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After a week off do 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:21.240 your fresh off vacation to the Hamptons, prepping for her 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:25.199 vacation of the Caribbean, then prepping from there for her 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.240 European cruise. So we are very lucky to have her 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.480 today and Thursday, because she is just gonna be a 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:37.080 world travel until Yeah, of course you're gonna be here Thursday, 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:41.280 and so we're gonna have her today and Thursday and 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.919 then who knows, you know, as she finishes off for summer. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.320 We have a ton to do. I wanted to go 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.640 to Vegas this past weekend to see Summer League playing 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.760 a World Series Poker event. Ended up not doing that, 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.120 but I know we are going to talk Summer League 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.920 here in just a moment. Here is what did not 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:04.000 make the show. Not on today's show. Olivia Rodrigo, one 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.360 of my favorites, has released a new single called Vampire, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.240 also no listening show. I have not yet listened to 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.280 it. It was sent to me, but I have not yet 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:18.000 listened to it. For Fury Almost at Furrey Titsan Fury 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:23.320 and Nigano boxing in late October and Joey Chestnut defeats 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.200 the Elements to win. Uh, I don't even know what 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:31.160 it's called. Championship. I guess number sixteen. I despite my 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.480 very popular Joey Chestnut public defender from years ago. That's 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.440 a great photoshop our guys made. I am not a 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.720 fan of the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest. I'm not 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.240 a big fan of Joey Chestnut. People think I'm into 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.880 it because I did such a brilliant job a year 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.280 ago doing Nick Wright public defender for him. But we 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.760 have much more important things to discuss, Diora, what are 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:55.440 we starting with? 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.000 Okay, so we got a mixed bag from web early 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.440 in the summer league on and off the court, and 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.040 now he is shut down for the rest of the 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.240 summer and he's avoiding the media for the next few months. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.360 A little concerning, right when Lebron came into the league, 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.000 he embraced the hype is wumnby showing signs that he 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.600 isn't ready for the expectations. 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:19.320 Who no one would be ready for these expectations, and 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.880 they're unfair expectations. I don't care so much that he's 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.600 not gonna play the rest of the summer league. That's 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.920 not a big shocker to me. And I'm also I 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:29.920 also don't care that he's gonna try to avoid the 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.160 media for the next couple months to kind of reset 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.840 and then get, you know, the last couple months of 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.320 maybe privacy, and I don't even know if he's gonna 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.480 have privacy, but then he might have for the rest 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:44.120 of his life. So none of that bothers me. But 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:49.240 on the court, don't say I didn't warn you. And 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.880 there is this, There was this. So his first game 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:57.520 ever in Summer League, he was objectively really bad offensively, 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.000 still made some nice defensive plays. His second game in 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:05.600 Summer League, he was very objectively very good offensively and 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.480 made some very nice defensive plays. But in the forty 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:14.280 eight hours between the two games, or twenty four hours, 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.760 thirty six hours, whatever it was, yeah, forty eight hours, 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:22.040 there was a really weird thing that happened on the internet, 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:32.200 which was the most clear cut, obvious straw man arguments 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:38.520 being batted down by people in sports media. I couldn't 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:45.880 go thirty minutes without seeing a tweet from someone one 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:49.520 of my colleagues or someone in sports media saying, oh 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.240 my god, oh so now Wimby's a bust. A guy 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:57.120 can't have one bad summer. No one, there was literally 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.479 nobody that after the first was like lok, he sucks. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:07.000 That take did not exist in nature. Yet folks were 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:13.280 demanding everyone calmed down and not have that take that 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.800 literally no one had. It was a really weird, like 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.600 Princess Bride style, I know what, you know, what, I 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.839 know what you know type of thing going on when 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:34.120 it flatly wasn't going on. And what is true is 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:39.279 that those of us who watched him, and it's not 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.080 like I was watching a ton of French basketball, but 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:47.599 consuming I would say more than just the average basketball 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.160 fan and those of us that followed him over the 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:56.560 last eighteen months, I think most of us were not 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:03.560 shocked that offensively, this young man is going to have 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.000 a lot of work to do. He is not a 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:11.120 knockdown shooter, no matter how pretty the stroke looks and 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.880 how good of a free throw shooter he is. He 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:18.799 is a good ball handler, very good ball handler, great 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:23.960 ball handler for someone his size, but still at seven five, 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.800 if you're trying to dribble in traffic, you are going 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.120 to have the ball taken from you somewhat. And he 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.800 wants to play out on the perimeter, which can be 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:40.479 devastating but also is going to mean he's gonna have 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:46.520 some really rough offensive nights until and unless he starts 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.440 to develop a consistent jump shot. None of that is shocking. 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:55.960 None of that Now. How bad he looked Friday night 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.360 was a little surprising, but it's a lot of pressure, 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.640 a lot of expectations. He hasn't played in a couple months. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.760 Then he bounced back with a great game Monday. But 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:12.160 this was why I was begging people to accept the 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:19.120 possibility that if this guy turns into a better version 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:27.960 of Anthony Davis, a great defensive player who can be 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.080 a thirty point a game guy at some point in 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:37.679 his career. I begged people and I will continue to 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:42.640 to not have that outcome be looked at as a failure. 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:49.960 But it's already we are already past that because we 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:54.800 had who was it that said it? You know, a 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:59.680 guy I like a lot, Kenny Smith came out recently 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:04.120 and he's gonna be League MVP within four years. That 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:09.440 I don't see. Not saying it's impossible, but that is 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:15.920 not a fair expectation that. Now, Shack didn't win within 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.680 four years, but Shack was that level of player. But 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:20.920 I screwed this up on the podcast a few weeks ago, 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:25.120 Shack played multiple years of college. Kareem obviously was MVP 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:29.400 in year two. Kareem played four years of college. Lebron 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:37.040 almost won MVP in year three. He's not Lebron. So defensively, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:43.120 he is going to be instantly excellent because of his 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:48.880 length and ability to alter shots offensively. If he is 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:53.360 hanging out on the perimeter, he is going to have 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.120 a lot of ups and downs. And if he is 0:08:56.200 --> 0:09:00.439 going to play down low, where his size be its 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.280 biggest edge, he's probably gonna have to gain a little 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:09.000 bit of weight. So I'm not out on Wimby. Nobody 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:14.400 right now is out on the guy. But demanding he 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:22.880 walk into the league and be a force is unrealistic, unfair, 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.960 and you shouldn't have needed to see a couple games 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.800 of Summer League to believe that. I get the upside. 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.680 But a guy who's going to night in, night out 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.120 be more impactful on the offensive end is the kid 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:46.840 who went number three, Scoot Scoot. I believe he's gonna 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.560 win Rookie of the Year Scoot. I believe he's gonna 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.679 play more games. Scoot, even though he suffered the kind 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.760 of odd random shoulder injury is gonna be the healthier 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:04.760 of him, certainly early on, and scoots upside obviously is 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:09.720 not what Wimby's is. But in the short term, scoots 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:14.880 game offensively will translate better and easier to the NBA. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.560 But it was so frustrating seeing these folks say, oh, 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.240 I you know, who's gonna be the one that was? 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.840 That was the other thing. People were like, who's gonna 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.840 be the hot take artist to come out and call 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.920 Wimby a bust? People were wanting these takes to exist 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:39.560 that did not exist. But go ahead, no, okay, but 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:45.680 there is, just for whatever it's worth. I wouldn't find 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:51.120 it more ridiculous if someone came out and said, ah, 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.280 I don't believe in him. I don't think he's gonna 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:58.440 be that good. I don't find that more ridiculous than 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:05.720 the almost conventional wisdom take, which is he is the 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.360 greatest prospect in the history of the sport. I don't 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.079 agree with that. I think there are too many questions 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:16.760 about what his offensive game will be and too many 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:21.640 very fair concerns about his health because we have literally 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:26.920 never seen a guy his size have a long injury 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.640 free career. All right, next, so. 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.640 We missed a week on this show, but luckily Damon 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.679 Harden waited for us. The consensus is that Dame will 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.440 land in Miami, and as of now, Harden has the 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.679 best odds to land with the Clippers. Would either move 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.920 really matter in the end, or would both teams still 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.480 fall to the Nuggets or even your Lakers? 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.720 Well the clip listen, I'm not sure Harden's leave it. 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.520 He Joelle Embiid still wants him. Harden was at Michael 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.200 Ruben's white party in the Hamptons that I assumed you 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:03.400 were as well, Deora, hanging out with Embiid and Embiid Hardening, 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:07.040 Tobias Harris, I think Maxie as well. We're all there together. 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.439 But if Hardened were to go to the Clippers, I 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:12.720 don't think that makes the Clippers contenders. I think the 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.200 Clippers are a fake team with despite you know, as 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.880 great as ty lu Is because of Kawhi. I don't 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.840 think they have a great basketball culture there, and the 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.240 injury concerns for them are the highest of anyone in 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:30.679 the league. So take that out of it. Dame is 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.880 going to go to Miami. The number of people pulling 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.840 against it is baffling to me. And I've tried to 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.280 talk about this on TV and I know it has 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:48.760 made some people angry. I am not taking a shot here. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:55.960 It is just to me, an accurate and fair reading 0:12:56.040 --> 0:13:00.920 of what's going on. There seems to be a ton 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:09.880 of folks on the other network that are reporting on 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:19.319 this from the Blazer's perspective, almost exclusively, what the Blazers want, 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.080 what Miami would need to do, what other teams would 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.280 need to do, the Blazers position of power, all of this, 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:33.520 which is fine, but it does warrant mentioning to the audience. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:39.719 And I'm not saying they haven't, but it I think 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.320 a lot of the audience doesn't know or doesn't remember 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:48.160 that the number two at the Blazers, the guy beneath 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:54.160 Joe Cronin, Mike Schmidtz, has been there for a year. 0:13:55.000 --> 0:14:00.800 Prior to that, he worked at ESPN for five five years, 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.240 so of course he has relationships there. Of course he 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:09.600 has friends there, and there are so there is that 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.280 kind of contingent. It's not all the folks there, to 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:18.880 be clear, that to me, are skewing what the public 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:25.760 expects here. And then there are folks that either don't 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.760 like the heat or have a different favorite team in 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.120 the Eastern Conference and don't want to see Miami get Dame. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:37.480 And they keep discussing this as if Miami's offer is terrible. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:44.240 Miami's offer, objectively speaking, is not terrible. You would what's 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:48.200 the best offer they can give right now? They're twenty 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.960 twenty eight first round pick, their twenty thirty first round pick, 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.320 Jimei Hakkas Junior, who they just spent the number eighteen 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.680 pick on this year, so that's a first round pick. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:02.160 Nikolay Jovich, who they spent a very I think the 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.720 thirtieth but a very late first round pick on a 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.080 year ago. Call that a half a first round pick, 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:08.760 but a guy who has played well in the summer 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.640 League looks like he has upside. Tyler Hero, who I 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.160 agree Tyler Hero does not fit the Blazers, but he 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:20.480 is worth on the open market himself at least a 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:25.560 first round pick. You could potentially include Caleb Martin. Probably 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:29.040 gonna be including Lowry for salary purposes. If not Lowry, 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:33.680 Duncan Robinson that that is not a terrible trade. It's 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.080 not one hundred and twenty five cents on the dollar. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.920 It's certainly not the go bear trade. But it's not 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:44.280 a terrible trade. But here's the more important piece. It's 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:48.120 the only goddog trade there is right now. Boston is 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.680 not trading Jalen Brown and the Sixers thus far have 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:55.400 been unwilling to move off Tyrese Maxie. So if there 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.360 are no other trades, it is the best trade, even 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.360 if it's not a great trade. Now, Joe Cronin came 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.720 out this week and said, we're fine with this going 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:09.000 on for months. I don't believe you. I do not 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:16.120 believe there is any realistic chance that Damian Lillard is 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:21.400 on the Portland Trailblazers game one of the season. It 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.040 is they have too much of an opportunity to just 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.960 give the keys to the car to Scoot let it 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:33.320 become his franchise. They're not gonna have this Dame thing 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.440 drag on. So I understand folks want Portland to have 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:42.200 more leverage than they actually do. But Dame's agent, Aaron 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.040 Goodwin has done a good job making it clear to 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.960 other teams that Dame does not want to be there. Therefore, 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:53.080 other teams have not given up their best offers. A 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.840 team like Utah that people thought might be a real 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.800 player in this has not been in Utah doesn't have 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.160 the open cap space anymore, so they'd have to match 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.520 the salary, which is not that easy for them. The 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:10.840 Spurs thing was always make believe, in my opinion, running 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:15.439 out of teams. So Minnesota is an interesting one. I 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.200 said that on TV a couple weeks ago Karl Anthony 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:23.880 Townsend Dame a flip flop there, But it doesn't look 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:29.639 like Minnesota is intrigued by that, So I don't know. 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:31.800 I think Harden might stay. And even if Harden goes 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.639 to the Clippers, they're not a contender. But if Miami 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:39.800 got Dame, Miami won the East this year without Tyler Hero, 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:46.000 without those future picks, because they're future picks, and they 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.600 would be adding Damian Lillard, of course, they'd be the 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.439 favorites in the East. And absolutely they could beat Denver, 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.040 and absolutely they can beat the Lakers. With Dame, Jimmy 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.560 Butler and bam Adebayo, that would be an excellent top 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.200 three guys to go alongside the best coach in the league. 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:05.680 All right. 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.800 Next, Dak Pascott is embracing his football mortality as he 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:14.720 enters his age thirty campaign. He says there's one thousand, 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.640 a sense of urgency to win the Super Bowl this year. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.560 Does anyone have more pressure than the Cowboys in dak 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:21.040 this year? 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.920 Oh yeah, I mean the Bills have the most pressure 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:29.240 of anybody in my opinion. But the Cowboys having not 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:33.800 even been to a conference championship game in almost thirty 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.959 years now, and they moved on from Kellen Moore and 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:43.280 they you know, they a lot. They they're ceiling for 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:50.200 you know, your entire life. And then some Diora has 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:54.600 been Round two of the playoffs. But I actually liked 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:55.720 the spot the Cowboys. 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:55.880 Earn. 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.480 I talked about this with Cowhert on his podcast on 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:07.480 the volume. Obviously, Philly and San Francisco are the two 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:17.720 Vegas favorites in the NFC, and deservedly so. However, Philly 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:22.880 had massive trouble all year when they played real quarterbacks. 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:27.720 And it is incredibly hard to go to back to 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:32.200 back Super Bowls and it is incredibly hard to overcome 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.320 losing the Super Bowl. So, just for the sake of argument, 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:39.919 say Philly doesn't get back. The Niners have been playing 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:44.560 this quarterback roulette for the last few years. They now 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.919 have you know, Trey Lance has fallen totally out of favor. 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.160 It would appear Sam Donald is Sam Donald. I don't 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.960 care if he's with Kyle Shanahan. And then there's Party, 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.760 who was good last year but is coming off a 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.400 major elbow surgery. Say, the quarterback position is just too 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.600 bad for them this year. If it's not the Niners 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:09.200 or the Eagles, the Cowboys gotta have the best shot 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:15.560 of anybody in that conference. Seattle and Detroit were good 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:20.000 stories and fun stories last year. Are either one of 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:23.600 those quarterbacks gonna duplicate what they did. There's no one 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:26.959 in the NFC South that Warren's believing. And I know 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:29.320 Saints fans get mad at me, but there just isn't 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.840 the The Cardinals are not trying to win, The Rams 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.680 are not gonna be able to win. The Vikings defense 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:40.320 is a train wreck, and they were incredibly fortunate last 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:42.120 year to have the record they did, and they got 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.959 exposed in the playoffs. It's not gonna be that like 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:49.880 the Giants were running out of teams. So I actually 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:53.119 think I might believe in the Cowboys this year, even 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:57.800 though I don't believe in the coach. A Dack's fine, 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.560 He's like the eleventh best quarterback in football. Fine, the 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:04.640 smart money I get it is Eagles Niners, and last 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:06.920 year I was in on the Niners. But if it's 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.920 not one of them, the Cowboys gotta have the best 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.920 chance of anybody, all right, Last one. 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:18.159 The quarterfinals at Wimbledon are underway. Time for Nick's tennis corner. 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:22.120 Who wins? If it's Djokovic and Alcarez. 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:27.200 Good job? So I picked Carlos Alcarez before the tournament. 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:32.199 I really liked what he did yesterday and dropping the 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:36.320 first set and then storming back to victory. The draw 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:41.320 is it's not really like super favorable for either one 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.280 of them. The rest of the way. It's not like 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:47.040 one of them has a way easier path. You could 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:54.600 argue that Djokovic has the slightly easier path, but in 0:21:54.680 --> 0:22:00.719 the quarters, Alcarez is playing the six seed Ruin and 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:04.280 Djokovic is playing the seventeen seven seed rube Lev. I 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.320 think Rubylev is probably a little better than Ruin, But 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:09.240 do you call that a wash? And then you would 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.960 think that in the semis al Karez would play Medvedev 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:17.000 because he's playing the unranked American U banks Uh, and 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:21.400 that Djokovic would play center Janick Center because he's playing 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:25.960 an unranked guy himself. So but call that part of wash. 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:29.560 It is I think we're gonna get al Karez Djokovic, 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:33.399 and I'm gonna stick with al Karez, even though Djokovic 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:36.320 right now to win the tournament is minus two hundred 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:38.880 and al Karez is three to one. Now, I did 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:41.760 give you, guys, if you remember Medvedev as the long 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:46.560 shot and he's now still alive in the quarters. Here 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:49.720 is what I actually want to talk about here. What 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:53.760 I'm not a you know, Djokovic. If you'd asked me 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:59.760 eighteen months ago the greatest tennis player ever, I would 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:06.720 have said better than Nadal than Djokovic. Djokovic continues to 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:11.719 make a case, though maybe the strongest case, that it 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:19.119 might be him. So Djokovic has won the last four 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:25.600 Australian Opens that he has played in nineteen, twenty twenty 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:29.560 one and twenty three. Now that is not for a 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:34.320 consecutive because he did not play in twenty two because 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:36.560 he was not allowed into the country because of the 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:43.240 vaccine stuff. Djokovic has won the last four Wimbledons he's 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:49.280 played in eighteen nineteen twenty one. In twenty two. There 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:52.960 wasn't a tournament in twenty because of COVID, so he 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:56.320 has a chance to tie the all time record for 0:23:56.480 --> 0:24:01.840 consecutive Wimbledon victories with a win in this one. He 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:05.560 could tie Roy Emerson's record. The hold on, let me 0:24:05.640 --> 0:24:10.320 check that, actually, because how many Wimbledon can? Is it 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:16.159 four or five? I think it's winds streak record? Men's 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:22.920 I'm so I know Borg won? Did Borg win five 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:24.840 in a row? Sorry? Guys, I should have looked this 0:24:24.920 --> 0:24:28.280 up before the show. When you do go to Borg wiki, 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:32.639 you get the actual like a Borg, not Bjorn Borg. Uh, 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:37.840 how many Bjorn Borg won Wimbledon? Yeah, five years in 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:41.320 a row, as did Federer. So that's the record. So 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:45.600 he could tie that record with a win here. But 0:24:45.720 --> 0:24:49.560 what it would also mean for Novak is this. He 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:53.440 has won the last four Australians he's played in. He's 0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:57.360 won the last four Wimbledon's he's played in. He has 0:24:57.440 --> 0:25:01.120 won two of the last three French Open he's played in, 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:04.840 with the one loss coming in the quarters to Nat All. 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:10.640 He has a chance for the single season Grand Slam, 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:15.879 which he almost won in twenty twenty one when he 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:19.040 won the first three majors, and then the US Open 0:25:19.119 --> 0:25:24.240 that year he made it to the final but lost 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:29.040 in straight sets to Medvedev. What he's in the midst 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:36.440 of is an all time run, and if he were 0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:43.720 to win this, it's really hard to not admit, even 0:25:43.760 --> 0:25:46.359 if you don't love him and I don't love him, 0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:52.440 that he's probably the best ever. And the fact that 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:59.320 he has racked all of this up is truly it 0:25:59.480 --> 0:26:04.680 remarked that he did it. He started his career during 0:26:05.440 --> 0:26:10.600 Federer's heyday and then had to go through Nadal's entire heyday. 0:26:12.080 --> 0:26:16.320 And I understand he has gotten a lion's share of 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:20.320 his majors, not the majority, but ten of them in 0:26:20.400 --> 0:26:26.520 the Australian, but ten Australian, three French, sitting on seven Wimbledon, 0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:31.560 three US Opens. It's also odd to me that he 0:26:31.640 --> 0:26:34.960 has been so successful at the Australian and not nearly 0:26:35.040 --> 0:26:39.800 as successful at the US Open, but set that aside. 0:26:40.160 --> 0:26:45.680 So it's twenty three majors one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 0:26:46.440 --> 0:26:53.359 another eleven finals in all time, maybe the greatest career ever. 0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:56.960 It's weird because I just don't think he's better than Federer, 0:26:57.040 --> 0:27:02.800 but the numbers at this point are becoming undeniable, and 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:05.160 he might have left a few majors on the table 0:27:05.560 --> 0:27:09.399 because in twenty twenty two couldn't go ahead. 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:14.240 Well, kouldn't Djokovic tie fed for what do. 0:27:14.200 --> 0:27:17.440 You mean for the most consecutive Wimbledon's. Yeah, yeah, that's 0:27:17.480 --> 0:27:19.680 what he would be doing. He'd be tying, But I'm 0:27:19.720 --> 0:27:22.520 saying he wouldn't be breaking the record god tying Federer 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:25.840 and bjorn Borg if he wins this now. Again, it 0:27:25.920 --> 0:27:27.959 is weird because it's not five years in a row, 0:27:28.320 --> 0:27:31.639 but it's because they didn't the tournament didn't happen in 0:27:31.680 --> 0:27:36.760 twenty twenty. For the Australian Open, he didn't participate in 0:27:36.800 --> 0:27:40.000 twenty twenty two, so he doesn't actually have that street going. 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:42.880 I'm simply saying he hasn't lost at the Australian Open 0:27:42.960 --> 0:27:47.080 since twenty eighteen, he hasn't lost at Wimbledon since twenty seventeen, 0:27:48.440 --> 0:27:52.919 and a chance for a single season Grand Slam. With 0:27:53.040 --> 0:27:55.320 all that said, I'm rooting for Acres. I hope the 0:27:55.400 --> 0:27:57.880 kid gets it. He won the US Open last year. 0:27:57.920 --> 0:28:01.359 I hope he starts an unbelievable run, quick break come 0:28:01.400 --> 0:28:06.440 back play uh, and he could also. That's the other 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:09.119 thing you could tie Federer on. Sorry about that is 0:28:09.600 --> 0:28:13.840 most career Wimbledon victories. He can tie him for the 0:28:13.880 --> 0:28:17.440 most consecutives and the most career wimbled in victories, which 0:28:17.480 --> 0:28:19.720