fourteen ever on any in an NBA roster. You

940
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 4: don't know who those guys are, where they came from,

941
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 4: or anything. So let's not make it seem like, oh,

942
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 4: would they could have put somebody to somebody.

943
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 3: Who can help. Know you can't number fourteen, thirteen and twelve.

944
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:02,399
Speaker 3: Hey man, they're there for practice, which they they don't

945
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 3: even do anymore during the season, don't even practice.

946
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 2: So yeah, absolutely, aphrom did you know that Nicola Jokic

947
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:14,800
Speaker 2: has two brothers.

948
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:20,359
Speaker 3: They don't hoop, do they? They just they just bodyguards. Yes,

949
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 3: they do them dudes.

950
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 4: Is And guess what if he was like Yo, Denver

951
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 4: would do it in the art any other team would.

952
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 1: Do I got pictures of Namanga.

953
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:35,239
Speaker 2: Jokic, who plays or played at the University of Detroit,

954
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:37,240
Speaker 2: averaged three point.

955
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 1: Eight points per game draft him and.

956
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 2: Two point seven rebounds. Why is he not on the

957
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:44,240
Speaker 2: Nuggets bench.

958
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,800
Speaker 4: Because he didn't want to be. That's really the only reason.

959
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 4: That's really the only reason he didn't want to be.

960
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 6: Know that you don't know that he didn't want to be.

961
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:57,319
Speaker 3: That's why he's not there.

962
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 4: Because if you wanted to be, I can promise you

963
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 4: right now, Nikola Joki can walk in that office and

964
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 4: be like, I like for my brother to be on the.

965
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,839
Speaker 1: Team, but he's not because that's lame. It's not lame,

966
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:11,359
Speaker 1: I do it. It's kind of lame.

967
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:14,320
Speaker 3: I do it. I know you would Fortism.

968
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:18,320
Speaker 2: By the way, speaking of lame, I was just thinking

969
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 2: about this earlier today, and I've decided that Caitlin Clark

970
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 2: is being disrespected in a way that that might explain,

971
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 2: you know how we were talking a couple of weeks

972
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:35,799
Speaker 2: ago about all the current WNBA stars who are like,

973
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:37,840
Speaker 2: we'll see.

974
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 1: If Kaitlyn Clark's any good in our league.

975
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 2: You know, this whole thing where they're like kind of

976
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 2: putting the heisman up to her. I think I figured

977
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 2: it out. I think I know why they're mad. We

978
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 2: can get into this coming up next.

979
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 1: Mark with it. He from salam Fox Sports Radio.

980
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,720
Speaker 2: I don't know why this hadn't occurred to me until

981
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 2: now Livetime dot Com Studios. So I'm doing like this

982
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 2: TV hit thing earlier this week and they asked me,

983
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,840
Speaker 2: they say, Hey, what what are your thoughts on the

984
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 2: outrage over Caitlin Clark's salary? And I kind of almost

985
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 2: had two responses. I at first was like, what outrage?

986
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 2: I don't I don't hear a whole lot of outrage,

987
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 2: But there is some discussion. I think people are surprised

988
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 2: that Caitlin Clark will make seventy six thousand dollars.

989
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 3: My nine year old was, what's your nine year old say?

990
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 4: My wife asked him, how much do you think Caitlyn

991
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 4: Clark will make uh this year in the WNBA? He

992
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 4: said five million? Okay, and she was like, no, guess again.

993
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 4: He said ten million. She said, oh, no, time, you're

994
00:57:58,200 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 4: going the wrong way.

995
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:00,160
Speaker 1: Wrong way.

996
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 4: And she told him like, whatever, it is, seventy four

997
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 4: million dollars.

998
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 3: I'm seventy four seventy six. He's saying, what.

999
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 2: Yep, seventy six thousand dollars. Now, she'll make a ton

1000
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 2: of endorsements. She already has been on her nil deals.

1001
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 2: It's not like Clay. Caitlin's not going to.

1002
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 3: Be a rich person taking a pay cut.

1003
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 1: No doubt that. Maybe.

1004
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what the endorsements will be,

1005
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:28,760
Speaker 2: and I don't know about that whole Big three offer

1006
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 2: and all that stuff.

1007
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 3: So I take it.

1008
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: I would too.

1009
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not worried about Caitlin putting you know,

1010
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 2: she's not going to eat Ramen. I'm not worried about that.

1011
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,360
Speaker 2: The reason I bring it up is is something occurred

1012
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:46,240
Speaker 2: to me. The top salary in the WNBA what about

1013
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 2: a quarter million?

1014
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, the rookie.

1015
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 2: Deal for Caitlyn So so she makes seventy six thousand

1016
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 2: dollars and all of a sudden.

1017
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 3: Four year deal too, for your deal.

1018
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 2: For your deal, So all of the sudd and we're

1019
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 2: having this national discussion about w NBA salaries. It's very

1020
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:08,880
Speaker 2: different than like the US women's national soccer team completely

1021
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 2: where where where right there, they have more name value,

1022
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 2: they play better, they're rating the best team.

1023
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 3: That's the best team in the world.

1024
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 1: Yes, the quick answer is obvious.

1025
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 2: In the WNBA, it's like, that's not their revenue structure,

1026
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 2: Like it's not it's not popular enough for something to

1027
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 2: be different. But that's an obvious conversation and goes around

1028
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 2: and round and what about fairness and okay, we can

1029
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 2: have all that. This is what just occurred to me,

1030
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 2: though all of these current and former w NBA players

1031
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 2: who really seemed to kind of put up a little

1032
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 2: bit of the heisman on Caitlin Clark and all the buzz,

1033
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 2: and it really kind of rocked me because I was like,

1034
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 2: why are you doing that? This could be your Tiger

1035
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 2: woods and golfers when Tiger came in. They did that

1036
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 2: at first, stop asking me about Tiger. I shot sixty

1037
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 2: six today. Why are you asking me about Tiger? And

1038
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 2: then after a while those golfers had two more bedrooms

1039
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 2: in their house and they were like, did you want

1040
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 2: to ask me about Tiger? Asked me some more questions

1041
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 2: about Tiger. We love Tiger. And so I look at

1042
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 2: this and I go, why is the WNBA establishment kind

1043
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:42,160
Speaker 2: of like, Ugh, this Caitlin Clark thing is just annoying me.

1044
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 1: And it hit me.

1045
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:51,280
Speaker 2: Today that the WNBA establishment must be rather annoyed by

1046
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 2: the fact that the world just suddenly this year decided

1047
01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 2: to be offended by WNBAS salaries because they've been that

1048
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 2: the whole time. So all of the Diana Tarazi's and

1049
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:13,160
Speaker 2: the least the Leslie's of the world are like, you

1050
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:16,960
Speaker 2: guys didn't freak out when I was making that, and

1051
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 2: I didn't have nil, and I didn't have endorsements, and

1052
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 2: now suddenly, now the WNBA salaries are offensive because you've

1053
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:34,280
Speaker 2: heard of a player who's being drafted number one overall

1054
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,920
Speaker 2: at a higher level than you've ever heard of a

1055
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 2: female basketball player before.

1056
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 4: Oh let me, let me just do this so for

1057
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:49,160
Speaker 4: maybe some people who are listening would understand it if

1058
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 4: I put it in these terms. The WNBA has a

1059
01:01:57,240 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 4: roughly and annual revenue of probably one hundred million dollars

1060
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 4: somewhere between one hundred and one hundred and ten million

1061
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:16,680
Speaker 4: dollars a year. Okay, the NBA has an annual revenue

1062
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 4: of ten billion dollars a year. Correct, the NBA loses

1063
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:31,280
Speaker 4: money on the WNBA every year because without the NBA,

1064
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 4: there would be no WNBA. The NBA made that decision

1065
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 4: to support financially the WNBA. That's why it is what

1066
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:48,720
Speaker 4: it is, and that's why it's been along for as

1067
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 4: long as it has been.

1068
01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 3: So when you.

1069
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:57,920
Speaker 4: Scoff at the salaries of the WNBA players, should they

1070
01:02:57,920 --> 01:02:58,440
Speaker 4: be higher?

1071
01:02:58,520 --> 01:02:58,800
Speaker 3: Yes?

1072
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 4: Guess who who can change that? Those very same people

1073
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 4: who are scoffing. Yeah, Because the real fact of the matter,

1074
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 4: and we've talked about this candidly, will the fanfare for

1075
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:19,520
Speaker 4: Caitlyn Clark?

1076
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 3: Will that.

1077
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 4: Follow her to the WNBA? Because there have been some

1078
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 4: phenomenal college basketball players that we talk about and when

1079
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 4: they get to the WNBA, they're just professional basketball.

1080
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 1: Players, right, None like this though.

1081
01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 4: No, no, no, it's this is the perfect storm. But

1082
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 4: what I'm telling you is, if Caitlyn Clark is on

1083
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:58,400
Speaker 4: a two and twelve fever team, do you understand where

1084
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 4: I'm going? If she's on a two in twelve fever

1085
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 4: team and she's averaging sixteen seventeen points a game, what

1086
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 4: are we talking about here?

1087
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:10,320
Speaker 1: Not much?

1088
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 3: And that is professional sports.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right. How big of a deal was Justin Fields

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Speaker 4: at Ohio State. It's a pretty big deal, right, pretty

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Speaker 4: big deal. How big of a deal was Mac Jones

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Speaker 4: at Alabama?

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Speaker 3: It was a pretty big deal deal. How big of a

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Speaker 3: deal was Cam Newton at Auburn?

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Speaker 1: Huge deal?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 4: So when you you look at these things and once

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Speaker 4: you get to the professional level, if that excellence doesn't

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Speaker 4: follow you, right, Cam won us, We went to the

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Speaker 4: Super Bowl and was an MVP of the league. Right,

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01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:03,720
Speaker 4: Mac Jones is gonna be a backup somewhere. Justin Fields,

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Speaker 4: they didn't want any more parts of him. So and

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Speaker 4: that's at the NFL. That's at the end, all be

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Speaker 4: all in American sports. Yes, we're talking about the W NBA,

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Speaker 4: which is the NB the W. The NFL revenue is

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Speaker 4: close to twenty billion a year. Just FYI. You can

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Speaker 4: package MLB, NBA and all those things and you still

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Speaker 4: wouldn't get to.

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Speaker 3: What the NFL does.

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01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 4: Like for us, our annual revenue is centered and generated

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Speaker 4: by one individual. We call him Megabucks. We call him

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01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 4: Megabucks all right because when he's on our team, our

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01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:58,520
Speaker 4: value shoots up exponentially. And that's one Steven mb the Seger.

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Speaker 7: So trickle down at does not work well. Late first

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Speaker 7: half at Milwaukee tonight, we had a huge lead for

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01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 7: the home team. Bucks were up sixty seven to thirty

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01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 7: seven over Indiana and the final is one oh nine

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Speaker 7: ninety five. Remember when Damian Lillard had thirty five points

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Speaker 7: in the first half tonight. He finished with thirty five

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Speaker 7: points in this game. Jiannis Antenakumpu with a box still

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Speaker 7: out with a straying calf. So we've had seven games

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Speaker 7: this weekend to open the NBA postseason. The home teams

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Speaker 7: are seven to zero. Six of the seven games have

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Speaker 7: been let's say, blowouts, decided by double digits. A game

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Speaker 7: like the Clippers win, they only won by twelve on

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01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:41,920
Speaker 7: the final scoreboard one oh nine ninety seven. The Clippers

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01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 7: led Dallas late in the first half fifty six to

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Speaker 7: twenty nine. Boston got a triple double from Jason Tatum

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Speaker 7: won fourteen ninety four. The final over Miami Celtics led

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01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:54,919
Speaker 7: fourteen to nothing after just three minutes today. By the way,

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01:06:55,160 --> 01:07:01,120
Speaker 7: the record is seven blowouts here to start postseason. We've

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01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:04,920
Speaker 7: had six of the first seven NBA playoff games decided

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Speaker 7: by double digits. One to go in a few minutes.

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Speaker 7: Oklahoma City, one seed in the West, hosting New Orleans.

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01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:14,240
Speaker 7: Zion Williamson of the Pelicans out with the hamstring injury.

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01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:16,760
Speaker 7: For the Bucks, Giannis Antennacumpo was still out with the

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Speaker 7: string calf. Clippers won even though Kawhi Leonard was still

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01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:23,280
Speaker 7: out with the knee inflammation. The Heat's Jimmy Butler still

1139
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:26,200
Speaker 7: out with the sprained mcl will have an update on

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01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 7: the NBA awards for the regular season in just a minute.

1141
01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:33,439
Speaker 7: In the NHL, we have four playoff openers right now,

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01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:36,920
Speaker 7: at Winnipeg. It's the Jets seven to five over Colorado

1143
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:39,000
Speaker 7: with about three minutes to go. The late game and

1144
01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:42,200
Speaker 7: a half hour will have the Nashville Predators at Vancouver

1145
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:45,200
Speaker 7: one seed. New York Rangers four to one winners today

1146
01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:48,560
Speaker 7: against Washington, Florida beat Tampa Bay three to two. The

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01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:51,640
Speaker 7: NFL Draft starts this Thursday night with live coverage on

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01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:54,600
Speaker 7: Fox Sports Radio. The United Football League had a game

1149
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 7: on FS one today. Houston defeated Arlington seventeen to nine.

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01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 7: The PGA Tournament at hilton Head Island will conclude in

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01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 7: the morning after a weather delay.

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01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 3: Today.

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01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:06,960
Speaker 7: Scotti Scheffler leads by five strokes with only three holes

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01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 7: to go. American Nelly Corda took the LPGA Major In Texas,

1155
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 7: Tyler Reddick won the NASCAR race at Talladega four. Team

1156
01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:19,599
Speaker 7: owner Michael Jordan he was there celebrating brag Keslowski finished

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01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:22,919
Speaker 7: in second. As for Major League Baseball, tonight at Atlanta,

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01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 7: they've started the bottom of the ninth inning. The Texas

1159
01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:27,719
Speaker 7: Rangers are in the lead six to four. The Rangers

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01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:30,000
Speaker 7: defending champs just eleven and eleven.

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Speaker 3: At the moment.

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01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 7: The Dodgers had lost seven of nine, but got a

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01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:34,839
Speaker 7: home win over the Mets ten to nothing.

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01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 1: Today.

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01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:38,760
Speaker 7: Winning pitcher Tyler glassnow now four and one victories for

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Speaker 7: San Diego and Arizona. Cleveland's won four straight after beating

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Speaker 7: Oakland six to two. The Guardians record sixteen and six.

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Speaker 7: And we've got a double header at Colorado making up

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Speaker 7: a snowed out game from Friday. Mariners are leading six

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01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 7: to two over the Rockies in the bottom of the

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01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:57,160
Speaker 7: fifth of the nightcap. Colorado did take the opener in

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01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:00,599
Speaker 7: ten innings to one against Seattle, ending a six game

1173
01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 7: losing streak for Colorado. Yankees and Baltimore each one. Philadelphia

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01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:07,920
Speaker 7: won its six straight game, eight two over the White Sox,

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01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:11,480
Speaker 7: and now to the NBA news. As before this Milwaukee

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01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:15,680
Speaker 7: game this evening, the league officially announced the awards finalists

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Speaker 7: for the seven major individual awards for the just completed

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Speaker 7: regular season. These are the three finalists for MVP this year.

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Speaker 7: Nikola Jokic for a fourth straight season, is a finalist,

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Speaker 7: Luka Donsich and Shay gilgis Alexander for Coach of the Year,

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01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 7: Oklahoma City's Mark Daniel For Minnesota's Chris Finch, he's a

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Speaker 7: finalist Orlando's Jamol Moseley, as well for most Improved Tyrese

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01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:44,920
Speaker 7: Maxi Philadelphia, Alper and Chengoon from Houston, and Kobe White

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01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:47,640
Speaker 7: of the Chicago Bulls. Six Men of the Year, the

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01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:51,640
Speaker 7: three finalists Malik Monk, Bobby Portis, nas Reed, and the

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01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:55,680
Speaker 7: three finalists for Rookie of the Year Victor Wembinyama, Chet Holmgren,

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Speaker 7: Brandon Miller. Wembin Yama, by the way, is one of

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01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:01,360
Speaker 7: the three finalists for def Defensive Player of the Year

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Speaker 7: as well. Of course, Rudy Gobert is on that list,

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Speaker 7: and Miami's bam at a Bio as well.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, great stuff, Steve, by the way, you'll

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Speaker 2: love this. This is a very Steve Disager stat. I

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Speaker 2: wonder if you saw this now you mentioned what Scottie

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Speaker 2: Scheffler is doing out there at hilton Head leading coming

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01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:23,439
Speaker 2: off of his Masters win. He very well might win again.

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01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:26,840
Speaker 2: Looks that way. Did you see the stat where he

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01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:36,839
Speaker 2: has now gone fifty three consecutive holes without anything above

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Speaker 2: a four on his scorecard?

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Speaker 1: See that? Wait, no matter what the hole, the language,

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Speaker 1: no matter the.

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01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 2: Hole, that means no, Bokey's on par fours and nothing

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01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:50,639
Speaker 2: worse than Birdie on every part five.

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Speaker 7: I have frans who can't do that in miniature golf, thank.

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Speaker 2: You fifty three, which is essentially three rounds fifty three

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01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:05,000
Speaker 2: consecutive holes four or better? Why are the other players

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01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:05,679
Speaker 2: even playing?

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Speaker 1: I mean.

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Speaker 7: Second, why why is anybody showing up in the morning

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01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 7: to finish out this tournament?

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Speaker 3: He's up five with three holes to go.

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01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:21,000
Speaker 2: Everybody not named Scheffler has just applied to live because

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01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 2: why not?

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01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:23,439
Speaker 1: Like that's I l i V.

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Speaker 3: He's talking about people.

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01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:29,080
Speaker 7: We should hope we all apply to live.

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01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:32,280
Speaker 1: By the way every day, you know that the who.

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01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:34,200
Speaker 7: Is it Phil Mickelson saying, yeah, maybe they'll go to

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01:11:34,240 --> 01:11:36,679
Speaker 7: seventy two holes with live golf instead of these three

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01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:40,080
Speaker 7: round weekends. If they do and they don't have fifty

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01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:42,280
Speaker 7: four holes, do they have to change the name of

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01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:45,320
Speaker 7: live golf? Isn't it the Roman numerals l i V?

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01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:48,360
Speaker 7: Why with the fifty four holes? Why they're called living?

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Speaker 2: Oh, Steve, well, you're educating me right now, only Steve,

1224
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Speaker 2: look at you.

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Speaker 1: I like, I never even thought to ask why the

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Speaker 1: hell it was.

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01:11:57,560 --> 01:11:59,799
Speaker 3: Called megabucks mega bugs.

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Speaker 7: My guess, I just don't see any reason why you

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01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:05,559
Speaker 7: would call it an organization.

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Speaker 4: That couldn't have told you what forty three looked like

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01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:10,760
Speaker 4: in Roman numbers if you pat me.

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01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:14,599
Speaker 3: Now I do.

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Speaker 2: All right, great stuff, guys from the Tyrek dot com studios.

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Speaker 1: We were not done yet with that.

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Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark and w NBA conversation, So more on that

1236
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:30,479
Speaker 2: coming up. Dak Prescott and a new Deal question Mark

1237
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:33,559
Speaker 2: coming up at the top of the hour on Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Now we're getting some old jams in here. I like it.

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01:12:38,920 --> 01:12:43,240
Speaker 2: We're live in thee tirag dot com studios. I realize

1241
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:47,240
Speaker 2: in that Caitlin Clark conversation we're having any from Mark

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01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:50,640
Speaker 2: Wierty from salam I realize I'm asking for something that

1243
01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 2: is very difficult for the human condition. I'm essentially asking

1244
01:12:57,240 --> 01:13:01,759
Speaker 2: for all of women's basketball to put its ego away

1245
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:05,680
Speaker 2: and see the big picture. Well, if everybody could do that,

1246
01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:07,639
Speaker 2: think about how many things we would.

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01:13:07,439 --> 01:13:10,680
Speaker 1: Cure in this world. Very very difficult to do.

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01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:19,000
Speaker 2: But you said it, when you become a professional, the expectations,

1249
01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 2: the buzz, as you put it, the big deal, the

1250
01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:26,280
Speaker 2: big deal goes away. The expectations, the buzz, they go

1251
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:30,240
Speaker 2: away when it's not at the collegiate level anymore, the

1252
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:35,840
Speaker 2: anticipation of what's coming suddenly wraps up into what is

1253
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:41,960
Speaker 2: simply here, and so getting people's attention with that is

1254
01:13:42,160 --> 01:13:45,439
Speaker 2: very difficult. It's one of the things I've always loved

1255
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:48,799
Speaker 2: the most about and respected the most about Lebron James.

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01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:53,559
Speaker 2: To match the hype that Lebron had before hitting the

1257
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:58,840
Speaker 2: NBA was going to be impossible. It was going to

1258
01:13:58,880 --> 01:14:04,600
Speaker 2: be completely impossible, and he did it. That for me

1259
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:07,719
Speaker 2: is forever going to be the greatest thing that Lebron

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01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:10,040
Speaker 2: James could say about his career, because for those of

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01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:13,560
Speaker 2: you who weren't around for the pre career hype.

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01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:17,840
Speaker 3: It was unbelievable, unreal. Right, So my point, the worst

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01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 3: than Victoramas is way.

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01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 1: Oh way worse, way worse.

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01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:27,559
Speaker 2: So my point with women's basketball is when people are

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01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:30,920
Speaker 2: either jealous of Caitlin Clark or they're upset that people

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01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:33,800
Speaker 2: are now making a big deal about salaries, and they're like,

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01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:35,519
Speaker 2: you didn't make a big deal about it when I

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01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:40,320
Speaker 2: came in and made fifty or sixty grand, but you

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01:14:40,479 --> 01:14:43,439
Speaker 2: said it. The buzz goes away. So if you're in

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01:14:43,479 --> 01:14:47,719
Speaker 2: the WNBA, put your ego away. See the big picture.

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01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:50,680
Speaker 2: What you should be doing is almost the fake it

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01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:53,240
Speaker 2: to make it thing. You should be going out of

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01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:57,679
Speaker 2: your way to create a buzz. It shouldn't be wait

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01:14:57,760 --> 01:15:01,200
Speaker 2: till Caitlyn's got to go against good players. It should

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01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:06,680
Speaker 2: be wait till our league sees this, Wait, wait till

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01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:09,040
Speaker 2: our league has got to deal with Caitlyn Clark. She's

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01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:12,519
Speaker 2: the best thing we've ever seen. Yeah, that's the that's

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01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:13,160
Speaker 2: the difference.

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Speaker 4: Like those women who have been playing and winning championships

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01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:25,479
Speaker 4: in the w NBA don't feel that way. They don't

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01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:30,400
Speaker 4: feel like Caitlin Clark is going to come in and

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01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:37,960
Speaker 4: be the league MVP and the like. I'm sure some

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01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:40,240
Speaker 4: of them may not even think she'll be Rookie of

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Speaker 4: the Year. Now, that's they're right, and things have to

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01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:54,439
Speaker 4: play out. But when you go from college to professional sports,

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01:15:55,439 --> 01:16:02,120
Speaker 4: in any sport, there's a huge difference. There's a huge difference.

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01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 4: And to be consistently great night in and night out,

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01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:15,280
Speaker 4: there are no classes, there are no you know, the

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01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:20,120
Speaker 4: professional sports is the real deal, and it's a job,

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01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:25,920
Speaker 4: and it's intense, and your skill level is just one

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Speaker 4: aspect of it.

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Speaker 1: It's a good point.

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Speaker 4: It's just once you get there, everybody can play. Everybody's great.

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01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:37,960
Speaker 4: Once you get to professional sports and you're being paid

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01:16:39,240 --> 01:16:45,760
Speaker 4: to play or perform, everyone's good. They're no mistakes. Everybody

1297
01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:49,479
Speaker 4: doesn't fit and everybody doesn't last, but they're no mistakes.

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01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:52,720
Speaker 4: If you can play, you can play.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: The thing that goes into being great and longevity is

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01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:03,640
Speaker 4: another animal that you don't get in college because you

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01:17:03,760 --> 01:17:10,320
Speaker 4: still got school and a counselor and mandatory this, and

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01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:15,599
Speaker 4: that's all gone. That's all gone. There's no one to

1304
01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:17,479
Speaker 4: tell you to show up to practice. There's no one

1305
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:20,760
Speaker 4: to you know, unless you have your chef, there's no

1306
01:17:20,800 --> 01:17:22,800
Speaker 4: one you know, you don't go get your meals, and

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01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:24,200
Speaker 4: all of that's done.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: Being a professional it's something that some people struggle with.

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01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:32,240
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying Caitlyn is going to do that,

1311
01:17:32,800 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 4: but the rigors of being a professional basketball player are

1312
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Speaker 4: greater than being a college phena.

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Speaker 3: I have no doubt. And that's why people.

1314
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:46,559
Speaker 4: Are like, well, Okay, well let's see how this thing

1315
01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:52,280
Speaker 4: plays out, because I mean, there's some great women waiting

1316
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:55,439
Speaker 4: for this, Like like I said, and if Caitlyn is

1317
01:17:56,320 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 4: two and twelve to start this thing out, not her

1318
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:03,400
Speaker 4: the fever, then what are we talking about.

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Speaker 2: Well, but I'd almost rather I would if I'm the

1320
01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 2: WNBA establishment, I am risking people showing up and seeing

1321
01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:16,360
Speaker 2: something that's not great rather than waiting for Caitlin Clark

1322
01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 2: to take over.

1323
01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:20,880
Speaker 1: The WNBA and hear about it later.

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01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:24,080
Speaker 2: So, in other words, what I'm doing, whether I feel

1325
01:18:24,080 --> 01:18:26,640
Speaker 2: it or not, I'm making a big deal out of it.

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Speaker 1: Hell, Caitlyn Clark, Caitlin's going to be amazing. Wait until

1327
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:31,600
Speaker 1: you see this.

1328
01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:35,760
Speaker 2: And even if I don't feel that, I'm gonna fake

1329
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:39,559
Speaker 2: it till I make it, because that's what the league needs.

1330
01:18:40,040 --> 01:18:43,559
Speaker 2: Fans in each city need to know when she's coming

1331
01:18:43,560 --> 01:18:46,839
Speaker 2: to town. The home team needs to make ticket sales

1332
01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:51,719
Speaker 2: about her, not them. Again, very difficult, put your ego

1333
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Speaker 2: away and build your business.

1334
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Speaker 3: A lot of pride, a lot of pride out there. Yeah, and.

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Speaker 4: You know, well, they don't get enough respect as it is,

1336
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:09,200
Speaker 4: so to heap the respects you've been working for onto

1337
01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:13,080
Speaker 4: one player who's never played in a WNBA game, a

1338
01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:16,479
Speaker 4: lot of people aren't willing to do that. Right now,

1339
01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 4: she comes out and she's the rookie of the Year,

1340
01:19:18,200 --> 01:19:22,200
Speaker 4: and she looked and she somehow is in the MVP.

1341
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Speaker 4: Conversation and the fever.

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Speaker 3: Are you know, in the.

1343
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Speaker 4: Playoffs and have a chance to Now we got something,

1344
01:19:31,080 --> 01:19:34,520
Speaker 4: now we talk now the buzz continues.

1345
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's a lot to ask. But i'd i'd

1346
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Speaker 2: love our ball, this thing. I would just get that,

1347
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Speaker 2: Just get that way out ahead of it.

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Speaker 1: Just freak out and go crazy.

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Speaker 2: Doc Prescott deal next, Well, brace yourselves. It's very early,

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Speaker 2: but these two basketball teams are threatening to actually play

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Speaker 2: a close game. Well see, I don't buy it yet,

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Speaker 3: Am I paying DAG?

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Speaker 1: What you know? Sixty year somewhere near.

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01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:46,240
Speaker 2: Top of the market, not top of the market, but

1363
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:49,960
Speaker 2: somewhere somewhere dancing around in that neighborhood.

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Speaker 3: So it would roughly be what well.

1365
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Speaker 1: Not the fifty five that that Burrow and Herbert are doing.

1366
01:20:56,680 --> 01:20:57,040
Speaker 1: But what it?

1367
01:20:57,280 --> 01:21:00,519
Speaker 3: Will it or will it be sixty? Now? Those old

1368
01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:01,880
Speaker 3: contracts all right.

1369
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:04,960
Speaker 2: Right, well not that old, but I hear you, okay,

1370
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,840
Speaker 2: So what if it was between forty five and fifty.

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Speaker 3: I'd forty five.

1372
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Speaker 4: I can live with Dak Prescott making forty five forty

1373
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:20,479
Speaker 4: forty five, okay, But I can't pay Dak Prescott. First

1374
01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:24,559
Speaker 4: of all, the bigger issue is you've done nothing to

1375
01:21:24,600 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 4: get better. So we're talking about the team, the team

1376
01:21:28,840 --> 01:21:32,120
Speaker 4: a team. Yes, you've done nothing to get better. So

1377
01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:35,760
Speaker 4: to pay Dak Prescott all that money and drop on

1378
01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:40,040
Speaker 4: his back the expectation to be better than he has

1379
01:21:40,160 --> 01:21:45,959
Speaker 4: been with less talent around him seems like a recipe

1380
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:49,960
Speaker 4: for disaster. If I'm Dak Prescott, I don't even want that,

1381
01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:53,720
Speaker 4: because that's where we're sitting right now.

1382
01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:57,880
Speaker 3: We're sitting to where every team.

1383
01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:04,160
Speaker 4: Is doing and doing things and making moves to get better,

1384
01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 4: and Dallas is hanging out. So if if the question

1385
01:22:12,040 --> 01:22:14,639
Speaker 4: is do I payd do I pay Dak?

1386
01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:17,240
Speaker 3: I mean, does Dak want.

1387
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:18,599
Speaker 1: To be there?

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01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:25,200
Speaker 3: I mean I think so. Now it's sixty million dollars,

1389
01:22:25,240 --> 01:22:26,479
Speaker 3: of course it is what it is.

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01:22:26,520 --> 01:22:28,680
Speaker 4: We win, we don't. I'm making sixty million dollars a

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01:22:28,760 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 4: year for at least four years. Okay, that's enough, Right,

1392
01:22:35,600 --> 01:22:38,920
Speaker 4: we'll figure it out. Maybe I'll win in something else.

1393
01:22:40,439 --> 01:22:44,639
Speaker 4: But you know, asking me would I pay him as

1394
01:22:44,680 --> 01:22:47,720
Speaker 4: a Dallas Cowboys? Know, because there's so much more you

1395
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:51,320
Speaker 4: can do and you need to do to be contenders.

1396
01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:53,600
Speaker 4: There's a lot. I mean, what are you gonna do

1397
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:56,639
Speaker 4: with Michael Parsons? What are you gonna do with CD Lamb?

1398
01:22:57,280 --> 01:22:57,880
Speaker 3: What do you like?

1399
01:22:57,920 --> 01:22:57,960
Speaker 1: What?

1400
01:22:58,360 --> 01:23:02,240
Speaker 4: There are some issues there that are more glaring than

1401
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:05,280
Speaker 4: them paying Dak Prescott or not because for the bottom

1402
01:23:05,320 --> 01:23:10,400
Speaker 4: the I mean, Dak Prescott's under contract, so no matter

1403
01:23:10,479 --> 01:23:14,479
Speaker 4: what you do, he's playing next year. And so do

1404
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:17,800
Speaker 4: you feel comfortable enough in the move you made and

1405
01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:22,080
Speaker 4: bringing Trey Lances? Is he developing enough for you to

1406
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:26,559
Speaker 4: get one year out of Dak Prescott and then move

1407
01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:29,040
Speaker 4: on and start the clock over.

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01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:30,320
Speaker 3: Hm hmm.

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01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 4: Now that's the that's that's to me, that's a viable

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01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:41,400
Speaker 4: question because unsimilar to the Tony Romo experiment, I mean,

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01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:44,599
Speaker 4: Jerry Jones was hell bent on Tony Romo taking him

1412
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:46,719
Speaker 4: to the Super Bowl and went in the super Bowl.

1413
01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:51,000
Speaker 4: He said it himself. It didn't happen. There is a

1414
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:56,760
Speaker 4: cap to talent, and once you reach that cap, it

1415
01:23:56,880 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 4: is what it is. And we're in the is what

1416
01:24:01,520 --> 01:24:06,280
Speaker 4: it is phase of the Dak Prescott Dallas Cowboys rank. Now,

1417
01:24:07,439 --> 01:24:10,120
Speaker 4: if Tony Romo doesn't break his back in the preseason,

1418
01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:15,040
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott would have just been there. Who has just

1419
01:24:15,040 --> 01:24:16,719
Speaker 4: been there until Tony retired?

1420
01:24:18,479 --> 01:24:18,719
Speaker 3: Right?

1421
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:22,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, So now we're in a situation where you can

1422
01:24:23,080 --> 01:24:25,880
Speaker 4: learn from that, Right, you can say, look, we really

1423
01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:29,519
Speaker 4: like this kid, Trey Lance. We've got he's whatever he's

1424
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:31,679
Speaker 4: they're doing, whatever he's there for.

1425
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:33,920
Speaker 3: If they're doing.

1426
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:38,479
Speaker 4: What they're supposed to be, he can be a different

1427
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:41,360
Speaker 4: take at quarterback for them. Now if he's not, then

1428
01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:44,439
Speaker 4: you know, do you trade Dak?

1429
01:24:46,439 --> 01:24:48,400
Speaker 3: Right? Like, do you want to get value out of

1430
01:24:48,760 --> 01:24:48,960
Speaker 3: you know?

1431
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:57,640
Speaker 4: But to me, clearly, Dak Prescott with less talent to me,

1432
01:24:57,840 --> 01:24:59,960
Speaker 4: doesn't add up to Super Bowl.

1433
01:25:00,320 --> 01:25:04,880
Speaker 2: I understand that. But but isn't it interesting. I'm gonna

1434
01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:06,920
Speaker 2: use your own words against you now a little bit

1435
01:25:07,640 --> 01:25:10,240
Speaker 2: because earlier when you were talking about the Lakers, the

1436
01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:14,600
Speaker 2: first thing that came up was brand Yes, And I

1437
01:25:14,600 --> 01:25:16,080
Speaker 2: would argue that in the NFL.

1438
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:20,520
Speaker 1: There is no bigger brand than the Dallas Cowboys.

1439
01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:21,360
Speaker 3: That's true.

1440
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:26,519
Speaker 2: And if you're the Dallas Cowboys, what's it worth not

1441
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:32,000
Speaker 2: to be good? Forget good? What's it worth to be relevant?

1442
01:25:33,200 --> 01:25:33,400
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1443
01:25:33,439 --> 01:25:38,839
Speaker 4: But what Dallas has shown us over the three decades,

1444
01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:42,600
Speaker 4: whether they're good or not, they're relevant.

1445
01:25:43,880 --> 01:25:44,920
Speaker 3: Well that's the heck.

1446
01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:48,559
Speaker 2: Not if you're not, no, no, oh yeah, not if

1447
01:25:48,600 --> 01:25:49,360
Speaker 2: you're terrible.

1448
01:25:49,920 --> 01:25:52,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, like I.

1449
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 2: Mean, when you give up your your QB, well, you

1450
01:25:55,560 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 2: don't mean, my god, anything could happen.

1451
01:25:57,720 --> 01:26:02,920
Speaker 4: You're right, so good that they play in a division

1452
01:26:02,960 --> 01:26:05,240
Speaker 4: where they have one viable team that they have to

1453
01:26:05,240 --> 01:26:05,800
Speaker 4: compete with.

1454
01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:09,200
Speaker 3: That's right now. That can change quickly. Of course, it

1455
01:26:09,200 --> 01:26:12,280
Speaker 3: could change quickly for you as well. So you mean

1456
01:26:12,320 --> 01:26:14,479
Speaker 3: to tell me you want to roll out Dak Prescott

1457
01:26:14,520 --> 01:26:17,599
Speaker 3: for the next four years with less weapons than he's

1458
01:26:17,640 --> 01:26:20,559
Speaker 3: had the last three years. I don't want to think

1459
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:21,880
Speaker 3: he's going to compete.

1460
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:23,320
Speaker 1: I don't want to.

1461
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:27,879
Speaker 2: I'm just pointing out that a lot of the NFL

1462
01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:31,720
Speaker 2: deals with this, And when I refer to this, I'm

1463
01:26:31,800 --> 01:26:38,920
Speaker 2: talking about good, not great quarterbacks. And you look at

1464
01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:41,639
Speaker 2: a situation where you're like, we've got a guy who we.

1465
01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:42,360
Speaker 1: Know is good.

1466
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 2: We sort of kind of also know that we're not

1467
01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:47,599
Speaker 2: going to win the super Bowl with him, And maybe

1468
01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:51,640
Speaker 2: I shouldn't tag that on Dak as of yet, but

1469
01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 2: I like I would feel that way right now if

1470
01:26:55,680 --> 01:27:01,000
Speaker 2: I were a Dolphin fan like Tua. This is kind

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01:27:01,000 --> 01:27:04,040
Speaker 2: of nice. This works. I don't think we're gonna win

1472
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:06,760
Speaker 2: at all with him. I don't think two is just

1473
01:27:06,800 --> 01:27:10,160
Speaker 2: gonna walk out one year and be like Josh Allen check,

1474
01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:14,679
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow check, Patrick Mahomes check, we're in the super Bowl.

1475
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:18,360
Speaker 2: I don't think that that's possible. But you can win

1476
01:27:18,400 --> 01:27:21,840
Speaker 2: eleven football games with him and be relevant. It's a

1477
01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:24,519
Speaker 2: question that a lot of teams deal with because it's

1478
01:27:24,560 --> 01:27:28,000
Speaker 2: a very fine line. The Raiders moved on from Derek

1479
01:27:28,040 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 2: Carr a year ago. He was a quarterback who could

1480
01:27:31,880 --> 01:27:36,600
Speaker 2: make you relevant. You couldn't win at all, but you're relevant.

1481
01:27:36,800 --> 01:27:39,679
Speaker 2: And then the Raiders moved on and things have gotten

1482
01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:43,240
Speaker 2: really wonky, and I have no idea what the hell's

1483
01:27:43,240 --> 01:27:46,439
Speaker 2: happening at that position going forward, and that's where.

1484
01:27:46,280 --> 01:27:47,760
Speaker 1: You don't want to be so.

1485
01:27:48,120 --> 01:27:51,599
Speaker 4: But there's also a running clock on Jerry Jones, no doubt,

1486
01:27:51,640 --> 01:27:55,439
Speaker 4: and he'll tell you that he'd give anything to win

1487
01:27:55,479 --> 01:27:59,479
Speaker 4: one more. Given Dak Prescott sixty million dollars a year,

1488
01:28:00,160 --> 01:28:02,040
Speaker 4: don't think aligns with that sentiment.

1489
01:28:03,400 --> 01:28:05,960
Speaker 2: And I'm not talking sixty and I don't think he

1490
01:28:06,080 --> 01:28:08,200
Speaker 2: is either. He was asked the other day like does

1491
01:28:08,240 --> 01:28:11,479
Speaker 2: this are you next? Like, in other words, do you

1492
01:28:11,560 --> 01:28:13,720
Speaker 2: do you get to reset the market, and he's like, no,

1493
01:28:13,760 --> 01:28:16,560
Speaker 2: I'm not looking for that.

1494
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:20,320
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm looking for. And so that's good.

1495
01:28:21,400 --> 01:28:25,160
Speaker 2: That's good, but I would just like I get it,

1496
01:28:25,360 --> 01:28:33,120
Speaker 2: but cautionary tale because the agents know that. Well, I mean,

1497
01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:36,080
Speaker 2: he's not gonna get that. It's like you're saying, like

1498
01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:37,759
Speaker 2: that would be ridiculous to demand.

1499
01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:38,599
Speaker 3: But it's one thing.

1500
01:28:38,920 --> 01:28:40,800
Speaker 4: It's one thing to say, hey, I'm not looking at

1501
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:45,360
Speaker 4: but your agent is the one negotiating, correct now, He's

1502
01:28:45,760 --> 01:28:47,240
Speaker 4: if the agent say, hey, man, we're gonna come in

1503
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:48,880
Speaker 4: and we're gonna start a sixty five and we're gonna

1504
01:28:48,880 --> 01:28:52,040
Speaker 4: try to get you around sixty fifty nine, and Dak

1505
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:54,720
Speaker 4: Prescott isn't going to say, you know what, no, I

1506
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:56,320
Speaker 4: don't no, no, no, I don't want that.

1507
01:28:56,800 --> 01:28:58,640
Speaker 2: I think the cowboys would laugh you out of the

1508
01:28:58,720 --> 01:29:01,639
Speaker 2: room if you did that, though, well as an age,

1509
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:04,120
Speaker 2: you're not you're not getting mad to extension?

1510
01:29:04,680 --> 01:29:07,400
Speaker 1: Hey man, you want to you want to get the extension.

1511
01:29:07,240 --> 01:29:09,120
Speaker 3: The one he got when he was hurt.

1512
01:29:09,840 --> 01:29:15,000
Speaker 4: We all laughed at like, whoa fair, whoa wait a minute.

1513
01:29:14,880 --> 01:29:17,680
Speaker 1: But that was a different time with a lot less information.

1514
01:29:17,920 --> 01:29:18,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.

1515
01:29:18,479 --> 01:29:20,840
Speaker 4: We got a lot more information now and the money

1516
01:29:21,040 --> 01:29:21,679
Speaker 4: just went up.

1517
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:23,200
Speaker 1: Wow.

1518
01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:26,679
Speaker 2: But we also got the information that the Cowboys seem

1519
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:29,240
Speaker 2: to often be a team that's able to build up

1520
01:29:29,280 --> 01:29:32,240
Speaker 2: a lot of wins against crappy teams in the NFL,

1521
01:29:32,400 --> 01:29:35,000
Speaker 2: and then when they're time it's time to do adult things,

1522
01:29:35,040 --> 01:29:35,760
Speaker 2: they can't do it.

1523
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:37,800
Speaker 4: Well, I think that information was already out there. I

1524
01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:40,639
Speaker 4: mean we had seen it for twelve years with Tony Romo.

1525
01:29:40,960 --> 01:29:45,280
Speaker 6: I mean the information had different player Yeah, different player players.

1526
01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:50,800
Speaker 4: Same mold, different player, same molde fair. When Dak Prescott

1527
01:29:50,800 --> 01:29:53,719
Speaker 4: got that deal, you weren't like, oh my god.

1528
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:54,960
Speaker 3: No I was.

1529
01:29:55,080 --> 01:29:56,880
Speaker 2: But by the same token, I look at a lot

1530
01:29:56,880 --> 01:29:59,160
Speaker 2: of these teams and I go, what was their other choice?

1531
01:29:59,320 --> 01:30:02,800
Speaker 4: I get it, understand you're going to turn to who Yeah,

1532
01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:06,639
Speaker 4: but you have to also remember they also gave Ezekiel

1533
01:30:06,680 --> 01:30:08,920
Speaker 4: Elliott that deal. Did you not go, oh my god.

1534
01:30:09,560 --> 01:30:12,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and and that might have been the last

1535
01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:15,519
Speaker 2: big deal that will get handed out in the NFL

1536
01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 2: to a running back.

1537
01:30:16,320 --> 01:30:23,040
Speaker 4: Well, that's what I'm saying is they've made missed steps

1538
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:28,639
Speaker 4: along the way with nothing to show for it. Are

1539
01:30:28,680 --> 01:30:32,439
Speaker 4: they going to make another misstep? I don't know if

1540
01:30:32,880 --> 01:30:37,960
Speaker 4: Jerry loves Dak like he loved Tony. Doesn't sound like

1541
01:30:38,040 --> 01:30:39,559
Speaker 4: it doesn't sound like it.

1542
01:30:40,400 --> 01:30:43,960
Speaker 2: But again, when you say you have nothing to show

1543
01:30:44,040 --> 01:30:46,720
Speaker 2: for it, that's when I argue back, and I go,

1544
01:30:47,520 --> 01:30:49,120
Speaker 2: I wouldn't use the word nothing.

1545
01:30:49,280 --> 01:30:52,040
Speaker 4: I mean, what how many division titles they've had in

1546
01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:55,879
Speaker 4: the last five years? But they're relevant, they are relevant.

1547
01:30:56,120 --> 01:30:59,800
Speaker 4: Butvant Jerry will tell you that the Dallas Cowboys will

1548
01:30:59,800 --> 01:31:01,400
Speaker 4: be relevant no matter what.

1549
01:31:01,960 --> 01:31:05,080
Speaker 2: Not if you're not, if you're three and fourteen, no, no,

1550
01:31:05,120 --> 01:31:09,160
Speaker 2: you're not, Okay, I mean you're still the Dallas Cowboys.

1551
01:31:09,160 --> 01:31:11,880
Speaker 3: I mean your evaluation.

1552
01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:15,000
Speaker 2: No right, no, no, it doesn't know. Forbes is not

1553
01:31:15,040 --> 01:31:16,360
Speaker 2: going to come knocking at your door.

1554
01:31:16,880 --> 01:31:19,679
Speaker 3: You guys only won three games to take three billion

1555
01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:22,439
Speaker 3: off of that that that tally you got there.

1556
01:31:22,520 --> 01:31:24,719
Speaker 1: But but you're not playing on Sunday Night football.

1557
01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:27,400
Speaker 4: You're They'll always be even when they were trashed, they

1558
01:31:27,400 --> 01:31:28,639
Speaker 4: would get those primetime games.

1559
01:31:29,320 --> 01:31:32,240
Speaker 3: You just look you you already know you already.

1560
01:31:32,280 --> 01:31:35,840
Speaker 4: The NFL loved them some Dallas Cowboys because they know

1561
01:31:36,439 --> 01:31:37,920
Speaker 4: they know what that comes with.

1562
01:31:38,280 --> 01:31:39,920
Speaker 2: But you know what I'm talking about, I do know

1563
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:42,400
Speaker 2: what you're talking about. That we're not We're not doing that.

1564
01:31:42,439 --> 01:31:47,760
Speaker 2: We're not going three and fourteen like that's that's that's irrelevant.

1565
01:31:48,040 --> 01:31:50,760
Speaker 2: I mean, the Washington Commanders are a very very big

1566
01:31:50,840 --> 01:31:55,439
Speaker 2: brand that the Cowboys rival. They feel relevant last year.

1567
01:31:58,040 --> 01:31:59,599
Speaker 2: I don't know how big of a you know.

1568
01:31:59,800 --> 01:32:02,680
Speaker 1: I just all I'm saying is you got to be

1569
01:32:03,080 --> 01:32:04,439
Speaker 1: you know, you got to be careful.

1570
01:32:04,600 --> 01:32:07,920
Speaker 2: I use them as an example every year, and we

1571
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:10,120
Speaker 2: get to do it again because they just let another

1572
01:32:10,200 --> 01:32:14,439
Speaker 2: quarterback walk. I am turning fifty next year and I'm

1573
01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:18,519
Speaker 2: still waiting for the Bears to get a QB. Yeah,

1574
01:32:18,520 --> 01:32:20,960
Speaker 2: they've never had one in my entire life. You're right,

1575
01:32:22,640 --> 01:32:24,960
Speaker 2: and it's hard. You can win the Super Bowl?

1576
01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:27,160
Speaker 3: Are they going to have one in four days?

1577
01:32:28,439 --> 01:32:29,000
Speaker 1: Will they?

1578
01:32:29,360 --> 01:32:29,559
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1579
01:32:29,640 --> 01:32:32,320
Speaker 1: They will? I mean they'll have a QB. I don't

1580
01:32:32,320 --> 01:32:33,160
Speaker 1: know if he's any good.

1581
01:32:33,360 --> 01:32:37,120
Speaker 4: Well, we're gonna see they shoot.

1582
01:32:37,680 --> 01:32:41,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've already had our conversation about can't miss prospects.

1583
01:32:41,960 --> 01:32:43,000
Speaker 1: Oh, yes they can.

1584
01:32:43,120 --> 01:32:44,200
Speaker 3: They're going shoot their shot.

1585
01:32:44,960 --> 01:32:49,040
Speaker 1: That's all they got. So I get it.

1586
01:32:49,240 --> 01:32:54,040
Speaker 2: But I like I would just I would rather be

1587
01:32:54,160 --> 01:32:58,360
Speaker 2: relevant and exciting than boring.

1588
01:33:01,040 --> 01:33:02,960
Speaker 3: And that's all I'm saying. I get what I mean,

1589
01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:06,080
Speaker 3: I get it. I get it, I really do. All right.

1590
01:33:06,120 --> 01:33:08,240
Speaker 1: Shortly after the show, the podcast is going up.

1591
01:33:08,240 --> 01:33:10,400
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1592
01:33:10,439 --> 01:33:12,719
Speaker 2: to check out the podcast and just search Fox Sports

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1595
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1596
01:33:20,680 --> 01:33:22,840
Speaker 2: this show posted right after we get off the air.

1597
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:28,080
Speaker 2: But we're not done yet. In fact, mister youth baseball coach,

1598
01:33:28,200 --> 01:33:32,080
Speaker 2: I from Salam I have a I have a difficult

1599
01:33:32,160 --> 01:33:36,920
Speaker 2: question to ask you coming up next, A difficult question

1600
01:33:38,320 --> 01:33:42,120
Speaker 2: with regard to you and baseball next on Fox Sports Radio.

1601
01:33:47,280 --> 01:33:51,080
Speaker 2: Right we're in the Tye Rank dot Com studios. And

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01:33:53,200 --> 01:34:02,240
Speaker 2: guess what, Ephrom It turns out that my parents are

1603
01:34:02,280 --> 01:34:03,439
Speaker 2: listening to us right now.

1604
01:34:05,360 --> 01:34:06,080
Speaker 3: That's awesome.

1605
01:34:06,960 --> 01:34:09,479
Speaker 1: My mom is turning eighty.

1606
01:34:10,200 --> 01:34:13,400
Speaker 3: Happy birth tomorrow tomorrow, Mom, Happy birth tomorrow.

1607
01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:18,080
Speaker 2: Right, So I just found out that she's listening, So

1608
01:34:18,160 --> 01:34:20,639
Speaker 2: I want to take the opportunity to say directly to her,

1609
01:34:21,680 --> 01:34:25,679
Speaker 2: happy birthday, and I and we love you so much

1610
01:34:26,600 --> 01:34:33,400
Speaker 2: and you're an amazing mom. And I started the text

1611
01:34:33,520 --> 01:34:35,560
Speaker 2: chain with her because now I have a question for you,

1612
01:34:35,680 --> 01:34:42,879
Speaker 2: e from which is is talking sports with me scary?

1613
01:34:43,080 --> 01:34:45,080
Speaker 1: No? Do you find it scary?

1614
01:34:45,280 --> 01:34:49,479
Speaker 3: No? Okay, soothing you do? I do?

1615
01:34:50,000 --> 01:34:54,160
Speaker 2: I like that word. I said to her. I said,

1616
01:34:54,200 --> 01:34:57,000
Speaker 2: your birthday is tomorrow, you're turning eighty. We would love

1617
01:34:57,080 --> 01:35:00,320
Speaker 2: to celebrate you. You should call my show in the

1618
01:35:00,320 --> 01:35:03,160
Speaker 2: Bay Area so that we can say happy birthday, and

1619
01:35:03,400 --> 01:35:06,240
Speaker 2: then you can give us your bay Area sports takes

1620
01:35:06,720 --> 01:35:07,800
Speaker 2: and it will be fun.

1621
01:35:08,800 --> 01:35:14,439
Speaker 1: And she said absolutely not. That is that is too scary.

1622
01:35:15,400 --> 01:35:18,240
Speaker 2: And then proceeded to say, O, our cable is out

1623
01:35:18,320 --> 01:35:20,360
Speaker 2: and that and so we're listening to you and Ephraim

1624
01:35:20,439 --> 01:35:21,440
Speaker 2: right now.

1625
01:35:21,720 --> 01:35:23,479
Speaker 3: Well, you know, look, so.

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01:35:25,920 --> 01:35:27,600
Speaker 1: I don't think it would be Do you think it

1627
01:35:27,600 --> 01:35:28,439
Speaker 1: would be scary?

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01:35:29,000 --> 01:35:33,519
Speaker 3: No? Right, Well, maybe she's nervous. She would be nervous. Well,

1629
01:35:33,560 --> 01:35:35,920
Speaker 3: of course you'd be nervous. But like so what like

1630
01:35:36,040 --> 01:35:38,640
Speaker 3: I think we deserve.

1631
01:35:38,360 --> 01:35:42,680
Speaker 2: To know if eighty year old Ellen Willard thinks the

1632
01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:45,080
Speaker 2: Warriors should let Clay Thompson walk.

1633
01:35:45,240 --> 01:35:45,880
Speaker 1: I want to know.

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01:35:46,120 --> 01:35:48,559
Speaker 3: I bet she thinks so, don't you?

1635
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:49,840
Speaker 1: But wouldn't you like to know?

1636
01:35:50,120 --> 01:35:51,160
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1637
01:35:51,240 --> 01:35:51,880
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

1638
01:35:52,800 --> 01:35:56,839
Speaker 2: How how does she feel when people dismiss brock Party?

1639
01:35:57,560 --> 01:36:02,360
Speaker 1: How does she feel about that? I think people want.

1640
01:36:02,240 --> 01:36:04,720
Speaker 3: To know acquiring minds. Would like to know.

1641
01:36:05,720 --> 01:36:06,880
Speaker 1: You want to know what? I'd like to know.

1642
01:36:06,920 --> 01:36:11,400
Speaker 3: I'd like to know something from you, anything you want.

1643
01:36:12,080 --> 01:36:15,360
Speaker 2: This is just a feeling, So tell me if I'm wrong. Okay,

1644
01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:19,920
Speaker 2: but we've been uh, we've been back together again for

1645
01:36:19,960 --> 01:36:25,120
Speaker 2: a handful of weeks now, and I feel like you're

1646
01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:32,760
Speaker 2: down on baseball and at a level higher than at

1647
01:36:32,800 --> 01:36:33,719
Speaker 2: any point before.

1648
01:36:34,160 --> 01:36:35,639
Speaker 1: Am I right? Yeah?

1649
01:36:35,680 --> 01:36:39,120
Speaker 4: But look I number one, I didn't come from a

1650
01:36:39,200 --> 01:36:43,880
Speaker 4: baseball world. But like you know, for the last five

1651
01:36:44,040 --> 01:36:50,960
Speaker 4: six years, I've really locked into baseball because my kids play,

1652
01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:55,439
Speaker 4: and I became a coach, right, won a championship nine

1653
01:36:55,520 --> 01:37:01,080
Speaker 4: U championship last year Sherman Oakslow League. Anyway, so I've

1654
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:10,000
Speaker 4: become more astute to the game like I got just

1655
01:37:10,200 --> 01:37:12,559
Speaker 4: you know, I watched the Dodgers and the Mets and

1656
01:37:12,600 --> 01:37:17,400
Speaker 4: the Braves today like I watched the games now I'm

1657
01:37:17,400 --> 01:37:25,519
Speaker 4: tapped into the games, but it it wouldn't be my

1658
01:37:25,600 --> 01:37:27,760
Speaker 4: first choice.

1659
01:37:28,439 --> 01:37:34,680
Speaker 2: Well that's fine, but what what is it? What is

1660
01:37:34,720 --> 01:37:35,679
Speaker 2: it that has you there?

1661
01:37:36,240 --> 01:37:39,960
Speaker 3: You know what? It's not.

1662
01:37:42,560 --> 01:37:53,559
Speaker 4: Exciting outside of the show Hay and the Mookie and

1663
01:37:53,800 --> 01:37:56,439
Speaker 4: a handful of other players that you know when you

1664
01:37:56,520 --> 01:38:01,439
Speaker 4: watch them, there's a good chance something tacular is gonna happen.

1665
01:38:02,040 --> 01:38:04,880
Speaker 4: But as a whole, it can get to be.

1666
01:38:06,680 --> 01:38:10,280
Speaker 3: A bit boring.

1667
01:38:11,880 --> 01:38:12,520
Speaker 1: Huh.

1668
01:38:12,560 --> 01:38:16,120
Speaker 4: And it's even marketed that way, which is the biggest

1669
01:38:16,120 --> 01:38:24,160
Speaker 4: problem I have, because every other sport is marketed in

1670
01:38:24,200 --> 01:38:28,920
Speaker 4: a way that it will capture younger audiences. Because that's

1671
01:38:28,920 --> 01:38:31,479
Speaker 4: really what you want. That's what you want, that's what

1672
01:38:31,560 --> 01:38:36,320
Speaker 4: you want. It's important as a brand to building a

1673
01:38:36,360 --> 01:38:42,560
Speaker 4: brand to attract the younger audience because then you you

1674
01:38:43,280 --> 01:38:49,799
Speaker 4: constantly are bringing in new eyes and new energy because

1675
01:38:49,920 --> 01:38:55,000
Speaker 4: eventually your old audience will age out.

1676
01:38:55,160 --> 01:39:01,120
Speaker 2: No doubt, I mean that's happening. However, revenue remain strong,

1677
01:39:02,640 --> 01:39:06,519
Speaker 2: Like you know what, I see that. And I was

1678
01:39:06,560 --> 01:39:10,439
Speaker 2: actually listening to our guys earlier when Steve Hartman and

1679
01:39:10,560 --> 01:39:13,519
Speaker 2: Rich Ornberger were on earlier this afternoon and they had

1680
01:39:13,560 --> 01:39:17,320
Speaker 2: JP Morosi on and Rich had done some homework. Rich

1681
01:39:17,479 --> 01:39:21,400
Speaker 2: was working with a spreadsheet and he had done some

1682
01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:26,360
Speaker 2: homework on I'll just give you the very very brief synopsis.

1683
01:39:26,800 --> 01:39:29,200
Speaker 1: Home runs are down again.

1684
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:34,080
Speaker 2: They were last year and now they're significantly down. And

1685
01:39:34,120 --> 01:39:37,160
Speaker 2: he wanted to know why, like why does JP Morosi

1686
01:39:37,280 --> 01:39:41,720
Speaker 2: think that they're down? And Jp said that coaches have

1687
01:39:41,840 --> 01:39:45,960
Speaker 2: told him that it is currently in the Major leagues

1688
01:39:46,120 --> 01:39:48,439
Speaker 2: harder to hit a baseball now than it has ever

1689
01:39:48,479 --> 01:39:52,559
Speaker 2: been before, and it's because pitchers are not trying to

1690
01:39:52,600 --> 01:39:55,600
Speaker 2: go nine innings. You're only expected to go four or

1691
01:39:55,680 --> 01:39:58,840
Speaker 2: five now as the starter, which means you can come

1692
01:39:58,880 --> 01:40:00,920
Speaker 2: out here and instead of throwing ninety four, you could

1693
01:40:00,920 --> 01:40:04,679
Speaker 2: throw ninety nine.

1694
01:40:03,320 --> 01:40:07,080
Speaker 1: And just absolutely go full bore.

1695
01:40:08,280 --> 01:40:10,759
Speaker 2: And so now there's one hundred mile an hour pitches

1696
01:40:10,920 --> 01:40:16,240
Speaker 2: all the time. And let's be real, like humans always

1697
01:40:16,240 --> 01:40:21,320
Speaker 2: get bigger, stronger, and faster. But there's also a tipping point.

1698
01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:25,200
Speaker 2: I don't know if their eyes are getting better. At

1699
01:40:25,200 --> 01:40:30,920
Speaker 2: a certain point, the pitchers are throwing too hard. You

1700
01:40:31,000 --> 01:40:35,240
Speaker 2: can't hit the ball anymore. And the hitters are also

1701
01:40:35,360 --> 01:40:38,920
Speaker 2: being told, you know how, you fight fire with fire,

1702
01:40:39,479 --> 01:40:42,160
Speaker 2: So if they're going to pitch with everything they've got,

1703
01:40:42,520 --> 01:40:46,840
Speaker 2: you swing with everything you've got, and what do you get?

1704
01:40:47,280 --> 01:40:57,519
Speaker 2: Buckets of strikeouts, buckets of strikeouts and now seemingly fewer

1705
01:40:57,520 --> 01:40:59,920
Speaker 2: home runs. The whole idea of taking away the sh

1706
01:41:00,040 --> 01:41:03,880
Speaker 2: shift was more balls in play. You're not really getting it,

1707
01:41:04,160 --> 01:41:08,599
Speaker 2: and even when you do, like a groundball to second

1708
01:41:08,680 --> 01:41:11,759
Speaker 2: base is not exciting. It's in play, it's not exciting.

1709
01:41:13,160 --> 01:41:14,800
Speaker 2: So I don't know.

1710
01:41:14,880 --> 01:41:18,080
Speaker 1: Man, they went with all the rules changes last year.

1711
01:41:18,600 --> 01:41:21,880
Speaker 2: I don't think we're very far off from like sweeping

1712
01:41:22,040 --> 01:41:25,760
Speaker 2: rules changes, like things that'll really get people ticked off,

1713
01:41:25,960 --> 01:41:30,320
Speaker 2: like moving the mound like stuff like that. Oh yeah,

1714
01:41:30,360 --> 01:41:32,600
Speaker 2: I don't think we're far off. We're gonna have to be.

1715
01:41:33,120 --> 01:41:36,360
Speaker 2: It's no different than when they tiger proofed Augusta. It's

1716
01:41:36,360 --> 01:41:39,000
Speaker 2: like sometimes just like dude, you're being overwhelmed. We got

1717
01:41:39,040 --> 01:41:40,080
Speaker 2: to move this thing around.

1718
01:41:43,960 --> 01:41:44,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1719
01:41:44,560 --> 01:41:48,880
Speaker 4: I think as a whole, the unwritten rules of baseball,

1720
01:41:51,320 --> 01:41:55,400
Speaker 4: the gentleman as equality of a sport.

1721
01:41:55,840 --> 01:42:00,719
Speaker 3: To me, never really who talks trash in baseball?

1722
01:42:03,280 --> 01:42:09,040
Speaker 2: Who talks trash in baseball? Tim Anderson? So he got

1723
01:42:09,080 --> 01:42:12,240
Speaker 2: one guy, but he's not very he's not very good.

1724
01:42:12,640 --> 01:42:13,280
Speaker 3: Like what if.

1725
01:42:13,200 --> 01:42:17,679
Speaker 4: Mookie Betts was able to talk trash our bat flip

1726
01:42:18,479 --> 01:42:22,840
Speaker 4: are stare down a picture after every camp run. Yeah,

1727
01:42:22,840 --> 01:42:24,920
Speaker 4: but they don't because you know what, I know, they're

1728
01:42:25,000 --> 01:42:26,640
Speaker 4: unridden rules to say that.

1729
01:42:26,280 --> 01:42:27,679
Speaker 3: We don't do that here.

1730
01:42:28,160 --> 01:42:31,760
Speaker 2: Mookie seems too nice, right, I've never met Moki, but

1731
01:42:31,800 --> 01:42:32,920
Speaker 2: he seems too nice for that.

1732
01:42:33,080 --> 01:42:35,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, because he's been raised in the culture. This is

1733
01:42:35,520 --> 01:42:37,760
Speaker 4: what you do, this is how it goes. We need

1734
01:42:37,760 --> 01:42:39,400
Speaker 4: the happy Gilmour of baseball.

1735
01:42:43,439 --> 01:42:46,320
Speaker 2: I mean, your boy Max Munsey looks like a jerk.

1736
01:42:46,439 --> 01:42:47,240
Speaker 2: I don't know if he is.

1737
01:42:47,280 --> 01:42:50,160
Speaker 4: It's not being a jerk though, right, Like when you

1738
01:42:50,200 --> 01:42:53,320
Speaker 4: watch a basketball game and look, I always bring this up,

1739
01:42:53,400 --> 01:42:59,519
Speaker 4: the great Larry Legend the most the casual fan wouldn't

1740
01:42:59,520 --> 01:43:02,800
Speaker 4: even know he was the biggest trash talker in all

1741
01:43:02,840 --> 01:43:03,479
Speaker 4: of the NBA.

1742
01:43:05,880 --> 01:43:10,719
Speaker 3: Casual fan wouldn't know that. But the fans knew.

1743
01:43:12,439 --> 01:43:16,800
Speaker 4: The Jordan, the Barkley, the the even magic, like you

1744
01:43:16,840 --> 01:43:22,800
Speaker 4: can tell when they even now watching them. The trash talk,

1745
01:43:22,880 --> 01:43:27,080
Speaker 4: the celebration after something. Well, you know you want you

1746
01:43:27,120 --> 01:43:31,200
Speaker 4: want to show anybody up. Why it's not about being poor,

1747
01:43:31,560 --> 01:43:34,760
Speaker 4: you know, poor sportsman, Like you score a touchdown, you

1748
01:43:34,800 --> 01:43:39,040
Speaker 4: can't turn around and whip the ball in somebody's face, right,

1749
01:43:39,120 --> 01:43:44,800
Speaker 4: but they let celebrate. Brought celebration back football because it was.

1750
01:43:44,920 --> 01:43:47,680
Speaker 3: Ridiculous not to have it. You know how hard it

1751
01:43:47,720 --> 01:43:51,040
Speaker 3: is to hit a home run? That's correct. Why wouldn't

1752
01:43:51,040 --> 01:43:53,559
Speaker 3: I be allowed to celebrate as I'm going around the basis?

1753
01:43:53,880 --> 01:43:56,559
Speaker 2: Wow, my favorite. There's always people who are like, act

1754
01:43:56,640 --> 01:43:58,559
Speaker 2: like you've been there before, you know how hard it

1755
01:43:58,600 --> 01:44:01,759
Speaker 2: is to get here. I'm like, you've never been there before.

1756
01:44:01,880 --> 01:44:04,880
Speaker 2: How do you know what? Like you've been there before?

1757
01:44:05,120 --> 01:44:07,639
Speaker 3: And I hate I hate that because I do too.

1758
01:44:08,240 --> 01:44:11,599
Speaker 4: And just little things like that about bringing excitement into

1759
01:44:11,680 --> 01:44:13,040
Speaker 4: the game. Oh, I can't wait to see what so

1760
01:44:13,080 --> 01:44:14,760
Speaker 4: and so gonna do against so and so. Did you

1761
01:44:14,760 --> 01:44:18,040
Speaker 4: hear what they said that they gonna be just all

1762
01:44:18,080 --> 01:44:21,839
Speaker 4: of those things, bulletin board material. That's what drives sport

1763
01:44:22,439 --> 01:44:24,080
Speaker 4: for fas.

1764
01:44:23,600 --> 01:44:24,160
Speaker 1: No doubt.

1765
01:44:24,200 --> 01:44:27,880
Speaker 2: Do you know who talks a ton of trash?

1766
01:44:28,560 --> 01:44:29,400
Speaker 1: Steve de Sager.

1767
01:44:29,560 --> 01:44:32,679
Speaker 2: You wouldn't think so. I wouldn't think so. But man,

1768
01:44:33,160 --> 01:44:38,240
Speaker 2: you get him off the air. That's what you talk about.

1769
01:44:38,280 --> 01:44:40,679
Speaker 2: My talk about my mom, and he'll talk about your mama.

1770
01:44:40,760 --> 01:44:42,719
Speaker 2: It's crazy, everybody.

1771
01:44:42,560 --> 01:44:45,439
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, I'll talk about your mom. Happy.

1772
01:44:44,800 --> 01:44:48,240
Speaker 2: By the way, she also says, no they should not

1773
01:44:48,479 --> 01:44:49,400
Speaker 2: let Clay walk.

1774
01:44:51,680 --> 01:44:55,559
Speaker 1: She texted, She's got takes. That's why I want to

1775
01:44:55,600 --> 01:44:56,080
Speaker 1: out there.

1776
01:44:56,360 --> 01:44:59,719
Speaker 7: She has contributed. By the way, as someone who watches

1777
01:44:59,760 --> 01:45:02,120
Speaker 7: a lot lot of Major League Baseball, I will say

1778
01:45:02,200 --> 01:45:05,559
Speaker 7: it is more true now than ever before in my

1779
01:45:05,680 --> 01:45:09,600
Speaker 7: lifetime what Ephraim is asking for, and I think personally

1780
01:45:09,720 --> 01:45:12,800
Speaker 7: the major driver of this is the influence of the

1781
01:45:12,840 --> 01:45:16,160
Speaker 7: Latin American player, because emotions are always on the sleeve.

1782
01:45:16,640 --> 01:45:18,760
Speaker 7: You get the yells and screams after you hit the

1783
01:45:18,760 --> 01:45:21,280
Speaker 7: ball along you stand and watch. It's not just Jose

1784
01:45:21,400 --> 01:45:23,920
Speaker 7: Bautista in the playoffs a few years ago. It is

1785
01:45:24,040 --> 01:45:26,519
Speaker 7: more common now than it used to be. And what

1786
01:45:26,600 --> 01:45:29,840
Speaker 7: Mark was talking about, and these rules changes that they

1787
01:45:29,880 --> 01:45:34,479
Speaker 7: finally enacted last year were overdue in part because nobody's

1788
01:45:34,479 --> 01:45:37,960
Speaker 7: ashamed to strike out anymore. Striking out, although it can

1789
01:45:38,000 --> 01:45:41,519
Speaker 7: be exciting if it's your pitcher doing it, speaking generally,

1790
01:45:42,560 --> 01:45:45,519
Speaker 7: nobody moves. It's not great for the game to have

1791
01:45:45,800 --> 01:45:48,759
Speaker 7: multiple players striking out one hundred to one hundred thirty

1792
01:45:48,840 --> 01:45:49,559
Speaker 7: times a year.

1793
01:45:50,200 --> 01:45:50,400
Speaker 5: Now.

1794
01:45:50,520 --> 01:45:53,880
Speaker 7: Total attendance paid attendance we're talking about at MLB last

1795
01:45:53,960 --> 01:45:56,880
Speaker 7: year was seventy million, which is up ten percent from

1796
01:45:56,920 --> 01:46:00,160
Speaker 7: the year before last season regular season, the average time

1797
01:46:00,240 --> 01:46:03,400
Speaker 7: of a nine eighty game was just under two forty.

1798
01:46:03,520 --> 01:46:05,840
Speaker 7: Previous year was three oh four. So I think we

1799
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:08,400
Speaker 7: are going in the right directions for some of the

1800
01:46:08,400 --> 01:46:11,360
Speaker 7: things that you were asking about. We have one late game.

1801
01:46:11,680 --> 01:46:14,280
Speaker 7: We're gonna lead with baseball because the NBA game is boring,

1802
01:46:14,360 --> 01:46:17,280
Speaker 7: if I may borrow that word too. Seattle in the

1803
01:46:17,320 --> 01:46:20,400
Speaker 7: top of the nightstalk is leading ten to two at

1804
01:46:20,439 --> 01:46:23,599
Speaker 7: Colorado to close out a double header. The Rockies had

1805
01:46:23,600 --> 01:46:26,520
Speaker 7: taken the opener in ten innings two to one. Colorado

1806
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:29,639
Speaker 7: had been four and sixteen to open the day. Texas

1807
01:46:29,720 --> 01:46:32,439
Speaker 7: won in Atlanta tonight six to four. Rangers hit three

1808
01:46:32,479 --> 01:46:35,599
Speaker 7: home runs. Brays had won six in a row. Dodgers

1809
01:46:35,640 --> 01:46:38,679
Speaker 7: ten nothing over the Mets today. Tyler glassnow the winning

1810
01:46:38,720 --> 01:46:42,799
Speaker 7: pitcher in La Native eight innings, ten strikeouts, smoke walks,

1811
01:46:43,520 --> 01:46:46,479
Speaker 7: four and one record show Hey Otani a two run homer.

1812
01:46:46,520 --> 01:46:49,920
Speaker 7: He's batting three sixty eight Mookie Betts and RBI single.

1813
01:46:49,960 --> 01:46:53,920
Speaker 7: He's batting three fifty five. Padres and Arizona each one.

1814
01:46:54,080 --> 01:46:57,680
Speaker 7: Cleveland now sixteen and six after beating Oakland six to two.

1815
01:46:58,120 --> 01:47:01,599
Speaker 7: Yankees fifteen and seven after narrow win against Tampa Bay

1816
01:47:01,800 --> 01:47:03,800
Speaker 7: five four It was five to one going to the

1817
01:47:03,840 --> 01:47:07,400
Speaker 7: eighth inning. Baltimore fourteen and seven. After a shutout win

1818
01:47:07,479 --> 01:47:10,840
Speaker 7: at Kansas City five to nothing, Philly's won their sixth

1819
01:47:10,840 --> 01:47:14,280
Speaker 7: in a row. Milwaukee and Boston with wins, And then

1820
01:47:14,280 --> 01:47:16,960
Speaker 7: there's the White Sox. That Philly win came at the

1821
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:18,880
Speaker 7: expense of the White Sox. No wonder they have a

1822
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:21,720
Speaker 7: winning streak. They were hosting Chicago all weekend. Eight to

1823
01:47:21,720 --> 01:47:24,880
Speaker 7: two was today's final. The White Sox have a record

1824
01:47:24,920 --> 01:47:28,439
Speaker 7: of three and eighteen come eight of the nine White

1825
01:47:28,439 --> 01:47:31,840
Speaker 7: Sox hitters today. Eight of the nine are batting under

1826
01:47:31,880 --> 01:47:35,000
Speaker 7: one eighty a man, oh god, and they were no

1827
01:47:35,200 --> 01:47:37,840
Speaker 7: kit into the eighth inning. They were no hit last

1828
01:47:37,920 --> 01:47:39,720
Speaker 7: night the Chicage. We thought the A's were going to

1829
01:47:39,760 --> 01:47:42,600
Speaker 7: be the worst team. Maybe they will become September. The

1830
01:47:42,680 --> 01:47:46,160
Speaker 7: White Sox are easily the worst team in Major League.

1831
01:47:46,200 --> 01:47:46,880
Speaker 1: Oh my god.

1832
01:47:46,960 --> 01:47:50,920
Speaker 2: They've scored forty five runs this year. Oh I'm just

1833
01:47:51,040 --> 01:47:53,160
Speaker 2: looking at this. Oh my god.

1834
01:47:53,560 --> 01:47:55,920
Speaker 7: As of Friday night, when they got shut out yet again,

1835
01:47:56,400 --> 01:47:59,559
Speaker 7: that was less than twenty games into the season and

1836
01:47:59,600 --> 01:48:02,720
Speaker 7: being sure out seven times already.

1837
01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:04,040
Speaker 1: That's two runs of games.

1838
01:48:04,080 --> 01:48:07,679
Speaker 2: Steve, Yeah, it's they're scoring two runs a game first

1839
01:48:07,880 --> 01:48:09,400
Speaker 2: twenty one game stretch.

1840
01:48:09,560 --> 01:48:10,640
Speaker 1: Actually disgusting.

1841
01:48:10,880 --> 01:48:13,759
Speaker 7: They have been shut out more than they have scored

1842
01:48:13,800 --> 01:48:14,559
Speaker 7: more than two.

1843
01:48:14,400 --> 01:48:15,200
Speaker 3: Runs in a game.

1844
01:48:15,320 --> 01:48:19,559
Speaker 7: Oh sod, they've hit halftime. In the NBA Playoffs, late game,

1845
01:48:19,600 --> 01:48:22,960
Speaker 7: first round opener at top seed Oklahoma City, it's forty three,

1846
01:48:23,080 --> 01:48:26,960
Speaker 7: forty three thunder against the Pelicans New Orleans, shooting thirty

1847
01:48:27,000 --> 01:48:30,519
Speaker 7: four percent from the floor. Zion Williamson of the Pels

1848
01:48:30,600 --> 01:48:34,719
Speaker 7: out this round with his hamstring strain. Milwaukee's Janisntena Kumpo

1849
01:48:34,840 --> 01:48:37,280
Speaker 7: still out with a strained calf. With the Bucks beat

1850
01:48:37,360 --> 01:48:40,280
Speaker 7: up Indiana one oh nine ninety four, it wasn't that close.

1851
01:48:40,320 --> 01:48:44,599
Speaker 7: Milwaukee led late first half Tonight sixty seven thirty seven.

1852
01:48:45,120 --> 01:48:47,640
Speaker 7: Damian Lillard thirty five points in the game, all of

1853
01:48:47,680 --> 01:48:50,040
Speaker 7: it in the first half. He was zero five shooting

1854
01:48:50,439 --> 01:48:53,759
Speaker 7: second half. Clippers beat Dallas one oh nine ninety seven,

1855
01:48:53,880 --> 01:48:57,679
Speaker 7: Boston all over Miami one fourteen to ninety four. Denver's

1856
01:48:57,720 --> 01:49:01,280
Speaker 7: Nikola Jokich is an MVP finalist for a fourth straight season.

1857
01:49:01,680 --> 01:49:04,840
Speaker 7: NHL playoff opening wins for Florida at home, New York

1858
01:49:04,960 --> 01:49:07,840
Speaker 7: Rangers at home Winnipeg at home Tonight was a seven

1859
01:49:07,880 --> 01:49:11,160
Speaker 7: to six winner against Colorado, and Nashville has taken a

1860
01:49:11,280 --> 01:49:14,839
Speaker 7: one nothing lead now at Vancouver late in the first period.

1861
01:49:15,040 --> 01:49:18,040
Speaker 7: The NFL Draft starts this Thursday night with live coverage

1862
01:49:18,080 --> 01:49:21,240
Speaker 7: on Fox Sports Radio. Golf Tomorrow at Hiltonhead they have

1863
01:49:21,280 --> 01:49:23,800
Speaker 7: to finish up the PGA tournament. It will conclude in

1864
01:49:23,840 --> 01:49:25,360
Speaker 7: the morning after a weather delay.

1865
01:49:25,400 --> 01:49:25,759
Speaker 3: Today.

1866
01:49:26,120 --> 01:49:29,160
Speaker 7: Scottie Scheffler leads by five strokes with only three holes

1867
01:49:29,240 --> 01:49:32,720
Speaker 7: to go. Tyler Reddick won the NASCAR race at Talladega.

1868
01:49:33,080 --> 01:49:36,080
Speaker 7: And before we leave the NBA items, we did have

1869
01:49:36,160 --> 01:49:39,520
Speaker 7: that incredible first half tonight during the show at Milwaukee

1870
01:49:39,600 --> 01:49:43,080
Speaker 7: of Damian Lillard. He had the highest first half point

1871
01:49:43,120 --> 01:49:46,240
Speaker 7: total for any player in a postseason contest in the

1872
01:49:46,320 --> 01:49:50,120
Speaker 7: last five years since Kevin Durant for Golden State had

1873
01:49:50,160 --> 01:49:52,519
Speaker 7: thirty eight in a first half in a first round

1874
01:49:52,600 --> 01:49:56,000
Speaker 7: game against the Clippers. This was thirty five in the

1875
01:49:56,040 --> 01:49:59,559
Speaker 7: first half tonight. Now Milwaukee loss last Sunday to end

1876
01:49:59,560 --> 01:50:02,000
Speaker 7: the regular season, so it felled to the three seed.

1877
01:50:02,479 --> 01:50:05,240
Speaker 7: There are three more NBA games tomorrow night that includes

1878
01:50:05,280 --> 01:50:08,479
Speaker 7: two seed New York hosting Philadelphia again. Joel Embiid with

1879
01:50:08,520 --> 01:50:11,439
Speaker 7: the bad knee listed as questionable. New York had taken

1880
01:50:11,479 --> 01:50:14,720
Speaker 7: game one yesterday coming back against Philly. The next have

1881
01:50:14,840 --> 01:50:17,960
Speaker 7: won six straight. They won their regular season finale in

1882
01:50:18,000 --> 01:50:20,599
Speaker 7: overtime a week ago to clinch the number two seed

1883
01:50:20,720 --> 01:50:21,240
Speaker 7: in the East.

1884
01:50:21,240 --> 01:50:24,479
Speaker 2: Back to you, Steve, great stuff, Thank you so much

1885
01:50:24,920 --> 01:50:27,400
Speaker 2: tonight live ty roch trash total Steve.

1886
01:50:27,800 --> 01:50:28,599
Speaker 1: That's right, you.

1887
01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:30,920
Speaker 2: Already like you should see what he just said to

1888
01:50:30,920 --> 01:50:32,320
Speaker 2: the producers on his way back.

1889
01:50:32,439 --> 01:50:35,960
Speaker 1: I mean, just mother bleeping him the whole way.

1890
01:50:36,400 --> 01:50:40,519
Speaker 2: You wouldn't think that about Steve, But it's crazy anyway.

1891
01:50:40,640 --> 01:50:43,720
Speaker 2: I don't know why Yukon versus Butler just broke out

1892
01:50:43,760 --> 01:50:49,320
Speaker 2: in this OKSE game. These two teams like the Pelicans

1893
01:50:49,320 --> 01:50:52,280
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifteen points per game this year. Okay,

1894
01:50:52,280 --> 01:50:56,839
Speaker 2: see buck twenty point one tops in the West, forty

1895
01:50:56,880 --> 01:51:02,320
Speaker 2: three to forty three at halftime. I refer back to

1896
01:51:02,360 --> 01:51:05,559
Speaker 2: my previous point about the Indiana Pacers and how in

1897
01:51:05,600 --> 01:51:13,559
Speaker 2: the playoffs you need to play defense. Changes man, yeah, game, yeah.

1898
01:51:13,400 --> 01:51:16,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, But look at least it's a competitive game,

1899
01:51:16,840 --> 01:51:21,639
Speaker 4: all right, So at least you're sitting here like, okay,

1900
01:51:21,640 --> 01:51:23,639
Speaker 4: this can go either way, which is what you want.

1901
01:51:23,640 --> 01:51:27,240
Speaker 4: The playoffs to be so let's see how this thing

1902
01:51:27,360 --> 01:51:28,000
Speaker 4: finishes up.

1903
01:51:28,479 --> 01:51:31,800
Speaker 2: Let's let's see the second half ti Rack dot Com Studios,

1904
01:51:31,880 --> 01:51:34,360
Speaker 2: and coming up next as we get ready for the

1905
01:51:34,439 --> 01:51:37,559
Speaker 2: NFL Draft. You're not supposed to say what I'm about

1906
01:51:37,560 --> 01:51:39,439
Speaker 2: to say, but I have to say it because I

1907
01:51:39,479 --> 01:51:42,880
Speaker 2: always promise to be authentic. So that's coming up next.

1908
01:51:42,920 --> 01:51:48,280
Speaker 2: Mark Whilarity from salam Fox Sports Radio. All right, tire

1909
01:51:48,360 --> 01:51:52,320
Speaker 2: Rack dot Com Studios. Mark Willardy from Salam Good evening, everybody,

1910
01:51:55,479 --> 01:51:58,040
Speaker 2: Plank and span your here coming up in just a

1911
01:51:58,080 --> 01:52:04,040
Speaker 2: few so n IF Well Draft Thursday, Ephraim, what are

1912
01:52:04,080 --> 01:52:05,000
Speaker 2: you doing for the draft?

1913
01:52:05,600 --> 01:52:10,720
Speaker 3: Listening to Purple rain Man not Purple rain I don't

1914
01:52:10,760 --> 01:52:13,759
Speaker 3: want to be we can love.

1915
01:52:15,080 --> 01:52:19,000
Speaker 2: Just I do like it when you're saying I'm surprised

1916
01:52:19,040 --> 01:52:20,400
Speaker 2: you didn't do it earlier, No.

1917
01:52:20,280 --> 01:52:25,320
Speaker 3: I just was. I was joint on jointing for the draft.

1918
01:52:25,520 --> 01:52:30,160
Speaker 4: Just gonna watch it a little bit, I guess.

1919
01:52:32,280 --> 01:52:34,960
Speaker 1: Be real with me, what does that mean? Watch?

1920
01:52:36,040 --> 01:52:41,480
Speaker 3: But I will probably watch the NBA games. Okay, Okay,

1921
01:52:41,640 --> 01:52:45,400
Speaker 3: you know I I was drafted at the end of

1922
01:52:45,439 --> 01:52:49,080
Speaker 3: the draft, so I just yeah, I don't have anything.

1923
01:52:49,560 --> 01:52:51,960
Speaker 1: I know you are, so it's just like it is.

1924
01:52:53,680 --> 01:52:55,200
Speaker 1: You were not mister irrelevant.

1925
01:52:55,400 --> 01:52:58,800
Speaker 4: No I wasn't, but I was mister afterthought until I

1926
01:52:58,920 --> 01:52:59,760
Speaker 4: made you think.

1927
01:53:00,479 --> 01:53:01,360
Speaker 3: So there's that.

1928
01:53:01,920 --> 01:53:03,719
Speaker 1: I know there's a Laker game that night.

1929
01:53:03,640 --> 01:53:04,920
Speaker 3: Well, then that's what I'll be doing.

1930
01:53:05,080 --> 01:53:09,479
Speaker 2: I mean, the draft starts well before the Laker game.

1931
01:53:11,040 --> 01:53:13,720
Speaker 2: Draft starts during the Knicks Sixers.

1932
01:53:13,880 --> 01:53:15,120
Speaker 3: Probably be watching Knicks and.

1933
01:53:15,120 --> 01:53:18,400
Speaker 1: The Sixers and the Calves Magic game.

1934
01:53:19,040 --> 01:53:22,240
Speaker 4: Look, I like the draft just so I can. You know,

1935
01:53:23,280 --> 01:53:27,240
Speaker 4: I love the stories of these young men accomplishing their

1936
01:53:27,320 --> 01:53:28,960
Speaker 4: dreams and all of that, but I know the real

1937
01:53:29,000 --> 01:53:30,639
Speaker 4: work doesn't start for a couple months.

1938
01:53:31,240 --> 01:53:34,200
Speaker 3: So as a former player, that's where I am.

1939
01:53:34,360 --> 01:53:40,720
Speaker 4: You know, I don't have tremendous Draft night, you know, celebrations,

1940
01:53:42,240 --> 01:53:45,559
Speaker 4: so I know when the real work starts like everything. Yeah,

1941
01:53:45,920 --> 01:53:50,080
Speaker 4: you know, I our first round Keith Brooking wasn't starting

1942
01:53:51,400 --> 01:53:54,320
Speaker 4: when the season started, but the seventh round draft pick

1943
01:53:54,360 --> 01:53:57,360
Speaker 4: guy was. So that's where my mind goes right Like

1944
01:53:58,479 --> 01:54:00,599
Speaker 4: and if I would, if I could, having to give

1945
01:54:00,640 --> 01:54:02,920
Speaker 4: any message to the to the young men who will

1946
01:54:02,960 --> 01:54:05,839
Speaker 4: be drafted, is hey, man, it doesn't matter where you're drafted.

1947
01:54:05,880 --> 01:54:10,679
Speaker 3: Man, you go in there and you cook, you cook.

1948
01:54:10,680 --> 01:54:11,639
Speaker 3: They're gonna let you serve.

1949
01:54:12,160 --> 01:54:14,240
Speaker 4: So you just go in there and do and do

1950
01:54:14,320 --> 01:54:17,479
Speaker 4: what you do, uh and and and and make it happen.

1951
01:54:17,520 --> 01:54:20,360
Speaker 4: I understand that the draft, outside of putting money in

1952
01:54:20,400 --> 01:54:28,160
Speaker 4: your pocket, doesn't necessarily uh coincide with the type of

1953
01:54:28,200 --> 01:54:31,200
Speaker 4: career you'll have, no doubt. That's why I don't put

1954
01:54:31,240 --> 01:54:34,000
Speaker 4: a lot of stock in Oh. With the drafts coming, well,

1955
01:54:34,160 --> 01:54:37,840
Speaker 4: I'd like to see what's happening, who's doing what, so

1956
01:54:37,960 --> 01:54:40,680
Speaker 4: I can talk, uh talk about it.

1957
01:54:41,120 --> 01:54:42,160
Speaker 3: Yes, this is what we do.

1958
01:54:42,200 --> 01:54:45,320
Speaker 4: We will and the draft will happen this weekend and

1959
01:54:45,440 --> 01:54:46,919
Speaker 4: Sunday we'll be talking about.

1960
01:54:46,680 --> 01:54:48,800
Speaker 2: It, and Sunday we'll be talking about it. There's there's

1961
01:54:48,840 --> 01:54:51,160
Speaker 2: no question about it. Although I have to make your

1962
01:54:51,200 --> 01:54:55,640
Speaker 2: promise right now, okay, because next Sunday is next Sunday,

1963
01:54:55,680 --> 01:54:57,240
Speaker 2: And by the time you and I come on on

1964
01:54:57,280 --> 01:54:59,880
Speaker 2: Sunday night, all of the all of the drafting will

1965
01:54:59,920 --> 01:55:09,320
Speaker 2: be drafted. Yes, you will not hear from me draft grades.

1966
01:55:11,600 --> 01:55:13,320
Speaker 2: You will not hear me.

1967
01:55:13,440 --> 01:55:14,240
Speaker 3: Oh you know who?

1968
01:55:14,600 --> 01:55:19,320
Speaker 1: I love what the Eagles did. They got beepity bop

1969
01:55:19,360 --> 01:55:21,000
Speaker 1: in the round. Two man people.

1970
01:55:22,360 --> 01:55:26,240
Speaker 2: Do in the fifth And I'm telling you it's gonna

1971
01:55:26,280 --> 01:55:28,640
Speaker 2: be something. And this is why I say, like, I

1972
01:55:28,720 --> 01:55:32,400
Speaker 2: hesitate to say this because our boss, Scott Shapiro is like, hey, dude,

1973
01:55:32,440 --> 01:55:34,840
Speaker 2: shut up, Like, we've got a big draft show coming

1974
01:55:34,920 --> 01:55:39,240
Speaker 2: up this week. Why don't you promote that? And I'm like, right,

1975
01:55:39,720 --> 01:55:42,680
Speaker 2: but I have to also be authentic. Not that I

1976
01:55:42,680 --> 01:55:45,280
Speaker 2: don't enjoy the draft. I do, but I find it

1977
01:55:45,320 --> 01:55:48,839
Speaker 2: to be one of the funniest pieces of American sports

1978
01:55:48,920 --> 01:55:54,600
Speaker 2: content out there. Like, I actually find amusement because people

1979
01:55:54,840 --> 01:55:58,080
Speaker 2: are so into this, they have been consuming mock drafts

1980
01:55:58,600 --> 01:55:59,280
Speaker 2: for months.

1981
01:55:59,400 --> 01:56:01,400
Speaker 3: Oh my goodnes, and.

1982
01:56:01,440 --> 01:56:07,160
Speaker 2: People will watch, they might even have people over. Special

1983
01:56:07,240 --> 01:56:11,520
Speaker 2: food will be made, and you will sit down and

1984
01:56:11,640 --> 01:56:16,960
Speaker 2: do the equivalent of going to someone else's graduation from

1985
01:56:17,040 --> 01:56:23,480
Speaker 2: high school. Okay, the only difference between the draft and

1986
01:56:23,640 --> 01:56:29,440
Speaker 2: graduation is that the graduation moves faster. You are reading

1987
01:56:29,680 --> 01:56:35,880
Speaker 2: names you don't know. That's all that's happening, And I

1988
01:56:35,960 --> 01:56:39,000
Speaker 2: don't want to hear that. Oh but I'm different. I

1989
01:56:39,080 --> 01:56:44,000
Speaker 2: know all the players, maybe maybe for the first half

1990
01:56:44,040 --> 01:56:50,520
Speaker 2: of the first round. By Friday night. By Friday evening,

1991
01:56:50,920 --> 01:56:53,200
Speaker 2: you might as well read the Dictionary.

1992
01:56:53,200 --> 01:57:03,280
Speaker 4: Eastern Soda states exactly what Clarence Willoughby corner back Eastern Tokyo.

1993
01:57:04,480 --> 01:57:04,520
Speaker 3: No.

1994
01:57:05,200 --> 01:57:05,520
Speaker 1: Yes.

1995
01:57:06,120 --> 01:57:12,000
Speaker 2: With the one and seventy eighth pick in the NFL Draft,

1996
01:57:12,520 --> 01:57:24,120
Speaker 2: the Houston Texans select Chad Something Louisiana Techow. We we

1997
01:57:24,280 --> 01:57:27,200
Speaker 2: got to tackle, we got them, we got we need

1998
01:57:27,240 --> 01:57:28,360
Speaker 2: an attackle I knew it.

1999
01:57:28,440 --> 01:57:32,880
Speaker 1: We needed a tight end. Yes, what are we doing?

2000
01:57:33,640 --> 01:57:34,360
Speaker 1: What is this?

2001
01:57:35,080 --> 01:57:39,600
Speaker 3: The first round? Its own thing? Which was a good move.

2002
01:57:39,680 --> 01:57:40,800
Speaker 3: That was a good moves, a great move.

2003
01:57:41,000 --> 01:57:43,360
Speaker 4: There used to be first three rounds the first day,

2004
01:57:43,920 --> 01:57:47,280
Speaker 4: on the rest the second day, and and.

2005
01:57:47,040 --> 01:57:49,240
Speaker 2: And I'd like, now like they know by the sixth

2006
01:57:49,240 --> 01:57:52,560
Speaker 2: and seventh round, they've got like stand up comedians.

2007
01:57:52,000 --> 01:57:54,160
Speaker 3: Up there remains, you know.

2008
01:57:54,080 --> 01:57:56,520
Speaker 1: They're like, look, this kid traveled from.

2009
01:57:56,520 --> 01:58:03,520
Speaker 4: The my pe ride. That's my boy, should.

2010
01:58:03,400 --> 01:58:06,720
Speaker 1: That's your boy. It's just funny. It's just funny.

2011
01:58:06,760 --> 01:58:09,560
Speaker 2: Like you'll read, like most NFL fans, if you're like me,

2012
01:58:10,160 --> 01:58:13,360
Speaker 2: you're just gonna read that list the next day, Like

2013
01:58:13,400 --> 01:58:16,480
Speaker 2: we'll get to Sunday and there's that list. It's got

2014
01:58:16,480 --> 01:58:19,600
Speaker 2: like seven names on it, and that's what your team did.

2015
01:58:19,800 --> 01:58:24,080
Speaker 2: And you're like, Okay, I like it. You don't know

2016
01:58:24,160 --> 01:58:25,920
Speaker 2: who any of those people are.

2017
01:58:26,400 --> 01:58:29,800
Speaker 1: And even if you do, you have no idea if

2018
01:58:29,800 --> 01:58:31,040
Speaker 1: they're going to be any good.

2019
01:58:33,560 --> 01:58:33,920
Speaker 3: At all.

2020
01:58:34,080 --> 01:58:42,280
Speaker 2: Nothing I've always wanted to do, like a like, forget

2021
01:58:42,320 --> 01:58:46,880
Speaker 2: your mock draft, let's revisit the draft from two years ago.

2022
01:58:48,400 --> 01:58:49,720
Speaker 1: I want that content.

2023
01:58:50,200 --> 01:58:52,880
Speaker 4: The one thing I don't want to be talking about

2024
01:58:52,920 --> 01:58:55,520
Speaker 4: on Sunday is the Lakers being out of the playoffs.

2025
01:58:56,560 --> 01:58:57,520
Speaker 3: That's what I don't.

2026
01:58:57,360 --> 01:59:00,400
Speaker 1: Want, right, Well, well, have they know that it's only

2027
01:59:00,440 --> 01:59:01,080
Speaker 1: Game three?

2028
01:59:02,320 --> 01:59:06,040
Speaker 3: No, they play Thursday, They play Monday, Thursday and Saturday.

2029
01:59:06,600 --> 01:59:11,240
Speaker 1: Oh you're right, they play Saturday. Oh well there's our lead.

2030
01:59:12,360 --> 01:59:19,560
Speaker 2: Yeah oh yeah, oh yeah, Okay, what do you think?

2031
01:59:19,720 --> 01:59:21,320
Speaker 1: What do you think the series is gonna be?

2032
01:59:21,680 --> 01:59:23,440
Speaker 3: I think it'll be tied to.

2033
01:59:23,240 --> 01:59:29,640
Speaker 1: To Oh you're so wishful thinking. We'll see playing and

2034
01:59:29,720 --> 01:59:31,160
Speaker 1: Span you're coming up next.