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Speaker 1: Let me start with basketball. Last night, I don't know
Speaker 1: if we ever see Steph Curry in an NBA Finals again,
Speaker 1: because the Warriors are at the crossroads. I thought that
Speaker 1: they had a great chance to compete for the championship
Speaker 1: this year if everybody was healthy. Klay Thompson, of course,
Speaker 1: is not. But the Warriors are at a crossroads right now.
Speaker 1: The nucleus of the championship team getting older and they
Speaker 1: haven't been able to stay healthy. But last night Steph
Speaker 1: Curry gave us a not so subtle reminder of what
Speaker 1: he's capable of. First, he hits the final shot to
Speaker 1: beat Mike Conley in the three point shooting contest. Then
Speaker 1: he decides to extend his range to half court in
Speaker 1: the actual game, hitting a couple of multi, multi long
Speaker 1: distance bombs. And he's had such a huge impact on
Speaker 1: the sport. And you've heard me talk about this. I
Speaker 1: think he's the most influential basketball player as far as
Speaker 1: the playing of the game in the last thirty years.
Speaker 1: And yes that factors in Michael Jordan and Lebron James.
Speaker 1: Everybody shoots threes. Everybody thinks they can shoot threes, and
Speaker 1: they're going deeper and deeper and deeper. But Curry's the
Speaker 1: og and he shooting from the logo. Jerry West may
Speaker 1: be the logo. Steph shoots from the logo. And last
Speaker 1: night he reminded everybody's the best shooter of all time.
Speaker 1: And I know it sounds like hyperbole or recency bias,
Speaker 1: but the numbers back it up. He's a player for
Speaker 1: the history books and it's a joy to watch him
Speaker 1: while we still can at the top of his game.
Speaker 1: He didn't have to take part in the three point
Speaker 1: shooting contest. I think this was Steph way of saying,
Speaker 1: I don't know this, but just my feeling, Hey, don't
Speaker 1: forget about me. We might not be playing for championships,
Speaker 1: we may not be on national TV anymore. Last year,
Speaker 1: bad year, But hey, I'm still around and he should
Speaker 1: have been the MVP last night. The Greek Freak was
Speaker 1: sixteen of sixteen, and you know, I get it's an
Speaker 1: All Star game. He banked in a couple of threes.
Speaker 1: It's happened before where you've had a player have a
Speaker 1: perfect game. Will Chamberlain did it twice. He went eighteen
Speaker 1: for eighteen one game, and he went sixteen for sixteen
Speaker 1: one game. Back then. They actually played a little more
Speaker 1: defense back in the sixties. In the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: Last night, it's just basically of an and one game,
Speaker 1: but fun to watch. Damian Lillard is fascinating as well.
Speaker 1: I love watching Steph. But it's strange to say if
Speaker 1: a game was on the line and you said, all right,
Speaker 1: I got somebody who's got to hit a big shot,
Speaker 1: I might lean towards Damian Lillard. May sound blasphemous after
Speaker 1: what I said about Steph Curry, but Damian Lillard just
Speaker 1: has something that there's always going to be a chip
Speaker 1: on his shoulder always because he you know, didn't wasn't
Speaker 1: heavily recruited Weavers, stayed, had a nice tournament run, went
Speaker 1: an All Star until I think his fourth year in
Speaker 1: the league. He plays in Portland, people forget about him,
Speaker 1: not on national TV. Man when comes to Daggers, he's
Speaker 1: not afraid and he loves the moment, and so does
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. But I want to give credit to both
Speaker 1: of them because I think they're fabulous players. I think
Speaker 1: Dame gets left out of the picture a little bit,
Speaker 1: but you know, he's one of those guys when you watch,
Speaker 1: you go, it's right, Steph, you don't go, Oh, I
Speaker 1: remember he can shoot really well. But watching last night,
Speaker 1: it was just I'm gonna give Lebron credit for being
Speaker 1: a great GM as he you know, he those were
Speaker 1: his picks to be able to build the team. And
Speaker 1: you could tell there's certain players who just sort of
Speaker 1: wanted to be out there, but didn't really want to
Speaker 1: be out there. Luca was just sort of, hey, I'll
Speaker 1: pass the ball. Lebron was passing the ball. Chris Paul
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that people remember that Chris Paul
Speaker 1: is a Hall of Famer and can play at a
Speaker 1: very high level. Had sixteen assists last night, but it
Speaker 1: was fun. You know, it's back and forth. It's a
Speaker 1: shame that you didn't have Joe ll mbad Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: able to play. You nearly had a barber who took
Speaker 1: down the Super Bowl, and you nearly had a barber
Speaker 1: taking down the All Star Game. With Joe Ellenbad and
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, we'll come up with a pole question. Got
Speaker 1: a play of the day, got a couple of stats
Speaker 1: of the day as well. Got a little information on
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson to share with you, Not much, but something interesting. Also.
Speaker 1: I just got this from Ian Rappaport of the NFL Network.
Speaker 1: The storyline to follow going forward is if the official
Speaker 1: salary cap number doesn't come today and soon, the NFL
Speaker 1: will have to move back the trade the tag deadline
Speaker 1: franchise tag deadline to Tuesday from Tuesday. I'll get it right,
Speaker 1: that it's supposed to be on Tuesday. They'll have to
Speaker 1: move it back from Tuesday. It's a situation several gms
Speaker 1: are bracing for, according to Ian Rappaport, and would further
Speaker 1: stall business for a bit. But tomorrow is the deadline
Speaker 1: to franchise tag a player. McLevin, what do you have
Speaker 1: for me today. Okay, All Star weekend question, Would you
Speaker 1: rather win the three point Contest, the dunk contest or
Speaker 1: the All Star Game MVP. I would rather win the
Speaker 1: All Star Game MVP because you're an All Star. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you're playing against everybody. Not everybody was in
Speaker 1: the three point shooting contest, and nobody knew who was
Speaker 1: in the dunk contest. How can you have somebody in
Speaker 1: the dunk contest who doesn't have a dunk this year?
Speaker 1: Cashus Stanley was in the dunk contest. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: a dunk this year? Yeah, mclovin. But Curry won both
Speaker 1: what could have won both? So he almost had the choice. See.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone ever remembers. I can't name another
Speaker 1: All Star Game MVP. I'm well, we do remember three
Speaker 1: point shooting contest back when Larry Bird put up his
Speaker 1: crooked finger he you know, famously said to everybody, who's
Speaker 1: who's playing for second in the locker room prior to
Speaker 1: the start of that. I don't know who won it
Speaker 1: last year. I feel like Jannie has never missed a
Speaker 1: shot in the All Star Game shop probably him. No,
Speaker 1: we're not in the three point No, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: three point shooting contest. Oh last year, buddy heeled, I
Speaker 1: heard them says, okay, yeah, yeah, Now the Greek freaks
Speaker 1: should not be shooting threes. He should note. And the
Speaker 1: more I watched him last night, the more I don't
Speaker 1: want him on the perimeter. I would just set him
Speaker 1: low and just say go just turning. Nobody can guard
Speaker 1: him down low on the perimeter. Take the jumper all day. Now.
Speaker 1: I know that he uses that sort of to get
Speaker 1: to the hoop, but you know, at some point somebody's
Speaker 1: gonna go. Not everybody should be shooting threes. How about
Speaker 1: we dominate down low. How about we get you in
Speaker 1: foul trouble. How about we take advantage of the skill
Speaker 1: set of our players instead of everybody's got a shoot
Speaker 1: at three. I will say this, and I did think
Speaker 1: this last night. Steph Curry probably made life really really
Speaker 1: difficult or some grade school coaches, some high school coaches,
Speaker 1: some college coaches after last night's performance, because I could
Speaker 1: just about guarantee you at today's practices with these kids,
Speaker 1: they're all going to be shooting out there. All you
Speaker 1: have to do is go to a game. Fifth grade
Speaker 1: or sixth graders, they are launching it. There's none of
Speaker 1: this get the ball inside. Everybody wants to be Steph
Speaker 1: Curry and watching those shots last night, first thing I
Speaker 1: thought of is those aren't easy shots from a strength perspective.
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard and Steph Curry are not big guys, but
Speaker 1: they're shooting jumpers there. It used to be a half
Speaker 1: court heave. We would use the word heave. I'm surprised
Speaker 1: when they miss. And if you go out just to
Speaker 1: the court, even if you can't get the shot up there,
Speaker 1: just go out and go back to where they're shooting
Speaker 1: from and realize that's a special, special trait. What else
Speaker 1: do you have McLevin Okay, Blake Griffin and that's the
Speaker 1: favorite in the East or overall? Which is a better
Speaker 1: poll question? Well, I don't know if Blake Griffin makes them,
Speaker 1: you know, changes anything. As far as are they the favorites.
Speaker 1: I would put them as the favorites right now in
Speaker 1: the NBA, but that's because I don't know Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: Is he going to be in and out of the
Speaker 1: lineup the rest of the season. Second half. I still
Speaker 1: like what the seventy sixers they're doing, but I think
Speaker 1: in fairness to Doc Rivers and that team. I want
Speaker 1: to see, are they going to be consistent second half
Speaker 1: of the season, ready to go in the postseason? You know,
Speaker 1: it comes down to the Nets. Is everybody going to
Speaker 1: stay healthy. They don't have a lot of depth, but
Speaker 1: they they obviously have, you know, three powerful players there.
Speaker 1: And look, I think Kyrie Irving can be wacky, but
Speaker 1: I also think he can be stunningly brilliant as a
Speaker 1: basketball player. That handles the best handle I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: It is and now there's there's a lot of players
Speaker 1: who have had great handles. You know, Iverson had a
Speaker 1: great handle, uh Mak Muldabduel, ry Wolf had a great handle.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many players in the history of
Speaker 1: the game. Kyrie in traffic, that ability in small spaces
Speaker 1: second to none, and there is that all that's right,
Speaker 1: Kyrie can be spectacular, But this is going to come
Speaker 1: down to everybody stays healthy. It comes down to Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: If Durant's healthy. With James Harden in the East, you know,
Speaker 1: I still like their chances to get to the NBA
Speaker 1: Finals with Kyrie playing like Kyrie. Circa a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, when they beat Golden State. Yeah, then I
Speaker 1: like what the Nets are doing. Blake Griffin is only
Speaker 1: thirty one, And I say only thirty one. He came
Speaker 1: into the league he was twenty, but he's an old
Speaker 1: thirty one. I don't think he's dunked in a game
Speaker 1: in over two years. How is that possible? That's what
Speaker 1: he was known for, and he came out he was explosive,
Speaker 1: but he got injured his first year. But he came
Speaker 1: out of Oklahoma, and I remember we had him on
Speaker 1: maybe after his freshman year, during his freshman year, and
Speaker 1: he had that ability where you said, if he gets
Speaker 1: a mid range jumper, he's going to be unstoppable. And
Speaker 1: then he kind of moved out to the three point
Speaker 1: line as everybody does. But now he goes to the nets.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he can give the nets. It
Speaker 1: sounds good, looks good on paper. But when's the last
Speaker 1: time you talked about Blake Griffin doing anything on the
Speaker 1: basketball floor? Been a long time, yeah, point. Blake's first
Speaker 1: five years in the pros, he was a five time
Speaker 1: All Star. He attempted less than half a three per game.
Speaker 1: He never took threes. Two years ago in Detroit, he
Speaker 1: was averaging seven three point attempts per game. Seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what are his numbers in Detroit? Hey? This year he's
Speaker 1: averaging about thirty minutes a game, twelve points and five rebounds. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it's a nice pick up. He doesn't play deal,
Speaker 1: you'll be perfect nut. Yeah, yees m. Forget Blake, But
Speaker 1: how did you know? You say Kyrie is a great
Speaker 1: ball hailer. So is James Harden, so is Kevin Durrett.
Speaker 1: But how does that all mess together? I still don't
Speaker 1: totally get it because there's only one ball, so well,
Speaker 1: they can't all handle it well. Kyrie, to me, is
Speaker 1: the interesting one to watch because he's the two guard.
Speaker 1: Now Harden is your point guard. He will pass, you know,
Speaker 1: Kyrie may not have to pass as much or be
Speaker 1: expected to pass as much. How does the guy who
Speaker 1: has the ball that much average five assists a game
Speaker 1: that I don't understand. But Katie, it feels like there's
Speaker 1: a common goal that they have that it's not one
Speaker 1: of those identity crisis where I got to be the star.
Speaker 1: Who's the star who's taken the last shot? As long
Speaker 1: as you don't have the egos that clash then it'll
Speaker 1: all work together. I think they'll actually go out and
Speaker 1: have fun playing basketball, because a lot of times I
Speaker 1: can't imagine playing for Greg Popovich is fun. I mean
Speaker 1: there's certain coaches where I go that's not fun. Doc Rivers,
Speaker 1: I'd probably have some fun there. Steve Nash probably have
Speaker 1: some fun there. But do you want to have fun
Speaker 1: or do you want to win? And that's where they
Speaker 1: have to make sure that, Hey, the common goal is
Speaker 1: to win, not treat every night as an All Star game?
Speaker 1: So where does Steve Kurfitt? Is he more the fun
Speaker 1: or the Popovich guy? He's fun because of their style
Speaker 1: of offense. Well that's what you want, Yes, you want
Speaker 1: you I heard the Chealsey when you're about the range
Speaker 1: kids are shooting with these days, Well, who wouldn't want that? Right?
Speaker 1: Who wouldn't want to play for the Golden State. If
Speaker 1: you know you're allowed to shoot, you got to make
Speaker 1: them though. I mean, there are a lot of somebody
Speaker 1: will say, man, that guy's a great shooter, and I'll go,
Speaker 1: is he a great maker? That's what I want to
Speaker 1: know because I was a great shooter. I didn't always
Speaker 1: make him. I mean, I look good it doesn't mean it.
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Speaker 1: are we going to settle on a poll question? Well,
Speaker 1: I have one more topic. It's NFL and I could
Speaker 1: save it, but I want to pull question around. Do
Speaker 1: you value first round picks if you're trying to get
Speaker 1: a guy like Deshaun Watson or Russell Wilson, they're just
Speaker 1: out the window, right Yeah. If you can get your guy,
Speaker 1: get your guy. That's why when I looked at this
Speaker 1: package with the Chicago Bears of what they might offer,
Speaker 1: because I learned yesterday the four teams that are on
Speaker 1: Russell's list are not getting phone calls back. At least
Speaker 1: I was told by you know, somebody with one of
Speaker 1: the teams or like we've called, we don't get any
Speaker 1: calls back. So not like you know, the Bears going, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna off your Khalil Mack, Nick Foles, and a
Speaker 1: couple of draft picks here they haven't. It's like playing tennis,
Speaker 1: but there's nobody at the other side. You're going, Hey,
Speaker 1: I hit it back to you. Are you gonna call us?
Speaker 1: But do if I'm Seattle, I don't want Khalil Mack.
Speaker 1: I don't want Nick Foles. I don't want a scattering
Speaker 1: smattering of a first round or second round. I don't
Speaker 1: give me younger, cheaper people and give me some draft
Speaker 1: picks here, Like, why would I do if I'm the Bears?
Speaker 1: What can I possibly give you? Just tell us what
Speaker 1: you want. That's what I That's where I would start
Speaker 1: if I'm the Bears. But if I'm Seattle, Like, why
Speaker 1: am I trading him to Chicago where he wants to go?
Speaker 1: And we're not getting what we really need here? I mean,
Speaker 1: do you think Pete Carroll at age sixty nine goes
Speaker 1: Nick Foles, Hey, they want a super Bowl in Philly.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to do a rebuild, and then you're
Speaker 1: gonna get Khalil Mack. No, doesn't make sense at all.
Speaker 1: The teams that make sense are the teams that are
Speaker 1: not on Russell Wilson's list, the Jets and the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I can get Sam Darnold, and I can get draft picks.
Speaker 1: I can get to UH, I can get draft picks.
Speaker 1: You gotta look at We always look at it from
Speaker 1: one angle, like, hey, Russ with the Bears, would they
Speaker 1: be Super Bowl contenders? Yeah? I mean wishful reporting. How
Speaker 1: about we look at it from Seattle's perspective. Thirty nine
Speaker 1: million dollars cap hit, who's our quarterback Geno Smith? And
Speaker 1: you're gonna give me some draft picks that we gave
Speaker 1: up to get Jamal Adams. I wouldn't do it. But
Speaker 1: if you said to me, Pete Carroll or John Schneider
Speaker 1: their GM to the Jets. Not that Russell wants to
Speaker 1: go to the Jets, at least I don't think he does.
Speaker 1: What will you give us? Give you Sam Darhol, give
Speaker 1: you the second pick overall, we'll give you Quinnon Williams,
Speaker 1: and we'll give you two other first round draft picks. Okay, now,
Speaker 1: if i'm Seattle, all right, I got my quarterback in
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson, no relation to Russ. I got a rookie
Speaker 1: contract here. I'm good. But that's not going to happen. Yeah, mclovin, Well,
Speaker 1: that's a little tricky with Miami in New York. Do
Speaker 1: you want Darnold and do you want to or do
Speaker 1: you just want to draft a guy and not have
Speaker 1: to deal with like a two headed situation. Well I
Speaker 1: have to consider both if I'm Seattle. But it's not
Speaker 1: happening because Russell has a no trade clause. He's not
Speaker 1: going to the Jets, He's not going to the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going anywhere. I truly believe this
Speaker 1: year he plays in Seattle. Also, keep an eye on
Speaker 1: free agency. Does Seattle do anything for Russell? And if
Speaker 1: they don't, then what happens? Do they go out and
Speaker 1: sign some linemen? Usually what they do is they sort
Speaker 1: of wait for lineman to become available. They don't necessarily
Speaker 1: go out and get those linemen. Do they draft them?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that, to me is the key
Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson moving forward is what do they do
Speaker 1: in free agency? And I don't know what Seattle's philosophy is,
Speaker 1: but it feels like that philosophy is whatever Pete Carroll
Speaker 1: wants to do. Because Pete Carroll answers to no one
Speaker 1: in that orderanization, and this might come down to a
Speaker 1: clash of egos personalities with Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1: We may find that out after the fact that those
Speaker 1: two what started out as a wonderful story where Pete goes, hey,
Speaker 1: we just signed Matt Flynn, we overpaid, we drafted you.
Speaker 1: You're our starting quarterback. And then we saw what happened
Speaker 1: after that. Do I think Russ is there after the
Speaker 1: following season? I do not. This season, I do. We'll
Speaker 1: take a break, phone calls, best and worst of the weekend,
Speaker 1: all of that coming up. We'll talk some basketball coming
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Speaker 1: Griffin going to Brooklyn. He doesn't play defense, he hasn't
Speaker 1: dunk since twenty nineteen. He shoots some threes. He's only
Speaker 1: thirty one. I guess he gives them a little more
Speaker 1: spacing on the offensive end and a bench guy, serviceable,
Speaker 1: big guy. You know when they lost Jared Allen, you
Speaker 1: know you lost that rim protector. Blake Griffin's not that
Speaker 1: rim protector, but you know it sounds impressive. You got
Speaker 1: Blake Griff. Howard Beck, Sports Illustrated senior writer, co host
Speaker 1: of the Crossover podcast, joining us on the program. Howard,
Speaker 1: let me start with that. Give me the logic behind
Speaker 1: the nets picking up Blake Griffin. Good morning, Dan, listen.
Speaker 1: I think let me address what's not the logic behind it.
Speaker 1: This is not the nets loading up on you yet
Speaker 1: another All Star to join Kyrie and James Harden and
Speaker 1: Kadi and DeAndre Jordan. People are talking about five years ago,
Speaker 1: could you imagine these guys altogether? Yeah, yeah, five years ago,
Speaker 1: these guys weren't the same guys, well three of them more.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan's not that guy anymore, and Blake Griffin's not
Speaker 1: the guy that he was when he was playing with
Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan for Lob City in la He We have
Speaker 1: a very small sample sized, Dan of what Blake Griffin
Speaker 1: did in Detroit this season, and I'm wavering between looking
Speaker 1: at that sample size and saying, Wow, I think Blake
Speaker 1: Griffin might be done. Versus Blake Griffin is on a young,
Speaker 1: rebuilding team in which he is no longer a focal
Speaker 1: point at all, and they've got nothing to play for.
Speaker 1: And maybe there's a second wind for Blake Griffin with
Speaker 1: a team that matters, and he's joining one now. But
Speaker 1: I will tell you Dan, about a month ago, when
Speaker 1: all the chatter first started about they're gonna try to
Speaker 1: trade Blake Griffin, which was never realistic, They're gonna cut
Speaker 1: him loose, whatever's gonna happen. I checked him with some
Speaker 1: scouts and they basically said, look, it's painful to watch him.
Speaker 1: I can't watch him. It's he's that far from what
Speaker 1: he was what can he still do? He's a really
Speaker 1: good passer for a big. He can hit the midrange shot.
Speaker 1: He's a good midrange shooter when he's got his left
Speaker 1: when his legs are there. I just don't know what's
Speaker 1: left after all the injuries he's been through. And yeah,
Speaker 1: thirty one is young for this, even in this league.
Speaker 1: But as you know, Blake Griffin has just been through
Speaker 1: so much in terms of surgeries and injuries. And I
Speaker 1: don't know what's left. I honestly don't. But then nets
Speaker 1: were really thin in the front court and now they're
Speaker 1: a little less than Watching the game last night, everybody
Speaker 1: loves the three, and I went back and I asked
Speaker 1: stats Inc. Could I get a summary of the game
Speaker 1: of how many layups and dunks and how many threes?
Speaker 1: How many mid range jumpers were there last night? There
Speaker 1: was one mid range jumper last night. Can you see
Speaker 1: a scenario, though, Howard, where somebody's going to be counterintuitive
Speaker 1: to the three and all of a sudden just go.
Speaker 1: We want you to deal with our strength, which might
Speaker 1: be low post you know that you actually use a
Speaker 1: big man as a big man, or are we you know?
Speaker 1: Where I don't want to say, stuck with the three,
Speaker 1: but you know the three is going to be around
Speaker 1: a long long time. Yeah. I mean, the emphasis on
Speaker 1: the three dan is not going away. The continued shifts
Speaker 1: toward the three ball over mid range is not going away.
Speaker 1: I don't know where we top out. Kirk Goldsberry of
Speaker 1: ESPN's has a phenomenal book on this called sprawl Ball,
Speaker 1: where he talks about the logical extremes and whether this
Speaker 1: eventually has to lead to any number of potential solutions. Right,
Speaker 1: moving the three point line even further back, I mean,
Speaker 1: people like adding the four point line whatever that. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if that solves the quote the problem. But
Speaker 1: what if we removed it, If we removed it entirely,
Speaker 1: you would have a jammed up court and a boring game,
Speaker 1: and you wouldn't have people slashing to the hoop anymore,
Speaker 1: and nobody would watch. Don't We're not going back. And
Speaker 1: the thing is, there are skilled two point mid range
Speaker 1: guys in this league Kawhi, Leonard, Devin Booker, Zach Levine,
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, pretty much actually all of the elite scorers,
Speaker 1: most of them are really good in the mid range.
Speaker 1: Maybe not James Harden. But a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: are really good there. But the fact is, if you're
Speaker 1: great in the mid range, but the other team is
Speaker 1: just a little bit less good from three point range,
Speaker 1: as you know, you're gonna keep losing ground. So as
Speaker 1: long as somebody's shooting a lot of threes, if the
Speaker 1: other team has taken forty threes and you're taking ten
Speaker 1: out of some principles stand in favor of the mid range,
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose. Because math. Why do you think Steph
Speaker 1: Curry entered the three point shooting contests? Because why not? Listen,
Speaker 1: my colleague Michael Penie's at SI I thought, like a
Speaker 1: month ago had the best idea about the All Star Game,
Speaker 1: which was just send the All Stars and then have
Speaker 1: the All Stars do all of the events, in which
Speaker 1: case maybe we would have finally gotten Lebron the dunk contest.
Speaker 1: Probably not, but maybe Zion maybe I think this was
Speaker 1: this is efficiency, this was let's try to invite as
Speaker 1: few extra bodies as possible. And Steph is an obvious candidate,
Speaker 1: and Steph says, I'm there anyway, We're doing it all
Speaker 1: the same day. Sure, why not? I mean, that's my
Speaker 1: guests how are you. We got to get rid of
Speaker 1: the skills competition because it feels like it's a white
Speaker 1: guy event. You know, hey, who can throw a European
Speaker 1: white guy? And you got a crisp pass that you're
Speaker 1: going to throw into a net. You're going to drill
Speaker 1: around some cones and then somebody maybe will bank into three.
Speaker 1: I used to do those drills at summer camp. It
Speaker 1: was not called as skills competition. Howard, it is not good.
Speaker 1: I wrote this because they asked us to predict all
Speaker 1: the events, which is a kind of a goofy exercise
Speaker 1: in and of itself. And my line on the skills
Speaker 1: competition was a fun fact. I have never watched, and Dan,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to tell you I did not break my
Speaker 1: streak last night. I still did not. Well. I turn
Speaker 1: it on just in time to see Sabonas accepting the trophy.
Speaker 1: I went, oh, darn, I missed it again. Yeah, I watched.
Speaker 1: I watched, and then I kept going, this isn't really
Speaker 1: great skills competition. I think we think, well, there's a
Speaker 1: seven footer out there. What we're well passed a seven
Speaker 1: footer who can handle the ball, pass the ball, and
Speaker 1: shoot the ball. That's the whole league. Yes, that's the
Speaker 1: whole thing. The fact is the only event that you
Speaker 1: can count on year in and year out to be interesting, watchable,
Speaker 1: fun is the three point shootout. It is like that
Speaker 1: one is bulletproof. Dan. Yeah, the game itself the All
Speaker 1: Star Game most years. The dunk contest last night was terrible.
Speaker 1: And it's every once every four or five years we
Speaker 1: get one that's so electric that we go, Okay, it's back,
Speaker 1: we don't have to kill it, and then a year
Speaker 1: like this we go, maybe we're out of ideas for
Speaker 1: the dunk contest and the other skills competition is just useless.
Speaker 1: And if Lebron had been in the dunk contest, then
Speaker 1: I know the critics would say, oh, I thought you
Speaker 1: were going to conserve your energy. Why aren't you conserving
Speaker 1: your energy? Why don't you let the young guys have
Speaker 1: this stage. Lebron couldn't win. If he slipped into the
Speaker 1: dunk contest, it would have been awesome, but the critics
Speaker 1: would have come out and said, should you be doing that?
Speaker 1: Shouldn't you conserve your energy? Let somebody else have this
Speaker 1: spotlight Lebron? Yeah, maybe, I think at this point people
Speaker 1: would have just been thrilled to see him finally do it.
Speaker 1: But I also you're not going to do it in
Speaker 1: you're eighteen at thirty six, Like the window for Lebron
Speaker 1: to have done that closed quite a while ago. And
Speaker 1: I think that's the part of the problem, is that
Speaker 1: the stars of today only see downside. It's it's well,
Speaker 1: I'm you entered the league on day one as a
Speaker 1: superstar with all these expectations and all this hype and everything.
Speaker 1: What happens if you get beaten by you know, Anthony Simons,
Speaker 1: you know Cashus Stanley, like, you don't want to put
Speaker 1: yourself in that position. And so I think that's why
Speaker 1: we don't see the superstars do it anymore as we
Speaker 1: did back in the day with Jordan or years later
Speaker 1: with Kobe. He's Howard Beck. He covers the League. Sports
Speaker 1: Illustrated senior writer handicap the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: Let's assume Anthony Davis is healthy. Are the Lakers when
Speaker 1: healthy better than the Nets when healthy? Oh that's a
Speaker 1: spicy question and a relevant one. I mean, listen, we've
Speaker 1: got at least a dozen ten maybe I don't know
Speaker 1: different possible combinations because I think there are four or
Speaker 1: five teams that could come out of each conference, certainly
Speaker 1: in the West, maybe three in the East. If it's
Speaker 1: Nets versus Lakers, I'm still leaning Lakers because we know
Speaker 1: they can defend, and because I don't know what the
Speaker 1: Nets are doing with Anthony Davis. Now, listen to our
Speaker 1: earlier discussion. If Anthony Davis is crushing it at the rim,
Speaker 1: but James Harden and Kyrier Kevin Durants are raining threes,
Speaker 1: math might favor the Nets anyway, But can the Nets
Speaker 1: deal with Anthony Davis. No, Now, Kevin Durant has some
Speaker 1: experience playing against Lebron in the finals, and those two
Speaker 1: will check each other well. But you know that because
Speaker 1: that's the first question I have Dan every time it's
Speaker 1: the hypothetical, what about the Jazz versus the Lakers? Can
Speaker 1: the Jazz make the final? What are they doing with
Speaker 1: Lebron and Anthony Davis? Like, that's the first question for
Speaker 1: every opponent. The Nets are so potent offensively, and if
Speaker 1: they just ratch it up the defense to a respectable
Speaker 1: level and can place them in the fourth quarter, Because
Speaker 1: if the Nets are within ten points of you in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, you may already be in trouble because
Speaker 1: all they have to do is decide to play defense
Speaker 1: for about five minutes and just you know, ragin threes
Speaker 1: on you. They they're unguardable. They're absolutely unguardable, and they
Speaker 1: have just enough role players who can benefit and hit
Speaker 1: open threes that trying to guard Durrant, Harden and Irving
Speaker 1: at the same time is an impossibility. I was looking
Speaker 1: at the numbers going into the All Star break points
Speaker 1: per game League one. One hundred and twelve points per
Speaker 1: game is what it's being averaged. That's the highest since
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, when it was one hundred and fifteen
Speaker 1: points a game. I tune in and I can watch
Speaker 1: a game not going into overtime and somebody's got one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty points Howard, and like I go, I
Speaker 1: remember when when the Knicks and the cat Remember when
Speaker 1: for Tello and pat Riley nearly ruined the game when
Speaker 1: they were getting those first team to ninety when Riley
Speaker 1: was with the Knicks and for Tello with the Calves.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, look at this, you can get that
Speaker 1: almost at a halftime. It feels like in these NBA games,
Speaker 1: is it too much of a good thing? Well, I'll
Speaker 1: say this, No one's nostalgic for Mike Fortello and pat
Speaker 1: Riley rooting the game and slowing things down and having like,
Speaker 1: you know, seventy to sixty seven finals scores. I mean,
Speaker 1: some people are nostalgic for that. NBA I don't know
Speaker 1: why they are. Are we too far as the pendulum
Speaker 1: swim too far in the other direction? I think the
Speaker 1: league asks itself that question all the time. I like,
Speaker 1: there's some really smart people at Olympic Tower who are
Speaker 1: constantly wondering about this and thinking about it. And the
Speaker 1: earlier discussion we had about how how far does this
Speaker 1: three point binge go? Does it hit a logical extreme
Speaker 1: where it warps the game too much and we have
Speaker 1: to try to recalibrate and how do you do that?
Speaker 1: I think they're thinking about that all the time. I
Speaker 1: don't think we're at a crisis point yet with the NBA.
Speaker 1: I think the ratings have bounced back really well this year,
Speaker 1: and you know, last year was you know, obviously a
Speaker 1: weird year with the pandemic, the bubble, basketball in the summer,
Speaker 1: all this stuff, And so as long as people are watching,
Speaker 1: as long as the game is fun, I think We're okay.
Speaker 1: There are always going to be some basketball purists who
Speaker 1: feel like scores are too high, there's not enough mid range,
Speaker 1: there's not enough of you know, diversity within the offense. Fine,
Speaker 1: but if people are watching, you know, and the revenue
Speaker 1: is still pouring in, I think they're just going to
Speaker 1: continue on this course. Howard, great to talk to you.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your time. We'll check in with you during
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. Thank you always, pleasure
Speaker 1: to Dan. Thank you. That's Howard Becks. We're till the
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Speaker 1: this year in the top twenty five Liberty basketball going
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Speaker 1: think of the movie Trading Places. Wasn't one of the
Speaker 1: guys in there, the stodgy old guys named Winthrop or Winthorpe.
Speaker 1: I think, uh, Dan dan Agro's character is Winthorpe. Oh Winthorpe.
Speaker 1: Oh think yes, you're correct, it's that's a good movie.
Speaker 1: What were the old guys name? So they're Randolph and Mortimer, Duke,
Speaker 1: Duke and Duke. Anybody watched Coming to America too, Nick Levin?
Speaker 1: I did. I don't know why because Amazon Pride was
Speaker 1: just putty in my face and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I like the original. I'll click on it. Okay, if
Speaker 1: you said the good, bad or just fun, just fun,
Speaker 1: it's nostalgia. It's not it doesn't stand alone as a movie.
Speaker 1: But it's got nostalgia for the original. It's just updating. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they just it's like an homage to the original. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it doesn't add much. It's different. I mean,
Speaker 1: but you are you a fan of the original. If
Speaker 1: you're not a fan of the original, there's no reason
Speaker 1: to watch too. I think there's parts of the movie
Speaker 1: I remember, but no, not really, and you're gonna be
Speaker 1: lost in part two? Will I be able to follow
Speaker 1: the script? Can I follow this story? Mclovin, Yes, you
Speaker 1: will be able to follow this story. It's a yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not exactly a heavy script by any means and kind.
Speaker 1: But Eddie Murphy playing the old guys is still delivers.
Speaker 1: Does he play a variety of roles? Yeah, I think he.
Speaker 1: I think I read like eight roles, you know, just
Speaker 1: like the original where he plays different guys. Okay, Joel
Speaker 1: Lois hiss, Yeah, that guy and the barber shop scene,
Speaker 1: yeah the original. Do they have another barber shop so yeah,
Speaker 1: not to spoil it, yes, very much. In fact, it
Speaker 1: felt like that's the only reason they made the movie. Again.
Speaker 1: Lets so we create that barbershop scene and then Oprah
Speaker 1: sit down with uh, you know, Prince Harry. That was
Speaker 1: that's that's a big deal. That created some headlines there,
Speaker 1: and and Oprah does. Oprah's curious now because of her
Speaker 1: star power, she's able to get them to sit down.
Speaker 1: And of course you paid them seven million dollars to
Speaker 1: sit down. That helps, but she's still curious. Once you
Speaker 1: sit down with them, that's when you have to make magic.
Speaker 1: And Oprah is able to do that. And she tried
Speaker 1: a couple of times. Like you revisit a topic, there
Speaker 1: are times when you're interviewing somebody and then they sort
Speaker 1: of fend you off and then you go, Okay, I
Speaker 1: think there's something there. Maybe I do an end around,
Speaker 1: maybe I do something different, and Oprah is very good
Speaker 1: at doing that. But staying curious, like Howard Stern, is
Speaker 1: as curios any interviewer I've ever heard. That's really important
Speaker 1: listening and being curious. And Oprah hears it, and then
Speaker 1: she'll go wait, wait who said that? And then there
Speaker 1: were times when Harry said, well, I don't want to
Speaker 1: go into that, but then she tried again. Because if
Speaker 1: you have something where they say nothing's off limits, it
Speaker 1: turned out there were things that were off limits. But
Speaker 1: the ability to be curious is something that any successful
Speaker 1: interviewer has to have. Yeah. Point, So I read in
Speaker 1: this a little bit. In the past week or so,
Speaker 1: Prince Harry has been stripped of his royal duties. He's
Speaker 1: no longer a working member of the royal family. He
Speaker 1: has not lost his title of His Royal Highness, but
Speaker 1: he will not be printing it to use those titles
Speaker 1: on a day to day basis. And so do you
Speaker 1: still refer to him as Prince Harry or is he
Speaker 1: just Harry? I don't get caught up in the royals.
Speaker 1: I technically don't think he's we referred to him at
Speaker 1: Prince Harry. No, probably not, but hey, if if he
Speaker 1: wants to be called that, I'll call him Prince Harry.
Speaker 1: Just call me King Dan and then we're good, yes see,
Speaker 1: And like what do you say, Hey, Harry, how are
Speaker 1: you doing? He's actually differs but there's no way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm clu I caught a little part that was fascinating
Speaker 1: where Harry said that his dad isn't talking to him,
Speaker 1: won't pick up his calls. But Harry said his dad
Speaker 1: should understand because he went through all this with Lady
Speaker 1: Dye and you know, he thought his dad would be empathetic,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't been. So like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: Lady Die over chus. My wife's a big crown person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but but his dad can't be sympathetic to his son
Speaker 1: because then he'll upset his the queen mum. And right,
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's there at Buckingham Palace, he's there,
Speaker 1: Harry's in the United States, he's in Montecito, and you want,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Prince Charles is playing a home
Speaker 1: court advantage here where I don't want to upset the
Speaker 1: lean mum. It feels like Charles zo never really takes
Speaker 1: charge of situations. Now I've watched I'm gonna get to
Speaker 1: the crowd, like he sort of just sort of floats along,
Speaker 1: And don't you add another season the Crown? Like, didn't
Speaker 1: they just give you another season? I haven't watched any
Speaker 1: of these seasons with the Crown. I mean, I find
Speaker 1: it so sad with what happened to Princess Diana. How
Speaker 1: like you have people whose jobs it is to just
Speaker 1: cover the royals, and what happened to Princess Diana and
Speaker 1: she never had a normal life, thought that she was
Speaker 1: in love or you know, that's what this all, and
Speaker 1: then it was all, you know, a charade and then
Speaker 1: she dies in a crash. And then Harry is of
Speaker 1: the age to understand it and it never leaves him,
Speaker 1: and I think he probably saw the warning signs. It's like,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? I'm getting the hell out of here.
Speaker 1: But it is big business. I mean, the amount of
Speaker 1: tourism that is generated from the royal I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know what they put the number at, but that's
Speaker 1: that's a big business. And I think the Queen Mum
Speaker 1: has done one interview one interview, and we tried since
Speaker 1: we have. I said, you want to be in our
Speaker 1: bracket challenge, and she almost she was going to fill
Speaker 1: out a bracket. Didn't get a no. No, we did
Speaker 1: not not an official no, but I thought, I said, Fritzie,
Speaker 1: reach out to the Queen Mum, see if she wants
Speaker 1: to fill out a bracket. Still got another week. Yes,
Speaker 1: just to give an idea of house size, Oprah's house
Speaker 1: twenty three thousand square feet, the Windsor Castle, he gets
Speaker 1: home in the world because they actually lived there four
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty four thousand square feet. But are they happy, Paul.
Speaker 1: They can go to a different room and try to
Speaker 1: find happiness there. Yeah, I don't know if they're happy though.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that'd be great though, when when Harry goes
Speaker 1: back and he has to hang out with the Queen
Speaker 1: Mum and Wills and you bring Archie there and then
Speaker 1: they are going to have a daughter and yep, the
Speaker 1: hell with the crown. That's a reality show, all right.
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