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Speaker 1: Welcome to This League Uncut in the rule of twenty

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Speaker 1: four hour NBA News. This's you, Chris Haynes. It's time,

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Speaker 1: Mark's time. It's some time. This League Uncut is underway

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Speaker 1: and on fire.

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Speaker 2: This should be a good one. Friends, Welcome in to

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Speaker 2: a long overdue reunion of the cast of This League Uncut.

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Speaker 2: Producer Ryan is here behind the scenes, Chris Haynes is here.

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Speaker 2: I'm Mark Stein. We are back together again. This is

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Speaker 2: so crazy. We did. We did the live show in

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Speaker 2: July at Caesar's Palace with Lakers coach Darvin Ham in

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Speaker 2: the midst of some sort of some sort of scene

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Speaker 2: and emergency at Caesar's that we weren't even fully aware

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Speaker 2: of what was going on. When we were doing the pod,

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Speaker 2: we got past all that. Chris Haynes and I were together.

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Speaker 2: I was so excited to see him because I hadn't

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Speaker 2: seen him in person and I don't know how long

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Speaker 2: but since then, I've barely spoken to Chris Haynes. I

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Speaker 2: think he needed a vacation from me because we've only

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Speaker 2: done a couple pods since then. In the summertime, we

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Speaker 2: do dial it back, but I think I don't know

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Speaker 2: if he's prepared to admit this. But I think Chris

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Speaker 2: Haynes has enjoyed his vacation from annoying me, nagging him

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Speaker 2: and bugging him with requests and questions and admin and

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Speaker 2: just my usual panicky self. Is that true? Are you

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Speaker 2: enjoying this time away from that? We've kind of been

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Speaker 2: we've kind of been separated.

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Speaker 3: Here we have time. But tell you this, the way

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Speaker 3: I feel, have a little bit something to reveal the

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Speaker 3: way I feel right now. I don't want anything to

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Speaker 3: do with a little Caesars pizza. I don't want anything

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Speaker 3: to do with a Caesar salad. I don't even want

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Speaker 3: to hear about history about the King Caesar, whoever it

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Speaker 3: was back in the day. That's just how I feel.

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Speaker 2: Stan, all right, I got you, get that, I hear you.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, So.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you're mad at me? Is the thing is like

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Speaker 2: we text a lot, like I think even our text

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Speaker 2: frequency has been way down, so you've been I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, I think you've enjoyed this time away

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Speaker 2: from Ryan and not No.

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Speaker 3: It has nothing to do with you, Stin. It has

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Speaker 3: a lot to do with Charlene's beauty. Supply, I've been working.

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Speaker 2: That is your number one job.

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Speaker 3: Working.

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Speaker 2: You want to lead insider at Charlene's beauty supply. You

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Speaker 2: wear the undisputed.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I've been on the road. She sent me on

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Speaker 3: the road to go get more stock. I've driven on

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Speaker 3: the road. I flew to Atlanta to get some more

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Speaker 3: stock store. Yes, I'm at the register. What else am

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Speaker 3: I doing? I'm cleaning up oles.

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Speaker 2: Did you at least get to see your collegiate daughters

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Speaker 2: on your trip to Atlanta when you were on that

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Speaker 2: on that mission?

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Speaker 3: I did, I did, I did, And I'm actually going

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Speaker 3: back to Atlanta next week. We have a we have

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Speaker 3: a summit out there, company summit pretty soon. So no,

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Speaker 3: I've been stein. I would love to have broken away

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Speaker 3: to do a pod or have a conversation with you man,

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Speaker 3: but Charlene has kept me highly off.

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Speaker 2: All Right, all right, I'm glad.

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Speaker 3: It's we're good. Just no, we're good. Just no season

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Speaker 3: salad for me, any other salad, any other pizza. I'm good, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, I get it. I hear you, I hear you.

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Speaker 2: All Right. Well, here's the thing. We did have to

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Speaker 2: kind of get reconnected here because, like I said, I

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Speaker 2: I get. It doesn't take much to get me worried.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: Our text frequency has been down lately, so I was

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Speaker 2: I was a little I was a little jittery. But

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Speaker 2: all right, I'm moving on because I keep saying this.

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Speaker 2: I say it on By, I say it a lot

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Speaker 2: on my Saturday radio show in Dallas. I've written it

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Speaker 2: several times in my substack. Look, there's no sugarcoating. This

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Speaker 2: training camp is still a long way away. We're not

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Speaker 2: Darryl Morian China. And then just this past week, my

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Speaker 2: Janis Yannis yannas Antetokumpo is eligible for a contract extension

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Speaker 2: in September, a three year deal worth more than one

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Speaker 2: And then he was asked he, I mean, Yana's volunteered

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Speaker 2: this is this is a massive, massive story. This is

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Speaker 2: huge because basically, you know, the Bucks were living under

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Speaker 2: this just contanttant fear of losing Yannis and can we

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Speaker 2: And Yanis on Tetekumpo did extend his contract, right you know,

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Speaker 2: whole league is looking at this now wondering, man is

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Speaker 2: Yannis gettable? Is Yanis basically saying that that he wants

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Speaker 2: you know Yanis, well, you cover him a ton. I mean,

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Speaker 2: what did you think when you saw some of these quotes? Again,

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Speaker 2: I'm let me just read it. Quote. The real question

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Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. But next year, next summer, it would

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Speaker 2: Jannis continues, I would not be the best version of

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Speaker 2: Everybody's going for a championship, everybody's going to sacrifice time

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: My initial response definitely Golden quotes great job by Tire,

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Speaker 3: read it from start to finish. I'm not surprised. So

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Speaker 3: this is not the first time Jannis has said something

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Speaker 3: last year, maybe the last off season, maybe even two

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Speaker 3: It was something like, if I left, I might want

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Speaker 3: was something along those lines. Excuse me, people, you can

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Speaker 3: find it if you really, Doug, I think I'm looking.

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Speaker 3: I'll keep looking while we're doing this pod. Need to

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Speaker 3: I'm not surprised, uh, he definitely. I definitely put him

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Speaker 3: definitely putting the team on notice. But that I think

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Speaker 3: the pressure was always there from the beginning. For Milwaukee,

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Speaker 3: the potential of Jannis to the potential of Yannis relocate, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, to me, I think it ramps it up huge

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Speaker 2: Chris Middleton they spent to keep brook Lopez, they made

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Speaker 2: a coaching change, and you know, you and I both

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Speaker 2: coach that Jannis wanted, and that's who Milwaukee hired, a

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Speaker 2: So the Bucks, I'm sure they felt like we've we've

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Lakers, I mean they're boring. On Media Day,

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Speaker 2: training camp? Will Philly ease its stance and decide to

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00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 2: train But all of that is secondary to what Joel

430
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 2: Embiid thinks, and that I get what you're saying. Obviously

431
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 2: there's gonna be tons of curiosity. Is James here, Is

432
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 2: James here on the first day and media day? Is

433
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 2: he gonna speak to the media? I want to hear

434
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,680
Speaker 2: from Joel Embiid. I mean, that is the question. What

435
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 2: does Joel Embiid think of all this? Because what Philly

436
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 2: Philly is trying to thread a really really complicated needle.

437
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:55,880
Speaker 2: Because when Harden's contract expires, and when Tobias Harris's contract

438
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 2: expires at the end of the season, they could have

439
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,160
Speaker 2: tons of cap space. So next summer they have all

440
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 2: this cap space and then they'll be in better position

441
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 2: to extend Tyrese Maxi's deal, but you've got to if

442
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 2: you're Philly, you have to sell Embiid in the meantime

443
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 2: on Hey, big man, we might have to take a

444
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 2: step back this year, waiting out this chaos and dealing

445
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:25,640
Speaker 2: with the hardened drama before we before we can really

446
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 2: make a splash. Embiid turns thirty in March. Does he

447
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 2: want ah? Does he want a season where they take

448
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 2: a step back? I can't say here and tell you

449
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 2: that I've spoken to him anytime recently, but my gut

450
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 2: would say I doubt it. I don't think Joel Embiid

451
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 2: wants to lose another season where they don't get past

452
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 2: the second round, waiting for what might happen next summer.

453
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 2: So all my curiosity is how is Embiid going to

454
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 2: deal with the fact that is hard and still on

455
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 2: the team. Are they not going to trade him? And

456
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 2: I get it from Philly's perspective, Philly doesn't want to

457
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 2: just trade Harden and take back whatever because they don't

458
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,719
Speaker 2: want to mess with the cap space. I mean, if

459
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,360
Speaker 2: they're gonna trade Harden, they've got to be sure they're

460
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 2: getting back pieces that advance what they're trying to do,

461
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 2: because they can't take back long term money. That messes

462
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 2: up that cap space. But again, they have to sell

463
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 2: em bead on this process and that was actually unintentional.

464
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 2: I promise I did not mean to use process there.

465
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 3: So I.

466
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 2: Man, these are they're all fascinating Philly, Portland, Milwaukee and yeah,

467
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 2: Warriors too. I mean, it's uh, you're gonna have to

468
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 2: be in more than you're gonna have to. You're gonna

469
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 2: you might have to be in more than one place.

470
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 3: It feels like we feel like we're missing it to

471
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 3: I'm sure we are.

472
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 2: We're off our I mean, I'm off my game. So

473
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 2: I mean I already forgot. I already forgot the Chris

474
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 2: Paul scenario. But but I think when we were talking

475
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 2: about this before, when we were talking about this before,

476
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 2: we were guessing that you were gonna be on the

477
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 2: West coast. So I think we were talking Lakers. Oh

478
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 2: well with Suns. I mean, you know, we haven't seen

479
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 2: the Suns. With all these guys in one place, I mean,

480
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 2: their media day will be you know, certainly of some interest,

481
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 2: just to have Durant, feel Book and Eighten all in

482
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 2: the same room with a new coach. But again, I

483
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 2: would even put the Suns. I don't think the Suns

484
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 2: cracked the top three either anymore.

485
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 3: It's not but the Clippers. The only reason I say

486
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 3: that Clippers are because now with Tylou and the organization

487
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 3: stressing how important it is for guys to be available

488
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 3: on a nightly basis, and so this is kind of

489
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 3: a new structure that the Clippers are embarking on where

490
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 3: they're prioritizing being available and getting Kawhi's take on that, like,

491
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 3: what is that saying? Getting Paul George's take on that?

492
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 2: And can I just interrupt you the shout out? Paul

493
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 2: George's podcast is tremendous. I don't know if you saw today,

494
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 2: I mean, he is just I saw clips of him

495
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 2: today uncorking a Kawuhi imitation and a Charles Barkley imitation,

496
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 2: and they were both like they were a plus. I

497
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 2: didn't I didn't know he was an impressionist. I mean

498
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 2: his Charles bark Charles Barkley was Wow.

499
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 3: Fresno State education. I'm not surprised.

500
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 2: Look at you gotta bring it always bring it back

501
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 2: to Fred.

502
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 3: I'm not surprised. Yeah, No, Paul George's podcast, since we

503
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 3: give him a shout out to Pop Player podcast. Paul

504
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 3: George podcast is excellent. Jeff t is really big, striking

505
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 3: it big out there with.

506
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 2: You know what since and it's funny. We're actually lucky that,

507
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 2: you know, we made the big trade with Draymond where

508
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 2: we said, Draymond, you come on our podcast and will

509
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 2: come on your podcast. Now Draymond is not cashed in

510
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 2: his chip. You know, he could have us on. We

511
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 2: have to hold up our end of the deal. But

512
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 2: maybe he's just maybe he just doesn't want us, Maybe

513
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 2: we're not interesting enough. But you know, given the whole

514
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 2: Fresno State thing, I think you should extend the same

515
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 2: offer to Paul George. Will go on his pods and

516
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 2: he comes on ours. Would Paul George entertain that trade?

517
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think you would. But Paul, we would have

518
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:32,479
Speaker 3: to go out to La to Paul. He ain't doing

519
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 3: no remote, that's right, But Stein, are you willing to

520
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 3: come out of your cave? Okay, all right, it can't

521
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 3: be one, it can't be one. It gotta be both

522
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 3: of us.

523
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 2: I'll be there with my cal State Fullerton had on.

524
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 2: Don't worry, Okay, I don't know if he'll entertain it.

525
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: But we should offer that.

526
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 3: I'll make the call. I think we could get a yeah.

527
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 2: I mean, he has amazing and he's one of the

528
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 2: guys really opening up. But like I said, his impressions,

529
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 2: his impressions are really good.

530
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know that we have I don't

531
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 3: hold on real quick star before we get to hold

532
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 3: on Dallas. Is there any intrigue with Dallas media day?

533
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I think I think there is. I think

534
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 2: there is. But something tells me that all those teams

535
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 2: would would probably be higher en lists. I guess the

536
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 2: intrigue in Dallas will just be Kyrie Irving. We haven't

537
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 2: heard from Kyrie Irving. And you know, Kyrie did not

538
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 2: speak at the end of last season, so going into

539
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 2: free agency, he decided not to meet with the media.

540
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 2: When Kyrie was traded to the Mavericks in February, he

541
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 2: had asked, please no contractual questions during the season. I

542
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 2: don't want to cause distract I don't want to cause

543
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 2: unwarranted distractions. I think was the term. I got to

544
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 2: look it up exactly. I think it was he did

545
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 2: not want to cause unwarranted distraction. But then after the

546
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 2: Mavericks season ended, he didn't want to do media before

547
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,959
Speaker 2: going into free agency. So you are correct that when

548
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 2: media day arrives, that will be the first time Kyrie

549
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 2: Irving has addressed the media since April, and the first

550
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 2: time he's addressed the media since re signing with Dallas. However,

551
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 2: as I work my way through this, as we discuss it,

552
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 2: the Mavericks, as I said, the Mavericks and the Wolves,

553
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 2: they both of media Day a few days early because

554
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 2: they begin exhibition play abroad. So September twenty ninth, again,

555
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 2: I believe, and I really hope I'm not saying the

556
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 2: wrong date. I hope it's not September thirtieth, but I

557
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 2: do think it is September twenty ninth. Both the Mavericks

558
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 2: and the Wolves will do media Day two three days

559
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 2: before everybody else. So Dallas's media Day with Luca and

560
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving and Jason Kidd and Minnesota's media Day with

561
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 2: Kat and Go Bear and slow Mo and Aunt Edwards,

562
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 2: Team USA is go to guy. There will be no

563
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 2: The Mavericks and the Wolves will not have to battle

564
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 2: for they will. They will only be battling each other

565
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 2: on their on their media day.

566
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 3: Okay, that's that's all I asked you. I remember Kyrie

567
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 3: hasn't spoke, So what about Luca. What's what's the move?

568
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 3: Like from outside looking in Stein, it seems, you know,

569
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 3: Luca's supporting cast keeps changing. They're trying to get the

570
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 3: right cast, you know, around him. Is there you know

571
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 3: how people are waiting for like Joel and b to

572
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 3: see what you know, what he thinks is that is

573
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 3: there a similar thing with Luca or is that's that's

574
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 3: definitely way too pret much.

575
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 2: Well, look, it's the NBA, so I mean, I'm sure

576
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 2: the question is going to come up. But yeah, I mean,

577
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 2: you know, because on one hand, you've got Luca doing

578
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 2: media pretty regularly because he's playing for his national team.

579
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 2: But he always says when he's with Slovenia and he

580
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,919
Speaker 2: gets asked questions about the Mavericks, he tends to bat

581
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 2: those away because he'd rather not talk Mavericks when he's

582
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 2: on national team duty. So yes, I don't think there's

583
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 2: any question that there's gonna be a lot of interest

584
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 2: in the MAVs when they do media day because it

585
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 2: is the first time both Luca and Kyrie will have

586
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 2: spoken since I mean spoken about the MAVs. Since April.

587
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 2: So no question, the MAVs are a team that a

588
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 2: lot of people are looking at because there are still

589
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 2: I mean there, frankly are still questions. You know, Luca

590
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 2: and Kyrie as a duo, it didn't go great last season. Obviously,

591
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 2: the Mavericks counter would be that it was a mid

592
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 2: season trade. They'll have a full training camp now to

593
00:35:55,360 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 2: try to actually build a team that functions better. And

594
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 2: they've certainly made a lot of changes with Grant Williams

595
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 2: coming in. They weren't able to get Matisse Tible, who

596
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 2: they went after with the restricted free agent offer sheet.

597
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 2: They've made changes to their front court rotation as well.

598
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,959
Speaker 2: They did not get the front line starting defensive center

599
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 2: that they were hoping to, so they did bring in

600
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 2: Rashaun Holmes. They drafted Derek Lively, who everybody in Dallas

601
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 2: is excited about. They also drafted Olivier Maxentz prosper who

602
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 2: is probably going to have a role right away. But

603
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 2: you're right, Dallas Media Day is up there. I don't know,

604
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 2: maybe we need to do like a Media Day rankings,

605
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 2: but I would still say that because because I honestly

606
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 2: I think Minnesota had enough. They had enough late season

607
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 2: drama that even theirs will be a source of interest

608
00:36:54,680 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 2: and intrigue as all those guys get together again. But

609
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 2: I wouldn't put the Mavericks or the Wolves in that Philly, Portland,

610
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 2: Milwaukee tier. No, those are my top three for drama.

611
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 2: You know.

612
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 3: A wild card team, the Memphis Grizzlies starting media day,

613
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 3: John Morant suspend it for what is it twenty five games?

614
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 3: Twenty five games? So those these will be well, it

615
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 3: is suspected on media day for it to be his

616
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 3: first public remarks or comments from the suspension. What what

617
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 3: did the player association or were they looking was they

618
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 3: were they last looking into found a grievance or is

619
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 3: that done with? Is there anything there? Producer Ryan, can

620
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 3: you help me out on that, buddy? Trying to see

621
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 3: if there's anything that can be done before the season starts,

622
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 3: But I doubt it. So, I mean, just hearing what

623
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 3: Joe's going to say, but you know that that'd be

624
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 3: some intrigue right there, but everybody knows he's not going

625
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 3: to be there to start to start the season with him,

626
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 3: So I don't you know, I don't know if they

627
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 3: is that a top tier? Yeah, they probably make top

628
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 3: ten the probably most intriguing teams to go into media day.

629
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 3: Definitely not top five, But I'm just trying to think

630
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 3: of all type of I guess, uncomfortable situations that can

631
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 3: be had on media day.

632
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 2: Do you have any say in the assignment, Like, do

633
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 2: you volunteer and say, hey, I'm I would love to

634
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 2: go to see Team X.

635
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 3: Oh. I can say that all I want as far

636
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 3: as far as anything happened off of that. No, there,

637
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 3: they're gonna tell me where.

638
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 2: To gov pressed and ready to go.

639
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 3: Yes, hey, great thing about those polls shirts that it

640
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 3: only need to be pressed wrinkle free. Maybe I can

641
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 3: ball that shirt up, ball it all up and put

642
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,280
Speaker 3: it on. It looked good, so I'll be fine.

643
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm gonna wear the medium again. So that's

644
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,760
Speaker 2: not you know, that's that reminds me another one, the Chuckster.

645
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 2: We gotta get the Chuckster on here. Yeah, he's been

646
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 2: hiding from us. And I saw he just did the

647
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 2: Bill Simmons podcast.

648
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, did Bill Simmonson? He did? Rich Did he do

649
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 3: rich what's his last name?

650
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 2: Did he really? I missed that he did Richard Disch's pod?

651
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 3: Yes, he did. He read Richard Ditches last week. I

652
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 3: think he spoke for like like an hour and a

653
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 3: half or something like that. Yeah, it was the quote

654
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,879
Speaker 3: it came from. Did you see the quote circulating from

655
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 3: Charles about Amazon? How how Turner and ESPN are kind

656
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 3: of sweating.

657
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 2: Actually TV actually totally missed that. I totally miss that.

658
00:39:58,160 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, that came.

659
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 2: I listen to his pod with Simmons. We have not

660
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 2: had the Chuckster on this pod. We have to rectify that, okay,

661
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 2: because I want to hear him going at your shirts

662
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 2: on this pod.

663
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,800
Speaker 3: Hey, listen, you got a lot of requests. See, we

664
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 3: don't talk for a month, and already you say, hey,

665
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 3: get us on.

666
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 2: The I am demanding and annoying and I worry a lot,

667
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 2: and you have to deal with all that. But but

668
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 2: I do have a I have a pod lined up.

669
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 2: I have a big name guest lined up soon. I

670
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:37,919
Speaker 2: do not want to reveal it yet because I don't

671
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 2: want to jinx it. But I really think in the

672
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,439
Speaker 2: next week or so, we will have a very very

673
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 2: very good guest that I actually set up for us

674
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 2: to kind of make up for all the heavy lifting

675
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 2: that I ask you to do.

676
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 3: I'm looking for that that would definitely be a good one.

677
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 3: And Producer Ryan just informed us that about ja Morant

678
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 3: situation in the MVPA. So far, the union has only

679
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 3: said they will explore options and next steps. That's all

680
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 3: they said. So I don't think anything's going to happen.

681
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 3: So that's that.

682
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 2: Thank you, Producer Ryan, Producer Ryan Music. He went on

683
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 2: like seven trips. I don't even know where the last

684
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:29,800
Speaker 2: time we did at we did the pod with Spears.

685
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 2: We had to call in Minnesota Tim to pinch Hit.

686
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 2: Luckily we found him and he was able to. So

687
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 2: it's good for all three of us to be back

688
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 2: together again. All right, This was a good getting back

689
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 2: up to speed effort. I think we would love to

690
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 2: be able to tell you that a trade involving Harden

691
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 2: and or Dame was imminent, but unfortunately we are not

692
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 2: able to say that. As we recorded on the evening

693
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 2: of August twenty eighth, the month of August finally dribbling

694
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 2: to a close. But when is it going to happen?

695
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,280
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like I've said this fifteen times

696
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,959
Speaker 2: over the last couple months. We do see NBA trade.

697
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: In September, we saw Donovan Mitchell get traded last September,

698
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 2: so these things can spring up quick. And the thing

699
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 2: you do have to say is it's easy for teams

700
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 2: like Philly and Portland to have patient stances during the summer.

701
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 2: The closer and closer we get to training camp and

702
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 2: the closer we get to October TEWOD and media Day,

703
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 2: and when these teams face the prospect of having to

704
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 2: bring these guys back, then it does start to get

705
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 2: more uncomfortable for the teams. And we'll see if these

706
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 2: teams really have the resolve they say they have to

707
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 2: be patient. All the signals out of Philly they tend

708
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 2: to suggests that the Sixers want to slow play this

709
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 2: and they don't want to rush into a hardened trade,

710
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 2: and they're prepared to deal with whatever chaos is created

711
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 2: at training camp. But let's see when Harden shows up

712
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 2: or doesn't show up, and said chaos begins. And you know,

713
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 2: as you said earlier, you expect calmer waters in Portland

714
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 2: and not as much not as much of a fuss.

715
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 2: But everybody knows that Dame does want the trade and

716
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 2: he wants to be sent to Miami. And when the

717
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 2: season starts up again, this becomes a daily topic for

718
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 2: the Blazers a day. This is a daily discussion that

719
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 2: they will have to manage. So let's see how they

720
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 2: do it.

721
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 3: It would be uncomfortable, It would be an uncomfortable situation.

722
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 3: But if I'm comparing it to James Harden, I think

723
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 3: we've seen James. We've seen James in action.

724
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 2: You know, does not in the closet that he's gonna

725
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,959
Speaker 2: that he's gonna that he's going to put on where

726
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:08,720
Speaker 2: to Blazer?

727
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 3: And Dame hasn't called has it called? Is g a maliar? No?

728
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 2: He is not.

729
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 3: So yeah, Jay Jay, So we we we know how

730
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 3: far James Harden is willing to go or has been

731
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 3: willing to go. So that's why I think his uh

732
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 3: that media day would be something to look out for

733
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 3: if James was in attendance. Stein, My birthday is coming up, man,

734
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 3: August thirty. First, it's actually this Thursday. You know what

735
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 3: I don't want for my birthday?

736
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of what do I do that

737
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 2: annoys you? What do you not want? You do not

738
00:44:58,560 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 2: want to trade on your on your birthday?

739
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 3: I wouldn't minit trade That'll be fine, especially if I

740
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:08,760
Speaker 3: get to break it. I would I just don't checks out, stie,

741
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 3: check us out. So let me tell you about this.

742
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 3: It gave me so much anxiety. I had such an

743
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 3: anxiety attack. So my mud, so my mom, we always

744
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 3: had this. Is it like a race? I've turned it

745
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 3: into a race. And so her address is her address.

746
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,240
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna give the address. Her address is three numbers.

747
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 3: And every time the clock turns to that address, you know,

748
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 3: twice a day, we'll always text each other. Hey, you

749
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 3: know when we if we catch the clock at that time,

750
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 3: we'll text each other, Hey, it's give example, Hey it's

751
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 3: it's five eighteen, five eighteen. And so that's her like

752
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 3: she's kind of like trying to say, like a blessing

753
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 3: is coming. You know, a blessing is coming. We caught it.

754
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 3: A blessing is coming. You know, that's our address. A

755
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 3: blessing is coming. Every time we see it. So we

756
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 3: do it. But I've turned it into a race, so

757
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,800
Speaker 3: I want to beat her text it every time. She

758
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 3: doesn't view it as a race. So this morning, this

759
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 3: is when I knew it got like got too serious

760
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 3: for me. So this morning I text five eighteen and

761
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 3: her five eighteen came in before I mind did.

762
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, damn me, she broke it first. I has home.

763
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 3: I had to chill back, hold on, this is not

764
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 3: my job, I said, Bob. I'm sorry. I had to

765
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 3: call said Bob, I can't do this. I'm taking it

766
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,439
Speaker 3: too seriously. I already got to deal with this at work,

767
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 3: like let let's stop, you figure another way.

768
00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 2: Start.

769
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 3: When I saw it come through before I sit by, man,

770
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:05,439
Speaker 3: I was so hurt. It's so mad, Like I was like, oh,

771
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 3: she got to scoop. Like man, I'm like, I gotta

772
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 3: this time about It's a daily thing, daily thing. It

773
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 3: just happens, and I cheat. I'll put alarm on my

774
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 3: on my phone to make sure I beat her most times.

775
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 3: But yeah, you know, so I'm just I don't want

776
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 3: to travel. I told the wife, I don't want to travel.

777
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 3: You know, I got kind of kind of you know,

778
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:35,720
Speaker 3: this is probably the most lazy.

779
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 2: Is not that long of a trip.

780
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 3: It's not, but I'm talking about just summer, like you

781
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 3: go out the country. Most people go out the country scene. Yeah,

782
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,359
Speaker 3: I haven't done anything.

783
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 2: Like I'm in New York right now at the US Open,

784
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:55,479
Speaker 2: Like I just yeah, I've traveled my whole life since

785
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 2: I I mean since I was a little kid and

786
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 2: we used to get this. My brother and I used

787
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 2: to get set overseas for the whole summer to be

788
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 2: with our family in Israel. So it's like, yeah, in

789
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 2: the summer in here's well. The main thing is with

790
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 2: living in the heat in Dallas has been it's always unbearable,

791
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 2: but this this was the hottest August on record. It

792
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 2: is one ten every day and you know, I know

793
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 2: anybody in Phoenix doesn't want to hear it, but it

794
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 2: has been blistering, humidity, withering, suffocating. New York the US

795
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 2: Open is always hot weather, but this this US Open

796
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 2: has been high seventies every day in qualifying last week.

797
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 2: The main tournament just started now. But like, the weather

798
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 2: has been so mild. I never imagine that going from

799
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 2: Dallas to New York in late August would be that

800
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 2: kind of a case. But I'm literally it's thirty degrees

801
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 2: cooler every day, which is insane, and I'm I'm very

802
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 2: on your birthday, I am returning to the Dallas heat

803
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 2: and I can't wait to see the fan. But man,

804
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 2: just going back to the one ten with the crazy humidity,

805
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 2: when you could land at DFW at eleven PM and

806
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 2: it's still ninety five.

807
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I can't stand in humidity.

808
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 2: Well, that's awesome that your birthdays.

809
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 3: I didn't.

810
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,880
Speaker 2: I mean, now it is. It is locked in my files.

811
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 2: I will never I will never forget it again. It's

812
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 2: going to be in my files. That's a that's a

813
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 2: piece of Haynes trivia I did not previously have.

814
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:36,720
Speaker 1: Hmm.

815
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 3: Interesting, Okay, Oh, let's give a shout out real quick

816
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:45,839
Speaker 3: to Mark Spears and the Conversation Projects. His new TV

817
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 3: series on Hulu drops today on Hulu. Check out all

818
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 3: six episodes. I went to his his screening in Oakland

819
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 3: and Mike Brown was there Stein he said, what's up,

820
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 3: Mike Brown there, Bonnie Poole came through. Who else was

821
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,359
Speaker 3: out there? My guy Lance Young, one of the top

822
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 3: comedians here in Sacramento. So we all went out there

823
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 3: to support him, and uh, you know, hopefully everybody goes out.

824
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 2: Mark Spears is not really will not soon forget. August

825
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, gets the Kurt Goudy Award from the

826
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 2: Basketball Hall of Fame, becomes an executive producer of a

827
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 2: Hulu series, and in between that he appears on This

828
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 2: League Uncut August twenty twenty three. Yeah, Mark spears and

829
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 2: it breaks through on all three level.

830
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 3: And he's going what next month his alma mater, San

831
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 3: Jose State. They're honoring him with some prestigis.

832
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 2: That's right. Actually, that was my favorite line of the

833
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 2: whole podcast, that he pointed out that all three of

834
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 2: us are Cal State guys. Fresno State, cal State Fullerton,

835
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 2: San Jose State. We should be on that, We should

836
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 2: be on the CSU podcast. Maybe they'll maybe, maybe they'll

837
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 2: do a trade with us.

838
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 3: We turned out, We turned out all right?

839
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 2: All right, everyone that does it for this edition of

840
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 2: This League Uncut, appreciate your patience. You know again, we

841
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 2: we the frequency of the pod does drop off in

842
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 2: August and September. In mid October we will be right

843
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 2: back to two pods a week. But appreciate your patients.

844
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:33,359
Speaker 2: Appreciate you letting Chris and I and even producer Ryan

845
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 2: chip Away at the rust. Like I said, I think

846
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 2: we have a pretty good pod fingers crossed. I don't

847
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 2: want to jinx it, but in within the next week,

848
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 2: I think we have a pretty significant guest and we're

849
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 2: gonna work on some of these other things, we're gonna

850
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 2: We're gonna make that trade offer to Paul George. We

851
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 2: might get flatly rejected, but we're gonna make the offer anyway.

852
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 2: We're gonna check on the Chuckster. We're gonna work on

853
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 2: these things, and we will update you as soon as

854
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 2: we can. That does it for this edition of This

855
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 2: League Uncut. Please remember to rate, review and subscribe to

856
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Speaker 2: the pod. And let's depart by wishing a happy twenty

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Speaker 2: ninth birthday to Chris Hanes.

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Speaker 3: Faithfully, let's look back.

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Speaker 2: I'll take you, and that'll do it for us.

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Speaker 1: See you next time.

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Speaker 2: This League Uncut is an iHeartRadio production Chris Hanes and

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Speaker 2: Mark steinme