WEBVTT - #thisleague UNCUT: It's all happening 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.320 Welcome to this League uncut in the rule of twenty 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:05.480 four hour NBA News. 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:09.160 This's you'll, Chris Hans. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:18.080 It's so time, Markstein, It's so time. This league uncut 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:23.960 is underway and on fire. This should be a good one. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.760 Hello, dear friends, and welcome in to another edition, the 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:33.839 latest edition of this League Uncut. Mark Stein here with 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:40.479 Chris Haynes. The NBA season. It's seventy eighth season, drawing 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:45.319 ever closer. Chris and I recording this on Tuesday night, 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:50.040 so it will drop Wednesday morning, and that basically will 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:54.080 have us less than a week out from opening night. 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:59.400 The first games on Tuesday, the twenty fourth, the defending 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:05.040 champion Nuggets getting their rings before they play the Lakers 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:09.560 in Denver, and then Warriors Suns in the nightcap. No 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:14.839 Eastern Conference teams making that opening t n T two 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.479 games slate. Chris Haynes made it though he'll be there. 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:23.080 We believe he has been a signed to cover Suns 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:28.120 Warriors and well, first, just you ready? Are you ready? 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.400 I know you've been running around traveling. I've been running 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:32.440 around traveling. Are you ready to get started? Yeah? 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.520 I'm ready, I'm I'm I'm probably the most ready. I've 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.959 been in a very long time to start the season, Like, 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.520 I'm really excited about this. 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:45.039 And that is why would you say. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.440 Well, I'm looking forward to the to seeing how the 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.800 end season tournament is going to play out. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:55.760 That makes one of us, Yeah. 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.520 You know, I you know, I'd be remiss if I 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:03.840 didn't didn't mentioned Dame going to Milwaukee, seeing how that's 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:04.840 going to play out. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:06.520 Your new hometown, Milwaukee. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.919 I hear it's cold now Stein so's it's the exact 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:13.600 opposite of what it was a couple of weeks ago 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.760 during media Day. So you know, I'm just I'm looking, 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.000 you know, the West. To me, I think it's wide open. 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.880 But you know, definitely the Nuggets you still got it. 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.320 You still got to give them the give them the 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.880 Favorites title. I don't know how overwhelmingly you want to 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.920 give them that title, but you know, out of respect, 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.799 you definitely got to give it to them. And I'm 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.480 just I'm looking. I'm just happy. I'm you know what, Honestly, 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:42.799 start So the summer, the summertime, during the off season, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.440 I was so sick of airports. I didn't really go 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.160 anywhere during the off season. I stayed home and I 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:53.440 have fun. I stayed home. I joined two basketball leagues. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.880 You know, I was barbecuing a lot, and it was cool. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.400 That's what I wanted. I didn't want to airport. I 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.640 didn't want to be around the airplane. But the problem with 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.520 staying home is there's certain people in the house that 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.600 you just get tired of. And so that that's adding 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.639 the extra layer of why I need to get back 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:13.160 on the roads. 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.959 My old head advice to you is to not name names. 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.400 I'm not naming names. I just put it out there. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.240 I'll let everybody else kind of guess see what I'm 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.160 talking about for but all you folks leave, I'll leave 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:25.440 it at that. I was going to say too much, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:26.560 but you get where I'm going. 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.680 If you're in the I mean you were in the shop. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.800 And that's another thing too. That's another thing. Yes, I 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.360 was in the shop. Charlote's Beauty supply a lot. But 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.240 the problem with it's done. It got to a point 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.760 where I'm getting bossed around in the shop and asked 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.320 being asked to do a lot, and I'm like, no, no, no, 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:46.040 I'm one of the faces. Don't try to boss me around. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.280 You know you already try to boss me around at home. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.960 You're not bossing me around at the shop. So I 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.840 say all that to say I'm ready to be back 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:55.320 on the road. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.120 I don't know when I will see Sacramento first, but 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:02.160 when I do, I'm going to sidle up to Davion 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:07.600 Mitchell and ask him if his trip to the beauty shop, 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.720 like what what that? You know, what kind of tone 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.320 that set for his summer, his off season workouts, the 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:17.599 season ahead? Because that was historic to do the interview. 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:22.520 People have no idea the level of equipment failure that 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:28.200 happened during that. We pulled him for eighty four percent 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:29.279 of it might. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:33.440 Have been on you man. We pulled, but we still 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:34.680 got an episode done. 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.440 We got it done. I didn't know. I had no 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.760 clue what we were doing. Producer Ryan would just pulled 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:45.040 his hair out. He was he wasn't there. Everybody was remote. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.720 So we got it done. We got it done. But 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:48.840 I'm ready, I'm ready. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.120 Let's just let's discuss. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.119 Let's start today with what is not done, because again 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.520 this is dropping on Wednesday morning. The Philadelphia seventy six 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:02.080 Ers play their first game on Thursday, October twenty sixth, 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:06.080 so a week and change away for the Sixers opener, 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:11.039 and the Sixers opener not an easy assignment. Philadelphia at Milwaukee. 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.920 Sources say Chris Haynes will be at that game for sure. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:20.760 Lock it in Chris Haynes on the sidelines for Sixers 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.520 at Bucks. The first regular season game for Giannis Antinacunpo 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.880 and Damian Lillard as teammates. But by all accounts, James 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.520 Harden is still going to be a member of the 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.400 Sixers by the time that game rolls around. I've consistently 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:40.840 been told that there is quote nothing close on the 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:45.520 horizon in terms of a hardened trade. This Friday, Philly 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.920 plays its final exhibition game against Atlanta. That is going 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.599 to be the last chance the Sixers have to get 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:56.279 Harden on the floor in an exhibition game. He showed 0:05:56.360 --> 0:06:01.599 up to camp a day ish late, and by all accounts, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:10.520 he's been, you know, pleasant, but not exactly present. They 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.279 still haven't seen him in an exhibit. They haven't seen 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.479 him in an exhibition game. They've barely had him on 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:22.400 the floor for scrimmaging. And that's a thing with no trade, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.480 with no trade apparent on the horizon. Look, I guess 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.279 things could always change. Something could change drastically in the 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.520 next few days. And let's not forget I mean, James 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.919 Harden himself, you know, was traded from Oklahoma City to 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:40.400 Houston right before the start of the season in October 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.360 twenty twelve. But trades of that magnitude, it's rare that 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.800 they happen now after camp has begun. 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:49.160 So, I mean, Philly is a. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.560 Team you know, well, I'm sure you're going to be 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.840 taking pulse checks as soon as you get around these guys. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.360 I mean, what do you think the mood going to 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:05.520 be like if it's true that no trade materializes and 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.000 James Harden is in Milwaukee with you. 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.040 On October twenty sixth. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.320 Yeah, I mean it's everything is pointing to that happening, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.520 where James was going to still be a member of 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.040 the Sixers by opening night. I can tell you this 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:26.200 for sure, James was hoping to be traded. He had 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:30.480 no plans to play in any preseason games, and he 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.920 had no plans of playing another game at all, even 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:39.280 with him showing up to camp. So that's what you know, 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.600 that's the next development. If he's not traded by open 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.120 the night, which it looks like that's going to be 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:51.960 the case. Is he going to eventually play? Because right now, 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.920 what the team can do, they can still say, well, 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.480 he's ramping things up, you know, that's what they're doing, 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:03.360 you know, trying to just trying to make this things 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.760 sound as non toxic as it is. Oh, he's ramping up, 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.600 He's doing his work. What I can tell you is that, 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.520 you know, he goes through he goes through his practices 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.960 with the with the team. He's not really doing anything live, 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.960 not not really scrimmaging or anything like that, just going 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.560 through drills. And then he goes back at night and 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.720 works out with a bunch of coaches and that's where 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:31.000 he gets the bulk of his his workouts in. So 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.560 he's doing two days for the most part right now 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:39.880 with the hopes of being traded expeditiously and being in shape. 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.319 So it's like, okay, so if the regular season comes starts, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.720 what can they say, Like, it's going to it's gonna 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.480 get to a point where the Sixers are gonna want 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.320 him to play, and then James is going to have 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.400 to decide, Okay, am I going to still just try 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.959 to you know, milk this situation, try to you know, 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:04.040 stay behind the scenes and work out and then if 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.240 you do that, you're gonna get fine for missing games. 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.200 So he has a decision to make because all signs 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.360 are pointing to him still being a member by the 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:15.760 time Opening Night starts. 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.760 Yeah, looks he wants to go to the Clippers. He's 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.640 made that clear, and the Clippers to this point, Rank 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:27.840 is the only confirmed bitter in these trade sweepstakes. If 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.320 we dare to even use that term, you know, the 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:37.320 Clippers Terrence man is. They're not putting him in trade 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:41.120 offers for James Harden. It's one future first and a 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.880 pick swap, and Philly wants way more, and the Clippers 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.960 aren't budging. And to this point, any notion of the 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:52.600 Clippers flipping that future first to another team to furnish 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.440 Philly with multiple future first that hasn't worked either. So 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.360 and it's interesting because I think there's the theory there 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.240 in the world that once the season starts, once we 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.559 get fifteen to twenty games in, some team out there 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:12.760 is going to start poorly and then develop tangible trade 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:17.240 interest in James Harden, and I just don't see that. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:23.920 I think there is a lot of skepticism around the 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:28.000 league about you know, from teams, do they think that 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:32.120 they could really bring James Harden in and get a productive, 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:38.000 plugged in player. I'm not sure that there's going to 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:42.160 be multiple teams that fall into that category. So right 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:47.120 now it's the Clippers and we'll see if anybody else materializes. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.640 But I mean, I think you said it. Philly is 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.400 hoping that James Harden is going to come to the 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:57.400 point where he says, I've got to play to build 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:03.160 up some trade value. But we haven't seen ranting and 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.840 raving and trouble making as was suggested in some corners. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:13.160 But we also haven't seen Harden looking very eager to 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.360 get back to get back on the floor with the 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.640 Philadelphia seventy sectioners. And when you talk about all this stuff, 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.800 of course, it always leads back to Joel Embiid and 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.840 how is he going to take it if Harden doesn't play. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.559 Can Philly be a good enough team with the team 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:38.000 they've got. It's been a very messy, bumpy preseason ride, 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:45.280 already a lot on the plate of new coach Nick Nurse. Yeah, 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.240 Philly I think is one of those teams that we're 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.360 going to be talking about and looking at with a 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:58.280 microscope all season. And as for you, as I mentioned, 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.959 you're going to be in Milwaukee for that Sixers at 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:06.720 Bucks opener, and sources also tell me that you did 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.720 make it to LA for Bucks at Lakers, and the 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:15.840 first game, the first exhibition game that Damian Lillard and 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:21.920 Giannis Antitokumpo played together, a lot of eyebrows raised at 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:27.760 how dangerous they already look. And you know, they're both 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:33.560 sounding so excited to be together in this pick and 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.400 roll and just the space that they're creating for each 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.280 other already when they're still very early in this relationship 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.040 and are still building chemistry. But I mean, I think 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.640 both Giannis and Dame have said it just that they 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.480 can't believe how great it is to play with someone 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:55.400 else on their level, someone else that good. But enough 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.319 of me blabbing. You tell me what you saw and 0:12:58.400 --> 0:12:59.040 herd in La. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.880 Now, the pick and roll combination looks lethal and they're 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.240 just getting started. You know, he's still feeling his way 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.560 within the offense. I'm not it's not even feeling his 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.520 way within the offense because the offense is the same 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.600 offense they were running in Portland. Member Terry Stotts, who 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.560 is his coach for nine years in Portland. He's the 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.400 assistant coach. He's running the offense, so everything is familiar. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.320 And Dame even said like he's having to teach guys 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.439 in practice about where to be at. You know, this 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.040 is a new team, but this is his offense, so 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.520 he's kind of mentoring guys, you know, on where they 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.000 need to be with the spots, the need that they're 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.280 supposed to be at, where to cut, where to move. 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.480 With that being said, you know, they played again tonight, 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.040 so as we record this, this is what it was 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:49.760 Tuesday night and they played Oka. See Dame was two 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:56.359 four eleven, I believe. And what I'm seeing from him 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:01.440 is him trying to fill out his teammates, like him 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:07.000 trying to fit in, get guys involved, and you know, 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.840 he's not being himself right now, and that's gonna come. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:15.040 One thing I know that Yanna's told Dame. He told me, 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.480 we want you to be yourself. He told me that 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.880 be yourself. Go in there and do you so that 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.400 the ball going in the hole. That's gonna eventually come. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.600 But you know, when you look at the the fact 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.520 that Chris Milton has yet to step on the court, 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.520 with them, like that's another lethal weapon they're gonna have. Man. 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:37.400 And I spoke with Chris Milton last week and he 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.720 told me that he expects him, Giannis, and Dame to 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.240 have career years, all three of them, and so the 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.400 sky's the limit over there. But it's gonna it's still 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.920 gonna take some time, and gonna take some time from 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:53.560 Dame to fill out everybody. But nah, he stied. I 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.840 went to the game in La and I went to 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.960 see my I's something at my cousin in Stance, Patrielspringer, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.800 which is Mariah's dad, So I give him a hug, 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.040 dap him up. We're chopping up, catching up, and right 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.400 behind him is a group of people wearing all this green. 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.200 I'm like, who is this? Like, what are these people 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.200 calling my name? Where in all this green is calling 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:20.720 my name? It was Dame's mom, his sister, his ainty. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.160 And I told him, I said, I'm sorry, I didn't 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.520 mean to like ignore y'all. It's just gonna take some 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.200 time to get used to all of y'all were in 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.280 is green. You know, I'm not used to seeing them 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.720 like that, you know what I mean. So it's a 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.920 cool experience. His whole. I would say he probably had 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.760 about thirty family members there at the game in LA. 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.880 So everybody's excited. Man, they're on board, and uh they 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.000 you know, everybody's looking forward to seeing what could be. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.400 You know, you brought up Terry Stotts, and maybe when 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.120 you work that game, you can do me a favor 0:15:55.120 --> 0:16:00.640 because I'm sure TNT travels with some sort of research operation. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.720 And when I think about the things that I miss 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.200 from my ESPN days, it's. 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.880 Really not a long list. I'm gonna be candid with. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:14.960 You, but what I definitely do miss having that research 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:19.479 team behind you, because like ESPN research was just fantastic, 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.760 constantly furnishing me with all these little nerdy nuggets that 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.840 you know I love. And you know this might only 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.040 interest me, but I am fascinated by the Bucks coaching 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.880 staff because Terry Stotts is a former Bucks head coach. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.400 Joe Prunty was also the Bucks former head coach on 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:42.240 an interim basis. Adrien Griffin obviously the new coach in Milwaukee. 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.520 I haven't been able to look there's I don't know 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.280 how to look this up. This is not the kind 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:50.080 of stuff that Elias keeps to my knowledge, I have 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.520 not been able to find the research arm that can 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.560 really tell us if this is. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:56.800 History or not. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:01.720 But I cannot remember a time that an NBA team 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.639 had two of its former head coaches on the bench 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.080 as assistant. So do me a favor, please, if there's 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:14.320 if there's some sort of traveling research representative with you 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.680 when when you do that game for TNT, maybe throw 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.400 it at them. I would love to know if that's 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.080 ever happened before, because, like I said, I can't think 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:23.440 of the example. 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.359 You might you might give me something to uh, you 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.640 might give me a little nugget to plug during the game. 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:30.879 Yeah, and you can even say this was brought up 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.720 by my has been podcast partner Mark Stein. 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:35.840 Yeah, that'd be a perfect time to bring up bring 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.480 up our podcast. You know what. I'll plugged our podcast 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.560 doing the broadcast a time or two. I don't know 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:41.000 if you know this. 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.160 Yeah, I remember Spirodida said something once. 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.119 Yeah, okay, who's doing them? 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.080 And you know, Stan Stan would probably give us a 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:49.920 shout out. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.080 He'd probably give you a shout out. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.320 Stan is Stan is working. Actually I'm working with Stan 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:59.120 for the Warrior Sons game on the twenty fourth and 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:04.680 I'm working with Stan on Thursdays sixers bucks. 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.679 Let me ask you a much more pressing question. Do 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:12.879 you like the nick everybody's raving about this nickname freak Time, 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:17.040 that this is some amazing thing. Jannie and Dame are 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:18.240 freak Time, and like. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.080 Yeah, can I just say that I don't love it. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:27.119 I may like it, I haven't asked them I like, 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:32.000 I like. Hmmm. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.440 The reason I don't like it, the reason I don't 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:40.720 like it is because I mean Dame Time. Without daming it, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:41.879 it just doesn't have it. 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:43.879 I mean, it doesn't. 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:45.880 I mean, I get it. You know, I'm not stupid. 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.320 I know, I mean freak Time. Hey, it's easy, it's 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:48.520 you know. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:49.439 I mean, but. 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:55.399 Dang, hold on. Just let you know. I'm on my 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:57.919 pod right now. I just had one question for you 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.639 real quick. We're talking about the nickname between you and 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.120 honest when it gets late in the game, freak Time. 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.879 So we're asking do you like that? Do you like 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.640 that name? We got a couple of something else. I'm 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:17.680 not invested in that at all. Everybody's doing talking. 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:18.560 I'm just trying to. 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.800 Play, all right. That's all. That's all that everybody else, 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.040 that's that's all I need that one. I want to know. 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:30.399 That's it, all right, bro Oh, I don't think he 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:31.399 likes the stuff. 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:37.600 With some kind of flex. 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:40.560 I don't think he likes it. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.640 Now, I gotta call somebody, who can I call? 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.440 I don't think he likes this stuff, man, Yeah, I mean. 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:53.520 It's just Dame Dame time. Dame Time was like, is 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:58.320 an iconic thing, and now if his name's not in it, 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.480 for me, it just doesn't work. But people seem to 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:02.320 think it's awesome. 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.679 I don't know if it's awesome. But I was rolling 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.080 with it. I was like, Okay, that could be a thing. 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:13.680 You know, that could be a thing. I don't Yeah, 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.080 I don't know if he's uh, if he was feeling it, 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:18.880 he would have said it. He's like, I like it. 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:22.000 I don't think he's feeling it. You know, he's trying 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.080 to figure out you know, he's trying to figure out 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.640 this new role and everything. So, you know what he said, 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:29.959 he has more pressing things. 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:34.960 Producer Ryan is just Producer Ryan is just in awe 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:42.080 of that flex you just threw down. All right, Well, 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:46.480 my Week one travels will not be as glamorous as yours. 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:47.520 I'm staying in state. 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:51.240 But look next Wednesday night in the Alamo City, Victor 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:57.119 Webbin Yama's regular season NBA debut the Spurs playing host 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:02.040 to the Mavericks Luka Doncic suffered the calf strain on 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:05.040 the MAVs trip to Spain. The MAVs have officially ruled 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:09.320 him out of their final exhibition game Friday against Detroit, 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:14.160 but I've been told there's optimism about Doncic coming back 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:19.440 and playing in time for the regular season opener. And look, 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:23.120 I'm going because I have to see it for myself. 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:27.400 I have to see the Victor Webb Yama show in person, 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:33.280 from the first official dribble, the highlights the games he's 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:38.640 played in so far, and what he's doing absolutely ridiculous. 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:40.200 I actually was. 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:44.040 Chatting with Dirk and said, hey, did you catch did 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:45.840 you catch Wemby against Miami? 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:50.120 And his quote back to me was running. 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:53.399 A step up pick and roll to a crossover between 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:58.719 the legs to a step back at his size, stop it. 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:03.760 That was what Dirk said. And again, Dirk seven foot Wemby, 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:06.720 I'm going with seven five. I know they say seven 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:09.840 four seven three. I mean, did you see that picture 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:13.480 of him standing next to your colleague Reggie Miller, who 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.560 is six six six seven, and Reggie Miller looked about 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:17.919 as tall as me in that picture. 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:21.480 I mean the guy let's let's not. Let's not overlook 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:23.320 what you just did. You just did a mighty flex 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:25.080 right there. You just told us what a Hall of 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:30.000 Famer thought, what he texts you personally about. When beyond 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:32.720 that is that is the all mighty flecks, that is 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:35.359 all one of the greatest players of all time. 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:40.800 He is he is until until until I can call 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:43.320 him and get him to just answer a question live 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:44.160 and then hang up. 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:48.400 Well, I'm saying, whatever he's he's probably sleep wherever he's at. 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:51.200 He's not even he's probably off the country. 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:55.040 Not even Dame, Am I is it David? You having dinner? 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:55.960 Am I interrupting you? So? 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:57.359 Like, hey man, I got to ask you something for 0:22:57.400 --> 0:22:58.119 our podcast. 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:01.600 Yeah, tho, I don't know if he've left Arena yet. 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:03.239 Oh that's right. 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:06.240 They were, That's right, they were playing. That probably enhanced 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:10.400 the chances of him answering. So look, here's my You know, 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:12.919 if you would have asked me a week ago or 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:17.320 ten days ago, Victor weh Minyama would not be my 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:22.080 Rookie of the Year favorite has scooted probably yeah, because 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:25.920 I was thinking, Okay, Portland has given Scoot the team. 0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:28.200 I mean, they've traded Dame Lillard and it's like, here, 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:31.560 this is your team now. And then Chet has looked 0:23:31.600 --> 0:23:34.840 so good in Oklahoma City. And not just that, Chet 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:39.000 Holmgren is surrounded by so much established talent already that 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:43.520 should theoretically enhance his chances of being able to play 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:45.520