Speaker 1: Welcome to This League Uncut in the rule of twenty
Speaker 1: four hour NBA News. This's you, Chris Haynes. It's time,
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Speaker 2: This should be a good one. Friends, Welcome in to
Speaker 2: a long overdue reunion of the cast of This League Uncut.
Speaker 2: Producer Ryan is here behind the scenes, Chris Haynes is here.
Speaker 2: I'm Mark Stein. We are back together again. This is
Speaker 2: so crazy. We did. We did the live show in
Speaker 2: July at Caesar's Palace with Lakers coach Darvin Ham in
Speaker 2: the midst of some sort of some sort of scene
Speaker 2: and emergency at Caesar's that we weren't even fully aware
Speaker 2: of what was going on. When we were doing the pod,
Speaker 2: we got past all that. Chris Haynes and I were together.
Speaker 2: I was so excited to see him because I hadn't
Speaker 2: seen him in person and I don't know how long
Speaker 2: but since then, I've barely spoken to Chris Haynes. I
Speaker 2: think he needed a vacation from me because we've only
Speaker 2: done a couple pods since then. In the summertime, we
Speaker 2: do dial it back, but I think I don't know
Speaker 2: if he's prepared to admit this. But I think Chris
Speaker 2: Haynes has enjoyed his vacation from annoying me, nagging him
Speaker 2: and bugging him with requests and questions and admin and
Speaker 2: just my usual panicky self. Is that true? Are you
Speaker 2: enjoying this time away from that? We've kind of been
Speaker 2: we've kind of been separated.
Speaker 3: Here we have time. But tell you this, the way
Speaker 3: I feel, have a little bit something to reveal the
Speaker 3: way I feel right now. I don't want anything to
Speaker 3: do with a little Caesars pizza. I don't want anything
Speaker 3: to do with a Caesar salad. I don't even want
Speaker 3: to hear about history about the King Caesar, whoever it
Speaker 3: was back in the day. That's just how I feel.
Speaker 2: Stan, all right, I got you, get that, I hear you.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, So.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're mad at me? Is the thing is like
Speaker 2: we text a lot, like I think even our text
Speaker 2: frequency has been way down, so you've been I don't know.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I think you've enjoyed this time away
Speaker 2: from Ryan and not No.
Speaker 3: It has nothing to do with you, Stin. It has
Speaker 3: a lot to do with Charlene's beauty. Supply, I've been working.
Speaker 2: That is your number one job.
Speaker 3: Working.
Speaker 2: You want to lead insider at Charlene's beauty supply. You
Speaker 2: wear the undisputed.
Speaker 3: Hey, I've been on the road. She sent me on
Speaker 3: the road to go get more stock. I've driven on
Speaker 3: the road. I flew to Atlanta to get some more
Speaker 3: stock store. Yes, I'm at the register. What else am
Speaker 3: I doing? I'm cleaning up oles.
Speaker 2: Did you at least get to see your collegiate daughters
Speaker 2: on your trip to Atlanta when you were on that
Speaker 2: on that mission?
Speaker 3: I did, I did, I did, And I'm actually going
Speaker 3: back to Atlanta next week. We have a we have
Speaker 3: a summit out there, company summit pretty soon. So no,
Speaker 3: I've been stein. I would love to have broken away
Speaker 3: to do a pod or have a conversation with you man,
Speaker 3: but Charlene has kept me highly off.
Speaker 2: All Right, all right, I'm glad.
Speaker 3: It's we're good. Just no, we're good. Just no season
Speaker 3: salad for me, any other salad, any other pizza. I'm good, all.
Speaker 2: Right, I get it. I hear you, I hear you.
Speaker 2: All Right. Well, here's the thing. We did have to
Speaker 2: kind of get reconnected here because, like I said, I
Speaker 2: feel like i's a little. I mean, you know, I get,
Speaker 2: I get. It doesn't take much to get me worried.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Our text frequency has been down lately, so I was
Speaker 2: I was a little I was a little jittery. But
Speaker 2: all right, I'm moving on because I keep saying this.
Speaker 2: I say it on By, I say it a lot
Speaker 2: on my Saturday radio show in Dallas. I've written it
Speaker 2: several times in my substack. Look, there's no sugarcoating. This
Speaker 2: training camp is still a long way away. We're not
Speaker 2: even at September first yet. For all but two teams
Speaker 2: in the league. Training camp doesn't really start until Media
Speaker 2: Day on October second, so we're still a long way
Speaker 2: from that, but there is I feel like this has
Speaker 2: been a more active newsier August than normal. We've got
Speaker 2: the Feeble World Cup going on, so right now we're
Speaker 2: in the midst of this run where there's eight games
Speaker 2: of basketball a day from now until September third. There's
Speaker 2: gonna be one off day and then there's two days
Speaker 2: two games of basketball, pretty high level basketball every day
Speaker 2: through September tenth. That's going to get us even closer
Speaker 2: to the start of NBA training camps. We had Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame inductions, and we keep getting news. You know,
Speaker 2: we're still waiting for some movement on the Damian Lillard
Speaker 2: trade front, and we're still waiting for more definitive action
Speaker 2: on the James Harden trade front. But I mean, James
Speaker 2: Harden has certainly made news with what he said about
Speaker 2: Darryl Morian China. And then just this past week, my
Speaker 2: dear friends at the New York Times, Tanya Gangouli, who
Speaker 2: had a great story with She did a feature on
Speaker 2: Janis on Tatakumpo, and Yannis said all kinds of stuff
Speaker 2: to Tanya in that piece. And you know, the New
Speaker 2: York Times, the sports section is still rumbling along despite
Speaker 2: reports of its demise. I don't know how much longer
Speaker 2: that's gonna last, but this story was a plus plus.
Speaker 2: Janis Yannis yannas Antetokumpo is eligible for a contract extension
Speaker 2: in September, a three year deal worth more than one
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy million, But he told Tanya he is
Speaker 2: not signing it. He is not doing an extension this offseason.
Speaker 2: And then he was asked he, I mean, Yana's volunteered
Speaker 2: that it makes more financial sense next summer, but he
Speaker 2: did quickly add even then he's not sure that he
Speaker 2: wants to resign it. So basically, Janis Antetokumpo in late
Speaker 2: August has put the Bucks on notice with these quotes
Speaker 2: that he gave the New York Times. And you know,
Speaker 2: this is this is a massive, massive story. This is
Speaker 2: huge because basically, you know, the Bucks were living under
Speaker 2: this just contanttant fear of losing Yannis and can we
Speaker 2: keep Yanis happy? And is Yiannis going to going to extend?
Speaker 2: And Yanis on Tetekumpo did extend his contract, right you know,
Speaker 2: or you know before the run to the championship that season,
Speaker 2: he signed a five year deal worth nearly two hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty million. But after just three years of that deal,
Speaker 2: the Bucks are right back where they were and the
Speaker 2: whole league is looking at this now wondering, man is
Speaker 2: Yannis gettable? Is Yanis basically saying that that he wants
Speaker 2: to leave? I mean he is. You know, the Bucks
Speaker 2: made all these moves this summer to try to make
Speaker 2: him happy, and then this story comes out, so you know,
Speaker 2: you know Yanis, well, you cover him a ton. I mean,
Speaker 2: what did you think when you saw some of these quotes? Again,
Speaker 2: I'm let me just read it. Quote. The real question
Speaker 2: is not going to be this year numbers wise, it
Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. But next year, next summer, it would
Speaker 2: make sense for both parties. Even then, I don't know,
Speaker 2: Jannis continues, I would not be the best version of
Speaker 2: myself if I don't know that everybody's on the same page.
Speaker 2: Everybody's going for a championship, everybody's going to sacrifice time
Speaker 2: away from their family like I do. And if I
Speaker 2: don't feel that, I'm not signing.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: My initial response definitely Golden quotes great job by Tire,
Speaker 3: amazing profile. People should definitely go check that out, go
Speaker 3: read it from start to finish. I'm not surprised. So
Speaker 3: this is not the first time Jannis has said something
Speaker 3: that has kind of perked the ears of everyone who
Speaker 3: caught it. I want to say it might have been
Speaker 3: I was looking for it just now as you were
Speaker 3: reading those quotes. He says something I want to say
Speaker 3: last year, maybe the last off season, maybe even two
Speaker 3: years ago, about you know, if he chose to leave.
Speaker 3: It was something like, if I left, I might want
Speaker 3: to play somewhere else I might want to do. It
Speaker 3: was something along those lines. Excuse me, people, you can
Speaker 3: find it if you really, Doug, I think I'm looking.
Speaker 3: I'll keep looking while we're doing this pod. Need to
Speaker 3: find the right words that he that he used. But
Speaker 3: I'm not surprised, uh, he definitely. I definitely put him
Speaker 3: up there with Lebron James. Of the people that I've
Speaker 3: covered and spent significant time with, put him above there,
Speaker 3: up there with Lebron James as the star key players
Speaker 3: who just having a sensatiable desire to win. Giannis is
Speaker 3: right there up there, And I like that he's finding
Speaker 3: his voice over the last few years. He's saying what's
Speaker 3: on his mind. You know a lot of times, you know,
Speaker 3: there are certain players, and Giannis is like that too,
Speaker 3: where you know he'll be in front of cameras or
Speaker 3: be in front of a reporter, and you know he'll
Speaker 3: say all the right things, and then behind the scenes
Speaker 3: when you talk to him off the record, you'd be like, damn,
Speaker 3: you're honest, I ain't know I know you felt that way.
Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, I didn't know you talked
Speaker 3: that way, you know. So I like that he's he's
Speaker 3: bringing his voice and showing his voice to everyone else,
Speaker 3: right now, But I'm not surprised Sean. I think he's
Speaker 3: definitely putting the team on notice. But that I think
Speaker 3: the pressure was always there from the beginning. For Milwaukee,
Speaker 3: they had to make moves, you know, they did they
Speaker 3: remember after the bubble, you know, there was uncertainly around
Speaker 3: if they were gonna keep coach budd at that time.
Speaker 3: They ended up keeping them, you know, got a title
Speaker 3: and then had a lackluster for their standards of lackluster
Speaker 3: season this past year. And they can But so the
Speaker 3: pressure is there. Does this anticify Probably so, because because
Speaker 3: this is not gonna be the last time we hear
Speaker 3: the potential of Jannis to the potential of Yannis relocate, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, to me, I think it ramps it up huge
Speaker 2: because I just you know again that the whole the
Speaker 2: league was on Yannis watch until Jannis signed the five
Speaker 2: year extension with the Bucks. Then they won the championship,
Speaker 2: and then the past two seasons have not gone the
Speaker 2: way Milwaukee hoped, and then this whole off season was
Speaker 2: the conversation was will the Bucks make the moves that
Speaker 2: will make Janis Antitokunmpo happy? And they spent to keep
Speaker 2: Chris Middleton they spent to keep brook Lopez, they made
Speaker 2: a coaching change, and you know, you and I both
Speaker 2: reported about how of the names of the coaches that
Speaker 2: were interviewed to replace Mike Budenholzer, Adrian grit was the
Speaker 2: coach that Jannis wanted, and that's who Milwaukee hired, a
Speaker 2: first time coach, replacing a coach who's won a championship.
Speaker 2: So the Bucks, I'm sure they felt like we've we've
Speaker 2: done everything. We did everything with the thought of trying
Speaker 2: to satisfy our star player. And Jannis comes out with
Speaker 2: all these quotes that suggest he's far from convinced that
Speaker 2: they've done enough, and he might well be right. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, the Bucks, it was expensive just to keep
Speaker 2: the team they had. You can't really say that they've
Speaker 2: improved it. And I mean, the best thing Milwaukee probably
Speaker 2: has going for itself right now is we have questions
Speaker 2: about pretty much every top contender at the top of
Speaker 2: the East. Philly is obviously in a lot of flux
Speaker 2: with the hardened situation. Boston has made a huge change
Speaker 2: by basically sending out Marcus Smart, cutting ties with Grant Williams,
Speaker 2: and bringing in Christops porzingis so the Celtics are gonna
Speaker 2: look a lot different. Miami. We don't know what they're
Speaker 2: gonna look like. We all know they want to trade
Speaker 2: for Damian Lillard and that hasn't happened. So the Heat
Speaker 2: have lost They lost Gabe Vincent and Max Strus from
Speaker 2: their team that went to the NBA Finals. So there
Speaker 2: are I mean, there are a lot of question marks
Speaker 2: at the top of the East, and that's gotta be
Speaker 2: good news for Milwaukee. But I mean this is this
Speaker 2: was a thunderbolt to me. And again, the whole league
Speaker 2: now is going to be back on Giannis watch and
Speaker 2: is Gianni's happy? That is going to be a constant
Speaker 2: discussion from going going forward from here.
Speaker 3: I think Milwaukee wants to give themselves another chance with
Speaker 3: the fact that Chris Middleton wasn't healthy last year, so
Speaker 3: to see if they can duplicate from a few years
Speaker 3: ago getting to the finals and ultimately winning it. So
Speaker 3: I found that story the honest. This was almost two
Speaker 3: years ago. So this happened November of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: It was a story.
Speaker 4: He did.
Speaker 3: A GQ story. They got Jannis one on one. This
Speaker 3: was his quotes. One challenge was to bring a championship
Speaker 3: here and we did it was very hard, but we
Speaker 3: did it very very hard. I just love challenges. What's
Speaker 3: the next challenge? The next challenge might not be here?
Speaker 3: And he said, me and my family chose to stay
Speaker 3: in this city that we all love and has taken
Speaker 3: care of us for now. I'm two years and two
Speaker 3: excuse me, in two years that might change. I'm being
Speaker 3: totally honest with you. I'm always honest. I love the city,
Speaker 3: I love this community. I want to help as much
Speaker 3: as possible. So I remember when that came out, it
Speaker 3: made some news, but was it I don't think it
Speaker 3: hit the magnitude of Tanya's story. But you know, him
Speaker 3: saying that back then, it was kind of laying the
Speaker 3: groundwork to say, Hey, as long as I'm here, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do everything I can, but I am very much
Speaker 3: open to going elsewhere and taking on another challenge.
Speaker 2: He's clearly honest. I mean he is, he is, he
Speaker 2: is being as open as as he can. And you know,
Speaker 2: the other kind of Bombshelley thing he said in this
Speaker 2: in this Tanya story is you know he acknowledged that, yes,
Speaker 2: on some levels, he does want to be a Dirk Davisky,
Speaker 2: a Tim Duncan or Kobe Bryant, the guys who we
Speaker 2: associate with staying with one franchise forever for their whole career.
Speaker 2: And you know, he Janis has talked about that that is,
Speaker 2: that is something he would like to do. But in
Speaker 2: this story, he also did mention to Tanya that, you know, quote,
Speaker 2: winning a championship comes first. I don't want to be
Speaker 2: twenty years on the same team and don't win another championship.
Speaker 2: He has the one, but clearly one isn't enough for
Speaker 2: Giannis Antetokumpo. So yeah, I mean this this is even
Speaker 2: in a summer where you know, we are still expecting
Speaker 2: a Damian Lillard trade at some point, and James Harden
Speaker 2: clearly wants to be traded from Philadelphia. Don't know if
Speaker 2: he's gonna get that trade, but he clearly still wants it.
Speaker 2: Even with those two massive stories, the reverberations from this
Speaker 2: one might even be more significant because you know, Jannis Is,
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, on his worst day, he's one
Speaker 2: of the five best players in the league, maybe one
Speaker 2: of the three best players.
Speaker 3: In the league.
Speaker 2: So Milwaukee has a lot of pressure now to you know,
Speaker 2: have a good season and and do I mean they
Speaker 2: were That playoff series was disastrous? How bad they looked
Speaker 2: in the Miami series. Yes, Giannis's injury at the start
Speaker 2: of that series was certainly a factor, but I mean
Speaker 2: they were, you know, they were that. I mean that
Speaker 2: was just collapse, you know, too late, collapses against Miami
Speaker 2: and just the whole way that first round series unraveled.
Speaker 2: I thought Philly was under pressure to start the new season, man, Milwaukee,
Speaker 2: Milwaukee is right there, if not facing more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this changes things a bit, but it's definitely calculated.
Speaker 3: For sure. This is definitely calculated. And I don't you know,
Speaker 3: this is what you know superstar players do. They oftentimes
Speaker 3: because they feel like they're putting everything into their body
Speaker 3: to make sure that they can give it all when
Speaker 3: it's time to play in an eighty two game regular
Speaker 3: season into the postseason, and so a lot of times,
Speaker 3: when they get to a certain level or accumulate certain
Speaker 3: years of stature, they feel comfortable of putting the franchise
Speaker 3: on notice, put applying pressure there. Because players always have pressure.
Speaker 3: It's always pressure for the faces of the franchise. So
Speaker 3: it was like, we know what, let's share in this pressure.
Speaker 3: Let's publicly share in this pressure. So let me allow
Speaker 3: me to issue a few quotes to get us both
Speaker 3: on the same page so we could both feel this
Speaker 3: and uh because often times, you know, obviously, when when
Speaker 3: things don't when situations come up short, the player or
Speaker 3: the players you know, catch the brunt of it. So
Speaker 3: this is this is definitely going to be an interesting
Speaker 3: season to see how it all unfolds, especially towards.
Speaker 2: What we need now is a roulette wheel sound effect.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we have that capability in this league.
Speaker 2: Uncut audio archive. We'll find out when Ryan gets done
Speaker 2: with this thing. Because now, I really you know, before
Speaker 2: I was the last time, maybe not the last time,
Speaker 2: but in one of our recent pods, I know I
Speaker 2: was giving you a hard time about where will Chris
Speaker 2: Haynes be on media day? Will he be in Portland
Speaker 2: with still a Blazer? Damian Lillard? Will will he be
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles with the Lakers? But now, I mean
Speaker 2: they might have to send you to Milwaukee. You might,
Speaker 2: I mean, you might be in Milwaukee for media Day.
Speaker 4: I don't think they'll send you as far east as Philly,
Speaker 4: but I mean, I mean, well, listen, let me tell
Speaker 4: you this Philly it all, So let let's transition there.
Speaker 4: If it's Philly, if I am in Philly, the only
Speaker 4: reason I would be in Philly, I would think, is
Speaker 4: it if James Harden is still a member of the
Speaker 4: Sixers and then James Harden has to show up to
Speaker 4: media day training camp. I think that would be the
Speaker 4: only reason why I or any other national maybe your
Speaker 4: reporters will be in Philly for media Day, just to
Speaker 4: see how that is going to play out.
Speaker 3: What is James gonna do well on the tension meter?
Speaker 2: Where will the most tension be? Now, let's pretend, let's
Speaker 2: assume that Dame is still a Blazer on media Day
Speaker 2: October second. Media Day is October second for twenty eight
Speaker 2: of the league's thirty teams. Only Dallas and Minnesota, who
Speaker 2: will be opening their exhibition seasons in Abu Dhabi their
Speaker 2: media day. I believe, I keep I think it's September
Speaker 2: twenty ninth. I'm doing that one off the top of
Speaker 2: my head. I think it's September twenty ninth Media Day
Speaker 2: for those seasons. Everybody else, Media Day is October second.
Speaker 2: Who is going to have the sauciest, most tension filled
Speaker 2: Media Day Philly. If Harden is still on the roster,
Speaker 2: as it certainly certainly looks like he will be, the
Speaker 2: Sixers want to slow play this. I do not think
Speaker 2: the Sixers even want to trade James Harden. So if
Speaker 2: Harden is still in Philly, if Dame is still in Portland,
Speaker 2: and now with Jannis having said what he has said
Speaker 2: to the New York Times, what would be the most
Speaker 2: dramatic media day that you that Chris Haynes has to attend.
Speaker 3: Of those three if Harton is still a member of Philly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Lakers, I mean they're boring. On Media Day,
Speaker 2: they resigned ad, they kept Austin Reeves. Nobody even threw
Speaker 2: an offer sheet at Austin Reeves. Everybody's Austin Reeves the
Speaker 2: new darling of Team USA, and everybody's wondering, why didn't
Speaker 2: san Antonio just give him that four year, one hundred
Speaker 2: million dollar offer sheet just to make the Lakers match it.
Speaker 2: We don't even have and the Lakers are boring.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Golden State with Chris.
Speaker 2: Paul that's another one. That was the other one. I forgot.
Speaker 3: What he accept Yeah, will he accept the reserve role
Speaker 3: or how will he he's going to be a professional.
Speaker 2: I don't think that that no longer cracks the top three.
Speaker 2: I think. I'm sorry, but you know, I hear it.
Speaker 3: I hear it.
Speaker 2: But I'm glad you mentioned that, because I think that
Speaker 2: was one of the ones I was quizzing you about before.
Speaker 3: You're right. But if it's those three hardened Dame Giannis,
Speaker 3: I think it's hard because I think Harden's case that
Speaker 3: has the most potential to be an explosive day. I
Speaker 3: think Dame, if he's if he's still with the Blazers,
Speaker 3: I think Dame shows up the camp and I think
Speaker 3: he handles things professionally, and I think he avoids a
Speaker 3: lot of questions hard than I'm not sure. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if he's going to boy questions, and I'm not
Speaker 3: even sure if he'll show up. I don't know. So
Speaker 3: that's that's what. So if you say from all three
Speaker 3: those three scenarios, James Harden's situation is definitely good, That's
Speaker 3: what I'm.
Speaker 2: Saying this August. Like you know, on my sub stack,
Speaker 2: I have this great chat room where I you know,
Speaker 2: I get to hang out with my subscribers and I
Speaker 2: know everybody's getting antsy. Everybody's like, man, we still got
Speaker 2: a month to go before training camp. But there is
Speaker 2: I mean, all these there are some question marks that
Speaker 2: because these are all interesting. I mean, look, you know
Speaker 2: Dame ten times better than me, but I have to
Speaker 2: imagine that is not going to be a fun media
Speaker 2: day for him if he is still a Blazer to
Speaker 2: have to stand up there and you know, field whatever
Speaker 2: questions come his way, because we know he wanted to
Speaker 2: be traded to Miami by now and it hasn't happened.
Speaker 2: And look also things can happen in September.
Speaker 3: And Stele all so also check this out, Starn, check
Speaker 3: this out for James and Dame. Let me because this
Speaker 3: just came up to me right now. I think I
Speaker 3: can see an avenue of which sixers in Portland might say,
Speaker 3: I haven't heard anything, but it just hit my brain
Speaker 3: right now. They might say James Dame don't show up
Speaker 3: because they have every reason, every intention to trade, probably
Speaker 3: not on a certain time, not probably not as desperate
Speaker 3: of a timeline as James and Dame once but because
Speaker 3: you know, media day is all about let's build up
Speaker 3: the interest, Let's get the fandom, the fandom behind us,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. These all these are all
Speaker 3: good quotes that's going to get the fan base all
Speaker 3: energized and motivated to come out. And then you have
Speaker 3: James and Dame like kind of bringing a I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna say a dark cloud, but they're not on that
Speaker 3: same level of excitement as everybody else. So could you
Speaker 3: see the Sixers or Portland, if both star players are
Speaker 3: still on the team at camp, could you see them say, hey,
Speaker 3: just skip media day. Let's let's avoid uh, let's let's
Speaker 3: just avoid a bad look.
Speaker 2: I'm you know, that's a great question. I would I
Speaker 2: would have to check with the league because I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure that's like that's a you know play. If a
Speaker 2: let's just say player X didn't show up for media day,
Speaker 2: that's a finable offense. So I don't know, do teams
Speaker 2: have the latitude to tell a guy, hey, we think
Speaker 2: it's better that you don't do media day. I I
Speaker 2: flat out have to ask the league. I genuinely don't
Speaker 2: know the answer.
Speaker 3: To that one. I would think I would think if
Speaker 3: the team and player agrees as best, if the players
Speaker 3: stay home.
Speaker 2: I remember with Philly, it's not just you know, look
Speaker 2: all the focus is onheardened. The union is saying that
Speaker 2: they're going to file the green now on James Harden's
Speaker 2: behalf because the league has fined him one hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: and you know, all the all the questions on the
Speaker 2: surface seem to be Harden related. Does he have any
Speaker 2: shot at winning aggrievance? Is he going to report to
Speaker 2: training camp? Will Philly ease its stance and decide to
Speaker 2: train But all of that is secondary to what Joel
Speaker 2: Embiid thinks, and that I get what you're saying. Obviously
Speaker 2: there's gonna be tons of curiosity. Is James here, Is
Speaker 2: James here on the first day and media day? Is
Speaker 2: he gonna speak to the media? I want to hear
Speaker 2: from Joel Embiid. I mean, that is the question. What
Speaker 2: does Joel Embiid think of all this? Because what Philly
Speaker 2: Philly is trying to thread a really really complicated needle.
Speaker 2: Because when Harden's contract expires, and when Tobias Harris's contract
Speaker 2: expires at the end of the season, they could have
Speaker 2: tons of cap space. So next summer they have all
Speaker 2: this cap space and then they'll be in better position
Speaker 2: to extend Tyrese Maxi's deal, but you've got to if
Speaker 2: you're Philly, you have to sell Embiid in the meantime
Speaker 2: on Hey, big man, we might have to take a
Speaker 2: step back this year, waiting out this chaos and dealing
Speaker 2: with the hardened drama before we before we can really
Speaker 2: make a splash. Embiid turns thirty in March. Does he
Speaker 2: want ah? Does he want a season where they take
Speaker 2: a step back? I can't say here and tell you
Speaker 2: that I've spoken to him anytime recently, but my gut
Speaker 2: would say I doubt it. I don't think Joel Embiid
Speaker 2: wants to lose another season where they don't get past
Speaker 2: the second round, waiting for what might happen next summer.
Speaker 2: So all my curiosity is how is Embiid going to
Speaker 2: deal with the fact that is hard and still on
Speaker 2: the team. Are they not going to trade him? And
Speaker 2: I get it from Philly's perspective, Philly doesn't want to
Speaker 2: just trade Harden and take back whatever because they don't
Speaker 2: want to mess with the cap space. I mean, if
Speaker 2: they're gonna trade Harden, they've got to be sure they're
Speaker 2: getting back pieces that advance what they're trying to do,
Speaker 2: because they can't take back long term money. That messes
Speaker 2: up that cap space. But again, they have to sell
Speaker 2: em bead on this process and that was actually unintentional.
Speaker 2: I promise I did not mean to use process there.
Speaker 3: So I.
Speaker 2: Man, these are they're all fascinating Philly, Portland, Milwaukee and yeah,
Speaker 2: Warriors too. I mean, it's uh, you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: be in more than you're gonna have to. You're gonna
Speaker 2: you might have to be in more than one place.
Speaker 3: It feels like we feel like we're missing it to
Speaker 3: I'm sure we are.
Speaker 2: We're off our I mean, I'm off my game. So
Speaker 2: I mean I already forgot. I already forgot the Chris
Speaker 2: Paul scenario. But but I think when we were talking
Speaker 2: about this before, when we were talking about this before,
Speaker 2: we were guessing that you were gonna be on the
Speaker 2: West coast. So I think we were talking Lakers. Oh
Speaker 2: well with Suns. I mean, you know, we haven't seen
Speaker 2: the Suns. With all these guys in one place, I mean,
Speaker 2: their media day will be you know, certainly of some interest,
Speaker 2: just to have Durant, feel Book and Eighten all in
Speaker 2: the same room with a new coach. But again, I
Speaker 2: would even put the Suns. I don't think the Suns
Speaker 2: cracked the top three either anymore.
Speaker 3: It's not but the Clippers. The only reason I say
Speaker 3: that Clippers are because now with Tylou and the organization
Speaker 3: stressing how important it is for guys to be available
Speaker 3: on a nightly basis, and so this is kind of
Speaker 3: a new structure that the Clippers are embarking on where
Speaker 3: they're prioritizing being available and getting Kawhi's take on that, like,
Speaker 3: what is that saying? Getting Paul George's take on that?
Speaker 2: And can I just interrupt you the shout out? Paul
Speaker 2: George's podcast is tremendous. I don't know if you saw today,
Speaker 2: I mean, he is just I saw clips of him
Speaker 2: today uncorking a Kawuhi imitation and a Charles Barkley imitation,
Speaker 2: and they were both like they were a plus. I
Speaker 2: didn't I didn't know he was an impressionist. I mean
Speaker 2: his Charles bark Charles Barkley was Wow.
Speaker 3: Fresno State education. I'm not surprised.
Speaker 2: Look at you gotta bring it always bring it back
Speaker 2: to Fred.
Speaker 3: I'm not surprised. Yeah, No, Paul George's podcast, since we
Speaker 3: give him a shout out to Pop Player podcast. Paul
Speaker 3: George podcast is excellent. Jeff t is really big, striking
Speaker 3: it big out there with.
Speaker 2: You know what since and it's funny. We're actually lucky that,
Speaker 2: you know, we made the big trade with Draymond where
Speaker 2: we said, Draymond, you come on our podcast and will
Speaker 2: come on your podcast. Now Draymond is not cashed in
Speaker 2: his chip. You know, he could have us on. We
Speaker 2: have to hold up our end of the deal. But
Speaker 2: maybe he's just maybe he just doesn't want us, Maybe
Speaker 2: we're not interesting enough. But you know, given the whole
Speaker 2: Fresno State thing, I think you should extend the same
Speaker 2: offer to Paul George. Will go on his pods and
Speaker 2: he comes on ours. Would Paul George entertain that trade?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think you would. But Paul, we would have
Speaker 3: to go out to La to Paul. He ain't doing
Speaker 3: no remote, that's right, But Stein, are you willing to
Speaker 3: come out of your cave? Okay, all right, it can't
Speaker 3: be one, it can't be one. It gotta be both
Speaker 3: of us.
Speaker 2: I'll be there with my cal State Fullerton had on.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, Okay, I don't know if he'll entertain it.
Speaker 2: But we should offer that.
Speaker 3: I'll make the call. I think we could get a yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, he has amazing and he's one of the
Speaker 2: guys really opening up. But like I said, his impressions,
Speaker 2: his impressions are really good.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know that we have I don't
Speaker 3: hold on real quick star before we get to hold
Speaker 3: on Dallas. Is there any intrigue with Dallas media day?
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I think I think there is. I think
Speaker 2: there is. But something tells me that all those teams
Speaker 2: would would probably be higher en lists. I guess the
Speaker 2: intrigue in Dallas will just be Kyrie Irving. We haven't
Speaker 2: heard from Kyrie Irving. And you know, Kyrie did not
Speaker 2: speak at the end of last season, so going into
Speaker 2: free agency, he decided not to meet with the media.
Speaker 2: When Kyrie was traded to the Mavericks in February, he
Speaker 2: had asked, please no contractual questions during the season. I
Speaker 2: don't want to cause distract I don't want to cause
Speaker 2: unwarranted distractions. I think was the term. I got to
Speaker 2: look it up exactly. I think it was he did
Speaker 2: not want to cause unwarranted distraction. But then after the
Speaker 2: Mavericks season ended, he didn't want to do media before
Speaker 2: going into free agency. So you are correct that when
Speaker 2: media day arrives, that will be the first time Kyrie
Speaker 2: Irving has addressed the media since April, and the first
Speaker 2: time he's addressed the media since re signing with Dallas. However,
Speaker 2: as I work my way through this, as we discuss it,
Speaker 2: the Mavericks, as I said, the Mavericks and the Wolves,
Speaker 2: they both of media Day a few days early because
Speaker 2: they begin exhibition play abroad. So September twenty ninth, again,
Speaker 2: I believe, and I really hope I'm not saying the
Speaker 2: wrong date. I hope it's not September thirtieth, but I
Speaker 2: do think it is September twenty ninth. Both the Mavericks
Speaker 2: and the Wolves will do media Day two three days
Speaker 2: before everybody else. So Dallas's media Day with Luca and
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving and Jason Kidd and Minnesota's media Day with
Speaker 2: Kat and Go Bear and slow Mo and Aunt Edwards,
Speaker 2: Team USA is go to guy. There will be no
Speaker 2: The Mavericks and the Wolves will not have to battle
Speaker 2: for they will. They will only be battling each other
Speaker 2: on their on their media day.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's that's all I asked you. I remember Kyrie
Speaker 3: hasn't spoke, So what about Luca. What's what's the move?
Speaker 3: Like from outside looking in Stein, it seems, you know,
Speaker 3: Luca's supporting cast keeps changing. They're trying to get the
Speaker 3: right cast, you know, around him. Is there you know
Speaker 3: how people are waiting for like Joel and b to
Speaker 3: see what you know, what he thinks is that is
Speaker 3: there a similar thing with Luca or is that's that's
Speaker 3: definitely way too pret much.
Speaker 2: Well, look, it's the NBA, so I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 2: the question is going to come up. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, because on one hand, you've got Luca doing
Speaker 2: media pretty regularly because he's playing for his national team.
Speaker 2: But he always says when he's with Slovenia and he
Speaker 2: gets asked questions about the Mavericks, he tends to bat
Speaker 2: those away because he'd rather not talk Mavericks when he's
Speaker 2: on national team duty. So yes, I don't think there's
Speaker 2: any question that there's gonna be a lot of interest
Speaker 2: in the MAVs when they do media day because it
Speaker 2: is the first time both Luca and Kyrie will have
Speaker 2: spoken since I mean spoken about the MAVs. Since April.
Speaker 2: So no question, the MAVs are a team that a
Speaker 2: lot of people are looking at because there are still
Speaker 2: I mean there, frankly are still questions. You know, Luca
Speaker 2: and Kyrie as a duo, it didn't go great last season. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the Mavericks counter would be that it was a mid
Speaker 2: season trade. They'll have a full training camp now to
Speaker 2: try to actually build a team that functions better. And
Speaker 2: they've certainly made a lot of changes with Grant Williams
Speaker 2: coming in. They weren't able to get Matisse Tible, who
Speaker 2: they went after with the restricted free agent offer sheet.
Speaker 2: They've made changes to their front court rotation as well.
Speaker 2: They did not get the front line starting defensive center
Speaker 2: that they were hoping to, so they did bring in
Speaker 2: Rashaun Holmes. They drafted Derek Lively, who everybody in Dallas
Speaker 2: is excited about. They also drafted Olivier Maxentz prosper who
Speaker 2: is probably going to have a role right away. But
Speaker 2: you're right, Dallas Media Day is up there. I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe we need to do like a Media Day rankings,
Speaker 2: but I would still say that because because I honestly
Speaker 2: I think Minnesota had enough. They had enough late season
Speaker 2: drama that even theirs will be a source of interest
Speaker 2: and intrigue as all those guys get together again. But
Speaker 2: I wouldn't put the Mavericks or the Wolves in that Philly, Portland,
Speaker 2: Milwaukee tier. No, those are my top three for drama.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: A wild card team, the Memphis Grizzlies starting media day,
Speaker 3: John Morant suspend it for what is it twenty five games?
Speaker 3: Twenty five games? So those these will be well, it
Speaker 3: is suspected on media day for it to be his
Speaker 3: first public remarks or comments from the suspension. What what
Speaker 3: did the player association or were they looking was they
Speaker 3: were they last looking into found a grievance or is
Speaker 3: that done with? Is there anything there? Producer Ryan, can
Speaker 3: you help me out on that, buddy? Trying to see
Speaker 3: if there's anything that can be done before the season starts,
Speaker 3: But I doubt it. So, I mean, just hearing what
Speaker 3: Joe's going to say, but you know that that'd be
Speaker 3: some intrigue right there, but everybody knows he's not going
Speaker 3: to be there to start to start the season with him,
Speaker 3: So I don't you know, I don't know if they
Speaker 3: is that a top tier? Yeah, they probably make top
Speaker 3: ten the probably most intriguing teams to go into media day.
Speaker 3: Definitely not top five, But I'm just trying to think
Speaker 3: of all type of I guess, uncomfortable situations that can
Speaker 3: be had on media day.
Speaker 2: Do you have any say in the assignment, Like, do
Speaker 2: you volunteer and say, hey, I'm I would love to
Speaker 2: go to see Team X.
Speaker 3: Oh. I can say that all I want as far
Speaker 3: as far as anything happened off of that. No, there,
Speaker 3: they're gonna tell me where.
Speaker 2: To gov pressed and ready to go.
Speaker 3: Yes, hey, great thing about those polls shirts that it
Speaker 3: only need to be pressed wrinkle free. Maybe I can
Speaker 3: ball that shirt up, ball it all up and put
Speaker 3: it on. It looked good, so I'll be fine.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm gonna wear the medium again. So that's
Speaker 2: not you know, that's that reminds me another one, the Chuckster.
Speaker 2: We gotta get the Chuckster on here. Yeah, he's been
Speaker 2: hiding from us. And I saw he just did the
Speaker 2: Bill Simmons podcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did Bill Simmonson? He did? Rich Did he do
Speaker 3: rich what's his last name?
Speaker 2: Did he really? I missed that he did Richard Disch's pod?
Speaker 3: Yes, he did. He read Richard Ditches last week. I
Speaker 3: think he spoke for like like an hour and a
Speaker 3: half or something like that. Yeah, it was the quote
Speaker 3: it came from. Did you see the quote circulating from
Speaker 3: Charles about Amazon? How how Turner and ESPN are kind
Speaker 3: of sweating.
Speaker 2: Actually TV actually totally missed that. I totally miss that.
Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, that came.
Speaker 2: I listen to his pod with Simmons. We have not
Speaker 2: had the Chuckster on this pod. We have to rectify that, okay,
Speaker 2: because I want to hear him going at your shirts
Speaker 2: on this pod.
Speaker 3: Hey, listen, you got a lot of requests. See, we
Speaker 3: don't talk for a month, and already you say, hey,
Speaker 3: get us on.
Speaker 2: The I am demanding and annoying and I worry a lot,
Speaker 2: and you have to deal with all that. But but
Speaker 2: I do have a I have a pod lined up.
Speaker 2: I have a big name guest lined up soon. I
Speaker 2: do not want to reveal it yet because I don't
Speaker 2: want to jinx it. But I really think in the
Speaker 2: next week or so, we will have a very very
Speaker 2: very good guest that I actually set up for us
Speaker 2: to kind of make up for all the heavy lifting
Speaker 2: that I ask you to do.
Speaker 3: I'm looking for that that would definitely be a good one.
Speaker 3: And Producer Ryan just informed us that about ja Morant
Speaker 3: situation in the MVPA. So far, the union has only
Speaker 3: said they will explore options and next steps. That's all
Speaker 3: they said. So I don't think anything's going to happen.
Speaker 3: So that's that.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Producer Ryan, Producer Ryan Music. He went on
Speaker 2: like seven trips. I don't even know where the last
Speaker 2: time we did at we did the pod with Spears.
Speaker 2: We had to call in Minnesota Tim to pinch Hit.
Speaker 2: Luckily we found him and he was able to. So
Speaker 2: it's good for all three of us to be back
Speaker 2: together again. All right, This was a good getting back
Speaker 2: up to speed effort. I think we would love to
Speaker 2: be able to tell you that a trade involving Harden
Speaker 2: and or Dame was imminent, but unfortunately we are not
Speaker 2: able to say that. As we recorded on the evening
Speaker 2: of August twenty eighth, the month of August finally dribbling
Speaker 2: to a close. But when is it going to happen?
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like I've said this fifteen times
Speaker 2: over the last couple months. We do see NBA trade.
Speaker 2: In September, we saw Donovan Mitchell get traded last September,
Speaker 2: so these things can spring up quick. And the thing
Speaker 2: you do have to say is it's easy for teams
Speaker 2: like Philly and Portland to have patient stances during the summer.
Speaker 2: The closer and closer we get to training camp and
Speaker 2: the closer we get to October TEWOD and media Day,
Speaker 2: and when these teams face the prospect of having to
Speaker 2: bring these guys back, then it does start to get
Speaker 2: more uncomfortable for the teams. And we'll see if these
Speaker 2: teams really have the resolve they say they have to
Speaker 2: be patient. All the signals out of Philly they tend
Speaker 2: to suggests that the Sixers want to slow play this
Speaker 2: and they don't want to rush into a hardened trade,
Speaker 2: and they're prepared to deal with whatever chaos is created
Speaker 2: at training camp. But let's see when Harden shows up
Speaker 2: or doesn't show up, and said chaos begins. And you know,
Speaker 2: as you said earlier, you expect calmer waters in Portland
Speaker 2: and not as much not as much of a fuss.
Speaker 2: But everybody knows that Dame does want the trade and
Speaker 2: he wants to be sent to Miami. And when the
Speaker 2: season starts up again, this becomes a daily topic for
Speaker 2: the Blazers a day. This is a daily discussion that
Speaker 2: they will have to manage. So let's see how they
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 3: It would be uncomfortable, It would be an uncomfortable situation.
Speaker 3: But if I'm comparing it to James Harden, I think
Speaker 3: we've seen James. We've seen James in action.
Speaker 2: You know, does not in the closet that he's gonna
Speaker 2: that he's gonna that he's going to put on where
Speaker 2: to Blazer?
Speaker 3: And Dame hasn't called has it called? Is g a maliar? No?
Speaker 2: He is not.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Jay Jay, So we we we know how
Speaker 3: far James Harden is willing to go or has been
Speaker 3: willing to go. So that's why I think his uh
Speaker 3: that media day would be something to look out for
Speaker 3: if James was in attendance. Stein, My birthday is coming up, man,
Speaker 3: August thirty. First, it's actually this Thursday. You know what
Speaker 3: I don't want for my birthday?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of what do I do that
Speaker 2: annoys you? What do you not want? You do not
Speaker 2: want to trade on your on your birthday?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't minit trade That'll be fine, especially if I
Speaker 3: get to break it. I would I just don't checks out, stie,
Speaker 3: check us out. So let me tell you about this.
Speaker 3: It gave me so much anxiety. I had such an
Speaker 3: anxiety attack. So my mud, so my mom, we always
Speaker 3: had this. Is it like a race? I've turned it
Speaker 3: into a race. And so her address is her address.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna give the address. Her address is three numbers.
Speaker 3: And every time the clock turns to that address, you know,
Speaker 3: twice a day, we'll always text each other. Hey, you
Speaker 3: know when we if we catch the clock at that time,
Speaker 3: we'll text each other, Hey, it's give example, Hey it's
Speaker 3: it's five eighteen, five eighteen. And so that's her like
Speaker 3: she's kind of like trying to say, like a blessing
Speaker 3: is coming. You know, a blessing is coming. We caught it.
Speaker 3: A blessing is coming. You know, that's our address. A
Speaker 3: blessing is coming. Every time we see it. So we
Speaker 3: do it. But I've turned it into a race, so
Speaker 3: I want to beat her text it every time. She
Speaker 3: doesn't view it as a race. So this morning, this
Speaker 3: is when I knew it got like got too serious
Speaker 3: for me. So this morning I text five eighteen and
Speaker 3: her five eighteen came in before I mind did.
Speaker 2: I'm like, damn me, she broke it first. I has home.
Speaker 3: I had to chill back, hold on, this is not
Speaker 3: my job, I said, Bob. I'm sorry. I had to
Speaker 3: call said Bob, I can't do this. I'm taking it
Speaker 3: too seriously. I already got to deal with this at work,
Speaker 3: like let let's stop, you figure another way.
Speaker 2: Start.
Speaker 3: When I saw it come through before I sit by, man,
Speaker 3: I was so hurt. It's so mad, Like I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: she got to scoop. Like man, I'm like, I gotta
Speaker 3: this time about It's a daily thing, daily thing. It
Speaker 3: just happens, and I cheat. I'll put alarm on my
Speaker 3: on my phone to make sure I beat her most times.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you know, so I'm just I don't want
Speaker 3: to travel. I told the wife, I don't want to travel.
Speaker 3: You know, I got kind of kind of you know,
Speaker 3: this is probably the most lazy.
Speaker 2: Is not that long of a trip.
Speaker 3: It's not, but I'm talking about just summer, like you
Speaker 3: go out the country. Most people go out the country scene. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I haven't done anything.
Speaker 2: Like I'm in New York right now at the US Open,
Speaker 2: Like I just yeah, I've traveled my whole life since
Speaker 2: I I mean since I was a little kid and
Speaker 2: we used to get this. My brother and I used
Speaker 2: to get set overseas for the whole summer to be
Speaker 2: with our family in Israel. So it's like, yeah, in
Speaker 2: the summer in here's well. The main thing is with
Speaker 2: living in the heat in Dallas has been it's always unbearable,
Speaker 2: but this this was the hottest August on record. It
Speaker 2: is one ten every day and you know, I know
Speaker 2: anybody in Phoenix doesn't want to hear it, but it
Speaker 2: has been blistering, humidity, withering, suffocating. New York the US
Speaker 2: Open is always hot weather, but this this US Open
Speaker 2: has been high seventies every day in qualifying last week.
Speaker 2: The main tournament just started now. But like, the weather
Speaker 2: has been so mild. I never imagine that going from
Speaker 2: Dallas to New York in late August would be that
Speaker 2: kind of a case. But I'm literally it's thirty degrees
Speaker 2: cooler every day, which is insane, and I'm I'm very
Speaker 2: on your birthday, I am returning to the Dallas heat
Speaker 2: and I can't wait to see the fan. But man,
Speaker 2: just going back to the one ten with the crazy humidity,
Speaker 2: when you could land at DFW at eleven PM and
Speaker 2: it's still ninety five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I can't stand in humidity.
Speaker 2: Well, that's awesome that your birthdays.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, now it is. It is locked in my files.
Speaker 2: I will never I will never forget it again. It's
Speaker 2: going to be in my files. That's a that's a
Speaker 2: piece of Haynes trivia I did not previously have.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Okay, Oh, let's give a shout out real quick
Speaker 3: to Mark Spears and the Conversation Projects. His new TV
Speaker 3: series on Hulu drops today on Hulu. Check out all
Speaker 3: six episodes. I went to his his screening in Oakland
Speaker 3: and Mike Brown was there Stein he said, what's up,
Speaker 3: Mike Brown there, Bonnie Poole came through. Who else was
Speaker 3: out there? My guy Lance Young, one of the top
Speaker 3: comedians here in Sacramento. So we all went out there
Speaker 3: to support him, and uh, you know, hopefully everybody goes out.
Speaker 2: Mark Spears is not really will not soon forget. August
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, gets the Kurt Goudy Award from the
Speaker 2: Basketball Hall of Fame, becomes an executive producer of a
Speaker 2: Hulu series, and in between that he appears on This
Speaker 2: League Uncut August twenty twenty three. Yeah, Mark spears and
Speaker 2: it breaks through on all three level.
Speaker 3: And he's going what next month his alma mater, San
Speaker 3: Jose State. They're honoring him with some prestigis.
Speaker 2: That's right. Actually, that was my favorite line of the
Speaker 2: whole podcast, that he pointed out that all three of
Speaker 2: us are Cal State guys. Fresno State, cal State Fullerton,
Speaker 2: San Jose State. We should be on that, We should
Speaker 2: be on the CSU podcast. Maybe they'll maybe, maybe they'll
Speaker 2: do a trade with us.
Speaker 3: We turned out, We turned out all right?
Speaker 2: All right, everyone that does it for this edition of
Speaker 2: This League Uncut, appreciate your patience. You know again, we
Speaker 2: we the frequency of the pod does drop off in
Speaker 2: August and September. In mid October we will be right
Speaker 2: back to two pods a week. But appreciate your patients.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you letting Chris and I and even producer Ryan
Speaker 2: chip Away at the rust. Like I said, I think
Speaker 2: we have a pretty good pod fingers crossed. I don't
Speaker 2: want to jinx it, but in within the next week,
Speaker 2: I think we have a pretty significant guest and we're
Speaker 2: gonna work on some of these other things, we're gonna
Speaker 2: We're gonna make that trade offer to Paul George. We
Speaker 2: might get flatly rejected, but we're gonna make the offer anyway.
Speaker 2: We're gonna check on the Chuckster. We're gonna work on
Speaker 2: these things, and we will update you as soon as
Speaker 2: we can. That does it for this edition of This
Speaker 2: League Uncut. Please remember to rate, review and subscribe to
Speaker 2: the pod. And let's depart by wishing a happy twenty
Speaker 2: ninth birthday to Chris Hanes.
Speaker 3: Faithfully, let's look back.
Speaker 2: I'll take you, and that'll do it for us.
Speaker 1: See you next time.
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