WEBVTT - Hour 2 - Doug Gottlieb/Dan Beyer Guest Hosting 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.680 Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:05.280 sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine until 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.360 noon eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.520 and you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:15.000 FSR or stream us live every day at YouTube dot 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.680 com slash the Dan Patrick Show. You are listening to 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.680 The Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio. What up, 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:28.480 Doug Gottlievin for Dan Dannett's Dan Patrick's Show. We'll try 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:32.240 not to ruin instead try to help your morning as 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.840 maybe you're in your morning commute, maybe you're working, maybe 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.920 you're out doing stuff for yourself and for your kids. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.279 Welcome in Dan Buyer alongside, of course, you got Jay 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:48.479 stew John Ramos. This is my crew, Rick Buker from 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:53.080 Fox Sports. We'll give us his thoughts on whatever you 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.680 want to call the All Star Game, and we'll get 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.320 you ready for a kind of the stretch run. As 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.560 NBA teams are only now seeming like they're focused on 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.200 getting it together for the postseason. What are the new 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.160 look Lakers is going to look like? When le Bron 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.720 plays what do you say the twenty three most important 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:13.840 games of his career? Okay, we're broadcasting live from the 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.360 tirac dot com studios. Tiract dot com hope you get 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.080 their unmatched selection fast free shipping. Free road has a 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:22.280 protection over ten thousand recommended stellers tirect dot com. It's 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.720 the way that tire buying should be. So there was 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:32.800 there was some discussion from All Star Weekend about load management. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:37.880 Load management. Kyrie Irving gave a lot of thoughtful answers 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.240 when he's asked questions. Here was his answer in regards 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.160 to load management. I don't know who created the time 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:48.280 load management or you know, guys sitting out games, or 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.320 you know this narrative that continues to play on about 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.160 star players or guys not being available. I don't know 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.200 who started the narrative, but it's completely run amuck. I 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.240 think it's the humanized some of us in terms of 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.560 just the way we prepare ourselves day to day. This 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.600 is a twenty four seven job. We have cameras on 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:11.840 us all the time. Okay, I'm not really so because 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.240 there's camera Again, I'm trying to piece together what he's saying. 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:21.760 It's dehumanizing you. He loves the dehumanizing. That's a that's 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.960 a big fallback on it that anytime there's criticism of 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:30.720 him or people in the NBA, we're dehumanizing it. I 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.600 guess is that is that objectifying? Are you're dehumanizing something? 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.040 Are you objectifying? You're making them more of an object 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:41.000 than an actual living being? That that that that's honestly 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:45.000 that it's the most millennial word word ever. Actually, there's 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.320 nothing more human than I'm really tired. I don't want 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:49.800 to go to work, but I have to go to work. 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.480 I'm really tired, but I don't want to go to work, 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:01.680 but I gotta go because other people are depending upon me, right, 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.120 I mean it's the old Can you imagine if the 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.920 school bus drivers like, I mean, you know, I'd like 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.000 to go take your kids to school, but I just 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.560 I got a load manage because that way I can 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:16.960 perform my best when dropping your kids off at school. No, 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.400 that's not the way it works. I mean there are 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.320 teachers we wish would have had a day off because 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.720 they're just you know, you run on a teacher that's 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.000 had a bad weekend and had a bad night whatever, 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.640 and they're a little little punch you with you. I 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:36.400 get it maybe to my job, which I'm well, I'm okay, 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.760 saying I have the cakes cake job of old time. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.680 I watch sports and talk about sports, and interview other 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.840 people about sports, and talk about live sporting events as 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:51.240 they happen. Don't get any better. But I also do 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.840 I do a lot in a given day. Do the show, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.720 do a podcast, do a basketball show on stadium. I'll 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:04.360 go and do games like you know, I just guys today. 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:11.760 I'm not people do that in their industry at the end, 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.679 not early on, when they're just holding on collecting a check. 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.320 Here's Adam Silver, Okay, here's some quotes. I hesitate to 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.880 weigh in on the issue load management as to whether 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:32.120 or not players are playing because playing enough, because there 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:37.000 is a real medical and scientific data about what's appropriate. Sometimes, 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.160 to me, the premise of the question as to whether 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.800 players are playing enough suggests that they should be playing more. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.800 That in essence, there should be a notion just to 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.440 get out there and play. Having been in the league 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.120 for a long time, having spent a lot of time 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.800 with our great legends, I don't think that's necessarily the 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:57.880 case he's doing. These aren't the droids you're looking for 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.000 the world that we used to have where it was 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.599 just get out there and play through injuries, for example. 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.560 I don't think it's appropriate clearly. I mean, at the 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.200 end of the day, they're human beings many of you 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.479 talk to and know well who are playing through enormous pain, 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.279 who played through all kinds of aches and pains on 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.320 a regular basis the suggestion I think that these men, 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.280 in the case the NBA should somehow get out there, 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.640 get out there more for its own sake. I don't 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:34.040 buy into what so because their bodies hurt from playing basketball, 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:39.200 they shouldn't play basketball. The expression I always use his 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:40.880 basketball players to play basketball, Like what else are you 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.320 get to do? So would you get paid to do? 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:49.440 I had this discussion a friend of mine is I've 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.600 become Actually one of the ways I became friends with 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:55.320 him was through dan Is Darius Rucker and see all 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.279 the idea of like there was a time in his 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.279 life when he's like, man, I only want to be 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.760 with you. I can only play so many times. But 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.680 if you if you have bills, if you have kids, 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.159 if you want to play at these shows, people want 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.279 to see. People still want to hear the Hootie songs. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.520 They just dot whether you feel like or you don't 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.960 feel like it. That's what a job is like. I'm 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:27.200 actually more offended when I read it from Adams when 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.719 I hear it that I see it from Adam Silver 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:35.120 than I am from Kyrie Irving, especially when this is 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:39.280 Anthony Edwards. Who what is Anthony Edwards twenty two? Here's 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.560 Anthony Edwards unload banishment. If there's anything I could change 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.600 about the league to make it better, probably just all 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.040 the guys sit and resting. That's the only thing I 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.240 probably don't like. Um just play, man, if you, if you, 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:55.520 if you, if you you got to play. I don't. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.640 I don't like all the sitting, missing games and stuff 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.560 like these people. These people might have enough money to 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:02.400 come to one game, you know what I'm saying, and 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:03.880 that might be the game that come to and then 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:05.680 you're sitting out, you know what I'm saying. So I 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.520 take pride in trying to play every game because I 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.000 don't know. It might be one fan that has never 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.880 seen me play and I'm trying to play, So I 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.760 don't That's the only thing I don't like, guys just 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.160 sitting out. Let me just speak for all of America 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.520 and say thank you Anthony Edwards. Adam silver. What world 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.600 do you live in? Like Bro, you live in New 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.720 York City, You have a great job that you work 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.240 really hard to get. I get all of that, But 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.200 the rest of the real world is do you have 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.960 any idea how expensive it is to go to your games? 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.280 You have any clue what that does to your fan? 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:42.520 And you are telling your fans that you value a 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:47.120 guy getting paid an exorbitant amount of money to not 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:52.080 play because he doesn't feel perfect like sports science. Listen, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:57.560 here's the reality of sports science. It has a value. Okay, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:04.760 it absolutely has a value. But I'll draw this comparison. Okay, 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:13.560 the comp is with head injuries. Right, we have the 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:18.920 same protocols for head injuries in basketball that we do 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:25.800 in football. Here's the problem with it. Tell me the 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.800 basketball player who's suffering from dementia because of repeated head trauma, 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:34.720 they don't actually exist. And yeah, there are some NBA 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:39.240 players who like you see him try and run. I 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.120 played that celebrity game like thirteen years ago, right, And 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.160 I'll never forget Rick Buker, who's going to join us. 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.959 He was in my head the whole week. He kept 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:51.040 telling me, Dude, I talked to Tim Hardaway he knows 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.719 who you are. He's coming for you. And then we 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:55.599 watched him. I watch him run up and down the 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.599 court one time, and I was like, oh, Tim Hardaway's 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.280 he's an old man. Now he's out of shape. This 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.080 is fine. I was completely freaked out by it. I 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.679 get that playing eighty two games and the playoffs for 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.480 ten or fifteen years, that can that can do some 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:15.240 damage to your knees, to your hips or whatever. But 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:20.520 the reality is that football players, those guys they're walking around, 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:26.760 they're maligned, They're mangled, They're a mangled mess. There aren't 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:31.000 former NBA players who are worse off because of their 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:35.400 time exercising every day, playing eighty two nights and sitting 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.880 in ice buckets. Like we take medical science at its word. 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.520 You spraying your ankle, you're out for four weeks, Like 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.199 that's not how it works with. These guys are superhuman 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:51.120 and yet maybe their performance isn't as good. But like, 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:55.720 what are we what are we doing? You have a job, 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.480 you signed up to do the job. You can't shorten 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.679 the season because the idea of shortening the season, you're again, 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.839 you're forgetting what it does to everybody else. Those arenas 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.400 have leases. Those leases have forty one nights plus preseason 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.320 games of the potential for postseason. It's not just the arenas, 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.920 it's all of the restaurants, all of the bars, all 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.120 the tax breaks that were given in order to build 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.560 the brand new arenas, all the people that work in 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.920 those arenas. You're gonna take ten games away from them? 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.520 Are five games away from them? Are you going to 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.640 give them that money? And oh yeah, by the way, 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.360 do you think NBA players are going to give back 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.560 any of the money that they get guaranteed based upon 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:36.400 in an eighty two game schedule. You have a smoldering 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.000 dumpster fire of a mess on your hands, where even 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.400 one of your young stars sits there and goes, I 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.160 just wish guys would play. I want. I came to 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.680 the NBA to play basketball against the best, and I 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.160 don't know who's playing. And even he has the general 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.000 sense of, hey, you know, there's lots of nights when 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.360 we go out there to play and the best player 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.480 on our team or the other team might not be 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:00.640 playing because he doesn't feel perfect. What are we doing? 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:09.880 I expect Kyrie? Kyrie, that's on brand. You're dehumanizing. But 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.480 Adam Silver to go, Kyrie, you know I think they're 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.839 human beings. You're saying, where do you know we're not 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:19.120 the most human thing you can say, Adam Silver is Hey, 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:24.719 I get that you're sore, that you're tired, all right, 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.400 but you have to have some perspective in that. You 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.240 fly in private jets, you stay in the best hotels, 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.559 you be out the best medical treatment. We're not at 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.480 if you don't want to play this, we do not 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.560 want hostages. But if you want to play, you got 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:44.559 to try and play eighty two Knights, right, we want 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.560 to play, got to play any two Knights. Karl Malone 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.920 was up there was it ten straight years? He played 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.560 every game and I'm not a Karl Malone fan and 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.760 the like there's I said this before the show to 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.840 Jay's two. There isn't a human being alive that ever 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.240 patterned their game or Karl Malone And there were no 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:06.880 moves there's like now, his game was kind of weird. 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.560 He ran the lane and John Stockton found him. He 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.600 developed a really good keyhole jump shot. He's a good 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.280 solid post player. But like a Keem has the dream shake, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.320 Kareem has the skyhook, nobody emulates or even names any 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.439 of the moves of Karl Malone. Carl Malone just played hard, 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:29.760 that was it, and he played every night. And you 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:33.400 have Adam Silver trying to convince us this isn't really 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:38.160 an issue. Medical science backs it up. You are dehumanizing him. No, 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:43.199 we're not, or they're human beings. But the whole, the 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.480 whole idea go ahead, go ahead's gonna say. Isn't Adam 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.160 Silver part of the problem because when we you know, 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.440 we started, we start hearing the segment and Kyrie's like, 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.320 who came up with load management? The NBA did because 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.520 they didn't want to put rest on the injury report, remember, 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.960 like that was there was you know, the people don't 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.079 like to hear that guys were resting, so they came 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.079 up with the term of load management, which, by the way, 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.200 I think you could have figured out better terms. But 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:12.199 like that's so so to sit there and even make 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:13.920 it seem like you're out on your own. No, the 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.560 NBA is catering at least that to you. I just 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.880 I'm I'm dumbfounded by the messaging from the NBA, the 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.920 disconnect in the NBA from what the fans and people 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.679 in sports actually believe that's the big thing. It's like, 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:33.320 are we are we on the same planet here? Do 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.000 we not understand this is a problem? It to me 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.280 is you know it really what it started with the 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.360 Spurs right when Papovitch would rest guys like Duncan. It 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.640 really wasn't known, you know, it wasn't throughout the league, 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.560 but they would do it at times. Duncan's not gonna 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.839 play at night. You're like, oh, okay with the resting. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.480 I mean then it took it took another step when 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.680 guys started missing that Saturday night ABC game when you 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.800 know you have you know, just take for his Warriors 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.840 and Tim Duncan and Kwhi Leonard aren't playing and Steph 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.200 Curry and Clay Thompson aren't playing, you know, or you 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.120 know whatever the matchup is, and all of us have 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.040 been saying, well, now, what about the advertisers, And we've 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.480 talked about the fans before, but now it's like, well, 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.520 if they can do it, then then we can do 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.440 it here and then we'll just blame it on the 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.000 back to backs and then we'll just such a bad business. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.480 Nobody runs a business this way. You don't run a 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.720 bit like this is the customer is always right? Is 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.440 the number one thing in any customer service business, right, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.960 and that that's you. You're an entertainment business. It's about 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.680 the customers. Like how many times can you piss off 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.520 the customers before they go like you, No, I'm just 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.880 not gonna do it. I'm just not gonna I'm not 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.920 gonna do it. Not not gonna do it. And by 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:48.080 the way, what kids see what adults see in the pros, 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:52.400 they emulate at a lower level. You do see this 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.920 in some in high school games. Lebronze kid, they lost again, over, 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.520 they lost again last last Friday night. But there were 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.760 games at the the end of the season where suddenly 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.720 he was like, he's got a knee injury, Like, what 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:08.320 are you talking about? High school basketball? He's not hurt. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:14.680 He just played load managing. Excuse me, what what are 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:19.960 we doing? I mean, has any of you ramos have 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:21.400 you been to a Laker game? When the last time 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:28.360 you're a Laker game? Uh gee's twenty fourteen? Yeah, okay, 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.360 did you get the tickets or did you pay for 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.120 the tickets? Um? I paid for him. I took Sarah. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.520 She was like, actually was earlier than that. I think 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.680 Sarah was like ten, so it was a while ago. Yeah, wait, 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.480 she was ten. Then I'm trying to think of how 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.880 old she was. She was young, so probably wasn't twenty fourteen. 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.440 She's born twenty five and he goes like twenty she 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.200 was like seven years old. Was like, what was that 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:52.240 twenty eleven? How much night cost you? A geez? I 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.240 don't know. It was just me her and Suzanne, my wife, 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.400 So I can't remember, but we sat up in the rafters. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:02.320 It was it was pretty high in the extent. Definitely, 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:07.440 three definitely three to twenty dollars, three hundred twenty eight dollars. 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.480 Go to your online banking and scroll to twenty eleven 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.600 if you can. Okay, So look, so I'll give you 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:19.720 an example. The Lakers play the Warriors upcoming, right, they 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.320 play the Warriors. So parking and you can go to 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:28.080 like StubHub and you can get a parking lot sea. Well, 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.880 this one's nineteen dollars. Most of them are thirty eight. Okay, 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:38.200 But the tickets in section three thirty two, Okay, that's 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.000 at it's not it's not in the court. It's like 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.640 in that kind of angle sort of up in the 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.480 third deck. Yeah, you can get two unrestricted view good. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.760 I can see the whole court eighty bucks a pop, 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:55.000 so on a pay forty bucks for parking, one hundred 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:58.320 and sixty for two tickets to sit away the hell 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.240 up high plus again. And we know you either go 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.400 out to dinner or you get some food while you're there. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.800 You're in it for two to fifty plus. You gotta 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:10.400 fight traffic. That's the cheapest possible ticket for the Timberwolves 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:14.080 and the Lakers, right, and the worst seat in the 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:15.520 house or one of the worst seats in the house. 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.120 And you show up and your kids are excited. Oh 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.400 you want to bring your kids? Okay, that's another two 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:27.840 fifty five hundred bucks. Like pick pickstead star player not 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.720 playing tonight. Lebron's not playing night Lebron. You want to 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.240 give him a bit of a pass, you like, dude, 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.240 he's been doing this a long time. But Anthony Davis, 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:40.520 you don't. I just it's an awful way to run 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:46.560 a business. They have understudies on Broadway, but they also 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:53.000 offer refunds if the understudy is performing. You know, I mean, 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.760 imagine if how many nights off the league guys to 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.159 Hamilton take off I don't know. I just the the 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.440 idea that it's not that big of an issue. People 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.639 are making it a bigger issue, and you go with 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.440 the sports science and we're dehumanizing people like no, look, 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:11.200 we under I actually think every human being who's ever 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:15.000 played any sort of athletics or works totally gets it. 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:20.040 It's not dehumanizing. It actually dehumanizes us. It's trying to 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.560 make us feel bad. That's what it's doing, Trying to 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.440 make us feel like we're some sort of neanderthal. You're 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.000 going to play. We're the dad on the sideline that's 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.840 forcing a kid to play a sport that he clearly 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:37.040 doesn't want to play. Like that in it, dude, we're 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.840 paying customers. You have the best in the world. There's 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.119 three hundred and sixty days in the year we're asking 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:47.119 to play eighty two nights. They get treated like absolute kings. 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:53.560 It's basketball. It's aerobic exercise with some physicality blended in. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:56.399 And oh yeah, by the way, do you know what 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:58.560 the best thing to do if you're a basketball player 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:00.680 when you have a cold, you want to the best 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.919 thing to do is play basketball, opens up your capillaries. 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:05.840 You feel great. 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Yeah, 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:45.360 think back to our limit ninety three one. Sure had 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:51.560 to be ninety three because Magic retired. Uh in the 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:56.760 what was it the fall of ninety one, I believe 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.159 for ninety two, so he had to be ninety had 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:03.040 to be ninety three three. Um. Anyway, that was the 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.240 last time I watched the NBA All Star Game live, 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:10.240 and since then it's gotten worse. I don't know for 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:13.240 at a breaking point, but I'm just the clips you 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.600 watched in the highlight just just bad. Ye have Mike 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.480 Malone saying it's the worst basketball game I've ever seen. 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:24.400 You have Jalen Brown saying that's not basketball. Yep. Um, 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:28.520 And and you know me, I think that I think 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.240 the basketball when you actually go watch it in anyway, 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:34.000 it's better than it's ever been. Players are better. The 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:36.200 game is really good to watch, really fun to watch. 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.920 But it does the league a disservice. Is there anything 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:42.440 going to be done to try and fix that mess? Well, 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:47.000 they have, they've tried, and it hasn't It has had 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:52.160 its moment over the last what thirty years, thirty years 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:57.760 that you watched. It's the devices that they've used to 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:03.040 make it or to infuse more competition into it have worked, 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:05.399 but they've only worked for a time. And obviously the 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:09.119 latest where it's quarter by quarter, that that put a 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.119 little juice back into it. But now the players really 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:17.680 don't they don't care, and I believe that it's part 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:25.080 of a larger problem where winning every game no longer matters, 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:28.160 and it's just confused itself at the All Star game 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:33.439 because it's the least meaningful game in terms of what 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:39.320 produces things for players. Yes, winning All Star MVP and 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:41.920 you see guys, certain guys will go for it, but 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:48.040 in terms of defending or collectively winning the game, especially 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:52.600 now that they're being picked by captains, you know, every 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:56.840 action has a reaction. So now it's not East versus West. 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:02.520 You don't have the conference rival re or reputation or 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:05.879 pride on the line. Uh, now you're playing for a 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:10.800 particular player. They're all individuals, uh, sort of playing for 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:13.720 themselves and so all of that has been lost and 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:18.000 I just don't know. I mean, I've often said it 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:21.520 and the NFL has gone to this, which is, let's 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:26.800 just make it a weekend of competition of individual skills 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:32.560 the game. It's because the three point contest, the dunk contest, 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:38.600 thank you mc McClune, those still have some some value. 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:42.280 I mean I'm more interested in those than than I am, 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:45.239 but even the dunk contest, Like I love the mc 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:48.920 McClung story. Yeah, you can't get any NBA star to 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:52.800 be in the dunk contest. Yeah, well, I mean there 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:56.800 that is a problem. That is a problem too. But again, 0:23:57.000 --> 0:24:02.040 we've gotten to this point where player we are rewarding 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:07.159 players regardless of whether they win or not. We're correct 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:09.920 content we're doing. We're giving they have guaranteed contracts, the 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:13.000 guaranteem all right, so which which gives It's not just 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:17.120