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Speaker 1: Nodunk's podcast on the Athletic Network.

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Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, November twenty ninth, twenty twenty three. I'm Jayskeith

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Speaker 2: here in the Classic Factory and alongside me as always.

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Speaker 3: Tasmelis November Basketball lovers.

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Speaker 2: On today's show, we're going to discuss Mark Cuban selling

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Speaker 2: a majority steak in the Dallas Mavericks. What's up with that?

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Speaker 2: What's going on in Dallas?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 2: You got the nuts? I got the chocolate tasks?

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Speaker 3: Huh excuse me.

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Speaker 2: We'll hit the beach to read your questions, your emails

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Speaker 2: and your tweets. You've heard the new beach step in

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Speaker 2: theme song I have Yeah, Okay, good good, and we

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Speaker 2: find out something when it comes to tweet of the night.

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Speaker 2: But after a month's worth of group stage games, the

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Speaker 2: field for the knockout portion of the NBA's in season

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Speaker 2: tournament is set. That was pretty fun last night. Like

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Speaker 2: you said, late November, we were all pumped about this.

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Speaker 3: Basketball fans are into it. It is absolutely working. From

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Speaker 3: the first month that Mark Cuban got this thing rolling,

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Speaker 3: along with Adam Silver, along with every other eman did this.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, he's into gambling. That's what's happening in Dallas.

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Speaker 3: Everybody excited. Yeah, for the first month for people to

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Speaker 3: be into it, I think it's working.

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Speaker 2: People equally excited as maybe confused though when it came

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Speaker 2: to like who's gotta win and what needs to happen

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Speaker 2: and how many points does my team need to win by?

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Speaker 2: And what needs to happen in that other game. Like

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Speaker 2: there was a lot of texts going on last night

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Speaker 2: amongst my basketball friends like which which is great? I

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Speaker 2: think a good sign of people like what needs to

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Speaker 2: happen here? Does this matter? Does it not? But still

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Speaker 2: some confusion. I think that's just gonna That's always going

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Speaker 2: to be the case in these small groups. That point

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Speaker 3: The point differential, Yeah, that's the biggest question I think

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Speaker 3: for people. We have six divisions, three division winners get

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Speaker 3: you got two. Kind of have to have a point

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Speaker 3: great point differentially basic, That's what it comes down to.

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Speaker 3: I think Silver and some of these owners cuban who

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Speaker 3: still has a good stake. But everybody gets into a meeting,

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Speaker 3: into a room and discusses it in the offseason after

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Speaker 3: this first try and decides how do we get there?

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Speaker 3: Basically like maybe tinker you mean, yeah, I think that's

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Speaker 3: all they have to tinker. People wondering, oh, maybe winners

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Speaker 3: But people want to go to Vegas. That's what a

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Speaker 3: lot of players and people were talking about last night,

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Speaker 3: besides the point differential. So I think people are extremely excited.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, team's players were going for and that made again,

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Speaker 2: this is late November basketball much more exciting than it

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Speaker 2: usually is. So let's go through some of the key games,

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Speaker 3: Want, but Elite eight are they calling them?

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Speaker 2: the NCAA Western Conference. Let's start on that side, because

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Speaker 2: you know, the game of the night really the ending

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Speaker 2: Warriors are out. This game was This game was pretty

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Speaker 2: who's to say this victory is not a tiebreaker between

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Speaker 2: we're absolutely out of it. No, it's a win loss

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when it comes down to it, back to the

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Speaker 2: Yes, they are.

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Speaker 3: One of the eighty two games. There's only one game.

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Speaker 3: It's a tournament final. Not sure what we're calling it,

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Speaker 3: That game is the eighty third game for those two teams,

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Speaker 3: So it was a blast to see this. Yeah, the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great that we have a small market battle.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about that a little bit later. But this one,

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Speaker 3: even the MAVs, they desperately wanted to win this one.

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Speaker 3: They had Dirk Novitzky on the broadcast the entire game.

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Speaker 3: But a Cuban was sitting also courts. They were trying

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Speaker 3: to win this game. Dirk saw apperl big Alp they

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Speaker 3: That's Dirk's number that he wore. So kind of cool

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Speaker 3: Are you asking me?

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Speaker 3: the NBA. That's that's what it comes out to people

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Speaker 3: interested in November basketball games, which are regular season games,

431
00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,840
Speaker 3: and trying to figure out that number. But having your

432
00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,760
Speaker 3: players play entire quarter because you need a twenty two

433
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,960
Speaker 3: win is odd when you talk about it that those

434
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,720
Speaker 3: are the times they sit. But it was good to

435
00:20:58,720 --> 00:20:59,040
Speaker 3: see them.

436
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Speaker 2: Well yeah, and like they got into like the real

437
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 2: nitty gritty. It was like Billy Donnal's like, you are

438
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 2: you already were up enough? You already had it because

439
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,360
Speaker 2: they were like obviously went on to win by more

440
00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,400
Speaker 2: than that. Yeah, it was like this, So now we're

441
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 2: getting into the unwritten rules of the inn season tournament.

442
00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,160
Speaker 2: If your point differential is good enough, then you put

443
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,359
Speaker 2: your team to the beat. Well, what about if we

444
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 2: give it all back, you know, like there's this weird

445
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,280
Speaker 2: part of it. Who cares? I mean, the Bulls are

446
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:25,080
Speaker 2: a joke. I mean just they're miserable looking. They are

447
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 2: depressed team. A need a therapy session right now.

448
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 3: In the first half this game was oh.

449
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like it was really just how much

450
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,639
Speaker 2: is Boss gonna win by? So yeah, they go through

451
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,680
Speaker 2: because of the tiebreakers. So an unfortunate night for Orlando

452
00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,680
Speaker 2: who's just sitting there watching scores. And you know, Brooklyn

453
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,359
Speaker 2: Nets they took care of our raptors, but not by enough.

454
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 2: You know, they had to sort of get that victory

455
00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 2: by a lot more to then beat their tiebreaker. But

456
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,240
Speaker 2: in the end, the Celtics go through, and again I'm

457
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 2: sure the NBA is pretty happy about that, you know,

458
00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,919
Speaker 2: as a as a championship contending team. They move on.

459
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 2: So East Ist Quarterfinals Celtics at Pacers on Monday night,

460
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 2: and then we have the Knicks at Bucks on Tuesday.

461
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,359
Speaker 2: Your thoughts on these two matchups.

462
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Speaker 3: Yeah, good for Indiana that they get a home game,

463
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,120
Speaker 3: because Boston is the best team among all these eight

464
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,399
Speaker 3: teams that remain. They are the best team. They should

465
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Speaker 3: be the favorite. They have played the best throughout the

466
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Speaker 3: start of the season. That being said, Pacers do get

467
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,399
Speaker 3: a home game, but the Pacers hammered them in the

468
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 3: one game that they played earlier this season, hasn't It

469
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 3: was a monster. It was a one to fifty five

470
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Speaker 3: to one to oh four win. So I do think

471
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,920
Speaker 3: the Celtics win in Indiana. But the fact that Indiana

472
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Speaker 3: has a game at home to try and make it

473
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Speaker 3: to the semifinals, that's good for them. And then the

474
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Speaker 3: other one Knicks Bucks. They play three times now in December,

475
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,320
Speaker 3: the quarterfinal December twenty third, and then Christmas. So those

476
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 3: are that's a heavy schedule, but the Bucks having that

477
00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:01,640
Speaker 3: home game also favors. So I do expect the Bucks

478
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 3: and the Celtics to be in that semi final.

479
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, just double check that score you said there for

480
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 2: the Pacer Celtics earlier in the season, one fifty five

481
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,400
Speaker 2: to one oh four for Boston.

482
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,200
Speaker 3: They won by fifty points.

483
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 2: They were on fire in this game, and the Pacers

484
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 2: hit five three pointers. Ough, that'd be tough to win. Yeah,

485
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 2: the Celtics hit twenty threes in that game. My goodness.

486
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 2: You know, hopefully it's a much more competitive game than that.

487
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,199
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the Pacers struggled defensively. Yeah, and the and

488
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 3: the Celtics just are a better team.

489
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 2: And this happens on Monday, So Porzingis probably won't be

490
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,160
Speaker 2: playing right He's out at least a week.

491
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:37,919
Speaker 3: He was on the broadcast last night.

492
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure they talked about they talked I don't

493
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 2: know if they sit him down.

494
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 3: They talked about him playing for Latvia in the summer.

495
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 2: I can't wait another tournament that point differential.

496
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure if he plays, but they have

497
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:54,159
Speaker 3: Al Horford still running around being the center when Porzingis

498
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 3: is out.

499
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Speaker 2: So so you do you think in the East then

500
00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 2: we get what like an obviously like a potential playoff

501
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,359
Speaker 2: matchup that could be in the East Conference finals, in

502
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 2: the Celtics winning and the Bucks I assume beating the

503
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 2: Knicks at home. Yes, absolutely, yes, I think most people

504
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 2: will be predicting that one. But you tell us if

505
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 2: you're wrong. Any final thoughts there on last night's you know,

506
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 2: final group play stage and looking forward to these quarterfinal matchups,

507
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 2: and what do you think about all the scores on

508
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 2: the screen there in Miami specifically, we were watching all

509
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,679
Speaker 2: of them, but you had to squint to see them,

510
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 2: or at least I did.

511
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 3: There's a lot like they used to do more so,

512
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 3: including in the NCAA game where you have other No,

513
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 3: I don't like them. I absolutely don't like seeing them.

514
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 3: It didn't really bother me with the actual game that

515
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 3: I was watching because you could see everything still happen,

516
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 3: but I didn't particularly like them. It would be good

517
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,639
Speaker 3: to have what needs to be done in that game

518
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 3: on the screen.

519
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 2: Yes, like some sort of almost like maybe even something

520
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,440
Speaker 2: you could activate, like on your screen that would show

521
00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 2: you the moving like you know when you watch an

522
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 2: F one and they're showing you obviously the time differences

523
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 2: and who's overtaken who. That'd be pretty slick if you

524
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,400
Speaker 2: could figure that out live right there and you're like, oh,

525
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 2: like as the as the scores change in these games

526
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 2: all going on, it's like moving. It'd be pretty neat.

527
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 3: Yeah. I wouldn't go full sidebar like an F one race,

528
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,640
Speaker 3: because it would take away one rim. That's why it'd

529
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 3: be tough to put. It would be hard to see

530
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 3: what's happening on one side of the floor.

531
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Speaker 2: Unless we do the thing that everybody hates where you

532
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 2: squeeze the mainscreen down.

533
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 3: Oh, don't seize it. But that's why the location is

534
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 3: a good pick for the game's upper side. And just

535
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 3: let us know. And I think that's a discussion again,

536
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 3: what's going to happen in the offseason. Let's figure out

537
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,679
Speaker 3: what the heck all these point differentials means? What do

538
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 3: we play for? What do we play for? We play

539
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 3: four games, the winner goes on. But the point differential,

540
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,120
Speaker 3: I think is the thing that they have to talk

541
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Speaker 3: about from coaches, GMS and all that.

542
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't hate it. I don't hate it

543
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 2: at all. I mean, and it's giving us these hilarious

544
00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 2: scenarios where teams like have their starters still playing trying

545
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,400
Speaker 2: to balloon a lead. So yeah, well let's hear your thoughts.

546
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 2: Were you a fan of what happened last night? The

547
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 2: eight teams through? Is the NBA? You know, pretty ecstatic

548
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 2: with those squads that are going through? And who do

549
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 2: you have winning there on Monday and Tuesday night? I

550
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 2: like that we go right into this basically, I mean

551
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 2: that was just right around the corner where again they're

552
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 2: still at home and then they eventually would make their

553
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 2: way to Vegas. For what you say, Thursday. Thursday is

554
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 2: when those games happen.

555
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right.

556
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 2: Pivoting to some other news in the NBA, Dallas Mavericks

557
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 2: owner Mark Cuban is selling a majority stake in the

558
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 2: franchise somewhere in the range of like three point five

559
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 2: billion invaluation to casino magnate Miriam Addelson and her family.

560
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,199
Speaker 2: And then here's the kicker to all this. Cuban will

561
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 2: retain shares and crucially, he's gonna stay in charge of

562
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 2: basketball operations. The deal is said to be agreed upon,

563
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 2: it's penning League approval. But this came out of nowhere.

564
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, really did this move by Cuban? I

565
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 2: guess on Monday? He left Shark Tank Tuesday. He sells

566
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 2: a majority stake in his team, but he's still going

567
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 2: to run them. So what the hell's going on here?

568
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 3: This is a bit of a shark tank deal. And

569
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 3: because this is three point five or three hundred and

570
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 3: fifty bill.

571
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 2: Three point five bill.

572
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 3: These should be three hundred and fifty bill. No, I

573
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 3: get it confused with the two hundred. Oh boy, there's

574
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 3: too many numbers here. The one that he bought the

575
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 3: team for, No, that was nothing.

576
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 2: He bought eighty five million.

577
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I get it confused with her cell of

578
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 3: her stalks in the deal because Miriam Addison and their family,

579
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 3: like you said, they owned lots of casino stocks. They

580
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 3: owned lots of casinos around the world. And I think

581
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 3: that's why I call it a shark tank deal, because

582
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 3: Cuban has talked about building an arena with an attached casino,

583
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 3: and so this is a shark tank deal because he

584
00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 3: still has the ability to make decisions about basketball and

585
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 3: has somebody else who has those a business idea about

586
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 3: what's going on with the casinos around it. He wants

587
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,199
Speaker 3: legalized gambling in Texas, So I think that's what it

588
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 3: all comes down to. He retains a strong stake in

589
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 3: this team, even though it is that three point five billion,

590
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 3: as we said, people wondering it could have gone for more.

591
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 3: We saw the Suns sell for four So maybe the

592
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 3: fact that he is still a shareholder and still a

593
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 3: basketball businessman in this situation lowered the value or lowered

594
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 3: the price for the Addlson family. But that Cuban's done

595
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 3: with sharknank. But I think he sat at the table

596
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 3: and said, what am I going to do here? What

597
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 3: am I going to do here? I want to build

598
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 3: an arena. I want to legalize gambling in this state.

599
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 3: Let's make it happen.

600
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Speaker 2: And so you think this is all connected to that

601
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 2: in selling to the Las Vegas Sands Corporation into Addlson

602
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 2: and that family that own it, that that's all linked

603
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 2: here together and that will be the move forward.

604
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think gambling will be a part of

605
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 3: it as they operate casinos. They are controlling shareholder of

606
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 3: the Las Vegas Sanscorp. Yeah, I do think. But he

607
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 3: still wants to maintain this ability of basketball decisions. You

608
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 3: can't just come in here if you're not basketball experts

609
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 3: and decide who goes in. He still retains that as

610
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 3: a strong stakeholder. Now, he kind of gave some of

611
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 3: that to Nico Harrison a couple of years ago, who

612
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 3: runs the front office. So he did that a couple

613
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 3: of years back. But yeah, the money being at what

614
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 3: it is, I think he probably could have got more

615
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 3: way down the line. But he still retains a strong steak.

616
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. Yeah. So first off, Tim Cato at the

617
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 2: Athletic he did report Nico Harrison hired as general manager

618
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one, he has sort of taken on

619
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 2: a much larger role. I guess Cuban has been less

620
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 2: influential when it comes to front office matters. He's still involved,

621
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 2: he knows what's happening. I'm sure he has, I'll say,

622
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 2: but it really is sort of Harrison and that team

623
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 2: there now is probably more operating it on a day

624
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 2: to day basis. Okay, there's that this whole thing where

625
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 2: Cuban said last year that he and the Las Vegas

626
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 2: Sands Corporation again the Addlsons, really they wanted to form

627
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 2: this partnership and build this new arena which also has

628
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 2: a casino in this new Dallas area, and that's the move.

629
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 2: But you got to get gambling legalized here in Texas.

630
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 2: So you know that's going to take state legislature and

631
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 2: voters approval and all that stuff, you know, to make

632
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 2: it become legal statewide. The reason this is important that

633
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 2: who they're selling it to maybe has to do with

634
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 2: that is Sheldon Adelson. He was a big financial supporter

635
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 2: of Texas Governor Greg Abbott until Sheldon died in twenty

636
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 2: twenty one. So his wife, Miriam continues to contribute to

637
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 2: the governor. They're big Trump supporters as well. So this

638
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 2: idea that like this very very rich family with a

639
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 2: lot of say obviously in the casino business, yeah, might

640
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 2: help push through this whole plan here in the state

641
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 2: of Texas to then make this dream that Cuban and

642
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 2: I guess the Addilsons have come to fruition. It's all

643
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 2: linked together.

644
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 3: But gambling has been legalized in partnership with the NBA

645
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 3: as well, where the NBA has made an agreement with

646
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 3: gambling as well over the last two years, I suppose,

647
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 3: so it was destined to happen in a way, not

648
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 3: necessarily locally in Texas, but that the ownerships and every

649
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 3: group was more comfortable with it as they are. As

650
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 3: we see in every NBA broadcast FanDuel tells you to

651
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 3: gamble on this or whatever you know. Tell there's lots

652
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 3: of deals happening. So I think Cuban and this SEC deal,

653
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 3: that's what I was reading prior to the Adelson's selling

654
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 3: a lot of their stake, selling their stocks, I should say,

655
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 3: in this Las Vegas Sands Corp. For a couple bills,

656
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 3: just a couple of bill, So they're using you, They're

657
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 3: using that two billion dollars to own the Dallas Mavericks

658
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 3: in a majority role. But Cuban will still be there.

659
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 2: Right, It's going to be in the contract.

660
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 3: Yes, so he still sells the team, but we'll still

661
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 3: control along with Nico Harrison and others that he wants

662
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 3: to make basketball decisions.

663
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 2: She she did announce on Tuesday that Adelson Miriam was

664
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 2: selling two billion worth of stock there in that company

665
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 2: that you said, Las Vegas Sands only ten percent of

666
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 2: her steak. Yeah, so this is one of the richest

667
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 2: women in the world, one of the richest people in

668
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 2: the world. I think Forbes had her as the thirty

669
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: fifth richest person this year. Like they have like an

670
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 2: estimated net worth of like we're talking thirty plus billion here.

671
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 2: So it's like this is like, you know, small fries

672
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 2: to them, which is which is wild. The whole other

673
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 2: theory here though, is Mark Cuban's running for president.

674
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is that is bull owning. I do not

675
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 3: buy that whatsoever. Cubes can do things. I hear cubes

676
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 3: talk about artificial intelligence and where it's going and and

677
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 3: so that interests me. That interests me from the cube

678
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 3: side of things, But I do not buy that you

679
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 3: can't own you can't be a basketball operator and be

680
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 3: president of the United States. I don't.

681
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 2: I don't think so.

682
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 3: No, you're asking absolutely not, so I think that's not happen.

683
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm gonna call out the air bud rull. Where

684
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 4: in the rules does it say you can't run a

685
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 4: basketball team and run for president president?

686
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 2: But didn't? What's his name? Who's that little with the

687
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 2: big ears? Well? Oh, yeah, he had some ownership in

688
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 2: the Texas Ranger.

689
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 3: Yeah he lost Parrot too.

690
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 2: He was an owner of one of these franchises at

691
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 2: some point.

692
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 3: That's why he never won.

693
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 2: Maybe it definitely feels like like so other people just say, well,

694
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 2: why would he sell it all that? Even if this

695
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: whole like build the arena casino theme, But it feels like, hey,

696
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 2: I'll help you out, you helped me out, and we'll

697
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 2: just get really rich rich people getting richer, Right, what's

698
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 2: the what's the play otherwise?

699
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think we will find out throughout

700
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 3: the years.

701
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 2: I think so, because you had just said a lot

702
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 2: of people were like, wow, you guts sold it for

703
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 2: way more, way more, well more, I don't know, but

704
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 2: maybe not have this deal where he still gets to run.

705
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 3: The dim Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, and he's off of Shark Tank.

706
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 3: There's a lot happening. I heard him. I heard him

707
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 3: talk to John Stewart about artificial intelligence. Maybe there's something

708
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 3: in that direction. You know, what did he make?

709
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 2: What do you think he made going on Shark Tank?

710
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:44,720
Speaker 3: Mark Cuban, Yeah, because he was on for sixteen seasons.

711
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 3: I think next year he still will be on. Next

712
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,280
Speaker 3: year that will be his last season. That's seventeen seasons.

713
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,439
Speaker 2: He was on it that long.

714
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, Holy crap.

715
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot of sharks.

716
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 4: Is it a survivor type thing where it's like two

717
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,240
Speaker 4: seasons a year? Is it literally been sixteen years?

718
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,399
Speaker 2: I do know at least we have people that work

719
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 2: on the Canadian version.

720
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 3: Shout out to Canada because they made this hap.

721
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 2: To be made the Dragons, let's talk about the dragons.

722
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 2: Dragon was the first they banged that ship out in

723
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 2: like a season is shot in like literally a week. Yeah,

724
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 2: if that, it's crazy because I saw some people saying like, oh, Cuban,

725
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 2: yeah he's it was just too much work going on

726
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 2: Shark Tank. Was like, no, he wasn't. He probably showed

727
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 2: up for three days, three days he probably sat in

728
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:28,879
Speaker 2: that chair. He's done.

729
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 3: I think he's already shot next season. Yeah, probably, yeah, exactly,

730
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure.

731
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 2: Okay, well let's uh, let's hear everybody's take it. What's

732
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,720
Speaker 2: going on? What's going on with MAVs selling a majority

733
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:45,280
Speaker 2: steak MAVs? With Mark selling a majority steak in the MAVs.

734
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 3: He's building, He's building an AI com What do you

735
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 3: keep saying that? Because AI is taking over? Well like

736
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 3: he is going to manage it but still run, but

737
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:57,720
Speaker 3: still run the MAVs.

738
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 2: He barely. He's gonna the two will be artificial intelligent,

739
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 2: you know players, he'll draft the first AI not.

740
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 3: But yeah, you make make a fitting.

741
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 2: I don't know, okay, an idea. I don't know what

742
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 2: these ideas. Hello, Mark, I'm here to sell you on

743
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 2: an a I deal. Okay, please explain it. Oh it's

744
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 2: an app. That's all I've heard right now. Okay, let's

745
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 2: take our first break, and when we come back, we'll

746
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 2: hit the beach. Okay, we're back here in the Classic Factory.

747
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 2: It's been a while. Let's hit the beach. I counted chocolate.

748
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,319
Speaker 1: We got that shack down.

749
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 3: Blah blah.

750
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're on the beach. We're pumped. We're reading your

751
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 2: emails and tweets. Now this is Jad's friends bad.

752
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 4: Well what are they called again, j They're called jab

753
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 4: jab jab jab.

754
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 2: Okay, uh, I'm I know their music in those digital

755
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 2: Christmas cards, Jim jab there you yeah? Okay, deep cut

756
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 2: fucking crickets on that one. I first question. A lot

757
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 2: of these were tweets, this one from at Willy the Whale.

758
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 2: Who would you rather start your franchise with Zion Wimson

759
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 2: or Jah Morant as the top two picks just four

760
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 2: years ago? I feel like both of their stocks have

761
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 2: risen and fall in multiple times. They've already reached the

762
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 2: highest highs and lowest lows. But where do you stand

763
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,439
Speaker 2: on them today? You got to take on this test

764
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 2: if you were I guess, you know, starting a franchise

765
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 2: right now? Are you taking Zion or Jaw?

766
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 3: My first take was Willy the Whale, great question. This

767
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 3: had me thinking for a little bit. I had to

768
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 3: think John Morant or Zion Willmson. But I am taking

769
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 3: John Morant. This is about basketball. We're talking about players

770
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 3: who have played four seasons in the NBA, and clearly

771
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 3: one has had a higher ceiling and that's John Morant. Yes,

772
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 3: he has glorified guns. That is something he has to

773
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 3: learn from as he is suspended here with the Memphis Grizzlies.

774
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 3: But if I'm starting an organization, I would rather bet

775
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,720
Speaker 3: on that. I'd rather bet on him growing and learning.

776
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 3: Then Zion wasn't necessarily even playing. We don't know for

777
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 3: sure that Zion's going to play. He's been injured so

778
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 3: many times. And we know John Morant is crazy good

779
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 3: at basketball. Look at all his four seasons. He's had

780
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 3: a shorter span here in the NBA where he has

781
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 3: been incredible and growing. So I understand why you would

782
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 3: take Zion, But I think it's difficult to take him.

783
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 3: If David Griffin was sitting here, the guy who signed

784
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 3: him to the max deal and signed him to a

785
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 3: deal where he has to eat less, basically have a

786
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 3: better workout plan and not be injured. That's just a

787
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,720
Speaker 3: tougher move for me. But I understand it's a good question.

788
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 2: Like again, right now, I guess you're okay. If we're

789
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 2: starting right now, I guess you're not going to have

790
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 2: John Morant for what how many more games does he

791
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 2: have to serve? About suspension? About ten. I think I'm

792
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 2: leaning towards I would take him, though, if I'm like

793
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 2: building the franchise for all the reasons you just laid out,

794
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 2: you don't feel I guess you don't feel amazing about

795
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 2: either pick, Like you're not like, yeah, we're set for

796
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 2: a decade here. But I think I feel maybe more

797
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 2: comfortable with Jahn Morant, of course playing more games. Zion's

798
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 2: been good. Science had a weird year. Right he's played,

799
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 2: He's been healthy for the most part. The field goal

800
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 2: percentage is sort of dipped, pretty significant for him, but

801
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 2: he's still putting up numbers. Pelkins are still you know,

802
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 2: they're okay. Well, he hasn't been bad, but I don't

803
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 2: feel like he's like wowed a lot of people either.

804
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 3: He has weird It is weird because we always go

805
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 3: back to Zion and say, when he's on the floor,

806
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 3: he's the best player. But he hasn't been a time

807
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,720
Speaker 3: this season, and he sat out some back to backs

808
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,720
Speaker 3: to just try and keep him healthy. So it seems odd.

809
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 3: So that's why I wouldn't put everything I own into him.

810
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 3: I'd rather go with John Morant, two time All Star,

811
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 3: All NBA player and success in the playoffs. We've seen

812
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 3: him three times in the playoffs and win a playoff series.

813
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 3: Can't say that about Zion Williamson at all. So I

814
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 3: would take Morant just because I'd bet on that.

815
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 2: Zion Willimson could win an NBA Cup though in the

816
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 2: end season tournament.

817
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, it should be fun.

818
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 2: Didn't play all right, Let's go to the next.

819
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 3: One, this one from the Magician. What do you think

820
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 3: is the ceiling of the up and coming Orlando Magic

821
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 3: this year? Do you think a deep playoff run is

822
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 3: in the cards? Unfortunately, not going to be part of

823
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 3: the Cup. The Magic have had an incredible season, but

824
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 3: in season tournament now they didn't make it.

825
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:51,720
Speaker 2: Uhh, Yeah, what's the ceiling? I mean, a first round

826
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 2: playoff victory would be incredible.

827
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:55,240
Speaker 3: It wou'd be amazing.

828
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 2: Look, they're twelve and five, they're third in the East.

829
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 2: The defense is legit. This is why you actually can

830
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 2: like start to believe in them. It's like it's not

831
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 2: like they're on fire from three here for the for

832
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 2: the through the first couple of weeks. It's not like

833
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 2: they haven't even been you know, you know, avoided the

834
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 2: injury bug. They've had guys significant guys like Lene Curter

835
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 2: Junior and stuff like that, markl folks that have missed time,

836
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 2: but they just plug in other guys. I guess what

837
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 2: I'm getting out here is this feels a little more

838
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 2: uh sustainable with how they're winning games and the depth

839
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 2: of their squad and what they're doing right now. So, yeah,

840
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 2: winning a first round playoffs heeres would be just an

841
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,879
Speaker 2: out of nowhere season, like a huge come up. Them

842
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,320
Speaker 2: just getting there is probably an awesome season in their books.

843
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 2: If everybody you know continues to contribute on the defensive end,

844
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 2: I mean, they're awesome when they put their you know,

845
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 2: when Isaac's out there cousin havoc, when Sugs is out

846
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 2: there causing havoc. They're they can win a lot of

847
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 2: games like that. And then you've got Franz and Palo

848
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,240
Speaker 2: sort of carrying enough of the offensive load. Cole Anthony

849
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 2: two off the bench, I don't want to forget about him.

850
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 2: So that's where I would put them at. What I

851
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 2: bet on them to win a first round series, Probably

852
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 2: not probably not getting there though, I'm feeling more and

853
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 2: more confident as we get closer to the quarter mark

854
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 2: of the season. That yeah, they'll probably be a play

855
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 2: and slash playoff.

856
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 3: Team, but it is a great sign that they're an

857
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 3: incredible defensive team and continue to grow offensively. They were

858
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 3: sort of at the bottom end of the offensive rankings,

859
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 3: but they've come up because Franz Wagner has found his

860
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 3: way over the last few weeks, and you can see

861
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 3: that being very, very very important. Also, as you mentioned,

862
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 3: guys like Wendell Carter who has been injured, so Gogabadaze

863
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 3: comes in plays incredibly well, Markel Foltz out so rookie

864
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 3: Anthony back plays, but Cole Anthony also coming in and helping.

865
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 3: So imagine those guys all being healthy and them trying

866
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 3: to figure this thing out. So if Wagner is good offensively,

867
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:57,760
Speaker 3: if Paula Boncro grows even more offensively, which could easily happen,

868
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 3: Jalen Suggs very solid. You have a lot of guys

869
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,280
Speaker 3: with even another Wagner, Mo Wagner, Joe Ingles and Goga

870
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 3: coming off the bench. It feels like this team is

871
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 3: legitimate to winning a playoff series. We just talked about

872
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 3: John Morant, it'd be similar to that. You get to

873
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 3: the playoffs, you look freakain great you win a playoff series,

874
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 3: it's like an incredible win for the seasons. As you

875
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 3: just said, it's an incredible achievement. Now you want to

876
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:29,879
Speaker 3: talk about a conference files, you want to talk about

877
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:30,720
Speaker 3: winning two series.

878
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 2: I'm getting ahead of ourselves. I think that their biggest

879
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 2: issue too is three point shooting. They do not have

880
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 2: a lot of it. They don't hit it at a hypercentage.

881
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 2: They rank sort of among like all those lower categories

882
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:44,280
Speaker 2: when you're looking at the three ball, and that's always

883
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 2: going to be a disadvantage in today's game. But you know,

884
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 2: their defense helps them out and obviously keeps them in games.

885
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 2: And you it feels like most nights you have enough

886
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 2: scoring between Apallo and a Fronds and then again sort

887
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 2: of a Cole Anthony as you're like sort of explosive

888
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 2: six man, and then you know Goga and Mo and

889
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 2: all like everybody else contributing just enough. Like defense is

890
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 2: going to keep them in games here. But yeah, winning

891
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 2: two series.

892
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 3: No, I'd be legitimately wondering who's going to grow offensively.

893
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 3: We talked about Wagner has looked solid. He's not a

894
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 3: number one on a winning team. I wouldn't say, although

895
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 3: He's a very very solid player, can read defenses, can

896
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 3: get into the lane and find passes. Paulo Boncaro also

897
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 3: can grow even more. Jalen Slucks hasn't been incredibly good offensively,

898
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 3: although he's an incredible defensive guy. So they have great defense,

899
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 3: they have good core guys. It seems like they're a

900
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 3: number one offensive player away from being incredible. And that's

901
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:44,439
Speaker 3: why the zach Lavine rumors are legitimate, because this team

902
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 3: could be so damn good. They have bought into what

903
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 3: Jamal Mooseley has taught them, and yeah, I just wonder

904
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 3: if the scoring comes from within or they need to

905
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 3: get it from somewhere else.

906
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 2: Their goal is just to get into playing games or

907
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 2: a playoff series and get reps for Paolo and fronts.

908
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 2: I mean those guys have those guys have had those

909
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 2: have They have reps in the international game, but not

910
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 2: in an NBA series that matter. And that's obviously when

911
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 2: the game changes and teams like change their game plan

912
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 2: and all that against you or lock it down take

913
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 2: things away. So they need that. They just need experience.

914
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 2: But they look great. They're like the feel good story

915
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 2: here of the year, next one here from Swish early

916
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 2: sloppy season. How do we recreate a Sabonus Haliburton trade

917
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 2: in which Detroit and san Antonio are both happy, cad

918
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 2: and Wiseman get a change of scenery, Graham and future

919
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,879
Speaker 2: picks get routed back. San Antonio would get a point

920
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 2: guard of the future there and Kate. Detroit would extend

921
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 2: its timeline under a long Manti Williams contract. So I

922
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,320
Speaker 2: gotta be honest. When I read this, I read Graham,

923
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 2: I was like, did he mean Malachi Bronham? I thought

924
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 2: it was a typo. No, I believe this Swiss meant

925
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 2: DeVante Graham. I guess Kate Cunningham and James Wiseman for

926
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 2: DeVante Graham. Doug McDermott. Let's say, and picks technically works,

927
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 2: But would that be insane for Detroit to do to

928
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 2: move off of the number one pick here in Kate.

929
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,720
Speaker 3: They wouldn't be they wouldn't be getting enough back. I agree.

930
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 3: So when you look back to that Sacramento, Indiana trade,

931
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:17,479
Speaker 3: two incredible players traded for each other which fit extremely well,

932
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 3: and maybe Haliburton was playing with Fox and it wasn't

933
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 3: working well with them to being being two guards that

934
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 3: handle the ball all that well. So going to Indiana,

935
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 3: he just Shane and then Demantuso is coming back to

936
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 3: Sacramento to play with Deer and Fox has worked incredibly.

937
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 2: That was a small for a big here. Yeah that

938
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 2: makes sense.

939
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 3: So that worked well, was shining with him. But what

940
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 3: is this trade? What is this trade? Graham in future

941
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 3: picks for Kate. It's just not enough for Detroit. But

942
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 3: I like the emails, so I got into it a

943
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 3: little bit. Kate on the Spurs makes incredible sense because

944
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 3: they need a small to go along with Webin Yema.

945
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 3: They need a point guard. They're trying so hen he's

946
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 3: not a starting point guard. It's not his thing. They

947
00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:00,120
Speaker 3: have Trey Jones, who I think should play more. So

948
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 3: that's who I think should come back. If if the

949
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:06,879
Speaker 3: Pistons got off Cad Counningham, which I don't see why

950
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 3: they would do that. At this point, you need more

951
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:13,760
Speaker 3: than Devonte Graham and picks. Devin Bessell coming back, who's

952
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 3: having an incredible season shooting the basketball for the Spurts

953
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 3: over forty from three. He looks great. Along with Trey

954
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 3: Jones and picks, you have a backcourt, you have shooters.

955
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 3: You have guys.

956
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,959
Speaker 2: So you're saying in a Spurs Pistons hypothetical cave going

957
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 2: to San Antonio and the key piece being Devin Vessell coming.

958
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 3: To les Sell and Trade Jones ballanced. Yeah, they need guards.

959
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 3: You're trading Kate Gunningham. You need guards, Vassell and Trade

960
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 3: Jones isn't enough even I don't think so, I don't,

961
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 3: I don't, I love, I love den Vissell. I think

962
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,720
Speaker 3: Tredy Jones Tis Jones bro needs to get more reps

963
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 3: there because you get so hands stealing all those minutes

964
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 3: as a starter. Because they're looking for a guard, they're

965
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 3: looking for a point guard, they don't have one. So yes,

966
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 3: Kate Counningham on their team makes a heck of a

967
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 3: lot of sense. But what did the Spurs get out

968
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 3: of it? So sound's a great shooter. Trade Jones is

969
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 3: solid at the point guard spot. But I think people

970
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 3: are sort of undervaluing Kate Gunningham at this point, well

971
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:09,959
Speaker 3: not enough.

972
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 2: Maybe the more realistic Pistons guard to move is Jade

973
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 2: and Ivy. There's been a lot of sort of that's

974
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 2: getting a lot of buzz there on Twitter where people

975
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 2: think he's not that great, but other people pointing out

976
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 2: I saw at trill bro Dude saying Ivy is averaging

977
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 2: nineteen five and four per thirty six on sixty two

978
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:31,479
Speaker 2: percent true shooting percentage. Those are small sample numbers there,

979
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 2: but that's really really solid, like especially when he plays

980
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 2: without Kid again, it's small without Caid. People compare it

981
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 2: to like that's sort of what Fox did in his

982
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:42,399
Speaker 2: second year there, like that those type of per thirty

983
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 2: six numbers given the opportunity where other people think, you

984
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 2: know that Ivy's not that great and that a lot

985
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 2: of people were hot too high on him come the draft.

986
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 2: I know Matt Moore was getting into it with some

987
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 2: people about what can the Pistons do. They drafted Ivy,

988
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 2: who some people loved, he hasn't hit. They drafted Killian Hayes.

989
00:48:57,560 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 2: He missed. Caid's good, but he needs shooting. They don't

990
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 2: have it, and you know, everybody going back and forth,

991
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 2: but moving Jaden Ivy is that that's like and getting

992
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 2: something back that could help your team, be it in

993
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 2: shooting or another young guard or something like that. I

994
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 2: think there might be something there. There might be an overlap,

995
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 2: is what I'm getting at with Ivy and Kate. I

996
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 2: don't know if the Pistons are gonna need both of them,

997
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?

998
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ivy hasn't materialized as a shooter. I would hope

999
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 3: when boy and mcdonovic comes back and they have a

1000
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 3: little bit more of a spreader of the floor type person.

1001
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:31,919
Speaker 3: But you know, a Sar hasn't been that either. They

1002
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 3: need shooting as good as like a guy like a

1003
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:39,240
Speaker 3: SAR and Kate are in a box. They just need

1004
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 3: people to help, and Ivy isn't that guy. So I

1005
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:46,280
Speaker 3: understand the worrisome part what they're shooting.

1006
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 2: The Pistons are five years removed from thirty wins or

1007
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 2: making the playoffs, and they're eight years removed from their

1008
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 2: last winning season. And do you know the year? What

1009
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 2: year it was the last time the Pistons won a

1010
00:49:58,719 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 2: playoff game?

1011
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 3: They didn't beat the Bucks with Blake Griffin there with

1012
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 3: an eight one matchup. No, we're going way back, what

1013
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,919
Speaker 3: you're you know, that's when Blake was there. Like you said,

1014
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 3: they haven't been there for five years. Yeah, we're going

1015
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 3: way back.

1016
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 2: It's way back.

1017
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 3: They beat the Calves then eight one, so twenty fourteen.

1018
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:24,319
Speaker 2: Two thousand and eight, Oh, jeez, they didn't want a

1019
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 2: playoff game since two thousand and eight.

1020
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 3: I guess they got swept.

1021
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were like a classic, always getting swept. Yeah,

1022
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 2: fact checking this, but it's pretty incredible. I mean they

1023
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 2: haven't made the playoffs a whole lot. So yeah, way back,

1024
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 2: wow in the day. Anyway, with your thoughts on a

1025
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,879
Speaker 2: potential uh you know, Spurs Pistons type of deal there?

1026
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 3: Okay, well fire through some more, Okay, mail back questions.

1027
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 3: You up for it?

1028
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it.

1029
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 3: Well, we can do it quick. At Sun's dude wrote,

1030
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:54,359
Speaker 3: who would be on your all time Spectacle team? Build

1031
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 3: a starting five that would draw the most viewers. Doesn't

1032
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 3: have to be because of skill. He just wants he

1033
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 3: just wants to talk starting Okay. I I couldn't. I

1034
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,439
Speaker 3: couldn't do this, to be honest. I just I went

1035
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 3: like great players when I when I looked at.

1036
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm going great players. I'm trying to draw viewers.

1037
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, but but I'm saying, well, I'll give you

1038
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 2: my team. Okay, all time Spectacle team. I actually do

1039
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 2: have some debates because it's like nearly impossible to pick

1040
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:20,879
Speaker 2: between the two. Okay, let's start with my point guard.

1041
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:26,879
Speaker 2: I had two in consideration here, Magic Johnson and Steph Curry.

1042
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 2: So okay, you can't go wrong with either. I'm gonna

1043
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 2: go Steph. Yeah, you know, Steph for just for fun.

1044
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 2: You'll get the kids. He resonates more with the kids.

1045
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 2: We'll talk about Magic later in this show too. All right,

1046
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 2: Steph Curry is my point guard. Shooting guard is the

1047
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 2: easiest pick of all time. It's Michael Jordan. Fine, come on, yeah,

1048
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 2: you know some people are gonna be Kobe, but I'm

1049
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 2: gonna go MJU. Small forward, Vince Carter. Oh yeah, young

1050
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 2: Vince Carter, raptors Vince Carter.

1051
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, that's why you could just take Kobe, just

1052
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 3: because even if you Vince's inighlights.

1053
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 2: I watch them every five days. It's unbelievable.

1054
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 3: He's the reason I'm a fan of basketball.

1055
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 2: He saved basketball in Canada. That seems good enough for

1056
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,359
Speaker 2: me for the all time Spectacle team. Okay, so I'm

1057
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 2: gonna go Vince. I mean you could go Lebron obviously

1058
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 2: small forward. You got a ton of guys, uh power forward.

1059
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:26,399
Speaker 2: I debated between Larry Bird or Charles Barkley. I think

1060
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 2: I'm ultimately gonna go Bird on this team. Do you

1061
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 2: have someone else there in the power forward position? Again,

1062
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 2: this is just for like fun or viewership or whatever,

1063
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:35,840
Speaker 2: you know.

1064
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm thinking viewership. I'm thinking draw. I'm thinking guy

1065
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 3: who's always on his own TV shows, doing his own thing.

1066
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 3: So I got Lebron playing the four.

1067
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:47,479
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, we could do that. You could cheat

1068
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 2: put Lebron there. Yeah, that's that's okay, that's probably Lebron.

1069
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:56,359
Speaker 2: But you know, Larry Bird, that's fun. It's like because

1070
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 2: it's not Duncan you know it's not It's probably not Garnett.

1071
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's the.

1072
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:02,920
Speaker 2: Greatest all these power forwards, aren't Dirk. Probably not. No,

1073
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 2: I think we were getting there, Okay, yeah, Lebron or

1074
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 2: Larry and then center. Man, this was the toughest one

1075
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 2: for me because I have three, like of my all

1076
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 2: time favorite centers to watch, Young Shaquille O'Neal, Yekeimo Ajuan

1077
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 2: that's just a personal favorite, I'll be honest, and then

1078
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 2: uh and then Jokic. Yeah, so I guess I'll go

1079
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 2: Young Shack. I mean, let's bring down some backboards. I'll

1080
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 2: get people buzzing.

1081
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:26,840
Speaker 3: I have Shack as well.

1082
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so I'll go I'm going Shack Bird, Vince Carter,

1083
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:35,839
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan, and Steph Curry as my all time spectacle team.

1084
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 2: Just fun, just fun.

1085
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 3: I got Steph Jordan, Kobe Lebron in Shack.

1086
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 2: We're pretty similar.

1087
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 3: Or I was thinking about Yannis at center, just because

1088
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 3: I think he would be good with.

1089
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:48,400
Speaker 2: People are gonna be tuning out when he goes to

1090
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 2: the free throw line.

1091
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you every time. Yeah, we'll just look at

1092
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 3: us at their phones for ten seconds.

1093
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 2: All right. A couple more here from Varium. Who's your

1094
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 2: favorite all time player with a color name? We're talking,

1095
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 2: you know, Michael Redd, Anthony Black, Blue Edwards, names of

1096
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 2: that nature, all time favorite player with a color name tasks.

1097
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 3: Oh, this is fun. I also was going for a

1098
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 3: starting five. I want a compost, so I'm picking Browns

1099
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 3: and Greens. But I'm also picking an incredible brown to

1100
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 3: start the game and the third quarter, Jalen Brown. That's

1101
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 3: what he does. He takes over the first quarter in

1102
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 3: the third quarter. I'm taking Jalen Green because I do

1103
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 3: believe in him. I don't think he's reached his ceiling

1104
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 3: by any means. He's a very good player for the

1105
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 3: Houston Rockets. I love the way he plays and how

1106
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 3: athleta he is. I'm going with Danny Green the old vet,

1107
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 3: playing the small forward spot, and I'm playing Jalen Rose

1108
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 3: at the four spot. It's an interesting pick by me.

1109
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 2: Should you put rose petals in your compost?

1110
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 3: Yes?

1111
00:54:57,640 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 2: Why might help them smell.

1112
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 3: As long as the maybe, Yeah, the smell. The smell.

1113
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 3: The smell should not be a problem no matter what.

1114
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 2: You shouldn't have a stinky You shouldn't have.

1115
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 3: A stinky compost if you're doing doing it right. But

1116
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 3: you should have dead rose petals if you're putting them

1117
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,439
Speaker 3: in your compost. If you wanted to compose, you don't

1118
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 3: put live plants anyway. Roses joining my fifth, this was hard.

1119
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,439
Speaker 3: I just like the color of rose. I think that's

1120
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 3: why I put it in. Yeah, So with my.

1121
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 2: Last one, you're not going Draymond Green.

1122
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 3: No, I'm gonna go with Cam Reddish just because I

1123
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 3: like Reddish as a as a an answer here. And

1124
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 3: Violet Palmer referee, she's she's coaching. Who's your commissioner, Derek

1125
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 3: Adam Silver? I was gonna say Derek White. I kind

1126
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:48,240
Speaker 3: of respect Derek white.

1127
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 2: Anyway, you said reddish cam reddish.

1128
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta, I gotta.

1129
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 2: I got a dark reddish brown that I'm gonna trump

1130
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 2: you with Kevin Garnett.

1131
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 3: Oh and that's a color.

1132
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 2: Oh drop a tea. But that's a Gemstone baby, it's righteous. Yeah,

1133
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 2: Kevin Garnett was my pick here. Uh you know there's

1134
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 2: a guy in the league right now called Leaky Black.

1135
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, that's awesome. That's his actual name, Leaky Black.

1136
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 2: Why, it's one of those it's like a Pooh Richardson. No,

1137
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 2: I think it is. His real name is leaky.

1138
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 3: I think it is.

1139
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:26,959
Speaker 2: I think he's got a real legal name. I don't

1140
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 2: think it says it on his uh his his driver's license,

1141
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 2: let's put it that way.

1142
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:34,320
Speaker 3: Everywhere I've looked it up. I think I found it anyways.

1143
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're right, Okay, what's his really? That's a nickname.

1144
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 2: It's difficult R E C H O N.

1145
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 3: However you want to pronounce that?

1146
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 2: Okay?

1147
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, moliek Leaky Black, molek leaky.

1148
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,839
Speaker 2: Oh, Okay, that's maybe where the maybe where the league

1149
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 2: came came from.

1150
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:53,840
Speaker 3: So righteous Gemstones is that Garnett is a character.

1151
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 2: I don't want to just I want if I say Gemstones,

1152
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 2: I have to say righteous because of the show. Oh okay,

1153
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 2: Kevin Garnett is my answer, as you know, my all

1154
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 2: time favorite player with a color name, because I think

1155
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 2: it's just a color that gets forgotten. It is.

1156
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 3: I definitely forgot about it. I was looking through every

1157
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 3: website last night. I did not look up Garnett. Yeah,

1158
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 3: I looked at Mahogany. Is there a Mahogany in there?

1159
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 3: There are some strange, strange names when you look them

1160
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 3: up on Basketball Reference that I have colors. Was there

1161
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 3: a yellow? Who was it?

1162
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 2: No?

1163
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 3: I know, I know, but there's a where there's lots

1164
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 3: of gold.

1165
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 2: A bunch of weird references. Today, I had a weird

1166
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 2: moaning my my Chevy tracks wouldn't start. I think I

1167
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 2: got dead battery.

1168
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 3: That is a weird.

1169
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then I checked to see how PJ. Washington

1170
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 2: played last night, because I think they're always related. Somehow.

1171
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 2: He had a pretty rough game, so it checks out.

1172
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 2: So I gotta get somebody to come over and jump

1173
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 2: start me. It can't be you.

1174
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 3: No, I've got an electric car. I wonder. I wondered

1175
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:02,120
Speaker 3: that when I came in today because I do have

1176
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 3: a battery in the back to charge things, you know,

1177
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 3: like a like a four lightning. They just have they

1178
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 3: just have boards on the pickup or batteries on the pickup,

1179
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 3: I should say on the back, right, But uh, I

1180
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 3: do have those little tiny look they look like tiny

1181
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:21,439
Speaker 3: hands electric chargers. I have those as well. I don't

1182
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 3: know why.

1183
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 2: Tiny answer like that little SNL's git exactly exactly, Okay,

1184
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 2: we got one more.

1185
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 3: I think I could use the battery and the chargers.

1186
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 2: Anyways, come on over, give me right home.

1187
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 3: There's lots of golds around here. Anthony Goldwire. Okay, last question, Zach,

1188
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 3: what are your ideas to increase fan interest in the

1189
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 3: in season tournament? Zach, we just talked about it for hours.

1190
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 3: My idea is to award the winner the following year's

1191
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 3: All Star Game. What fan base wouldn't want, that, says Zach.

1192
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 3: That's this question. How do you get it?

1193
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 2: I don't dare I say, I don't mind it. It's

1194
00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 2: pretty fun if the Pacers, you know, okay, are having

1195
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 2: the All Star Game this.

1196
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 3: Year, so you win the All start or sorry, so

1197
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 3: you win the n season tournament, you get to host

1198
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 3: the All Star Game.

1199
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would. I guess hypothetically it'd have to be

1200
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 2: the next season, right, they'd have to have some planning. Yeah,

1201
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 2: the Phoenix Suns go on to win this n season

1202
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 2: tournament and their fan base gets to host it in

1203
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:26,919
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Okay, in that scenario, it's not bad.

1204
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 2: It's not bad. And then I think you would have

1205
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 2: to put a thing in place. It would be like

1206
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 2: coaches coaching the All Star Game. You can't do it

1207
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 2: back to back seasons type thing, so you wouldn't. Hypothetically

1208
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 2: the Suns won again next year, they wouldn't. They wouldn't

1209
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 2: get to so I don't know. Then it would be

1210
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 2: the runner up or something like that. Okay, it's not

1211
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 2: a bad idea. I mean, it would never happen, but

1212
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 2: it's fun.

1213
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 4: There's too many moving parts of that one. You got

1214
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 4: to get the city council of whatever city.

1215
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 3: You know, it's like, what what we got the All

1216
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 3: Star Game? Like next year? That's too it's too fast,

1217
00:59:58,840 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 3: I know.

1218
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 2: Like look how look how far out they announced these

1219
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 2: a this? Yeah, they gotta get ready. You gotta have

1220
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:07,400
Speaker 2: the hotel rooms, yeah, gotta have everything in place exactly right.

1221
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:10,640
Speaker 3: Maybe there's not hotel rooms for some of these smaller cities.

1222
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:11,439
Speaker 3: Maybe there's those.

1223
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 2: That was the where was where was the reason that? Uh?

1224
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 2: Was it a Toronto that they always said that? I mean,

1225
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 2: obviously Toronto eventually got an All Star game and weekend,

1226
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 2: but were we always told they can't do it there?

1227
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 2: The the the boat show is the same weekend convention center.

1228
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 2: Do you guys remember that. I'm not making this vaguely.

1229
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 2: It was like the Botto Show is there, so all

1230
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:40,920
Speaker 2: the hotels and all the convention center space, it's always

1231
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 2: that weekend or in that ballpark. Yeah.

1232
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:44,640
Speaker 4: But then there was a boat show in Dallas when

1233
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 4: we were there, and that was blew that out of

1234
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 4: the water. Pun intended.

1235
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 2: Making a splash out of a pun intended.

1236
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 3: Nothing else, Zach.

1237
01:00:58,280 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 2: It's a good idea, dream, big man dream.

1238
01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 3: What Silver wants is the n season tournament just to

1239
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 3: matter on its own period, And that's okay.

1240
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think.

1241
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 3: I don't think you need more than a Cup championship.

1242
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 3: That's good. Eventually it's just going to be bigger and

1243
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 3: bigger and bigger. And this season was an absolute success

1244
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 3: thus far.

1245
01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, did you just jinx it?

1246
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:22,960
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1247
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, he possible for you have to have jinxed it,

1248
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:27,880
Speaker 2: Like what would what would have to happen? We just

1249
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 2: have to get like thelmost boringest games of all time

1250
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:33,000
Speaker 2: and like then the winning team like not even wanting

1251
01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 2: to hold the cup. Right then they go out in Vegas,

1252
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 2: somebody gets arrested. I'm trying to think of the worst

1253
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 2: things that could happen here.

1254
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the thing is, unfortunately, I've got to be

1255
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:47,560
Speaker 3: an optimist here. They're playing for money.

1256
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 2: And and players.

1257
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 3: Have mentioned that, and it's good for players that are

1258
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 3: at the bottom end of team salaries where they're they're

1259
01:01:56,240 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 3: making not Dame Lillard type money, and.

1260
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:02,880
Speaker 2: Coaches they make more money too. The coaches are folding

1261
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 2: into this. Yeah, they're playing. They're playing, man, they want this,

1262
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:08,200
Speaker 2: they want to trip to Vegas, and they want that money.

1263
01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 3: They're going to fold a little check into their pocket

1264
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 3: into the A as their little little suit jacket. That's cool.

1265
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 2: Let's get to tweet of the night.

1266
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:22,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, damn it, just go to it.

1267
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:25,520
Speaker 2: Okay, well you want to do it again? No? Oh, okay,

1268
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 2: well tweeted the Knight. Yeah, you saw him flash up

1269
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:33,320
Speaker 2: on your screen there at PAB Pablo finds out it's

1270
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 2: weird when you just read it as a Twitter handle.

1271
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 2: Pablo finds out this is Pablo Torre. It's got the

1272
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 2: podcast there they tweeted. We found out who actually writes

1273
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 2: the Magic Johnson Twitter account, and there was a little

1274
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 2: help from Rob Low and then there was a clip,

1275
01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 2: and so we've we pulled a portion of the three

1276
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 2: minute clip. Here's Pablo explaining who writes the Magic Johnson

1277
01:02:57,560 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 2: Twitter account.

1278
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 5: We know now that it's Magic Johnson dictating the tweets,

1279
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 5: we know it's his voice incontrovertibly, But in terms of

1280
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 5: the person who is physically writing them, who is writing

1281
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:12,480
Speaker 5: this account, there was even more digging that I had

1282
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 5: to do.

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01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 2: Okay, what'd you find out?

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Speaker 5: So they wanted to keep all this a secret obviously

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01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 5: the social media strategy, But I did all of these

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01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:21,600
Speaker 5: I truly like investigated this. I did all of these

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01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 5: interviews on background. I got to somebody who was in

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01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 5: the room actually while it was happening Magic Johnson with

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01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 5: this mystery person posting to the account, and what I

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01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 5: was told, Okay, the person who physically posts for Magic

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01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:46,680
Speaker 5: Johnson was none other than Alexia Grievous Henderson herself.

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Speaker 2: That that's the name from the email.

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01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:52,720
Speaker 5: Right, that is the person in my email saying that

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01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 5: they elect not to discuss the social media strategy? Is

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Speaker 5: the person behind the social media strategy?

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Speaker 2: There? It is Alexia. Pablo has found out that it's

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01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 2: the that's that's in theory. Who is in the room

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01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:11,440
Speaker 2: when Magic says, hey, I would like to tweet about

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Speaker 2: this game here? What a win for team over team

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01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 2: why over Team Max or whatever? And uh, she I

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Speaker 2: guess is the one that puts it in?

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Speaker 3: Amazing, isn't it? These these? Because Magic Johnson writes tweets

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01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 3: at night at times, he writes tweets about sports games.

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Speaker 3: So I just wonder what does he do? Does he

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01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:38,080
Speaker 3: text Alexia and say write this down? Or no, he

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01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:42,080
Speaker 3: doesn't text, He doesn't tell he wouldn't text something that. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: he would leave. But he what he has to call,

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Speaker 3: has to call or voice notes? Okay, I think I

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01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 3: think he just presses the button sends a little voice

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Speaker 3: note to Alexia, Grieves Henderson.

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Speaker 2: I think she's just always around.

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Speaker 3: That's true. She is the VP of Magic Johnson Enterprise,

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01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 3: so she works for him in a larger sense. Right,

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Speaker 3: So that's an accomplishment. I think he likes it. I

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01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 3: think he and she both like it. I think they're

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Speaker 3: both friends. And kudos to Bablo Torre. This is the

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01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:19,960
Speaker 3: one podcast I listen every's so fascinating. I listen to

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01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:23,240
Speaker 3: every episode of this podcast. I need more podcasts to

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Speaker 3: listen to. But Pablo is kicking ass over there.

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Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on. Her name was Alexia. That's right

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Speaker 2: in theory. She is in the room a lot of

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Speaker 2: the time, just waiting, listening to Magic Johnson. Want to

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Speaker 2: send a tweet to the world listening. Her name is

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Speaker 2: Alexia Amazon Alexa, Pablo, do you not see the connection?

1325
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Speaker 2: This is crazy. I want to give credit to ESPN's

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01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:55,760
Speaker 2: Christine Williamson at It's the Bald Girl on Twitter, which

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01:05:55,760 --> 01:05:58,479
Speaker 2: works for ESPN. Like I said, she actually really broke

1328
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:00,959
Speaker 2: this story back on Debate Eatable. I think the show

1329
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:04,440
Speaker 2: was back in twenty twenty one because now she did

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Speaker 2: not have the name or she did not want to

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01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 2: share the name Alexia, but she said she she was

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01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 2: friends with the person that did it, so she sort

1333
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:15,160
Speaker 2: of broke this story a couple of years ago, like

1334
01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:17,960
Speaker 2: confirmed it was a person doing it. Confirmed that, like

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Speaker 2: it was sort of this transferring of whatever Magic wand

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Speaker 2: to say. She would say it as politely and generic

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01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:25,800
Speaker 2: as possible on Twitter, So it's like that's you know,

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01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:28,760
Speaker 2: Christine really sort of knew before Pablo and a lot

1339
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 2: of us knew. But I guess getting to the name

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Speaker 2: the bottom of it, Alexia Amazon, Alexa, you know, good job,

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01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:39,800
Speaker 2: good job, it's a great podcast. I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: And it's a heck of a name. Alexia Grievous Henderson

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01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 3: is her full name. Yeah. I was on LinkedIn as

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01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 3: a matter of fact to check her profile, to check

1345
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 3: it all, googling everything from Paublo Torre's discovery here. Yeah,

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01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:59,560
Speaker 3: and she's VP of Magic Johnson's company. So it sounds

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01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:00,440
Speaker 3: like the present it to me.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Alexia send tweet about the great win by the

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01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 2: Toronto Raptors over the Chicago Bulls.

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Speaker 3: That's a good point actually about Alexa hearing, because for

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01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:18,640
Speaker 3: some reason, uh, since the last couple of months, Alexa

1352
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:23,520
Speaker 3: is having some difficulty listening like she like like it

1353
01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:26,000
Speaker 3: used to. Now maybe it's an a I think.

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Speaker 2: You mean she's tuning you out like a wife.

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01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:32,200
Speaker 3: To no, even it's tuning out everybody in my family

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01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 3: we use So maybe it's maybe it's an ap problem,

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01:07:35,960 --> 01:07:38,880
Speaker 3: maybe it's taking over artificial say.

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Speaker 2: I think it sounds like Alexa is learning and saying

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01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 2: she's coming more self aware. Yeah, we don't need why

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01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 2: you always asking me questions? Yeah, I've got some questions. Yeah,

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01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 2: that's that's true. And maybe it's like Alexia A Grievis Henderson.

1362
01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 2: Maybe she doesn't want to hear everything Magic Johnson has

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01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 2: to say. Maybe she just wanted to hear the good tweets.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so very interesting.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, go check out the uh Pablo Finds Out podcast.

1366
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 2: It is very very entertaining. We'll call it there. That

1367
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:07,240
Speaker 2: was a long one here here in the Classic Factor.

1368
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 2: We had a lot to talk about, setting up the

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01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 2: in season tournament knockout stages, getting into the Mark Cuban,

1370
01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 2: selling a majority stake of the MAVs, hitting the beach,

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Speaker 2: and learning who is behind the Magic Johnson tweets. I

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01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:21,680
Speaker 2: think it was a classic, But you tell us hit

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01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:24,240
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Speaker 2: have No Buffs later in the day our Survivor podcast

1377
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Speaker 2: as well, have busy, busy night here. Until then, though,

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Speaker 2: Clipper Bros. You heard it here first. Have a great

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Speaker 2: time turn up. Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us and remember we'll see you next time.

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Speaker 2: Brace the day, people,