WEBVTT - THE NBA Finals Preview already? + Another Injury In Phoenix 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.080 The prospect of an NBA Finals preview later this week 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:08.560 when the Boston Celtics visit the Denver Nuggets, the increasing 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.200 presence of a certain Chris Haynes in Denver. We're gonna 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.360 explain that too, as well as take a look at 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:20.239 the latest injury woe in Phoenix, and that crazy stacked 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:25.239 potential Western Conference playing round which gets more daunting every 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.120 time you look at the standings. All that's next here 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.280 on the latest edition of This League Uncut. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.680 Welcome to this League Uncut. In the rule of twenty 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:35.800 four hour NBA News. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:37.120 This you'll. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:43.240 Chris Hanes. It's go time, works time, It's so time. 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:52.160 This League Uncut is underway and on fire. This should 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:53.040 be a good one. 0:00:53.880 --> 0:01:02.000 Everyone. Welcome in to another edition of This League Uncut. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:07.800 We are recording on a Monday before Chris Haynes makes 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.640 a mad dash to catch a plane to Denver. He's 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:16.520 going back to Denver to see the Nuggets twice this week. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:22.199 One game on the sidelines in Denver last week wasn't enough. 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:27.040 He's moving into Denver for the whole week. We will 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.240 talk about the Nuggets, we will talk about the Celtics, 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.400 we will talk about the Suns. We will talk about 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:35.360 the Warriors. But my first question, Chris Haynes, why on 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.200 earth it is March fourth as we record this. Why 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.640 are you still wearing a Kansas City Chiefs T shirt 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.960 that the listeners can't see but I most definitely can see. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.600 Very simple answer is loudry day. I didn't have anything 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.960 much to put on here, so this was one thing, 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.040 one shirt that was clean, So I say, hey, why not? 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:02.840 But yeah, I haven't warned this shirt since the super Bowl, 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:08.480 and we've seen what happened at the super Bowl. Chiefs 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.120 were victorious, so I expect something good. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.680 Why, though, why do we I never see you in 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.440 a Fresno Pacific shirt. I never see you in a 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:20.799 Fresno State shirt? Like the only team gear I've ever 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:21.959 seen you wear. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:24.160 Is this? 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.160 And you know me like when I get together, you 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.240 know when I get when we get together for these, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.680 I got Fullerton hats galore. You've commented about some of 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.680 my tennis apparel, like, I got all kinds of I 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.040 think I have some versatility when we show up to 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:43.200 do these. Why the only team gear I've ever seen 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.679 you wear? Producer Ryan? Am I wrong on that? Do 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:50.400 you remember him? Wearing any other team branded stuff. 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.120 I actually had multiple Fronough State sweaters. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.520 The only thing I can remember this team related but 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.919 you've wore. Did you wear something for one of your 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:03.840 daughter's universities? 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:12.160 Yeah, the only one I can remember. My dad I 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.120 rocked the h p c U for sure. But I 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.720 have multiple friend on state switters. I do do that 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.720 and hats frontal stage hats uh frest Pacific. I don't 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.320 have any Friend of Pacific gear. They always they always 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:29.040 reach out to me to come to certain alumni events 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.360 and want me to ask me to come play in 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.600 a game alumni versus the current team games. But I'm 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.880 just my schedule is always a scheduled conflicts. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.360 You're in seven rec leagues, but you can't. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.560 It was during the week. They have it during the week, 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.320 the rerect leagues during the WEEKNDH. That's that's that's more 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.440 open to my schedule in my rec league. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:57.320 Hold, speaking of that, Saturday. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:56.640 You open you open it up, you open it up. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.920 As you know, I'm in two rec leagues. On Saturday 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.600 is the Filipino League and on Sunday is the rec League, 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.440 the Sacramento League and West Sacramento and so in this 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.240 Filipino League were we made it to the final four. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.839 So this Saturday is the final four if we win 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:16.080 our first game. We played that championship game, uh two 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.480 hours from there. From there, so I'm looking. 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:21.320 On the floor with you. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.560 Aaron Haynes is back on the floor with us Sunday. 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.719 He actually played with us yesterday. We won. That's the 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.760 story in itself. How we won that, that's a whole 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.360 other story. Style. Let me say that for another part 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:35.120 was there. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:36.840 Was a lot of drama that U fold yet you 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.960 know what, Let's get Let's get Yes, I'm steering the 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.960 ship back to the end because. 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.800 Let's hold on, steinn, hold on before we get to 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.159 the NBA style, before we get to the n b A. 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.359 I feel like we you know we we we just 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.880 at least need to acknowledge the passing of Chris Morton's 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.479 and I didn't get a chance to I've never spoken 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.040 to them, but I think you know you spent a 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:05.000 lot of time at ESPN there. Did you have any interactions, 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.800 Did you guys have any communication at all? 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.360 It was an absolute legend, and as you've heard in 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.160 all the tributes that everybody's giving, just an absolutely beloved 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:20.800 figure on the campus of ESPN, and as an old 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.480 school journalism guy, you know, I was aware of him 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:29.360 even before he went to ESPN and became a TV star, 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:34.359 because you know, in my college years, it was just 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.599 monstrous when The National started, and The National, for those 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:43.000 of you who don't know, was the first and really 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:49.560 only attempt that I can remember where a publisher tried 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:55.839 to launch a national, a true national newspaper, and what 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.960 they discovered. Unfortunately, it met with a very quick demise. 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.039 It only last did a year. But when The National 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:06.720 started as a daily newspaper that was trying to cover 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.480 the whole United States, Chris Mortenson was one of the 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.400 first writers that they went after to cover the NFL 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.400 because Chris at that time was a hugely well known 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.880 NFL reporter with the Atlanta Journal Constitution and he actually 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.839 started in Southern California at the Daily Breeze because he 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.240 is a native of Southern California. And so, I mean, 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.760 I've been hearing stories about Chris Mortenson really my whole 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:41.560 career and just again a beloved figure and a true 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.760 titan of the industry, and you know, one of the 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.839 guys who really made the job that we do. You know, 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.479 he you know, there was that, you know, like Pete 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:58.880 Vessi in the NBA, you know, the this initial wave 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:03.719 of writers who made the jump from newspapers to TV, 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:05.760 and then David Aldridge did it as well, and it 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:11.280 was just it was such you know, now it's com 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:16.560 you know, it's commonplace now for reporters to go, for 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:22.280 sports writers to go from newspapers to TV. I mean, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.760 but it was not when Chris Mortensen did it. It 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.360 was still a relatively new thing. And so there's a 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:34.040 reason why you hear so many ESPN people talking about 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:40.040 him with such reverence and such sadness when the news 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.240 of his passing started to circulate Sunday, because he was 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:45.320 a true giant. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.160 In most respect. Never never, never got to interact with 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.600 him my two years at ESPN, but like you said, 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.720 heard nothing but good things about him. So Mike and 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.720 Thollis's to his family and no question. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.240 About it, no question about it. There is no graceful 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:06.120 way to try to move back to the league we 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.640 cover every day, but you are, We're trying to hustle 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.960 this one before you have to go to the airport 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.840 and make your way to Denver. For the rest of 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:17.760 the week two games with the Nuggets. And I wrote 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.600 this on my sub stack. Is the first Monday in 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:26.480 March too early to start thinking about the NBA Finals. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:32.880 If it is, I'm guilty because the way the Nuggets 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:38.199 are playing. They won six straight games since returning from 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.480 the All Star Break, and just went to LA and 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:46.000 spoiled the Lebron James forty thousand point party. And then 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:50.000 in the East, what Boston is doing eleven straight wins. 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:59.840 They obliterated the Warriors by fifty two on Sunday. And look, 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.520 Boston is not gonna win seventy three games. They're not 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.200 gonna make a run at the all time regular season 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.200 record that the Warriors achieved in twenty fifteen to sixteen. 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.240 But their regular season has everything else. I mean, they 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:20.240 are smoldering teams. They are now the only team in 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.680 league history, I believe if I have this right to 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:28.880 post three fifty point wins in a single season. Their 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.000 last game before the break, they beat the Nets by fifty. 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.600 They just beat the Warriors by fifty two over their 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:40.040 last six games, so five since the break and the 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.520 game right before the break. Just those six games, Boston 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.400 has won those six by a ridiculous one hundred and 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:53.439 seventy nine points. So, you know, last season, to me, 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.640 the big buzzword was parody. And when we went into 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:01.599 the playoffs, there was this feeling that the NBA was 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:06.840 as wide open as it's maybe ever been and everybody 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.000 had a chance. And Miami making the finals as a 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.160 number eight seed it kind of slammed that point home. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.679 But right now, the NBA does not feel very wide 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.360 open to me. I don't know how you see it. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:23.480 You can tell me now here, but I mean, Denver 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:28.400 and Boston have separated themselves. In my humble opinion. 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.960 I agree. I agree, though those are the two teams 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:38.719 that I have the most faith in going to the playoffs. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:44.160 I still would say this, I still believe that it's 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:48.559 still pretty wide open. What I mean by pretty wide open, 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:52.760 you know, I still give the Bucks of fighting chance. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:58.079 I you know, Philly, like Joel Embiid is the wild card. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:02.240 You know, I probably has less confidence and if he 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.680 can get back to form at the you know, with 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:09.080 enough time to actually make a legitimate run, Miami is 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.960 always a threat. We talked about them in our last episode, 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.400 you know, so I feel like Miami has a chance 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.439 against anybody. But no, definitely, you know, Boston's the cream 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.560 of the crop and Denver's the cream of the crop. 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:23.120 But still I feel like, hey, you know, there are 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:27.600 some teams that can challenge Denver out there. As bad 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.880 as you know, as bad as the Warriors and the 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.400 Lakers are, nobody wants to see them in the playoffs. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.040 Nobody wants to see them in the first round period 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.120 because they have experience on their side. So you know, 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.840 there's still teams out there that can make some you know, 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.840 some of these playoffs series interesting. But for sure Denver 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.360 and Boston, for sure. They don't get me. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.800 Wrong, there are threats. We can easily make a list 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:55.440 of threats. But I just think the difference is last 0:11:55.480 --> 0:12:01.880 season just it was harder to pinpoint clear cut favorites. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.920 And you know, Denver, we just look at them different 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.760 now because the Nuggets have gone all the way, because 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.640 they've done it. Yes, there are concerns about their bench, 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.360 they're not as deep as they were a year ago, 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.320 but just what we saw them just do against the Lakers, 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.840 and the reason these performances against the Lakers are so 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.400 significant and they've done it now on Opening Night, they 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.400 did it on Kobe Statue Knight, and now they just 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.680 have done it again on the night that Lebron James. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.360 It should have been his night cracking the forty thousand 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:40.280 point barrier. But it's always significant when the Nuggets do 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.960 this against the Lakers, because the Lakers have Anthony Davis, 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.840 and Anthony Davis is supposed to be one of those 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:52.600 big men who can keep up with Nikolay Jokic. And 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:58.320 you know, the Nuggets just looked it looked so clear 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:04.000 on set Saturday night. Their identity is very well established 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.400 at this point. And I remember the last time we 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.880 got together to do a pod, you had just seen 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:14.360 Denver and Jamal Murray tweaked his ankle late in the 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.679 Thursday night game that you did sideline on, and at 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.400 that point when we did the pod, it was still 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.600 kind of unclear how serious the Jamal Murray injury was. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.080 But I remember you saying the vibe you got from 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.720 being around the Nuggets was not a huge amount of concern. 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.160 And Jamal Murray has already shaken that off and is 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.880 already back and they're fine. And again they lost three 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.400 games right before the All Star break. They looked like 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.720 a team that was bored and that wanted to get 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:50.719 on vacation, and now they just look really dialed in 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.920 back from the break they are they are really dialed in. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.280 And that's probably why TNT has you go in there 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.920 twice in a week, because they're gonna be popping on 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.360 that national TV schedule more and more and more now 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:04.400 for the rest of the season. 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.160 Yeah, rightfully. So this this is a team that you know, 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.600 they they play the right way. They're the defending champs, 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.079 so definitely they should get the respect anyways, but you know, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.480 they're they're a good team, they're well balanced, and they're 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:21.000 you know, they're fun to watch. So again, you know, 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.640 I mean say this, I said I didn't like you know, 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.600 Denver is not one of my favorite stops, and it 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.680 is the city is not one of my favorite stops. 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:32.720 But they had some nice restaurants downtown that I that 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:37.040 I was pleasantly surprised to come across. You know. I 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.040 had a nice, big breakfast. And I'm sure your son's 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:41.840 tying because he follows me on ig you know, I 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.440 post my meals. Pretty sure he can vouch for the bomb. 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.640 He did not mention it. But now I am going 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.360 to follow up with it. I mean, I'm actually gonna 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.280 tell him to start paying closer attention because I mean, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.840 please don't take offense this. It's my technical adaptitude. I 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.360 cannot keep up with Instagram. So you could. You could 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.400 post a screed on Instagram about how much you hate 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.840 your podcast partner, and I'm sure that will someone will 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.720 tell me, but I will not see it on my 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.160 own like I will. I will, like I am, I 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.440 am lost on trying to keep up with Instagram. 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.200 So sty So when you know it was the initial 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.960 stages of when we first started our podcast. You know, 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.600 I will post our pod or new episodes on you know, 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:29.040 on Instagram or Instagram story, and I would tag you. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.520 I will consistently tag you. And then I realized, I'll 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.600 go to your activity. You haven't done anything since you 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.080 opened up an ig account, and I'm like, man, I'm 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.040 tagging this guy for no reason at all. He's not 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.880 even seeing it. So I don't even tagg you. I 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:46.000 just post the pod. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:50.960 I'm useless on Instagram and I'm trying. Like the problem 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.320 is my son is so busy because what you know, 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.359 even he was like, hey dad, when you do rankings, 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.280 like you need to post your top five on Instagram 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.080 and in bio, and I'm just like, I don't know 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.200 how to make so he two ranking I only do 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.520 rankings monthly on my sub stack, but he two rankings ago. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.360 He did a beautiful top five graphic for me, and 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.800 he was happy because I used it on ig But 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.080 then the next time I did it on a Thursday, 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.360 and he's in school. He's too busy and like the 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.640 moment was gone, and I'm like, I told him, I said, listen, 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.280 I would love to just pull you out of school 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.000 so you could run my socials. But I don't think 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.520 mom's gonna make I don't think Mom's gonna let that happen. 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.720 Yeah, well, you got to get somebody to you know, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:39.000 there's always people reaching out about doing graphics, you know, 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.720 for some of your stories or even you know, your 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.760 list like that. You know, so you can always find 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.160 people that's willing to do that. So that's that's on you. 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.360 Stein But you're definitely when it comes to getting your 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.160 content out, you're definitely leaving a lot of meat on 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:56.200 the bones done. You are not utilizing social media. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.480 I look at Twitter so much. I can't imagine having 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:04.320 another social so do you look at Instagram as much 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:05.200 as you look at Twitter. 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.119 I've over the last two years, I've started looking at 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:15.280 Instagram more than Twitter. Twitter is can I say. 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.720 Say whatever you want to be whatever you want there? 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.919 No, let me say it. It's not a it's not 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.800 a story, but it's kind of is is a story. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:32.679 This is my thing about social media style people, Ryan, producer, Ryan, 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:34.960 you weigh in as well, how old are you? Producer? Ryan? 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.760 I am thirty one, thirty one. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:41.359 You're thirty one. Okay, so for the for the most part, 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.240 Ry may ask you. No, let me ask you Ryan, 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.560 for the most part, like, do you feel your upbringing? 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:51.240 Do you feel most of your upbringing involve social media? 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.959 Uh? Yeah, definitely. I mean it like, ok first started 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.040 to become a thing like kind of in high school, 0:17:56.480 --> 0:18:00.280 but all throughout college. Definitely, social media was very much 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:00.840 a part of it. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.359 Okay, then let's use Ryan as a barometer. Ryan is 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.159 thirty one. So for people thirty one years of age 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:12.879 and younger, they grew up in the social media right Okay, Okay, 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:17.159 so people above that, I'm forty, so people above that, no, stin. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.159 This is this is the way I came up and 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.320 This is the way I interacted as a boy, and 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.879 I still interacted like this as a man. Say you 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.640 went to school, you know there were certain dudes you 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.560 just didn't mess with. You didn't mess with, and if 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.240 you chose to say something foul, if you chose to 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:41.400 behave in contact, that could be detrimental to you. If 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:45.040 you chose to do that, there were consequences, and usually 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.760 those consequences meant this dude's gonna whoop your ass and 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.480 or or you you have to be prepared to fight. Right. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.639 So that was the way we always live life, you 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.359 know what I mean? Well that was it. If you 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.560 were about it, you didn't care, and you were just 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:04.040 a person that always got into something. But whatever. So 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.720 that's the way you live life. And so social media 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:11.400 comes around and you have the Ryan's age group, who 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.040 they constantly I'm not gonna say all of them, I'm 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.480 not doing that. My stereotyping. It stereotyping, y'all. What I'm 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.600 saying is you have a lot of them who you know, 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.480 say some foul stuff, say say whatever to you on 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.600 social media with no consequences. They're not going to see you, 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:31.280 and I give them a pass. I don't condone it. 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.359 Stein or Ryan. I don't condone those actions because I 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:38.240 think you're punk, but I understand it because y'all came 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.360 up in that era. Y'all came up in the era 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.320 where there was no accountability, where you could say type, 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:47.000 tweet or whatever, and you know there was no repercussions. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.679 The problem I have, Stein is with the people in 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:55.119 our age or older, because y'all know better. Y'all know better. 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:59.120 Y'all grew up in the area where y'all mouth y'all 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:03.600 kept y'all mouths shut. Y'all didn't say shit because you 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:08.600 knew you get your head knocked off. I have a 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:13.119 problem with y'all thirty five and up who are on 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:20.080 social media. I don't know. Listen. I don't condone I 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.040 don't condone Ryan them Aaron. I don't condone the behavior, 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:26.879 but I understand it because they came up in it. 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.159 The problem I have with the people who knew they 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:33.200 couldn't do this. They didn't conduct themselves like that. And 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.119 the thing is I would never start, if you know, 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.960 whether I was considered somebody or not, I would just 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:43.480 never get on Twitter and no celebrity or anything. Just 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:47.000 talk shit. I would never degrade, insult, disrespect. I wouldn't 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.440 do that because as a man, I don't carry myself 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.400 like that, because I was taught as a young at 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:56.440 a young age, you treat everybody with respect. Don't say 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:59.680 anything to anybody, don't tweet anything, don't email anybody, don't 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:01.920 write a to anybody that you wouldn't say to their face. 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:04.560 So that's the problem I have with social media. So 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:06.480 over the last couple of years that I say that 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:10.280 to say, I've been off Twitter for the most part, 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:12.880 Like I don't really look at my mentions like that anymore. 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.160 I go to you know, ig is probably where I've 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:18.240 been at, you know, the last two years. And it's 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.480 because of that, because when I see a person in 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:26.400 my age talking shit, because again, stein these people them 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:31.280 sit they've seen me out in public. I've never had 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:35.720 anybody come to me and say anything disrespectful because I'm 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:38.119 not that dude, Like, don't get it twisted. I'm not 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:41.120 that guy. I'm from the West side of Fresno. I'm 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:44.439 not that guy. And so that shows me that people 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.000 behave a certain way on social media that they wouldn't 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:50.760 behave in person. So long story short, That's why I 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:53.639 don't be on social on Twitter, and it's just gotten 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.480 worse now that it's X It's just way crazy since 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:57.440 Elon has gotten me. 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:02.840 I'm not trying to suggest that I enjoy Twitter, Believe me, 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:08.240 I do not. But in the NBA, it is still 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:10.280 the but it's gotten worse. 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:11.480 But did it get worse? 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:20.280 It is still the place where things are reported and 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:24.840 circulated first. So my all I'm saying is I just 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:32.400 can't imagine finding the time to look at another social 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:37.240 media feed that is active because the NBA on Twitter 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:40.080 is an I mean, NBA Twitter is a twenty four 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:45.520 to seven, three hundred and sixty five world that never stops. 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:47.840 So I'm just saying I never had time to figure 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:51.159 out how you look at both. I just, you know, 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:54.760 it's I'm too old. I guess I'm too old. I can't. 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:57.960 I don't, I don't look. I don't look on Twitter 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:01.399 like that anymore. I just don't, you know, I have notifications, 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:05.800 that's it. But I'm not like my My Twitter usage 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:09.879 just being dramatically reduced over the last couple of years. 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:15.800 It's because of that, because of the Keyboard Warriors generation. Man, 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:18.040 you want to call it. Yeah, I guess it is 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:20.800 that that keyboard Warrior, like I just don't I don't 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:23.040 approve of it. And I get it like you know 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:25.320 you y'all like to I'm not gonna say y'all. See 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:27.879 there I go, there I go. I'm not saying y'all. 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:30.760 But the keyboard Warriors, they like they want to get 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:33.320 her in a reaction. Cause first, I'm gonna tell you this, 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:38.520 they would say something to me right, or they would 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:41.400 tweet something to me like some disrespectful shit or something right, 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:45.359 and I'll DM them. I remember, early early in the phase, 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:47.760 I'll send them a DM. I'm like, what's up, bro? 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:51.320 What you say? Oh I can't believe you? Responded, Oh, 0:23:51.359 --> 0:23:53.439 I can't believe you. And so that let me know, 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:57.160 oh this is a game because I'm getting worked up. 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:00.399 But but that's when I noticed start like it's a 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:03.080