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Speaker 1: Welcome to this week uncut in the world of twenty

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Speaker 1: four NBA news, This new Chris Hanes works time, It's time,

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Speaker 1: this link uncut is underway in the fire. It should

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Speaker 1: be a good one. Sunday night, Stein Haynes together again,

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Speaker 1: back with you on this League Uncut, and I actually

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Speaker 1: do know the right day this time. Yes, one of

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Speaker 1: our loyal listeners did note that in the intro to

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Speaker 1: the last episode, I'm like, hey, we record, we're here,

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Speaker 1: We're here knocking this out on a Wednesday night to

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Speaker 1: post Thursday morning. Note it was already Thursday night when

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Speaker 1: when when we recorded? And it dropped Friday morning. So

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Speaker 1: yet another glimpse into my old age, Chris Haynes that

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Speaker 1: I can't even keep the days straight. But that's where

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Speaker 1: we are in the season. Basically two weeks of the

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Speaker 1: regular season to go. Another very busy weekend in the Association.

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Speaker 1: Some marquee returned to the court. Lebron James surprised us

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Speaker 1: came back earlier the week than we expected. Anthony and

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Speaker 1: Edwards also made his return Sunday night, as a certain

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Speaker 1: Chrispy Haines on Twitter told us was in the works Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I think you tweeted it, and it happened Sunday with

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Speaker 1: the Wolves at Golden State, which is just that game

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Speaker 1: is just now winding down. We'll save that for the

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Speaker 1: end of our recording here so we can actually discuss

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Speaker 1: the final score and put that one in some context.

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Speaker 1: But look, I think the really the biggest story in

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Speaker 1: the league right now is happening in the city where

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Speaker 1: I live, the Dallas Mavericks. There in this mix of

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Speaker 1: teams desperate for wins, you know, from basically four down

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Speaker 1: to still twelve, I'm going to rule. Don't tell Dame

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Speaker 1: I said this, but I'm going to rule the Damian

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Speaker 1: mix so that they are done. I think, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think even he think even he would, I think even

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Speaker 1: basically fourth through eleven, you know, still all these teams

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Speaker 1: clumped together. Dallas Friday Night Charlotte at home Sunday in Charlotte,

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Speaker 1: two of the most appetizing games left on their schedule,

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Speaker 1: two must win games, and Dallas loses both gets off

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Speaker 1: to a terrible start. I mean, Friday Night Charlotte is

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Speaker 1: in here shorthanded you know they're missing you know, no

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Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball, no Terry Rosier. I mean, they've got injuries galore.

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Speaker 1: They're depleted. There on the second night of a back

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Speaker 1: to back, the MAVs have the rest advantage. They've got

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Speaker 1: both Luca don chich and Kyrie Irving. MAVs lose it

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Speaker 1: home to Charlotte, and then today, with an immediate chance

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Speaker 1: lose again in Charlotte. I'm gonna say it. I'm this

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Speaker 1: is typically not me. I'm usually a you know, let's

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Speaker 1: make sure we use all the runway and let's see

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Speaker 1: this thing through to the end. No two weeks left

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Speaker 1: to go. If the Dallas Mavericks, entering the final eight

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Speaker 1: games of their season, lose two of the three gimmes,

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Speaker 1: there's also a San Antonio game there at the end.

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Speaker 1: But if you lose two of the three most appetizing

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Speaker 1: games on the schedule, the Mavericks are eleventh. They're only

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Speaker 1: a game behind number ten. Okay, see, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say it. Two weeks left to go in the season.

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Speaker 1: We know our ten teams now, we know we obviously

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Speaker 1: don't know a final order but eleven, number eleven, Dallas

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Speaker 1: number twelve, Utah, number thirteen, Portland. I don't think any

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Speaker 1: So basically, the teams that wake up on Monday morning

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Speaker 1: place for that final play in slot, and you have

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Speaker 1: him ruled out already, How hold on before before you

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Speaker 1: add more, how many games left Dallas has? They have?

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Speaker 1: Dallas has seven? Seven, okay, Lakers have seven. Luca, as

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Speaker 1: he received what his sixteenth technical, right, So Lua, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was what made I mean Friday night was the

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Speaker 1: costliest loss of Dallas' season, losing at home to depleted

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Speaker 1: Charlotte with the rest advantage. But then that was quickly

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Speaker 1: replaced by an even costlier loss in Charlotte Saturday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: of the season. It's not going to be rescinded on Monday.

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Speaker 1: I think deep down the MAVs know that, and unless

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Speaker 1: on paper. And then Luca had some very interesting remarks

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Speaker 1: And I see people cracking cracking jokes at Kyrie's expit.

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Speaker 1: that can't be if you're Maverick Mavericks. Yeah, the Mavericks

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Speaker 1: fans have have really been They've really had a tough weekend.

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Speaker 1: I gotta feel for how tough the Mavericks have been

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm still mad that you can just you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean it, Kyrie Irving is not the source of

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Speaker 1: in two interviews lavish praise on Kyrie Irving that we

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Speaker 1: I mean, injuries have certainly been a factor as well.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think Luca was in any way, shape

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Speaker 1: not think the Mavericks should do this trade. You're you know,

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Speaker 1: they're giving up the Mavericks in this deal. They're giving

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Speaker 1: up Dorian Phinney Smith, who, next to Moxi Kleiba, is

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Speaker 1: surrendering Dorian Phinney Smith with Spencer Ginwittie and a future

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Speaker 1: unprotected first to twenty twenty nine for Kyrie going into

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Speaker 1: when you I mean you've interviewed Luca to I just

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Speaker 1: I mean, what did you think when you saw that

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Speaker 1: a chance to play for Tom Thibodeaux, who he's known

423
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Speaker 1: since he was a kid, and basically get to be

424
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: with his dad every single day. Maybe even an extra

425
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 1: twenty five mill or more doesn't sway him at that point.

426
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: But no, that's a what if that I would still

427
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: kind of throw out there. How do we not know

428
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: sty that they didn't get a chance to make that offer?

429
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: And look, you're to my knowledge, it didn't happen. You're right,

430
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 1: maybe you know, is it possible that it did? And

431
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: it was never reported and and we never heard about it.

432
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,120
Speaker 1: You know, to my knowledge, I don't believe that happened.

433
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: But you know, maybe I need to take another run

434
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 1: at it and see if it did. But um, the

435
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 1: way it sounds like, you know, we're telling all these

436
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 1: stories from from different sizes and different points of view.

437
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 1: The way it sounds is that Jalen might have been

438
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: a little you know, frustrated the way things handled that

439
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 1: the way things were handled that he was going to

440
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: leave regardless, right, yeah, and so and look and that

441
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:51,680
Speaker 1: and and that's and that's very possible too, that the

442
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: trade deadline comes and goes. He's still a maverick, and

443
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: he might have just said at that point, I'm playing

444
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 1: this out and I'm you know, I know that, Nick.

445
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,640
Speaker 1: I mean he knew, you know, Leon Rose is essentially

446
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: family for Jaylen Brunson, So I mean he knew the

447
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: Knicks we're going to be there waiting with a significant offer.

448
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 1: And look, you have to say the move to New

449
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: York has has been fantastic for him. You know, I

450
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 1: did wonder what was it going to be like for

451
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: Jaylen Brunson as as as relentlessly solid and efficient and

452
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,120
Speaker 1: productive as he was in Dallas. There is a difference

453
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: being the second best player on a team with Luca

454
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: don Chich and going to New York and being the

455
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 1: guy they talk about as the first point guard of

456
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: repute that they've had in the twenty first century to

457
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: now be the face of that team and you're the

458
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 1: guy that people are going to point to if things

459
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 1: don't go well. And Jalen Brunson has faced that absolutely

460
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: beautifully and has been, you know, again, better than ever.

461
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: He's had the best ear of his career, had a

462
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: very good All Star case, has an All NBA case,

463
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: and has just been you know the guy again. He

464
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: gets better every single year. So you know, I don't

465
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: know if we'll ever get all the answers, but the

466
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 1: answer that we have is Dallas misses him. That's what

467
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,479
Speaker 1: I saw some That's what I saw. I was. I

468
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,199
Speaker 1: was awakened to that on Friday. That's I didn't know.

469
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: It was that deep. I did not know Mark was

470
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 1: chrisy was catching strays. I saw Mark qub he was

471
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: catching he was catching straights. Off of that story right there. Sorry,

472
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: are going through it, Sorry, mals season as a raveling,

473
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: and here comes over comes Chris Hayes from the Bay

474
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: Area with a one on one with Jalen Brunson. Mark.

475
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I had no clues. My bad. I

476
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: know now I know now, all right, Well, a little

477
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: closer to home for you, man. I believe Minnesota ended

478
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,719
Speaker 1: up winning that game with the Warriors. I haven't been

479
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: able to pay, but in Anthony Davis's return, Golden State

480
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: takes a home l This West is still crazy, absolutely crazy.

481
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: So Minnesota surging to thirty eight and thirty seven there

482
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: within a half game of Golden State Golden State, clinging

483
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: to a top six spot. New Orleans after a four

484
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: game winning streak from nowhere. With no Zion, the Pelicans

485
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: are back to five hundred and their eighth the Lakers. Now,

486
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: let's talk about the Lakers Lebron James. Earlier this week,

487
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: you and other high profile reporters all reported that Lebron

488
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: James was hopeful to come back in the last three

489
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: to four games of this season. Lebron uncorked a tweet

490
00:29:55,600 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: saying y'all sources basically saying no timetable has been disclosed.

491
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden this morning and again

492
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: we're recording this on Sunday night, and all of a

493
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: sudden this morning, the Lakers upgrade Lebron to questionable. And

494
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: then he has a great pregame workout, throws down a

495
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: massive dunk. Activated for the game, and Lebron James comes

496
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: back with eight games to go. The Lakers have to

497
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: be giddy at this prospect that Lebron is suddenly back

498
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: earlier than they hoped. And then they lose it home

499
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: to Chicago to Pat Pat beab You see Pat BEV

500
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: putting his hands on his nose, saying the Lakers stink.

501
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: How could I not say it's path? Man? Do you

502
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,239
Speaker 1: knew Pat Bear was gonna act up? Did he he

503
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: had the little floater over Lebron. Did he made the

504
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: made the too small signal with his hand? You knew

505
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: Pat Bell? I mean before before the game, Pat beb

506
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: had the tweet Oh with him with some scharmon with

507
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: some scharmon tissue in the car. So is he so?

508
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: So he's saying the Lakers are saw I think that's

509
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: I think that's what I think that's what he was

510
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: getting at. I really do, man, I think that's where

511
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: he was getting at. Yeah, Laker obviously Lakers don't. They

512
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: aren't in the same type of trouble as Dallas. But

513
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,479
Speaker 1: they're they're right there. They're right there. No, And that's

514
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: the thing I think. I'm you know again, I'm you know,

515
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: this might get me tweeted at, so maybe I shouldn't

516
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: do this. But my presumption was that Lebron James is

517
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:42,719
Speaker 1: sitting there looking at this and saying this West is

518
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: even more wide open than I thought it was. I

519
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: remember when Lebron turned thirty seven last season, I wrote

520
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: a column this was last season that Lebron i can't

521
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: believe I'm saying this, but the best birthday present that

522
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: any of us could give you is the fact that

523
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: the West is more mid than it's ever been. That

524
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: was last season, and then this season it's even more

525
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: wide open, more team you know again, from Phoenix at

526
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: number four, all the way down to number twelve Utah,

527
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: just this clump of teams that are four games over

528
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: five hundred to four games under five hundred. So there's

529
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: the Lakers are right in the heart of this thing.

530
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm My presumption is that Lebron is sitting

531
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: there saying, if I come back, now play these last

532
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: seven eight games, we can actually move up. I mean,

533
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: the Lakers are only even with this loss, two and

534
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: a half games out of the fourth seed. Now Phoenix

535
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: is supposed to get Kevin Durant back this week. But

536
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's my presumption of what Lebron is saying,

537
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: that this West is there for the taking. So in year,

538
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: you know, he had his thirty eighth birthday in January. This,

539
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,959
Speaker 1: you know, the same column still applies. The best birthday

540
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: present we can give him is the fact that the

541
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: West is there. But you know, I didn't you know

542
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: they they're playing Chicago twice in a row. I didn't,

543
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't see today coming. I thought with

544
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: Lebron coming back, even off the bench, they're beating the

545
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: Bulls this afternoon. Shows you what I for sure at

546
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: home too, like I don't. I don't think many foresaw

547
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: that happening, and they gotta get together. I still like

548
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: their team that they're They're definitely a better team as

549
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: constructed now. Lebron James will be returned to being a

550
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: starter for the next game, so they have some work

551
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: a D. I didn't I didn't expect Anthony Davis to

552
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: have that type of performance. He wasn't aggressive at all

553
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: during this game, so they're going to need him to

554
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: be that a D that he was in the first

555
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: half of the season to try to gain some ground.

556
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: But it's going. It's going all the way to the end.

557
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: That's what makes this exciting. It's going all the way

558
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: to the end. We don't know how this is going

559
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: to play out against Stein. I'm still mass fans. I'm

560
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: with you, mass fans. I'm I'm I'm going to say

561
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: Dallas is not out of it. Stein is already put

562
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: an obituary associated with you guys. He's already done it.

563
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: He's already wrote the ABITCHU where it has it right,

564
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: It's already on his substack already. He's just waiting to

565
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 1: publish it. So I still think they have a shot

566
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: because it's too unpredictable right now. And I guess that's

567
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: what makes everything exciting, man, Pat Bev. I mean, I

568
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: can't you know, Yeah, I didn't see the whole Sharman

569
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: thing till till well after the game, because you know,

570
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: I'm not as you know, I'm not. I'm not as

571
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: good with the social media as I need. I missed

572
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: that until I missed that until after. I ain't got

573
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: nothing but love for Pat Bev. I told, I told

574
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: you the story of me and Pat Bev. Huh interaction

575
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: we had beginning to tell it again? Or do you

576
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: want to not? You don't have to. You brought it up,

577
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: not me. I want the record to show I did not.

578
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: I did not bait you, and you know what, you

579
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: know what I tried to bate you last episode and

580
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: you didn't fall for it. I'm not falling for the

581
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: old man and saw it from a mile away. What

582
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: didn't you like about ESPN. I'll follow that's gonna be

583
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: a whole step. But again you brought it up up.

584
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 1: But look, I mean like Pat Bev is, he's going right.

585
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 1: He's going right at the Lakers and going right at Lebron.

586
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I did not like that acquisition

587
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: for them. I didn't think it was gonna go well,

588
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: and it did not go well. I just I from

589
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: minute one, I just thought Pat has two big and

590
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: loud a personality to go in that locker room. I

591
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: just I don't think I never thought that that Lebron

592
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 1: and Ad wanted to hear all that. But you cannot

593
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: deny the edge that Pat Bev gave Minnesota last season,

594
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 1: and he's doing it again with a Bulls team that

595
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: that you know, has been one of this season's more

596
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: prominent disappointments. And you know he's that was the reason

597
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: they wanted him. When he, you know, Pat Bev gets

598
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: traded on deadline day, gets a buyout, I think Minnesota

599
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: fans really wanted the Wolves to bring him in. And

600
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: I remember reporting that, no, the Wolves have no plans

601
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: to sign Pat Bev, and I think I think a

602
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: lot of Wolves fans are pretty disappointment because he was

603
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 1: hugely popular with everything he gave Minnesota attitude wise last season,

604
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: and he's got to give him credit. He's doing it

605
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: again with Chicago because he's that was a that was

606
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: a very flat team. And maybe producer Ryan can confirm

607
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: this while we're scuffling here. I mean, what are they

608
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 1: nine and four with Pat Bev or you know the record,

609
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: the record since they acquired Pat Bev is pretty good. Yeah,

610
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: they're doing I mean Pat, Pat's that guy, man, He's

611
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: that guy that you if you're a player, you love

612
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,760
Speaker 1: to play with him and you hate to play against

613
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: him because he's going to get under your skin. Uh.

614
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: He may, he may, he may cause some type of

615
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: altercation physical verbal, but you know he's going to have

616
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: his teammates back in you know, I respect Patty man,

617
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: I respect man. You know, I go talk about Pat

618
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 1: Pat Patton's dress. He talked a little bit about our

619
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: little interaction we had at the beginning of the season.

620
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: He talked about on his pot they can find it there. Uh,

621
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: but I ain't got number love for him, man. There

622
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: was a few things that were left out, but it's

623
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: all good. It's all good. I ain't got number love.

624
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: Producer Ryan has looked it up and says the Bulls

625
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: are now ten and five since signing Pat Batman, so

626
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: it is definitely working for them. And producer Ryan has

627
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: on it. Man, He's on it. He's gotta he's he

628
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 1: didn't know what he signed up for when he got

629
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: stuck with No. He didn't, No, he did. He thought

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00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: he thought was gonna he thought he's gonna have a

631
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: set schedule dealing with us. That was a good stat

632
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: But we're gonna sign off with a couple crazier stuff.

633
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this today. I tweeted

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Speaker 1: these things earlier. But do you realize that if the

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Speaker 1: MAVs cannot arrest this slide that they're on, and if

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Speaker 1: the MAVs can't make it back to the playoffs through

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Speaker 1: the playing rounde and remember the way the NBA does

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Speaker 1: its bookkeeping, play in does not mean playoffs. To be

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Speaker 1: considered a playoff team, you have to advance in the

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Speaker 1: playing round to get either the seventh or the A seed.

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Speaker 1: If you're ninth or tenth, you are not a playoff team.

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Speaker 1: Let's make that clear. If the Mavericks cannot arrest this slide,

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Speaker 1: this will be the first time in league history that Texas,

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Speaker 1: the lone star state with three NBA franchises, does not

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Speaker 1: send at least one to the postseason. The MAVs first

646
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: season was nineteen eighty eighty one, so the end, there

647
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: have been three Texas teams since eighty eighty one, so

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Speaker 1: we're talking more than forty years. In all that time,

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Speaker 1: at one of at least one of Dallas, Houston and

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Speaker 1: San Antonio has reached the playoffs. The Rockets and the

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Speaker 1: Spurs are already obviously out. Can Dallas force their way

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Speaker 1: back in and make me eat my words and make

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Speaker 1: make Chris Haynes their new number one fan look good?

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Speaker 1: The other the other amazing stat related to that is

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Speaker 1: Sacramento is on the doorstep of the playoffs. There, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think their magic number is one, so I mean

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00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: they will clinch. They will officially clinch their first playoff

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Speaker 1: spot in seventeen seasons this week if the Clippers and

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Speaker 1: the Lakers and the Warriors can can all join them.

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Speaker 1: And as of right now, entering Monday's play the Clippers

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Speaker 1: are in the five seed, the Warriors in the sixth seed,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers are in the ninth seed and would have

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Speaker 1: to do it via the playing route. But assuming that

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Speaker 1: the Clippers and the Warriors and the la Akers can

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Speaker 1: all join Sacramento, that would be the first time in

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Speaker 1: NBA history that California sends four teams to the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: And we've had four teams, four franchises in California since

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five eighty six, when the Kings, of course

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Speaker 1: moved from Kansas City to Sacramento. So those are those

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Speaker 1: are my signoff stats today. On a miniature scale, it

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Speaker 1: would be the first time the Kings and Wards have

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Speaker 1: made the playoffs in the same year. If if the

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Speaker 1: Warriors are to get in, those two teams have ever

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Speaker 1: made it at the same Well, that's why I guess,

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Speaker 1: that's why the stats. That's why that statics. I thought

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Speaker 1: you were gonna bring up best that I didn't know about.

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Speaker 1: The all four Yeah, I mean all four because it's uh,

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Speaker 1: that's good for your travel. You got four of the

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Speaker 1: eight playoff teams in the West are in California. That

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Speaker 1: is good for Chris. It is good for Chris says

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Speaker 1: if I'm assigned to the Western Conference. But I don't

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Speaker 1: get the picky you'll be I don't get the pick,

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Speaker 1: and I guess jinks do you will be at Philly

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Speaker 1: Miami and round one. Yeah, so I will say this

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Speaker 1: about my playoff schedule. I think I'm okay to say this.

686
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: So usually years passed, you're assigned to a playoff, you're

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Speaker 1: you're assigned to a series, stick with that series all

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Speaker 1: the way throughout. This year is gonna be a little different.

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Speaker 1: I'll be hopping from game to game so I can

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Speaker 1: be I can be dim can't wait to see the fits,

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00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: can't wait to see the kills. You know, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be hyper critical. I'm gonna be looking at everything. Couples

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Speaker 1: still listen to start? Do you consider? Well, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: got some stylefs, I'll give you that. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: go there. I was gonna get a little bit critical

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Speaker 1: of you. And you're a time No, no, you you're fine.

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Speaker 1: No you you you dressed in the Italian suit. The custom,

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Speaker 1: the custom fits like you. You're ahead of your time

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Speaker 1: at start. Hold on, I forgot everybody. Please, Oh, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to give too much. So if I say

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00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: too much, we'll cancel it and Ryan can just delete it.

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00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 1: But you know, Stein is so European very so European

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Speaker 1: from his style to where do you go every summer?

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Speaker 1: Sty you have to go there every summer. Where do

705
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: you end up going? Well, I go I definitely go

706
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: to England at least once a year to watch soccer.

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Speaker 1: That's that's a given. So I say all this to

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Speaker 1: say he is very European. Attire, everything, culture, everything. So

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Speaker 1: I'm in Dallas and I believe I was working the

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00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: game for TNT, and I asked Stein for a ride home.

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00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: As stars like sure start start, It's like, sure, okay,

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00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: he said, I don't know how much room I got

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Speaker 1: in the car for you, And I'm like, well, who

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Speaker 1: else is in the carpentrre? He said no, it'll just

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Speaker 1: be us two. So in my mind, I'm thinking that's

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Speaker 1: not gonna be a problem. Like I'm like, maybe he

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00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,439
Speaker 1: just has a messy car. Maybe he's got a whole

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00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: bunch of jump in this car that he has to

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00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: move around to make a room for me. That's what

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Speaker 1: I thought he was talking about. Star. So I get

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Speaker 1: to the we I'm walking with Stein and he shows

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Speaker 1: me his ride and this thing is probably the smallest

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00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: vehicle I've ever seen in my life. Star, what type

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00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: of car. Is this again? It is a Fiat one

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Speaker 1: twenty four spiders Wow, Because you are correct. I am

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Speaker 1: a want to be European and I have to have

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Speaker 1: my little Italian knowe not made for the former Friendsno

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Speaker 1: Pacific shooting guard, not at all, not even by not

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Speaker 1: even by scooting my seat all the way back. I

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00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,720
Speaker 1: was crammed up in there. I felt I was claustrophobic.

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Speaker 1: It was. It was an experience that I didn't anticipate.

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00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: And so no, he had a clean car, very clean car.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't a concern. That's why. That's why he didn't

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Speaker 1: ask me, question me about if it was enough room

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00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: in the car because of junk. It was because the

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Speaker 1: size of the vehicle. I asked my first time, I

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00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: wrote in the vehicle like that, and it will be

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Speaker 1: the last time. It looks nice from the outside, looks

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00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: nice on the outside. But a brother was cost to

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00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: phobic on that whole. I could wait from her. You

741
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: know what, So you know what, since you are guaranteeing

742
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: that the MAVs are going to roll back and get

743
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,240
Speaker 1: a playoff spot, and since I have so coldly written

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00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: them off, if you are proven correct and the MAVs

745
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,240
Speaker 1: somehow fine thewhere in the playoffs, and if TNT decides

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00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 1: that Chris Haynes need needs to cover a MAVs playoff

747
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Speaker 1: game in Dallas, I will. I will somehow arrange to

748
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Speaker 1: have a bigger car so if I have to take

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Speaker 1: you anywhere in town that you'll becoming I appreciate this time,

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00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 1: but I get what you were going at I get

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00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: what you were doing. You got the s It's a

752
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: European car. Yes it looks nice, Yes it fits your style.

753
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: But you got that car so nobody would ask you

754
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: for a ride home. That's what you That's why you

755
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 1: got the car. That is the perfect car to be like.

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00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: You're not being rude, but like Tim mc man, there

757
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:13,919
Speaker 1: is no way, Tim man, it's like two inches tall

758
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: to me. He's sixty four. I'm six two. I'm not

759
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: giving Tim. I'm not giving Tim McMahon a ride I gave.

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00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 1: I gave Ray Ridder stretched out is five foot five

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00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,240
Speaker 1: feet on a great day, so he had no problems

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00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: in that vehicle. That vehicle, right, boy, it took some

763
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: work getting in and getting out. So I had to

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00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: expose you a little bit. What's truly scary is I

765
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: don't even remember this. You don't remember this, which again

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00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,720
Speaker 1: just how we started this pod mean lamenting my old age.

767
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 1: I can't even remember that that that it got so

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00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 1: far that you actually squeezed into the little and I

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00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 1: took you. I took you to your Posh Turner hotel. Yes,

770
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: you did, I believe that were you? Were you part?

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00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: You were like three floors high, and none of the

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00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: stairs work, the escalatre, none the Escalaire stairs work, so

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00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: we had to walk up physically up these stairs to

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00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: get to your ride. And you parked way over there

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00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: in the corner. I don't know if that's all right.

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00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: I can't I can't be having anybody danger. Okay, I see,

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00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: I see. I don't know if that was your goal

778
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,439
Speaker 1: to spot you parked way over there in the corner. Yeah.

779
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: I park in one of like three spots, and that

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00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: girl like the same three. Even my kid knows, my

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00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: my sixteen year old who's sometimes who sometimes works as

782
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: my photographer at selected MAVs games when I can make

783
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 1: the schedule work. He even he knows that I'm so

784
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: crazy that I'm going to park in the same two

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00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 1: or three spots, whichever one I can find. So I'm

786
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 1: not again, I'm not knowing that was your car. So

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00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:46,840
Speaker 1: all I know is that as we get up to

788
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: that third floor, we're walking in that area and that

789
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: car is the only car over there, and I'm just praying, no, no,

790
00:46:55,920 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: I'm hoping, no, please help me. This is I was thinking.

791
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 1: I was thinking, it looks nice. I just can't it

792
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: looks nice. See, here's the thing. I fell in love.

793
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: I fell in love with those little Fiat Roadsters when

794
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:14,479
Speaker 1: I was a kid, and then Fiat amazingly came back

795
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: and made them for a very short time between twenty

796
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: seventeen and twenty twenty, so they haven't even made the

797
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: car for three years. But you know, I love how

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00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: unique it is. You don't. You don't see very many

799
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: and you don't you definitely don't see very many like mine,

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00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: So don't get it, don't get it. Twist the start

801
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: is a lovely car, very lovely car. It's it's it's

802
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: a cool. Hey. When we signed up to do this podcast,

803
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 1: I never promised you a normal podcast sidekick, So you

804
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,240
Speaker 1: you have signed up for all my weirdness and quirks,

805
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: and that's just the way it is. It's too late now,

806
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: I knew what I was getting myself into. All right, everyone,

807
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 1: on a far too revealing edition of This League Uncut,

808
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: where we've talked about way more than we should have.

809
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: There you go. This is what Chris Haynes tries to

810
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: do every episode. It's not an accident. Last time you

811
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: know who who Who? Don't you like it? ESPN? You

812
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: know he tries to sneak in these jags. We're gonna

813
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: go there, We're going to go there one day. I'm

814
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: going to get you and now and now he just

815
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,399
Speaker 1: made us talk for fifteen minutes about my car. So

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Speaker 1: there you go. Everybody, Please please please continue to listen,

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00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: Please continue to rate, review, subscribe. Chris and I will

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00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: be back in a few days with another episode of

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Speaker 1: This League Uncut, amazingly two weeks until the playoffs. Everybody,

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