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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Driving the Great Episode two forty one,

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Speaker 2: where we will try to talk about the WNBA without

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, are you calling people out

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Speaker 2: their name, flipping out saying your people'll know you because

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Speaker 2: of me. We're gonna try to do that. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if it can be done at this point. Really,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. It seems like we have all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden found these sports topic that can't be discussed

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Speaker 2: without people losing their god dog minds. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: understand there are some racial and gender angles to it,

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Speaker 2: but ultimately this is just a sports story that is

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Speaker 2: pretty it's it when you, when you, when you get

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Speaker 2: through all the morass, it's not that complicated. Yet there

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Speaker 2: And my, oh my, oh my, is it causing land

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Speaker 2: minds for so many of my colleagues. Demons, how are

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Speaker 2: you doing?

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Speaker 3: Pretty good? Pretty good? Crazy weekend?

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Speaker 2: Crazy weekend. And I mean, and by the way, since

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Speaker 2: this weekend, I think the Indiana Fever have played three

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Speaker 2: more games. My god, who set this schedule? I mean,

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Speaker 2: I understand you want to get eyeballs on Caitlin Clark

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Speaker 2: and shout out. By the way, because according to the

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Speaker 2: folks that monitor this type of stuff, one and a

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Speaker 2: half million people watch that Fever sky game, which makes

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Speaker 2: it the fourth highest rated WNBA game in the last

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Speaker 2: twenty two years. So people are people are into this.

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Speaker 2: So I understand the WNBA saying we got to, you know,

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Speaker 2: put Caitlin Clark on this world tour. But they had

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Speaker 2: played as of Sunday as many games in the previous

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Speaker 2: nine days as the Aces had played all season. Think

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Speaker 2: The ace has played all season, so we are the

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Speaker 2: going to start with that. But first we must get

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Speaker 2: to what missed the cut. So here is what missed

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Speaker 2: the cut. The Stanley Cup final is set. More on

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Speaker 2: that in a moment. KD, We're going on his jumper

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Speaker 2: in the club. I just like Kevin Durant Moore and

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Speaker 2: more every day. And the Bills sign an Olympic wrestler

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Speaker 2: Demons much like last year. I have a crisp clean

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Speaker 2: one hundred dollars bill right here. This will become yours digitally,

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Speaker 2: at least via zel. If you can name the two

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Speaker 2: teams in the Stanley Cup final.

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Speaker 3: This is Stanley Cup is uh, that's that's hockey.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're gonna go with the Oilers, uh huh, and.

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Speaker 3: The Oilers against the what's it?

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Speaker 4: I honestly don't know another hockey teams.

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Speaker 2: Brewers, maybe it's not, it's not okay, you were thinking Bruins.

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Speaker 3: Brewers, and it's Ruins.

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Speaker 2: That's Ruins. So I was certain you were cheating because

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Speaker 2: Oilers is correct. But the fact that you weren't cheating

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Speaker 2: and got Oilers, it's Oilers, Panthers, the Rangers, it's fifty.

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Speaker 2: You know what, it's fifty. So I'm just gonna rip

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Speaker 2: All right to moan say, let's get right to uh,

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Speaker 2: the story that is sweeping the sports world, which is

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Speaker 4: So Kennedy Carter of the Chicago Sky obviously foul the

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Speaker 2: Okay, and now there's more to it, which is Angel

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Speaker 2: Now again, there is a clear racial dynamic to this

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Speaker 2: Even though Paige Beckers was deserving of the award and

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Speaker 2: a lot of people disagreed with it, but were almost

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00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 2: afraid to say they disagreed with it the way they

431
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 2: would if it were Kendrick Perkins discussing Victor winbin Yama.

432
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 2: It's like, no, man, that everybody's everybody's grown here. Everybody

433
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 2: can find for themselves to a degree. We don't need

434
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 2: to be overly protective of Caitlyn Clark. She's a badass,

435
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 2: fierce competitor that also, despite a grueling schedule, seemingly not

436
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 2: a very good team and massive scrutiny is handling herself. Fine,

437
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 2: I say, seemingly not a very good team, Tom take

438
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 2: it's the number one pick them back to back years

439
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 2: or two and nine because like you said, But let me,

440
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 2: let me give one other prediction that I know is

441
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 2: gonna end up being a classic Category two. Caitlyn Clark

442
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 2: from this moment forward is gonna have Banana's numbers. So

443
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 2: here's why. So they have had multiple back to backs.

444
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 2: They have played eleven games. No other team's played more

445
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 2: than nine. The Aces have played six. Because of that,

446
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 2: the rest of the way here, they don't have a

447
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 2: single back to back. They have massive So they play

448
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 2: on the seventh, the tenth, the thirteenth, the sixteenth, the nineteenth,

449
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 2: twenty first, twenty third, twenty seventh, thirtieth, second, sixth, tenth, twelfth, fourteenth, seventeenth,

450
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 2: then a month off because of the Olympics, an Olympic

451
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 2: team that we don't know if Caitlin Clerk's gonna make

452
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 2: or not, and then again in September and August, a

453
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 2: relatively light schedule compared to the field because they already

454
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 2: had their tough part, so they're gonna have more rest.

455
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 2: They also have already played. You play the Liberty four times,

456
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 2: They've played them three already. The Liberty might be the

457
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 2: second best team in the league. You play Connecticut four times,

458
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 2: They've played them twice already. Connecticut's a top three team

459
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 2: in the league. So the schedule is gonna get softer.

460
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 2: She's got her legs underneath her, she's gonna have more rest,

461
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 2: and she's gonna ball out. And by the way, I

462
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 2: hope the rest of the rookie class does as well.

463
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 2: I'm rooting for all these girls, but we've gotta be

464
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 2: able to acknowledge. Of course, there is a racial dynamic here.

465
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 2: Of course, there is a very typical jealousy dynamic here

466
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 2: that would exist no matter the races, but is heightened

467
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 2: because of the racial dynamics here. And of course there

468
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 2: is just some sports competitiveness here, which is Angel Reese

469
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 2: thinks she's better. She beat her in the National Championship

470
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 2: than Caitlin got her get back the next year but

471
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 2: didn't win the National championship. And Angel they are going

472
00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 2: to be rivals, and that is great for the sport.

473
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 2: All right? Did I manage to do that without saying

474
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 2: I made anyone famous or calling anyone a bitch I

475
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 2: think I did? Wow? Did that get me a medal

476
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:20,719
Speaker 2: for it? Quick break? Right back? What's right? All right?

477
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right with Nick? Right? All right?

478
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 2: And after a nice half hour on the WNBA and

479
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 2: racial and gender dynamics in America and a little slight

480
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 2: media criticism, I suppose let's get right to the NBA Finals.

481
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 2: De Monse, go ahead.

482
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we are just a few days away from

483
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 4: your large Slovenian son being able to prove prove you correct,

484
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 4: back up all those words you've been speaking for the

485
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 4: last couple of weeks. It's weird because Boston's at minus

486
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,239
Speaker 4: two twenty this is not very weird, and Dallas at

487
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 4: plus twenty five to win the series.

488
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 3: Do you think Vegas has that wrong?

489
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 4: You know, considering the path that the Mavericks had to

490
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 4: take to get there and the Boston Celtics.

491
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I do. I do think Vegas has this wrong.

492
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 2: This would be the third biggest finals upset since the merger.

493
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 2: The biggest upset famously four Pistons over the Lakers. The

494
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 2: second biggest upset a weird one, the nineteen Raptors over

495
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 2: the Warriors. But Katie popped his achilles Clay blew out

496
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 2: his knee, so that one, I don't want to say,

497
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 2: you can throw it out, but that's wasn't a traditional upset,

498
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like the unless you think

499
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 2: the Raptors were gonna beat the full strength Warriors. And

500
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 2: then this fact of the matter is this, since the

501
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 2: trade deadline, the MAVs have had the best events in basketball,

502
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 2: and with this starting lineup, they have played this year

503
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 2: on a sixty five win pace, which is what the

504
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 2: Celtics played all year, a sixty four to sixty five

505
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 2: win pace. So I do think that this series is

506
00:34:56,120 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 2: relatively even. And if it's relatively even and one team

507
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 2: has an all time legendary player and the other team

508
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 2: has Jason Tatum, then I'm gonna go with the team.

509
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 3: Don't I think this series is relatively even? Or did

510
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 3: you say it is?

511
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 2: I said, I do. I do think the series is.

512
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,839
Speaker 2: I do think the series is relatively even. I think

513
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 2: their regular season records would say it's not sixty four

514
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 2: wins versus fifty wins. But I don't look at the

515
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 2: MAVs as that team. I look at the MAVs as

516
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 2: the team they were once they got Gafford and PJ

517
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 2: and once Lively you know what I mean, got more

518
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,760
Speaker 2: reps in his rookie season. So I just and early

519
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 2: in the season they dealt without having Kyrie. I just

520
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 2: really like the MAVs in this spot and maybe all

521
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 2: end up being wrong and everyone people are now. Yesterday

522
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 2: the internet got mad at Zach Lowe for saying I

523
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 2: thought something obvious, which is Jason Tatum is somewhere between

524
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 2: the six to seventh eighth the best player in basketball.

525
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 2: That is not an indictment, It is just the truth

526
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 2: that now, can you win the title with that? Yeah?

527
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 2: Is it super rare? Yes? So like I now, does

528
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 2: the best player always win? No? If that were the case,

529
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 2: Lebron be ten for ten in the finals, So obviously, Well,

530
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 2: I think that's a little you know, that doesn't always

531
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 2: work with team sports, but it does work more often

532
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 2: than not. In the NBA, however, I typically if the

533
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 2: other teams got demonstrably and clearly the best player, you

534
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 2: need to have massive team advantage. And Vegas thinks the

535
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 2: Celtics do. I do not. I think that there is

536
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 2: a huge gap between Luca and Tatum. I think there is,

537
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 2: right now a minimal gap between Brown and Kyrie. Now,

538
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 2: the next three best players in the series are Celtics

539
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 2: Chris STAPs, Drew and Derek White, But the next three

540
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 2: best players after that are MAVs in PJ. Gafford and

541
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 2: uh Lively. I'm leaving somebody out the Oh yeah, Derek

542
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 2: Jones Junior could be on there, but the that's right,

543
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 2: and so the and then you add to it what

544
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 2: to me is a pretty clear and maybe Celtics fans

545
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 2: disagree with me here, coaching advantage for the Mavericks and

546
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 2: the fact that the Celtics have been hit or miss

547
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 2: at home while the MAVs have been absolute killers on

548
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,240
Speaker 2: the road. And I like the MAVs in this spot

549
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 2: and so well, I think plus one eighty five is crazy.

550
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 2: I also think it's very on the board Boston wins

551
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 2: Game one, which is why I might wait to bet

552
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 2: the series, because if it's plus one eighty five right now,

553
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 2: it'll be like plus three hundred or plus two sixty

554
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 2: after Boston wins Game one if they win Game one.

555
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 2: But I also might just pull the trigger on bet

556
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 2: it beforehand. But I'm going to roll with this being

557
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 2: Luca's moment and that I don't think the Boston crowd

558
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 2: is going to get to Kyrie, but I do think

559
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 2: the Boston crowd is going to get Luca going. I

560
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 2: think the Boston crowd going after Luca, is going after

561
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:57,240
Speaker 2: Kyrie is going to be good for Luca. I am curious, Demons, however,

562
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 2: your feelings going into this finals versus two years ago

563
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 2: when your Celtics were playing the Warriors. And I have

564
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 2: other questions Celtics related for you, but your feelings going

565
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 2: into the finals since the Celtics are your team.

566
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 4: A lot more comfortable with them going into the into

567
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 4: the series against the Mavericks. This is the one team

568
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 4: out of the West, like I would have been more

569
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 4: afraid to play Minnesota, and the Mavericks are uh. I

570
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 4: mean they're coming off they had to play the Timberwolves,

571
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,240
Speaker 4: who openly came out and said that they were tired.

572
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 3: Celtics aren't tired. Celtics are deeper.

573
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 4: I think that I think that the Celtics can get

574
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 4: this done in six.

575
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 3: Just way too deep.

576
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 4: Kyrie and Kyrie and Luca I don't think are going

577
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 4: to be enough to win in a seven game series.

578
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 3: I think it's just too much.

579
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,479
Speaker 4: I think that the hookah and the cigarettes will catch

580
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 4: up to Luca something. And this is your furthest lucas

581
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 4: ever been obviously, right, Yep.

582
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, he made the conference finals two years ago. But

583
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 2: this is for everyone on the as this except for Kyrie,

584
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 2: this is their first finals. Meanwhile, for everyone on the

585
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:10,919
Speaker 2: Celtics except for Chris STAPs, they've been here before, right, right,

586
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 2: And so I do think that plays too in your

587
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 2: favor to a degree. Actually I don't was out. I

588
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 2: don't think Al Horford's been here before, but he's played

589
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 2: in a million playoff games because he was with the

590
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 2: Celtics and then left and then came. Oh no, he

591
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 2: was there too, he was worsh You're right, because he

592
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 2: was there, then left to Philly, then came back when

593
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 2: they played for the season. So yeah, everyone but Chris

594
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 2: STAPs essentially has been there. Drew hasn't been there with Boston,

595
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 2: but he's been there with Milwaukee obviously. Uh, here's the

596
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 2: gosh it. I was gonna ask you another question.

597
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 3: Another question, but real quickly.

598
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 2: You you mentioned Luke and Kyrie won't be enough. One

599
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 2: thing that would be a little concerning for me for

600
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 2: boss if I'm Boston. As this, the MAVs did beat

601
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 2: the Thunder with Kyrie averaging sixteen points per game. So

602
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 2: they beat the number one seed in the West in

603
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 2: six games and could have won that thing in five

604
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 2: and Kyrie was, you know, sixteen points a game in

605
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 2: that series. Now do they need Luca to be brilliant? Obviously,

606
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 2: but Luca is looking healthier as the playoffs go on.

607
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 2: And that is my biggest prediction of this series is

608
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 2: you demons are gonna leave midway through this series. Have

609
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 2: a visceral dislike for Luca from the whining and the

610
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 2: preening and the screaming and.

611
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 4: On alert for his he Christ he cries, Yeah, yeah.

612
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 2: He does after a after getting calls to not just

613
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 2: after not getting calls. He gets angry when he gets calls,

614
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 2: when he doesn't get calls, the whole nine. What's your

615
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 2: other question? Go ahead?

616
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 4: Uh, do you think that Luca will leave this series

617
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 4: the villain that he wants to be or you think

618
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 4: he wants to be?

619
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 3: Yeah?

620
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 2: Oh that's a bab I like that. That's Luca's bane

621
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 2: with a hookah. Yeah. I mean I think he is.

622
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 2: I think he is going to be this, I mean

623
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 2: absolutely hated by the Celtic crowd and I can't wait

624
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 2: for it. What's your next follow up?

625
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 3: If you think that Boston will win the finals?

626
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,399
Speaker 4: Is it a smart is a smart bet to bet

627
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 4: Tatum at minus one fifteen or Brown at plus six

628
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 4: fifty for finals?

629
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:40,760
Speaker 3: MVP?

630
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 2: Oh, listen if those odds, I like Brown way way

631
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 2: way better. Now, I am curious Who's who's going to

632
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 2: have I get that, go ahead, go.

633
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 3: No, I get that.

634
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 4: I understand that. I was just like with with I

635
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 4: think if the if the Celtics win the finals, it

636
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 4: won't be because Jalen Brown was the best player.

637
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 2: Well, he just won conference finals MVP. Now, maybe listen,

638
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 2: you might be right.

639
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 4: But I also don't know what's going on with Jason Tatum,

640
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 4: but I think he's gonna turn it on at some point.

641
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 2: Well, and he was good in the conference finals, to

642
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 2: be clear, It just Jalen Brown hit the shot that

643
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 2: forced overtime in Game one, and their numbers were christ

644
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 2: and he was more efficient. I am curious, though, who's

645
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,959
Speaker 2: go We'll talk about this more on Thursday. Who's gonna

646
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 2: be Luca's primary defender because Drew is not big enough.

647
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 2: It's gonna have to be Tatum or Brown and whomever

648
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 2: it is that is going to take a lot out

649
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 2: of them energy wise on the offensive end. Now, he'll

650
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 2: probably hunt you know, switches and stuff anyway, but that'll

651
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 2: be interesting to see. I also think, you know, we'll

652
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 2: talk about him more on Thursday. How Kristaps is gonna

653
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 2: look when he comes back is one of the biggest

654
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 2: storylines of this series. All right, let's move on because

655
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,399
Speaker 2: we have Thursday. We'll do like an all finals show

656
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 2: on Thursday. Go ahead.

657
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 3: So Justin Jefferson just signed a record one hundred and

658
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 3: forty million.

659
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 4: Dollar extension with Minnesota. So that's very similar to Jordan

660
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 4: Poole money. So obviously Justin Jefferson he's he's the best

661
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 4: wide receiver in the league. So I might say, so

662
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 4: you got to give him that money. But if for you,

663
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 4: isn't it great to have, like, you know, a team

664
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 4: like the Chiefs who doesn't have to go out there

665
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 4: and spend all that money for a wide receiver? Is what?

666
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 2: Yeah? But they nobody here's the thing, nobody else has Mahomes.

667
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 2: So I understand, and Justin Jefferson deserves the money. But

668
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 2: I do think that we and I've talked about it

669
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 2: on this pod before and I will continue to We

670
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 2: are going to reach something of a market correction. College

671
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 2: football keeps producing ready to go wide receivers and they

672
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 2: are producing less ready to go offensive and defensive linemen.

673
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 2: So I think you are going to see maybe not

674
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 2: for Justin Jefferson caliber players, but for that next caliber

675
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 2: wide receiver, the really good guy. But isn't you know,

676
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 2: top five in the league. Smart teams say we can

677
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 2: get eighty five percent of that production by a guy

678
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 2: in the draft for ten percent of the salary. We're

679
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 2: just not paying. We are not. The Chiefs have basically

680
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 2: said we're gonna draft and develop wide receivers in corners

681
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:28,399
Speaker 2: because that's what college football is producing, and we are

682
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 2: going to pay our offensive and defensive lineman along with

683
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 2: the quarterback. Wild's had an interesting thought, which was, under

684
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 2: the current salary cap structure, can you basically just have

685
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 2: fifty million dollars for your quarterback and your wide receiver

686
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 2: one and split it up as you see fit. So

687
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 2: like for the Vikings, you know you have Justin Jefferson

688
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 2: on the rookie deal, I'm sorry, on the record setting deal.

689
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,439
Speaker 2: And then a rookie quarterback for the Dolphins. Right now,

690
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 2: you have Tyreek and Waddle on these crazy deals, but

691
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 2: they haven't paid to a yet. The Cowboys have Dak

692
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 2: on this huge deal waiting to pay CD. Maybe when

693
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 2: they pay CD, do they then not bring back Dak.

694
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 2: The Bills, Josh Allen makes a ton of money. They

695
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 2: trade Stefan Digs the Chiefs. All the money goes to Mahomes,

696
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 2: they draft receivers. It is an interesting thought by Wilde

697
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 2: that I didn't really I hadn't really considered on that level,

698
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 2: but I now the Eagles are trying to do everything.

699
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:37,399
Speaker 2: Pay Davante, pay aj and pay Jailen Hurts, but they're

700
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 2: kind of borrowing a lot from the future. The Niners.

701
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 2: You paid Debo, you seem hesiten to pay Ayuk and

702
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 2: Purdy makes nothing, and so I get why the Vikings

703
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 2: would do it, But I also think some of these

704
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 2: wide receiver contracts are not gonna age. Well, all right,

705
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 2: let's play a quick game of this or that.

706
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 4: Uh, yes, it's time for this or that. We got

707
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 4: Bears hard Knocks, huge pool of them. Caleb Williams and

708
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 4: the Bears will be featured on Hard Knocks this year.

709
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 4: The NFL putting Caleb in the spotlight right away is

710
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,399
Speaker 4: genius or too soon?

711
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 2: Oh? I think it's genius. I think he's charismatic. I

712
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 2: think he'll be excellent. I think that he will become

713
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 2: instantaneously another star of the league. So I think I

714
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 2: love it. I think it's great. Next.

715
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 4: No better team for that right New York's After the

716
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 4: Rangers were eliminated. New York men's sports teams have now

717
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 4: gone to combined one hundred seasons without a championship. But

718
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 4: you've got a nice graphic up there for those questioning

719
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 4: on YouTube.

720
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:39,399
Speaker 2: But that's good.

721
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 4: But they still have Jalen Brunson. New York Sports is

722
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 4: hopeless or hopeful?

723
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 2: Oh? I think it's hopeful because the Knicks just had

724
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 2: their best season in my opinion, in a quarter century.

725
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,320
Speaker 2: The Rangers, it seems like we're good in The Yankees

726
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 2: might win the World Series this year, so I think hopeful. Next.

727
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 4: Dallas is having a great year for sports. The Rangers

728
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,800
Speaker 4: won the World Series, the Stars made the Conference finals

729
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 4: in the NHL, and the MAVs are in the NBA Finals.

730
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 4: Uh So what about Dallas? Cowboys will join the party

731
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 4: soon or never?

732
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 2: Well, it's not gonna be soon. I don't want to

733
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,280
Speaker 2: say never, but it would be later rather than soon.

734
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 2: The Cowboys are in the midst of you know, they

735
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 2: kind of took their shot with the way decks.

736
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 3: Kind of feel like.

737
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 2: Never's not that. So then I guess that soon. So

738
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 2: the I guess, I'll say, I guess, I'll say soon. No,

739
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 2: I'm not. I don't have to pick one. The answer

740
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 2: is later. It's there there is. The answer is not never,

741
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 2: but it's also not soon.

742
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 3: Yes, I want to be clipped.

743
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 4: Yesay on TV, you said your top five quarterbacks in

744
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 4: the NFL A Mahomes, Alan, Burrow, and Stroud.

745
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 3: With the fifth spot up in the air.

746
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 4: Nick's fifth best quarterback is Lamar Jackson or Justin Herbert

747
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 4: is none of the above.

748
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 2: I'd probably go kale it. But if you guys don't

749
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 2: want me to put a rookie, I'll say Stafford. Uh

750
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 2: and so. And I know people think I'm being disrespectful

751
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 2: to Lamar. I'm just being honest.

752
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 4: Sorry, And the game you're not picking either, then you

753
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 4: just went outside of this or that.

754
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry you guys.

755
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 3: Last one.

756
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 2: Put Justin Herbert on there instead of Matt Stafford. That's

757
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 2: not my fault. Put a better name, or put Trevor

758
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 2: all right.

759
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 4: Next, Syricus alumni Crmelo Anthony is joining the ownership group

760
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 4: for an expansion of the basketball team in Australia. You

761
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,359
Speaker 4: said it as part of a journey to one day

762
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 4: becoming an NBA owner. Could your fates be intertwined? Nick

763
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 4: will be an Avid fan or a general manager?

764
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 2: Avid fan, I got. I had an opportunity to become

765
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 2: a part of owner ship group of lower level Italian

766
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 2: basketball team that I could have kind of been part

767
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 2: of the general manager front office, you know, kind of

768
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 2: group four. I don't know if I told you about

769
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,879
Speaker 2: this to months it's like eighteen months ago, but I

770
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 2: didn't have and I thought I would want to do it,

771
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 2: but then I thought about it. I didn't have the

772
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 2: time to like, actually, you know what I mean, I'm

773
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 2: not gonna be scouting like lower level international prospects. I

774
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 2: just wasn't and so I, uh, maybe in another life, yeah,

775
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 2: it was cool and I probably should have followed up

776
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 2: on it more than I did, but I didn't. And

777
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 2: in another life maybe, but right now I just just

778
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:46,760
Speaker 2: Avid fan, all right? Next?

779
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 4: All right, So it took Jason kelce less than three

780
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 4: months in retirement to start picking fights. And his first

781
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 4: enemy is big soap, so he's got a thing against.

782
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jason Kelsey wrote, all of you have been fed

783
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 2: diabolical lies. Washing every crevice of your bodies and hair

784
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 2: all the same all the time is somehow better or healthier.

785
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 2: Any dermatologists not in bed with big soap will agree

786
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 2: hot spots are all that's necessary and actually leads to cleaner,

787
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 2: healthier skin. This is really a I'm gonna go ahead

788
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 2: and say we started the show talking race, we might

789
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,919
Speaker 2: end the show talking race. This is also a too

790
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 2: Americas thing. This is there are real There is a

791
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 2: real racial dichotomy about how often you need to you know,

792
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 2: scrub like your calves versus whether or not when you're

793
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 2: in the shower, as Jason Kelcey put it, you wash

794
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 2: hotspots and just kind of let soap and water and

795
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:54,280
Speaker 2: gravity take care of the rest.

796
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 4: It is go ahead, demanse So the Jason Kelcey are

797
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 4: big so was that this or that? But that's not

798
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 4: something that you want to hear from a guy like Jason.

799
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 2: Kelsey in a big football player. Listen, he's not saying

800
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 2: he's not showering. What he's saying is is he is

801
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:21,839
Speaker 2: washing directly his underarms and his you know, genitals, and

802
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,879
Speaker 2: that the rest of it, ah, soap and water will

803
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 2: take care of itself. And what I'm telling you is,

804
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 2: I don't think Jason Kelcey is the only person out

805
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 2: there with that opinion. I do think that happens to

806
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 2: be more of an opinion held in the white community

807
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 2: than the non white community. I also think that Jason

808
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 2: Kelcey one of the there are certain things like there's

809
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 2: also like a real racial division about do you just

810
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 2: use the bar of soap to clean yourself or do

811
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 2: you use a washcloth or washt owl. There's a lot

812
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 2: of things that again we don't talk about it, Like

813
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about how I shower, how I bathe

814
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:07,799
Speaker 2: because I understand better than Jason Kelcey. There's certain things

815
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 2: better just keep to yourself. It's just no wins in this.

816
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 2: There's just no there's no upside in this. And but

817
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 2: it was. I think Jason Kelsey has taken a lot

818
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 2: of arrows for an opinion. A lot of people share,

819
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 2: but they're not brave enough to say it. I'm not

820
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 2: saying where I stand. I've also been married to your

821
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 2: mother for fifteen year of married eleven years with your

822
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 2: mother fifteen years, so I maybe have adjusted whatever my

823
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 2: potential previous bathing habits were. Who knows. All I know

824
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 2: is it's no one's damn business. Quick break, get to

825
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 2: your questions next? What's right? Hey, welcome back in What's

826
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 2: right with think? Right? Demondsey, We're back. We didn't even

827
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 2: know it. We weren't paying attention. All right, Let's get

828
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 2: to the listener questions right now? Go ahead?

829
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 4: Uh rap, I knew you were gonna say, Luca is

830
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 4: a villain. Come on, man, talking about how everybody else

831
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 4: is a victim, but somehow not Luca. Luca's top three

832
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 4: winners in the league, always winers in the league. Sorry,

833
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 4: playing always playing victim.

834
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 2: Well, listen, I think Luca whinds to the refs a lot.

835
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 2: I do not think he plays victim to the media.

836
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 2: That's what I was talking about. Those other guys play

837
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 2: victim to the media, Luca doesn't. Luca on the courts,

838
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:31,760
Speaker 2: always whining, but he wants to be the villain. Go ahead.

839
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 4: I think there is a curve when you consider that

840
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 4: Lucas like he's he's he's formed, like I don't want to.

841
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 4: I guess it sounds kind of weird, but he's not.

842
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 4: I don't think he was like brought up in like

843
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 4: the the Hales, like the way media and sports is

844
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 4: done over here. So I think he's still a giant baby,

845
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,240
Speaker 4: but he's just a foreign giant baby.

846
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 3: He's not.

847
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 2: Okay. I listen see he winds to the refs on

848
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 2: the court, but he is I don't think he plays

849
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 2: victim in the post game press conference or off the court.

850
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 2: Just my opinion. All right, let's go to Kevin Gillan.

851
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 4: Kevin Gillen said Demonse needs his new shades. If Nick

852
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 4: doesn't pony up soon, the comment section is going to

853
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 4: pass the hat for a pair of pit vipers.

854
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 2: So I looked up what pit vipers are Demonse google

855
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 2: pit viper sunglasses because I didn't know what those were called.

856
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 2: I didn't know that that's what those were. I don't

857
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 2: even know what to compare them to. I think they're

858
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 2: like the sunglasses Hulk Hogan used to wear, like in.

859
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 3: The eighties, oh, late eighties.

860
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:38,759
Speaker 2: Or early nineties, and I think some baseball players wear them.

861
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:42,080
Speaker 2: I don't think those would look good on Demonse. I

862
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 2: don't think those are really his. Look, I do need

863
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:45,839
Speaker 2: to get you a pair of nisee shades though, that

864
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 2: part's true. All right, let's go to Eric Hua.

865
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 3: I thought you had them and like you just hadn't

866
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 3: given them.

867
00:55:53,160 --> 00:56:00,280
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, this guy, this guy is saying, oh, class, yeah,

868
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,280
Speaker 2: oh I do have You're right, no, no, no, I actually

869
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 2: do have them. That parts I wasn't even thinking about it.

870
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 2: That part is I do have them, I just haven't

871
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 2: given them to you.

872
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 4: Go ahead, So Eric, who has said I understand it's

873
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,240
Speaker 4: more compelling to talk about what if the Celtics lose?

874
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 4: But are the other talking points for if they win?

875
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 4: Or is it more of a what missed the cut?

876
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 2: No, if they win, we'll spend a lot of time

877
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 2: on it. The I don't and I think we're gonna

878
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 2: I think leading the TV show with a discussion about

879
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 2: that today. I don't think they're going to win. And

880
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 2: I have not been that interested in their meandering walk

881
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 2: to the finals through three okay teams without their best player.

882
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 2: I know people are might Celtics fans might not like that. Sorry,

883
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 2: I just haven't been and so, uh will let's see

884
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 2: how the series plays out. I promise if they're winning,

885
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 2: they will get their credit. But right now, I'm just

886
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,800
Speaker 2: not that interesting in it. I'm just not and I

887
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 2: don't think they're gonna win, all right.

888
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:09,319
Speaker 4: Next Negative four and two asked who would benefit most

889
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 4: from a finals MVP, Luca, Kyrie or Tatum.

890
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 2: Oh, Tatum would benefit the most from it because he

891
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 2: would then say what more do you want from me? Guys?

892
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 2: So Tatum would benefit the most from it. But I

893
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 2: I think from a legacy perspective, it is no Tatum.

894
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 2: Actually the answers Tatum, because I think Luca gets one eventually.

895
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 2: Oh we had pit vipers on set. What are the

896
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:49,920
Speaker 2: odds of that? Wow? Maybe those shades? Well, I mean

897
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 2: that's unbelievable. Maybe those shades? All right, demontic reed, go

898
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 2: to one hundred overall question.

899
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 3: A hunter overall, Batman, bron what a name?

900
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 4: A question for Nick? What exactly does Lamar? What exactly

901
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 4: does Lamar need to do to be a top five quarterback?

902
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:15,520
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, not every single year of

903
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 2: the worst game of his season in the playoffs? Sorry, wait,

904
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 2: what did you say? Is like?

905
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 3: What did you say?

906
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 2: Every year of his career. He has had his worst

907
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 2: game of the season in the playoffs every single year

908
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 2: of his career. Sorry, I mean he score more than

909
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 2: ten points in a home conference championship game. I don't know.

910
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 2: I like Lamar, I root for Lamar. If I'm being honest,

911
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 2: Do I think he's one of the five best quarterbacks

912
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 2: in football? I don't. All right, Next last question, Joel Penfield.

913
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 4: Joel Penfield said, Nick, I need a vibe check on

914
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 4: your thoughts on the Royals. Big stretch of games coming up.

915
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 2: Huge stretch. Gotta take two out of three from the Guardians.

916
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,439
Speaker 2: We had lost six of seven. It looked like we

917
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 2: were gonna be slumping going into the biggest series of

918
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 2: the year. And then that amazing ninth inning on Sunday

919
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 2: got us going in the right direction with two run

920
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 2: comeback against the Padres. Now we got to take two

921
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 2: out of three against the Guardians and stay within spitting

922
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 2: distance of the Ale Central. All right, great show, Great job, demons.

923
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Speaker 2: I'll see you guys on Thursday for a finals gambling show.

924
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:26,680
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