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Speaker 1: An exclusive glimpse into what happened in the celebration room

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Speaker 1: recounting as well of what it's like to shake hands

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Speaker 1: with Pacers coach Rick Carlisle Lebron ad the Lakers winning

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Speaker 1: the ist, the future of the n Season Tournament. We

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Speaker 1: get to all of that next here on this League Uncut.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to this League uncut.

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Speaker 2: In the rule of twenty four hour NBA News, this's blue,

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Speaker 2: Chris Hans, it's so time, works time, it's so time.

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Speaker 1: This League uncut is underway and on fire.

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Speaker 2: This should be a good one.

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Speaker 1: Everyone, Welcome in to another of this uncut. Chris Haynes

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Speaker 1: and I recording on a Sunday night, a very quiet

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Speaker 1: Sunday night in the NBA after the n Season Tournament

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Speaker 1: championship game in Las Vegas. Of course Chris was there.

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Speaker 1: We're going to get to all that in a sec

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Speaker 1: but first things first, I have to Chris, we have

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Speaker 1: to amend. If you remember, I recently asked you the

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Speaker 1: trivia question, how many days once the season starts, and

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Speaker 1: during the season are there no games, and you guessed four,

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Speaker 1: and at the time it was actually five. You were

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we're connecting tonight because my sources say that

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Speaker 1: vaunted Did they call it the celebration room in Vegas?

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Speaker 1: Is that is that true? Have I been? Have I been?

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Speaker 3: You got good sources, Sten, you got good sources. You've

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Speaker 3: been working your magic. Yeah, that's yeah, that's what they

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Speaker 1: don't have to worry about because what the league is

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Speaker 1: worried about is it's making up the get when teams

433
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Speaker 1: go out of the tournament, how to put games back

434
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Speaker 1: on their schedule. And that's why they went with this

435
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: ultra safe thing of the first four games everybody plays

436
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,400
Speaker 1: in this tournament are gonna be group games, but they're

437
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Speaker 1: just gonna be regular season games that count twice because

438
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Speaker 1: the league the scale and I'm not minimizing it. The schedule.

439
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,399
Speaker 1: Doing the schedule for this past week was difficult. It

440
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: was a challenge for the league. And if there's more

441
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Speaker 1: single elimination, as I'm advocating for, it's gonna get even

442
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Speaker 1: more complicated. So that's what I'm saying, Maybe we need

443
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Speaker 1: to to make this tournament truly separate from the regular season,

444
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Speaker 1: because that's I believe it should be separate from the

445
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Speaker 1: regular season, completely separate. We're gonna you know, they're trying

446
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,679
Speaker 1: to make this out to be the NBA's version of

447
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,120
Speaker 1: soccer's FA Cup in England. The FA Cup is separate

448
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: from the league. Let's make this thing separate from the league.

449
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: So the only way to make it separate is to

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Speaker 1: shorten the eighty two game season a little bit, because

451
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Speaker 1: you don't want to make this longer. You don't want

452
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Speaker 1: to have them playing eighty two games and adding potentially

453
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Speaker 1: six or seven tournament games too, because these guys already

454
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Speaker 1: play too many games. So I know I'm making it

455
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Speaker 1: sound easier than it is, but that's I really believe

456
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Speaker 1: that those are that's where this thing eventually needs to

457
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Speaker 1: get to.

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Speaker 3: And I'm gonna ask something else too, So that championship game,

459
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Speaker 3: as you know, that championship game is the only game

460
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Speaker 3: where the stats do not go into the regular season stats,

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Speaker 3: which I think it should because it's it would be.

462
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Speaker 3: So the Lakers going to play with one more official

463
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Speaker 3: They're gonna play one more game. They're gonna have an

464
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Speaker 3: a three game season, and I think if you make

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Speaker 3: it to the championship as a reward, you get an

466
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Speaker 3: extra game to pile up your stats. Now it can

467
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 3: go either it can go both ways. You could pile

468
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Speaker 3: up your stats or you could have hurt it, you know,

469
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Speaker 3: depending on what type of game. Yeah, but the game

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Speaker 3: that Anthony Davis just had. You know, I saw Lakers

471
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Speaker 3: and other people tweeting out a season high. Well it's

472
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Speaker 3: not really a season high. It doesn't count, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean I retweeted out, I retweeted stat mus because

474
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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis forty one points, twenty rebounds, five assists, and

475
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Speaker 1: status stat Muse tweets out the only forty twenty five

476
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Speaker 1: games in Laker history. It's Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, and

477
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Speaker 1: now Anthony Davis. But no, it's not because, no, the

478
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Speaker 1: that's from that game last night. They do not get

479
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Speaker 1: added to either the regular season or playoff resume. For

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. He that's as dominant a performance as Anthony

481
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Speaker 1: Davis has probably ever had, and it is now goes

482
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Speaker 1: it goes into this nebulous category. And it's the same

483
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: thing with the playing games. Those games don't get added

484
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Speaker 1: to your regular season or your playoff resume. So Jason

485
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Speaker 1: Tatum had that fifty point game against Washington two years ago,

486
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Speaker 1: and that's the same thing. It floats in this nebulous

487
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: zone that we don't know what to do with it,

488
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: and officially we don't know what to do with this

489
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Speaker 1: game that ad played, this game of his life.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think for this because players I was

491
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Speaker 3: telling you that, like players during the regular season, like

492
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 3: that is their time, Like that's their sanctuary in which

493
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 3: they can pad their stats and produce. They don't want

494
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Speaker 3: to play game and November and December and not have

495
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Speaker 3: those games accounted for. And so you know, the play

496
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Speaker 3: in is one thing, but you know, like I just think,

497
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Speaker 3: I think as a reward, if you make it to

498
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 3: the championship game, that's a reward where you get an

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Speaker 3: extra game to produce, pad your stats and help out.

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Speaker 3: And I know fans may say, it's not all about

501
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 3: the stats, please please, these players care about the stats.

502
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 3: It's very important. It's very important to reach certain incentives

503
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 3: for triggers in their contract where they can get a boost.

504
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 3: So it is that important, and I don't think that's

505
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Speaker 3: too much to ask, Like, if you make it as

506
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Speaker 3: a reward, you get an extra game to try to

507
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Speaker 3: pile up more stats.

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Speaker 1: Did you get a chance last night to chat with

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Speaker 1: Ad at all.

510
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 3: No, I did, but not about that. We were asking,

511
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 3: you know, he had to grow that he suffered that

512
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 3: growing injury again, that was the same injury he had

513
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Speaker 3: earlier in the season. What else did we talk about?

514
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 3: Family stuff? Just family stuff. But you know I talked

515
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Speaker 3: to Lebron. He told me, like the n season tournament

516
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Speaker 3: that was, he felt like this was the perfect platform

517
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Speaker 3: for somebody like Cam Reddish And he said he happy

518
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Speaker 3: that Cam Reddish got this experience and not only got

519
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 3: this experience, but how he performed so the league can

520
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 3: see what type of dual player he is, he said,

521
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Speaker 3: because everybody was trying to write him off. He said,

522
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Speaker 3: now look what he's doing for us. And so you know,

523
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Speaker 3: he wanted me to talk to Cam, and I went

524
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 3: and spoke with Cam about you know, his resurgence and

525
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Speaker 3: you know, finally making his mark in the league. And

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Speaker 3: you know, he said, Lebron empowers him. He said, if

527
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Speaker 3: you got somebody like that in your corner, he said,

528
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Speaker 3: that gives you all the confidence in the world. So,

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Speaker 3: you know, some of the brief conversations I had with

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Speaker 3: Ad and Lebron after the game, but it was cool experience,

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Speaker 3: cool experience.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm actually wondering. You know, it's hard to

533
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Speaker 1: talk about downsides when a guy just rumbled for forty

534
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: one twenty five assists and four steals. I think it was.

535
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Speaker 1: But yeah, the problem now is, of course AD's many critics,

536
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: a few of whom, most notably work at your network.

537
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: They're gonna expect this all the time now. I mean,

538
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: he's going to be measured against his own success for

539
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: the rest of the season, for the rest of eternity. Yes,

540
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: because it's been this was the Ad that everyone has

541
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: been clamoring for.

542
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been that way for a while. Everybody was

543
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 3: waiting for Ad to take over the reins of the

544
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 3: Lakers from Lebron last few years. It hasn't quite gotten

545
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 3: to that point. He's had spurts all throughout his career,

546
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 3: but consistent consistency is what everybody is looking for. But hey,

547
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 3: you know what, even if Ad were to get a

548
00:31:55,720 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 3: bunch of criticism, it pales in comparison to what Zion

549
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 3: is receiving right now. I know we touched on Zion

550
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 3: last episode, but people are still going in on him,

551
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 3: and you know, he's another guy that you know is

552
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 3: going to until until he's playing at a consistent level,

553
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 3: He's going to get that criticism to the similar to

554
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 3: the similar standpoint of ad for different reasons, but very

555
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 3: much the same.

556
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Speaker 1: No, no question to me, how Zion responds to this

557
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: level of noise, the harshest criticism he's ever received. To me,

558
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: that's one of the stories of the season going forward.

559
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: Because the Pelicans do have a lot of potential. This

560
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: is a Western Conference that is very deep, very crowded,

561
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Speaker 1: and the Pelicans have a lot of upward mobility potential.

562
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: But I mean, Zion has to lead the way, and

563
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: you know he fell so are short of expectations and

564
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: acceptable performance in both the ist games this week. I'm

565
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: really curious to see what kind of answer he has

566
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: for his critics.

567
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 3: For sure.

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Speaker 1: By the way, since I brought up Orlando, the G

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Speaker 1: League Showcase is coming very soon December nineteenth through the

570
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Speaker 1: twenty second. I am booked to be there. It will

571
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Speaker 1: be my first trip back to Orlando since the Bubble

572
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: Summer of twenty twenty. I know I'm going to see

573
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: you this week. I'm excited to host you in my city.

574
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: I hope postgame maybe you'll be after your sideline interview

575
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: with the star from the winning team on Tuesday. I

576
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: hope you'll be cool with being seen in public with

577
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Speaker 1: me somewhere. But my other question is am I going

578
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: to see you at the g Leak Showcase? Because if

579
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: it was in Vegas, I know I would see you.

580
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: We always meet up there. But are you making a

581
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: return trip to Orlando?

582
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 3: No, not ready, I haven't. I haven't returned to Orlando

583
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 3: since I exited the bubble.

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00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: So no Nook, no g Leak Showcase.

585
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 3: Nah, I'm cool, I'm cool, I'm fine, I'm sad. I'm fine. Well, listen,

586
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 3: you had your opportunity to see me in Vegas for

587
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 3: the n Season tournament. I just you know, I would

588
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 3: say this time I would have went to kill two

589
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 3: birds with one stone. You know, I was thinking about

590
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 3: a walk there.

591
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: You go with the birds again.

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00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 3: I'm sorry everybody thinks that. Everybody think I'm just a bird,

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00:34:58,440 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 3: a bird killed.

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00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: I don't.

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00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 3: I don't, I don't, I don't know. Not anti bird participate. No,

596
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 3: I'm not anti bird and I don't participate. I just

597
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 3: I just happened to watch, you know. That was that

598
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 3: was it? But listen, you know, I Stan. You know,

599
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 3: I was thinking about, like, okay, g LEA showcases in

600
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 3: Orlando this year, I can take the family, we can

601
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 3: go to walk Disney World and then we can you know,

602
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 3: I can do that, so you know, everybody be happy

603
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 3: because I've been traveling a lot, right, and it was

604
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 3: you know, it's the worst part to travel a lot

605
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 3: during the holiday season. So I'm like, okay, well, that

606
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 3: way they can be satisfied. You know, nobody be mad

607
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 3: at me at the house. But then I realized, Stein,

608
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 3: I don't work at ESPN anymore. I don't have those

609
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 3: family discounts. And I said that that that is going

610
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 3: to you know, walk Disney World, that'll be a pretty

611
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 3: penny for my family of six. So you know what, Stein,

612
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 3: I'll pass. I'll skip this year's G League showcase. It

613
00:35:59,200 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 3: wasn't meant to be.

614
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: All right, well, I will try to hold it down

615
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,479
Speaker 1: for you. There's even there's even a heat magic game

616
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: in the middle of all that that I'm gonna get

617
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: to go to. And I haven't been to a magic game.

618
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: I can't even remember the last time I was in

619
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: a magic game in Orlando. So and you know, all

620
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: I'll say is again. I don't want to jinx it,

621
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: but we are efforting a special guest from the Orlando

622
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: Magic on this podcast very very soon. That's all I'll say.

623
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: I'm pretty I'm pretty confident that's gonna happen. But I

624
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: think where we're gonna leave it tonight Slash Today the

625
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: coolest thing I saw to see Bronnie James make his

626
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 1: college debut was very moving. I've made this comment before.

627
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: I can't help it. I'm such a sentimental sap that,

628
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:53,240
Speaker 1: you know, even though Lebron is having this absolute turn

629
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: back the clock season, you know, Saturday, the night he

630
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: wins MVP in the nd season tournament, was exactly three

631
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: weeks away from his thirty ninth birthday, So, I mean,

632
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: what he's doing on the court is ridiculous. But Lebron

633
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: James the dad is pretty much my favorite Lebron at

634
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:16,320
Speaker 1: this point. I love watching how into his kids' lives

635
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: and careers he is. And obviously with the just terrible

636
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: health situation that Bronni endured just a few months ago,

637
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: and to be able to come back so quickly and

638
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: make his college debut tonight was well, I mean, look, Lebron,

639
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 1: Lebron put Lebron posted this, and you know you can

640
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: totally get why he felt this way. Quote. Can't even

641
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: tell y'all how emotional today was for me. I'm literally drained,

642
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: and all I can say is, Bronni, You're simply incredible.

643
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: Damn the wins and losses that will occur. You've already

644
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:01,479
Speaker 1: won the Ultimate Goal Championship and that's life. Proud of you, kid,

645
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 1: and today you've given me more life. Thank you, and

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Speaker 1: I love you. And yeah, it was, it was, it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a pretty cool scene to.

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Speaker 3: Watch now, most definitely when you're thinking about just what

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Speaker 3: Bronni has been through, what Lebron and his families have

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Speaker 3: been through. You know, we didn't know if he would

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Speaker 3: get to this point. That's a scary That was a

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Speaker 3: scary health concern. You know a lot of people don't

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Speaker 3: get to come back and and play at a level

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Speaker 3: like that, so and especially that soon. So you know,

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Speaker 3: I was definitely a cool sighting seeing him out there.

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Speaker 3: I saw his first you know, college you know, bucket

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Speaker 3: transition three. That's cool. And you know, bron Man, he's uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, he's a proud dad. He was you know,

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Speaker 3: he's not shy of he's not shy and showing that

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Speaker 3: as well. So that's that's pretty cool to see. So

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Speaker 3: I wish Bronnie nothing but the best man. I've seen

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Speaker 3: those kids since they were man under ten, so I

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Speaker 3: think I started covering Lebron twenty fourteen, so yeah, about

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Speaker 3: ten years ago. So yeah, they were both under they're

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Speaker 3: both under ten when I first met him.

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Speaker 1: I remember when Bronnie was born. I was at Cavs camp,

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Speaker 1: and I remember Lebron was being pressed for questions because

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Speaker 1: everyone knew he was about to become a father, but

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Speaker 1: he at that point he really didn't want to say

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Speaker 1: too much publicly. And I remember in a media scrum

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Speaker 1: he was asked about Bronnie and what are you going

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Speaker 1: to name him? And he said Brian Winnhurst James. And

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Speaker 1: so for years I used to call I used to

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Speaker 1: call Windy Brian Winhurst James. That I remember, and I

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