Speaker 1: Welcome to this League uncut in the rule of twenty
Speaker 1: four hour NBA News.
Speaker 2: This's you'll, Chris Hans.
Speaker 1: It's so time, Markstein, It's so time. This league uncut
Speaker 1: is underway and on fire. This should be a good one.
Speaker 3: Hello, dear friends, and welcome in to another edition, the
Speaker 3: latest edition of this League Uncut. Mark Stein here with
Speaker 3: Chris Haynes. The NBA season. It's seventy eighth season, drawing
Speaker 3: ever closer. Chris and I recording this on Tuesday night,
Speaker 3: so it will drop Wednesday morning, and that basically will
Speaker 3: have us less than a week out from opening night.
Speaker 3: The first games on Tuesday, the twenty fourth, the defending
Speaker 3: champion Nuggets getting their rings before they play the Lakers
Speaker 3: in Denver, and then Warriors Suns in the nightcap. No
Speaker 3: Eastern Conference teams making that opening t n T two
Speaker 3: games slate. Chris Haynes made it though he'll be there.
Speaker 3: We believe he has been a signed to cover Suns
Speaker 3: Warriors and well, first, just you ready? Are you ready?
Speaker 3: I know you've been running around traveling. I've been running
Speaker 3: around traveling. Are you ready to get started? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I'm ready, I'm I'm I'm probably the most ready. I've
Speaker 4: been in a very long time to start the season, Like,
Speaker 4: I'm really excited about this.
Speaker 3: And that is why would you say.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm looking forward to the to seeing how the
Speaker 4: end season tournament is going to play out.
Speaker 2: That makes one of us, Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, I you know, I'd be remiss if I
Speaker 4: didn't didn't mentioned Dame going to Milwaukee, seeing how that's
Speaker 4: going to play out.
Speaker 2: Your new hometown, Milwaukee.
Speaker 4: I hear it's cold now Stein so's it's the exact
Speaker 4: opposite of what it was a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 4: during media Day. So you know, I'm just I'm looking,
Speaker 4: you know, the West. To me, I think it's wide open.
Speaker 4: But you know, definitely the Nuggets you still got it.
Speaker 4: You still got to give them the give them the
Speaker 4: Favorites title. I don't know how overwhelmingly you want to
Speaker 4: give them that title, but you know, out of respect,
Speaker 4: you definitely got to give it to them. And I'm
Speaker 4: just I'm looking. I'm just happy. I'm you know what, Honestly,
Speaker 4: start So the summer, the summertime, during the off season,
Speaker 4: I was so sick of airports. I didn't really go
Speaker 4: anywhere during the off season. I stayed home and I
Speaker 4: have fun. I stayed home. I joined two basketball leagues.
Speaker 4: You know, I was barbecuing a lot, and it was cool.
Speaker 4: That's what I wanted. I didn't want to airport. I
Speaker 4: didn't want to be around the airplane. But the problem with
Speaker 4: staying home is there's certain people in the house that
Speaker 4: you just get tired of. And so that that's adding
Speaker 4: the extra layer of why I need to get back
Speaker 4: on the roads.
Speaker 2: My old head advice to you is to not name names.
Speaker 4: I'm not naming names. I just put it out there.
Speaker 4: I'll let everybody else kind of guess see what I'm
Speaker 4: talking about for but all you folks leave, I'll leave
Speaker 4: it at that. I was going to say too much,
Speaker 4: but you get where I'm going.
Speaker 2: If you're in the I mean you were in the shop.
Speaker 4: And that's another thing too. That's another thing. Yes, I
Speaker 4: was in the shop. Charlote's Beauty supply a lot. But
Speaker 4: the problem with it's done. It got to a point
Speaker 4: where I'm getting bossed around in the shop and asked
Speaker 4: being asked to do a lot, and I'm like, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: I'm one of the faces. Don't try to boss me around.
Speaker 4: You know you already try to boss me around at home.
Speaker 4: You're not bossing me around at the shop. So I
Speaker 4: say all that to say I'm ready to be back
Speaker 4: on the road.
Speaker 3: I don't know when I will see Sacramento first, but
Speaker 3: when I do, I'm going to sidle up to Davion
Speaker 3: Mitchell and ask him if his trip to the beauty shop,
Speaker 3: like what what that? You know, what kind of tone
Speaker 3: that set for his summer, his off season workouts, the
Speaker 3: season ahead? Because that was historic to do the interview.
Speaker 3: People have no idea the level of equipment failure that
Speaker 3: happened during that. We pulled him for eighty four percent
Speaker 3: of it might.
Speaker 2: Have been on you man. We pulled, but we still
Speaker 2: got an episode done.
Speaker 4: We got it done. I didn't know. I had no
Speaker 4: clue what we were doing. Producer Ryan would just pulled
Speaker 4: his hair out. He was he wasn't there. Everybody was remote.
Speaker 4: So we got it done. We got it done. But
Speaker 4: I'm ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 2: Let's just let's discuss.
Speaker 3: Let's start today with what is not done, because again
Speaker 3: this is dropping on Wednesday morning. The Philadelphia seventy six
Speaker 3: Ers play their first game on Thursday, October twenty sixth,
Speaker 3: so a week and change away for the Sixers opener,
Speaker 3: and the Sixers opener not an easy assignment. Philadelphia at Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: Sources say Chris Haynes will be at that game for sure.
Speaker 3: Lock it in Chris Haynes on the sidelines for Sixers
Speaker 3: at Bucks. The first regular season game for Giannis Antinacunpo
Speaker 3: and Damian Lillard as teammates. But by all accounts, James
Speaker 3: Harden is still going to be a member of the
Speaker 3: Sixers by the time that game rolls around. I've consistently
Speaker 3: been told that there is quote nothing close on the
Speaker 3: horizon in terms of a hardened trade. This Friday, Philly
Speaker 3: plays its final exhibition game against Atlanta. That is going
Speaker 3: to be the last chance the Sixers have to get
Speaker 3: Harden on the floor in an exhibition game. He showed
Speaker 3: up to camp a day ish late, and by all accounts,
Speaker 3: he's been, you know, pleasant, but not exactly present. They
Speaker 3: still haven't seen him in an exhibit. They haven't seen
Speaker 3: him in an exhibition game. They've barely had him on
Speaker 3: the floor for scrimmaging. And that's a thing with no trade,
Speaker 3: with no trade apparent on the horizon. Look, I guess
Speaker 3: things could always change. Something could change drastically in the
Speaker 3: next few days. And let's not forget I mean, James
Speaker 3: Harden himself, you know, was traded from Oklahoma City to
Speaker 3: Houston right before the start of the season in October
Speaker 3: twenty twelve. But trades of that magnitude, it's rare that
Speaker 3: they happen now after camp has begun.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, Philly is a.
Speaker 3: Team you know, well, I'm sure you're going to be
Speaker 3: taking pulse checks as soon as you get around these guys.
Speaker 3: I mean, what do you think the mood going to
Speaker 3: be like if it's true that no trade materializes and
Speaker 3: James Harden is in Milwaukee with you.
Speaker 2: On October twenty sixth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's everything is pointing to that happening,
Speaker 4: where James was going to still be a member of
Speaker 4: the Sixers by opening night. I can tell you this
Speaker 4: for sure, James was hoping to be traded. He had
Speaker 4: no plans to play in any preseason games, and he
Speaker 4: had no plans of playing another game at all, even
Speaker 4: with him showing up to camp. So that's what you know,
Speaker 4: that's the next development. If he's not traded by open
Speaker 4: the night, which it looks like that's going to be
Speaker 4: the case. Is he going to eventually play? Because right now,
Speaker 4: what the team can do, they can still say, well,
Speaker 4: he's ramping things up, you know, that's what they're doing,
Speaker 4: you know, trying to just trying to make this things
Speaker 4: sound as non toxic as it is. Oh, he's ramping up,
Speaker 4: He's doing his work. What I can tell you is that,
Speaker 4: you know, he goes through he goes through his practices
Speaker 4: with the with the team. He's not really doing anything live,
Speaker 4: not not really scrimmaging or anything like that, just going
Speaker 4: through drills. And then he goes back at night and
Speaker 4: works out with a bunch of coaches and that's where
Speaker 4: he gets the bulk of his his workouts in. So
Speaker 4: he's doing two days for the most part right now
Speaker 4: with the hopes of being traded expeditiously and being in shape.
Speaker 4: So it's like, okay, so if the regular season comes starts,
Speaker 4: what can they say, Like, it's going to it's gonna
Speaker 4: get to a point where the Sixers are gonna want
Speaker 4: him to play, and then James is going to have
Speaker 4: to decide, Okay, am I going to still just try
Speaker 4: to you know, milk this situation, try to you know,
Speaker 4: stay behind the scenes and work out and then if
Speaker 4: you do that, you're gonna get fine for missing games.
Speaker 4: So he has a decision to make because all signs
Speaker 4: are pointing to him still being a member by the
Speaker 4: time Opening Night starts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, looks he wants to go to the Clippers. He's
Speaker 3: made that clear, and the Clippers to this point, Rank
Speaker 3: is the only confirmed bitter in these trade sweepstakes. If
Speaker 3: we dare to even use that term, you know, the
Speaker 3: Clippers Terrence man is. They're not putting him in trade
Speaker 3: offers for James Harden. It's one future first and a
Speaker 3: pick swap, and Philly wants way more, and the Clippers
Speaker 3: aren't budging. And to this point, any notion of the
Speaker 3: Clippers flipping that future first to another team to furnish
Speaker 3: Philly with multiple future first that hasn't worked either. So
Speaker 3: and it's interesting because I think there's the theory there
Speaker 3: in the world that once the season starts, once we
Speaker 3: get fifteen to twenty games in, some team out there
Speaker 3: is going to start poorly and then develop tangible trade
Speaker 3: interest in James Harden, and I just don't see that.
Speaker 3: I think there is a lot of skepticism around the
Speaker 3: league about you know, from teams, do they think that
Speaker 3: they could really bring James Harden in and get a productive,
Speaker 3: plugged in player. I'm not sure that there's going to
Speaker 3: be multiple teams that fall into that category. So right
Speaker 3: now it's the Clippers and we'll see if anybody else materializes.
Speaker 3: But I mean, I think you said it. Philly is
Speaker 3: hoping that James Harden is going to come to the
Speaker 3: point where he says, I've got to play to build
Speaker 3: up some trade value. But we haven't seen ranting and
Speaker 3: raving and trouble making as was suggested in some corners.
Speaker 3: But we also haven't seen Harden looking very eager to
Speaker 3: get back to get back on the floor with the
Speaker 3: Philadelphia seventy sectioners. And when you talk about all this stuff,
Speaker 3: of course, it always leads back to Joel Embiid and
Speaker 3: how is he going to take it if Harden doesn't play.
Speaker 3: Can Philly be a good enough team with the team
Speaker 3: they've got. It's been a very messy, bumpy preseason ride,
Speaker 3: already a lot on the plate of new coach Nick Nurse. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Philly I think is one of those teams that we're
Speaker 3: going to be talking about and looking at with a
Speaker 3: microscope all season. And as for you, as I mentioned,
Speaker 3: you're going to be in Milwaukee for that Sixers at
Speaker 3: Bucks opener, and sources also tell me that you did
Speaker 3: make it to LA for Bucks at Lakers, and the
Speaker 3: first game, the first exhibition game that Damian Lillard and
Speaker 3: Giannis Antitokumpo played together, a lot of eyebrows raised at
Speaker 3: how dangerous they already look. And you know, they're both
Speaker 3: sounding so excited to be together in this pick and
Speaker 3: roll and just the space that they're creating for each
Speaker 3: other already when they're still very early in this relationship
Speaker 3: and are still building chemistry. But I mean, I think
Speaker 3: both Giannis and Dame have said it just that they
Speaker 3: can't believe how great it is to play with someone
Speaker 3: else on their level, someone else that good. But enough
Speaker 3: of me blabbing. You tell me what you saw and
Speaker 3: herd in La.
Speaker 4: Now, the pick and roll combination looks lethal and they're
Speaker 4: just getting started. You know, he's still feeling his way
Speaker 4: within the offense. I'm not it's not even feeling his
Speaker 4: way within the offense because the offense is the same
Speaker 4: offense they were running in Portland. Member Terry Stotts, who
Speaker 4: is his coach for nine years in Portland. He's the
Speaker 4: assistant coach. He's running the offense, so everything is familiar.
Speaker 4: And Dame even said like he's having to teach guys
Speaker 4: in practice about where to be at. You know, this
Speaker 4: is a new team, but this is his offense, so
Speaker 4: he's kind of mentoring guys, you know, on where they
Speaker 4: need to be with the spots, the need that they're
Speaker 4: supposed to be at, where to cut, where to move.
Speaker 4: With that being said, you know, they played again tonight,
Speaker 4: so as we record this, this is what it was
Speaker 4: Tuesday night and they played Oka. See Dame was two
Speaker 4: four eleven, I believe. And what I'm seeing from him
Speaker 4: is him trying to fill out his teammates, like him
Speaker 4: trying to fit in, get guys involved, and you know,
Speaker 4: he's not being himself right now, and that's gonna come.
Speaker 4: One thing I know that Yanna's told Dame. He told me,
Speaker 4: we want you to be yourself. He told me that
Speaker 4: be yourself. Go in there and do you so that
Speaker 4: the ball going in the hole. That's gonna eventually come.
Speaker 4: But you know, when you look at the the fact
Speaker 4: that Chris Milton has yet to step on the court,
Speaker 4: with them, like that's another lethal weapon they're gonna have. Man.
Speaker 4: And I spoke with Chris Milton last week and he
Speaker 4: told me that he expects him, Giannis, and Dame to
Speaker 4: have career years, all three of them, and so the
Speaker 4: sky's the limit over there. But it's gonna it's still
Speaker 4: gonna take some time, and gonna take some time from
Speaker 4: Dame to fill out everybody. But nah, he stied. I
Speaker 4: went to the game in La and I went to
Speaker 4: see my I's something at my cousin in Stance, Patrielspringer,
Speaker 4: which is Mariah's dad, So I give him a hug,
Speaker 4: dap him up. We're chopping up, catching up, and right
Speaker 4: behind him is a group of people wearing all this green.
Speaker 4: I'm like, who is this? Like, what are these people
Speaker 4: calling my name? Where in all this green is calling
Speaker 4: my name? It was Dame's mom, his sister, his ainty.
Speaker 4: And I told him, I said, I'm sorry, I didn't
Speaker 4: mean to like ignore y'all. It's just gonna take some
Speaker 4: time to get used to all of y'all were in
Speaker 4: is green. You know, I'm not used to seeing them
Speaker 4: like that, you know what I mean. So it's a
Speaker 4: cool experience. His whole. I would say he probably had
Speaker 4: about thirty family members there at the game in LA.
Speaker 4: So everybody's excited. Man, they're on board, and uh they
Speaker 4: you know, everybody's looking forward to seeing what could be.
Speaker 3: You know, you brought up Terry Stotts, and maybe when
Speaker 3: you work that game, you can do me a favor
Speaker 3: because I'm sure TNT travels with some sort of research operation.
Speaker 3: And when I think about the things that I miss
Speaker 3: from my ESPN days, it's.
Speaker 2: Really not a long list. I'm gonna be candid with.
Speaker 3: You, but what I definitely do miss having that research
Speaker 3: team behind you, because like ESPN research was just fantastic,
Speaker 3: constantly furnishing me with all these little nerdy nuggets that
Speaker 3: you know I love. And you know this might only
Speaker 3: interest me, but I am fascinated by the Bucks coaching
Speaker 3: staff because Terry Stotts is a former Bucks head coach.
Speaker 3: Joe Prunty was also the Bucks former head coach on
Speaker 3: an interim basis. Adrien Griffin obviously the new coach in Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: I haven't been able to look there's I don't know
Speaker 3: how to look this up. This is not the kind
Speaker 3: of stuff that Elias keeps to my knowledge, I have
Speaker 3: not been able to find the research arm that can
Speaker 3: really tell us if this is.
Speaker 2: History or not.
Speaker 3: But I cannot remember a time that an NBA team
Speaker 3: had two of its former head coaches on the bench
Speaker 3: as assistant. So do me a favor, please, if there's
Speaker 3: if there's some sort of traveling research representative with you
Speaker 3: when when you do that game for TNT, maybe throw
Speaker 3: it at them. I would love to know if that's
Speaker 3: ever happened before, because, like I said, I can't think
Speaker 3: of the example.
Speaker 4: You might you might give me something to uh, you
Speaker 4: might give me a little nugget to plug during the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can even say this was brought up
Speaker 3: by my has been podcast partner Mark Stein.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that'd be a perfect time to bring up bring
Speaker 4: up our podcast. You know what. I'll plugged our podcast
Speaker 4: doing the broadcast a time or two. I don't know
Speaker 4: if you know this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember Spirodida said something once.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, who's doing them?
Speaker 3: And you know, Stan Stan would probably give us a
Speaker 3: shout out.
Speaker 2: He'd probably give you a shout out.
Speaker 4: Stan is Stan is working. Actually I'm working with Stan
Speaker 4: for the Warrior Sons game on the twenty fourth and
Speaker 4: I'm working with Stan on Thursdays sixers bucks.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a much more pressing question. Do
Speaker 3: you like the nick everybody's raving about this nickname freak Time,
Speaker 3: that this is some amazing thing. Jannie and Dame are
Speaker 3: freak Time, and like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, can I just say that I don't love it.
Speaker 4: I may like it, I haven't asked them I like,
Speaker 4: I like. Hmmm.
Speaker 3: The reason I don't like it, the reason I don't
Speaker 3: like it is because I mean Dame Time. Without daming it,
Speaker 3: it just doesn't have it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't.
Speaker 3: I mean, I get it. You know, I'm not stupid.
Speaker 3: I know, I mean freak Time. Hey, it's easy, it's
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, but.
Speaker 4: Dang, hold on. Just let you know. I'm on my
Speaker 4: pod right now. I just had one question for you
Speaker 4: real quick. We're talking about the nickname between you and
Speaker 4: honest when it gets late in the game, freak Time.
Speaker 4: So we're asking do you like that? Do you like
Speaker 4: that name? We got a couple of something else. I'm
Speaker 4: not invested in that at all. Everybody's doing talking.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to.
Speaker 4: Play, all right. That's all. That's all that everybody else,
Speaker 4: that's that's all I need that one. I want to know.
Speaker 4: That's it, all right, bro Oh, I don't think he
Speaker 4: likes the stuff.
Speaker 2: With some kind of flex.
Speaker 4: I don't think he likes it.
Speaker 3: Now, I gotta call somebody, who can I call?
Speaker 4: I don't think he likes this stuff, man, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: It's just Dame Dame time. Dame Time was like, is
Speaker 3: an iconic thing, and now if his name's not in it,
Speaker 3: for me, it just doesn't work. But people seem to
Speaker 3: think it's awesome.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's awesome. But I was rolling
Speaker 4: with it. I was like, Okay, that could be a thing.
Speaker 4: You know, that could be a thing. I don't Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know if he's uh, if he was feeling it,
Speaker 4: he would have said it. He's like, I like it.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's feeling it. You know, he's trying
Speaker 4: to figure out you know, he's trying to figure out
Speaker 4: this new role and everything. So, you know what he said,
Speaker 4: he has more pressing things.
Speaker 3: Producer Ryan is just Producer Ryan is just in awe
Speaker 3: of that flex you just threw down. All right, Well,
Speaker 3: my Week one travels will not be as glamorous as yours.
Speaker 2: I'm staying in state.
Speaker 3: But look next Wednesday night in the Alamo City, Victor
Speaker 3: Webbin Yama's regular season NBA debut the Spurs playing host
Speaker 3: to the Mavericks Luka Doncic suffered the calf strain on
Speaker 3: the MAVs trip to Spain. The MAVs have officially ruled
Speaker 3: him out of their final exhibition game Friday against Detroit,
Speaker 3: but I've been told there's optimism about Doncic coming back
Speaker 3: and playing in time for the regular season opener. And look,
Speaker 3: I'm going because I have to see it for myself.
Speaker 3: I have to see the Victor Webb Yama show in person,
Speaker 3: from the first official dribble, the highlights the games he's
Speaker 3: played in so far, and what he's doing absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I actually was.
Speaker 3: Chatting with Dirk and said, hey, did you catch did
Speaker 3: you catch Wemby against Miami?
Speaker 2: And his quote back to me was running.
Speaker 3: A step up pick and roll to a crossover between
Speaker 3: the legs to a step back at his size, stop it.
Speaker 3: That was what Dirk said. And again, Dirk seven foot Wemby,
Speaker 3: I'm going with seven five. I know they say seven
Speaker 3: four seven three. I mean, did you see that picture
Speaker 3: of him standing next to your colleague Reggie Miller, who
Speaker 3: is six six six seven, and Reggie Miller looked about
Speaker 3: as tall as me in that picture.
Speaker 4: I mean the guy let's let's not. Let's not overlook
Speaker 4: what you just did. You just did a mighty flex
Speaker 4: right there. You just told us what a Hall of
Speaker 4: Famer thought, what he texts you personally about. When beyond
Speaker 4: that is that is the all mighty flecks, that is
Speaker 4: all one of the greatest players of all time.
Speaker 3: He is he is until until until I can call
Speaker 3: him and get him to just answer a question live
Speaker 3: and then hang up.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm saying, whatever he's he's probably sleep wherever he's at.
Speaker 4: He's not even he's probably off the country.
Speaker 3: Not even Dame, Am I is it David? You having dinner?
Speaker 3: Am I interrupting you? So?
Speaker 2: Like, hey man, I got to ask you something for
Speaker 2: our podcast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, tho, I don't know if he've left Arena yet.
Speaker 4: Oh that's right.
Speaker 3: They were, That's right, they were playing. That probably enhanced
Speaker 3: the chances of him answering. So look, here's my You know,
Speaker 3: if you would have asked me a week ago or
Speaker 3: ten days ago, Victor weh Minyama would not be my
Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year favorite has scooted probably yeah, because
Speaker 3: I was thinking, Okay, Portland has given Scoot the team.
Speaker 3: I mean, they've traded Dame Lillard and it's like, here,
Speaker 3: this is your team now. And then Chet has looked
Speaker 3: so good in Oklahoma City. And not just that, Chet
Speaker 3: Holmgren is surrounded by so much established talent already that
Speaker 3: should theoretically enhance his chances of being able to play
Speaker 3: well and have an impact and hit the ground running.
Speaker 3: But all that's out the window now. Victor Wenmnyama will
Speaker 3: be the Rookie of the Year. He is the clear favorite.
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear anything else. I am sold
Speaker 3: based on the two doses of exhibition games that we've seen,
Speaker 3: this guy looks ridiculous. And to me, the only way
Speaker 3: you would say that he's not winning Rookie of the
Speaker 3: Year it's because he didn't play the sixty five games
Speaker 3: he has to play to win the award. And as
Speaker 3: Dirk Navitch, you would say, stop it. If you're saying,
Speaker 3: if you're saying Victor wemin Yama is not going to
Speaker 3: be Rookie of the Year for any other reason, just
Speaker 3: stop it. So this is where I give you the
Speaker 3: floor to refute that if you want to. I mean,
Speaker 3: maybe maybe you're going with Scoot.
Speaker 4: No I was. I was going with school because again, yes,
Speaker 4: they were giving him the keys to run the team,
Speaker 4: and I thought it would take a year for win.
Speaker 4: Beyam Look, I mean he hasn't played against really any starters.
Speaker 4: But still what you've seen him do? God Lee, I've
Speaker 4: never stin. He reminds me. I'm just watching them play, man,
Speaker 4: Like I remember when I'm going I'm dating see now
Speaker 4: I'm dating myself. Back when NBA Live was the marquee
Speaker 4: video game. This is in the NBA Live will probably
Speaker 4: late nineties, the early two thousands, I believe, before NBA
Speaker 4: two K took over. But NBA Live they I forgot
Speaker 4: what year it was, but it was a year late
Speaker 4: nineties when they started allowing you to create a player.
Speaker 4: And this feature was so cool. Now it's nothing. You know,
Speaker 4: everybody every game you could create a player, but now
Speaker 4: you can create your own player. However, it was a
Speaker 4: certain height that you could could you could reach. You
Speaker 4: couldn't go too tall. I think I think you probably
Speaker 4: could have got your player to seven four or seven
Speaker 4: five or something like that. But I remember I would
Speaker 4: create a player like that seven five, and he would
Speaker 4: be a shooting guard, and he would just look ridiculously
Speaker 4: big and long on the court. It just looked crazy
Speaker 4: like it wasn't real because it wasn't real. It's created.
Speaker 4: It's a made up guy. Women looks like a created
Speaker 4: video game guy. That's exactly what he looks like. I'm
Speaker 4: watching him on the court, and it's not like he's
Speaker 4: just hanging out in the paint, you know, like he's
Speaker 4: Minuke Bowl or something like that. This guy is all
Speaker 4: around the perimeter, dribbling the ball between his legs, step
Speaker 4: back side step. Never see anything like it, never, And
Speaker 4: I know too often we may use that phrase like
Speaker 4: we've never seen anything like it before. We've never seen
Speaker 4: anything like this before. This is true in the case
Speaker 4: of Victor Women. And I'm with you. I have transferred
Speaker 4: all of my uh. I transfer everything that I had
Speaker 4: in Scoop, all the confidence I had in school winning
Speaker 4: the Rookie of the Year, I transferred over to VIC.
Speaker 4: And I agree with you. The only thing that would
Speaker 4: probably keep him from winning it is an injury that
Speaker 4: will keep him from, you know, reaching that sixty five game. Mark,
Speaker 4: But nah, he the real deal definitely, or if.
Speaker 3: The Spurs are gonna you know, load manage him, which
Speaker 3: will be very interesting to see if he gets to
Speaker 3: sixty five games, because you you know that they are
Speaker 3: bound to be cautious with him, as cautious with him
Speaker 3: as any team that could have drafted him.
Speaker 2: So I do think that's a factor.
Speaker 4: What what what are they going to describe it? You
Speaker 4: can't you can't put you can't put it out as
Speaker 4: load management. What are you saying they're gonna fake an injury?
Speaker 4: What are you alluding to? Stein? You can't do that anymore?
Speaker 4: The NBA is they're serious about this? Now, how are
Speaker 4: they going to do that? Stein?
Speaker 3: Look, if they want him playing sixty games instead of
Speaker 3: sixty five, they will find a way whatever these new
Speaker 3: whatever these new rules are. But like I said, I
Speaker 3: I cannot wait to get to San Antonio for Opening
Speaker 3: Night and it's gonna be a packed house. I want
Speaker 3: to see how how eager or annoyed Pop will be
Speaker 3: for his pre game address?
Speaker 2: Have you looked?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 3: Do you know when your first San Antonio game is?
Speaker 3: When will you get a chance to Actually.
Speaker 4: I don't, I don't have one on the schedule. I
Speaker 4: have my schedule through through the end of January. No
Speaker 4: San Antonio as a yet.
Speaker 2: A lot of Milwaukee, though, a lot of Milwaukee.
Speaker 4: Actually I had no, I didn't have any Milwaukee games,
Speaker 4: and this this this opening was just at it on
Speaker 4: my schedule a week and a half ago, So things
Speaker 4: could change. You know, the the you know how they
Speaker 4: can flex me out, They flex games, they can flex
Speaker 4: me out, so you know, it's fluid. The end season tournament,
Speaker 4: you know, we don't know who's going to match up there.
Speaker 4: You know I'm doing I'm doing a few in season
Speaker 4: tournament games as well, so maybe I'll catch them then.
Speaker 3: Man, am I going to be quizzing you when that happens.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be putting you on the hot seat, asking
Speaker 3: twenty five questions tell me everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing how that is going
Speaker 4: to work. Are you a fan of it or you
Speaker 4: don't know yet?
Speaker 2: Do you really have to ask?
Speaker 4: Okay? Yeah, well, I know you're you're, you're you. It's
Speaker 4: following a European model, so I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3: That that that's the propaganda.
Speaker 2: It's not following a European model.
Speaker 3: But you know what, actually I think people are more.
Speaker 3: I think I'm in the minority now. I think people
Speaker 3: are open minded about it. I think people really are
Speaker 3: rooting for it to go well. So I'm quite sure
Speaker 3: that they will love to.
Speaker 2: Throw it into my face and shut me.
Speaker 3: Up if it turns out to be a success. But uh, yes,
Speaker 3: you can say that I am. I'm a leading skeptic
Speaker 3: of the Ncason Tournament because you know, to me, it's
Speaker 3: not a tournament till we get to Vegas for the seventies.
Speaker 3: These all the games you know, through the through the
Speaker 3: quarters are our regular season games that just that, just
Speaker 3: have two forms of packaging. But let's see, there's no
Speaker 3: harm in trying something. Let's see, let's see what happens.
Speaker 3: Let's see what happens with something new. All right, that
Speaker 3: is going to do it for this edition of this league, uncut,
Speaker 3: Chris and I do plan to be with you at
Speaker 3: least one more time before the regular season officially starts,
Speaker 3: and in that next show I will be able to
Speaker 3: reveal well, I think now that I think about it,
Speaker 3: will it be before Friday night or after Friday night.
Speaker 2: We'll have to see. I'm not totally sure yet.
Speaker 3: When that other episode, this week will take place because
Speaker 3: Friday night, the Detroit Pistons come to Dallas. It will
Speaker 3: be the mavericks last exhibition game, and it gives me
Speaker 3: a chance. Maybe I have not decided yet. I haven't decided.
Speaker 3: Should I approach Piston's rookie Asar Thompson, highly rated, highly
Speaker 3: touted rookie Asar Thompson. Should I ask him if he
Speaker 3: and his brother Alman Thompson, Are they aware of the
Speaker 3: Thompson twins from the nineteen eighties that you were so
Speaker 3: quick to disparage in our last podcast, even though history
Speaker 3: will show they had two top ten hits in their
Speaker 3: vaunted career as a nineteen eighties brit pop powerhouse band.
Speaker 4: But yes, and I had to inform you that our
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Speaker 4: the best bakeries in San Francisco. I've tried her stuff,
Speaker 4: but she couldn't believe you threw that out to that
Speaker 4: young kid like that. She couldn't believe you. Throughout Thompson,
Speaker 4: I had no clue. Producer Ryan has no clue who
Speaker 4: the Thompson Twins were in the eighties. And he's ten
Speaker 4: years younger than me. And now you're going to ask
Speaker 4: this nineteen year old kid when he comes to town
Speaker 4: in the next couple of days. Stein You know, first
Speaker 4: I was saying, don't do it, but you know what,
Speaker 4: forget it, do it. Let me ask you this, Let
Speaker 4: me ask you.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this hypothetical before we go. If
Speaker 3: there was a world famous Chris Haynes before you, from
Speaker 3: any era in history, don't you think you would have
Speaker 3: at least heard of them? I mean, they must have
Speaker 3: been called the Thompson Twins their whole life. And you
Speaker 3: don't think somebody along the way said, hey, did you
Speaker 3: know that there used to be a famous man in
Speaker 3: the eighties called the Thompson Twins. So again, I'm going
Speaker 3: to hold on, hold on, I'm gonna to ask I'm
Speaker 3: gonna take the question. If there was a famous Chris
Speaker 3: Haynes in nineteen sixty five, you don't think you would
Speaker 3: have heard of it?
Speaker 4: Somehow famous, sir? Okay, if there was.
Speaker 3: A famous if there was a famous Ryan Music in
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty three, do you think produce Ryan would have
Speaker 3: heard of it somehow I would have that.
Speaker 4: Yes, Okay, let's let's let's let's break down famous. There
Speaker 4: are people who had a run. They had a good,
Speaker 4: solid run. But famous to me is somebody you that
Speaker 4: ten thirty years later, that name is still famous, the
Speaker 4: Thompson Twins. No, I haven't. I haven't heard no the
Speaker 4: Thompson And I know many Thompson's. I grew up with
Speaker 4: a lot of Thompson's people, let with the last name Thompson.
Speaker 4: I even know some I even know to Thompson Twins
Speaker 4: growing up. I could guarantee never in their life, where there,
Speaker 4: ever where they were those Thompson Twins that I know,
Speaker 4: or they ever ask.
Speaker 2: Let's let's do let's do it do a fame.
Speaker 3: Let's let's let's do a test the next time, the
Speaker 3: next time you cover a Laker game. Uh, I would
Speaker 3: like you to please approach Mike Thompson, father of Clay
Speaker 3: Thompson and also an NBA champion from the eighties, ask him, Hey,
Speaker 3: can you believe a podcast in Stein brought up the
Speaker 3: Thompson Twins And I just I'm just curious. Maybe maybe
Speaker 3: I am way off, Maybe I am a dinosaur. Maybe
Speaker 3: I'm the only person in the history of the NBA
Speaker 3: who would dare ask today's Thompson Twins if they heard
Speaker 3: of the Thompson Twins from the eighties.
Speaker 2: But I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I don't think it was that outlandish of a question
Speaker 3: to raise.
Speaker 4: Well, if you don't think so, then asks ask the
Speaker 4: twin when it comes to town, ask them. Polo from
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Speaker 3: I don't think so, not anymore, not after after the
Speaker 3: last show. But yes, next time we get together, I
Speaker 3: will reveal if I had the gumption to approach young
Speaker 3: Nasar Thompson to ask him this very pivotal question that
Speaker 3: we threw at his former overtime elite colleague Tyler Smith.
Speaker 2: And poor Tyler Smith, he just didn't know why I was.
Speaker 3: Even asking something that happened and yeah, that was.
Speaker 2: That was that was that was poor form on my part.
Speaker 3: Let's see let's.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: That will do it for this edition of This League Uncut.
Speaker 3: Haynes and Stein will be back with you again soon,
Speaker 3: and yes, count it down.
Speaker 2: The NBA regular season is almost here.
Speaker 1: And that'll do it for us. See you next time.
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