WEBVTT - #thisleague UNCUT: Summer reunion and our Giannis Latest 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.320 Welcome to This League Uncut in the rule of twenty 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:10.160 four hour NBA News. This's you, Chris Haynes. It's time, 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:18.840 Mark's time. It's some time. This League Uncut is underway 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:19.800 and on fire. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:29.240 This should be a good one. Friends, Welcome in to 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:37.720 a long overdue reunion of the cast of This League Uncut. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.320 Producer Ryan is here behind the scenes, Chris Haynes is here. 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.919 I'm Mark Stein. We are back together again. This is 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.000 so crazy. We did. We did the live show in 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:55.600 July at Caesar's Palace with Lakers coach Darvin Ham in 0:00:55.680 --> 0:01:01.120 the midst of some sort of some sort of scene 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.720 and emergency at Caesar's that we weren't even fully aware 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.080 of what was going on. When we were doing the pod, 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.880 we got past all that. Chris Haynes and I were together. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.000 I was so excited to see him because I hadn't 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.080 seen him in person and I don't know how long 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.920 but since then, I've barely spoken to Chris Haynes. I 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:23.360 think he needed a vacation from me because we've only 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.399 done a couple pods since then. In the summertime, we 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.320 do dial it back, but I think I don't know 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.240 if he's prepared to admit this. But I think Chris 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:38.760 Haynes has enjoyed his vacation from annoying me, nagging him 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:46.560 and bugging him with requests and questions and admin and 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:50.320 just my usual panicky self. Is that true? Are you 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.520 enjoying this time away from that? We've kind of been 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:55.120 we've kind of been separated. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:02:00.840 Here we have time. But tell you this, the way 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.520 I feel, have a little bit something to reveal the 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:08.200 way I feel right now. I don't want anything to 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.160 do with a little Caesars pizza. I don't want anything 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.799 to do with a Caesar salad. I don't even want 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.920 to hear about history about the King Caesar, whoever it 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:19.960 was back in the day. That's just how I feel. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.080 Stan, all right, I got you, get that, I hear you. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.000 Okay, Okay, So. 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:34.480 Maybe you're mad at me? Is the thing is like 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.840 we text a lot, like I think even our text 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.880 frequency has been way down, so you've been I don't know. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.200 Like I said, I think you've enjoyed this time away 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.520 from Ryan and not No. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.480 It has nothing to do with you, Stin. It has 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.239 a lot to do with Charlene's beauty. Supply, I've been working. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.560 That is your number one job. 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:54.880 Working. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:58.800 You want to lead insider at Charlene's beauty supply. You 0:02:58.880 --> 0:02:59.919 wear the undisputed. 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.880 Hey, I've been on the road. She sent me on 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.120 the road to go get more stock. I've driven on 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.679 the road. I flew to Atlanta to get some more 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:17.320 stock store. Yes, I'm at the register. What else am 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.400 I doing? I'm cleaning up oles. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.160 Did you at least get to see your collegiate daughters 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.160 on your trip to Atlanta when you were on that 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:25.360 on that mission? 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.359 I did, I did, I did, And I'm actually going 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:32.480 back to Atlanta next week. We have a we have 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.080 a summit out there, company summit pretty soon. So no, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.000 I've been stein. I would love to have broken away 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.000 to do a pod or have a conversation with you man, 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.000 but Charlene has kept me highly off. 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:47.560 All Right, all right, I'm glad. 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.240 It's we're good. Just no, we're good. Just no season 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.680 salad for me, any other salad, any other pizza. I'm good, all. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.240 Right, I get it. I hear you, I hear you. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:03.000 All Right. Well, here's the thing. We did have to 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:04.880 kind of get reconnected here because, like I said, I 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.160 feel like i's a little. I mean, you know, I get, 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.280 I get. It doesn't take much to get me worried. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:10.200 Now. 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.400 Our text frequency has been down lately, so I was 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.600 I was a little I was a little jittery. But 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:18.160 all right, I'm moving on because I keep saying this. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.520 I say it on By, I say it a lot 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.320 on my Saturday radio show in Dallas. I've written it 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.479 several times in my substack. Look, there's no sugarcoating. This 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.200 training camp is still a long way away. We're not 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.520 even at September first yet. For all but two teams 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.479 in the league. Training camp doesn't really start until Media 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.520 Day on October second, so we're still a long way 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.960 from that, but there is I feel like this has 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:48.920 been a more active newsier August than normal. We've got 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.400 the Feeble World Cup going on, so right now we're 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:55.000 in the midst of this run where there's eight games 0:04:55.000 --> 0:05:00.279 of basketball a day from now until September third. There's 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.479 gonna be one off day and then there's two days 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.640 two games of basketball, pretty high level basketball every day 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.560 through September tenth. That's going to get us even closer 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.640 to the start of NBA training camps. We had Hall 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.440 of Fame inductions, and we keep getting news. You know, 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.440 we're still waiting for some movement on the Damian Lillard 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.039 trade front, and we're still waiting for more definitive action 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.839 on the James Harden trade front. But I mean, James 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.360 Harden has certainly made news with what he said about 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:34.279 Darryl Morian China. And then just this past week, my 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:38.440 dear friends at the New York Times, Tanya Gangouli, who 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.440 had a great story with She did a feature on 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:48.000 Janis on Tatakumpo, and Yannis said all kinds of stuff 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.040 to Tanya in that piece. And you know, the New 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:57.400 York Times, the sports section is still rumbling along despite 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.679 reports of its demise. I don't know how much longer 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.680 that's gonna last, but this story was a plus plus. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:10.200 Janis Yannis yannas Antetokumpo is eligible for a contract extension 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.360 in September, a three year deal worth more than one 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.800 hundred and seventy million, But he told Tanya he is 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.720 not signing it. He is not doing an extension this offseason. 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.760 And then he was asked he, I mean, Yana's volunteered 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.320 that it makes more financial sense next summer, but he 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:32.200 did quickly add even then he's not sure that he 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:37.719 wants to resign it. So basically, Janis Antetokumpo in late 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:43.880 August has put the Bucks on notice with these quotes 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:49.760 that he gave the New York Times. And you know, 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.920 this is this is a massive, massive story. This is 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:58.680 huge because basically, you know, the Bucks were living under 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:03.320 this just contanttant fear of losing Yannis and can we 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.719 keep Yanis happy? And is Yiannis going to going to extend? 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.880 And Yanis on Tetekumpo did extend his contract, right you know, 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.520 or you know before the run to the championship that season, 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.760 he signed a five year deal worth nearly two hundred 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:20.440 and thirty million. But after just three years of that deal, 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.240 the Bucks are right back where they were and the 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.080 whole league is looking at this now wondering, man is 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:33.119 Yannis gettable? Is Yanis basically saying that that he wants 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.200 to leave? I mean he is. You know, the Bucks 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.560 made all these moves this summer to try to make 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:42.680 him happy, and then this story comes out, so you know, 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:47.680 you know Yanis, well, you cover him a ton. I mean, 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.640 what did you think when you saw some of these quotes? Again, 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:56.080 I'm let me just read it. Quote. The real question 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.360 is not going to be this year numbers wise, it 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.160 doesn't make sense. But next year, next summer, it would 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.240 make sense for both parties. Even then, I don't know, 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.880 Jannis continues, I would not be the best version of 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.360 myself if I don't know that everybody's on the same page. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.080 Everybody's going for a championship, everybody's going to sacrifice time 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.440 away from their family like I do. And if I 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.080 don't feel that, I'm not signing. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:26.040 Uh. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:31.240 My initial response definitely Golden quotes great job by Tire, 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:35.719 amazing profile. People should definitely go check that out, go 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:43.439 read it from start to finish. I'm not surprised. So 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.679 this is not the first time Jannis has said something 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:52.120 that has kind of perked the ears of everyone who 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.360 caught it. I want to say it might have been 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.320 I was looking for it just now as you were 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:02.000 reading those quotes. He says something I want to say 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.880 last year, maybe the last off season, maybe even two 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.560 years ago, about you know, if he chose to leave. 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:15.360 It was something like, if I left, I might want 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.000 to play somewhere else I might want to do. It 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.640 was something along those lines. Excuse me, people, you can 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.400 find it if you really, Doug, I think I'm looking. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.240 I'll keep looking while we're doing this pod. Need to 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.679 find the right words that he that he used. But 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:34.679 I'm not surprised, uh, he definitely. I definitely put him 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:39.080 up there with Lebron James. Of the people that I've 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.600 covered and spent significant time with, put him above there, 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:47.400 up there with Lebron James as the star key players 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:52.160 who just having a sensatiable desire to win. Giannis is 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.520 right there up there, And I like that he's finding 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.160 his voice over the last few years. He's saying what's 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.800 on his mind. You know a lot of times, you know, 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.880 there are certain players, and Giannis is like that too, 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.000 where you know he'll be in front of cameras or 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.000 be in front of a reporter, and you know he'll 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.480 say all the right things, and then behind the scenes 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.480 when you talk to him off the record, you'd be like, damn, 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.000 you're honest, I ain't know I know you felt that way. 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:20.800 I don't know, you know, I didn't know you talked 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.080 that way, you know. So I like that he's he's 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.520 bringing his voice and showing his voice to everyone else, 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.800 right now, But I'm not surprised Sean. I think he's 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:34.439 definitely putting the team on notice. But that I think 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.679 the pressure was always there from the beginning. For Milwaukee, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:40.880 they had to make moves, you know, they did they 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.400 remember after the bubble, you know, there was uncertainly around 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.840 if they were gonna keep coach budd at that time. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.080 They ended up keeping them, you know, got a title 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.280 and then had a lackluster for their standards of lackluster 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.400 season this past year. And they can But so the 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:03.520 pressure is there. Does this anticify Probably so, because because 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.160 this is not gonna be the last time we hear 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:12.200 the potential of Jannis to the potential of Yannis relocate, I. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.040 Mean, to me, I think it ramps it up huge 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.719 because I just you know again that the whole the 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:22.880 league was on Yannis watch until Jannis signed the five 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.000 year extension with the Bucks. Then they won the championship, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.839 and then the past two seasons have not gone the 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.559 way Milwaukee hoped, and then this whole off season was 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:40.199 the conversation was will the Bucks make the moves that 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:44.120 will make Janis Antitokunmpo happy? And they spent to keep 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:49.000 Chris Middleton they spent to keep brook Lopez, they made 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.480 a coaching change, and you know, you and I both 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.520 reported about how of the names of the coaches that 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.640 were interviewed to replace Mike Budenholzer, Adrian grit was the 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.679 coach that Jannis wanted, and that's who Milwaukee hired, a 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:09.479 first time coach, replacing a coach who's won a championship. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.520 So the Bucks, I'm sure they felt like we've we've 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:19.560 done everything. We did everything with the thought of trying 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:26.360 to satisfy our star player. And Jannis comes out with 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:30.240 all these quotes that suggest he's far from convinced that 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.640 they've done enough, and he might well be right. I mean, 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.520 you know, the Bucks, it was expensive just to keep 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.120 the team they had. You can't really say that they've 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:44.560 improved it. And I mean, the best thing Milwaukee probably 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.960 has going for itself right now is we have questions 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.199 about pretty much every top contender at the top of 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.280 the East. Philly is obviously in a lot of flux 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.680 with the hardened situation. Boston has made a huge change 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:05.160 by basically sending out Marcus Smart, cutting ties with Grant Williams, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:10.320 and bringing in Christops porzingis so the Celtics are gonna 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:15.360 look a lot different. Miami. We don't know what they're 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.160 gonna look like. We all know they want to trade 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.480 for Damian Lillard and that hasn't happened. So the Heat 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.280 have lost They lost Gabe Vincent and Max Strus from 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.480 their team that went to the NBA Finals. So there 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.559 are I mean, there are a lot of question marks 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.000 at the top of the East, and that's gotta be 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:36.400 good news for Milwaukee. But I mean this is this 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.199 was a thunderbolt to me. And again, the whole league 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.559 now is going to be back on Giannis watch and 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.800 is Gianni's happy? That is going to be a constant 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:51.120 discussion from going going forward from here. 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.040 I think Milwaukee wants to give themselves another chance with 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.240 the fact that Chris Middleton wasn't healthy last year, so 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.080 to see if they can duplicate from a few years 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.880 ago getting to the finals and ultimately winning it. So 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.800 I found that story the honest. This was almost two 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.439 years ago. So this happened November of twenty twenty one. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:15.240 It was a story. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:15.920 He did. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.680 A GQ story. They got Jannis one on one. This 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:25.400 was his quotes. One challenge was to bring a championship 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.520 here and we did it was very hard, but we 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.560 did it very very hard. I just love challenges. What's 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.440 the next challenge? The next challenge might not be here? 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:38.920 And he said, me and my family chose to stay 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.560 in this city that we all love and has taken 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.800 care of us for now. I'm two years and two 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.200 excuse me, in two years that might change. I'm being 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.320 totally honest with you. I'm always honest. I love the city, 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.920 I love this community. I want to help as much 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:58.440 as possible. So I remember when that came out, it 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.520 made some news, but was it I don't think it 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:06.000 hit the magnitude of Tanya's story. But you know, him 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.320 saying that back then, it was kind of laying the 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.040 groundwork to say, Hey, as long as I'm here, I'm 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.600 gonna do everything I can, but I am very much 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.800 open to going elsewhere and taking on another challenge. 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.520 He's clearly honest. I mean he is, he is, he 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.840 is being as open as as he can. And you know, 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.160 the other kind of Bombshelley thing he said in this 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.320 in this Tanya story is you know he acknowledged that, yes, 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:35.440 on some levels, he does want to be a Dirk Davisky, 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.480 a Tim Duncan or Kobe Bryant, the guys who we 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:44.800 associate with staying with one franchise forever for their whole career. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:50.760 And you know, he Janis has talked about that that is, 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.160 that is something he would like to do. But in 0:15:54.320 --> 0:16:00.800 this story, he also did mention to Tanya that, you know, quote, 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.640 winning a championship comes first. I don't want to be 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:08.680 twenty years on the same team and don't win another championship. 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.480 He has the one, but clearly one isn't enough for 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:20.280 Giannis Antetokumpo. So yeah, I mean this this is even 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:24.040 in a summer where you know, we are still expecting 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.720 a Damian Lillard trade at some point, and James Harden 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.000 clearly wants to be traded from Philadelphia. Don't know if 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.120 he's gonna get that trade, but he clearly still wants it. 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:40.200 Even with those two massive stories, the reverberations from this 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:44.640 one might even be more significant because you know, Jannis Is, 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.680 I mean, you know, on his worst day, he's one 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.360 of the five best players in the league, maybe one 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:50.560 of the three best players. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:50.760 In the league. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:56.600 So Milwaukee has a lot of pressure now to you know, 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.560 have a good season and and do I mean they 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.720 were That playoff series was disastrous? How bad they looked 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.400 in the Miami series. Yes, Giannis's injury at the start 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.119 of that series was certainly a factor, but I mean 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.000 they were, you know, they were that. I mean that 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:16.520 was just collapse, you know, too late, collapses against Miami 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.639 and just the whole way that first round series unraveled. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.280 I thought Philly was under pressure to start the new season, man, Milwaukee, 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.480 Milwaukee is right there, if not facing more. 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:39.199 Yeah, this changes things a bit, but it's definitely calculated. 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:43.960 For sure. This is definitely calculated. And I don't you know, 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:49.760 this is what you know superstar players do. They oftentimes 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.480 because they feel like they're putting everything into their body 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.480 to make sure that they can give it all when 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.439 it's time to play in an eighty two game regular 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.440 season into the postseason, and so a lot of times, 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.359 when they get to a certain level or accumulate certain 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:10.439 years of stature, they feel comfortable of putting the franchise 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.359 on notice, put applying pressure there. Because players always have pressure. 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.280 It's always pressure for the faces of the franchise. So 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.360 it was like, we know what, let's share in this pressure. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:24.679 Let's publicly share in this pressure. So let me allow 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.280 me to issue a few quotes to get us both 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.440 on the same page so we could both feel this 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:35.040 and uh because often times, you know, obviously, when when 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:40.200 things don't when situations come up short, the player or 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.440 the players you know, catch the brunt of it. So 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.240 this is this is definitely going to be an interesting 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.320 season to see how it all unfolds, especially towards. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.439 What we need now is a roulette wheel sound effect. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:57.720 I don't know if we have that capability in this league. 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.880 Uncut audio archive. We'll find out when Ryan gets done 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.800 with this thing. Because now, I really you know, before 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.120 I was the last time, maybe not the last time, 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.399 but in one of our recent pods, I know I 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.560 was giving you a hard time about where will Chris 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:17.000 Haynes be on media day? Will he be in Portland 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:22.240 with still a Blazer? Damian Lillard? Will will he be 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:28.520 in Los Angeles with the Lakers? But now, I mean 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:32.520 they might have to send you to Milwaukee. You might, 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.200 I mean, you might be in Milwaukee for media Day. 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.000 I don't think they'll send you as far east as Philly, 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:47.119 but I mean, I mean, well, listen, let me tell 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:52.160 you this Philly it all, So let let's transition there. 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.840 If it's Philly, if I am in Philly, the only 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.800 reason I would be in Philly, I would think, is 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:02.960 it if James Harden is still a member of the 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:07.200 Sixers and then James Harden has to show up to 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:11.119 media day training camp. I think that would be the 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:17.119 only reason why I or any other national maybe your 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.800 reporters will be in Philly for media Day, just to 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.600 see how that is going to play out. 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:26.920 What is James gonna do well on the tension meter? 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:31.480 Where will the most tension be? Now, let's pretend, let's 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:36.919 assume that Dame is still a Blazer on media Day 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:40.560 October second. Media Day is October second for twenty eight 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:45.840 of the league's thirty teams. Only Dallas and Minnesota, who 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:51.200 will be opening their exhibition seasons in Abu Dhabi their 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:55.080 media day. I believe, I keep I think it's September 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.040 twenty ninth. I'm doing that one off the top of 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:00.520 my head. I think it's September twenty ninth Media Day 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.919 for those seasons. Everybody else, Media Day is October second. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:08.119 Who is going to have the sauciest, most tension filled 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.520 Media Day Philly. If Harden is still on the roster, 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.639 as it certainly certainly looks like he will be, the 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:16.920 Sixers want to slow play this. I do not think 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:20.840 the Sixers even want to trade James Harden. So if 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:24.040 Harden is still in Philly, if Dame is still in Portland, 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:28.359 and now with Jannis having said what he has said 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:31.200 to the New York Times, what would be the most 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:35.720 dramatic media day that you that Chris Haynes has to attend. 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:39.880 Of those three if Harton is still a member of Philly. 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:42.600 Yeah, the Lakers, I mean they're boring. On Media Day, 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:48.520 they resigned ad, they kept Austin Reeves. Nobody even threw 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:51.680 an offer sheet at Austin Reeves. Everybody's Austin Reeves the 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.280 new darling of Team USA, and everybody's wondering, why didn't 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:57.960 san Antonio just give him that four year, one hundred 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:00.440 million dollar offer sheet just to make the Lakers match it. 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:02.760 We don't even have and the Lakers are boring. 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.320 Yeah, I mean Golden State with Chris. 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.000 Paul that's another one. That was the other one. I forgot. 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:14.880 What he accept Yeah, will he accept the reserve role 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:17.960 or how will he he's going to be a professional. 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:20.680 I don't think that that no longer cracks the top three. 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.960 I think. I'm sorry, but you know, I hear it. 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:24.600 I hear it. 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.040 But I'm glad you mentioned that, because I think that 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:29.439 was one of the ones I was quizzing you about before. 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:34.520 You're right. But if it's those three hardened Dame Giannis, 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:37.920 I think it's hard because I think Harden's case that 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:43.440 has the most potential to be an explosive day. I 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:46.720 think Dame, if he's if he's still with the Blazers, 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.000 I think Dame shows up the camp and I think 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:54.680 he handles things professionally, and I think he avoids a 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:58.840 lot of questions hard than I'm not sure. I'm not 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:01.560 sure if he's going to boy questions, and I'm not 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:04.760 even sure if he'll show up. I don't know. So 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:09.520 that's that's what. So if you say from all three 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:15.680 those three scenarios, James Harden's situation is definitely good, That's 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:16.080 what I'm. 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:18.840 Saying this August. Like you know, on my sub stack, 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:20.639 I have this great chat room where I you know, 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:22.639 I get to hang out with my subscribers and I 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:25.239 know everybody's getting antsy. Everybody's like, man, we still got 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:29.000 a month to go before training camp. But there is 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.399 I mean, all these there are some question marks that 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:36.560 because these are all interesting. I mean, look, you know 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:39.480 Dame ten times better than me, but I have to 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:41.639 imagine that is not going to be a fun media 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:43.840 day for him if he is still a Blazer to 0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:47.600 have to stand up there and you know, field whatever 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:51.520 questions come his way, because we know he wanted to 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:54.040 be traded to Miami by now and it hasn't happened. 0:23:54.080 --> 0:23:57.880 And look also things can happen in September. 0:23:57.480 --> 0:24:01.639 And Stele all so also check this out, Starn, check 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:07.680 this out for James and Dame. Let me because this 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:12.040 just came up to me right now. I think I 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:19.400 can see an avenue of which sixers in Portland might say, 0:24:19.480 --> 0:24:21.280 I haven't heard anything, but it just hit my brain 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:25.560 right now. They might say James Dame don't show up 0:24:26.720 --> 0:24:31.080 because they have every reason, every intention to trade, probably 0:24:31.160 --> 0:24:33.959 not on a certain time, not probably not as desperate 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:37.560 of a timeline as James and Dame once but because 0:24:37.600 --> 0:24:41.040 you know, media day is all about let's build up 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:44.280 the interest, Let's get the fandom, the fandom behind us, 0:24:44.359 --> 0:24:46.160 you know what I mean. These all these are all 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:49.080 good quotes that's going to get the fan base all 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:53.000