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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports. Hello everybody, What a beautiful

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Speaker 1: morning out here southern California. Schools out for summer Father's

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Speaker 1: Day weekend, NBA Game seven's NBA trade folks, this is

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Speaker 1: gonna be a good show. I I just strap in

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Speaker 1: for three hours of fun. And um, I just posted

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Speaker 1: this on social media. A couple of things we will

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Speaker 1: not talk about today, even if Ryan tries to force

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Speaker 1: it on me, and he doesn't try to force anything. Um.

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Speaker 1: Number one, we are not talking about John Stockton. We

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Speaker 1: are not talking about Cole Beasley. That's over, baby, We're

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Speaker 1: done with that. Sports are back, our readers are full.

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Speaker 1: Oh if it does feel good? In California this week,

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Speaker 1: restrictions lifted. You can walk into a Costco without a mask. Now,

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Speaker 1: a quick story before I get to Father's Day in school.

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Speaker 1: And yes, yes, Tyler, I know you want to hear

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Speaker 1: me talk about Tyler. Um. So I went to Costco

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Speaker 1: this week out here in l A. And l A,

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Speaker 1: of course, is the last state to lift all the

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Speaker 1: Costco with a mask. And I walk up to the

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Speaker 1: I'm like, so, do we have to wear a mask?

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Speaker 1: He's like, you don't, but we do, Okay. I was like, okay,

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Speaker 1: So I walk in mask in hand. I started looking around.

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Speaker 1: I don't really need to. I've been vaccinated. Do I

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Speaker 1: need to wear Oh? I've got to wear the mask anyway,

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Speaker 1: So I keep it on. Finally, after like five minutes

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Speaker 1: hoarding up on the usual toilet paper, water, all the

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Speaker 1: essentials pringles Um, I see somebody without a mask. I

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Speaker 1: was like, finally, someone else without a mask, so I

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Speaker 1: and that's where we are in non sports things in

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Speaker 1: late June. Um. I didn't know coming into this show

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Speaker 1: if we would start with Hawks sixers. That was a

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Speaker 1: pretty fun game, exciting series, tough one for the Hawks

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Speaker 1: last night. Uh Seth Curry once again the hero. Here

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Speaker 1: we are late June. Okay, usually this is NBA Finals

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Speaker 1: time Finals almost wrapping up. Now. Seth Curry was the

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Speaker 1: hero in sixers Hawks, but I'm not talking about him.

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Speaker 1: I'm not. We'll get to him eventually because he's been

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Speaker 1: phenomenal for Philly. They have Game seven Sunday. UM. I

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Speaker 1: really want to talk about Father's Day weekend and what

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Speaker 1: it means and all that stuff. But I just feel

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Speaker 1: like you guys are here for the outset to talk sports.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna start at sports and we'll back in

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Speaker 1: a Father's Day in like seven or eight minutes. You know,

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Speaker 1: in life, guys, sometimes we we've got to go through

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Speaker 1: some real big struggles before we get to where we

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Speaker 1: is Reggie Jackson of the l A Clippers. First of all,

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Speaker 1: the l A Clippers with a comeback for the ages

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Speaker 1: and the NBA is so bonkers. Gambling on the NBA

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Speaker 1: is not good for your health. I did go on

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Speaker 1: a super hot streak this week. I'm doing picks as

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Speaker 1: the gambling guy for Fox Sports. UM, and they're putting

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Speaker 1: I went into a funk, and this week I got

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Speaker 1: super hot, and last night, going into the games, I said,

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Speaker 1: I did some player props. At one and one, the

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Speaker 1: Jazz take a twenty five point lead against the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: Twenty five point lead usually insurmountable. Do you taw Jazz?

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Speaker 1: Clippers basically don't miss a shot in the second half.

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Speaker 1: After giving up seventy two to the Jazz in the

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Speaker 1: and raise you eighty one. The Clippers scored eighty one

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Speaker 1: Ty Louis I'm like, Okay, he had Lebron, now he

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Speaker 1: My guy Sadano, another ESPN guy, we we get. We

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Speaker 1: Remember where we were a year ago. Guys, Seriously, we're

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Speaker 1: two heroes, and the Clippers come back went over the Jazz.

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Speaker 1: Terrence Man, a young IT out of Florida State, had

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Speaker 1: A Clippers had two weaknesses all season that were very evident.

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Speaker 1: Number One, in the clutch, they were awful. They always

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Speaker 1: the second part is they didn't have a floor general,

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Speaker 1: because he's playoff Rondo. But Reggie Jackson was the story

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Speaker 1: and you think, Okay, Reggie Jackson's gonna get some minutes.

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Speaker 1: But at one point in okay see, Reggie Jackson was

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Speaker 1: And that's what he is now. That growth watching that

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Speaker 1: The Detroit Pistons were so unhappy with Reggie Jackson. He

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Speaker 1: What rednecks for Reggie Jackson? Oh, let the Clippers give

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Speaker 1: Reggie Jackson had twenty seven points and tennessis and I

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Speaker 1: You know, he hit seven threes. I would say that

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Speaker 1: I mean it isn't often we're talking about a guy

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Speaker 1: Let that sink in. Let it sink in. And now

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Speaker 1: In the end of school Rudy Gobert, Rudy Gobert just

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Speaker 1: the Stifled Tower, because he's from France. And Rudy Gobert

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Speaker 1: And I just want guys to remember this. So Wednesday

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Speaker 1: be the first game of the Western Conference Finals, the second.

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Speaker 1: Conference Finals. He may miss none. We'll see. He has

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Speaker 1: of the Chris Paul COVID news, you get Kawhi Leonards

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Speaker 1: Leonard being out the Jazz wor seven and a half

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Speaker 1: and Folks, the l A Clippers are now in the

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Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals for the first time in franchise history.

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio, So you know, this is my summer of soccer.

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Speaker 1: Dallas putting the fun in dysfunction this week in the NBA,

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Speaker 1: In Game six of the Western Conference Semifinals, the Los

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Speaker 1: in Game six of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, the Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: seventy Sixers what in Atlanta? What oh? Four tone to

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Speaker 1: tie the series at three wins a piece pine six

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Speaker 1: In Game three of the Stanley Cup semi Finals on

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Speaker 1: Friday night, the Montreal Canadians and Vegas Golden Nights were

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Speaker 1: leads the series two games to one. Finally, in golf,

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Speaker 1: American Russell Henley and Englishman Richard Bland share the lead

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Speaker 1: two rounds of the US Open has caused the previously unknown,

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Speaker 1: Bland's popularity to skyrocket. He began yesterday with just twelve

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Speaker 1: thousand Twitter followers. He is now up to a whopping

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Speaker 1: twelve thousand, seven hundred and four Twitter followers. Jason, Wait, wait, wait,

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Speaker 1: Richard Bland, forty eight years old from England. Had you

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Speaker 1: ever heard of him before this weekend? Jason? And being honest,

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Speaker 1: I have known about the legend that is Richard Bland

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Speaker 1: ever since specific time yesterday. Nicely set up there, Isaac. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of this guy. And then I saw

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Speaker 1: Back here on Fox Sports Radio, Frances pouring it on Hungary.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys are watching the Euros. I'm just

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Speaker 1: even if you're not into soccer, soccers there, it's just

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Speaker 1: good to have it back. Um. England and Scotland played

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Speaker 1: to a pretty fun zero zero tie yesterday. Um and

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Speaker 1: again I can't stress enough how exciting soccer can be.

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Speaker 1: If you guys watch that USA Mexico game recently, or

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Speaker 1: I should have automatically bet France to come back and win.

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Speaker 1: limitations apply. It's funny Ryan and I sometimes we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about topics leading in Usually, you know, we'll start batting

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Speaker 1: around some text messages and because I did uh the

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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show with Doug Gottlieb yesterday, we're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: is there any football topics? And of course we did one.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodger's topic, but I mean, it's so weird. The

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Speaker 1: NFL has been ultra quiet here in the last I

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Speaker 1: don't know a couple of weeks, there's been really no

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Speaker 1: movement on Deshaun Watson or Aaron Rodgers. And frankly, the

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Speaker 1: NBA playoffs have been exciting despite losing Lebron, all these

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Speaker 1: stars getting injured, Like, I don't know, I'm very curious Ryan,

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Speaker 1: if you can find any NBA ratings for the games

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Speaker 1: the last Uh, I don't know. The last few days,

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Speaker 1: just no talk at all. Uh. Does that mean nobody's looking?

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Speaker 1: Does that mean they're worthholding the information? I thought things

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Speaker 1: would interest, would fall off a cliff, But folks, Uh,

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Speaker 1: I saw a stat where this week alone there have

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Speaker 1: been re comebacks where teams were down eighteen or more

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Speaker 1: points and and a team one I think three or

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, there are now four if you include the

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Speaker 1: Clippers from last night. The Hawks had two of them

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Speaker 1: against the Sixers, and then of course I think the

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Speaker 1: um New Brooklyn Nets were down eighteen at one point

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Speaker 1: against the Bucks in Game five, and the NBA just

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Speaker 1: the three pointer has made things so crazy. You know,

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Speaker 1: you traw went up five and I mean, you couldn't

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Speaker 1: really say this is over because of the threes. And

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Speaker 1: you know, you gotta feel for Donovid, Mitchell and Utah.

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Speaker 1: Like some of these NBA teams, man, like the You

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Speaker 1: Taught Jazz, they were set up, they were really everything

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Speaker 1: was lined up perfectly for the Jazz and now they're

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Speaker 1: going home and you've got to really reassess some things.

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Speaker 1: They kind of remind me of the Dallas Mavericks with

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Speaker 1: Dirk After I'll say the Dirt team after they went

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Speaker 1: to the finals and lost to Dwayne Wade. Because they

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Speaker 1: were they want like sixty seven games, they would win

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Speaker 1: fifty five fifty one. They were like an awesome team

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Speaker 1: in the regular season and then the playoffs said fold.

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Speaker 1: So what they do. They went out and got a

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Speaker 1: couple of veterans. They went out and got them Jason Terry,

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Speaker 1: They went out and got Jason Kidd, who I think

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Speaker 1: was like thirty six. They went out and got Tyson Chandler,

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Speaker 1: guys who had been through a lot of battles. And

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Speaker 1: you look at that jazz team and you're like, all right,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Clarkson scored like twenty one points in the second quarter.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he scored outside of it. And you

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Speaker 1: go to the bench and you're like Joe Ingalls and

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Speaker 1: then you know Bojean Bugdanovitch I joked that he's the

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Speaker 1: Serbian plumber Um because nobody knows who he is, and

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Speaker 1: Derek favors you can't. You need some veterans to really

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Speaker 1: help with leadership, because as good as Donovan Mitchell is,

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Speaker 1: he can't carry the Jazz. He can't. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: could carry them fifty seven wins in the best in

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Speaker 1: the regular season, but in the playoffs. You know, the

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Speaker 1: saying that goes goes around the NBA is the regular

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Speaker 1: season highlights your strengths and the postseason exposes your weaknesses.

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Speaker 1: And without question, the Utah Jazz weakness in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: I mean they got lit up in the last two

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Speaker 1: games by the by the Clippers, who didn't have Kauhi Leonard.

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Speaker 1: It's like Morris's reigning threes, but tomb is doing everything.

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Speaker 1: Terrence Man Reggie Jackson like, how do you lose to

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Speaker 1: those guys? And everybody's asking me, ja are the Clippers

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Speaker 1: going to the NBA Finals? Why the hell not. I

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Speaker 1: mean there's six teams left, and I think you could

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Speaker 1: make a strong case all of them or could go

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Speaker 1: to the finals now the Atlanta Hawks or maybe the exception.

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Speaker 1: But the six teams left Milwaukee, I mean they got

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Speaker 1: a two time m v P. I just told you.

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Speaker 1: I think they're probably gonna win tonight. Sure, why couldn't

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Speaker 1: Why couldn't they go to the finals and win the title?

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn probably have the best player left in the in

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Speaker 1: the NBA play ass and Kevin duran Is Kyrie coming

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Speaker 1: back is hard and going to get the full straight Yeah,

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Speaker 1: of course, the nets and nets for favorite practically the

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Speaker 1: entire year. The phil Off he seventy Sixers, top seed

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Speaker 1: in the East, could argue they have the second best

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Speaker 1: player left in the playoffs and Joel embiid uh. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk about Ben Simmons shortly. Um, But yeah, why can't

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Speaker 1: the Sixers win the title? Atlanta Hawks? Folks, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you've been watching. I was trying to break

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Speaker 1: out my jump to conclusions Matt and compare Trey Young's postseason.

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Speaker 1: This is his first playoffs to what Derek Rose did

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Speaker 1: when he was a young twenty year old against the Celtics.

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Speaker 1: You guys could go look up the numbers. Rose was amazing.

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Speaker 1: Luka Dodger's last year was amazing. I'm not kidding. Trey

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Speaker 1: Young has been freaking amazing in this series. He's been

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Speaker 1: so good. And you know, Bogdanovich is hurt. He didn't

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Speaker 1: play in the fourth quarter. You know when you got

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Speaker 1: to try out Solomon Hill for some key bench minutes. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, things can get a little dicey there, but

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Speaker 1: that little Hawks can definitely win the title. We don't

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Speaker 1: know what's up with Joel and beat he's hurt all

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Speaker 1: the time. Hawks can certainly advance. And I mentioned the

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Speaker 1: three issues with the with the Brooklyn Nets, and then

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Speaker 1: you look at the Clippers. Why can't they win the

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Speaker 1: title without Kauai? Tell me if Chris Paul with COVID

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Speaker 1: mr is the first game or two or three? I

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Speaker 1: know Tyler loves to fall down oh two, but Paul

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Speaker 1: George is still a top fifth team player in the league.

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Speaker 1: They look like a different team that isn't like, hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: it's the fourth quarter of Kawai. Can you can you

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Speaker 1: do something? Can you just take the ball to the

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Speaker 1: top of the key and try to make a play happen.

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Speaker 1: Let's actually drive and kicked. Now. I think Phoenix is

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Speaker 1: a really tough matchup for the Clippers. I'll get into

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Speaker 1: why later. And then the Sons, who if Chris Ball

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Speaker 1: can not be affected by COVID, I think they've got

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Speaker 1: the healthiest team and the best team. That's a big

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Speaker 1: if on Chris Paul though, who's always hurt in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So you can make a case for all six teams

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Speaker 1: to come out and win the title. Um and and

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Speaker 1: to me, that's kind of exciting. Again, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it's like, hey, you've got to watch the first

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Speaker 1: half exciting. No disrespect to any of the teams involved,

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Speaker 1: but like ye, it's tough to play in your Saturday

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Speaker 1: night around Bucks nets when neither of these teams has

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Speaker 1: really built up the juice and the credibility on a

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Speaker 1: Saturday night in June, you know, to to really chew

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Speaker 1: up a lot of your time. Now, Kevin Durant has,

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Speaker 1: but have the rest of the Nets. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: Bucks haven't done Jack Squad guys. They there are a

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Speaker 1: regular season paper Tiger, kind of like Utah. I know

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Speaker 1: Janice has two m vps, but you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's too hot of a take Ryan to say,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Bucks actually look a little better when

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Speaker 1: they play through Middleton and have you, Honest off the

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Speaker 1: ball screening and cutting, because Middleton could actually, you know,

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Speaker 1: make an elbow jumper and he's a threat to make

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Speaker 1: a shot, whereas Honest is like you throw it up

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Speaker 1: and you're like, please, please, please go in. So I

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Speaker 1: think there's a decent case here that we could see

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Speaker 1: absolute chaos in both Game seven. Would it surprise me

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Speaker 1: if the Bucks and the Hawks won a little bit?

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Speaker 1: I think the Bucks I would bet them to win.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I will bet them, but I

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Speaker 1: would bet them. Um Hawks now our seven point underdogs.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe somebody knows something about Bogdanovitch. But Game seven

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Speaker 1: in the NBA is fun. Coming up next year on

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, we will talk about a trade that

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Speaker 1: went down very surprising. Don't you love it in the

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Speaker 1: NBA where everybody says, well, that guy's that guy's contracts untradeable,

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Speaker 1: you can't move him, and then like two weeks later

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Speaker 1: he's gone. That just happened. We'll talk about that next

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Speaker 1: year on Fox Sports Radio. Back here on Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio First Hour. Just flying by NBA makes it really

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Speaker 1: easy with all the storylines. So when the Celtics were

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Speaker 1: ousted by the Brooklyn Nets, all the stories came out. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Kemba Walker is unhappy. They tried to trade him and

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Speaker 1: he's really ticked off. Kemba is probably not coming back.

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Speaker 1: They could have to trade him, but how can they

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Speaker 1: trade him. He's got an untradeable contract. The Celtics all

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Speaker 1: of something like have any three million dollars over the

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Speaker 1: next two years. Who who's gonna taking on that? Well,

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Speaker 1: Kemba Walker got traded yesterday. That's how the NBA works.

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Speaker 1: No contract is untradeable, guys. He was sent to Siberia

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Speaker 1: by Brad Stevens. It's interesting because you know, Brad Stevens

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Speaker 1: first chance he chad to trade him, they unload him

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Speaker 1: another bad contract to Al Horford. Deal and al Horford

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Speaker 1: of course had a good run with the Celtics then

636
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: Chase Paper when he left, and you can't really blame him, right,

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00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 1: I can't blame Al Horford. He's trying to look out

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00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,359
Speaker 1: for his family and his kids and his grandkids and

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00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 1: his great grandkids, because yes, he now has generational wealth

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00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: Al Horford does. And I just I'm not done with

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00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 1: this Celtics team. I don't think Brad Stevens has done

642
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: wheeling and dealing. And I keep saying Brad Stevens because

643
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 1: he's taken over for Danny Ainge in the front office.

644
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: And if you're Kemba Walker, it's you know, the injuries

645
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: of crippled you, but all of a sudden your backcourt

646
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: and okay, see, well remember they cannot attract free agents.

647
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: Is Kemba Walker and Shay Gildas Alexander that's a pretty

648
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: awesome one two punch folks. Now what else do they have?

649
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: That's that's another question. The answer the okay, se Thunder

650
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: now have eighteen first round picks in the next seven years, eighteen.

651
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: They have three this year, their own, another one that

652
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: could end up being top five, and then Boston's in

653
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: this Kemba deal, which I believe is sixteen. And you

654
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 1: know this, this really dives into and we're not gonna

655
00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: go super deep here, shallow dive, but this is how

656
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: the small market teams are gonna look from now on,

657
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: we draft stars. We're basically a farm system. Unless we

658
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: can build around them, they leave and we collect as

659
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 1: many draft picks as possible. Like, that's gotta be the model.

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00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: And Okay, so he's done a reasonably good job of that,

661
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:29,320
Speaker 1: but I think the reality is it's not really fun

662
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: if you're an okay see fan to essentially be a

663
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: Triple A ball club to the majors. However, this does

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Speaker 1: happen in Major League Baseball. The small market teams have

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Speaker 1: really awesome players that they draft and then they end

666
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: up leaving. Now we've seen Mike Trout stay in Anaheim,

667
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: not that Anahean's that's small of the market. It mostly

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00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: applies to like the Tamba Bay Rays and the Miami

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00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,280
Speaker 1: Marlins and those teams that do not want to spend.

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00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: They just want to, you know. The billionaires get a

671
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 1: little greedy and say, oh yeah, we would love to,

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00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,280
Speaker 1: we love the revenue sharing. We'll pocket a lot of money,

673
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: not spend a lot, and we're very profitable. And the

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00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 1: NBA it's like it's just not as I don't think

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00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: it makes as much sense for the fans because like

676
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 1: if Charlotte's gonna pump up LaMelo ball for the next

677
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 1: four years and then he's just gonna bail and go

678
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: to what the Knicks Like. Charlotte's gonna be like, what

679
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: are we doing here? The stinks. Nobody wants to stay here,

680
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: And folks, I'm just telling you right now. Zion Williamson

681
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: is the next gotta watch, small market New Orleans drafted there.

682
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: His family are reportedly said he's unhappy. They want some changes.

683
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: They already changed the coach stan Van Gundy. And you know,

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00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: we'll do a little bit more on Zion later in

685
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: these young stars. But I mean, if you're an okay

686
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: See fan, you've just got a hope that Kemba can

687
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: be healthy because when he's healthy, he's really good. He's

688
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: still a top fifteen point guard when he's healthy. The

689
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: problem is, you know, this year he hasn't wasn't healthy

690
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: at all and they got crushed in the first round.

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00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: But last year he was healthy bubble year, and they

692
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: went to the Eastern Conference finals. I don't think Al

693
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: Horford is a huge difference maker for them. Um he's

694
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: you know, him and Tristan Thompson will split minutes up front. Yeah.

695
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: I mean, ultimately, I I'm on the side of you know,

696
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: Kemba Walker is basically going to be irrelevant in the

697
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 1: NBA now because he's in okay See and they're never

698
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,479
Speaker 1: on TV and they have way too many young guys.

699
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: Like what do you do with the kid Theo Maladon

700
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: you drafted out of France. I probably just butchered his

701
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: last name. But like you know, if you're okay See,

702
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: you basically gotta pump up your young guys and then

703
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: trade them because nobody wants to stay. They had Kevin

704
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: Durant for I think eight years. I think it was

705
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: maybe nine if you include a year in Seattle, and

706
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: then he left and I don't know if they have

707
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: a playoff series win since I would venture to say no. Um,

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00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: I think Boston will be able to bounce back. But

709
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: the big lesson here is every contract is tradable. When

710
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: people tell me Ben Simmons makes too much money and

711
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 1: who's taking that on? Trust me, Ben Simmons is going

712
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: to get a really really good upgrade um around him.

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00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I know the Sixers are very good. There

714
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: was the number one seed, but he it's very clear, Uh,

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Speaker 1: he's not the guy in Philly. I'm taking a rare

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Speaker 1: l here, folks. Uh As we all know, I'm accurate

717
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: on all my predictions on everything. I swing at everything,

718
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: I never miss, and I have a rare miss on

719
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Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. I was wrong. I really thought you could

720
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: build around him over and bead and simmons Is weaknesses

721
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: are really on display here against the Hawks. Cannot make

722
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,879
Speaker 1: a free throw, can't be on the floor late because

723
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: they're just gonna fail him. And I lead you wrong

724
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: the down the wrong path on Ben Simmons. Now, I'm

725
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: not bailing on him as an NBA player, but in

726
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:00,439
Speaker 1: Philadelphia it's over win or lose Game seven. I don't

727
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: know how you bring back Ben Simmons next year. I

728
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: just I don't think what you don't think? The Nets

729
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: are gonna hack a foul the next round of the

730
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: Bucks that's coming. He has no confidence at the foulon

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Speaker 1: coming up. Next second hour, we got Neuis Scrugs joining

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Speaker 1: us to talk about dysfunction in Dallas, Luca, what the

733
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: hell is going on there? Fox Sports Radio has the

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, how are you. It's late June in

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Speaker 1: the NBA Playoffs. As a bonus, we have Euro How

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00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: about that hungry France tie? This is fascinating. I was

741
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: just texting a soccer buddy. Germany, Portugal, and France are

742
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: in the same group. One of those three will not advance.

743
00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: Germany's facing must win against Portugal later on. I love soccer.

744
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,280
Speaker 1: It's the summer of soccer, baby, Your boys playing soccer,

745
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:07,919
Speaker 1: watching a lot Gold Cup coming up Copa America. But first, yes,

746
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 1: the association. I know you guys have been loving these

747
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs, even though Lebron's out, even though Kyrie's hurt,

748
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 1: even though Curry did not get out of the play

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Speaker 1: in game. We've had some really good games. But what's

750
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: so good is this week we've had drama all over

751
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: the league. And the overriding theme is keep your young

752
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 1: stars happy, bend over backwards, do whatever you can to

753
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: keep the young guys happy. We saw earlier this season

754
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 1: Trey Young's coach got fired because him and Lloyd Pierce

755
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: didn't see eyed. I now the Hawks are in Game

756
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: seven to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. We saw

757
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: this week Zaiah Williams since head coach stan Van Gundy,

758
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:52,720
Speaker 1: who was in place for nine months, I mean nine months,

759
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,839
Speaker 1: that's all Stan Gundy could last and he gone. And

760
00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: then the big one in Dallas, just a huge detonation

761
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 1: this week, the GM piece Rick Carlisle, I'm out. And

762
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: what do we have in Dallas? Nothing bigger than drama.

763
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: It's like the Cowboys have drama and now the MAVs

764
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,720
Speaker 1: have drama. So to sort out some of this Dallas

765
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:20,439
Speaker 1: Mavericks chaos all surrounding Luca and a shadowy GM who's

766
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:24,479
Speaker 1: a former gambler and you know MOUSEI Mark Cuban, Let's

767
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: bring in my main Mannui scrugs NEWI how are you

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00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: a good buddy? How are you? I'm excellent. I I

769
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: can't get enough of this Dallas drama. I want to

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00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: start here. Who does Luca missed? More? The GM with

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Speaker 1: a head coach. Look, the GM deal is so overblown, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean Donnie is a you know, Donnie's a guy

773
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: has always scouted European players, coached over there. Um, you know,

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00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: he's known about Luca for a long time, and of

775
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,919
Speaker 1: course as he got to, you know, follow the guy

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00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: he knew him. But Donnie was a lot of people.

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00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 1: So Luca says, hey, I'm gonna miss Donnie. I like Donnie.

778
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 1: But there's you know, there's no player that's gonna say, hey, man,

779
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: I don't want you two million dollars because you let

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00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: go of Donnie Nelson. That's not happening here. Tell me

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00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: the NBA player who decides to trade me because the

782
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: g M is gone. I mean Magic left the Lakers.

783
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 1: You to see lebron leash. Oh my god, uh, Donnie's gone.

784
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 1: Luca's upset. Stop it. I mean no, Donnie is a

785
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: great I love Donnie personally, great friend to me. But

786
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: this is not This is not going to all of

787
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 1: a sudden make Luca want to leave the Dallas Mavericks

788
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: because Donnie Nelson is not the gentleman right now? What

789
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: about the situation? Was Rick Carlisle. Carlisle a bit old school.

790
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: He was one of those guys who was on the

791
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics in the eighties with Bird and Michale and Parish,

792
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: and he's a bit ordery and Kenby prickly. We know,

793
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: he got into it with Dennis Smith back in the

794
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: day and Smith was chipped out of town quickly. But

795
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 1: he's sixty one and Luca won this this one easily.

796
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: Rick can. Rick can get on a lot of people's nerves.

797
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: You know, Jason Kidd had his issues with Rick until

798
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: finally the guys had to go to Rick and say,

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Speaker 1: you know what, you need to let Jason Kidd run

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Speaker 1: this team. So you know, a player who's had some

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00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: you know, moments with Carlyle that's not new. Luca didn't

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00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: like Rick car Lyle. Um I had put on Twitter

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00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: a while back and I said, hey, look if I'm Boston,

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00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: uh and I'm the Mavericks. I asked Boston, you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: give me his raft pick and take my coach because

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00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, I believe in

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00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,240
Speaker 1: the old Jerry Buss philosophy and to me, Jerry Buss

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Speaker 1: did it great. When Paul West had got too big

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00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: for his bridges and wanted to run change things differently

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00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: with the way the Lakers were playing Magic, Johnson said,

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Speaker 1: I want out, and you know what, Bus fired the

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00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: coach because Magic needed to be satisfied. Because Magic is

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00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: the show. Magic was what people came to see, and

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00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: later on with Kobe Bryant didn't want to be with

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Speaker 1: Phil Jackson anymore. Jerry Bust allowed Phil Jackson to go.

816
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: The stars are the show. Luca dont needs to have

817
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: the coach that he wants, so Jamal mostly will most

818
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: likely be the guy interesting. So the saying happy wife's

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00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: happy life, does that also apply to the NBA happy

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00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: star happy life? I mean, it doesn't rhyme, but you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying NEWI look, Luka Done is one

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Speaker 1: of the must see TV players players out there. You know,

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Speaker 1: if the guys on TV, people are watching, and they're

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Speaker 1: not just watching in Dallas, they're watching across the league.

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Speaker 1: So why wouldn't you do everything you could to make

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Speaker 1: sure that the player who's making you a lot of

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Speaker 1: money is in a position to where, you know, people

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Speaker 1: want to watch your team. He's got the number two

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Speaker 1: selling jersey on NBA shot dot Com. Up, you damn right,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna go out here and make sure this guy

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Speaker 1: is happy. You're gonna make sure that the guys playing

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Speaker 1: the kind of style in the basketball he wants to play.

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00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: That just makes sense today because if you had to

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Speaker 1: trade Luca Dottrig you could not get cool value for

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Speaker 1: the player today. Yeah. I I've said for the last

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Speaker 1: couple of the last month, he's the best player in

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Speaker 1: the NBA, the first guy I'm starting my team around,

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00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 1: above Kevin Durant and everybody else. So Nui, let me

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Speaker 1: ask what is next here? Mark Cuban is one of

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00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: these uh young money billionaire owners who you know, he's

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Speaker 1: sitting at every game. He's way into it, and you

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00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 1: know he likes to have control. And is he gonna

843
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 1: have to seed control if he wants to get like

844
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: a name brand um established, you know, basketball operations guy?

845
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: Because all these rumors about from the athletic about the

846
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: shadow GM and Bob vulgaris the gambler who has never

847
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: been with an NBA team and now he wields all

848
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: the power in Dallas. Um, Like, what is Cuban gonna

849
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: have to do to bring in a guy with some clout? Um?

850
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,439
Speaker 1: Is he gonna have to boot move on from Bob

851
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 1: Vulgaris We'll see you with the Bob vulgaris steel. And

852
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: I've told people before. You know, just because he does

853
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 1: have a contract doesn't mean he can't be a senior

854
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: advisor or confidence that Mark Cuban lean's, I mean, just

855
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: look at what James One did through the years with

856
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas. So, um, I don't think Bob Bull Garrison

857
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: is going to automatically vanish, So I don't. I don't

858
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: look at it that way. When you say Mark is young,

859
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: Mark sixty one years old. So this is not a

860
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: young man anymore. He made his money when he was

861
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: relatively young, right, I mean, yeah, yeah, I mean he's

862
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: he's he's been in this league twenty one years now,

863
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,799
Speaker 1: and after twenty one years, you've got to understand people

864
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: are who they are. Mark is, in his own way,

865
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:25,399
Speaker 1: like a Jerry Jones. He's going to have his hand

866
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: involved in this. So Massiah Jerry, in my opinion, is

867
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: not a guy who would fit for the Dallas Mavericks

868
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 1: because Massiah Jerry is used to being able to do

869
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 1: the thing that he wants to do and manager says, okay, great,

870
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: MASSI that's not how it works here. Mark even gets

871
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 1: involved in deal. Dannie Nelson wanted to draft Joannest. Mark

872
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: Cuban said, no, we need to save money and trade

873
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 1: down so we could try to lure Dwight Howard here,

874
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 1: so he's gonna be a part of deals. He's gonna

875
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: be a part of everything. That's just how it is.

876
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: So to me, what makes the most sense. You move

877
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: up Michael Finley, who Mark Cuban likes. Michael Finley has

878
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,399
Speaker 1: been around here, He's worked under Dinning, Nelson's played here.

879
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: He knows what's going on. Then you bring you bring

880
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: Jamal mostly as your as your new coach. Jamal Mosley

881
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,439
Speaker 1: also has a lot of credibility with players around this league,

882
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 1: and Luca Dodgers likes Jason was the biggest problems between

883
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: Mark Cuban, Donnie Nelson, and Rick Carlisle past twelve years,

884
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: they couldn't lure any big, big name free agent. Okay,

885
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: guys didn't want to come here. They have an issue,

886
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,919
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you right now, underneath the surface here,

887
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,879
Speaker 1: they have an issue luring African American players to come

888
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,359
Speaker 1: play here free agency. They just don't do it. So

889
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: something needs to change. Well, I'm curious because when you

890
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: sent me that d M about they haven't lured a

891
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 1: big name free agent, I started looking into it, and

892
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: you know, they haven't won a playoff series in a decade,

893
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: which is kind of shocking, but it was kind of

894
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: a late end, Dirk and then the bridge to uh

895
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: Luca And you know, I did look into the free

896
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: agents they whipped on and listen, and maybe it's tough

897
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,439
Speaker 1: to land free agents in Dallas. But the one guy

898
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,800
Speaker 1: that they have really set them back was the Chandler

899
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: Parsons deal, right that Mark Cuban pushed for, because that's

900
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: this guy. They were buddies, they were hanging out and persons.

901
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: Just that was a colossal bust. Is that on Cuban

902
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 1: or is that on Donnie? That's Cuban. Don't put any

903
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: of that on Donnie. That was Cuban who bought in

904
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: the chandel of Parsons. But what's worse and what you know,

905
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: the underlying thing was the way Chandler Parsons wasn't a

906
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 1: locker room. The Chandler Parsons turned guys off because he

907
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: was real out drinking Mark and talking about how he

908
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: basically was cut trying to basically call himself like an

909
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: assistant GM. And then he was the one who told Cuban,

910
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: hey man, we're gonna go get DeAndre Jordan here. You know,

911
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: he bet on it and he was talking to DeAndre Jordan,

912
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: He's gonna bring him here. And while they would pursued

913
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan's they had let Tyson Chandler go for a

914
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: second time. And Mark had basically told Tyson Chandler, Hey,

915
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: we're not gonna let you go again. That was the

916
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: impression that Tyson had and when I had conversations with him,

917
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 1: and that didn't look good. And of course we all

918
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: saw how the you know, the Clippers came and all

919
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: rallied around DeAndre Jordan and they looked foolish. Um Mark

920
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: Cuban for all the stuff we see on Shark Tank

921
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: and all the things he's trying to do that are

922
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: positive for the Dallas Maverick in the fans, his ad

923
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 1: is not translated when it comes to lure ing big

924
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: time free agents. He couldn't get Dwight Howard, couldn't get

925
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony, he's never been there. He couldn't even get

926
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 1: Kimer Walker, who went to Boston. Um, you know so.

927
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,880
Speaker 1: And Kimmer Walker's cousin works for the team, works for

928
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 1: the Mavericks. So they've got to figure out a way.

929
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: That's why I say maybe Mosley and Finley can help

930
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 1: change the Dynamics. They've had ten years of Donnie Nelson

931
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,800
Speaker 1: and Rick Carlisle. I think it is time to move forward.

932
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 1: You thank both were into the championship and what they've done,

933
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: But I do believe they need a new direction. So

934
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: I'm not in this panic mode that so many people

935
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,959
Speaker 1: are about, oh my gosh, what has happened here? Um,

936
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: what's happened here is when you don't win. When you

937
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,839
Speaker 1: don't win, there are repercussions, and you can't just go

938
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: ten eleven years without winning anything and say everything is

939
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:46,879
Speaker 1: all good. But at the same time, knew he could

940
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: you say, hey, you know last year they were early

941
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 1: ahead of schedule, they lost to a Clippers team that

942
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 1: was the favorites to win the title. Then this year,

943
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: I know they went up to oh but they lost

944
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 1: to a Clippers team that had maybe the best two

945
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: way player in the lead again Kawhi Leonard, and they

946
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: were favored to win the series. Like, could you say,

947
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: maybe it was a rational or this is just smart

948
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:07,799
Speaker 1: to get out of the way early, because I think

949
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,240
Speaker 1: NEWI we both agree if they had played almost anyone

950
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: else in the West, they probably win that series. Looks

951
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 1: I go back to two thousand six. You know, you're

952
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 1: up to two games and none. In the Game three,

953
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: you got thirteen point lead with with six minutes to go,

954
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, you lose Game three and

955
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:24,879
Speaker 1: you use to let and lose the next three games.

956
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 1: You lose the NBA Championship. This is sports. This is

957
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 1: what happens. There's a lot of what is and when

958
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: you lose, you know, things change, lives change. How our

959
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 1: Detexas Rangers go from one O one strike away from

960
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: one of the World Series and losing it, and you

961
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 1: know what, things all changed, right Washington later on gets fired,

962
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: Josh Hamilton goes and he signed to deal with the Angels.

963
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: I mean, these things don't happen if you win a championship.

964
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 1: So this is a part of it. It's always this

965
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: way throughout sports, Jason. When you lose, there are repercussions.

966
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: If the Bucks lose this series, you know, they're probably

967
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: looking for a new head coach. If they win, they're

968
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 1: probably gonna keep Button. He'll be back next year. This

969
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: is what happens. Let me finally ask you about this.

970
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 1: This Dallas off season, everybody was impressed with Tim Hardaway.

971
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 1: He was great against the Clippers. But let's be realistic.

972
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: If you look at his history, this was a bit

973
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,879
Speaker 1: of an outlier. He was incredible. Is this a good

974
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: opportunity to sell high on Tim Hardaway if you can?

975
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: And what do you do with Porzingis? Because if you

976
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: unload him, now you're selling low, which is less than ideal.

977
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 1: But you he really doesn't seem to fit with Luca

978
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: in terms of free agents, so we'll see. Um tell me,

979
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,720
Speaker 1: you know, tell me who's your general manager and who's

980
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: your head coach, and so those will start to dictate

981
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,840
Speaker 1: ideas and thoughts, and then also who and what becomes

982
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: available as far as Porzingis goes, Yes, everybody knows you're

983
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 1: you're out here gonna sell. I don't mean this is

984
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: this is the beauty of you hitting a reset button here.

985
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: And what do the new general manager and head coach

986
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:55,919
Speaker 1: and Mark Human, what do they all feel to me?

987
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 1: I would say this, I would have a conversation with

988
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 1: Luca Dotchets, and I would I go to Luke and

989
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:02,479
Speaker 1: I'd say, look, I know you don't like this dude,

990
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: but here's the deal. You need to help make this

991
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: guy better so he can have a good year. So

992
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 1: we can move him on. I can help you if

993
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 1: you help him, and then we can help ourselves. That's

994
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 1: what I would tell Luca. All right, he is knew,

995
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,840
Speaker 1: He scrugs. You know the voice of Dallas really and

996
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: I do owe him, I think a steak dinner. After

997
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,479
Speaker 1: the Cowboys gave Dak Prescott the crazy contract that they did.

998
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 1: You can find new He scrugs on Dallas fort Worth NBC. New,

999
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 1: He good talking to you. Now, enjoy the summer, buddy.

1000
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: I will be in l A next month for Cowboys

1001
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:35,440
Speaker 1: camp next month, all right, I can you get me

1002
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: to Cowboys camp? Can I get some access there? You talked?

1003
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,359
Speaker 1: You give me, give me a shot? And also I'm

1004
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: in baby, all right now, he scrugs, just getting me

1005
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 1: to Cowboys camp where I'll buy him dinner. All right,

1006
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:49,399
Speaker 1: New He thanks a lot. All right? Coming up next

1007
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,919
Speaker 1: year on Fox Sports Radio, it's time for fake Ben

1008
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: Simmons traits. Um. You know, I was gonna hold off

1009
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 1: on this because the Sixers did win last night, but

1010
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 1: then I watched as Ben Simmons had I think four

1011
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,359
Speaker 1: points in the game, maybe six, Oh no, he had six.

1012
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 1: He had two free throws, two out of four from

1013
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: the line when they were hacking him and he basically

1014
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: was off the floor late in the game. Once again,

1015
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: He's now going three straight games without a basket in

1016
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. He makes thirty million dollars. Where are

1017
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: we going to trade Ben Simmons in the NBA this offseason?

1018
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:28,839
Speaker 1: That's next here on Fox Sports Radio. Back here on

1019
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:35,959
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Good stuff from Neuis scrugs. I don't

1020
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 1: think it's as easy as Hey, we're Dallas, We're attractive

1021
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: to free agents. I do think people want to play

1022
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 1: with Luca. Obviously. Texas is one of those very um

1023
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 1: bonus tax states where um, there's no no income taxes

1024
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 1: as similar to Florida. Very nice. Uh, in Texas it's

1025
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:01,439
Speaker 1: a little bit hot. I know, Iowa Sam is our

1026
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 1: Midwest correspondent, but um, have you seen the drought news

1027
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 1: Iowa Sam out West Holy Hill. Well, we're also face

1028
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: just facing a drought through a lot of the country.

1029
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: It's just been drier than normal. And yeah, the drought

1030
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: in Colorado and uh and Utah is really bad. In California,

1031
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:20,279
Speaker 1: it's we were out of the drought and our back

1032
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 1: in back in Yeah, I know you just said you

1033
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,439
Speaker 1: flew to Iowa. I was going to ask how how

1034
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:28,399
Speaker 1: the flying experience was, and you said it was pretty good. Huh, yeah,

1035
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: it was good. I mean, honestly, the only difference is

1036
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,879
Speaker 1: that you're just have to wear a mask, and those

1037
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: of us that did that for the last year, it

1038
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 1: shouldn't be any difficult, or it shouldn't be very difficult

1039
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 1: to you know, get on a plane to wear a

1040
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:41,959
Speaker 1: mask for a few hours. Yeah. Well, that being said,

1041
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: I missed the show last weekend because I my mom

1042
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:48,319
Speaker 1: had a surprise seventieth birthday that I saw that congratulation Yeah,

1043
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 1: thank you. The family threw it for her. So I

1044
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 1: had to fly down, um and it was my first

1045
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 1: time on a flight. I did a red eye there

1046
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 1: and Florida, So California. Florida is a bit of a hike,

1047
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 1: and I don't mind admitting this. Um. I paid a

1048
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: little extra to fly first class because I was worried

1049
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 1: about flying. And you know, I'm not gonna complain about

1050
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: having to wear the mask the whole time. But man,

1051
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 1: it's hot as hell wearing a mask for five hours,

1052
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 1: and I did not find it to be pleasant. Yeah,

1053
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:19,279
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing is is some of some

1054
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: of these flights are like just hot going up in

1055
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: the air and the air cools a little bit. Yeah,

1056
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: And I'm one of these guys who liked I can't

1057
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: wear like shorts and short sleeves on a flight. It's

1058
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 1: just not comfortable sitting in those seats. Your legs get sticky.

1059
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 1: So I wear like sweats and a hoodie. And I

1060
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: was hot as hell. Now I did fall asleep, obviously.

1061
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 1: I took like a sleep aid and fell asleep the

1062
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:43,719
Speaker 1: entire time there. Coming back, similar situation, fell asleep for

1063
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: three hours, then woke up for the final like forty

1064
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 1: five minutes. But again, if you're flying first class, that

1065
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: ain't the end of the world. They did not serve

1066
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:53,399
Speaker 1: alcohol on our flights. Now, if you were in first

1067
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:55,360
Speaker 1: class you could get alcohol, but the rest of the

1068
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:58,800
Speaker 1: flight could not, which I was surprised by. I'm not

1069
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:00,799
Speaker 1: a drinker on the flight, you know, Like I'd rather

1070
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 1: just fall asleep. Um, but we have another flight coming up,

1071
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 1: and like, I just it's I didn't think it was

1072
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,839
Speaker 1: a great experience, but I away, Sam, have you heard

1073
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 1: anything now that like everything's lifted grocery store Costco? You

1074
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 1: don't have to wear a mask, do you still have

1075
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: to warn flights. I mean, as far as I'm concerned,

1076
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 1: as far as I know, yes, probably because you're in

1077
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 1: this confined space. But I think that that's a rule

1078
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: of you know, the aviation industry by and large, or

1079
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: maybe individual airlines. I'm guessing you're gonna have to continue

1080
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 1: to wear a mask for a while on planes. I

1081
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: just get the vibe that every single person I know

1082
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 1: is vaccinated. Is similar for you or no? Do I

1083
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 1: get the vibe that every single person on my flight

1084
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: is back? No? No, not the flight? Everything good person,

1085
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 1: you know, oh almost, yeah, nearly? Any any holdouts like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1086
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, that's just the debate going

1087
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: on this country, which is that's why we live in

1088
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: a democracy. Interesting. Um so yeah, overall, good to get

1089
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: back on a flight. I will just say this, being

1090
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 1: in Florida and I was only there for twenty four hours,

1091
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: very different rules on the masking, which is kind of nice,

1092
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 1: you know, I don't mind it. The same experience in

1093
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: Iowa and Missouri where I was, it was strange going

1094
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 1: into a grocery store with no mask on. And yeah,

1095
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 1: I will just say I know some single people right

1096
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 1: now and they are very excited to be back out

1097
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: of bars, back on the bar scene, and you know,

1098
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: good luck to you guys. Um, I'm sure a lot

1099
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 1: of people were cooped up for a while and now

1100
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 1: are ready to uh unleashed the beast as they say,

1101
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: and go have some fun. So, you know, to everybody

1102
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 1: going out to watch game seven tonight, I'm sure Milwaukee

1103
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 1: is gonna be jumping. I'm sure Brooklyn will be decent.

1104
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, do do the nets have Brooklyn yet

1105
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 1: or is Brooklyn? Feels like it's probably still heavy New

1106
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 1: York Knicks fan right, Like Brooklyn doesn't have cashier. They

1107
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 1: haven't been around long enough. Um, Kevin Durant kind of

1108
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 1: a hired gun. But Game seven tonight should be fun again.

1109
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 1: I'm still leaning towards the Milwaukee Bucks. They're not getting

1110
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 1: too and I see it two and a half in

1111
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 1: the market. Are we gonna see three by game time?

1112
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: It feels like everybody in their mom is on the nets.

1113
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 1: How could you not bet on Kevin Durant in Game seven?

1114
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 1: And I get that. I just think when you look

1115
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,400
Speaker 1: at the last eight quarters again, Kyrie went down in

1116
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,200
Speaker 1: the middle of Game four, So Game four is a watch,

1117
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 1: but look at the last eight quarters. No Kyrie James Harden,

1118
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:29,680
Speaker 1: not a pent or even close. I score it as

1119
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 1: five for the Bucks, one and a half for the Nets,

1120
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 1: and then the other one was a push. So, um, guys,

1121
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you right now, the Milwaukee Bucks have

1122
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: been the better side in the last two games. They

1123
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 1: could not withstand the final quarter and a half pushed

1124
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: from Kevin Durant when he just took over the game.

1125
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:53,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if he can do that again. It's

1126
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 1: just a really tall order to ask kg KD. Hey man,

1127
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 1: you're coming off an achilles You had one of the

1128
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: great all time performances in game five. Can you do

1129
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:05,959
Speaker 1: it again in game six? I mean he was tired.

1130
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: He attempted to free throws after sixteen in game five.

1131
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: The dude was not attacking. And I don't know. I'm

1132
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: not blaming Kevin Durant. I don't think it's even possible

1133
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 1: for someone to do that again. Um, Prime Lebron, sure,

1134
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: Prime Kevin Durant maybe, Prime Steph Curry maybe, but the

1135
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 1: you know, the Achilles injury, Joe Harris making absolutely nothing.

1136
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, guys, I don't feel optimistic for the Nets,

1137
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: I feel a little more optimistic for the Sixers. They

1138
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 1: are six and a half point favors to seven. I

1139
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 1: already have bet the Sixers in Game seven. It feels

1140
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 1: to me like Clippers MAVs sort of where the MAVs

1141
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: had their chance in Game six, they blew it and

1142
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:51,800
Speaker 1: the Clippers rolled in Game seven. Um, So coming up

1143
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: next we will talk we we will go to UH

1144
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: another NBA team we just did the MAVs, a team

1145
01:00:57,560 --> 01:00:59,479
Speaker 1: that's kind of going through a rebuild with a young star.

1146
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 1: And the next one is the New Orleans Pelicans. But

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Speaker 1: com slash yes Nilson report limitations apply. So coming up next,

1152
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: we will talk to Jeff Duncan in New Orleans. The

1153
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:29,040
Speaker 1: Zion Williamson experience has been not very good from a

1154
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: winning standpoint, no playoff appearances, but Zion has been incredible.

1155
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: Now they've fired the coach stan Van Gundi, and the

1156
01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 1: clock is ticking for David Griffith do you trust him

1157
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 1: to deliver players to get Zion back to the playoffs

1158
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:47,640
Speaker 1: and stay in New Orleans? Will he sign his rookie extension?

1159
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:51,400
Speaker 1: Should he know? We've never seen a rookie pass on

1160
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 1: the qualifying offer, and I wonder if Zion is going

1161
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 1: to be the first. My comparison is, is Zion ready

1162
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 1: to be the villain? Being a villain and taking a

1163
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: contrarian mindset has unbelievable returns. That's where you can get

1164
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:08,840
Speaker 1: your biggest return. Lebron didn't go into the Heat, Kevin

1165
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 1: Durant didn't go into the Warriors. Lebron instantly became public

1166
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:15,680
Speaker 1: enemy number one and you could say the largest athlete

1167
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 1: in the United States Kevin Durant. Same deal happened when

1168
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 1: he went to Golden State. He becomes a champion, two

1169
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:28,320
Speaker 1: finals MVPs and now he's in Brooklyn and Kevin Durant

1170
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 1: is probably on his way to being an NBA owner someday.

1171
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 1: He's made a lot of money inside and outside of basketball,

1172
01:02:33,920 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 1: and a lot of people say he's a ring chaser,

1173
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 1: but that's where the returns are when you go contrary

1174
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 1: into what everybody says. And I think the move is

1175
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 1: Zion to leave. Not a lot of people agree with me,

1176
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 1: So we'll talk to Jeff Duncan coming up next, But

1177
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 1: first there's Isaac Loewen Crown with what's trending? Jason the

1178
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:56,480
Speaker 1: ultimate destination for Zion Williamson playoff success and that's what

1179
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: happened last night is the Los Angeles Clippers rally from

1180
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 1: a twenty five point third quarter deficit to defeat the

1181
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz one thirty one to one nineteen to take

1182
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 1: the series in six. Find a career high thirty nine

1183
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: from Terence Mann. Earlier Friday night, in Game six of

1184
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference Semifinals, the Philadelphia seventy sixers what in Atlanta?

1185
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 1: What oh? Four? To force in the Game seven on

1186
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:22,800
Speaker 1: Sunday at Philadelphia. Coming up tonight at eight thirty Eastern

1187
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:26,040
Speaker 1: Games seven of the other Eastern Conference semifinals is the

1188
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets play host to the Milwaukee Bucks. In Game

1189
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 1: three of the Stanley Cup semi finals. On Friday night,

1190
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:35,840
Speaker 1: the Montreal Canadians and Vegas Golden Nights were tied at

1191
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 1: two in overtime, with Montreal on the move. Here's Chris

1192
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:53,880
Speaker 1: Cuthbert on Sports Net, so Montreal takes a two games

1193
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:56,760
Speaker 1: to one lead in the Stanley Cup semi finals. Finally,

1194
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 1: in golf, after two rounds of the US Open at

1195
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 1: Tory Pond Lines, lead is shared by American Russell Henley

1196
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 1: an Englishman Richard Bland at five under par overall. They

1197
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 1: will tee off round three this afternoon at four three

1198
01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:14,880
Speaker 1: five Eastern. Jason, back to you, Thank you, Isaac. Let's

1199
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:19,440
Speaker 1: bring in Jeff Duncan of the athletic covers all sports

1200
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. The Saints have had a good run

1201
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 1: for him, and now Drew Brees is gone. And the

1202
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 1: thought was, well, you know, Zion maybe can make this

1203
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:31,880
Speaker 1: Pelicans town. Anthony Davis tried, couldn't. It's really an L

1204
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:35,920
Speaker 1: s U football town. Ls you know, New Orleans. They

1205
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 1: love the L. S U Tigers, New Orleans Saints. But

1206
01:04:39,160 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 1: I think the Zion deal is probably gonna be the

1207
01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:43,520
Speaker 1: biggest story over the next year. So Jeff, I'm gonna

1208
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 1: ask you first, you know, how do you assess the

1209
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 1: state of the Pelicans heading into a hugely pivotal off season. Yeah, Jason,

1210
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 1: I think you hit the nail on the head there.

1211
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 1: There seems to be a real uh transition in the

1212
01:04:57,560 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 1: New Orleans sports scene right now through Breeze and the

1213
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 1: Saints of dominated the landscape for the last decade and

1214
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 1: a half. And the emergence of Zion Williamson and really

1215
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:13,840
Speaker 1: the good fortune that the organization had and him falling

1216
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:17,160
Speaker 1: into their lap a couple of years ago with the lottery,

1217
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: really created an opportunity for the Pelicans organization, I think

1218
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 1: to maybe turn things around and start making this more

1219
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:27,120
Speaker 1: of a basketball town. It's always going to be a

1220
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:30,720
Speaker 1: Saints town, It's always gonna be a football city. But

1221
01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:36,400
Speaker 1: Zion was such a unique phenomenon that I still think

1222
01:05:36,440 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 1: there's an opportunity there. But make no mistake, David Griffin

1223
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 1: the front office, Dale Benson, the owner of the Pelicans.

1224
01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:47,160
Speaker 1: They've got to get this higher right. They cannot continue

1225
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:50,160
Speaker 1: to tread water. They've lost so much momentum here the

1226
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:54,240
Speaker 1: last two years. There's enormous pressure on them to find

1227
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 1: the leader, to find the Sean Payton of the NBA

1228
01:05:58,080 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 1: that can take this franchise to the next level. Um, Jeff,

1229
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:06,200
Speaker 1: let me start actually before the coaching higher. I am curious,

1230
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:09,600
Speaker 1: do you think the Pelicans are in better shape today

1231
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 1: heading into the off season than they were when they

1232
01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:16,280
Speaker 1: landed Zion. The roster, uh, you know, had some good

1233
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: young pieces, but right now they're in a pivotal off

1234
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 1: season where they paid Steven Adams a lonzo. We don't

1235
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do, Josh Hart, we don't know.

1236
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:26,640
Speaker 1: A couple of young point guards who seem to have promised,

1237
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:28,280
Speaker 1: but I don't know if they're ready to get you

1238
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. I'm just curious what you think of

1239
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 1: this roster right now, is like, is this an attractive

1240
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:35,400
Speaker 1: coaching job outside of Zion. We know everybody would love

1241
01:06:35,440 --> 01:06:38,680
Speaker 1: to have him, but the rest of the roster, Yeah,

1242
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:41,560
Speaker 1: it's a great, great point. I do think they are

1243
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:46,760
Speaker 1: better in some areas, maybe not just beyond court assets, right,

1244
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: but they do have a boatload a raft of of

1245
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:55,640
Speaker 1: draft capital that they can parlay along with potentially some

1246
01:06:55,840 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 1: of these veterans that really Frankly became his cast on

1247
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: this roster. The roster construction is and David Griffin has

1248
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: admitted it has not been good. The trade last year

1249
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday, it brought in Steven Adams and Eric Blazo

1250
01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 1: has been a failure and now they're going to have

1251
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 1: to start back over and reconstruct this roster. Around Zion Williams.

1252
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 1: He has to be the focal point. I know Brandon

1253
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 1: Ingram is a great you know, he's an all star

1254
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:29,959
Speaker 1: talent going to be twenty four, But the focal point

1255
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 1: has to be point Zion. There's a lot of work

1256
01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:35,440
Speaker 1: to do. Jason, you make a great point about this roster.

1257
01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:38,880
Speaker 1: But I do think that the trap draft assets, there's

1258
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:40,960
Speaker 1: a lot to work with their if you're smart and

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Speaker 1: make some screwd moves. Yeah. I don't know, Jeff. Where

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01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 1: people chime in on, like what kind of level coach

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01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 1: can they get? Like they tried, you know, the stan

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01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 1: Van Gundy he wanted the finals of the Orlando Knows defense,

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01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 1: Like that was okay. But I don't know, Jeff. I

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01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:00,240
Speaker 1: I've always been a believer in the contrarian My set

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01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:02,960
Speaker 1: gives you the biggest returns. I I would try to

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01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:06,640
Speaker 1: go outside the box, do something that nobody sees coming. Um,

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01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:09,840
Speaker 1: we're we're what are your thoughts on who they can get,

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01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:11,640
Speaker 1: Like who's a legitimate higher who would be a home

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01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:14,960
Speaker 1: run for you? Yeah? I think that's a good point too.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is gonna be a just I think

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Speaker 1: fascinating higher because David Griffin Like I said, under so

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01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:26,640
Speaker 1: much pressure, can he afford to be bold? Can he

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01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:29,760
Speaker 1: afford to go outside the box? Knowing that if it

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01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:33,680
Speaker 1: fails like the Van Gundi hire, he's out and this

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01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 1: organization is probably gonna move on from him. In the

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01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:40,799
Speaker 1: front office, they poured a lot of resources into the Pelicans,

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01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:44,760
Speaker 1: Gail Benson and Dennis Lausch to the president. They're expecting returns.

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01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:48,639
Speaker 1: I do think there will be an attractive candidate, maybe

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01:08:49,280 --> 01:08:52,160
Speaker 1: a younger. They've got to ketch lightning in the bottle.

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01:08:52,240 --> 01:08:55,240
Speaker 1: Find a younger candidate and assistant, maybe someone that's well

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01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:59,520
Speaker 1: thought of. Uh, you know that we'll see the opportunity

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01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 1: and coach a generational talent like Zion Williams. If they've

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01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:07,679
Speaker 1: got to find somebody that connects with Zion, his camp

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01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 1: and the rest of this young roster. It's not just

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01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:12,800
Speaker 1: brandon Ingram. You've also got Jackson Hayes as part of

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01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:16,840
Speaker 1: this cores. I think Nikkil, Alexander Walker, Kyra Lewis that

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01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:19,680
Speaker 1: young group has to connect with whatever coach they bring in.

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01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:24,000
Speaker 1: I think fit is critical in this higher obviously didn't

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01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 1: work with Bean Gundy. What do you make of uh?

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01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:29,479
Speaker 1: I think Teresa Witherspoon maybe one of the names link.

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01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:31,840
Speaker 1: What do you think of a possible the first female

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01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:33,720
Speaker 1: coach in NBA history? Do you think there's any chance

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01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:35,800
Speaker 1: of that? I know you said bold can be risky

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01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:38,040
Speaker 1: because Griffin could be toast. But you know, when you

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01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:41,719
Speaker 1: really look at it, like I mean Jeff Zion sticking around,

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01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:44,680
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, yeah, I don't know. I mean

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01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:45,920
Speaker 1: do you do you? First of all, do you think

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01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 1: a woman could be selected as a first coach in

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01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:51,080
Speaker 1: an NBA history? And I don't think there's any doubt

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01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:54,320
Speaker 1: that could happen, whether that's Teresa Weatherspoon or Becky Hammond

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01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 1: along those lines. I think they're looking, what with a

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01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:02,520
Speaker 1: wide open lens Jason and trying to find a dynamic,

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01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 1: up and coming coach. I think price is going to

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01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 1: be important here. David Griffin has already had to pay

1305
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:13,120
Speaker 1: off two coaches that aren't being on the staff anymore.

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01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:16,280
Speaker 1: Van Gundi probably gonna cost them close to ten million dollars.

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01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:20,080
Speaker 1: They're still paying off Alvin Gentry, and this organization is

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01:10:20,240 --> 01:10:23,800
Speaker 1: fights an uphill battle with the NBA business model as

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01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:27,080
Speaker 1: far as local television revenue. I think their last in

1310
01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:30,640
Speaker 1: the league they're down around twenty thirty million dollars a

1311
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 1: year in local TV revenue in in l A. The

1312
01:10:33,960 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors were talking a hundred and fifty millions.

1313
01:10:36,760 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 1: You just can't make up that difference in New Orleans.

1314
01:10:39,479 --> 01:10:42,880
Speaker 1: So they run a very tight ship here and you're

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01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:44,880
Speaker 1: paying off these coaches. I doubt they're going to be

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01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:48,519
Speaker 1: in the market for a pedigree, big name coach because

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01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, and now I've read a stat that

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01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:54,200
Speaker 1: the Pelicans have never gone into the luxury taxes that

1319
01:10:54,280 --> 01:10:57,120
Speaker 1: do you know if that's true. No, that that's definitely true.

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01:10:57,160 --> 01:11:00,040
Speaker 1: And that's part of the problem here because they have

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01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 1: to run the organization so tight, and they run it separately.

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01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:08,599
Speaker 1: Even though Gayle Benson and management oversees both the Saints

1323
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:12,519
Speaker 1: and Pelicans, they run the business is completely separate. So

1324
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,160
Speaker 1: it's not like they can take advantage of the large

1325
01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 1: as the excess from the Saints and pour that into

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01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 1: the Pelicans at a separate enterprise. And it just has

1327
01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:24,600
Speaker 1: not been a good series here of a sequence, I

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01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 1: should say, with the pandemic, with the you know, the

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01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:31,599
Speaker 1: failed hires here in the last couple of years. Uh,

1330
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 1: it's just been rough for this team financially trying to

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01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: compete with their big market brethren. So I mean, I

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01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:40,600
Speaker 1: don't know what Gayl Benson's net worth. What is she

1333
01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:42,920
Speaker 1: a billion? Is she just an eight hundred million? Like

1334
01:11:43,320 --> 01:11:46,559
Speaker 1: the fact that she's never had them pay the luxury tax,

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01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:50,080
Speaker 1: that ain't that's not a great news if you're telling

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01:11:50,160 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 1: a perspective. Coach, Hey, yeah, we've never got into the

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01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 1: luxury tax. We don't intend to. Oh so what's your

1338
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 1: playing with Alonzo? What are you gonna do with heart? Uh?

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01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:00,719
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, Jeff, the US is loaded,

1340
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:04,160
Speaker 1: and if they don't make the playoffs next year, I

1341
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 1: think it's safe to say Zion probably doesn't sign that

1342
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:11,600
Speaker 1: rookie extension, right, And I think it's it's they've got

1343
01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs next year. I think the pieces

1344
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:17,720
Speaker 1: are there for them, just with the normal growth in

1345
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:19,960
Speaker 1: progress with Zion Williams. I mean, he had such a

1346
01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:23,200
Speaker 1: remarkable second season. And Jason, you've got to think about it.

1347
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:25,240
Speaker 1: I mean, he missed most of his rookie years, so

1348
01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 1: he really has played in essence one full NBA season

1349
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:32,240
Speaker 1: and the numbers he's putting up are historic. He's the

1350
01:12:32,360 --> 01:12:34,920
Speaker 1: kind of guy that players want to play with He's

1351
01:12:35,439 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 1: he's a you know, self effacing leader, a servant leader.

1352
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:42,600
Speaker 1: Not he doesn't have to dominate the spotlight. Instead, he

1353
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:46,520
Speaker 1: used as the spotlight to the to lift up his teammates.

1354
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 1: So I think he's gonna attract players here that want

1355
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:51,600
Speaker 1: to play with him and attract a good coach. And

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01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:54,519
Speaker 1: I do think they would go into the luxury tax

1357
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:57,360
Speaker 1: if they felt like they were close to get into

1358
01:12:57,400 --> 01:12:59,559
Speaker 1: a championship or something like that. I don't. I think

1359
01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:02,560
Speaker 1: the circule stances in the past have not dictated that.

1360
01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:05,120
Speaker 1: So I should clarify that last question. You know now

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01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:07,400
Speaker 1: that you said that Griffin could be in trouble if

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01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:11,240
Speaker 1: he if this higher goes bust. What about something radical? Hey, Portland,

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01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:14,799
Speaker 1: We've got a bevy of number one picks in the future.

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01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:17,559
Speaker 1: We'll give you two of them and salaries that match

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01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:20,840
Speaker 1: give us Dame Lillard. Do you I mean, is that

1366
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:23,160
Speaker 1: too radical of an attempt? Do you make a move

1367
01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 1: on to Jalen Brown? Do you go for Bradley Beale?

1368
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:27,960
Speaker 1: Like again, you don't know how long they'll stay, but

1369
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:31,960
Speaker 1: is it worth emptying the chamber to give it a shot?

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01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:34,840
Speaker 1: Give Zion a legit number two. I personally don't think

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01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:37,960
Speaker 1: brandon ingram is A is a great fit alongside Zion.

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01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:40,000
Speaker 1: But do you think there's any shot of that? Does

1373
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:41,880
Speaker 1: Griffin part with all of those picks that he loves

1374
01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:44,920
Speaker 1: to cuddle with every night? I'm with you on that.

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01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:47,840
Speaker 1: I I love that idea. I think they need another

1376
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:50,920
Speaker 1: alpha in there, maybe a little more of a veteran

1377
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:54,960
Speaker 1: alpha with Zion, but that hasn't been with David Griffin

1378
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 1: has been preach He feels strongly about following the small

1379
01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:02,959
Speaker 1: market land was you know, adopted years ago in San Antonio,

1380
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:06,960
Speaker 1: that Sam Presty is followed in Oklahoma City successfully, and

1381
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 1: they feel like they have to get a young core

1382
01:14:09,200 --> 01:14:11,439
Speaker 1: and let it grow. The problem with that is they're

1383
01:14:11,479 --> 01:14:14,720
Speaker 1: in a time crunch now. As we said, they don't

1384
01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:17,040
Speaker 1: have Tom understand. They've got to act now. They've got

1385
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:19,879
Speaker 1: to be successful now. And I think that's the pressure

1386
01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:22,680
Speaker 1: David Griffin in the front office is under how do

1387
01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:25,320
Speaker 1: they how do they put this thing together? They have

1388
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:28,920
Speaker 1: immediate sex success without mortgaging the future for the long,

1389
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 1: long term sustained success of the organization. Yeah, I love it.

1390
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,400
Speaker 1: Jeff Duncan, the Athletic You can follow him on Twitter

1391
01:14:35,479 --> 01:14:38,639
Speaker 1: at Jeff Duncan. I love this team building stuff. Jeff,

1392
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 1: thanks for the time this morning, and enjoy your summer.

1393
01:14:41,240 --> 01:14:43,200
Speaker 1: Thanks Jason, thanks for having me on. Take care buddy.

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01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:46,880
Speaker 1: All right, um, listen, man, this is really exciting as

1395
01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:52,120
Speaker 1: as as a content maker, as a radio TV digital guy.

1396
01:14:52,760 --> 01:14:55,799
Speaker 1: I have a podcast. You guys know like this is awesome,

1397
01:14:56,160 --> 01:14:59,320
Speaker 1: Like the idea of it's a blank slate, you can

1398
01:14:59,360 --> 01:15:05,200
Speaker 1: do anything. Hey, Portland, We'll give you Steven Adams two

1399
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:09,559
Speaker 1: number ones or who whatever. We will make the salaries

1400
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:11,320
Speaker 1: work and we'll give you two number one picks, give

1401
01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:13,960
Speaker 1: us Damian Lillard, or let's put it all together and

1402
01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:16,639
Speaker 1: make a runner Bradley Beale and just give it a chance.

1403
01:15:16,680 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 1: I know there's a small market model that Jeff talked about,

1404
01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:20,800
Speaker 1: and yeah, that makes the allest sense of the world.

1405
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:24,080
Speaker 1: But everybody's operating out of that playbook. Do you think

1406
01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:28,559
Speaker 1: they're all gonna make it happen? No, So try something radical,

1407
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:31,920
Speaker 1: go outside the box. That's how I've always found my

1408
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:34,560
Speaker 1: biggest success in life. And I hope somebody does that

1409
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:37,800
Speaker 1: this offseason. Coming up next year on Fox Sports Radio,

1410
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:44,120
Speaker 1: look at this matchup Portugal Germany in euro What an

1411
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:48,360
Speaker 1: afternoon of sports? We got a game seven tonight. Maybe

1412
01:15:48,400 --> 01:15:51,040
Speaker 1: I'll hit up Io Sam with some random college football questions.

1413
01:15:51,439 --> 01:15:55,320
Speaker 1: We gotta keep it locked, everybody, Fox Sports Radio. Back

1414
01:15:55,360 --> 01:16:01,200
Speaker 1: here on Fox Sports Radio. What is this club music? Iowa, Sam.

1415
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:05,200
Speaker 1: This is a song called a Whole Lot of Choppers

1416
01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:09,400
Speaker 1: Choppers excuse me, it's a Sada baby featuring Nicki Minaj.

1417
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:11,960
Speaker 1: There's definitely a radio version of this song. And then

1418
01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:16,280
Speaker 1: the explicit version of this song very explicit. I was

1419
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 1: not aware how expl very explicit, okay could be to

1420
01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:25,880
Speaker 1: just explicit, very explicit. Um. So, you know, Father's Day weekend.

1421
01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: I told the like, I'm not a big I want

1422
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:31,400
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff guy for father, Like I have

1423
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:34,040
Speaker 1: everything I need. I'm I'm trying to get into this

1424
01:16:34,200 --> 01:16:39,120
Speaker 1: minimalist strategy. Um. I have a buddy who um you know,

1425
01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:43,200
Speaker 1: he's from the Netherlands, and you know, my daughter's friends

1426
01:16:43,240 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 1: with his daughter. And so we went to their house

1427
01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:47,519
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my gosh, Like basically they

1428
01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:49,800
Speaker 1: had bought a house, or they bought a house, then

1429
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:52,360
Speaker 1: they tore it down and they built a house and

1430
01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 1: it's supermodern and it's one of these modern houses with

1431
01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:58,439
Speaker 1: like nothing in it. It's like empty and very cool.

1432
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:01,160
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, my gosh, like this is what

1433
01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:02,920
Speaker 1: I need. So I'm gonna be a minimal So this

1434
01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:06,080
Speaker 1: week for Father's Day, Ryan, I went in my closet

1435
01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:08,280
Speaker 1: and I threw out like two garbage bags with of

1436
01:17:08,320 --> 01:17:09,680
Speaker 1: old clothes that I don't wear anymore. I'm like, I

1437
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:12,840
Speaker 1: gotta just start cutting stuff, you know, I gotta just

1438
01:17:12,880 --> 01:17:15,680
Speaker 1: start dropping stuff. You've got too much stuff. So for

1439
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:17,960
Speaker 1: Father's Day, I said, give me a little time to

1440
01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:20,400
Speaker 1: just unload stuff. And I and I'm taking out old

1441
01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:23,560
Speaker 1: pairs of sneakers. I'm not a horder minding stretch, but

1442
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:26,160
Speaker 1: I also don't like throwing things out, you know. Like

1443
01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:29,000
Speaker 1: I'm going through a basket of stuff and I found

1444
01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:31,439
Speaker 1: like a DVD player, Like does anybody have a DVD

1445
01:17:31,479 --> 01:17:34,240
Speaker 1: player anymore? Like do those even exist? Do you have one?

1446
01:17:34,280 --> 01:17:37,760
Speaker 1: I was in I have access to one? What does

1447
01:17:37,800 --> 01:17:40,080
Speaker 1: that mean? Well, my girlfriend has one. And we did

1448
01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:43,519
Speaker 1: watch a DVD about six months ago and it was

1449
01:17:43,800 --> 01:17:46,400
Speaker 1: it was it was fun a DVD six months ago.

1450
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 1: What did I get on DVD? I'll think about it.

1451
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:53,000
Speaker 1: I mean everything now was streamed, you know, like you

1452
01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:56,439
Speaker 1: could get anything you want on uh in on demand

1453
01:17:56,560 --> 01:17:59,680
Speaker 1: on if you have cable. So yeah, quick story here.

1454
01:17:59,720 --> 01:18:03,320
Speaker 1: So I was walking our dog, right and I came across.

1455
01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:06,920
Speaker 1: I came across this garbage bin and they're all these

1456
01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:10,080
Speaker 1: new DVDs just sitting around on top and they're in

1457
01:18:10,120 --> 01:18:12,720
Speaker 1: their packaging still, and I took one. I can't remember what.

1458
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:15,080
Speaker 1: I can't remember what it was, but it was like

1459
01:18:15,200 --> 01:18:17,880
Speaker 1: Cinderella Man or some some boxing movie. He was like,

1460
01:18:17,920 --> 01:18:19,240
Speaker 1: a you know, a movie from like the mid two

1461
01:18:19,280 --> 01:18:21,479
Speaker 1: thous Russell Crow. Yeah, great movie, by the way, but

1462
01:18:21,880 --> 01:18:24,400
Speaker 1: I took it back. I sanitized it, you know, I'm

1463
01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:27,600
Speaker 1: not really this is during the pandemic. And then so

1464
01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:30,040
Speaker 1: we ended up firing up her old DVD player and

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01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:32,240
Speaker 1: we watched it and then, yeah, it was pretty nice.

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01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:35,080
Speaker 1: Yeah I don't. I mean, it's funny you say, Cinderella Man.

1467
01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:39,600
Speaker 1: I stumbled upon Gladiator the other night, super late. You know,

1468
01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:42,439
Speaker 1: like not a movie you want to start late. It's

1469
01:18:42,439 --> 01:18:44,360
Speaker 1: like three and a half hours long, and yeah, definitely not.

1470
01:18:44,479 --> 01:18:46,560
Speaker 1: But like you know, you stumble in halfway through and

1471
01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:48,280
Speaker 1: some of the battle scenes are just like you've got

1472
01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:50,800
Speaker 1: to watch it. And I started and this is the

1473
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:52,320
Speaker 1: problem when you see a movie you haven't seen in

1474
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:54,080
Speaker 1: a while and you're like, oh, man, this movie is

1475
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:56,519
Speaker 1: so great. Hey, what the hell happened to Russell Crowe?

1476
01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:00,160
Speaker 1: And it's like you start looking and glady it it

1477
01:19:00,240 --> 01:19:03,040
Speaker 1: was like twenty years ago now maybe, and all of

1478
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:04,760
Speaker 1: a sudden it's like, well, when was the last time

1479
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 1: Russell Crowe made a good movie? And you know these

1480
01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:12,280
Speaker 1: actors shelf lives are so quick. Um, and now I'm

1481
01:19:12,320 --> 01:19:14,519
Speaker 1: way off the Father's Day rand. But at any rate, Um,

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01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:19,360
Speaker 1: I don't know. I would just say, you know, just

1483
01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:22,360
Speaker 1: be happy that you're having another Father's Day everybody. Um,

1484
01:19:23,040 --> 01:19:25,720
Speaker 1: you know, I think everybody has lost somebody in the

1485
01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:29,000
Speaker 1: last year, whether it was pandemic related or otherwise. And

1486
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:31,880
Speaker 1: I don't know not to get to grim on a

1487
01:19:31,920 --> 01:19:36,200
Speaker 1: Saturday morning, but sometimes like you just think about like death,

1488
01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:41,080
Speaker 1: and man, I'm happy to be alive. Like death is

1489
01:19:41,120 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 1: basically like you know, it's over, you're done. You know,

1490
01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 1: we're playing soccer when we're complaining about picking your kids

1491
01:19:48,640 --> 01:19:51,880
Speaker 1: up from school or telling them to clean their plate. Um,

1492
01:19:52,120 --> 01:19:54,560
Speaker 1: it's all gone. So I just have have fun, enjoy it.

1493
01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:58,360
Speaker 1: That's why, like you know, I'm starting to have more

1494
01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:02,280
Speaker 1: fun than I've ever really had, I think as an adult, um,

1495
01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 1: just because I'm prioritizing it. And again I I've you know,

1496
01:20:05,640 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 1: it came from the East Coast. I spent my entire

1497
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:12,760
Speaker 1: life in basically the northeast, um and it's just a

1498
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:15,200
Speaker 1: different mindset over there. It's like you work done to five.

1499
01:20:15,280 --> 01:20:18,599
Speaker 1: You work, and then you can play after nine to five,

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01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:20,960
Speaker 1: and you can play on the weekends. But you're working.

1501
01:20:21,680 --> 01:20:24,720
Speaker 1: And out here it's just like, you know what, have fun, man,

1502
01:20:25,720 --> 01:20:28,320
Speaker 1: and you're also working. You're working your butt off, but

1503
01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:31,720
Speaker 1: you're prioritizing fun and you and and and and and

1504
01:20:33,320 --> 01:20:35,760
Speaker 1: doing things that're gonna make you happy whenever you want.

1505
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:38,360
Speaker 1: And you know you've got good people you work for

1506
01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:41,000
Speaker 1: and hopefully and you know, I met with a couple

1507
01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:44,040
Speaker 1: of Fox uh folks this week and things are good.

1508
01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:47,040
Speaker 1: Things are very good. I'm very excited about my direction

1509
01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:50,200
Speaker 1: at Fox and FS one and the podcast is doing

1510
01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:52,599
Speaker 1: well and like life is good. So I'm gonna enjoy

1511
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:55,160
Speaker 1: it because during football season, you guys know this, it's

1512
01:20:55,240 --> 01:21:01,160
Speaker 1: full tilt, seven days a week, hardcore gambling. I've got

1513
01:21:01,280 --> 01:21:03,479
Speaker 1: a place in the super contest, but at any rate,

1514
01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:06,800
Speaker 1: final hour coming up next to your Fox Sports Radio.

1515
01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:10,720
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

1516
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:13,759
Speaker 1: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports

1517
01:21:13,880 --> 01:21:16,960
Speaker 1: Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app.

1518
01:21:17,040 --> 01:21:21,800
Speaker 1: Search f s R to listen live our number three

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01:21:22,040 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 1: Ladies and Gentlemen. High noon on the East Coast. It's

1520
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:30,200
Speaker 1: me Jason McIntyre here on Fox Sports Radio. First two

1521
01:21:30,240 --> 01:21:34,960
Speaker 1: hours flew by and topping the final hour, we have

1522
01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:41,639
Speaker 1: a great Euro matchup Portlands. Up to Portlands Portugal and Germany.

1523
01:21:41,720 --> 01:21:45,240
Speaker 1: I see po R and read on the TV that's

1524
01:21:45,280 --> 01:21:50,360
Speaker 1: Portugal with Christiano Ronaldo who had um a free kick

1525
01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:53,200
Speaker 1: that was a goal in the last game Portugal played

1526
01:21:53,240 --> 01:21:55,760
Speaker 1: in another facing Germany, which is in must win after

1527
01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 1: losing to France. Um. I didn't look at a line here,

1528
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:02,400
Speaker 1: but I would assume that Germany's favorite Germany is a

1529
01:22:02,520 --> 01:22:05,800
Speaker 1: very strong squad Portugal less. So I don't know how

1530
01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:07,680
Speaker 1: many people are. By the way, I was saying, are

1531
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:11,479
Speaker 1: you into Euro at all? Um? No, you haven't watched

1532
01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:15,040
Speaker 1: any games? I have not, Ryan, how many Euro games

1533
01:22:15,080 --> 01:22:17,680
Speaker 1: have you watched? I've I've I've seen them on here

1534
01:22:17,760 --> 01:22:19,720
Speaker 1: at work. I haven't gone out of my way to

1535
01:22:19,960 --> 01:22:21,960
Speaker 1: watch any of them, but I enjoy having them on here.

1536
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:27,679
Speaker 1: Well I'm surprised, you know, I don't know if soccer

1537
01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:29,680
Speaker 1: was the sport I played a lot growing up, and

1538
01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:32,960
Speaker 1: again I recently bought a soccer team, so I'm obviously

1539
01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:35,720
Speaker 1: way into it. And it's funny because I listened. I

1540
01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 1: was listening to this old podcast where Sam Hinky was

1541
01:22:39,040 --> 01:22:42,400
Speaker 1: talking about analytics, and I start diving into soccer analytics.

1542
01:22:42,439 --> 01:22:44,360
Speaker 1: And it's funny because in the sports where there is

1543
01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:48,519
Speaker 1: high variants u a k A. Lots of scoring, like

1544
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:53,160
Speaker 1: say basketball, um, you can find a treasure trove of

1545
01:22:53,200 --> 01:22:56,800
Speaker 1: analytics in soccer, where there's much less variants, I mean

1546
01:22:57,000 --> 01:22:59,920
Speaker 1: zero zero one, zero to one, not a ton of scoring,

1547
01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:02,559
Speaker 1: not as many analytics, so you really gotta dig deep.

1548
01:23:02,600 --> 01:23:04,200
Speaker 1: And of course I start talking to the other owners

1549
01:23:04,240 --> 01:23:07,400
Speaker 1: in the group and it's like kind of exciting. I mean, seriously,

1550
01:23:07,400 --> 01:23:10,400
Speaker 1: being an owner and anything is very cool and fun. So, uh,

1551
01:23:10,640 --> 01:23:12,559
Speaker 1: it's just I'm calling it the Summer's Soccer. I will

1552
01:23:12,680 --> 01:23:15,960
Speaker 1: try to play soccer at least a couple of times

1553
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:18,479
Speaker 1: a month here this summer. It's a great workout. Um.

1554
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:21,200
Speaker 1: But obviously basketball is still my number one sport to

1555
01:23:21,320 --> 01:23:25,080
Speaker 1: play football. You can't play pick up football. I can't

1556
01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:26,839
Speaker 1: remember the last time I played a pick up football

1557
01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:28,920
Speaker 1: game or a flag football game. But I do want

1558
01:23:28,960 --> 01:23:31,840
Speaker 1: to give a quick shout out. Um, I've mentioned this

1559
01:23:32,040 --> 01:23:34,719
Speaker 1: on Instagram, but you know, my son is into sports

1560
01:23:35,360 --> 01:23:38,800
Speaker 1: and some of it has to do with dad pushing him. Yes,

1561
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 1: just a little bit of nudging. And we have a friend,

1562
01:23:42,320 --> 01:23:45,680
Speaker 1: you know my They moved here from England, and you know,

1563
01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:47,320
Speaker 1: their son and my son were in the same first

1564
01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 1: grade class and they hit it off, and uh, he's

1565
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:52,519
Speaker 1: a really good athlete. So he played flag football for

1566
01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:57,280
Speaker 1: the first time this past season. And I know a

1567
01:23:57,400 --> 01:24:00,599
Speaker 1: coach in football who basically you know, he is hardcore.

1568
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:02,840
Speaker 1: He has like this playbook he carries around with him.

1569
01:24:02,840 --> 01:24:04,519
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, dad, life is a real thing when

1570
01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 1: it comes to get dads sports. He's like so intense.

1571
01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 1: And he had never won the they called the BCS

1572
01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:12,320
Speaker 1: Championship for youth football in our area, had been to

1573
01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:15,240
Speaker 1: the title game twice, lost both. They had two undefeated

1574
01:24:15,280 --> 01:24:17,840
Speaker 1: seasons and they had lost in the playoffs. And this

1575
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:20,559
Speaker 1: guy asked me, like, I don't know, three months ago, Hey, Jason,

1576
01:24:20,640 --> 01:24:23,400
Speaker 1: do you know any good like football? Players and he

1577
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:25,720
Speaker 1: like diamonds in the rough and I go, oh, yeah,

1578
01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:28,519
Speaker 1: I got this kid who who you may be interested in. Um.

1579
01:24:29,320 --> 01:24:31,439
Speaker 1: His name is Max. He's friends with my buddy, with

1580
01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:35,160
Speaker 1: my son, and I know his dad, and you know

1581
01:24:35,200 --> 01:24:36,880
Speaker 1: he's a good player. He's never played before, but I'm

1582
01:24:36,920 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 1: telling you he's an athlete. And he said, Okay, can

1583
01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:40,840
Speaker 1: you send him. We're gonna do this like practice with

1584
01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:42,320
Speaker 1: some guys, just for fun. I want to see what

1585
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:45,360
Speaker 1: he's And of course he text me back, Oh my gosh,

1586
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:48,720
Speaker 1: this guy's amazing. Don't tell anyone about him. I'd love

1587
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:51,879
Speaker 1: to draft him, so I don't mention it to anybody.

1588
01:24:52,880 --> 01:24:56,880
Speaker 1: My friend drafts my son's friend. Oh, we have a

1589
01:24:56,920 --> 01:25:02,719
Speaker 1: goal already from Germany. Wow, holy cow, beautiful cross. Where

1590
01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:06,519
Speaker 1: it is? Iwa Sam quick on the draw and the

1591
01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:08,760
Speaker 1: Germans are on the board. Just four minutes in. Now

1592
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:13,080
Speaker 1: wait a second, Portugal is claiming there's a handball the referee.

1593
01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:14,400
Speaker 1: We don't know if they're gonna go to v a

1594
01:25:14,520 --> 01:25:18,440
Speaker 1: R yet. Ronaldo is in the referee's face, yelling vociferously.

1595
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:20,120
Speaker 1: But the Germans are on the board. Will check the

1596
01:25:20,160 --> 01:25:23,720
Speaker 1: replay at any rate. Going back to my story, so

1597
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:27,400
Speaker 1: my buddy drafts my son's friend. His name is Max.

1598
01:25:27,479 --> 01:25:32,000
Speaker 1: He's he's a young nine, he's about to turn ten.

1599
01:25:32,120 --> 01:25:37,559
Speaker 1: I think in like a week. My my son Uh

1600
01:25:37,720 --> 01:25:39,640
Speaker 1: and him play sports together, so I know this guy

1601
01:25:39,720 --> 01:25:42,360
Speaker 1: is a good athlete. He goes to this kid. They

1602
01:25:42,439 --> 01:25:46,240
Speaker 1: go undefeated. They play the championship game at so Fi

1603
01:25:46,479 --> 01:25:51,160
Speaker 1: Stadium last week, Yes, Sofi Stadium, and they win the

1604
01:25:51,240 --> 01:25:55,840
Speaker 1: title twenties six nothing, and my son's friend, this kid,

1605
01:25:56,479 --> 01:26:00,400
Speaker 1: UH score a touchdown. He was like, I'm telling you

1606
01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:05,800
Speaker 1: never want to overreact on kids when they're young. You know,

1607
01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:08,960
Speaker 1: whoever is the early maturing kid is the best and

1608
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:13,200
Speaker 1: most dominant. Sometimes they fall off. I'm telling you, guys,

1609
01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 1: this kid is going to be a football player. I

1610
01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:20,679
Speaker 1: could tell it. His parents are smart, his parents aren't

1611
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:24,040
Speaker 1: that tall. But he's big. He's gigantic, he's fast, he's strong,

1612
01:26:25,040 --> 01:26:27,840
Speaker 1: and he's got the work ethic. And you know, I

1613
01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 1: asked the coach that was he the best player and

1614
01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:30,800
Speaker 1: he's like, well, you know, we got we got a

1615
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:32,519
Speaker 1: bunch of good players. But it's pretty clear he put

1616
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:34,640
Speaker 1: us over the top, scored a touchdown. He had to

1617
01:26:34,720 --> 01:26:37,519
Speaker 1: pick six in like the the league championship game to

1618
01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:40,439
Speaker 1: put him in the Super Bowl, UM, and shout out

1619
01:26:40,439 --> 01:26:42,799
Speaker 1: to him and his family. They're moving back unfortunately London,

1620
01:26:43,080 --> 01:26:46,320
Speaker 1: so I've told them my goal is to find football

1621
01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:48,839
Speaker 1: programs in London, and it's tough to find an American

1622
01:26:48,840 --> 01:26:51,599
Speaker 1: football program in London. It's all soccer over there. UM.

1623
01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:55,840
Speaker 1: And I do believe he will be college scholarship worthy.

1624
01:26:55,840 --> 01:26:57,760
Speaker 1: I'm telling you you can kind of see it in

1625
01:26:57,880 --> 01:27:01,840
Speaker 1: some kids, and he's like a young kid. He's not

1626
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:05,519
Speaker 1: early maturing. He's just really big, um, which I guess

1627
01:27:05,560 --> 01:27:08,200
Speaker 1: technically could be early maturing. But he's really good. Ny.

1628
01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:10,559
Speaker 1: We won the championship, so congrats to them, and also

1629
01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:14,320
Speaker 1: shout out to the league's that let youth football play

1630
01:27:14,439 --> 01:27:19,680
Speaker 1: at NFL stadiums like it was amazing. Uh, a great experience. UM.

1631
01:27:19,840 --> 01:27:24,519
Speaker 1: Update on Euro turns out the German goal does come

1632
01:27:24,800 --> 01:27:28,000
Speaker 1: off the board. No goal for the Germans, so we

1633
01:27:28,080 --> 01:27:30,360
Speaker 1: are not at at zero. Ryan. Did you see if

1634
01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:32,559
Speaker 1: it was a red call a red car or I'm sorry,

1635
01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:34,720
Speaker 1: was it a handball or was it all sides? It

1636
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:37,400
Speaker 1: looks like it was a handball. Uh. And one of

1637
01:27:37,479 --> 01:27:40,040
Speaker 1: the German players kind of fell down and as he

1638
01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:42,479
Speaker 1: was falling down, the ball hit off of his forearm

1639
01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:45,599
Speaker 1: and then they retained possession and costly. Thank you Ryan

1640
01:27:45,680 --> 01:27:47,439
Speaker 1: for the update. I know you're not a big soccer guy,

1641
01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:50,960
Speaker 1: but I'm into it and I do say. Yesterday I

1642
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:54,160
Speaker 1: did The Dan Patrick Show with Doug Gottlieb and as

1643
01:27:54,200 --> 01:27:58,439
Speaker 1: we're doing the opening segment, I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, Doug,

1644
01:27:58,479 --> 01:28:01,360
Speaker 1: you gotta stop. Kemba Walkers just got traded. And it

1645
01:28:01,479 --> 01:28:05,280
Speaker 1: was like, I love live sports as they're happening in

1646
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:08,120
Speaker 1: the middle of the radio show. Now. I know producers

1647
01:28:08,160 --> 01:28:09,599
Speaker 1: do not love that. They're like, hey, man, you gotta

1648
01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:12,120
Speaker 1: stay on topic, and I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,

1649
01:28:12,280 --> 01:28:14,920
Speaker 1: no no. The people like the energy. The people like

1650
01:28:15,080 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 1: to feel the real time. You're in your car. You're

1651
01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:19,719
Speaker 1: going to get donuts for the family on a Saturday morning,

1652
01:28:20,040 --> 01:28:23,200
Speaker 1: you want to pick up breakfast, schools out, the kids

1653
01:28:23,240 --> 01:28:26,960
Speaker 1: are unruly, you're going out to the park, You're you're

1654
01:28:27,000 --> 01:28:29,000
Speaker 1: driving to the beach, and you're listening to this in

1655
01:28:29,080 --> 01:28:32,680
Speaker 1: real time and you're like, man, this is a fun show. Um,

1656
01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:37,080
Speaker 1: I just love real time scoring. It's just exciting. Um,

1657
01:28:37,200 --> 01:28:40,720
Speaker 1: So anyways, this hour we will do UM. We got

1658
01:28:40,800 --> 01:28:44,040
Speaker 1: a gambling guy coming up to handicap the game seven's Um,

1659
01:28:45,080 --> 01:28:48,360
Speaker 1: I was gonna really wax poetic on Trey Young and

1660
01:28:48,439 --> 01:28:50,680
Speaker 1: his greatness, but they ended up losing last night. I'm

1661
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:54,360
Speaker 1: just saying Tray Young I underestimated him. I really thought

1662
01:28:54,439 --> 01:28:57,320
Speaker 1: he would be a very good player, you know, all star,

1663
01:28:57,640 --> 01:29:00,519
Speaker 1: but couldn't defend anybody. Tray Young is all ready become

1664
01:29:00,560 --> 01:29:05,559
Speaker 1: a stud Holy cow. You can see why there were

1665
01:29:05,720 --> 01:29:08,640
Speaker 1: flashes of maybe this guy could be, you know, a

1666
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:11,679
Speaker 1: little bit of a poor man Steph Curry. Um. He's

1667
01:29:11,720 --> 01:29:16,720
Speaker 1: not Curry and he won't reach Curry, but he's very good.

1668
01:29:17,240 --> 01:29:22,760
Speaker 1: Poor man's Curry is not like a knock on Entree Young. Um.

1669
01:29:23,160 --> 01:29:27,479
Speaker 1: On the other side, my man Ben Simmons has really

1670
01:29:27,600 --> 01:29:31,960
Speaker 1: struggled and he's almost unplayable in the fourth quarter because

1671
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:36,680
Speaker 1: they foul him and he can't make free throws. And

1672
01:29:36,840 --> 01:29:39,439
Speaker 1: it's just one of these situations where I feel bad

1673
01:29:39,600 --> 01:29:41,880
Speaker 1: for a being wrong about Ben Simmons and be like,

1674
01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:45,479
Speaker 1: what's his meant? What's his like mind? Like right now

1675
01:29:45,920 --> 01:29:48,519
Speaker 1: he's gotta be Fridays making thirty million dollars. He can't

1676
01:29:48,520 --> 01:29:50,080
Speaker 1: make a free throw to save his life. I saw

1677
01:29:50,080 --> 01:29:52,080
Speaker 1: a funny stat that the Phoenix Suns had made more

1678
01:29:52,160 --> 01:29:56,200
Speaker 1: free throws in the playoffs. Man, sorry, missed fewer free

1679
01:29:56,240 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 1: throws in the playoffs than Ben Simmons. He's missed like

1680
01:29:58,479 --> 01:30:02,519
Speaker 1: thirty eight thirty nine free throws in the playoffs and

1681
01:30:02,600 --> 01:30:04,400
Speaker 1: the Sons have missed like thirty five. By the way,

1682
01:30:04,439 --> 01:30:06,240
Speaker 1: the Sons have been off for a week. And I

1683
01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:10,880
Speaker 1: will be writing up how to bet Sons Clippers in

1684
01:30:10,960 --> 01:30:13,040
Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals. If you follow me on the Graham,

1685
01:30:13,080 --> 01:30:16,559
Speaker 1: you already know my pick. I will be betting that. Um.

1686
01:30:16,760 --> 01:30:18,719
Speaker 1: But we'll we'll get into a deep dive a little

1687
01:30:18,800 --> 01:30:21,759
Speaker 1: later with our guests coming up in nine thirty Pacific,

1688
01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:25,640
Speaker 1: so about twenty minutes, um. But yeah, I don't. I

1689
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:27,719
Speaker 1: want to come up with some fake Ben Simmons trades.

1690
01:30:27,760 --> 01:30:33,000
Speaker 1: I have three. I heard an interesting one last night

1691
01:30:33,080 --> 01:30:35,040
Speaker 1: when I was I texted some NBA people and I

1692
01:30:35,120 --> 01:30:38,880
Speaker 1: heard a really interesting one. And again, you guys know

1693
01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:42,000
Speaker 1: how to operate business right. You buy low, sell high

1694
01:30:42,200 --> 01:30:47,880
Speaker 1: everything in life, stock market, NBA players, NFL players by low,

1695
01:30:48,680 --> 01:30:52,720
Speaker 1: sell high. So just know if you are if the

1696
01:30:52,800 --> 01:30:56,400
Speaker 1: Sixers end up trading Ben Simmons, they are selling extremely low.

1697
01:30:56,439 --> 01:31:00,479
Speaker 1: Because you remember early on this season. The talk was, oh,

1698
01:31:01,400 --> 01:31:04,160
Speaker 1: James Harden wants out of Houston. Well, he would love

1699
01:31:04,240 --> 01:31:06,240
Speaker 1: to go be with Darryl Moorey again reunited and it

1700
01:31:06,320 --> 01:31:09,120
Speaker 1: feels so good in Philly. What about Ben Simmons for Harden?

1701
01:31:10,040 --> 01:31:13,479
Speaker 1: That was the talk. Ain't no way on Earth you're

1702
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:15,800
Speaker 1: getting that kind of value for Ben Simmons now, given

1703
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:18,240
Speaker 1: that he's basically unplayable. But I have a I have

1704
01:31:18,280 --> 01:31:21,040
Speaker 1: a strategy. I think you can still get a bargain

1705
01:31:21,120 --> 01:31:24,320
Speaker 1: basement deal for Ben Simmons and whoever trades for him

1706
01:31:24,360 --> 01:31:27,679
Speaker 1: is going to win the deal. Ben Simmons is still

1707
01:31:27,800 --> 01:31:30,560
Speaker 1: a really, really talented player in this league. It's just

1708
01:31:30,640 --> 01:31:33,639
Speaker 1: a clunky fit in Philly. It's clearly not working out.

1709
01:31:34,920 --> 01:31:37,559
Speaker 1: I imagine how Ben Simmons feels. He was on top

1710
01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:41,160
Speaker 1: of the world like two years ago, right, um, they

1711
01:31:41,200 --> 01:31:43,679
Speaker 1: were super close to going to the Eastern Conference finals.

1712
01:31:44,920 --> 01:31:48,240
Speaker 1: He's dating Kendall Jenner, He's about to sign a big contract,

1713
01:31:48,320 --> 01:31:51,400
Speaker 1: Like everything's good and now it's all fallen apart, and

1714
01:31:51,479 --> 01:31:53,800
Speaker 1: you can make a Kardashian joke here. That being said.

1715
01:31:54,600 --> 01:31:56,640
Speaker 1: On the flip side, Kendall Jenner has moved on to

1716
01:31:57,280 --> 01:32:02,200
Speaker 1: Devin Booker, who now is treating the Sons in four fan,

1717
01:32:02,320 --> 01:32:03,760
Speaker 1: the guy that I'm sure you saw in the video

1718
01:32:03,840 --> 01:32:07,000
Speaker 1: beat the tar out of some Utah fan who the

1719
01:32:07,120 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 1: Utah fans started it, by the way, And this is

1720
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:11,840
Speaker 1: why you don't pick fights with random dudes. The Phoenix

1721
01:32:11,880 --> 01:32:14,320
Speaker 1: Suns fan just pulverize this guy. And he didn't even

1722
01:32:14,360 --> 01:32:16,280
Speaker 1: have the he had the low ground. Usually, if you

1723
01:32:16,320 --> 01:32:18,080
Speaker 1: have the high ground, you want to fight, you want

1724
01:32:18,080 --> 01:32:21,160
Speaker 1: a battle. You picked a fight from the high ground

1725
01:32:21,160 --> 01:32:24,679
Speaker 1: and you got your teeth knocked in. So Devin Booker's

1726
01:32:24,720 --> 01:32:27,840
Speaker 1: made friends with this guy, has invited into the game. Um,

1727
01:32:28,120 --> 01:32:33,479
Speaker 1: Devin Booker's dating Kendall Jenner. He has an old school

1728
01:32:34,640 --> 01:32:40,240
Speaker 1: retrocar flotilla that will make anybody jealous. I mean it is.

1729
01:32:40,520 --> 01:32:43,519
Speaker 1: It's in crazy group of cars that he's got, you know,

1730
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:45,880
Speaker 1: these like low riders. It really looks awesome. He takes

1731
01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:48,519
Speaker 1: like a different one to a game every day, living

1732
01:32:48,600 --> 01:32:51,080
Speaker 1: in Phoenix, living a dream, really making a ton of money.

1733
01:32:51,640 --> 01:32:53,400
Speaker 1: And he's in the Western Conference finals and he's had

1734
01:32:53,439 --> 01:32:58,400
Speaker 1: a week off because they swept the Denver Nuggets. Like Devin,

1735
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:01,479
Speaker 1: Devin Bookers on top of the world right now. I

1736
01:33:01,520 --> 01:33:04,320
Speaker 1: think he's going to the NBA Finals. Life is good.

1737
01:33:04,360 --> 01:33:06,400
Speaker 1: If you're Devin Booker, you'd never want it, never been

1738
01:33:06,439 --> 01:33:09,000
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, and now all of a sudden, boom,

1739
01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:11,760
Speaker 1: here you are and shout out to Devin Booker and

1740
01:33:11,800 --> 01:33:14,840
Speaker 1: the son's obviously Chris Paul instrumental in that. Um, so

1741
01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:18,360
Speaker 1: we'll do Ben Simmons fake trades after this. I do, UM,

1742
01:33:18,680 --> 01:33:20,920
Speaker 1: I do this fun thing now. I learned it from

1743
01:33:21,000 --> 01:33:24,320
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan. I know he's kind of polarizing, but I

1744
01:33:24,400 --> 01:33:26,479
Speaker 1: haven't listened to him and forever because he moved to Spotify.

1745
01:33:26,479 --> 01:33:28,760
Speaker 1: By the way, did you guys notice this? Are you

1746
01:33:28,920 --> 01:33:32,720
Speaker 1: listening to Joe Rogan as much? Ryan and Sam? I

1747
01:33:32,760 --> 01:33:34,720
Speaker 1: I have not listened to an episode of his and

1748
01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:37,599
Speaker 1: maybe a year. It's been a while. Yeah, I don't.

1749
01:33:37,640 --> 01:33:39,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's incredibly popular. I just I

1750
01:33:39,640 --> 01:33:43,599
Speaker 1: don't really consume his product. Yeah, I though. Yeah, that's

1751
01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:46,040
Speaker 1: the thing. Like it's like Howard Stern. You know, Howard

1752
01:33:46,080 --> 01:33:48,800
Speaker 1: Stern is okay, but his interviews are amazing. Joe Rogan

1753
01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:51,240
Speaker 1: is what he is. Um, but I love how he

1754
01:33:51,280 --> 01:33:57,960
Speaker 1: gets interviews with just super random people that I find interesting, Um, philosophers, health, weirdos,

1755
01:33:58,360 --> 01:34:00,439
Speaker 1: like He's just got a lot of interesting dudes on there,

1756
01:34:00,479 --> 01:34:02,479
Speaker 1: and you learn a lot from his guests, less him,

1757
01:34:02,560 --> 01:34:05,639
Speaker 1: but it's mostly his guests. I just I'm with Ryan

1758
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:09,320
Speaker 1: though since he moved to Spotify. I might have listened

1759
01:34:09,320 --> 01:34:11,559
Speaker 1: to one episode in the last year because I'm an

1760
01:34:11,600 --> 01:34:15,000
Speaker 1: iTunes guy and I don't really do a lot of Spotify,

1761
01:34:15,360 --> 01:34:19,240
Speaker 1: and you know, I just I don't consume Rogan anymore.

1762
01:34:19,280 --> 01:34:21,840
Speaker 1: But he taught me something interesting and not taught me,

1763
01:34:21,960 --> 01:34:26,080
Speaker 1: but he says he would go on to Twitter basically

1764
01:34:26,200 --> 01:34:28,439
Speaker 1: drop a loaded statement like it was a grenade and

1765
01:34:28,520 --> 01:34:31,920
Speaker 1: walk away and not go back. So what I did

1766
01:34:32,040 --> 01:34:35,160
Speaker 1: before this top of the final hour, I dropped the grenade.

1767
01:34:36,400 --> 01:34:38,320
Speaker 1: I said, here are the top five coaches in the

1768
01:34:38,400 --> 01:34:42,679
Speaker 1: NBA right now, and then here like the next group,

1769
01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:46,880
Speaker 1: and then I just closed Twitter out. So in real time,

1770
01:34:46,880 --> 01:34:53,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna oh, oh, Portugal takes the lead. Wow, what

1771
01:34:53,160 --> 01:34:56,080
Speaker 1: a ball and it looks like Ronaldo finished it and

1772
01:34:56,240 --> 01:35:02,719
Speaker 1: particles on the board fifteen minutes in. Wow, Christiano Ronaldo.

1773
01:35:02,760 --> 01:35:05,680
Speaker 1: I mean, the the deep ball was perfect and the guy,

1774
01:35:05,760 --> 01:35:08,200
Speaker 1: the goalie had to come up. They center it to Ronaldo. Gold.

1775
01:35:08,200 --> 01:35:10,320
Speaker 1: Now the referee's gonna go look to see if he

1776
01:35:10,439 --> 01:35:14,280
Speaker 1: was on side, and you know, get that in a

1777
01:35:14,360 --> 01:35:17,640
Speaker 1: sec Yeah. Oh, a nice little run out and it

1778
01:35:17,840 --> 01:35:22,439
Speaker 1: looks like he is on side, on side, on side. Oh,

1779
01:35:22,680 --> 01:35:24,879
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be off by like a fraction.

1780
01:35:25,280 --> 01:35:29,360
Speaker 1: Now the linesman did not put it up. Beautiful centering

1781
01:35:29,400 --> 01:35:32,760
Speaker 1: to Ronaldo for the goal. It stands as of now

1782
01:35:33,840 --> 01:35:36,719
Speaker 1: Ronaldo with the easy tap in. You know he flexes

1783
01:35:36,760 --> 01:35:42,120
Speaker 1: on the sideline because he's rocked up. Um, it looks

1784
01:35:42,120 --> 01:35:44,880
Speaker 1: like it's gonna stand. So um. I dropped my top

1785
01:35:44,960 --> 01:35:47,400
Speaker 1: five coaches in the NBA because all these people are

1786
01:35:47,439 --> 01:35:50,240
Speaker 1: yelling at me about Tylo Tylo Tylou, I said, top

1787
01:35:50,280 --> 01:35:52,360
Speaker 1: five coaches. I'm going to check it now. Nick Nurse,

1788
01:35:52,479 --> 01:35:55,840
Speaker 1: no order, Nick Nurse of the Raptors, Frank Vogel of

1789
01:35:55,920 --> 01:36:01,439
Speaker 1: the Lakers, spoilstra Miami Popovich of thes Steve Kerr of

1790
01:36:01,479 --> 01:36:09,000
Speaker 1: Golden State, Okay, five to ten range, Monty Williams of Phoenix.

1791
01:36:09,160 --> 01:36:13,080
Speaker 1: I mean he's been incredible this year. Tom Thibodeau of

1792
01:36:13,160 --> 01:36:15,439
Speaker 1: the Knicks. By the way, Monty Williams was in pretty

1793
01:36:15,479 --> 01:36:18,639
Speaker 1: good in New Orleans. Uh. Thibodeau was the Knicks. Quinn

1794
01:36:18,680 --> 01:36:21,519
Speaker 1: Snyder of Utah Michael Malone of Denver. So I leave

1795
01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:23,840
Speaker 1: Tyler out. I don't think he's a top ten coach. Sorry,

1796
01:36:25,320 --> 01:36:29,600
Speaker 1: and man, people going all in on me, upset and

1797
01:36:29,760 --> 01:36:32,519
Speaker 1: angry as they are wont to do, but who cares.

1798
01:36:32,600 --> 01:36:35,280
Speaker 1: It's Twitter. I don't think I care. Coming up next

1799
01:36:35,360 --> 01:36:37,719
Speaker 1: year and by the way, the goal stands for Portugal,

1800
01:36:38,200 --> 01:36:42,240
Speaker 1: Germany had one wiped out and you know the Germans

1801
01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:46,320
Speaker 1: cannot lose this and expect to advance that that would

1802
01:36:46,360 --> 01:36:49,640
Speaker 1: not be good, very very bad. If they lose this,

1803
01:36:50,520 --> 01:36:53,000
Speaker 1: that would mean they the Germans would have to beat Hungary,

1804
01:36:54,080 --> 01:36:58,240
Speaker 1: possibly by multiple goals to advance. Um, but it's early,

1805
01:36:58,320 --> 01:37:01,000
Speaker 1: it's very early in these games turned quite Remember Denmark

1806
01:37:01,160 --> 01:37:04,720
Speaker 1: led um Belgium one nothing and Belgium came back and

1807
01:37:04,800 --> 01:37:07,720
Speaker 1: one two to one. So coming up next we'll do

1808
01:37:07,800 --> 01:37:10,599
Speaker 1: those Ben Simmons fake trades. A lot of fun. That's

1809
01:37:10,640 --> 01:37:14,360
Speaker 1: next year on Fox Sports Radio. Back here on Fox

1810
01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:20,040
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, got um Bernie Fratto from Vegas coming up

1811
01:37:20,120 --> 01:37:23,120
Speaker 1: in seven minutes. He's uh gonna tell us where the

1812
01:37:23,240 --> 01:37:28,040
Speaker 1: smart money is on Bucks nets and of course Game

1813
01:37:28,080 --> 01:37:31,800
Speaker 1: seven Hawks sixers, although it's gonna be a tough sell

1814
01:37:31,880 --> 01:37:35,200
Speaker 1: to bet the Hawks in Game seven on the road.

1815
01:37:35,439 --> 01:37:38,560
Speaker 1: Just remember Game five. They needed a luck box to

1816
01:37:38,640 --> 01:37:44,200
Speaker 1: win that. Similarly too, the Brooklyn Nets and Kevin Durant

1817
01:37:44,439 --> 01:37:47,120
Speaker 1: historic performance to beat the Bucks. I just I don't

1818
01:37:47,160 --> 01:37:50,160
Speaker 1: know if they can do that again. I'm almost certain

1819
01:37:50,479 --> 01:37:54,200
Speaker 1: Philadelphia will not collapse like that again. Although Doc Rivers

1820
01:37:54,479 --> 01:37:57,559
Speaker 1: is known as a choke artist. And it's funny because

1821
01:37:57,600 --> 01:37:59,680
Speaker 1: the movie eight Mile is on cable right now and

1822
01:37:59,760 --> 01:38:03,280
Speaker 1: we have in the studio four different TVs and eight

1823
01:38:03,400 --> 01:38:06,760
Speaker 1: Miles on one of them, Euro on another. But it

1824
01:38:06,960 --> 01:38:09,800
Speaker 1: is funny because you know, I have the eight Mile

1825
01:38:09,960 --> 01:38:13,679
Speaker 1: wrap off saved on my iTunes back when you could

1826
01:38:13,680 --> 01:38:16,840
Speaker 1: like download stuff illegally. You know somebody would post it.

1827
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:20,400
Speaker 1: And of course I love the wrap off at the end,

1828
01:38:21,840 --> 01:38:24,640
Speaker 1: and one of the guys says, to be rabbit, this

1829
01:38:24,760 --> 01:38:27,720
Speaker 1: guy's a choke artist. You catch a bad one and

1830
01:38:27,760 --> 01:38:29,920
Speaker 1: then I gotta stop wrapping it because there's a lot

1831
01:38:30,000 --> 01:38:33,880
Speaker 1: of bad words and stuff. But Dr Rivers has been

1832
01:38:33,880 --> 01:38:36,960
Speaker 1: a choke artist in the playoffs, only coach in NBA

1833
01:38:37,040 --> 01:38:40,479
Speaker 1: history to blow three three to one leads. And boy,

1834
01:38:40,560 --> 01:38:43,280
Speaker 1: after that Game five melt at home, you knew they

1835
01:38:43,320 --> 01:38:47,120
Speaker 1: were in trouble, but they survived. Last night, bought strong

1836
01:38:47,520 --> 01:38:52,759
Speaker 1: fourth second half from Seth Curry. Imagine Seth Curry bails

1837
01:38:52,800 --> 01:38:57,960
Speaker 1: you out. Seth Curry one of the Mavericks, regret training him,

1838
01:38:58,000 --> 01:39:00,720
Speaker 1: and that Josh Richardson deal? What a doester? Now? Was

1839
01:39:00,760 --> 01:39:04,559
Speaker 1: that Donny or is that Cuban? At any rate, let's

1840
01:39:04,600 --> 01:39:08,840
Speaker 1: go for some fake Ben Simmons traits. Um, I'll start

1841
01:39:08,880 --> 01:39:10,759
Speaker 1: in the East. I put this one out on Cowherd

1842
01:39:10,800 --> 01:39:18,960
Speaker 1: too yesterday because it makes mostly sense for both teams.

1843
01:39:20,320 --> 01:39:22,519
Speaker 1: The Washington Wizards just are not going to be able

1844
01:39:22,560 --> 01:39:24,559
Speaker 1: to land free agents. They are in a major market,

1845
01:39:24,640 --> 01:39:28,240
Speaker 1: but they're just the infrastructure is not there. There's nobody.

1846
01:39:28,360 --> 01:39:30,320
Speaker 1: I mean, they had Wall and Beal and they couldn't

1847
01:39:30,320 --> 01:39:36,320
Speaker 1: break through. And Bill has one year left remaining before

1848
01:39:36,360 --> 01:39:40,439
Speaker 1: he can become an unrestricted free agent. So if you're

1849
01:39:40,560 --> 01:39:44,720
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal and you don't commit to the Whiz as

1850
01:39:44,800 --> 01:39:49,040
Speaker 1: they did not, they did not commit Bradley Bill did

1851
01:39:49,080 --> 01:39:51,000
Speaker 1: not committ to the Wizz after that playoff series loss,

1852
01:39:52,160 --> 01:39:55,559
Speaker 1: you can basically call your shot. I want to go here? Well,

1853
01:39:56,000 --> 01:39:58,760
Speaker 1: do you want to go down to Philly play with

1854
01:39:58,840 --> 01:40:02,400
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid? Now? You know and be needs shooting around him.

1855
01:40:02,920 --> 01:40:06,920
Speaker 1: You've a Bill Seth Curry, Tobias Harris when he when

1856
01:40:06,960 --> 01:40:09,000
Speaker 1: he shows up, Tobias Harris who makes the most money

1857
01:40:09,040 --> 01:40:12,880
Speaker 1: on the seventies sixers. If you swap Ben Simmons for

1858
01:40:12,880 --> 01:40:17,720
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal, a Sixers team has all the shooting. Now,

1859
01:40:17,840 --> 01:40:20,240
Speaker 1: if you're like, why does Washington do that? Well, you know,

1860
01:40:20,280 --> 01:40:23,000
Speaker 1: I know Westbrook was instrumental in being a driving force

1861
01:40:23,080 --> 01:40:28,080
Speaker 1: to get them to the playoffs. How does Westbrook and

1862
01:40:28,120 --> 01:40:31,400
Speaker 1: Simmons work when you've got two non shooters? And my

1863
01:40:31,560 --> 01:40:34,400
Speaker 1: comment would be, well, no disrespect, but who cares about

1864
01:40:34,439 --> 01:40:37,120
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook when you've got Ben Simmons who to build

1865
01:40:37,160 --> 01:40:41,000
Speaker 1: you can build around, Like, you know, Ben Simmons, what

1866
01:40:41,160 --> 01:40:45,559
Speaker 1: is he twenty five? He's twenty four years old, you're summer.

1867
01:40:46,040 --> 01:40:49,840
Speaker 1: Don't worry about Westbrook. He's like thirty two. You'll he'll play,

1868
01:40:49,920 --> 01:40:52,160
Speaker 1: You'll be a factor and you know it'll be gone

1869
01:40:52,200 --> 01:40:55,040
Speaker 1: in a couple of years. And you build around Ben Simmons.

1870
01:40:56,640 --> 01:40:59,719
Speaker 1: So Washington one appealing deal. Now another one is Portland.

1871
01:41:01,120 --> 01:41:04,200
Speaker 1: And it's funny because the Blazers four of the last

1872
01:41:04,240 --> 01:41:05,960
Speaker 1: five years have been knocked out in the first round.

1873
01:41:06,560 --> 01:41:11,320
Speaker 1: In between that they went to the conference finals, but

1874
01:41:11,439 --> 01:41:14,839
Speaker 1: the reality is they're really not conference finals worthy, especially

1875
01:41:14,880 --> 01:41:18,000
Speaker 1: in the stack. So what if you said, hey, Damon,

1876
01:41:18,080 --> 01:41:20,360
Speaker 1: c J had a good run, we will give you

1877
01:41:20,439 --> 01:41:23,360
Speaker 1: c J McCollum, and I don't know, sere little you

1878
01:41:23,479 --> 01:41:26,120
Speaker 1: toss and Robert coming to something to make the salaries

1879
01:41:26,160 --> 01:41:32,880
Speaker 1: match and again Philly gets an awesome shooter. You know

1880
01:41:33,040 --> 01:41:35,640
Speaker 1: have c J McCollum and Seth Curry. Now that's not

1881
01:41:35,680 --> 01:41:38,400
Speaker 1: a lot of defense in the backcourt. Um, but you've

1882
01:41:38,400 --> 01:41:42,719
Speaker 1: got the rim protector in Joel Embiid. And let's be realistic,

1883
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:47,360
Speaker 1: nobody plays much defense anymore. In the NBA, Utah was

1884
01:41:47,680 --> 01:41:51,920
Speaker 1: third and defensive efficiency and the Clippers absolutely torch them

1885
01:41:52,960 --> 01:41:55,120
Speaker 1: up and down the last two games, just did whatever

1886
01:41:55,160 --> 01:41:58,080
Speaker 1: they wanted. I already gave the stat in the opening segment,

1887
01:41:58,240 --> 01:42:01,080
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert in the final two games, the defensive player

1888
01:42:01,080 --> 01:42:03,800
Speaker 1: of the year, the stifle Tower had two blocks, zero

1889
01:42:03,880 --> 01:42:08,360
Speaker 1: blocks in the final two games. None. So if if

1890
01:42:08,360 --> 01:42:10,680
Speaker 1: you're Portland's and you want to get creative, I think

1891
01:42:10,720 --> 01:42:12,720
Speaker 1: you go all out. You say, you know what, I'm

1892
01:42:12,720 --> 01:42:17,800
Speaker 1: gonna go full contrarian and just try it. Because Dame

1893
01:42:17,880 --> 01:42:23,320
Speaker 1: Lillard turns thirty two this summer, and why the heck

1894
01:42:23,400 --> 01:42:27,960
Speaker 1: not I put Ben Simmons at the five. I take

1895
01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:30,679
Speaker 1: a little pressure off Dave and I make you know, basically,

1896
01:42:30,760 --> 01:42:33,320
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons the captain on my death lineup. I built

1897
01:42:33,360 --> 01:42:39,200
Speaker 1: around him. I start Simmons and Dame Ben Simmons, and

1898
01:42:39,439 --> 01:42:41,519
Speaker 1: you know, you find you find you go real small

1899
01:42:41,640 --> 01:42:44,120
Speaker 1: and guess what, you offense the heck out of everybody,

1900
01:42:44,760 --> 01:42:47,200
Speaker 1: and you try to go contrarian because guess what, You've

1901
01:42:47,240 --> 01:42:49,400
Speaker 1: tried everything else, You've tried the normal route. It's not

1902
01:42:49,439 --> 01:42:52,960
Speaker 1: gonna win. You can't stop your kitch. You can't stop

1903
01:42:53,000 --> 01:42:56,479
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. You can't play that style. You gotta try

1904
01:42:56,520 --> 01:42:58,680
Speaker 1: your own. So I would, I would entertain that. Now.

1905
01:42:58,720 --> 01:43:00,920
Speaker 1: I'm sure Philly fans are like, that's not enough for Ben. Well,

1906
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:04,000
Speaker 1: you know what is values down? And there is a

1907
01:43:04,160 --> 01:43:06,120
Speaker 1: Charlotte trade real quick before we get to our guest.

1908
01:43:08,080 --> 01:43:11,360
Speaker 1: But if I'm the Charlotte Hornets and I can have

1909
01:43:11,680 --> 01:43:15,960
Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball high I Q great passer, Ben Simmons high,

1910
01:43:16,000 --> 01:43:19,600
Speaker 1: I Q great passer, and you know I can give up.

1911
01:43:19,640 --> 01:43:21,439
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. The Gordon Heyward would

1912
01:43:21,439 --> 01:43:26,559
Speaker 1: be appealing to um Philly, But what about like Miles Bridges,

1913
01:43:27,439 --> 01:43:32,679
Speaker 1: Terry Rosier and some filler. And then in Charlotte you've

1914
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:35,519
Speaker 1: got you know, Ben Simmons, LaMelo Ball, Gordon A Ward,

1915
01:43:36,000 --> 01:43:39,000
Speaker 1: Um Graham like they've got a pretty nice young team.

1916
01:43:40,479 --> 01:43:43,640
Speaker 1: Um and I don't listen, there's options out there for

1917
01:43:43,720 --> 01:43:45,880
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. It's gonna be a fun summer, especially if

1918
01:43:45,880 --> 01:43:48,200
Speaker 1: they lose Game seven. All right, coming up next year,

1919
01:43:48,479 --> 01:43:52,040
Speaker 1: Bernie Fratto live from Vegas. All the numbers where the

1920
01:43:52,080 --> 01:43:54,960
Speaker 1: smart money is for Game seven. But first, here's Isaac

1921
01:43:55,040 --> 01:43:58,520
Speaker 1: Loewen Crown with what's trending? Jason, I've got a surprise

1922
01:43:58,640 --> 01:44:02,679
Speaker 1: for you coming up at the very end of what's trending?

1923
01:44:02,880 --> 01:44:04,800
Speaker 1: This This is gonna be just for you. I hope

1924
01:44:04,800 --> 01:44:07,360
Speaker 1: you'll enjoy it. But first, onto the business at hand

1925
01:44:07,400 --> 01:44:10,120
Speaker 1: of the NBA Playoffs. On Friday night, in Game six

1926
01:44:10,200 --> 01:44:13,559
Speaker 1: of the Western Conference Semifinals, the Los Angeles Clippers rallied

1927
01:44:13,600 --> 01:44:16,400
Speaker 1: from twenty five down to defeat the Utah Jazz one

1928
01:44:16,520 --> 01:44:20,160
Speaker 1: thirty one to one nineteen and take the series in six.

1929
01:44:20,560 --> 01:44:24,000
Speaker 1: Also Friday night, the Philadelphia seventy sixers. Why in Atlanta?

1930
01:44:24,080 --> 01:44:26,559
Speaker 1: What oh? Four to ninety nine, forcing a Game seven

1931
01:44:26,680 --> 01:44:30,040
Speaker 1: at Philadelphia on Sunday. Coming up tonight at eight thirty Eastern,

1932
01:44:30,160 --> 01:44:33,960
Speaker 1: Games seven in the other Eastern Conference semifinal, with the

1933
01:44:34,000 --> 01:44:37,280
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets hosting the Milwaukee Bucks and Golf. After two

1934
01:44:37,400 --> 01:44:40,320
Speaker 1: rounds of the US Open at Tory Pines, American Russell

1935
01:44:40,479 --> 01:44:44,719
Speaker 1: Henley and Englishman Richard Bland share the lead at five

1936
01:44:44,840 --> 01:44:47,720
Speaker 1: under par overall. They will tee off round three this

1937
01:44:47,840 --> 01:44:52,599
Speaker 1: afternoon at four thirty five Eastern. Now here is your surprise, Jason,

1938
01:44:53,920 --> 01:44:56,400
Speaker 1: all throughout the morning, with you being the big soccer

1939
01:44:56,520 --> 01:45:00,799
Speaker 1: fan you've been all over the European champion ships earlier,

1940
01:45:00,880 --> 01:45:02,920
Speaker 1: give it up for Hungary. They played France to a

1941
01:45:03,040 --> 01:45:05,639
Speaker 1: one one tie. Right now, Portugal as a one nothing

1942
01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:08,320
Speaker 1: lead over Germany in the thirty first minute on a

1943
01:45:08,400 --> 01:45:12,360
Speaker 1: goal in the fifteenth minute by the great Christian Ronaldo.

1944
01:45:13,160 --> 01:45:15,080
Speaker 1: And here we go, Jason, I have the call of

1945
01:45:15,200 --> 01:45:18,160
Speaker 1: Cristiano Ronaldo's goal for you. But there is kind of

1946
01:45:18,240 --> 01:45:22,240
Speaker 1: a catch. It is not the English language call. In fact,

1947
01:45:22,280 --> 01:45:24,840
Speaker 1: to be perfectly honest with you, I do not know

1948
01:45:25,400 --> 01:45:28,240
Speaker 1: what language this is in. But it's such a great

1949
01:45:28,360 --> 01:45:32,639
Speaker 1: call that it doesn't matter. It translates universally so let's

1950
01:45:32,720 --> 01:45:37,000
Speaker 1: listen to the Christiano Ronaldo goal in the fifteenth minute

1951
01:45:37,400 --> 01:45:56,920
Speaker 1: language TB dukip no no no no no no no

1952
01:45:57,000 --> 01:46:02,080
Speaker 1: no no no no no no, no no no. What's

1953
01:46:02,120 --> 01:46:04,519
Speaker 1: it that awesome? I don't know. I felt like that

1954
01:46:04,680 --> 01:46:06,559
Speaker 1: was a build up, build up, build and he never

1955
01:46:06,680 --> 01:46:09,880
Speaker 1: hit the crescendo. But yes, I do love that. Do

1956
01:46:10,040 --> 01:46:12,920
Speaker 1: you don't have the language? Huh? I have no idea.

1957
01:46:13,000 --> 01:46:15,320
Speaker 1: I mean I tried, I'm like, is it? Is it? Frank?

1958
01:46:15,520 --> 01:46:17,479
Speaker 1: I literally tried to look it up, but I have

1959
01:46:17,600 --> 01:46:20,360
Speaker 1: no idea. But the beauty of it is you could

1960
01:46:20,360 --> 01:46:23,920
Speaker 1: still follow along what happened in the excitement of that called,

1961
01:46:23,960 --> 01:46:26,839
Speaker 1: by the way, for comparison, here is the English language

1962
01:46:26,880 --> 01:46:30,280
Speaker 1: called that same goal. Fact passes to the center, center

1963
01:46:30,400 --> 01:46:34,120
Speaker 1: holds it, holds it, holds it. So a slight difference

1964
01:46:34,160 --> 01:46:37,600
Speaker 1: in the enthusiasm there. Jason back to you, thank you?

1965
01:46:38,040 --> 01:46:41,160
Speaker 1: Isaa back here on Fox Sports Radio. Let's welcome him

1966
01:46:41,200 --> 01:46:44,840
Speaker 1: in live from Vegas. Bernie Fratto, he knows all the

1967
01:46:44,920 --> 01:46:49,840
Speaker 1: numbers game seven? How How do how to bet game seven? Uh?

1968
01:46:49,960 --> 01:46:52,439
Speaker 1: Bucks nets tonight? I don't know, Bernie. What's your interest

1969
01:46:52,560 --> 01:46:57,920
Speaker 1: level in Bucks nets versus Hawks? Sixers? Tomorrow. I would

1970
01:46:57,960 --> 01:47:01,240
Speaker 1: definitely say my interest level is higher on the Bucks

1971
01:47:01,280 --> 01:47:06,520
Speaker 1: and nets because of the backstory, storylines involving Janice Buddenholzer

1972
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:11,040
Speaker 1: and certainly can this Brooklyn Nets experiment work? And so

1973
01:47:11,240 --> 01:47:16,360
Speaker 1: from a fan standpoint, definitely much more interest on nets. Bucks. Uh,

1974
01:47:16,560 --> 01:47:20,200
Speaker 1: we're we're you know, Burnie Bernie, I don't. I don't

1975
01:47:20,360 --> 01:47:22,960
Speaker 1: know how I'm gonna actually put my money on the Bucks,

1976
01:47:23,000 --> 01:47:25,000
Speaker 1: but I think it's bucks are passed tonight, right, it

1977
01:47:25,080 --> 01:47:27,360
Speaker 1: has to be. They were favored at the outset. All

1978
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:29,320
Speaker 1: the money I'm assuming coming in on the nets, But

1979
01:47:29,439 --> 01:47:30,840
Speaker 1: is it? Is it the sharp money? Is that a

1980
01:47:30,880 --> 01:47:33,640
Speaker 1: bunch of public money? Is Vegas is now wide open? Uh?

1981
01:47:34,040 --> 01:47:37,640
Speaker 1: What's the breakdown? Well, sixty of the tickets have come

1982
01:47:37,720 --> 01:47:40,000
Speaker 1: in on the nets. They've gone from getting plus one

1983
01:47:40,040 --> 01:47:43,040
Speaker 1: to now minus one five. But let's take a quick

1984
01:47:43,080 --> 01:47:45,720
Speaker 1: look at thirty thousand feet Jason, because this is what

1985
01:47:45,880 --> 01:47:50,559
Speaker 1: we know about NBA Game seven. Historically the home team

1986
01:47:51,160 --> 01:47:53,000
Speaker 1: is one oh five and twenty eight in the last

1987
01:47:53,040 --> 01:47:55,400
Speaker 1: forty years, so they went out right about eight percent

1988
01:47:55,479 --> 01:47:58,320
Speaker 1: of the time. But if you blindly bet the unders

1989
01:47:58,800 --> 01:48:02,560
Speaker 1: since two thousand three, you'd be at six. So the

1990
01:48:02,680 --> 01:48:06,000
Speaker 1: sharps are actually on the under in the Nets Bucks game.

1991
01:48:06,120 --> 01:48:09,519
Speaker 1: All six games have gone under another markets have adjusted

1992
01:48:09,640 --> 01:48:12,880
Speaker 1: dramatically from the standpoint of the fact that early on

1993
01:48:13,320 --> 01:48:16,840
Speaker 1: the totals were in the two one range. This game

1994
01:48:16,920 --> 01:48:20,599
Speaker 1: goes off at sixteen, but it's a it's a game seven.

1995
01:48:20,880 --> 01:48:23,800
Speaker 1: Nerves are gonna be hot, stakes are high. Defenses are

1996
01:48:23,840 --> 01:48:28,280
Speaker 1: gonna be very stiff, and look, no, Kyrie, James Harden

1997
01:48:28,280 --> 01:48:30,840
Speaker 1: has been walking around like Fred Sanford, and I think

1998
01:48:30,880 --> 01:48:34,040
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a game, Jason, that is predicated

1999
01:48:34,080 --> 01:48:37,040
Speaker 1: on defense. We've already seen one eight three game in

2000
01:48:37,080 --> 01:48:39,920
Speaker 1: this series, one oh four two. I think it gets

2001
01:48:40,040 --> 01:48:42,120
Speaker 1: under the number and make it a little scary. But

2002
01:48:42,280 --> 01:48:43,960
Speaker 1: I can only look to the under, and that's where

2003
01:48:43,960 --> 01:48:47,840
Speaker 1: the sharps are. The under two sixteen on Bucks Nets. Huh,

2004
01:48:48,760 --> 01:48:51,080
Speaker 1: not for me. You just don't know what you're gonna get.

2005
01:48:51,280 --> 01:48:54,240
Speaker 1: You brought up a great point early on on the show. Uh,

2006
01:48:54,479 --> 01:48:58,200
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant had this hercule and forty nine point performance.

2007
01:48:58,720 --> 01:49:01,960
Speaker 1: You know, he was rebonding, he was assisting, he was

2008
01:49:02,040 --> 01:49:05,120
Speaker 1: selling popcorn, he did everything, and still they still barely

2009
01:49:05,200 --> 01:49:09,160
Speaker 1: won that game. And Milwaukee shot like from the floor.

2010
01:49:10,200 --> 01:49:12,280
Speaker 1: I have no faith in either team to close out

2011
01:49:12,360 --> 01:49:14,160
Speaker 1: this game seven. But I do think it's going to

2012
01:49:14,280 --> 01:49:18,880
Speaker 1: be a very good, tightly defensive struggle. All right, Let's

2013
01:49:18,920 --> 01:49:23,120
Speaker 1: move to Sunday Bernie Atlanta Hawks, who really blew a

2014
01:49:23,240 --> 01:49:26,000
Speaker 1: chance to win the series. Oh my gosh, they let

2015
01:49:26,040 --> 01:49:29,080
Speaker 1: it halftime and then fifteen nothing run in the third quarters.

2016
01:49:29,080 --> 01:49:32,080
Speaker 1: Seth Curry catches fire, Trey Young doesn't get a lot

2017
01:49:32,120 --> 01:49:34,799
Speaker 1: of help. Bogdanovitch, the starting shooting guard who was benched

2018
01:49:34,840 --> 01:49:36,280
Speaker 1: at the end of Game five when they made that

2019
01:49:36,400 --> 01:49:39,439
Speaker 1: huge run, gets injured, doesn't play in the fourth quarter.

2020
01:49:40,120 --> 01:49:41,680
Speaker 1: It looks like this is ballooned out the six and

2021
01:49:41,720 --> 01:49:45,640
Speaker 1: a half or seven. It is seven now of the

2022
01:49:45,680 --> 01:49:48,479
Speaker 1: tickets that happened to be on the Hawks. Seven is

2023
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:51,519
Speaker 1: a big number, but Philly's minds three hundred on the

2024
01:49:51,640 --> 01:49:54,479
Speaker 1: money line, which gives him about a seventy six chance

2025
01:49:54,560 --> 01:49:57,120
Speaker 1: to win the game. Out right. Philly is thirty three

2026
01:49:57,160 --> 01:49:58,840
Speaker 1: and nine at home this year in the Hawks are

2027
01:49:58,840 --> 01:50:01,120
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty two on the road. As long as

2028
01:50:01,160 --> 01:50:05,120
Speaker 1: you've got Trey Young, they're live. I've tempted to grab

2029
01:50:05,240 --> 01:50:07,880
Speaker 1: the seven, but once again I'm looking to the under

2030
01:50:07,960 --> 01:50:09,400
Speaker 1: in this game. Yeah, I don't want to lay the

2031
01:50:09,479 --> 01:50:12,240
Speaker 1: seven with this Philly team. You just don't know what

2032
01:50:12,439 --> 01:50:14,880
Speaker 1: indeed you're gonna get. You brought up a lot of

2033
01:50:14,920 --> 01:50:17,280
Speaker 1: really good points about Ben Simmons earlier in the show,

2034
01:50:17,920 --> 01:50:22,479
Speaker 1: and I it's an odd ball game again. Atlanta forty

2035
01:50:22,560 --> 01:50:24,920
Speaker 1: six and thirty six is a dog this year, So

2036
01:50:25,080 --> 01:50:27,640
Speaker 1: that's where the value is. But as we will know,

2037
01:50:28,520 --> 01:50:31,360
Speaker 1: sports has become the greatest reality show going, and you

2038
01:50:31,439 --> 01:50:33,439
Speaker 1: can script everything but the ending. If you don't believe.

2039
01:50:33,439 --> 01:50:36,000
Speaker 1: If you pot to that Clippers game last night, Jason,

2040
01:50:36,439 --> 01:50:39,439
Speaker 1: when the Clippers were down twenty five, as it pertains

2041
01:50:39,520 --> 01:50:42,479
Speaker 1: to end game betting, a hundred dollar bet would have

2042
01:50:42,560 --> 01:50:46,360
Speaker 1: brought back two thousand dollars. And now the Suns have

2043
01:50:46,520 --> 01:50:49,839
Speaker 1: opened up as a four point favorite over the Clippers.

2044
01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:52,880
Speaker 1: Eight six percent of the tickets are on the Suns.

2045
01:50:53,160 --> 01:50:54,840
Speaker 1: The line has been steamed to four and a half

2046
01:50:54,920 --> 01:50:57,360
Speaker 1: now five. But can you really know what's gonna happen

2047
01:50:57,400 --> 01:51:00,000
Speaker 1: in that game without Chris Paul and the new Florida's

2048
01:51:00,040 --> 01:51:03,559
Speaker 1: States start the universe? Terrence Man, Well, wait, I want

2049
01:51:03,560 --> 01:51:06,280
Speaker 1: to back up, first of all, which coach this weekend?

2050
01:51:06,360 --> 01:51:12,640
Speaker 1: In Game seven? Do you trust less Buddenholzer? Or Doc Rivers. Well,

2051
01:51:12,680 --> 01:51:17,479
Speaker 1: definitely Budenholzer, at least Doc. Yeah, that I was like

2052
01:51:17,560 --> 01:51:20,360
Speaker 1: a super quick Well, we saw him. He's got a

2053
01:51:20,400 --> 01:51:22,439
Speaker 1: body of work, Jason. We saw it in Atlanta and

2054
01:51:22,439 --> 01:51:25,519
Speaker 1: we've seen it him Milwaukee now, and let's juxtapose. It's

2055
01:51:25,520 --> 01:51:27,960
Speaker 1: an excellent question you ask, because I'm not so sure

2056
01:51:28,000 --> 01:51:30,320
Speaker 1: how much I trust Doc Rivers either. But the bottom

2057
01:51:30,360 --> 01:51:32,240
Speaker 1: line is he does have a championship and he's gonna

2058
01:51:32,240 --> 01:51:34,400
Speaker 1: give the bald, the mbad and beads the best player

2059
01:51:34,439 --> 01:51:36,519
Speaker 1: on the court. And I think the bottom line is

2060
01:51:36,760 --> 01:51:38,320
Speaker 1: they'll get out of the way and Philly will find

2061
01:51:38,360 --> 01:51:40,400
Speaker 1: a way to pull that game out. But when you

2062
01:51:40,560 --> 01:51:44,280
Speaker 1: juxtapose a Budenholzer against the guy like Tylu top credit

2063
01:51:44,360 --> 01:51:47,519
Speaker 1: to Tylu. Here's a guy the Clippers before last night.

2064
01:51:48,080 --> 01:51:50,479
Speaker 1: In their history, we're o and nine and chances to

2065
01:51:50,560 --> 01:51:53,160
Speaker 1: close out a game in the conference semifinal. And not

2066
01:51:53,240 --> 01:51:55,799
Speaker 1: only that, Jason, they lost by an average of fifteen

2067
01:51:55,840 --> 01:51:58,719
Speaker 1: points in those games. Compare that to Tyler in his history,

2068
01:51:58,960 --> 01:52:01,640
Speaker 1: He's twelve and one and close out games. And when

2069
01:52:01,680 --> 01:52:03,880
Speaker 1: you look back to Game four, he made a big

2070
01:52:03,920 --> 01:52:07,040
Speaker 1: adjustment on Donovan Mitchell. He clagged the lane every time

2071
01:52:07,160 --> 01:52:09,439
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell got anywhere near the lane, he made it

2072
01:52:09,560 --> 01:52:13,080
Speaker 1: very crowded Chuck Daily style. He not only made Donovan

2073
01:52:13,120 --> 01:52:15,600
Speaker 1: Mitchell worked really hard for his points, he made it

2074
01:52:16,000 --> 01:52:18,040
Speaker 1: he made it work really hard just to get the ball.

2075
01:52:18,280 --> 01:52:20,800
Speaker 1: He got no free catches in space. Hell, he pitched

2076
01:52:20,840 --> 01:52:24,800
Speaker 1: playoff ROUNDO for two games. Tyler doesn't play. He makes adjustments.

2077
01:52:25,000 --> 01:52:28,120
Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing. This team is confident. Budenholzer

2078
01:52:28,400 --> 01:52:31,040
Speaker 1: with all the respect. He's a great regular season coach,

2079
01:52:31,120 --> 01:52:32,920
Speaker 1: but when it comes to the playoffs, he looks like

2080
01:52:33,000 --> 01:52:35,160
Speaker 1: a guy who's wandering around the mall parking lot can't

2081
01:52:35,160 --> 01:52:38,280
Speaker 1: find where he parked his car. Already off the top

2082
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Speaker 1: rope goodness. I mean, listen, Budenholzer is pretty bad. But um,

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Speaker 1: I want to quickly go back to the adjustments Tyler made. Um.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say too much here, but you know

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Speaker 1: I put out a tweet this morning that you know

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Speaker 1: my top coaches in the NBA, and I didn't put

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Speaker 1: Tyler on the list I got. I just got a

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Speaker 1: text from an NBA assistant coach. You're my guy, but

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Speaker 1: your coach tweet this morning is ridiculous. It's Tyler as

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Speaker 1: an elite coach in the NBA. I guess it all

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Speaker 1: depends on how we defined the lead. He does have

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Speaker 1: a championship. I think he was very much of a

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Speaker 1: stabilizing force in when he took that Cleveland Cavalier team

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Speaker 1: and somehow they beat the Golden State Warriors when they

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01:53:14,920 --> 01:53:16,800
Speaker 1: were down three to one and Yester Daymond went out,

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Speaker 1: and there's all sorts of backstories. But look he takes

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Speaker 1: over for Doc Rivers and what's he doing his first season?

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Speaker 1: He gets them to the conference finals, something the clips

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Speaker 1: Ers Clippers have never done in fifty years. So depending

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Speaker 1: on how we throw around the term elite, how would

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Speaker 1: you say this? Tyler has established himself to me is

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Speaker 1: a very formidable game coach and a guy who you

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Speaker 1: know has a great command of the of the job. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean again, people think of being overly critical. I

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Speaker 1: just need to point out he had, without question, the

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Speaker 1: greatest player of the last I don't know, twenty years

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Speaker 1: in the NBA and Lebron when he had to come back,

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Speaker 1: and now he has Kauai and Paul George. But he

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Speaker 1: didn't have quite the last two games. The last two

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Speaker 1: games are super us. If I just wonder, Bernie, are

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Speaker 1: the Jazz kind of paper tigers here? Like? What's up

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Speaker 1: with these guys? I don't know? And there's being questions

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Speaker 1: asked about Quin Snyder, bo I like a lot. Look,

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Speaker 1: it's the bottom line league, Jason. You know that you

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Speaker 1: either either win or you lose. And to your point,

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Speaker 1: there's no question that Tyler had arguably the best player

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Speaker 1: in the in the universe with Lebron and Cleveland, and

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Speaker 1: now he's got quite a good roster with with uh

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Speaker 1: the Clippers. There's no arguing that. But you have to

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Speaker 1: have talent to win. You have to have a base

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Speaker 1: level of talent to compete and get in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: Pat Riley always said that, but he always said that

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Speaker 1: also managing talent and elite talent brings with it a

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Speaker 1: whole set of challenges that a lot of other players

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Speaker 1: have difficulty with. Just asked Brad Stevens, a guy have

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Speaker 1: a lot of respect for. Yeah, all right, we'll wrap

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Speaker 1: up with this son's clips. How do you handicap this

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Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals? Again, we do not know the status

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Speaker 1: of Chris Paul with his COVID situation. Could miss one,

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Speaker 1: could miss two, three, could miss zero, um and then

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Speaker 1: we we know Kauai was out for the Utah series.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's out for the conference finals yet,

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Speaker 1: if that's been determined. But how do you handicap this one? Well,

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Speaker 1: with no Chris Paul on the floor tomorrow, we we

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Speaker 1: kind of have to deal in the here and now

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Speaker 1: and and take it one game at a time. Even

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01:55:14,040 --> 01:55:17,160
Speaker 1: though that's cliche. Uh, all the value to me is

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Speaker 1: with the Clippers too much. It's one thing to have

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Speaker 1: sent of the tickets come in on the Suns, but

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Speaker 1: there's not adopt my mind, Tyler is gonna blitz uh

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Speaker 1: Devin Booker. He's gonna put him in advice and he's

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Speaker 1: gonna force other players to beat him. The Clippers have

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Speaker 1: shown they can play defense. They are really confident team

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Speaker 1: right now, and I think they find a way to

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Speaker 1: ride this momentum. I would grab the points Sunday, but

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Speaker 1: I have it yet. I think the Clippers are very

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Speaker 1: live to win this series. Interesting, um, what about the

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Speaker 1: fact that you know the Clippers turn around as quick

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Speaker 1: and they have fallen behind O two in the last

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Speaker 1: two series. I know Tyler has made some good adjustments,

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Speaker 1: but you know, does that also mean he's not prepared

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Speaker 1: going into series. I think the Clippers are a very

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01:56:00,520 --> 01:56:03,880
Speaker 1: mercurial team. Uh they have a lot of oddball personalities.

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Speaker 1: Kauai is brilliant, but he's not a vocal leader. Paul

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01:56:07,280 --> 01:56:10,320
Speaker 1: George is a very introspective guy, also not a vocal leader.

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01:56:10,640 --> 01:56:13,400
Speaker 1: I think they're starting to find their legs. The key

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Speaker 1: is is you're getting real value with four and a

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Speaker 1: half five points tomorrow and look they may fall down,

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Speaker 1: oh and two, it will I'll be seeing. Look they

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Speaker 1: got on where they wanted right. The bottom line is this,

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Speaker 1: You are right. You can't afford to keep poking the

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Speaker 1: bear like that, falling down No. Two just in time

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Speaker 1: for them to get Chris Paul back. I'm sure that's

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Speaker 1: going to be Kawhi lean. Check that. Tyler's message tomorrow

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Speaker 1: and that is the first five minutes of both halves.

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Speaker 1: Get out, get a stop, run your offense, and let's

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Speaker 1: play like we're you know, we're like our you know,

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Speaker 1: pants are on fire and its reigning gasoline. You don't

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Speaker 1: have time, we don't have time to come back from behind. Eventually,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna catch you, all right. He is Bernie Fratto

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Speaker 1: straight out of Vegas Nights. On Fox Sports Radio eleven PM. Bernie,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot, enjoy Vegas. I'm assuming it's warm this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Have fun when she was a hundred days? All right,

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Speaker 1: Bertie Verdie Fratto, good stuff as always. Coming up next

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Speaker 1: we will wrap up the show back here on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Good stuff from Bernie Fratto. While we're doing

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Speaker 1: the interview, Germany finds the back of the net. Great

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Speaker 1: goal and then like two minutes later, an own goal

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Speaker 1: on a on a by Portugal on a really nice

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Speaker 1: build up from Germany. So Germany goes into halftime up

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Speaker 1: to to one. Uh, is your dad's razor older than

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Speaker 1: you are? Get him something new for Father's Day. The

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Speaker 1: a D S C six blade razor is perfect for

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Speaker 1: an extra close, precise shave. Get one now at a

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Speaker 1: store near you or as part of the gift set

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Speaker 1: a Dollar Shave Club Dollar Shave Club dot Com slash Jonas.

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Speaker 1: That's Dollar Shave Club dot Com slash Jonas Dollar Shave Club.

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Speaker 1: You guys, uh do you shave often? I was shame.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen you really coming here with a full

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Speaker 1: on beard. I do shave, I just I have. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's not very thick. So Ryan you're too young to

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Speaker 1: even get facial hair, right. I mean, basically, I'm the

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Speaker 1: same as Sam. I It does not comment. I'm just curious.

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Speaker 1: Are you guys doing anything for your dad's On Father's Day?

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Speaker 1: My dad needed a new UM WiFi router, and I

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Speaker 1: bought that. Oh what what a son practical gift? Yes,

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Speaker 1: you need something, your son buys it for you. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I always same delivers Ryan. What about you? I've got

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Speaker 1: some family in town, so so we'll be with my

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Speaker 1: family tomorrow and I'll be going to the mall tonight.

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Speaker 1: Is that the grove you're going to? No, No, the

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Speaker 1: Oaks Mall on thousand Oaks, California. Oh thousand okay, yeah, yeah, okay,

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01:58:46,280 --> 01:58:48,720
Speaker 1: that's where all like the good high schools are. That's

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01:58:48,840 --> 01:58:52,320
Speaker 1: right out there, Sherman, what's the awesome one that's out there? Yea,

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01:58:52,400 --> 01:58:54,440
Speaker 1: we got Oaks Christian right down the Strokes Christian a

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01:58:54,520 --> 01:58:57,600
Speaker 1: lot of that's like a quarterback factory basically. By the way,

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01:58:57,600 --> 01:58:59,840
Speaker 1: I'm curious, did you guys see you know, Lebron's son

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01:59:00,000 --> 01:59:03,040
Speaker 1: plays for like a private school out here, and like

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Speaker 1: Lebron goes to games, Drake went to a game this

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Speaker 1: week and Michael B. Jordan's a k a. Black Panther

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01:59:10,040 --> 01:59:12,720
Speaker 1: went to a game, Like I'm sorry, now, not Black Panther.

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01:59:12,840 --> 01:59:15,480
Speaker 1: He was the bad guy in Black Panther. Um, but like,

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01:59:15,560 --> 01:59:18,920
Speaker 1: can you imagine you're playing a high school basketball game,

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01:59:18,960 --> 01:59:20,480
Speaker 1: You're they're rooting on your school, and then you look

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Speaker 1: down and Drake and like probably like a top fifteen

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01:59:24,640 --> 01:59:28,200
Speaker 1: actor are are at the game. I mean, Michael b

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Speaker 1: Jordan was in Friday Night Lights, great show, was in

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Speaker 1: the Rocky Creed movies. Uh, just a beast, and um,

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01:59:36,680 --> 01:59:39,320
Speaker 1: like that's that. That's crazy, Like those guys are at

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Speaker 1: high school basketball games. Yeah, a lot of pressure on

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Speaker 1: Lebron's son, who I believe it's the tenth grader. Um,

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Speaker 1: just imagine being another kid though, on the team and

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01:59:47,880 --> 01:59:50,360
Speaker 1: like you have to play as well as you can

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01:59:50,440 --> 01:59:53,000
Speaker 1: because you have Drake and Michael b Jordan's watching. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean a couple. I mean, the coaches, everybody I'm

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01:59:55,520 --> 01:59:59,560
Speaker 1: sure in there is feeling wild. So you know, I

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Speaker 1: will say that the Lakers are under some pressure. We

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Speaker 1: just did an entire show in June and no mention

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Speaker 1: of Lebron or Lakers. Interesting they got bounced and um,

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Speaker 1: it's funny because when you get eliminated, it's like you've

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Speaker 1: gotta make all these changes, and now it's like, well

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Speaker 1: maybe they maybe the Lakers don't do too much, Maybe

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02:00:20,880 --> 02:00:25,680
Speaker 1: they won't change too many things. Um, we'll see Dennis Shrewder.

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Speaker 1: Of course, a lot of offseason time for that. Um.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I was listen great show in the books

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Speaker 1: if you missed it, obviously the podcast we'll be up

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Speaker 1: probably within thirty minutes. Um. Yeah, I hope everybody has

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Speaker 1: a really strong Father's Day weekend. Coming up next up

2239
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Speaker 1: on game with uh yeah, with my guy LaVar Arrington

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Speaker 1: and t J. Hush Man Zada. I feel like the

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Speaker 1: NFL chatter will pick up here pretty shortly. Right what

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Speaker 1: are we June? I think probably? What are the camps

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Speaker 1: open in early July? Is that what it is? Ryan?

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Speaker 1: I think like right after July four? So now it's

2245
02:01:03,200 --> 02:01:07,480
Speaker 1: like primost summertime. You know, go to the beach. If

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Speaker 1: you're young, you're boozing heavily. If you're older, you're relaxing

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Speaker 1: and not on your phone. Um, if you're I don't know,

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Speaker 1: going to Hawaii or something, you do not bring your computer. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I just ordered a new book off Amazon. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you guys have read it. Um, it's called

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Speaker 1: Skin in the Game by teleb Have you guys heard

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Speaker 1: of it or read it? Now? Business I'm I'm all

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Speaker 1: into these weirdy business books now, trying to do some

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Speaker 1: smart investing as I get older. But thank you, Isaac,

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Speaker 1: I was sayam Ryan. We had a great guest list. Um, listen, folks,

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Speaker 1: enjoy the game seven tonight and tomorrow. I will take

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Speaker 1: the bucks and the points. I will take the sixers,

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Speaker 1: giving a bunch of points. Everybody. Have a great Father's

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Speaker 1: Day weekend,