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Speaker 2: Pull up, everybody. So I'm at the Yankee game and

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Speaker 2: Kyrie just opted in, which makes most of today's show

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Speaker 2: that we recorded a few hours ago absolutely So we're

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Speaker 2: still gonna run it because what else are we gonna run?

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Speaker 2: And you can hear my thoughts on what could possibly

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Speaker 2: happen if Kyrie didn't opt in. Plus we play a

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Speaker 2: Kyrie stuff, but a lot of what we talked about

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Speaker 2: from today's pod is now movement is Kyrie opted in? Okay,

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Speaker 2: talk to you guys in a couple of days. Yesterday

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Speaker 2: I had lunch with Maverick. You know, Maverick owns part

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Speaker 2: How am I opposer because of FIFA? I know the

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Speaker 3: No, fair enough, because I'm gonna play a card very

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Speaker 2: let's get to what we are not this discussing on

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Speaker 2: today's show. What did not make the cup for today's

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Speaker 2: show is Arch Manning going to the Texas Longhorns the

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Speaker 2: Thunder drafting two different Jalen Williams is what are the

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Speaker 2: odds of that? And Kendall Jenner and Devin Bookers splitting up. Oh,

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Speaker 2: that could be big news for you, my friend, if

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Speaker 2: Let's get to the actual show them, say what are

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 3: Man, Kyrie and the Nets are reportedly at a standstill

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Speaker 3: as far as negotiations. Kyrie has a list of six

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Speaker 3: the Lakers are on that list.

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Speaker 4: Is there a team that is a Kyrie Irving away

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Speaker 3: I feel like you are secretly praying that Kyrie goes

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Speaker 2: Well, it seems like it mrobab be the best for

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Speaker 2: all parties in the wall. I now, did you see this?

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Speaker 2: But I understand the Nets not wanting to give Kyrie

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Speaker 4: Go ahead to see Russ play with Katie again.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, Kyrie and a couple of I mean

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Speaker 2: It would be incredibly fun, man, It would be. It

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Speaker 2: You know, Russ is not the player he was in

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Speaker 2: But the Kyrie thing, one other thing on the Kyrie thing.

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Speaker 2: The Nets turned their entire franchise over to them. To

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Speaker 2: DeAndre Jordan. They did it. They were pissed Kenny Atkinson

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Speaker 2: They wanted Steve Nash. They hired Steve Nash. They wanted

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Speaker 2: the season says he's gonna sit down with Joe Sien

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Speaker 2: now they're like, we're not even gonna give you the

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Speaker 2: It's easy to do that if that's what you've been

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Speaker 2: And I do wonder what it's gonna mean for Durant,

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 3: Katie is also causing a stir up in Brooklyn. He's

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Speaker 2: Well, that's their concern. So this is why they are

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Speaker 2: Of course you would. Would it be the biggest package ever?

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Speaker 3: Take a lot less money for a chance at the

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Speaker 4: To play with his son.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure he would take less for a chance to

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Speaker 2: play with Bronni. But I'm talking about this little small window,

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Speaker 2: that is a MAX level player. Will he take less though,

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Speaker 2: Tim Duncan took less, Team Guy, Dirk took less, Team Guy.

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Speaker 2: Tom Brady part of his legend, he takes less. I

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Speaker 2: mark this tape. I guarrant damntee it. If Lebron James

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Speaker 2: takes less to go somewhere, you know what the commentary

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Speaker 2: you can't win straight up. Oh you gotta tell you

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Speaker 2: make it as easy as possible billionaire. Yeah, absolutely, and

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Speaker 3: Last, Draymond, everybody knows about your back and forth with Katie,

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Speaker 3: but his former teammate Draymond Green and started calling you

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Speaker 4: What are your thoughts?

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Speaker 2: I think we can play it right, let's play it,

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Speaker 4: The old pod.

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Speaker 5: Nicholas, Right, how you doing a lot of hot takes?

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Speaker 5: You admitted the other day we make hot takes, analyzed

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Speaker 5: the game. My man Lebron could go one for nineteen,

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Speaker 5: Nick Wright gonna say he he made one shot and

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Speaker 5: he was the best player on the floor. What happened

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Speaker 5: to the days of again analyzing the game honest opinions?

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Speaker 4: Back to your boy, Nicholas.

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Speaker 5: You spoke all of that stuff about Andrew Wickins, You

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Speaker 5: and like we never win again and Stephani needs to

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Speaker 5: leave Golden Stadium, blah blah blah. And then once you're wrong,

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Speaker 5: or whatever you are on and saying that's what we do.

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Speaker 4: We make hot takes. Enough.

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Speaker 5: No, no, no, you're wrong, brother. You gotta stand on that.

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Speaker 5: Those I takes don't just get the roll off. See

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Speaker 5: that's what y'all accustomed to. I'd say, to make these

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Speaker 5: No no, no, no, no, you got to stand on that.

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Speaker 5: Changing your opinion in the middle of this no, no, no, brother,

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Speaker 5: stand on that. Stand on your word. It's important to

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Speaker 2: Okay, now, so here's what what do you stand for? Okay,

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Speaker 2: So here's a few things. First of all, Draymond still

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Speaker 2: Raymond also is very confused on me saying we don't

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Speaker 2: But here's the other thing Draymond is learning.

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Speaker 4: I think we'll go ahead.

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Speaker 3: I think Draymond's learning that he's not gonna win another finals.

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Speaker 3: And then he's got it just sulk in this moment.

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Speaker 2: That's not what he's learning. And I lied. I guess

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Speaker 2: we're not going to hit the clock today. Next Draymond

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Speaker 2: ruined it. It was a longer sound by than I expected.

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Speaker 2: Here's what Draymond's learning.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, This content creation business, it keeps going on

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Speaker 2: every day even if there's no sports going on, and

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Speaker 2: Draymond is now already in reruns the stand on it,

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Speaker 2: Nick writes Andrew Wiggins opinion, Oh this this got some

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Speaker 2: run it back. Of course, it's because he's got nothing

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Speaker 2: to say, because Draymond, Draymond does a little basketball talk.

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Speaker 2: But what Draymond really is is not a basketball analyst.

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Speaker 2: He's a media critic. And Draymond is running out of

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Speaker 2: all right, let me rerack this, let me rerack the

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Speaker 2: nick right take. And you know what, my new shine

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Speaker 2: call him Nicholas. That'll throw him for a loop. So

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Speaker 2: this idea, he keeps saying, stand on it. Here's the deal.

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Speaker 2: No one has ever owned an incorrect take more than

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Speaker 2: I owned the Andrew Wiggins take. I'm the one that

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Speaker 2: Warriors beat the Maps. I never ran from it. But

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Speaker 2: never admit you were wrong is the dumbest shit I've

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Speaker 2: ever heard. And this other idea, and Draymond doesn't he's

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Speaker 2: that our ability to evaluate or criticize players is minimal. Okay, well, Draymond,

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Speaker 2: are you a professor? Were you trained broadcaster? Did you

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Speaker 2: go to broadcasting school? Have you been doing this for

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Speaker 2: to criticize those in the media. Of course it's not.

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Speaker 2: But it's the exact same logic. If I were to

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Speaker 2: You figured it out. Now you're having some missteps or

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Speaker 2: you know, so starved for content that you're just rerunning

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Speaker 2: And by the way, he can do what I I

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Speaker 2: I would be a zero out of one hundred on

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Speaker 2: The other thing he's going to have to learn is this,

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Speaker 2: Perk attacked you know, you criticized him. That's always the

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Speaker 2: It's why Barkley a lot of people are at him,

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Speaker 2: but it's also why Barkley is the best in the

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Speaker 2: so at some point I think we'll sit down together

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Speaker 2: and hash this out. But I also think he's realizing,

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Speaker 2: oh damn, I got another podcast to do.

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Speaker 4: Oh boy, get this podcast?

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Speaker 5: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I am. I'm gonna be very impressed when

434
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Speaker 2: he has some original content because the latest episode that

435
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Speaker 2: that was lacking sorely. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 2: Also, that was Draymon's first podcast since the championship. I

445
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 2: didn't know, so that's They won the championship on the sixteen,

446
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 2: So that's the seventeenth, so he had ten days to

447
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:17,119
Speaker 2: come up with some material, do something. You know what

448
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,120
Speaker 2: I would you know what I would be interested in now?

449
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,400
Speaker 2: I like lists, but Draymond called himself the greatest defensive

450
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 2: player ever. I would like to know who he thinks

451
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 2: the greatest defensive players in league history for real? Like

452
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Speaker 2: his thoughts on a keem Olajuan on Tim Duncan ron

453
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Speaker 2: Our test Ben Wallace.

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Speaker 4: He said that win in the last podcast.

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Speaker 2: No, he said that during the regular season this past year.

456
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Speaker 2: Anything's the greatest defense.

457
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Speaker 4: J I just.

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Speaker 2: Would There's a lot of things. Listen, Draymond might end

459
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Speaker 2: up being awesome at media. He certainly has the pathway

460
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Speaker 2: to it. But the other question for all these guys

461
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Speaker 2: is always this. When you've made that much money, are

462
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 2: you is are you going to be motivated and incentivized?

463
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 2: I do two hundred and forty TV shows a year,

464
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Speaker 2: two hundred and forty shows a year, another one hundred

465
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Speaker 2: podcasts plus the podcast guest stuff I do. These are

466
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Speaker 2: the things like now, Berkley doesn't work that much, and

467
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 2: I think maybe Draamond, but Barkley still during the NBA

468
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 2: playoffs is working a lot, right, And Barkley made good

469
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Speaker 2: money but also gambled a ton and didn't make today's

470
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Speaker 2: day money. It's always I mean, one podcast in the

471
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Speaker 2: last two weeks and he's already in repeat. It's not great.

472
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Speaker 2: All right, you ready to go, let's do it all right?

473
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 2: Time now for hey, well, I hit the clock. Who

474
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Speaker 2: knows at this point I promise things. It doesn't happen

475
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Speaker 2: my apologies, but we're playing you guys. You guys said

476
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Speaker 2: this is a new.

477
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Speaker 4: Game, a new game. It's right or wrong.

478
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Speaker 2: It's a new we haven't got it.

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Speaker 4: We have it, but we've got that.

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Speaker 3: We've got like two or three games at this point

481
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Speaker 3: with right in the name. Yeah, but yeah, okay, new game,

482
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Speaker 3: all right, right or wrong?

483
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Speaker 2: Let's do it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Everyone thought Jabari Smith was going number one. A lot

486
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 3: of people, maybe even you, lost money betting on that. Instead,

487
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 3: the Magic took bon Caro, who didn't even work out

488
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 3: with the team, So right or wrong, Bonkiro was right

489
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Speaker 3: at the number one.

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Speaker 2: Big, Okay, I you're right. I thought it was going

491
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Speaker 2: to go Smith, Holmgren, Bonkaro Ivy instead that I should

492
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Speaker 2: have known the Kings would screw up the fourth pick

493
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Speaker 2: and they wouldn't even they wouldn't. They would have the

494
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Speaker 2: biggest reach of the first round like they seem to

495
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 2: always do, and Ivy would fall to five. You gotta

496
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Speaker 2: love what Detroit was able to do staying there, getting

497
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 2: Ivy Kate Cunningham kind of like what they're building there.

498
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Speaker 2: But that's not the question you asked me. I said

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Speaker 2: the day of the draft that I thought Paula was

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Speaker 2: the safest, meaning I think he's the least. I think

501
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Speaker 2: he is the surest fire thing to be a good

502
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Speaker 2: NBA player. I think the most upside was Jabbari. Now,

503
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Speaker 2: if you're the Magic, do you want to go safe

504
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 2: or do you want to go upside? Or maybe they

505
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 2: thought Paulo was had the most upside as well. I

506
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 2: know a lot of people think the most upsides chet.

507
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Speaker 2: I just I would have taken Chet fourth or fifth,

508
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Speaker 2: like I would have taken Ivy. Had a Chet, I

509
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Speaker 2: would have considered shade and sharp, just based on his

510
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Speaker 2: high school profile alone, and then I would have been

511
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 2: comfortable with Chat at five or six. But what I

512
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 2: find fascinating about the Magic is they never interviewed or

513
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,959
Speaker 2: worked out Paula. And the only explanation of that is, oh,

514
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 2: it was subterfuge. But you have the number one pick.

515
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 2: Nobody can jump ahead of you. You have the number

516
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Speaker 2: one pick. So I don't know exactly why they went

517
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Speaker 2: about it the way they did. With that said, I

518
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 2: love him as a player. I don't think any of

519
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 2: these guys are superstars. I don't think any of these

520
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,199
Speaker 2: guys are gonna be Anthony Edwards and I didn't think

521
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 2: anyone in last year's draft, by the way, it was

522
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 2: gonna be a superstar. Now maybe MOBILEI will turn into one.

523
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Speaker 2: I think Cage's really good. I don't think it'll be

524
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Speaker 2: a superstar. But there's the last draft pick that I

525
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Speaker 2: felt going into the draft is a franchise changing guy

526
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Speaker 2: was Luca. And the next one that I think coming

527
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 2: into the draft is a franchise changer is the French

528
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 2: kid Winbinyama, who was seven to with like a seven

529
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 2: seven wing springs, unbelievable. Uh the last what was the

530
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Speaker 2: last American player that I thought going into a draft

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Speaker 2: could absolutely change the trajectory of your franchise.

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Speaker 4: Dearon Fox.

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Speaker 2: I did love Fox just because I watched it, but

534
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 2: I was biased. I did think maybe that you might

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Speaker 2: be right that I thought that about Fox. I just

536
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,120
Speaker 2: watched Fox score forty and a half in an AAU game.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, that was the summer I was coaching you

539
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 2: in AAUFT and I kept watching Dearon Fox. Just cook everybody,

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00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 2: all right, what's next?

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Speaker 4: Uh? So Wolde destroyed gamblers during the draft.

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Speaker 3: He reported the incorrect Uh sorry, he reported the incorrect

543
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 3: draft order. In the morning and then spoiled every pick

544
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Speaker 3: at night. Others do the same in the NFL draft.

545
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 3: So right or wrong, Twitter has destroyed the draft.

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00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 2: Wrong. I never have understood this complaint. They're not scrolling

547
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 2: tweets on the broadcast. If you don't want it's spoiled, don't,

548
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 2: don't read Twitter. And by the way, you can still

549
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 2: tweet without reading Twitter.

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Speaker 4: It's so crazy.

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00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 3: We didn't discuss this before, but that was my exact

552
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Speaker 3: take on the situation. I've never I feel like it's

553
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 3: an obvious one, though, no, but.

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Speaker 2: I've never understood. This is one of these things people

555
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 2: complain about, but it is totally self inflicted.

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Speaker 3: It's funny you say something about this because we have

557
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 3: a conversation about this or anything.

558
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Speaker 4: But I had a very similar take. It's the right take.

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00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 2: Guess what it's like. Someone's saying, like, I like to

560
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 2: be surprised by what the weather is going to be

561
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 2: like when I walk outside, so I'm angry at the

562
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 2: weather channel. Don't open it, like it's still available to

563
00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 2: you to be surprised. You can just watch the draft

564
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 2: if you don't want to have the pick spoiled. So

565
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 2: totally wrong. It's a ludicrous complaint. All right, what's next?

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Speaker 3: Benedict Mathurin is not moved by the NBA, says Lebron

567
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 3: is gonna have to prove that he's better than him.

568
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 3: He says, oh really, yeah, he says, quote unquote, a

569
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Speaker 3: lot of people say he is great. I want to

570
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 3: see how great he really is. I don't think anybody

571
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 3: is better than me. He's gonna have to show me

572
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 3: that he's better than me, right or wrong. Benedict's Benedict

573
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 3: calling out Lebron is bad.

574
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Speaker 4: Listen.

575
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Speaker 2: I I appreciate the moxie and the confidence. I don't

576
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 2: know that I would have gone with the Lebron James

577
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 2: has to prove he's better than me approached.

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Speaker 3: The funniest part to me is a lot of people

579
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 3: says that he's great, Like, what do you mean?

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Speaker 5: All right?

581
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 2: That's the other thing is the I mean, Lebron's been

582
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Speaker 2: in the league for almost every single moment. This young

583
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 2: man's in a lot, and so the idea that he's like, hey,

584
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 2: I've heard good things, but I don't know, but now

585
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 2: I do respect the I always think I'm the best

586
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 2: player type of thing. And that is what's hard for

587
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 2: rookies is that they you know, they come into a

588
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 2: league and they're not the best player on their own team,

589
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 2: much less better player in the whole league. But I also,

590
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 2: let me see, I want to check the schedule here. Oh,

591
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 2: we don't have the schedule, and I can't check the schedule.

592
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 2: I'm an idiot. I was going to say when they

593
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Speaker 2: play each other for the first.

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Speaker 3: Time, I'll be watching his first game. I don't think

595
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 3: that big on like, you know, oh, I want to

596
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 3: see this rookie.

597
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 4: I like now, what he has done is.

598
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 3: Created a buzz around himself, I believe because like I

599
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 3: for one, would not have been like I gotta see

600
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 3: Benedict Matherin's first game.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, no, you're fine. I'm very motivated by the way he.

602
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 2: Was one of a number of Canadians drafted in the

603
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Speaker 2: first round. Big Canadian contingent that everyone riding that Andrew

604
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 2: Wiggins way, he's also Canadian. Listen, I watched him in college.

605
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 2: I think he won Pack twelve Player of the Year,

606
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 2: so I give him credit, and you know, his top

607
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 2: ten pick of the draft. But yeah, he's on the

608
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 2: So he's on the Pacers. So he'll play Lebron twice

609
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 2: this coming years. This is the other conference. I I'm

610
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and guess Lebron will be aware of

611
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 2: this and will do his best to have a couple

612
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 2: moments with him, especially because listen that he plays wing

613
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 2: like Lebron, so they could match up against each other.

614
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 2: I don't mind him saying, you know, chet was asked

615
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 2: a few months ago, who's the best player in the

616
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 2: nbauld have said me in a few months. But the

617
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 2: whole he's gonna have to show me he's better than

618
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 2: me is maybe a bridge too far. All right, what's next?

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Speaker 4: So all right, sweet?

620
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 3: The Rockets are practicing with a four point line. Sorry,

621
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 3: the Rockets are practicing with a four point line in

622
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 3: their facility.

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Speaker 4: Right or wrong? The four point line should exis in

624
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 4: the NBA.

625
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 2: Absolutely should not exist. It's wrong. And I want to

626
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 2: show you a graphic because this, to me, is an

627
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 2: issue with the NBA. Is Kirk Goldsberry does all these maps?

628
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 2: He like he's like basically part NBA guy, part cartographer

629
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 2: where he shows shooting zones. And I'm trying to find

630
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 2: the one that I saw just the other day that

631
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 2: where he talked about shot distribution in the NBA. Now

632
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 2: versus a decade ago, because the I adding a four

633
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 2: point line would simply further make it to where long

634
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 2: jump shots are the only shots people take other than threes,

635
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, other than layups and shots in the paint,

636
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 2: and I don't think that is good for the health

637
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 2: of the sport. I think that, if anything, the league

638
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 2: should go to a true arc, not flattening it out

639
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 2: in the corners. That way, there is no corner three

640
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 2: because and that way the mid range starts to have

641
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 2: a bit of a comeback. Because I understand the math

642
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 2: of it, I understand why folks don't want the why

643
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 2: the mid range is a bad shot, but I just

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Speaker 2: I think aesthetically speaking, the league was better when there

645
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Speaker 2: was more diversity of offen.

646
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 3: Say it wouldn't be healthy for the sport. I think

647
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 3: it'd be a lot healthier for the players. What do

648
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 3: you mean, Like, as far as I think there would

649
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 3: be less you know, pounding down in the paint, I

650
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,280
Speaker 3: think that people are going to be taking further shots,

651
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 3: so there's going to be less contact.

652
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 4: But you know that's true.

653
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 2: But the flip side of that is guys have to

654
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 2: cover so much more ground now defensively, and that would

655
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 2: be exacerbated even further if they went to a four

656
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 2: point line. Listen, they're not going to a four point line.

657
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 2: There's the graphic, thank you here. It is so if

658
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 2: you look at the most common shot location twenty years ago,

659
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 2: it was all over the court. Most common shot locations

660
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 2: this year it is in the restricted area, in the paint,

661
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 2: in the dead middle, and then just threes, nothing in

662
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 2: the mid range. And to me, that has made the

663
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 2: game a little less fun to watch because everyone is

664
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 2: bombing threes and that seems to be the focal point

665
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 2: of the offense. A four point line would make it

666
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 2: even more so that the real way to fix it,

667
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 2: and I've said this before, is to switch the scoring

668
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 2: from threes and twos to fours and threes, but that

669
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,319
Speaker 2: will never happen. The reason that would fix it is

670
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 2: because then the premium on the three point shot, which

671
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 2: will be a four point shot, will only be a

672
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 2: thirty three percent premium instead of a fifty percent premium.

673
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 2: It's the same reason why when you're playing pickup, if

674
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 2: you play by ones and twos, it just comes down

675
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,280
Speaker 2: to who has the best shooter because it's one hundred

676
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 2: percent premium. But they'll never change it to fours and

677
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 2: threes because people don't like math, because it would ruin

678
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:53,800
Speaker 2: the record books. All right, what's last?

679
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 3: Okay, well, we've got an unwritten no baseball rule on

680
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:57,959
Speaker 3: this show.

681
00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 2: Uh huh.

682
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 4: But this has to be seen. All right, let's see

683
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 4: right or wrong? You can do this.

684
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 7: Skeeters the only other team aside from the Patriots and

685
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 7: the Ducks with double digit wins on the young season.

686
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 7: The one one Cardula swings and fouls it off towards

687
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 7: the broadcast booth and I make the catch on the

688
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 7: foul ball. I am very proud of myself. I hope

689
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 7: somebody got a video of that. I caught it on

690
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 7: the fly. Oh and it's a one to two count.

691
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 7: All right, boy, am I impressive? What a play by me?

692
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 2: Great job by that guy. So a few things. First

693
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 2: of all, did you hear the team he mentioned? He

694
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 2: said the Skeeters are the only other team. That's the

695
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 2: sugar Lands Snaters. So yeah, so that's the We used

696
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 2: to live just a few blocks from where they play.

697
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 2: The Skeeters weren't in that highlight.

698
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 4: That's where I learned how to drive.

699
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 2: That is where you learned how to drive. That is

700
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 2: absolutely right. Could I do that? Unfortunately, I must admit

701
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 2: I've been in a position to do that when I

702
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 2: used to cover the Royals where a foul ball came

703
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 2: into the press box and I did not snag it.

704
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 4: What I mean, did you touch it?

705
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 2: I attempted to snag it and it went through my

706
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 2: hand and.

707
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 6: Hit the wall.

708
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 2: Okay, so I know for a fact that I could

709
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 2: not do that.

710
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 4: Geez, for a fact. I mean that was one of one.

711
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 4: You know, know if it if it come on, man,

712
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,439
Speaker 4: you gotta give it a little bit more.

713
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 2: Not a great baseball player, not a great baseball I

714
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 2: know I'm.

715
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 3: A great catcher. I don't even think that's just I'm sorry.

716
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to grill you right now or anything,

717
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 3: but you're saying you're not a great baseball player. It's

718
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 3: not catching an item like it's a it's a baseball.

719
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 3: I'm not a great baseball player, and I feel like

720
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 3: I could definitely do that well with the mic on

721
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 3: and everything.

722
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 2: I don't know that you could. First of all, maybe

723
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 2: you could. You have good coordination, You're a good athlete.

724
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 2: Baseball is different, though, because I have great I'm a

725
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 2: great catcher.

726
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 4: Of a basketball.

727
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,959
Speaker 2: No, no, noka when it comes to football. But baseball's tough.

728
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 2: They're hard, they're coming fast. You gotta track it. There's

729
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 2: a little fear if you're not used to it. It's

730
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 2: a little harder. We have during the pod a little

731
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 2: breaking Kyrie Irving news. We'll do that to wrap up

732
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 2: the show. Next What's Right? All right, welcome back in

733
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 2: What's Right with Nick Wright. We have a little bit

734
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 2: of breaking news. While recording the pod. Christian Winfield Demonse

735
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 2: of the New York Daily News just wrote an article

736
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 2: says Kyrie Irving has requested and received permission from the

737
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 2: NETS to find sign and trade offers from other teams.

738
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant still hasn't spoken to the NETS front office.

739
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook to Brooklyn remains unlikely. So this is where

740
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,720
Speaker 2: I'm really a master, and this is where we break

741
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 2: out the old trade machine and we see what the

742
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 2: possible teams are. So we're gonna go NBA trade machine,

743
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 2: not the one that ESPN uses. There's a better one.

744
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 2: Fan Spoe has it, and we see which trades can work.

745
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 2: So let's start with Miami, which was on his list.

746
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 2: Miami is flatly not trading Bam or Jimmy Butler. I

747
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 2: guarantee you they're not trading either one of those guys

748
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 2: for Kyrie. But what they could do is trade Kyle

749
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 2: Lowry and they could include Tyler Hero. Kyle Lowry for

750
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 2: Tyler and Tyler Hero for Kyrie Irving. Does that trade

751
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 2: work against the cap? That trade works against the cap?

752
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 2: That's a possibility, A nice little Oh yeah, absolutely, And

753
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,760
Speaker 2: we can adjust people's contracts and such. But that trade

754
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 2: works Kyle Lowry and Tyler Hero, That one works. The

755
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 2: next one that, to me, there's a real possibility of

756
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 2: would be the Los Angeles Clippers. So they are not

757
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 2: trading Kawhi or Paul George, but I'm sure they would

758
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 2: trade Norman Powell. I'm sure they would trade Marcus Morris,

759
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,760
Speaker 2: and then you could probably get them to include Terrence Man,

760
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 2: who's a young player and has some value. Those two players,

761
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 2: they don't have any picks to include, though. Does that

762
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 2: trade work? That trade works, Marcus Morris, Norman Powell and

763
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 2: Terrence Man for Kyrie Irving, That trade works. Would the

764
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 2: Nets do that? Maybe? Would the Clippers do that? I

765
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 2: would say absolutely the Clippers would do that, and they

766
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 2: would have a dynamic threesome in Kawhi, Paul George and Katie.

767
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,439
Speaker 2: I mean Kawhi, Paul George and Kyrie. Now the other

768
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 2: teams that wrero on Kyrie's list, the Knicks could trade

769
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 2: you picks and bad contracts. I don't know that they

770
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 2: want that. The MAVs could They could the MAVs make

771
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 2: it work, assuming let's say Jalen Brunson is gone. Could

772
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 2: the MAVs, because they're you're not gonna do a Jalen

773
00:40:53,600 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 2: Brunson sign in trade. They could send Dinwiddie back and

774
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 2: din Witty and Burton's are Dinwitty in Hardaway. But I

775
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 2: don't know that the MAVs want to get in the

776
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 2: Kyrie business, to be honest, honestly, I know the Lakers

777
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 2: would want to get involved. But the Lakers can't make

778
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 2: a trade work unless a it's this massive trade that

779
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 2: involves Anthony Davis, and then you also have to get

780
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 2: Ben Simmons back, or if the Nets wanted Russell Westbrook,

781
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 2: which I don't think they do, and so for the Lakers,

782
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 2: sign in trade is very unlikely. The other question is,

783
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 2: and I find this one interesting, is Kyrie willing to

784
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 2: accept a contract from another team that is the same

785
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 2: type of contract he turned down from the Nets, And

786
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 2: I think the answer to that is yes. So by that,

787
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 2: I mean Kyrie wanted the full max next NETS wouldn't

788
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 2: give it to him. Say, the Nets offered him two

789
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 2: years at max money with a team option for year

790
00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 2: three partially guaranteed year three, and Kyrie was offended by that,

791
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 2: That doesn't necessarily mean he wouldn't accept that from another team,

792
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 2: so that I'll use again different levels of negotiation, of course.

793
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 2: But when I was leaving Kansas City radio wise, and

794
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure if I was gonna leave or not,

795
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 2: I was wildly insulted by their initial contract offered to me.

796
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 2: They then made another one. I still thought it was

797
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,919
Speaker 2: way out of whack. I then got the job offer

798
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 2: in Houston. Houston offered me the exact same amount of

799
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 2: money that Kansas City offered me at the end, and

800
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:35,720
Speaker 2: I happily took Houston's because I felt like Kansas City

801
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 2: had taken me for granted and insulted me, even though

802
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 2: it was the same amount of money and Houston was

803
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 2: actually more expensive city. So I don't think every team

804
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 2: that wants to sign and trade for Kyrie necessarily has

805
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 2: to give him the same contract the Nets were going

806
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 2: to give him. But I do think that the Lakers'

807
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:58,479
Speaker 2: only path is really that six million dollar mid level

808
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 2: and it's a whole lot of money for Kyrie to

809
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 2: leave on the table. Yeah, it's Kyrie, so it's possible,

810
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 2: and I do think that's where he wants to go.

811
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 2: And so seems like a lot of this is maneuvering

812
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 2: to get back with Lebron and try to win a title.

813
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 4: I'd love to see it.

814
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 2: I think it'd be a great story. I think the

815
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 2: Lakers would be awesome. I don't know if financially they

816
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 2: could do it. They could have done it if they

817
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 2: hadn't traded for us, But such as life. All right,

818
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 2: there's today's show. We'll be back.

819
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Speaker 4: Breaking news, Yeah, breaking news.

820
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 3: Colorado Avalanche has won their first Stanley Cup in twenty

821
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 3: one years. They get their name engraved on the Stanley Cup.

822
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 3: Nathan had a great game. I don't remember his last name,

823
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 3: but he scored two points. Okay, I just thought we'd

824
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 3: bring hockey in here.

825
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 2: Okay, it's not hockey, it's goals, goals.

826
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 4: Sorry, is this.

827
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 2: The thing you were supposed you supposedly knew more about

828
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 2: than me.

829
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 4: It's not supposedly I did.

830
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 2: What did you know more than me?

831
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,240
Speaker 4: That Nathan scored two points?

832
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 2: You don't even know is Nathan his first or last name?

833
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 2: And there's no points.

834
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 4: It's ghosts.

835
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 2: Okay, don't listen to a new rule on the show. Guys,

836
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 2: prep to Mom's a better if you're gonna ask him

837
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 2: to talk hockey, that's first of all. Second of all,

838
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 2: we're not talking Coloride. Congrats Colorado Avalanche. But until Patrick

839
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 2: Waugh walks back through that door, it doesn't matter anything

840
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 2: to me. We'll talk to you guys in a couple

841
00:44:13,239 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 2: of days, as