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Stern and 0:01:29.859 --> 0:01:32.579 Cohen are the official partners of the seventy six Ers. 0:01:32.859 --> 0:01:34.979 They'll go ring the insurance company's bell. 0:01:41.739 --> 0:01:45.379 The Great Kate Scott joining us on Sixers in sixty 0:01:45.579 --> 0:01:48.699 Voice of the Philadelphia seventy six Ers and Kate of course. 0:01:49.139 --> 0:01:51.619 Just past the midpoint of this season, long a five 0:01:51.659 --> 0:01:55.979 game road trip, the team severely shorthanded struggling thus far 0:01:56.019 --> 0:01:58.059 in terms of wins and losses, but we're learning things. 0:01:58.339 --> 0:02:00.139 What have you learned about the team on the trip 0:02:00.219 --> 0:02:00.499 so far? 0:02:00.619 --> 0:02:04.499 Yeah, we're learning that Pat Bev is playing like a 0:02:04.579 --> 0:02:07.659 rookie out of Arkansas. We're learning that when Paul Reid 0:02:07.699 --> 0:02:10.659 gets as many minutes as I'm sure every NBA player 0:02:11.619 --> 0:02:14.139 would like to get, he can step up and show out. 0:02:14.779 --> 0:02:17.059 I think it's been great to see. You know, Nick 0:02:17.139 --> 0:02:20.339 mention it before the game in Portland. He was hoping 0:02:20.419 --> 0:02:23.379 actually to get Kelly some more minutes on this road 0:02:23.419 --> 0:02:26.459 trip to try to help him refine that rhythm that 0:02:26.499 --> 0:02:28.419 we all saw at the beginning of the season because 0:02:28.419 --> 0:02:31.019 he was such a key piece of the Sixers fantastic start. 0:02:31.059 --> 0:02:33.139 I know it's easy for us all to forget because 0:02:33.139 --> 0:02:36.099 it's been a number of months now, but Kelly has 0:02:36.099 --> 0:02:38.699 looked good the last couple of games despite the end results. 0:02:38.699 --> 0:02:41.619 So now it's how do you take those individual efforts 0:02:42.099 --> 0:02:44.539 and put them into what really matters, which is getting 0:02:44.579 --> 0:02:47.219 back into the win column, hopefully before we get back 0:02:47.219 --> 0:02:47.779 home to Philly. 0:02:48.019 --> 0:02:50.219 And we got to talk about the team performance in 0:02:50.259 --> 0:02:52.579 the Denver game, right, that's a day where you think 0:02:52.579 --> 0:02:55.299 you're at least going to have the defending MVP in 0:02:55.419 --> 0:02:57.619 Joel Embiid, and the guys find out, just as we 0:02:57.699 --> 0:03:00.099 did twenty twenty five minutes before the game, that they'd 0:03:00.099 --> 0:03:01.619 be on their own. Paul Reid was going to have 0:03:01.659 --> 0:03:04.059 to step in in a very big way against a 0:03:04.379 --> 0:03:06.419 very good, if not one of the best big men 0:03:06.459 --> 0:03:08.939 to ever play the game. And Nikola jokicin did a 0:03:08.939 --> 0:03:09.779 really good job. 0:03:09.899 --> 0:03:10.019 Right. 0:03:10.059 --> 0:03:10.899 So, when you think back. 0:03:10.779 --> 0:03:14.259 To that Denver game, the spirit that they showed, the 0:03:14.299 --> 0:03:18.059 collective effort, the leadership from Pat Beverly, what are you 0:03:18.059 --> 0:03:19.859 gonna remember most about about that contest? 0:03:19.939 --> 0:03:21.899 Yeah, all of those things. I mean, this is the 0:03:21.939 --> 0:03:25.459 defending NBA champion. You're playing them on their home floor 0:03:25.979 --> 0:03:29.939 on national television. This is a huge game, and you 0:03:30.019 --> 0:03:32.779 find out I don't even think it was twenty five before. 0:03:33.139 --> 0:03:35.819 I think it was fifteen before the game. You know, 0:03:35.979 --> 0:03:39.699 Joe wanted to go, but the training staff said, Joe, April, 0:03:39.779 --> 0:03:41.739 May and June is what matters. We have to hold 0:03:41.779 --> 0:03:47.099 you out. And somehow, despite all that adversity, these guys 0:03:47.099 --> 0:03:48.979 figured out a way to come out and they got 0:03:49.059 --> 0:03:51.059 punched in the mouth. I mean, Jamal Murray hit three 0:03:51.179 --> 0:03:54.539 quick threes, and they did not let them knock them 0:03:54.539 --> 0:03:57.779 off their rhythm or their focus and their fight. And 0:03:58.099 --> 0:04:00.499 I think that the thing the Sixers need to do 0:04:00.619 --> 0:04:03.579 somehow is to flush this Portland game and figure out 0:04:03.579 --> 0:04:05.699 a way to get back to that because they showed 0:04:05.819 --> 0:04:08.939 everybody in the NBA, not just themselves, they showed everybody 0:04:09.379 --> 0:04:11.899 something that day with the performances as you mentioned of 0:04:12.619 --> 0:04:16.019 Paul of Marcus Morrisenior Kelly had a great first half, 0:04:16.259 --> 0:04:18.259 and all the guys coming off the bench too. Daniel 0:04:18.299 --> 0:04:20.019 House made some big place for Concork. 0:04:20.059 --> 0:04:20.619 Bond's hit a. 0:04:20.659 --> 0:04:23.339 Huge three in the fourth quarter to keep that game closed. 0:04:23.379 --> 0:04:25.539 So again we talked about it earlier in the season. 0:04:25.779 --> 0:04:28.619 It's easy to forget because the Sixers have dropped a 0:04:28.659 --> 0:04:31.499 few now, but this is a really deep team, and 0:04:31.619 --> 0:04:33.819 when they have a couple of the best players in 0:04:33.859 --> 0:04:36.499 the NBA, the All Star starter in Joel Embiid and 0:04:36.539 --> 0:04:39.379 hopefully an All Star reserve and Tyreese Maxi back, and 0:04:39.419 --> 0:04:42.779 again Debias was still he was off in Portland because 0:04:42.779 --> 0:04:44.819 he was just coming back and he's been really sick. 0:04:44.979 --> 0:04:46.339 So once those. 0:04:46.179 --> 0:04:48.419 Guys come back, we have to remember the depth that 0:04:48.459 --> 0:04:50.979 these guys are providing and hopefully they can find a 0:04:50.979 --> 0:04:54.459 way to get something positive going at the end this 0:04:54.539 --> 0:04:56.139 road trip as we head back home to Philly. 0:04:56.379 --> 0:04:58.259 Lauren ros In back with the voice of the seventy 0:04:58.299 --> 0:05:01.139 six Ers Kate Scott on Sixers and sixty and the 0:05:01.139 --> 0:05:04.779 seventy six Ers Insiders podcast. You mentioned Joel Embiid, Tyres Maxey, 0:05:04.819 --> 0:05:07.379 Tobias Harris, Kelly Uber said something interesting prior to the 0:05:07.419 --> 0:05:09.779 Portland game. What's it like to try to cover for 0:05:09.979 --> 0:05:14.059 eighty points as a unit? Well, you mentioned Joel Embiid 0:05:14.139 --> 0:05:18.019 wanted to go against Denver, Tyres Maxie also wanted to 0:05:18.099 --> 0:05:21.019 go against Denver dealing with that ankle sprain. But because 0:05:21.059 --> 0:05:24.179 we haven't chatted with you in a while on this platform, 0:05:24.379 --> 0:05:26.579 what's it been like to watch Tyres Maxie's first All 0:05:26.619 --> 0:05:27.259 Star season? 0:05:27.419 --> 0:05:30.659 Yeah, man, kid man, I understand why he wasn't an 0:05:30.659 --> 0:05:32.739 All Star starter, but I was really hoping that he 0:05:32.739 --> 0:05:35.259 would somehow shoot off the voting in the last couple 0:05:35.339 --> 0:05:40.139 of days. But as he has said about his partner 0:05:40.139 --> 0:05:42.539 in crime, Joel emb this year, that we can't take 0:05:42.619 --> 0:05:45.659 this for granted and that we have to enjoy the 0:05:45.779 --> 0:05:50.339 incredible things that he is making look normal day. I 0:05:50.379 --> 0:05:52.339 think we can say the same thing about our twenty 0:05:52.379 --> 0:05:55.099 three year old Tyres MAXI some of his circus shots, 0:05:55.499 --> 0:05:58.299 the way he just levitates in the air, the maximum 0:05:58.379 --> 0:06:00.859 matrix as I've taken it to Colin. Then, I know 0:06:00.899 --> 0:06:02.419 you kids don't know what that means, but I know 0:06:02.499 --> 0:06:05.139 you old heads are not on your head and saying, oh, yeah, 0:06:05.179 --> 0:06:08.859 he's got a little Keanu in him. But the leap 0:06:08.899 --> 0:06:12.659 he is taking this year is just the beginning. And 0:06:12.739 --> 0:06:14.859 I know we thought last year is just the beginning, 0:06:14.859 --> 0:06:19.499 but this is truly just the beginning of what I 0:06:19.619 --> 0:06:23.979 hope will be a long and extremely successful career for Tyres, 0:06:24.059 --> 0:06:26.379 not just in the NBA, but also in Philly. 0:06:27.339 --> 0:06:29.739 Road trip now shifting to the Bay Area. You a 0:06:29.779 --> 0:06:32.939 Bay Area girl yourself, So let's talk personal for a second. Yeah, 0:06:33.059 --> 0:06:35.659 it's not your first time returning to the Bay as 0:06:35.699 --> 0:06:37.939 the voice of the seventy six ers. But how does 0:06:37.979 --> 0:06:41.179 it feel to go back into that building among. 0:06:40.939 --> 0:06:43.099 Those people, be in those streets. 0:06:43.259 --> 0:06:44.939 What's it like to return for you? 0:06:45.139 --> 0:06:47.459 Yeah, it's really special. Yeah, last year was my first 0:06:47.939 --> 0:06:52.099 first time back and it was more emotional than I 0:06:52.139 --> 0:06:55.499 could have imagined, which makes sense if you're a faster 0:06:55.579 --> 0:06:56.299 processer than me. 0:06:56.339 --> 0:06:57.019 I'm really slow. 0:06:58.099 --> 0:07:01.019 I would have realized, hey, you're seeing the people that 0:07:01.339 --> 0:07:03.899 helped you get to where you are. You spent twenty 0:07:03.979 --> 0:07:06.539 years here in the Bay. You wouldn't be in Philly 0:07:06.619 --> 0:07:09.099 without all the jobs you worked and the things you 0:07:09.219 --> 0:07:12.259 learned and the people that you met, people who challenged 0:07:12.299 --> 0:07:14.779 you and critiqued you and helped you get to the point. 0:07:14.579 --> 0:07:15.139 You are now. 0:07:15.939 --> 0:07:17.099 But I didn't realize that. 0:07:17.179 --> 0:07:19.579 So last year was it was a lot, It was overwhelming. 0:07:19.859 --> 0:07:22.259 So I'm really looking forward to being back this year 0:07:22.339 --> 0:07:24.819 because one we don't have the game. 0:07:25.419 --> 0:07:26.699 It's a national exclusive. 0:07:26.739 --> 0:07:28.179 You get to be a Sixers fan, So I get 0:07:28.179 --> 0:07:29.099 to be a Sixers fan. 0:07:29.139 --> 0:07:30.779 I already have my Sixers that he picked out. 0:07:30.819 --> 0:07:32.699 I'm taking my best friend of the game, and I 0:07:32.739 --> 0:07:34.179 get to see a lot of folks during the game 0:07:34.219 --> 0:07:36.819 without that pressure of it's great to see you all, 0:07:36.859 --> 0:07:39.939 but I need to, you know, be prepping, And it's 0:07:39.979 --> 0:07:42.459 going to be great to get to again see those 0:07:42.499 --> 0:07:45.219 people and look them in the eyes and say thank 0:07:45.259 --> 0:07:47.459 you for helping me get here, because I don't I 0:07:47.499 --> 0:07:49.899 don't know if people who don't work in this industry 0:07:49.979 --> 0:07:54.379 realize how many people help you get to where you are, 0:07:54.539 --> 0:07:59.219 and that is camera operators and stage managers and statisticians 0:07:59.299 --> 0:08:01.619 like yeah, Alla and I are the ones on the 0:08:01.739 --> 0:08:04.579 radio or on the television. You and Matt Murphy and 0:08:04.579 --> 0:08:07.939 Tom mcguinnis. You know, people see the voices and the 0:08:07.939 --> 0:08:10.819 faces of a team, but there's so many people behind 0:08:10.819 --> 0:08:13.739 the scenes who I've worked with since I was twenty 0:08:13.819 --> 0:08:16.339 one years old and now you're girls forty, so it's 0:08:16.419 --> 0:08:18.659 been a while. I've gotten to know a lot of people. 0:08:18.739 --> 0:08:22.819 So I'm very excited to get back and very excited 0:08:22.859 --> 0:08:25.619 to see how again this underman Sixers team can do 0:08:25.699 --> 0:08:27.939 against a Warrior's team that isn't the same team they 0:08:27.979 --> 0:08:30.419 were for the decade I was covering the Warriors in 0:08:30.419 --> 0:08:32.179 the Bay Area, so I'm excited to see how the 0:08:32.179 --> 0:08:33.939 Sixers can maybe punch back in the Bay. 0:08:34.179 --> 0:08:36.779 You mentioned Pat Beverley playing like his younger self on 0:08:36.819 --> 0:08:39.659 this road trip, Steph Curry. You mentioned the Warriors not 0:08:39.859 --> 0:08:42.979 exactly what they once were, but Steph Curry looking just 0:08:43.059 --> 0:08:45.739 as he once did, averaging over twenty seven points a game. 0:08:45.739 --> 0:08:46.659 And Here's where I'm going with this. 0:08:46.899 --> 0:08:49.859 Okay, Scott, thanks for bearing with me joined us on 0:08:49.859 --> 0:08:53.259 this show last week, and he said that Tyrese Maxie 0:08:53.339 --> 0:08:56.459 reminds him of a young Steph Curry, not just with 0:08:57.099 --> 0:09:00.859 the scoring, not just with the assists, with his attitude, 0:09:00.939 --> 0:09:04.659 with his work ethic, with his baby faced assassin ability. 0:09:04.779 --> 0:09:07.779 So you've covered Steph Curry, You've now covered Tyrese Maxey. 0:09:08.019 --> 0:09:09.379 Do you see what Rico Heines sees? 0:09:09.659 --> 0:09:11.139 I mean, you and I have been talking about this 0:09:11.219 --> 0:09:12.859 behind the scenes for a couple of years, but I 0:09:12.899 --> 0:09:15.979 haven't wanted to bring it to the airwaves because I 0:09:16.019 --> 0:09:18.899 haven't wanted to put any pressure on Tyree's right soon, but. 0:09:18.939 --> 0:09:20.899 Only because they will be in the same building, whether 0:09:20.979 --> 0:09:22.699 or not, of course Tyres is able to suit up. 0:09:23.259 --> 0:09:25.659 What do you see commonality wise between the two of them. 0:09:25.739 --> 0:09:27.699 Yeah, well, and that was a great interview with Rico, 0:09:27.739 --> 0:09:30.299 by the way, miss Rosen, and I think I think 0:09:30.339 --> 0:09:33.819 mister Hines was spot on because there are so many similarities, 0:09:34.979 --> 0:09:37.579 not just with as you mentioned, the way he plays 0:09:37.619 --> 0:09:41.339 on the floor, but there is such joy that both 0:09:41.379 --> 0:09:44.539 of them carry themselves with the way that Tyree has 0:09:44.539 --> 0:09:48.259 immersed himself in the community in Philly and in Kentucky 0:09:48.299 --> 0:09:51.899 and in South Garland, Texas, the way that he realizes 0:09:52.019 --> 0:09:54.859 the platform he has already at such a young age, 0:09:54.859 --> 0:09:56.939 with which a lot of players don't do, which Steph 0:09:56.979 --> 0:10:02.259 did in the Bay. And also people forget because Steph 0:10:02.419 --> 0:10:05.419 is now an on teenth time All Star and he's 0:10:05.659 --> 0:10:07.619 at the tail end of his career. They forget that 0:10:07.699 --> 0:10:09.619 it took him a while to get going, he was 0:10:09.619 --> 0:10:12.459 dealing with ankle injuries. Should we keep Monte Ellis, should 0:10:12.459 --> 0:10:15.179 we keep Stephan Curry? All the stuff that tyres has 0:10:15.219 --> 0:10:16.939 had to do with the first few years. So that 0:10:17.139 --> 0:10:20.819 is yet another reason that I am seeing some parallels 0:10:20.859 --> 0:10:25.019 between them. So yeah, I hope we get to see 0:10:25.059 --> 0:10:29.059 tyresee But even if we don't at Golden State, the 0:10:29.099 --> 0:10:31.379 future is very bright for him because a lot of 0:10:31.379 --> 0:10:32.419 shades of Stephan Curry. 0:10:32.419 --> 0:10:35.659 In my eyes, the future bright indeed for Tyrese Maxi, 0:10:35.739 --> 0:10:37.899 but also for you, Kate Scott. We're so lucky and 0:10:37.939 --> 0:10:41.059 blessed to have you. I'm blessed to call you a friends. 0:10:41.939 --> 0:10:43.939 Here's the twenty but great to be on with you tonight, 0:10:43.979 --> 0:10:45.099 Go Sixers, Thanks Kate. 0:10:46.139 --> 0:10:50.699 A homecoming for Kate Scott, Thanks to Kate. Thanks to 0:10:51.379 --> 0:10:55.579 Lauren Rosen. Welcome back. This is Sixers in sixty Matt 0:10:55.659 --> 0:11:00.339 Murphy with former seventy six er Nick Stauskiss. Good stuff there. 0:11:00.419 --> 0:11:03.099 The Sixers not only play the Warriors on the road, 0:11:03.299 --> 0:11:07.739 but they also host the Warriors in the not so 0:11:07.899 --> 0:11:12.019 distant future, not this coming Wednesday, the thirty first, but 0:11:12.499 --> 0:11:16.299 the following Wednesday in Philadelphia, the third of a three 0:11:16.339 --> 0:11:21.179 game homestand after this season long five game road trip 0:11:21.219 --> 0:11:25.179 for the currently twenty nine and sixteen Philadelphia seventy six Ers. 0:11:25.179 --> 0:11:28.259 Now Nick, we started to get into the All Star 0:11:28.339 --> 0:11:31.259 conversation in the first segment, which I think can be 0:11:31.379 --> 0:11:35.259 continued here because Tyrese Maxi remains out with this ankle 0:11:35.299 --> 0:11:38.899 injury for the Sixers, but the head coaches will soon 0:11:39.059 --> 0:11:42.499 their votes will soon be revealed, and the All Star reserves, 0:11:42.539 --> 0:11:45.779 seven for each conference will be announced. Maxi was pushing 0:11:45.939 --> 0:11:48.899 the trying to be a starter, but Haliburton and Dame 0:11:48.979 --> 0:11:51.259 Ian Lillard will start in the East. So we went 0:11:51.299 --> 0:11:55.059 through our reserves, which for all of us in the 0:11:55.099 --> 0:11:58.179 first segment included Tyrese Maxi to make his first All 0:11:58.219 --> 0:12:00.939 Star appearance the All Star weekend the sixteenth through the 0:12:00.979 --> 0:12:06.059 eighteenth in Indianapolis. The game on Sunday February eighteenth. But 0:12:06.219 --> 0:12:10.939 just for anyone who missed it, give your seven reserves 0:12:10.939 --> 0:12:12.059 for the Eastern Conference. 0:12:12.219 --> 0:12:17.899 I have Maxi Brunson, Trey Young, Donovan Mitchell, Jalen Brown, 0:12:18.179 --> 0:12:21.939 Jimmy Butler, and Julius Randall those are my See you. 0:12:21.899 --> 0:12:25.499 Went guard heavy. The competition among the guards in the 0:12:25.499 --> 0:12:28.459 East was thick. We've been talking about this on Sixers 0:12:28.459 --> 0:12:31.179 and sixty which for anyone out there who is new 0:12:32.099 --> 0:12:35.299 Tuesday nights on the Fanatic ninety seventy five The Fanatics 0:12:35.299 --> 0:12:40.099 six pm to seven pm. Now next show will actually 0:12:40.139 --> 0:12:43.179 be Monday because of a Flyers game on Tuesday. It'll 0:12:43.179 --> 0:12:46.499 be before the Sixers Mavericks game live from the Wells 0:12:46.539 --> 0:12:49.659 Fargo Center, but typically Tuesday night. And you can also 0:12:49.659 --> 0:12:51.939 hear interviews like the one between Lauren and Kate Scott 0:12:51.939 --> 0:12:54.899 on the seventy six Ers Insiders podcast. But we've been 0:12:54.899 --> 0:12:59.299 talking for weeks, if not multiple months now about Maxie 0:12:59.339 --> 0:13:02.659 and which guards he could possibly beat out. Now, Damian 0:13:02.699 --> 0:13:07.859 Lillard made the starting lineup for the East despite not 0:13:08.019 --> 0:13:10.699 ranking in the top two among guards in any of 0:13:10.739 --> 0:13:13.899 the three categories. And for anyone who doesn't know, it's 0:13:14.099 --> 0:13:16.979 the fan vote is fifty percent, and then of the 0:13:16.979 --> 0:13:20.259 starting lineup, and then twenty five percent media members and 0:13:20.299 --> 0:13:23.899 twenty five percent players. What do you think it says 0:13:23.899 --> 0:13:27.379 that Tyrese Maxi finished second in the player vote. 0:13:27.779 --> 0:13:29.859 It just shows the amount of respect that he has 0:13:29.939 --> 0:13:30.579 league wide. 0:13:30.779 --> 0:13:33.419 And those are the guys that are competing against him 0:13:33.699 --> 0:13:35.779 on a night to night basis. Those are the guys 0:13:35.819 --> 0:13:39.619 that are getting fifty balls put on their head from Maxi. 0:13:40.099 --> 0:13:43.299 So they've seen it firsthand how talented he is. They've 0:13:43.339 --> 0:13:47.419 seen it firsthand, the work ethic, the drive, they've seen 0:13:47.419 --> 0:13:50.139 the leadership growth, They've seen all those things, and that's 0:13:50.179 --> 0:13:56.019 why he receives those votes. Now, you know, Damian Damian Lillard. 0:13:56.019 --> 0:13:57.699 At the end of the day, let's let's not get 0:13:57.699 --> 0:14:00.699 it twisted. The guy is a Hall of Famer. He's 0:14:00.739 --> 0:14:04.179 an incredible basketball player. To this day, He's probably the 0:14:04.219 --> 0:14:08.059 best player that I've ever played with. He's unbelievable. But 0:14:08.139 --> 0:14:11.739 if we're talking about just this season, who is more 0:14:11.779 --> 0:14:15.099 deserving I would I would go with Maxie. You know, 0:14:15.139 --> 0:14:19.419 I just think he's having a spectacular season. But you know, 0:14:19.859 --> 0:14:22.979 like we said, it's a very competitive landscape for the 0:14:22.979 --> 0:14:26.859 Eastern guards, and so no matter which way you slice it, 0:14:26.979 --> 0:14:29.139 someone's going to be feeling like they're left out. 0:14:29.419 --> 0:14:34.379 Tyres Maxie here on January thirtieth, is averaging twenty five 0:14:34.419 --> 0:14:37.459 point seven points per game, which is fifteenth in the NBA. 0:14:38.219 --> 0:14:43.699 Joel Embiid is averaging thirty six points, which continues to 0:14:43.859 --> 0:14:48.979 lead the entire NBA. He's one coming off multiple score 0:14:49.219 --> 0:14:52.459 titles in addition to the MVP Award. But Embid with 0:14:52.499 --> 0:14:56.219 thirty six eleven and six nearly six assists per game, 0:14:56.259 --> 0:14:59.659 Maxi with twenty five point seven points, ranking fifteenth in 0:14:59.699 --> 0:15:02.899 the league, which is better than Dame just looking at 0:15:02.899 --> 0:15:07.739 the raw scoring number twenty five point one points for Dame. 0:15:07.899 --> 0:15:11.459 Both of those guards play with other worldly players in 0:15:11.579 --> 0:15:15.299 Embiid and Yiannis. But Dame is an All Star starter 0:15:15.819 --> 0:15:19.179 in the Eastern Conference and Nick Stauskas you mentioned playing 0:15:19.459 --> 0:15:23.739 with him. So in Portland. Milwaukee will go to Portland 0:15:23.739 --> 0:15:26.579 this week. They actually play a day from now as 0:15:26.579 --> 0:15:30.739 we speak, and it's Dame's first game back in Portland. 0:15:30.779 --> 0:15:32.539 What do you expect that to be? 0:15:32.699 --> 0:15:32.779 Like? 0:15:33.219 --> 0:15:37.579 I expect a big tribute and I would like to 0:15:37.579 --> 0:15:40.419 think of very warm welcome from the fans. I know, 0:15:40.739 --> 0:15:45.099 maybe things didn't quite end the way he wanted it 0:15:45.139 --> 0:15:47.139 to and maybe the way the fans wanted it to. 0:15:47.379 --> 0:15:50.539 But the impact that he's had on that city and 0:15:50.579 --> 0:15:55.459 that organization is undeniable. And you just look back at 0:15:55.579 --> 0:15:59.699 the performances that he had in big games, the game 0:15:59.739 --> 0:16:03.859 winners and the playoffs, regular season, growing, you know, coming 0:16:03.899 --> 0:16:07.339 from a kid to growing into a man raising his 0:16:07.379 --> 0:16:09.939 family there, I think it'll be nothing but love, and 0:16:09.979 --> 0:16:12.859 I think it'll be an emotional game for Damien, to 0:16:12.899 --> 0:16:13.619 say the least. 0:16:14.779 --> 0:16:17.139 But sure, at the end of the day, all he's 0:16:17.139 --> 0:16:18.259 going to want to do is win the game. 0:16:18.299 --> 0:16:20.099 You know, he's a competitive dude, and he's going to 0:16:20.139 --> 0:16:22.939 want to go out there and and and win. So 0:16:23.299 --> 0:16:25.659 I'm looking forward to seeing what that game looks like. 0:16:26.219 --> 0:16:29.859 Continuing our all start discussion here for a little we're 0:16:29.899 --> 0:16:33.139 also going to get into some trivia later on, which 0:16:33.339 --> 0:16:35.499 I've been telling you that we're going to work some 0:16:35.699 --> 0:16:38.379 NBA trivia in and I think you've got a knack 0:16:38.459 --> 0:16:40.499 for it, not just because you played, but you're a 0:16:40.539 --> 0:16:43.379 fan of the game. You're you're online, you see these 0:16:43.739 --> 0:16:46.539 stats posted all the time. I think you'll fare pretty well. 0:16:46.539 --> 0:16:49.139 We've got all types of categories coming up to it's 0:16:49.139 --> 0:16:51.419 the end of the show, but just to reiterate some 0:16:51.459 --> 0:16:53.859 of this All Star stuff, so the reserves will be 0:16:53.899 --> 0:16:57.099 the first of February on Thursday, as chosen by the 0:16:57.139 --> 0:17:00.499 head coaches. In between that and the All Star weekend 0:17:00.859 --> 0:17:06.899 is the NBA trade deadline on Thursday, February eighth, and 0:17:06.979 --> 0:17:11.939 then the starting lineup includes the two Bucks, Damian Lillard 0:17:12.259 --> 0:17:16.499 and Giannasidita Kumbo with the hometown player Tyrese hallibur and 0:17:16.539 --> 0:17:20.219 the Pacers are the All Star host, Jason Tatum and 0:17:20.539 --> 0:17:25.019 Joel Embiid. So Embiid starts in the East. Quick side 0:17:25.059 --> 0:17:27.619 note is they went back to East West and not 0:17:28.019 --> 0:17:31.379 the draft, which I like. The draft was like a 0:17:31.459 --> 0:17:35.299 made for TV type thing. There are captains still the 0:17:35.419 --> 0:17:40.739 leading vote getters by the fans, I'm assuming, but it's 0:17:40.779 --> 0:17:43.419 East versus West again. And I know they'll never do 0:17:43.499 --> 0:17:48.219 this because they make money off of the different uniforms. 0:17:48.339 --> 0:17:50.539 But I loved when the teams the players got to 0:17:50.579 --> 0:17:53.659 wear their home or away colored team uniform. 0:17:53.779 --> 0:17:54.219 I love that. 0:17:54.379 --> 0:17:57.939 You're talking about early two thousand's back when you know 0:17:58.019 --> 0:18:01.259 AI was wearing the Sixers jersey, Vince Carter was wearing 0:18:01.259 --> 0:18:04.699 the Raptors jersey. T Mac was out there with the 0:18:04.699 --> 0:18:07.019 the you know, the retro magic jersey. 0:18:07.099 --> 0:18:08.899 Those were those are some good days. 0:18:09.259 --> 0:18:12.459 And that was back when the All Star Game was 0:18:12.499 --> 0:18:17.539 a show but also quite competitive and you would maybe 0:18:17.539 --> 0:18:19.739 see a little bit more highlights in the first quarter, 0:18:19.819 --> 0:18:23.379 second quarter, but the majority of that second half was 0:18:23.499 --> 0:18:26.779 guys really competing and going head to head. And I 0:18:26.819 --> 0:18:29.659 think that's what the fans have missed most about the 0:18:29.699 --> 0:18:31.179 All Star Game in recent years. 0:18:31.859 --> 0:18:33.459 Not that it's not entertaining. 0:18:33.859 --> 0:18:36.819 I think it still is very entertaining, but you want 0:18:36.819 --> 0:18:39.059 to see some sort of competitiveness at the end of 0:18:39.099 --> 0:18:42.539 the day. And I think the league's getting creative. They've 0:18:42.579 --> 0:18:45.059 tried to do a bunch of different things, but I 0:18:45.099 --> 0:18:47.779 think I don't know what the real answer is at 0:18:47.779 --> 0:18:48.339 the end of the day. 0:18:48.339 --> 0:18:50.739 You know, we talked about it off the air. 0:18:50.979 --> 0:18:54.139 You can't really throw money at them to make it 0:18:54.179 --> 0:18:55.019 more competitive. 0:18:55.179 --> 0:18:59.819 Well, or the end season tournament, yeah, but beg to differ. 0:19:00.019 --> 0:19:02.819 Yeah, the nd season tournament is different because you're a 0:19:02.819 --> 0:19:05.139 lot of guys that's life changing money. But for a 0:19:05.139 --> 0:19:08.059 lot of these All Stars, if you say, hey, winning 0:19:08.179 --> 0:19:10.859 team or like winning team gets five hundred dollars. 0:19:10.939 --> 0:19:12.379 Yeah, they are the highest paid guys. 0:19:12.499 --> 0:19:14.659 Those guys are making forty million per year. That's not 0:19:14.699 --> 0:19:19.059 really even a huge dent in their in their in 0:19:19.099 --> 0:19:20.179 their bank account. 0:19:20.339 --> 0:19:23.139 So I don't know. It's a tough one. 0:19:23.299 --> 0:19:27.219 Make the winning conference have home court in the NBA. 0:19:27.059 --> 0:19:29.859 Finals, so we're going to MLB here. 0:19:30.539 --> 0:19:33.499 You're not a fan, it's too much. You think that 0:19:33.659 --> 0:19:35.699 sort of discredits the whole body of work from the 0:19:35.859 --> 0:19:38.019 entire season. But it would make for a better game. 0:19:38.219 --> 0:19:39.899 It would make for a better game, but it would 0:19:39.939 --> 0:19:43.539 definitely be unfair to a team like the Warriors in 0:19:43.659 --> 0:19:46.259 twenty sixteen when they which year was it? What they 0:19:46.299 --> 0:19:48.859 were in seventy three games? And then if the East wins, 0:19:49.299 --> 0:19:51.699 you're kind of like, oh, that's tough luck. 0:19:51.819 --> 0:19:52.299 Tough luck. 0:19:52.379 --> 0:19:56.139 Yeah, So it could make it competitive but also a 0:19:56.139 --> 0:19:57.259 little bit unfair to team. 0:19:57.379 --> 0:19:59.419 So I'm sure they're I'm sure they're. 0:19:59.819 --> 0:20:02.259 Adam Silver does a great job of getting creative with things, 0:20:02.299 --> 0:20:06.659 so I'm sure they're continuing to evaluate their options with 0:20:07.179 --> 0:20:10.499 making it the most entertaining game possible. 0:20:11.019 --> 0:20:12.819 You know what else it would do. It would have 0:20:12.859 --> 0:20:14.779 the head coaches spending a lot more time on these 0:20:14.819 --> 0:20:19.459 reserve picks because right, every team is different, whether how 0:20:19.499 --> 0:20:21.699 much time the head coach is spending on or if 0:20:21.699 --> 0:20:25.139 he's delegating it to someone else on his staff to 0:20:25.179 --> 0:20:27.219 make these selections. But if home court was on the 0:20:27.259 --> 0:20:29.619 line for the NBA Finals for your conference, they would 0:20:29.659 --> 0:20:33.699 be scouring over the film and the lineup possibilities. And 0:20:33.739 --> 0:20:37.459 that's where like other team type of players like a 0:20:37.539 --> 0:20:41.419 Drew Holliday we were discussing earlier a little bit comes 0:20:41.459 --> 0:20:43.619 in would come into play a little bit more. It 0:20:43.699 --> 0:20:46.539 is speaking of Adam Silver back to the classic format. 0:20:46.579 --> 0:20:50.699