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Speaker 1: Oh, let's go on a Saturday here on Fox Sports Radio,

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Speaker 1: coming to you live as always from the tire rack

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Speaker 1: six Anthony Gargano. But we say, welcome back to Kevin Figures.

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Speaker 1: What's up, kfig How are you man?

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Speaker 2: Always good to be with your brother? What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: You got me next week too?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Lovely whatever?

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Speaker 1: Whatever quote unquote road trip Anthony Gargano is on, You're

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Speaker 1: stuck with me another week. So I'm just I'm warning

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Speaker 1: you now if that makes you want to change your

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Speaker 1: Saturday plans, it's fine. But the best news we possibly

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Speaker 1: could have is that we had a night with tons

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Speaker 2: Just get home.

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Speaker 1: Just I'm being down the night after a pretty decent

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Speaker 1: day one of NBA Free agency. So over the next

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Speaker 1: four hours we'll recap it a preview what could be next?

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Speaker 1: I think you know, my favorite meme that I see

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Speaker 1: feel like there's some teams that are in that mode

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Speaker 1: right now with their franchise, but it's not Laker fans.

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Speaker 2: Kfig.

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Speaker 1: I think the winner so far a free agency van Vliet.

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Speaker 2: What's the what does everyone say? Betting on himself?

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Speaker 1: Bets on himself this year and gets a max deal

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Speaker 1: from the Rockets, which I don't know why. I saw

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Speaker 1: some fans in my mitch that are like, man, I'm

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Speaker 1: glad I don't have the Rockets GM running my team.

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Speaker 2: I like this signing. I'll debate and offend that.

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Speaker 1: I guess the big rumors of a Sacramento Kings exit

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Speaker 1: for Draymond Green were just that rumors. He resigns a

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Speaker 1: three year deal with the Golden State Warriors.

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Speaker 2: You heard kay FIG's update.

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Speaker 1: Desmond Baine got paid, but I and Kyrie Irving's contract

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Speaker 1: has set the NBA on its ear because I mean,

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Speaker 1: you would almost think that Mark Cuban walked and punched

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Speaker 1: some NBA analysts in the face with the way that

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Speaker 1: they're acting about this. Oh my gosh, how could you

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Speaker 1: do this? Kusmas stays with the Whiz. Chris Middleton stays

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Speaker 1: with the Brewers. I've said the Brewers, I've gotten my

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Speaker 1: stays with the Bucks. But kay think I kind of

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Speaker 1: think the biggest story of the day is what the

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Speaker 1: Lakers did in day one. They wanted to go get,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe an upgrade over Dennis Shrewder.

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Speaker 2: They get Gabe Vincent.

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Speaker 1: They decide to run it back with Ruey hot Chimoor,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna probably try to do the same thing

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Speaker 1: for Reeves or D'Angelo Russell. I think it's unlikely Russell

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Speaker 1: is coming back, But man, what a start to free

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Speaker 1: agency for the Lakers. We are in a much better

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Speaker 1: were when I.

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Speaker 2: Think Jason Smith brought this up the other night.

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Speaker 1: Then we were whenever free agency started with a signing

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Speaker 4: Goff and Luele d I tried to forget that happened. Yeah, man,

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Speaker 4: those are terrible contracts. But yes, and by the way,

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Speaker 4: local reporters Dan Weiki and Jovan bujav of the Athletic

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Speaker 4: in La Times, respectively say that the door is still

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Speaker 4: wide open and it's still very possible for the Lakers

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Speaker 4: to retain both Austin Reeves and Angelo Russell, both of

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Speaker 4: those guys. Oh, still very possible for them to sign

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Speaker 4: both of those guys. So I do not disagree with you, Chris.

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Speaker 4: A successful opening or free agency for the Lakers. Gave

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Speaker 4: better outside shooter. Maybe not as good defensively, but still

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Speaker 4: well earned pay raise for himself as well in a contract.

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Speaker 4: Antorio Prince, I think is one of the more underrated signings,

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Speaker 2: Before that just got a little bit better.

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Speaker 4: So I'm gonna I'm inclined to agree with you that

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Speaker 2: And again this is day one.

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Speaker 1: free agency, that doesn't really mean anything at all. In fact,

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Speaker 1: But it just I've said this in football, I've said

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it seems like they have a sense of

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Speaker 4: Torrian Prince is a defensive minded guy that made over

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Speaker 4: Vincent didn't have the greatest regular season shooting, but in

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Speaker 1: It is the fellas. Anthony Gargano is out, that's Kevin Figures.

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Speaker 1: I'm Chris Blank. The whole crew is here, Mark Ramsey

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Speaker 1: But let me real quick, KFIG confession time and then

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Speaker 1: declare a loser. I pick and choose when I try

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Speaker 1: to become an expert on certain sports, don't we all

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Speaker 1: an NFL, well in NFL and college football is NonStop, right,

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Speaker 2: It's just it's not an area where I'm smart.

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Speaker 1: But I always consume content from smart people whenever we

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. But around this time, I'll listen

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Speaker 4: can appreciate the individual accolades and what sho haal Tani

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Speaker 4: is doing, so yeah, you recognize his highlight, but it's

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Speaker 4: pretty much the same the Lakers are. Excuse me, the

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Speaker 4: Angels are a few games over five hundred right now.

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Speaker 4: They're competitive in the wildcard race, but I mean, no

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Speaker 4: one really takes them seriously as any sort of playoff threat.

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Speaker 4: Maybe they can stick into a wildcard, but not as

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Speaker 4: a World Series threat. So does it dampen it a

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Speaker 4: little bit what shoe haal Tani's doing with everyone talking

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Speaker 4: about where he's gonna be next year, Yeah, to a degree,

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Speaker 4: but I don't necessarily think that it's I don't think

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Speaker 4: it's any different than how we talked about Alex Arriguez

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Speaker 4: when he was with the Rangers, or other great players

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Speaker 4: who have put up phenomenal numbers with the bad franchises

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Speaker 4: in the past. Rory Holliday with Toronto is a name

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Speaker 4: that comes up. You know, people are talking for years

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Speaker 4: when when they trade him to a contender at some point,

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Speaker 4: what's he gonna look out? Yeah, So I just think

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Speaker 4: that when you talk about, you know, great players, especially

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Speaker 4: it's specifically in the sport of baseball because it's pretty

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Speaker 4: much an individual sport wrapped around a team game. Individual

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Speaker 4: can play phenomenally, but if the team around him is terrible,

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Speaker 4: his individual impact really doesn't make that big of a difference.

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Speaker 4: And so I think you're seeing that with shoe al

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Speaker 4: Tani at the moment.

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Speaker 2: So he's getting.

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Speaker 4: Coverage, you know, his highlights are being played, it's getting

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Speaker 4: run on Sports Center and social media here and there.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, because the Angels as a team have not

464
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Speaker 4: been very good. They're average at best this year. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I think that. I think the the amount of coverage

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Speaker 4: he's gotten in the way it's been covered is valid.

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Speaker 4: It's the way it's getting the kind of coverage it

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Speaker 4: should be getting.

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Speaker 1: Here is to kind of my counter, not in a

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Speaker 1: bad way, Kevin, and I didn't know you were an

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Speaker 1: Angel Sin. Yes, what a fun team to follow, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean it was just be honest, there's something else.

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Speaker 4: It was fun when I was in high school and

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Speaker 4: they won the World Series and oh two, how about that?

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I forgot about that. I'll never forget that

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Speaker 2: was that was the highlight of my Angel fandom.

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Speaker 1: But they're not They're in a bad spot in the

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Speaker 1: division right now. They're six back in the division, yep.

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Speaker 1: But there as much in the playoff race as the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox or you know, the Guardians even right now.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're right, they're only two games out of

482
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Speaker 1: the wild Card, and we talk about them sometimes.

483
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Speaker 2: Like they're the Royals, So we talk about them.

484
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Speaker 1: Sometimes like they're stumbling all over themselves, like the New

485
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Speaker 1: York Mets, when in reality, I'm not saying I can't

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Speaker 1: go in depth Kevin and have a conversation about where

487
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Speaker 1: the rotation is. I can't have a conversation about their depth.

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Speaker 1: I can talk to you all day about Otani and

489
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Speaker 1: Mike Trout, but then I also just in looking at

490
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Speaker 1: the standings, they are four games over five hundred. You know,

491
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Speaker 1: there are only two games out of the wild Card

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Speaker 1: right now. They're chasing I mean Baltimore, who I think

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Speaker 1: we're all kind of waiting for the bottom to fall

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Speaker 1: out of that. I mean, they are in a position

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Speaker 1: where they're knocking on the door for the playoffs. Now

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Speaker 1: some might say with that roster it should be the

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Speaker 1: division and not the wild card, but it's not as

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Speaker 1: damning as maybe it's been in years past.

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Speaker 4: At this time, it's not you're right, This is as

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Speaker 4: deep into the season that I can remember over the

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Speaker 4: last five or six years where they've actually been a

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Speaker 4: serious contender for a playoff spot. The issue comes up

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Speaker 4: with and A Paramanazi and their general manager talks about

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Speaker 4: this last week when they played or maybe two weeks

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Speaker 4: ago when they played the Dodgers. They were saying, well,

506
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Speaker 4: you know, will you end up trading him? How does

507
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Speaker 4: it fit? And he said, well, right now, you know,

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Speaker 4: there's no intention of trading him because as we currently sit,

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Speaker 4: we're in the playoff race. He didn't necessarily rule out

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Speaker 4: that they trade him away. I think the problem is

511
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Speaker 4: most people believe it's a foregone conclusion that he's likely gone.

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Speaker 4: So unless the Angels do something serious, make a big

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Speaker 4: splash at the deadline and present themselves as serious contenders,

514
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Speaker 4: you know, are they really are a contender to keep

515
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Speaker 4: Otani next season? And if you're not, that's why people

516
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Speaker 4: are talking about whether or not you should actually trade

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Speaker 4: him away, even in the midst of being a somewhat

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Speaker 4: competitive team at.

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Speaker 2: This point in time.

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Speaker 4: And I'll be honest with you as a fan myself,

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Speaker 4: I certainly would not be opposed. If somebody was willing to,

522
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Speaker 4: you know, send the farm to the Angels for shoe Aotani,

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Speaker 4: I would absolutely do it.

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Speaker 2: There is an interesting angle to this that we'll get

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Speaker 2: to in a bit.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Passing I mentioned I've been listening to all the

527
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Speaker 1: NBA podcasts ye in that I found Ryan Roscillo again

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Speaker 1: and he was on Ryan Rossillo's podcast, And I've got

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Speaker 1: something from Jeff Passing for you a little bit later

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Speaker 1: on in the show, Kevin that might might give you

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Speaker 1: a little bit of hope that not only could Otani

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Speaker 1: be back, but the Angels could be in a position

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Speaker 1: where they're gonna.

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Speaker 2: Build around it.

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Speaker 1: But listen, there's more than just show Hey, Otani's big

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Speaker 1: bomb last night in an Angel's loss to get to

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Speaker 1: and as we come to you live from the tire

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Speaker 1: rack dot Com Studios, Kevin figures has everything that we're

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Speaker 1: missing out on so far with this trending up big

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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 3: Kay? Think?

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Speaker 2: Well, since we're talking baseball right now.

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Speaker 4: You mentioned Arizona beating the Angels six to two despite

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Speaker 4: the home run from Shoeyotani. Also, Randy A. Rosereina went

545
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Speaker 4: deep for the Rays. They beat Seattle fifteen to four.

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Speaker 4: They had an eight run eighth inning. They're actually down

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Speaker 4: four to nothing, tied the game at four piece, and

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Speaker 4: then it all just fell apart for Seattle in the eighth.

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Speaker 4: It's a nice way to put it, I will say so.

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Speaker 4: The Mookie Bets with a couple of home runs. I

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Speaker 4: guess he's warm enough for the home run derby and

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Speaker 4: couple of weeks. Dodgers beat Kansas City nine to three.

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Speaker 4: Jose al two ve win deep for Houston. They beat

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Speaker 4: Texas five to three, Atlanta all over Miami for their

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Speaker 4: six straight victory. Matt Olsen a couple of home runs there,

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Speaker 4: Red Sox, Twins, Reds, and the Giants with the victory

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Speaker 4: over the Mets as well. Mets now thirty six and

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Speaker 4: forty six on the season. I don't know if Shoeyotani

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Speaker 4: wants wants to head to New York, at least not

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Speaker 4: play for the Mets.

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Speaker 2: At this point in time.

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Speaker 4: Man, things are bad there go on to NBA free agency.

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Speaker 4: Indiana Pacers inking Tyre's Halliburton five years, two hundred and

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Speaker 4: sixty million dollar max contract on Friday night. That was

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Speaker 4: just hours after they poached Bruce Brown away from the

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Speaker 4: Nuggets on a two year deal three years, one hundred

567
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Speaker 4: and twenty six million dollars for Kyrie Irving to return

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Speaker 4: to the Mavericks. Jeremy grant Re signed with Portland for

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Speaker 4: a five year contract, Lakers signing gave Vincent and Ruy

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Speaker 4: Hachimura to three year deals, three years for Chris Middleton

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Speaker 4: to remain in Milwaukee, Houston signing Fred Van Vliet for

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Speaker 4: a three year contract as well, Memphis Grizzley signing Desmont

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Speaker 4: Maine to a five years extension, and also signing Derrick

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Speaker 4: Rose to a two year contract.

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Speaker 2: Its Chris Plink.

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Speaker 1: All right, So I had promised, as we come to

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Speaker 1: you live from the tiraq dot Com studios, to try

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Speaker 1: to run through all of the signings that took place

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Speaker 1: yesterday just to kind of give you an idea of

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Speaker 1: where we are, where we're going, what you've missed, And

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Speaker 1: thankfully for half the names that I can't pronounce, we've

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Speaker 1: got Kevin figures here to help make sure I can't

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Speaker 1: screw it up, right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's really the best to start, all right.

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Speaker 1: So there is one major storyline that hasn't really been

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Speaker 1: addressed yet in free agency, and it's not a free agent.

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Speaker 1: But I don't really know how it affects the market

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Speaker 1: or how it affects anything. And that is, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're sitting here twenty not even twenty four hours in

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Speaker 1: a free agency. What six about ten hours in a

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Speaker 1: free agency, Kevin, There's been nothing on James Harden. He

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Speaker 1: opted into the final year of his deal thirty five

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Speaker 1: point six mil, the ideas that the Sixers are going

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Speaker 1: to trade him. But just if you're wondering, hey, boys,

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Speaker 1: we're thirty seven minutes into the show and what we've

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Speaker 1: been told all week long is going to be one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest stories. And then everyone losing their mind

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Speaker 1: on what was it Thursday night whenever he did opt in.

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Speaker 1: It's been radio silence so far. Now I want to

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Speaker 1: go and dig a little deeper on this in a bit,

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Speaker 1: But are you surprised that we sit here and nothing

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Speaker 1: has happened yet with Harden and his exit from Philadelphia?

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Speaker 4: I am because there was so much momentum after it

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Speaker 4: was announced on Thursday about the Clippers being the front runners.

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Speaker 4: But then there have been reports on Friday afternoon or

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Speaker 4: Friday night, I should say, after free agency began that

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Speaker 4: they might not be as gung ho on Harden, or

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Speaker 4: it might not be as simple of a deal as

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Speaker 4: people are trying to make it out to be. Look,

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Speaker 4: James Harden has burned a lot of bridges in many

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Speaker 4: different places. He's bounced around the last five six years especially,

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Speaker 4: and I wonder if the marker on him is relatively soft,

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Speaker 4: and people may not be willing to give Philadelphia what

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Speaker 4: Philadelphia things will be good.

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Speaker 2: Value for him.

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Speaker 4: And I wonder if this thing would actually end up

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Speaker 4: stretching out for a little bit longer than we would expect.

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Speaker 1: Let's put a pit in that and dive into it

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Speaker 1: to kickoff hour two. Okay, because that's a really good take.

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Speaker 1: Here's the signings, and a couple of them happened moments

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Speaker 1: before the start of free agency.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: Harrison Barnes got his three year, fifty four million dollar

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Speaker 1: extension to remain with the Kings. Had a great season

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Speaker 1: last year. I know I'm going to say fifteen points

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Speaker 1: and four and a half rebounds.

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Speaker 2: Like what, But I mean he was.

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Speaker 1: He started every game and was one of the key

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Speaker 1: pieces in the Kings getting.

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Speaker 2: Back to the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Right as free agency seemed to start, Kobe White made

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Speaker 1: a commitment to stay with the Bulls and they paid

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Speaker 1: him three years forty million dollars. Kris LeVert back with

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cavaliers two years thirty two million dollars, while

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Speaker 1: Trey Lyles returned to the Kings on a two year,

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Speaker 1: sixteen million dollar deal.

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Speaker 2: All right, this one was supposed to be.

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Speaker 1: I guess Kfig a message to Damian Lillard that hey,

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Speaker 1: we're spending but a five year, one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: million dollar deal for Jeremy Grant.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of coin for Jeremy Grant. That's cheap.

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Speaker 1: Troy Brown Junior on his way to the Timberwolves after

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Speaker 1: spending some time with the Lakers, and the Lakers then

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Speaker 1: turned around and got Torn Prints a one year, four

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Speaker 1: point five million dollar deal In that the Lakers a

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Speaker 1: couple of other signings we'll talk about, but they are

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Speaker 1: planning to offer Austin Reeves a four year, fifty two

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Speaker 1: million dollar contract. But I feel like I've seen a

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Speaker 1: couple of other numbers reported on that as well well.

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Speaker 4: Because he's a stritch of free agent, so we can

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Speaker 4: sign an offer sheet with another team for much more

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Speaker 4: than that. So the Lakers potentially could offer him less,

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Speaker 4: but I don't think that that would necessarily be the case.

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Speaker 4: They're going to offer him as much as they possibly can.

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Speaker 1: Georgia s Niang is back with it was back. He

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Speaker 1: signs a three year deal with the Cavaliers three years,

657
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Speaker 1: twenty six million, last two seasons with the Sixers, Javon

658
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Speaker 1: Carter a three year deal with the Bulls. Trey Jones

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Speaker 1: re ups with the Spurs. And here's where I need

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Speaker 1: your help. I think there's maybe two of these five

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Speaker 1: guys that I can remember watching last year, all right,

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Speaker 1: but the Suns to help build out. It's binched. What's

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Speaker 1: a binch, It's binch, you know, Watannabi y Keitha Bates, Dupe,

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Speaker 1: Drew Eubanks, Yeah, Damian Lee, Josha, Kogi and Schimezi Mattu

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Speaker 1: close enough.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, those are all good. Yes, Kogi was the only one,

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Speaker 4: but yeah we got there. Very good job on that,

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Speaker 4: thank you shake.

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Speaker 1: Milton is a timberwolf gets a two year deal for

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Speaker 1: the former Oaso Ram What's Up? Nine eight? Josh Richardson

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Speaker 1: back with the Heat. The Lakers agreed to a two

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Speaker 1: year deal with Cam Reddish. I was a little bit

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Speaker 1: surprised on the money for Herb Jones a four year

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Speaker 1: deal with the Pelicans. Jack Up polele with the wrapped

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Speaker 1: a four year, eighty million dollar deal. Joe Ingles is

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Speaker 1: a magic Cam Johnson agrees to stay with the Nets.

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Speaker 1: The Lakers sign Gabe Vincent. Nuggets playoff hero Bruce Brown

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Speaker 1: is on his way to the Pacers. Ruey Hatchamorro resigns

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Speaker 1: with the Lakers. The Mavericks springback Seth Curry. Kevin Love

680
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Speaker 1: is back with a Heat. Two year deal for Dennis

681
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Speaker 1: Shrewder with the Raptors. Grizzlies get a two year deal

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Speaker 1: for Derek Rose, Monte Morris Scott traded to the Pistons.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzma a big four year deal with the Wizards.

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Speaker 1: Chris Middleton back on a two year, one our, three year,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and two million dollar deal with the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: Draymond Greens deal four years, one hundred million dollars. Kyrie

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Speaker 1: Irving three year, one hundred and twenty six million dollars

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Speaker 1: to stay with the MAVs. Van Vliet gets the max

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Speaker 1: deal from the Rockets three years, one hundred and thirty mil,

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Speaker 1: and Desmond Baine gets the huge extension to stay with

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Speaker 1: the Memphis Grizzlies. I can't forget late last night Tyree's

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Speaker 1: Hollow who tweeted the gray is the Millison dollar man

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Speaker 1: from the great tweets in Twitter history. Five year, two

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Speaker 1: hundred and seven million dollar heal with the Pacers. So

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Speaker 1: that's literally every move that has taken place in NBA

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Speaker 1: free agency so far.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the stat was within the like, over

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Speaker 4: a billion and a half dollars in player contracts was

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Speaker 4: signed within the first hour of free agency beginning on Friday.

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Speaker 2: So who's left.

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Speaker 1: We'll dive into the best remaining and continue to react

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Speaker 1: to day one a free agency right here on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Oh yes, with Kevin Figures. I'm Chris Plank

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Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning on Fox Sports Radio. K fig

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Speaker 1: Did you have a good morning off last week? Was

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Speaker 1: it nice to not be up all hours of the

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Speaker 1: night on a Friday and to a Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a little bit different. I mean, who

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Speaker 2: says I wasn't up.

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Speaker 4: Who says I wasn't staring at the wild saying why

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Speaker 4: am I not at Fox Sports Radio right now?

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Speaker 2: It's happening last night last night.

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Speaker 1: I I try to schedule my sleep differently. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's just I'm not breaking news. I'm not usually up

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Speaker 1: at four am Central time. You don't say during the

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Speaker 1: non college football season now college football wise, you know.

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Speaker 2: There might be an earlier show.

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Speaker 1: I used to do like a five eight to seven

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Speaker 1: A show, and thankfully that got moved back to like

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Speaker 1: six A. But you know, there'll be times when I'm

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Speaker 1: up this early, and you know, road trips every now

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Speaker 1: and then I get a chance to listen to you

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Speaker 1: and Aunt. But for the most part, this time in

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Speaker 1: the morning, I'm looking to the back of my eyelids.

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Speaker 2: But last night, gosh that I guess that's not last night.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: Two nights ago, I filled in for Big Ben Mallor,

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Speaker 1: which means an't sleep. You know, it's that's all night long.

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Speaker 1: That's one to five am Central time, and then after

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Speaker 1: the show. You know, I've I don't know about you,

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Speaker 1: k Fig, but I'm not one of those dudes that

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Speaker 1: can just collapse and it's like, ah, show's over, you're

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Speaker 1: still on a high, or you know, I overanalyze everything.

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Speaker 2: It's like, gosh, why did I say that? Or why

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Speaker 2: did I do that? Or could I get in trouble?

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Speaker 5: Night?

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Speaker 2: Out of ten times, it's usually can I get in trouble?

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Speaker 2: For that?

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Speaker 1: Anyone's gonna get me. So last night I made this

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Speaker 1: plan that I'm going to bed.

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Speaker 2: Super early, super early, but then.

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Speaker 1: I realized I had a lot of scrolling to catch

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Speaker 1: up on so kvig Nolae nine o'clock Central time, nine

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Speaker 1: PCE Central time, with an alarm clock set for three am.

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Speaker 2: I lay down in bed.

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Speaker 1: My everyone supportive, but actually it's nine thirty because I

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Speaker 1: for some reason was mowing ridiculously late.

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Speaker 2: Sorry neighbors. I sat there on my.

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Speaker 1: Phone and scrolled and read all of this NBA stuff

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Speaker 1: for two hours, to the point where my wife finally

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Speaker 1: came because I was in the bedroom and they were

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Speaker 1: gonna let me sleep, shut the door, did all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: My wife comes in and goes, are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: Right now? You're still up? I'm like, yeah, what time

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Speaker 1: is it? She goes, It's like eleven o'clock. What are

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Speaker 1: you doing?

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Speaker 2: You've got to be up in four hours.

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Speaker 1: So I did have a conversation with myself where it

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Speaker 1: was like, why not just stay up, We's see if

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Speaker 1: you can do this for two days in a row.

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Speaker 1: But you never I get I that was one night

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Speaker 1: right of having an off kilter sleep schedule. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how you do it then, kfig when you you've

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Speaker 1: been in this shift for a minute now, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: when you take a weekend off, it's almost as if

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Speaker 1: your body is still telling you, Hey, you need to

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Speaker 1: be somewhere right now, so you better not be asleep.

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Speaker 4: True, I mean you try to work yourself into a

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Speaker 4: routine now. Fortunately for me, this is like one night

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Speaker 4: slash early morning of the week that this happens. So

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Speaker 4: I can imagine doing it back to back nights or

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Speaker 4: every single night of the week. To have it disjointed

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Speaker 4: in your situation. To do it to night's skip a

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Speaker 4: day and then do it again that is increasingly difficult.

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Speaker 4: Then I wouldn't be able to tell you how to

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Speaker 4: give you advice on how to handle that situation.

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Speaker 2: That'd be hard.

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Speaker 4: After one week off, it's not too hard to get

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Speaker 4: back into the regular routine like I normally would have.

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Speaker 1: I will say there is this added caveat for your

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Speaker 1: boy in that I'm hosting my whole family for the

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Speaker 1: Fourth of July.

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Speaker 2: Oh nice. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I there's a little extra work being done around

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Speaker 1: the house. There's some I mentioned I'm a big yard

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Speaker 1: work guy.

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Speaker 2: There's some.

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Speaker 1: There's some grounds crew work that's taking place. Kfig. So

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Speaker 1: I feel like today will get me back to normal.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 4: We talked about this when you feel then for Anthony

792
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Speaker 4: Abou about a month ago about not being a big

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Speaker 4: of a grill master.

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Speaker 2: So who's in charge of the meats? What's going on?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing okay, okay, this is this is burgers and

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Speaker 1: hot dogs.

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Speaker 2: Nice and handle that, Okay.

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Speaker 1: Where I screw things up is when someone drops, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: you wanna smoke a brisket or you wanna do this

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Speaker 1: with ribs.

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Speaker 2: That's where I'm like.

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Speaker 4: Ah, yeah, It's like, yeah, let me hit up that

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Speaker 4: barbecue joint, you know, and and bring that and bring

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Speaker 4: that home side.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: Can we just go to like rib crib and I'll

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Speaker 1: buy it and we'll put it on the grill and

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Speaker 1: make it look like we cooked it.

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Speaker 2: But there you go. Hey, Happy Fourth of July.

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Speaker 1: Weekend. This is number one, number one on my depth chart.

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Speaker 1: It is my favorite holiday American through and through.

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Speaker 2: But any excuse that.

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Speaker 1: I have to eat hot dogs, eat hamburgers, shoot fireworks,

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Speaker 1: drink cold beer, and swim in my pool, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: take it, baby, And I hope everyone gets an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to celebrate with some downtime with family and friends. Now

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Speaker 1: we don't stop grinding here at Fox Sports Radio. Enough

818
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Speaker 1: about me, Let's get more in depth on NBA free

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Speaker 1: agency and when we come back, what's the latest on

820
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Speaker 1: James Harden and who's the best available current free agents.

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Speaker 1: Let's remember James Harden isn't a free agent, but is

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Speaker 1: there a team that maybe we're not talking about that

823
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Speaker 1: could make a move for him.

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Speaker 2: We'll dive into it next on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 6: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

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Speaker 1: There are some college football ish news to get to,

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Speaker 1: involving the future of the Pac twelve, involving what San

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Speaker 1: Diego State really was kind.

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Speaker 2: Of left with no other choice but to do.

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Speaker 1: I know there's many that like to mock whenever something

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Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily go well. It's like taw well, look at

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Speaker 1: those dummies not on a San Diego State made the

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Speaker 1: right move. But as we are fifty six days, six hours,

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Speaker 1: fifty eight minutes and fifteen seconds from the start of

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Speaker 1: the college football season, we got time, gents, We've got

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Speaker 1: time before August twenty six and we'll get to all

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Speaker 1: those stories coming up.

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Speaker 2: At the bottom of this hour.

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Speaker 1: Because I know Kevin Figures as we come to you

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Speaker 1: live from the tire rack dot Com studios, I know

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Speaker 1: when it comes to college football, I always have a

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Speaker 1: willing partner to talk about all things involving college football.

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Speaker 4: One hundred million percent, and that's not even a real number, Chris,

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Speaker 4: I'm all in, what's that.

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Speaker 1: Meme that always it's not a meme. I guess it's

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Speaker 1: a gift where President Bien goes one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: billion levity trillion.

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Speaker 2: That's the percent I feel right now.

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Speaker 1: You know I've reached that point, and not not to

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Speaker 1: bog down our NBA free agency talk with something infinitely

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Speaker 1: more entertaining like college football, of course, but I do

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Speaker 1: find myself now reaching that point where I'm starting to think,

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Speaker 1: and I just gave you sixty days plus until the

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Speaker 1: start of the season where I start looking at rosters

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Speaker 1: and you're like, dang man, this team seems like they

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Speaker 1: could be in position to have a shot, or this

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Speaker 1: team out of this or Caleb Williams looks like he's

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Speaker 1: he's as good as he's ever been, right, And yeah,

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Speaker 1: am I sleeping on North Carolina with Drake may Is?

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Speaker 1: Is this a bounce back season for some blue bloods

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Speaker 1: that struggled last year? We're reaching that point in the

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Speaker 1: college football off season where it's okay to start.

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Speaker 2: Having those conversations, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: That's there, start speculating. I think the catalogs have already

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Speaker 4: started coming out. I think I saw a tweet from

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Speaker 4: Phiel Steel last week. You know, what's that time of year, Chris,

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Speaker 4: We're wrapping up. Once we start crossing into July, especially

870
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 4: into mid July, after the NBA free agency period kind

871
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 4: of cools down. Everything starts rapping up to football at

872
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 4: that point in time.

873
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:23,879
Speaker 1: Whenever I was in a previous life, my family it's

874
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: not like I have like two families or anything. I

875
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,800
Speaker 1: just got a divorce, but my in laws loved taking

876
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 1: a fourth of July trip to Amelia Island. Now, since

877
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 1: I'm in radio, I could never afford that trip, but

878
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: they were kind enough to let us go along, and

879
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: that would be when I would grab the season preview magazines,

880
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: and that was when I would start going all in

881
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: on college football. Now those magazines are coming out earlier

882
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: and earlier than ever. But it's almost as if this

883
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: year everyone's like, wait a minute, Wait a minute, portal,

884
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: let's not just go ahead and hit print on all

885
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:02,760
Speaker 1: of these Mecca Carline published because you've got so much

886
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: that can happen even after springball in April. You know,

887
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: you got that second portal window where last year we

888
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: saw Jordan Addison make his move to USC So you

889
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: never know.

890
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 2: What could happen.

891
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: But fifty six days until the start of the college

892
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 1: football season. I've got some conference notes coming up at

893
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: the bottom of this hour. But as always, we come

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899
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Speaker 1: of the first twenty four hours of NBA free agency,

900
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: and so far Kevin not anything really too shocking. Everyone

901
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 1: in the NBA community seems outraged by the Kyrie Irving contract.

902
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: We'll explain after he resigns with the Mavericks. And oh,

903
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: by the way, the Mavericks also go out and ad

904
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: Seth Curry back to the mix. Draymond Green goes back

905
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 1: to Golden State the Lakers. I think this is a splash,

906
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: and getting gave Vincent to come to LA from Miami.

907
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: Now we'll wait and see what happens with Austin Reeves

908
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,760
Speaker 1: after they added Cam Reddish last night. The other big

909
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,800
Speaker 1: moves a max deal for Fred Van Vliet to the Rockets.

910
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: That's right, the Rockets and the Memphis Grizzlies give a

911
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 1: five year, two hundred and seven million dollar deal to

912
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:26,800
Speaker 1: Desmond Baine while also adding sninky good move Dereck Rose.

913
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 1: So if you're worried about joh Morant, I've got to

914
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:32,959
Speaker 1: give a tip of the cap to the Memphis front

915
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: office because they put two guys around him in Derreck Rose,

916
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: and well, Desmond Baine had already been there. But going

917
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,879
Speaker 1: out and getting Marcus Smart yes, I think that's when

918
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: you talk about putting a structure in place, and again

919
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: a sidebar from just all the massive moves. I feel like,

920
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,240
Speaker 1: if I'm a Memphis fan this morning, I feel really

921
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: good about what they've done so far.

922
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna lie.

923
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 1: When I saw like the pick that was involved in

924
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: the Marcus Smart trade, they they gave him a first

925
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: rounder for that. Then you get to all the protections

926
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 1: around it and you realize it's been a hell of

927
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: it off season for Memphis to try to recover from

928
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: the hole that John Morant seems to put him in,

929
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Speaker 1: and I think they're in a really good spot.

930
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 6: Well.

931
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Speaker 4: They've also played well at times when John Morant hasn't played.

932
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Speaker 4: But one thing they've really missed really outside of Steven Adams,

933
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 4: has been veteran leadership. They're one of the youngest rosters

934
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,800
Speaker 4: in the NBA and have been for the last three seasons,

935
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Speaker 4: and you know, to steal a line from Colin Kahrt,

936
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 4: they really lack kind of the adult in the room.

937
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 2: Now.

938
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Speaker 4: Marcus Smart kind of brings you that. Derek Rose is

939
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,479
Speaker 4: a playoff tested veteran. I know he's not the same

940
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 4: player he fell out of the rotation for the Knicks.

941
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 4: But even if he's riding the bench and he's playing

942
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes a night, just to have his presence in there,

943
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 4: I think makes a huge difference for this roster for

944
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 4: when John Moran gets back in for when he's not there.

945
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 4: So those are both underrated moves. I agree. I think

946
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 4: you talk about the Lakers having a great day to

947
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 4: open free agency just from a macro since from the

948
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 4: offseason as a whole, I think Memphis is one of

949
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Speaker 4: the big winners so far.

950
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Speaker 2: You know what, that's three winners.

951
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:05,479
Speaker 1: I think you and maybe we go back a little

952
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: bit more too, when you you put everything in this right,

953
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and take from literally the start of

954
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: the Chris Paul move and how that went down.

955
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 2: Memphis is a winner so far in the postseason.

956
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: In the I guess you could say off season, sorry, postseason,

957
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: off season, my bad.

958
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 2: Memphis is a winner in the off season.

959
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: Lakers and basically saying, you know what, let's get let's

960
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: run it back, let's run it back, let's see what

961
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: happens at a few pieces. I like what they've done

962
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: so far. You know, I have questions about what Golden

963
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 1: State has has done same, but I don't necessarily know

964
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: if it's bad. Bill Simmons talks about it, and you

965
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: brought it up earlier that that dual timeline where you

966
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: want to be a contender, but in that same vein

967
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 1: you're also building for the future, and that didn't necessarily

968
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: work for Golden State, you know, and in having to

969
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: move on from from Wiseman, and obviously we saw what

970
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: happened with But I'm just I'm kind of digging the

971
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: idea that Golden.

972
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Speaker 2: State has said fit.

973
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Speaker 3: You know.

974
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Speaker 1: Let's just and I don't know if this is Mike

975
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: Dunleavy Junior and his vision. I don't even know if

976
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 1: he's truly taken over as the shot caller yet, but

977
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 1: I think today is the first day whenever you know,

978
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 1: he's he's the man. But I'm pretty sure he had

979
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,879
Speaker 1: he's had say over all the postseason, offseason so far.

980
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: But in some ways, I kind of look at what

981
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,840
Speaker 1: Golden State did and I'm like, you know what they've

982
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: embraced that. You know, this attempt to build for the

983
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Speaker 1: future while you also have a contending team looked great

984
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: when you want a title, right exactly, But then you

985
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 1: realized oh that that guy that we got that lottery

986
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 1: pick is not gonna work out for us, And you know,

987
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: it's let's just embrace what we are, where a veteran

988
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: team that's gonna need to fill a few holes, and

989
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: let's just run it back with Draymond for a couple

990
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: of years. We'll see what happens with Klay Thompson after

991
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: this season. I don't know what to make of it

992
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: and how it's gonna work, but right now I think

993
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 1: I would put them into group of teams that I

994
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: like what they've done so far.

995
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 4: H Look, I like what they I think, Yeah, I

996
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 4: like what they've done by just getting riding themselves of

997
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 4: Jordan Poole. Like I know, I know he's a he's

998
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 4: a talented young player, but he was just a he

999
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 4: was He was a vampire for them in the postseason,

1000
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 4: played terribly even in the regular season, dropped off from

1001
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 4: what he was the previous year. And a lot of

1002
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 4: people may villainize, and rightfully so, Draymond Green for the

1003
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 4: offseason incident in training camp when he punched him in

1004
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 4: the face. Both I mean not even I can't even

1005
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 4: blame Pool for that. That's all on Draymond Green. But

1006
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 4: Jordan Poole certainly didn't live up to the way the

1007
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 4: expectations that they had for him once they signed him

1008
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 4: to that contract. So I do think it was a

1009
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 4: good move to get that contract off of the books.

1010
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 4: But Klay Thompson not the same player. You just resigned

1011
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 4: Draymond Green to have one hundred million dollar contract. Three

1012
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 4: years of those three years of those four are guaranteed.

1013
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 4: Not really a fan of that necess that contract either.

1014
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 4: Steph Curry is still great, but you know he's entering

1015
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 4: the back end of his prime at this point in time.

1016
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 4: I just don't I don't know if they've gotten better

1017
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,399
Speaker 4: and moves they can make to really improve. What they're

1018
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 4: basically doing is running it back. But now, all of

1019
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 4: a sudden, you have a young player who you've jettisoned

1020
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 4: and haven't really done anything to replace him. You brought

1021
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 4: in Chris Paul, who's also old and injury prone, and

1022
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 4: I really don't see how he fits in their equation either.

1023
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 4: So I don't necessarily hate the offseason because I like

1024
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 4: them getting rid of Jordan Poole, but I can't.

1025
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:22,479
Speaker 2: Say that I necessarily love it either.

1026
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: It's maybe a TBD right is the best way to

1027
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 1: put it right.

1028
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 2: They might not be done yet.

1029
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: It's intriguing, and let's see what that's what that next

1030
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: move is outside of those two and a half teams

1031
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: right now, I think a lot to be determined. And

1032
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: that's the way it's supposed to be an NBA free agency,

1033
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: Which gets us to the big story that kind of

1034
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:50,320
Speaker 1: dominated most of our talk on Friday, but yet we

1035
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: haven't really heard much about it. Where are we with

1036
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: James Harden right now? Where are we with what's next

1037
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: for him? Him?

1038
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 2: I think.

1039
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: If Philadelphia thought that they were going to get a

1040
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: haul of picks or they were gonna get young talent,

1041
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 1: and I don't know if they truly believe they would,

1042
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 1: I think they realize now you know, that's just not

1043
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:18,239
Speaker 1: going to happen. And I don't think I don't think

1044
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:22,280
Speaker 1: people were going to overpay for James Harden either, especially

1045
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,919
Speaker 1: whenever they know they want to move them.

1046
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 2: So with that in mind, are you.

1047
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 1: As confused as as I am, or maybe confused asn't

1048
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 1: the word curious about how this plays out? Because I

1049
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: just if you don't go right away, that usually is

1050
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: a signal to me that you're having to grind a

1051
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: little bit too hard. And maybe there's a few dominoes

1052
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: still to fall in free agency. Maybe someone is waiting

1053
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 1: to see what happens with brook Lopez and if he

1054
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: can reach a deal to stay in Milwaukee or if

1055
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: he goes somewhere else. Not that they play in the

1056
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: same position by any stretch of the imagination, but a

1057
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 1: team might say, all right, well, if we can't get

1058
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: brook Lopez, let's go and try to get this done

1059
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,800
Speaker 1: with James Hard. Maybe it's hinging on something with d

1060
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: Angela Russell or an offer sheet for Austin Reeks. I

1061
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: don't know, but it just it seems odd to me

1062
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: that so much talk Thursday into Friday about James Hard

1063
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: opted in and then the frustration that he's had with Philadelphia.

1064
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit surprised that we're sitting here on

1065
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: Saturday morning, KFIG and there hasn't been a move made yet.

1066
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 4: Well, especially since according to the reports, and I think

1067
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 4: sam Amycat is first at his desired destination is the Clippers,

1068
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 4: and both Paul George and Kawhi Leonard have signed off

1069
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 4: staying like, yeah, we'd love to have this guy here

1070
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 4: with us. Now, the Clippers generally under this front office structure,

1071
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 4: doesn't really make a lot of waves until they do.

1072
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:50,840
Speaker 4: You rather, ever, hear the like of that the Clippers,

1073
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 4: you know, link to some sort of deal and then

1074
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 4: all of a sudden happens the Paul George Kawhi Leonard.

1075
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,800
Speaker 4: I was anchoring at this very desk at eleven o'clock

1076
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:00,040
Speaker 4: at night Pacific time, when all of a sudden and

1077
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 4: the dead of night, they signed. They traded for Paul

1078
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 4: George and sign Kawhi Leonard out of nowhere. That's pretty

1079
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 4: much how they tend to operate. Now, I wonder if Phoenix,

1080
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,800
Speaker 4: or excuse me, the seventy six ers are looking to

1081
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 4: try to get a third team involved and may be

1082
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 4: thinking that the Clippers' assets are not all that intriguing

1083
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 4: to them, and see if they can try to get

1084
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 4: something more complicated in the works. And usually when you're

1085
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 4: talking about three team deals or four team deals, they

1086
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 4: usually take a little bit longer to materialize because as

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00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 4: of right now to the Clippers, all you can really

1088
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,800
Speaker 4: offer is, you know, Norman Powell, who's a good player

1089
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,439
Speaker 4: but doesn't have the best contract right now. Marcus Morris

1090
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,439
Speaker 4: is an expiring deal. Robert Covington, who Sixer fans know well,

1091
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:39,280
Speaker 4: has an expiring deal. So all those guys with their money,

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00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 4: maybe a first round pick would match. But if you're Philadelphia,

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00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 4: you're saying, is that enough? You have the MVP on

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00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 4: your roster?

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00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: How great?

1096
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 2: Competing for championships here? We don't want to look.

1097
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,280
Speaker 4: As much as I like Tyre's MAXI is Tyre's Maxie

1098
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:53,360
Speaker 4: ready to take that next step to be the number

1099
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 4: two on a title contender. I don't know if I'm

1100
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 4: ready to say that quite yet. So if I'm Philadelphia

1101
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:00,080
Speaker 4: from the Clippers side, it's like, yeah, you have the

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00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 4: the right pieces to make the money match. I don't

1103
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 4: know if you have the right pieces to satisfy what

1104
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 4: I'm looking for. And look, that could be the hold

1105
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:08,720
Speaker 4: up and maybe they're trying to get another team involved

1106
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 4: to sweeten the pot for themselves.

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00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: I've gone through and we essentially read through the highlights

1108
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: of the James Harden article from The Athletic by Sam Ammick,

1109
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: and I don't really know. I don't know if I

1110
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 1: really truly understand the beef. So kind I lay a

1111
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: couple of these bullet points sure that he's upset with

1112
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: the way the Sixers handled as possible free agency. He

1113
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: made his dissatisfaction clear with the team, even though many

1114
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,280
Speaker 1: thought the hiring of Nick Nurse to replace Doc Rivers,

1115
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: which is one of those moments where I just I'm like,

1116
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: oh my gosh.

1117
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:49,799
Speaker 2: Nick Nurse is the head coach of the Philadelphia seventy said,

1118
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:50,399
Speaker 2: you're like, oh yeah.

1119
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: By the way, by the way, a series of silent

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00:53:55,280 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: Sixer signals compelled Harden to pursue do a goal elsewhere

1121
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 1: this year. And here is I'll try not to read

1122
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: verbatim because I don't want to take money out of

1123
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:12,959
Speaker 1: the athletics pocket. But he took a pay cut last year,

1124
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: declined his forty seven million offer to sign a one

1125
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: plus one deal, and there was a belief that it

1126
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: was quid pro quo that Harden would give some money

1127
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:26,879
Speaker 1: back as a way of helping the Sixers fill out

1128
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: their roster, thereby helping them try to get towards that

1129
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,800
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three.

1130
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 2: Level for the Sixers.

1131
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 1: Moses Malone, Doctor j the last time the Sixers won

1132
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: a championship, and James Harden has never won it. But

1133
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 1: it never it never really materialized. Harden struggled at times

1134
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. He hired a new agency in February

1135
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 1: after going more than five years without full time agency.

1136
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: Without a full time agency, he was frustrated, felt like

1137
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:12,760
Speaker 1: Philly slow played this offseason. He apparently had serious interest

1138
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: in wanting to go to the Phoenix Suns before the

1139
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal trade, which by the way, might end up

1140
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: being a blessing in disguise Phoenix, But as as Philly

1141
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 1: stalled on this, Harden lost leverage and Darryl Morey insisted

1142
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:35,280
Speaker 1: that he was choosing not to discuss free agency before

1143
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: it was permitted by league rules because the Sixers got

1144
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 1: deemed for doing it previously, and his reasoning, according to

1145
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: Sam Ammick, was rooted in the moves that Philly had

1146
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:53,879
Speaker 1: been able to make because of Harden's choice to take

1147
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: a pay cut. So, in other words, the league when

1148
00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: they docked Philly second picks in twenty three and twenty

1149
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: four because they engaged in premature free agency conversations with PJ.

1150
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,720
Speaker 1: Tucker and Daniel House before the signing period. I'd completely

1151
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 1: forgotten about that, right And now now Harden is kind

1152
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 1: of in one way, he has to understand why Philly

1153
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,959
Speaker 1: was slow to talk free agency because they had gotten

1154
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: in trouble, but in the same thing, and he's like,

1155
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 1: but I did this for you, I did this for.

1156
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 2: Us, I did this for the Wii.

1157
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:37,360
Speaker 1: And now we've dragged this out to the point that

1158
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,760
Speaker 1: I can't go to Philly. I can't go to Phoenix,

1159
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: and our only option is for me to opt in

1160
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,360
Speaker 1: and it become very public that you're gonna trade me.

1161
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,720
Speaker 2: Now, Kevin, make it make sense.

1162
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just is this a product where maybe

1163
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: if we just cut to the core of it and

1164
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:56,319
Speaker 1: we get around all the bs of well timing of

1165
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: free agency and signings, it just wasn't working with he

1166
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:05,440
Speaker 1: and everyone involved in Philadelphia, including you know, obviously the

1167
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: MVP and one of the guys that you feel like,

1168
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,239
Speaker 1: if you're the Sixers you got to build around in

1169
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: Joe ellenb.

1170
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the brass tax of it. It wasn't gonna work.

1171
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 4: And the way NB called pretty much everybody out, although

1172
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 4: he didn't play that well in Game seven either, but

1173
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 4: called everybody else out after the game, you knew he

1174
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:23,920
Speaker 4: was The pointed message was directly at James Harden. So

1175
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 4: I don't think Harden was coming back regardless. And by

1176
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 4: the way, no one forced James Harden to opt into

1177
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 4: his contract. If you truly were that upset opt out,

1178
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 4: there was talk about you going back to Houston. Houston

1179
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 4: could have offered you a max contract before they signed

1180
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 4: Fred van Vliet. Who's to say that they wouldn't have

1181
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 4: signed him if he opted out. He decided that he

1182
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 4: wanted to opt into his contract for the thirty five

1183
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 4: and a half million dollars.

1184
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 2: That was a decision that he made unilaterally.

1185
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 4: So this idea that it's somewhat own the Sixers and

1186
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 4: I was forced to opt in.

1187
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 1: No one forced you to opt in. It's a Fox

1188
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: Sports Saturday. We call it The Fellas with Kevin figures.

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00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,000
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1194
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Speaker 1: a lot of NBA talk, So who's still left. We'll

1195
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: dive into the remaining free agents and potential landing spots

1196
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: next on Fox Sports Radio. All right, it's the Fellas

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00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: with Kevin Figures. I'm Chris Plank here on Fox Sports

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00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: Radio in for Anthony Gargano. I'm only one cup of

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00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: coffee in. It's good start, k fig I'm usually about

1200
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: too deep by now.

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00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 2: Nice.

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00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 1: I like it well Again, like I said, did I

1203
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 1: spend too much time late last night scrolling on my phone?

1204
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:41,560
Speaker 2: You bet?

1205
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: But there's something incredibly refreshing after going from being up

1206
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: from eleven p to six A actually getting that sleep

1207
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: and inverting the whole life. So I'm a little bit

1208
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 1: better now. There's a chance whenever the family comes to

1209
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 1: me at about I don't know, nine o'clock this morning

1210
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 1: Central time, that I'll be like, I'm going to bed.

1211
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 2: Oh I'll be on fumes. Either that or you just

1212
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 2: power through, power through. Right.

1213
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: I've got a little college show that I'm doing after this, too.

1214
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 2: But it's nice.

1215
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 1: It's that I was telling I was telling Mark and

1216
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: Ethan this during the break. This is one of those

1217
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 1: weekends where there's just so much to talk about in July.

1218
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 1: This and welcome to July, ladies and gentlemen. This is

1219
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: usually a time where if you're sitting in for a

1220
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 1: vacationing host.

1221
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 2: You're really worried.

1222
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 1: It's like, my gosh, I've got to fill four hours,

1223
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 1: you know. And I obviously we can get tweets, we

1224
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 1: get calls if we want at eight seven, seven ninety

1225
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 1: nine on Fox. We're on Twitter at k fig Wan,

1226
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 1: I'm at Plank Show, and everybody should follow us at

1227
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. But a lot of times this is

1228
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: viewed as a downtime for sports. But you tag in

1229
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: NBA free agency with you know, the the never ending

1230
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 1: kind of stories out of the NFL. You know, it's

1231
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 1: been kind of wild with oton and the just terrible

1232
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 1: nature of the Mets, with what's going on in baseball

1233
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, I feel like that I got

1234
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 1: kind of lucky to be able to sit in today,

1235
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 1: and we can always go down that college football path,

1236
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:12,720
Speaker 1: which we're gonna do here in just a bit.

1237
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 2: But Kevin there, And.

1238
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: I can't sell you on a lot of great events

1239
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 1: on TV today unless you love NASCAR like I do,

1240
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 1: or unless you're gonna watch boxing or UFC. But as

1241
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: far as storylines and thinking about like an NBA season

1242
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 1: specifically in twenty three and twenty four, these are those

1243
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: moments where for the most part.

1244
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 2: You know, championship teams are built.

1245
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 1: Now we're not always gonna talk about the moves that

1246
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: end up making a championship team, and we'll get to

1247
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 1: that later in the show. But I felt like somewhat

1248
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 1: tame but also a news field start to free agency

1249
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 1: in the in the NBA. So welcome to a nice

1250
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 1: time for news topics and content in the sports world.

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01:00:56,280 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 1: Because we don't typically get this in July. We got

1252
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: to dig a little deeper, right, We're like finishing a marathon.

1253
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 1: We're sprinting to the end. Sometimes with these shows in summer.

1254
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 4: More than enough things to talk about at this point. Now,

1255
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 4: the interesting thing Chris I will say will probably be

1256
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks from now, because by then the

1257
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,680
Speaker 4: free agency flame of the NBA will would have cooled off.

1258
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:17,480
Speaker 4: By then, you'll be around the All Star break or

1259
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:19,320
Speaker 4: just coming out of the All Star break from Major

1260
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:22,439
Speaker 4: League Baseball, and you're about at that point in time,

1261
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 4: what two weeks away from the start of NFL training camp.

1262
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 4: College football training camps will start around the same time.

1263
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 4: So that's really what they say. The money is made

1264
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 4: quote unquote for what we do. But to your point

1265
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 4: with the NFL being a year round, you know league

1266
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 4: at this point in time, and no shortage of stories,

1267
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 4: no shortage of gambling stories, any other sort of things

1268
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 4: happening and players not being able to keep themselves out

1269
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:45,440
Speaker 4: of trouble. You mentioned the drama around college football, the

1270
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 4: playoff expanding next season, conference realignments happening, TV contracts still

1271
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 4: up in flux. When it comes to the Pac twelve

1272
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 4: you mentioned San Diego State, which will get into in

1273
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 4: a little bit. They're to your point, no shortage of

1274
01:01:56,760 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 4: things for us to get to right now. So so yes,

1275
01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 4: usually people will labeled this as the dog days of summer.

1276
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 4: Now it's just another exciting weekend of sports talk radio,

1277
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 4: is what I call it.

1278
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:07,560
Speaker 1: We'll take it here on Fox Sports Radio. So somebody

1279
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: alive from the Tirak dot com studios. All right, I've

1280
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 1: promised this real quick before k figs update. Here is

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01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:17,040
Speaker 1: a list of free agents that are remaining. Here is

1282
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:20,680
Speaker 1: a list of players that maybe if your team missed

1283
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 1: out on kind of the opening wave of free agency

1284
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 1: where Kyrie resigned with the Mavericks, Draymond resigned with the Warriors,

1285
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 1: and Chris Middleton resigned with the Bucks, you might be

1286
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 1: able to still land somebody.

1287
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:34,960
Speaker 2: Brook Lopez signed.

1288
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 1: It is a free agent after a great run Defensive

1289
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 1: player of the Year with Milwaukee. We'll see what happens

1290
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:47,080
Speaker 1: with him. D'Angelo Russell, though some feel like even though

1291
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 1: he had the implosion and the playoffs late, that he

1292
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 1: could be back with the Lakers. Austin Reeves is a

1293
01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: restricted free agent, so the Lakers can match any deal

1294
01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 1: he gets. Russell Westbrook, Yeah, Russell Westbrook. Christian Wood is

1295
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 1: a free agent. By the way, Kristin Wood will make

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Speaker 1: another appearance on the show later. Oh Stalon Brooks from Memphis.

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Speaker 1: PJ Washington. PJ Washington is also restricted. Dante de Vincenzo

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Speaker 1: from the Golden State Warriors. Miles Bridges. Now, he missed

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Speaker 1: a full season with the domestic assault allegation, but he

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01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:32,760
Speaker 1: was kind of inconsistent, and we'll see if a team

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Speaker 1: takes a chance. I thought Max Struce had signed with

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Speaker 1: like four different teams yesterday, but he's still out there.

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01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:44,600
Speaker 1: Grant Williams is restricted. Eric Gordon, well, Eric Gordon didn't

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Speaker 1: he did he just resign this morning with the Clippers.

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Speaker 2: No, they waived him and he has not resigned. He's

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Speaker 2: a free agent.

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Speaker 1: A couple of others here, Kelly Ubray, Mason Plumley, Malik Beasley,

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Speaker 1: Lonnie Walker among the names that are still out there

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Speaker 1: as far as NBA free agents. Oh, and then Thomas Pryant,

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Speaker 1: who is probably trying to get on his eighteenth different team.

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Speaker 1: It seems so Patrick Beverly is available to probably should

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Speaker 1: mention him. But as you can tell, it's starting to

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01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:13,560
Speaker 1: get to that slim Pickens point on players that you

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01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 1: feel like can come in and have an impact right away.

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Speaker 1: Veterans like Jeff Green and Jay Crowder are out there,

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01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:23,600
Speaker 1: but for the most part, you've seen most of the

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Speaker 1: big names k fig come off the board.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but there's still some quality players that can make

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Speaker 4: a difference. I mean brook Brook Lopez as a three

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Speaker 4: and D center, you know, will be a huge addition

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Speaker 4: to any team at this point in time. I think

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Speaker 4: Christian Wood. Some people have criticized him for having empty numbers,

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Speaker 4: but in the right situation, I think he can be

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Speaker 4: an impact a guy that can play some defense, that

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Speaker 4: can make an outside shot. He will be a great

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Speaker 4: late addition for a few teams. So that I think

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Speaker 4: there are some quality players out there. Eric Gordon I

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Speaker 4: think even at his advanced age, can make a difference

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Speaker 4: for the right team in the right situation. So there's

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Speaker 4: still some guys that can make a difference.

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Speaker 1: It's funny I kept scrolling down on this list. Gay

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Speaker 1: Kendrick Nunn is out there, Mantrez Harrold is out there.

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Speaker 1: Will Barton, who is actually traded for Bruce Brown, he

1334
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: is out there.

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Speaker 2: So there's some names.

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Speaker 1: John wall is out there, but I just don't know

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Speaker 1: if they're the kind of names no that will be

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01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 1: the massive impact pot role players who could help get

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Speaker 1: your team to the next level. All Right, we'll continue

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Speaker 1: to get you caught up on the latest NBA free

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Speaker 1: agency news. In fact, let's just get a jump start

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Speaker 1: on it right now. Kevin Figures has all of the

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Speaker 1: news that's going on in the world of sports from

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Speaker 1: last night. What's up, Kate fig.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Grissy mentioning day one if NBA free agency was

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01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 4: on Friday. Lots of a movement, a lot of teams,

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01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:35,840
Speaker 4: a lot of players really resigning with their own teams.

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Speaker 4: Fred van Vliet probably the biggest name moving on to

1349
01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 4: a new destination. He signed a three year, one hundred

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Speaker 4: and thirty million dollar contract with the Houston Rockets gave

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01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:46,720
Speaker 4: Vinson will sign with the Lakers for three years and

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Speaker 4: thirty three million. Grizzly's picking up Derek Rose on a

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Speaker 4: two year deal. Desmond Bine signed an extension with Memphis

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Speaker 4: for two hundred and seven million dollars and five years.

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Speaker 4: Indiana signing Bruce Brown, like Chris mentioned the second Ago,

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Speaker 4: a two year contract. Also agreed to a five year,

1357
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Speaker 4: two hundred and sixty million dollar contract extension with Tarre's Halliburton.

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Speaker 4: Kyrie Irving returning too Dallas on a three year deal,

1359
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 4: Draymond Green re sturning to Golden State on a four

1360
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Speaker 4: year contract, Cam Johnson a four year contract to return

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Speaker 4: to the Brooklyn.

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Speaker 2: Nets and baseball.

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Speaker 4: The Rays beat Seattle fifteen to four after trailing four

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Speaker 4: nothing earlier in the game. Arizona beat the Angels six

1365
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Speaker 4: to two. Lord Is guriela Grand Slam there Atlanta Moliwa

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Speaker 4: Miami sixteen to four. He also had victories for the Dodgers,

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Speaker 4: Astros and Giants, and golf. Dustin Johnson and Jason Corkrack

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Speaker 4: tied for the lead at the live event in Spain.

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Speaker 4: At the PGA event in Detroit, Taylor Moore has a

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Speaker 4: one stroke lead over Ricky Fowler.

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Speaker 2: Back to Chris Plaint, Thanks k fig.

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Speaker 1: I promised a little college football here, so let me

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01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:46,680
Speaker 1: do something wild and actually pay off my teas as

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Speaker 1: we come to you live from the ti rack dot

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Speaker 1: Com studios, tire rack dot Com the way tire buying

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Speaker 1: should be. San Diego State informed the Mountain West a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago that it was exploring its options

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01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:07,960
Speaker 1: but wasn't necessarily leaving the conference.

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Speaker 2: Now, let me put this.

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Speaker 1: In terms that maybe if you don't live and die

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Speaker 1: with conference realignment, that might make a little bit more sense. Basically,

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01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:22,680
Speaker 1: San Diego State told their wife they want to stay married,

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01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 1: but they want to see what options are available to

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01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 1: them while also maintaining the marriage, and if things didn't

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Speaker 1: work out with a more viable entity for the marriage,

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Speaker 1: they were going to come back home. I think I

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Speaker 1: explained that well very well, yes, Kevin. As you might imagine,

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01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 1: the Mountain West did not take this very well. And again,

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Speaker 1: the funny part in all of this is there are

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01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:57,520
Speaker 1: certain people in my beloved college football college sports bubble

1391
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:05,280
Speaker 1: that literally all they do is tweet talk and debate

1392
01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 1: freaking conference realignment. Can you imagine how exhausting that is

1393
01:08:11,160 --> 01:08:13,600
Speaker 1: to have to keep up the facade of all the

1394
01:08:13,640 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 1: stuff you're making up. Because I want to remind everyone,

1395
01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:23,479
Speaker 1: when Oklahoma and Texas left for the SEC, nobody knew

1396
01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:26,760
Speaker 1: about it. Nobody knew about it, nobody talked about it.

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Speaker 1: It was I live in Oklahoma, baby. It was not

1398
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:32,320
Speaker 1: a topic outside of people that were done with the

1399
01:08:32,320 --> 01:08:35,559
Speaker 1: current conference and wanted to go somewhere else. And nobody

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01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:38,840
Speaker 1: knew until Texas, A and M got all angry and

1401
01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:40,639
Speaker 1: leaked the story to the Houston Chronicle.

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Speaker 4: I can echo that living in Los Angeles, SC and

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01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:45,639
Speaker 4: UCLA going to the Big Ten came literally out of nowhere.

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Speaker 2: So this is a.

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Speaker 1: Little bit different because you've had one conference commissioner and

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01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:54,400
Speaker 1: Brett or Mark from the Big Twelve come out and

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01:08:54,439 --> 01:08:59,879
Speaker 1: say we're open for business. And you've also had universe

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01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:04,759
Speaker 1: and presidents and athletic directors who seem more than happy

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01:09:05,360 --> 01:09:07,439
Speaker 1: to kind of beat their chest about, Hey, the Big

1410
01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:10,040
Speaker 1: Twelve was in town are the PAC twelve.

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Speaker 2: Has called us.

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Speaker 1: So it's a little different time frame slash world for

1413
01:09:16,439 --> 01:09:18,920
Speaker 1: San Diego State, the PAC twelve, the Big Twelve because

1414
01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 1: of how public this has been, but again. In the end,

1415
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:26,760
Speaker 1: nobody's talking to anybody. Athletic directors aren't calling reporters and

1416
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:30,840
Speaker 1: giving them the scoop. Okay, outside of maybe Ross Dellinger,

1417
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:34,160
Speaker 1: maybe Pete Dammel, maybe our guy Bruce Feldman.

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01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:35,639
Speaker 2: That's really about it.

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01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 1: Nobody's picking up the phone and calling the notorious pig

1420
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:46,160
Speaker 1: on the Arkansas message board. Are a reporter from from Podunk,

1421
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: Illinois to give them?

1422
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:51,639
Speaker 2: It's just it's not reality. So here's the update. Here's

1423
01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:52,200
Speaker 2: the update.

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Speaker 1: San Diego State had a clause that if they did

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01:09:56,600 --> 01:10:01,439
Speaker 1: not notify the Mountain West by a certain date in June,

1426
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:06,639
Speaker 1: then their buyout would be exponentially larger. So they thought, hey,

1427
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:09,760
Speaker 1: there is a chance for the PAC twelve, there might

1428
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 1: be a chance for another Power five conference. Let's just

1429
01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 1: let our options remain open without this exorbitant buyout fee. Well,

1430
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Speaker 1: apparently San Diego State has had a kind.

1431
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Speaker 2: Of duck tail.

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01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:26,719
Speaker 1: Was that the proper way to put it, tuck their tails,

1433
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Speaker 1: cut their tail, thank you, yeah, and return to the

1434
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Speaker 1: Mountain West because as it sits here on July one,

1435
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:37,720
Speaker 1: and when this was announced on June thirtieth, they didn't

1436
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:41,919
Speaker 1: have an offer slash invitation from a power conference.

1437
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:43,800
Speaker 2: They had yet to receive any notice.

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Speaker 1: As of Friday afternoon, they haven't commented on it, so

1439
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:52,640
Speaker 1: basically they're like, all right, listen, Mountain West. Sorry, we

1440
01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:55,559
Speaker 1: thought there might be something there, but there is not.

1441
01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 1: It's uncertain now how the Mountain West will react. If

1442
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:01,599
Speaker 1: you're smart, Mountain I don't think I'd be sitting there

1443
01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 1: beating my chest or trying to embarrass San Diego State

1444
01:11:04,920 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: because inevitably someone's gonna want San Diego State. And this

1445
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Speaker 1: is still kfig. You're around the PAC twelve, you cover

1446
01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:15,600
Speaker 1: this every single day. I'm a firm believer that the

1447
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Speaker 1: PAC twelve's gonna survive.

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Speaker 2: I really do.

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01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:21,080
Speaker 1: I think, First of all, don't I don't know if

1450
01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 1: necessarily the money is that much more incredible with what

1451
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna get from the Big ten to the PAC twelve,

1452
01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:30,160
Speaker 1: because again, the Big twelve's deal has been reported unlike

1453
01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:33,559
Speaker 1: any deal has ever been reported. They've reported every possible

1454
01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:37,639
Speaker 1: pinning you could possibly make, from tournament appearances to TV

1455
01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:42,040
Speaker 1: of college football playoff appearances, and they've even jacked up

1456
01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 1: that rate based on what they think the playoffs are

1457
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Speaker 1: gonna look like.

1458
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Speaker 2: And in fact, the.

1459
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Speaker 1: Big twelve announced the official inking of their deal, which

1460
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Speaker 1: might lead you to believe that nothing is on the

1461
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Speaker 1: horizon for Colorado or Arizona or anyone when it comes

1462
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Speaker 1: to jumping to the Big twelve right now. So I

1463
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Speaker 1: don't think that the PAC twelve, as much as we've

1464
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Speaker 1: hemmed and hard about the TV deal and we continue will,

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Speaker 1: I just don't know that they're doa I think in

1466
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Speaker 1: a twelve team playoff, they're always going to have a spot.

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Speaker 1: Oregon's recruiting like crazy. The Big Ten's not knocking down

1468
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Speaker 1: their door. So as long as Oregon and Washington is there,

1469
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Speaker 1: they're a viable entity. And I guess Kevin figures with

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Speaker 1: this news on San Diego State, maybe what the PAC

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Speaker 1: twelve has been told by these TV networks is, yeah,

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Speaker 1: your value isn't jumping up with the addition of San

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Speaker 1: Diego State. That's not really something that's doing it for

1474
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Speaker 1: us right now.

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Speaker 4: I think that's one hundred percent the case hating San

1476
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Speaker 4: Diego State. We know you lost Southern California with UCLA

1477
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Speaker 4: and USC. San Diego is not LA, not even close,

1478
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:44,639
Speaker 4: So there's not gonna make up a difference.

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01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:45,559
Speaker 2: And that part of me wonders.

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Speaker 4: Chris two of San Diego State said, we'll put feelers

1481
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:49,560
Speaker 4: out there to the PAC twelve and they're saying, like,

1482
01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:51,759
Speaker 4: here's what we're talking about. We're doing this with Amazon

1483
01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:54,800
Speaker 4: or whatever. And San Diego State said, wait, we're gonna

1484
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Speaker 4: leave the Mountain West that has an ironclad TV deal

1485
01:12:57,720 --> 01:13:00,599
Speaker 4: for the PAC twelve that doesn't and put potentially could

1486
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Speaker 4: actually end up having a worse TV deal than the

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Speaker 4: Mountain West.

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Speaker 2: So why are we leaving the Mountain West?

1489
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:07,080
Speaker 4: And we have a chance to get a bigger cut

1490
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 4: of the pie and more money by staying there, at

1491
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Speaker 4: least as of now, they're going to the PAC twelve.

1492
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:14,360
Speaker 4: So I wouldn't necessarily put a pass the fact that

1493
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Speaker 4: San Diego State actually UNI laterally chose to stay in

1494
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Speaker 4: the Mountain West because they knew the money wasn't going

1495
01:13:20,720 --> 01:13:22,200
Speaker 4: to be as good with the next round of PAC

1496
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Speaker 4: twelve negotiations.

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Speaker 1: The decision yesterday came on the day that the PAC

1498
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:30,519
Speaker 1: twelve's Board of directors met for an update on the

1499
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Speaker 1: TV negotiations. George klivekoff Gate gave what was described as

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Speaker 1: a detailed presentation, but no deal is expected to be

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Speaker 1: announced eminently. Yeah, we'll see all right, there's a little

1502
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:49,880
Speaker 1: college football conference realignment news and notes for you. Nothing official,

1503
01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:54,160
Speaker 1: no scoop, but yet some interesting developments in the Big

1504
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:57,559
Speaker 1: Twelve finalizing its TV deal, San Diego State going back

1505
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:01,040
Speaker 1: to the Mountain West, and the PAC twelve in Ads

1506
01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:04,519
Speaker 1: having a little clearer picture of where they stand in

1507
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Speaker 1: the current TV negotiations. When we come back, let's hit

1508
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:10,799
Speaker 1: the baseball from last night. A lot of interesting moments,

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Speaker 1: including a couple of fun walkoffs. Details next on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio coming up in twenty minutes from now, toy?

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01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 1: Why do I give it twenty Someone say, hey, I

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01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:24,920
Speaker 1: better get back here in twenty minutes, but we're gonna

1513
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:30,200
Speaker 1: hit the NFL news. We haven't talked about the gambling fiasco,

1514
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 1: and I ask this question for you here on Twitter

1515
01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:36,639
Speaker 1: dot com to help us out. I'm at Plank Show.

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01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:40,600
Speaker 1: Everyone should follow us at Fox Sports Radio. Kevin is

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01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:45,280
Speaker 1: a great follow at KFIG one. Does the NFL have

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01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:50,519
Speaker 1: a gambling problem or is this simply a situation where

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01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:56,200
Speaker 1: we're hearing about it because the safeguards in place are working. Also,

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01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:03,080
Speaker 1: we don't hear about NBA gambling issues. We're not hearing

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01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: about Major League baseball gambling issues. Why is this so

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01:15:10,960 --> 01:15:15,559
Speaker 1: specific to the NFL? Am I Am I missing something

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01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:15,760
Speaker 1: in that?

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01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 2: K fig Hm, No, it's an interesting take.

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01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 1: I I I don't know, there's there's I mean I

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01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 1: don't I'm not gonna sit here and pretend to know

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01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:29,760
Speaker 1: how stringent the NBA gambling policy is, but I'm going

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01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:33,160
Speaker 1: to go out on a limb and say it's right there,

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01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:38,760
Speaker 1: as strong, strong as what the NFL has, but kind

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01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:41,479
Speaker 1: of kind of odd on that front. Something I was

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01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:45,040
Speaker 1: thinking about in Random Raven about Oh, Isaiah Rogers, and

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01:15:45,080 --> 01:15:47,479
Speaker 1: I'm like googling Isaiah Rodgers to see what he's done

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01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:50,559
Speaker 1: in his career. I mean it's there's no big names. No,

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01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 1: I mean Calvin Ridley last year's as big of a name.

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01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:56,360
Speaker 1: But then I'm also thinking, why does this seem to

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01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:58,680
Speaker 1: be so specific to the NFL.

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01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:01,000
Speaker 4: And to your point, we can get into it later,

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01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:02,720
Speaker 4: but you mentioned the safeguards, and I think that's an

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01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:03,800
Speaker 4: interesting point to bring up.

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Speaker 1: as we reach the midpoint of the show here on

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, let's quickly get you caught up on

1546
01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 1: what you missed last night in.

1547
01:16:24,439 --> 01:16:25,559
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball.

1548
01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:30,759
Speaker 1: We talked about show Hey Otani and his incredible home run.

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01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:34,680
Speaker 1: But much like the Cardinals were with Mark McGuire in

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01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:40,240
Speaker 1: the end, in the end, the Angels lost, but show

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01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:43,000
Speaker 1: Hey Otani he had a four hundred and ninety three

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01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:46,599
Speaker 1: foot home run, longest in the MLB this season. It

1553
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:49,600
Speaker 1: was his thirtieth home run of the season. But in

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01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:53,320
Speaker 1: the end, Kfig, your Angels lose again. That's a good

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01:16:53,360 --> 01:16:56,719
Speaker 1: Arizona Diamondback team. I kind of it. I've kept waiting

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01:16:56,760 --> 01:17:00,000
Speaker 1: for them to stumble and fall, but they're They're not

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01:17:00,160 --> 01:17:03,000
Speaker 1: going anywhere right now. Five to two was the final

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01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:06,280
Speaker 1: score last night in Anaheim with the Diamondback skin the

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01:17:06,280 --> 01:17:07,360
Speaker 1: win are sixty two at.

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Speaker 4: Sixty two, and they're fun. Seemed to watch two at

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01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:11,519
Speaker 4: Corbyn Carroll is something else like they can play.

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01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:13,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, they play a little small ball.

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01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:13,400
Speaker 6: You know.

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01:17:13,439 --> 01:17:15,840
Speaker 2: The banning of the shift has actually aided.

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01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:18,479
Speaker 4: It seemed like Arizona more than anybody else because their

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01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 4: speed on the bases.

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01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:21,880
Speaker 2: They get things moving. They're exciting and fun to watch.

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01:17:22,760 --> 01:17:28,799
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, in Kansas City, the Dodgers got things cooking thanks

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01:17:28,800 --> 01:17:33,840
Speaker 1: to who else but Mookie Bets another leadoff home run

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01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:36,120
Speaker 1: to start the game. And then this go one. There's

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01:17:36,120 --> 01:17:38,280
Speaker 1: a shot down the left field eight if it stays

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01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:41,639
Speaker 1: fair and it is gone a home run.

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01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 7: Lookie Bets two for two, two home runs twenty two

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01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:48,160
Speaker 7: on the season.

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01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:53,360
Speaker 1: So a couple of home runs for Mookie Bets, the

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01:17:53,439 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 1: Dodgers win it. By my math kfig. That was the

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01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:03,680
Speaker 1: first time the Dodgers had played in Kansas City in

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01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:05,679
Speaker 1: what five years?

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 5: Uh?

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01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:09,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's been a while, it's not been

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01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:09,840
Speaker 2: a minute.

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01:18:09,880 --> 01:18:12,120
Speaker 4: It's only gonna start this year where everybody plays everybody,

1584
01:18:12,240 --> 01:18:14,080
Speaker 4: so pretty soon the youth you haven't played this team

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01:18:14,120 --> 01:18:15,879
Speaker 4: in seven years, is going to fall by the wayside

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01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:18,519
Speaker 4: pretty soon. But which I think something is a little

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01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:20,800
Speaker 4: bit lost on that. But I understand playing everybody, but

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01:18:20,840 --> 01:18:23,000
Speaker 4: I think that's there's a novelty that's lost with that.

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01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:23,960
Speaker 2: Nine to three.

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01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:26,880
Speaker 1: The Dodgers beat the Royals, and we mentioned a couple

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01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:31,640
Speaker 1: of walkoffs. Man, that big red machine sure is fun.

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01:18:32,200 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 2: Steer swings deep drive.

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01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:40,200
Speaker 8: Left field, way back there and gone, Spencer steering the

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01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:45,760
Speaker 8: Reds walking off over the butt Rays seven five Reds win.

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01:18:46,240 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 1: I was in eleven innings and speaking of fun walkoffs

1596
01:18:51,240 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 1: and the.

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01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:55,200
Speaker 8: Pitch like right the right field of it's fair, it's gone,

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01:18:56,120 --> 01:18:57,120
Speaker 8: it is gone.

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Speaker 1: Clear the deck.

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, comeba pa, oh yeah, come oas Harlow Santana

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01:19:06,080 --> 01:19:06,800
Speaker 8: has won the.

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01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:12,040
Speaker 7: Game, praise the Tully Roger his Knights, but no daughter.

1603
01:19:12,880 --> 01:19:16,440
Speaker 7: He pauses around third, looks toward the sky.

1604
01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:23,679
Speaker 8: Fans is toward the plate. Carlo Santana a home run

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01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:25,639
Speaker 8: to win this game.

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01:19:26,240 --> 01:19:29,040
Speaker 1: Eight to seven was the final score. Did you see

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01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:30,320
Speaker 1: his dance going into home plate?

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01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 3: Case?

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01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:30,760
Speaker 1: I did.

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01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:31,760
Speaker 2: It was impressive.

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01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:32,680
Speaker 1: It's awesome.

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01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:34,880
Speaker 4: Pirates cooled off a little bit, but still still not

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01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:36,640
Speaker 4: still in the mix, Still in the mix, in.

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01:19:36,680 --> 01:19:38,800
Speaker 1: The mix too, in the mix too. Pirates won that

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01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:42,920
Speaker 1: game eight to seven, uh and the Rangers fall to

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01:19:42,960 --> 01:19:46,240
Speaker 1: the Astros. Kevin has all of the latest scores and

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01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 1: updates coming up in a bit right here on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. In for Aunt Tefella's different version. Kevin figures,

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01:19:55,560 --> 01:19:58,879
Speaker 1: I'm Chris Blank. The whole crew is here though, working

1620
01:19:58,920 --> 01:20:02,800
Speaker 1: through the night to make make sure you have the freshest, latest,

1621
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Speaker 1: greatest sportsnooze here on Fox Sports Radio, Mark Ramsey running

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Speaker 1: the show, Ethan Miller. In fact, next hour, Howard Bender

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01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:17,200
Speaker 1: is gonna join us, so we'll talk. Howard covers everything

1624
01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 1: Man Fantasy, He's all over Daily Fantasy, but we'll get

1625
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:23,400
Speaker 1: his take on some of the NFL news. We'll get

1626
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 1: his take on everything involving the NBA deal so far.

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Speaker 1: So that's next hour with Howard Bender. Meantime, as always,

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Speaker 1: Kfig because as you were giving your update, you wrapped

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01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:54,120
Speaker 1: it up with the Cam Reddish signing. Cam Reddish one

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01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:57,280
Speaker 1: of the handful of players it's signed with the Lakers yesterday,

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01:20:57,760 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 1: Gabe Vincent, tourin Prince and who am I leaving out?

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01:21:00,800 --> 01:21:06,799
Speaker 1: Oh h hashmore Yes, So I feel like I blinked

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01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 1: and Cam Reddish went from a guy that we thought

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01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:12,400
Speaker 1: was going to be a great fit in Atlanta to

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01:21:12,520 --> 01:21:16,320
Speaker 1: him basically being on his fourth team in what essentially

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01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:21,599
Speaker 1: four seasons. Yes, I mean this is crazy. He spent

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01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:27,840
Speaker 1: three seasons in Atlanta and his first year okay, right,

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01:21:27,920 --> 01:21:30,960
Speaker 1: he played a lot, didn't necessarily score a lot of points,

1644
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:33,360
Speaker 1: but you I mean, the Hawks didn't really need another

1645
01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:36,760
Speaker 1: massive score at least we thought. But it doesn't work.

1646
01:21:36,920 --> 01:21:39,320
Speaker 1: So it gets dealt to the Knicks in a deal

1647
01:21:39,360 --> 01:21:42,320
Speaker 1: that is still a very strange deal to me, because

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01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:47,720
Speaker 1: the Hawks traded Reddish along with Solomon Hill and a

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01:21:47,960 --> 01:21:52,520
Speaker 1: second round draft pick for Kevin Knox and a protected

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01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:56,919
Speaker 1: first It's like Kevin Knox, you want to talk about

1651
01:21:57,200 --> 01:22:01,080
Speaker 1: a blast from the past. I mean, okay, by the way,

1652
01:22:01,120 --> 01:22:05,240
Speaker 1: Kevin Knox another top ten pick, yep. But so Knox

1653
01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:08,439
Speaker 1: goes eight in twenty eighteen or nine to twenty eighteen.

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01:22:08,840 --> 01:22:12,519
Speaker 1: Here's Cam Reddish, who was a top ten pick in

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01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:17,559
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, all right, not two thousand and six or seven.

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01:22:18,040 --> 01:22:22,639
Speaker 1: A top ten pick in twenty nineteen, and he's already

1657
01:22:22,680 --> 01:22:26,320
Speaker 1: on his fourth team in the NBA. How does this happen?

1658
01:22:26,760 --> 01:22:29,400
Speaker 1: K fig? How do we swing and miss so badly

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01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:30,880
Speaker 1: on top ten picks in the NBA?

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and you remember Cam Reddish was part of

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01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:35,679
Speaker 4: that you know, big freshman class for Duke.

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01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:37,439
Speaker 2: I think he was part of the Zion class. I

1663
01:22:37,439 --> 01:22:37,960
Speaker 2: believe r J.

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01:22:38,120 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 4: Barry is she was like the third of that big three. Well, look,

1665
01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:44,519
Speaker 4: you know, you end up drafting these guys based on potential.

1666
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:46,800
Speaker 4: You look at his physical measurables. What is he sixty

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01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 4: seven six.

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01:22:47,439 --> 01:22:51,040
Speaker 1: Eighty six seven two hundred and seventy seventeen pounds beasts?

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01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:53,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you and conceivably was thought of as a

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01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:55,960
Speaker 4: guy who'd be a knockdown shoot her. He has not

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01:22:56,080 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 4: been that and just for whatever reason, has not been

1672
01:22:58,520 --> 01:23:01,080
Speaker 4: able to lock in. Maybe this mature issues. You know,

1673
01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:02,880
Speaker 4: there's a whole a lot of things, you know. Look,

1674
01:23:03,120 --> 01:23:05,880
Speaker 4: Andrew Wiggins, you know it was a first was the first?

1675
01:23:05,960 --> 01:23:07,559
Speaker 4: Was he the first overall pick of the second overall

1676
01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:08,800
Speaker 4: pick in the draft? I think he was first all

1677
01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:10,600
Speaker 4: Dan Drew was number one, number one? Yeah, that was

1678
01:23:10,640 --> 01:23:13,439
Speaker 4: in the joellen b draft, right, and people were saying

1679
01:23:13,439 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 4: he's the guys going to be a future Hall of

1680
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:16,439
Speaker 4: Famer and all that. And he was a good player,

1681
01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:17,840
Speaker 4: and look, he got out to a better start of

1682
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:20,479
Speaker 4: his career than Cam Reddish, did, but it took him

1683
01:23:20,479 --> 01:23:22,360
Speaker 4: a while. It took him a while to figure out

1684
01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 4: the fact that you know, he is now a three

1685
01:23:24,439 --> 01:23:27,360
Speaker 4: and D role player on a for a really good franchise,

1686
01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:29,680
Speaker 4: the Golden State Warriors, and was a key call to

1687
01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:31,760
Speaker 4: them winning a championship. You know, you forget when you're

1688
01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:34,800
Speaker 4: drafting these guys at eighteen nineteen years old, it just

1689
01:23:34,840 --> 01:23:37,120
Speaker 4: takes a while for them to develop. And you take

1690
01:23:37,160 --> 01:23:38,920
Speaker 4: them in the top five, top ten of the draft.

1691
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:42,000
Speaker 4: You expect these guys to be superstars, and honestly, you

1692
01:23:42,040 --> 01:23:44,080
Speaker 4: know one percent of them are going to turn into

1693
01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:47,200
Speaker 4: superstar all star type players. The majority are going to

1694
01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:48,960
Speaker 4: play him out, and then there's some in the middle

1695
01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:50,839
Speaker 4: that are just going to turn into solid role players.

1696
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 4: But it's usually takes three or four destinations for them

1697
01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:56,400
Speaker 4: to figure that out. So cam Reddish, I think it

1698
01:23:56,400 --> 01:23:57,960
Speaker 4: is set is getting ready to turn twenty three or

1699
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,400
Speaker 4: twenty four, like his career is far from I'm over.

1700
01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 4: He just needs to be able to be placed in

1701
01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 4: the right spot, get the right coaching, and then play

1702
01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:06,960
Speaker 4: the right role. I still think the future can be

1703
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:09,600
Speaker 4: bright for him because he has all the physical measurables.

1704
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:11,559
Speaker 1: Ideal and I mean this in a good way. If

1705
01:24:11,560 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 1: you're listening, Arnie Spanier, I'm sorry. I know I owe

1706
01:24:14,200 --> 01:24:17,000
Speaker 1: you a phone call. My mother in law is in town,

1707
01:24:17,280 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: so things things got a little bit wonky here last night.

1708
01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:23,479
Speaker 1: I mean I was trying to mow it like nine

1709
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:26,040
Speaker 1: o'clock at night. I'm sorry to my neighbors, but wore

1710
01:24:26,040 --> 01:24:29,960
Speaker 1: one of those Chris dude. It was my family's coming

1711
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:33,640
Speaker 1: in town mode in a while. It was it It

1712
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:36,559
Speaker 1: rained overnight, so I knew and I didn't get it done.

1713
01:24:36,600 --> 01:24:38,879
Speaker 1: So I have like a half mode yard because my

1714
01:24:38,880 --> 01:24:41,479
Speaker 1: my wife was finally, dude, they're gonna hate you. You

1715
01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:44,639
Speaker 1: need to stop now. It's nine to fifteen a night anyway.

1716
01:24:44,920 --> 01:24:48,200
Speaker 1: So when I say this, I'm not knocking Arnie by

1717
01:24:48,200 --> 01:24:49,840
Speaker 1: any stretch of the imagination, but.

1718
01:24:49,920 --> 01:24:50,600
Speaker 2: I target so.

1719
01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:53,439
Speaker 1: But I deal very much, you know on Fox Sports

1720
01:24:53,520 --> 01:24:55,439
Speaker 1: Radio every Sunday night from ten p to one A

1721
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 1: to a very knee jerk guy.

1722
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Speaker 2: Yeah right.

1723
01:24:57,920 --> 01:25:00,160
Speaker 1: I mean it is, if you have one bad game,

1724
01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:02,599
Speaker 1: he's ready to cut you. If you have one good game,

1725
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:05,720
Speaker 1: he's preparing your Hall of Fame jacket for you. But

1726
01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:08,320
Speaker 1: even Arnie, I feel like, has a little bit more

1727
01:25:08,400 --> 01:25:13,439
Speaker 1: patience then like we're two years in on certain guys

1728
01:25:13,479 --> 01:25:15,880
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, yeah, he's terrible. Done with him

1729
01:25:15,960 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 1: as top ten picks. I mean, go back to the

1730
01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:21,120
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one NBA draft, right twenty twenty one, you

1731
01:25:21,160 --> 01:25:27,479
Speaker 1: think about Kate Cunningham, Jalen Green, Evan Mobley, Scottie Barnes,

1732
01:25:27,800 --> 01:25:30,880
Speaker 1: and Jalen Suggs. That was your top five. Now, by

1733
01:25:30,880 --> 01:25:35,120
Speaker 1: the way, Barnes hell of a season right two years ago.

1734
01:25:35,479 --> 01:25:37,360
Speaker 1: He was rookie season, and you thought, all right, this

1735
01:25:37,439 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 1: dude might be something not necessarily the best. Last year.

1736
01:25:41,280 --> 01:25:45,040
Speaker 1: I hear people already and I know, listen, Mobley's landed

1737
01:25:45,080 --> 01:25:47,800
Speaker 1: in what I think is a really good spot and

1738
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:49,960
Speaker 1: I think he's got a chance to be something special.

1739
01:25:50,439 --> 01:25:53,160
Speaker 1: But you hear people already like, well, Jalen Suggs just

1740
01:25:53,720 --> 01:25:55,960
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be that guy. I mean, he's only

1741
01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:58,320
Speaker 1: averaged out ten points, barely ten points last year, and

1742
01:25:58,320 --> 01:26:02,760
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, the NBA, this is okay. This

1743
01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:07,440
Speaker 1: is usually my draft show. I've got my free agencies

1744
01:26:07,479 --> 01:26:09,800
Speaker 1: show open that will do next hour. But this is

1745
01:26:09,880 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 1: my draft open, my post draft conversation, y'all. NBA rookies

1746
01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:19,360
Speaker 1: rarely make an impact yep. I mean, especially whenever we're

1747
01:26:19,400 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 1: talking about playoff contending, championship level teams. And there's a reason,

1748
01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:26,479
Speaker 1: right Captain obvious they picked lower in their draft, so

1749
01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 1: they're not getting the best players. But you've seen guys

1750
01:26:29,600 --> 01:26:32,400
Speaker 1: land in good situations over the last couple of years.

1751
01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:37,720
Speaker 1: We just mentioned a guy who unfortunately flamed out in.

1752
01:26:39,439 --> 01:26:39,920
Speaker 2: Golden State.

1753
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:42,320
Speaker 1: Why am I blanket on the Memphis guy from Golden Seisman?

1754
01:26:42,640 --> 01:26:43,000
Speaker 2: Thank you?

1755
01:26:43,640 --> 01:26:47,559
Speaker 1: Anyway, It's just wild to me when you think about

1756
01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:51,720
Speaker 1: Joel Ebiid did not make an impact with the Philadelphia

1757
01:26:51,760 --> 01:26:55,280
Speaker 1: seventy six ers until his third season, had the injury

1758
01:26:55,920 --> 01:26:58,439
Speaker 1: and then was still recovering, and then he broke out

1759
01:26:58,479 --> 01:27:03,000
Speaker 1: twenty point guy and eploded. You know, they're so Lebron

1760
01:27:03,080 --> 01:27:05,240
Speaker 1: James didn't make the playoffs until what is third year

1761
01:27:05,640 --> 01:27:08,320
Speaker 1: with the Cavaliers, and maybe some of the wind beIN

1762
01:27:08,400 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 1: Yama talk is the reason why this this stands out

1763
01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:16,640
Speaker 1: to me. But I mean, we are a ready to

1764
01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:19,639
Speaker 1: move on if they don't average twenty to ten right

1765
01:27:19,680 --> 01:27:24,200
Speaker 1: away as a fan, and b we're putting ridiculously high

1766
01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:28,920
Speaker 1: expectations on guys that are going to teams that need

1767
01:27:29,040 --> 01:27:32,040
Speaker 1: several more pieces to be contiderus like, like I like

1768
01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:35,240
Speaker 1: the Winbin Yama pick. Everyone likes the Womban Yama pick,

1769
01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:37,400
Speaker 1: but I like to fit in San Antonio. I think

1770
01:27:37,400 --> 01:27:40,559
Speaker 1: they've got some dudes. But I would also add it's

1771
01:27:41,880 --> 01:27:44,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough, it's gonna be a growing process. So,

1772
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:47,640
Speaker 1: you know, singing up Cam Radish got me thinking about it.

1773
01:27:47,880 --> 01:27:49,800
Speaker 1: Looking back at the top ten for the last couple

1774
01:27:49,840 --> 01:27:52,320
Speaker 1: of years, I mean, we're seeing dudes that we thought

1775
01:27:52,320 --> 01:27:56,720
Speaker 1: were gonna be corner pieces of franchises going for you know,

1776
01:27:56,920 --> 01:28:00,720
Speaker 1: relatively low numbers and free agency and teams are just

1777
01:28:00,760 --> 01:28:01,880
Speaker 1: punting quick on him.

1778
01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:03,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you look at a guy like go back

1779
01:28:03,720 --> 01:28:06,799
Speaker 4: to the the twenty nineteen draft, we're talking about Cam Reddish,

1780
01:28:06,880 --> 01:28:08,479
Speaker 4: who was taking one spot above him.

1781
01:28:08,920 --> 01:28:09,640
Speaker 2: Hold on, don't tell me.

1782
01:28:09,680 --> 01:28:10,320
Speaker 1: I want to look up.

1783
01:28:10,280 --> 01:28:13,080
Speaker 4: Okay, because he signed, he got he got the bag

1784
01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:14,439
Speaker 4: on Friday, So I'll let you.

1785
01:28:14,479 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 2: I'll tell you.

1786
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 1: That, Okay, right before him at number up seet there

1787
01:28:19,080 --> 01:28:20,799
Speaker 1: you go, h really hot Shamore.

1788
01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:23,720
Speaker 4: Now, he was the ninth overall pick out of Gonzaga,

1789
01:28:23,800 --> 01:28:25,920
Speaker 4: had a really good freshman season for them. People thought

1790
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:27,400
Speaker 4: he was going to be a really good player at

1791
01:28:27,400 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 4: the NBA level but needed some development.

1792
01:28:29,520 --> 01:28:31,679
Speaker 2: Played okay in Washington but didn't do much.

1793
01:28:32,160 --> 01:28:34,720
Speaker 4: Came into a good situation midseason with the Lakers last

1794
01:28:34,800 --> 01:28:36,600
Speaker 4: year where he was basically a you know, third or

1795
01:28:36,640 --> 01:28:39,840
Speaker 4: fourth option spot up shooter, and turned himself into a

1796
01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:43,320
Speaker 4: viable NBA player. But he's four or five years into

1797
01:28:43,320 --> 01:28:45,120
Speaker 4: his career now. If you look, if you were to

1798
01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:47,160
Speaker 4: assess him before that trade, you would say, this guy's

1799
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:49,640
Speaker 4: a bust. He was a wasted draft pick. Why is

1800
01:28:49,680 --> 01:28:52,400
Speaker 4: he even in the NBA. You just can't grate these

1801
01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:54,040
Speaker 4: guys on that sort of scale. You just have to

1802
01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:57,120
Speaker 4: be patient, and unfortunately, as you mentioned, people just are

1803
01:28:57,120 --> 01:28:59,720
Speaker 4: not patient these days, especially with kids who are this

1804
01:28:59,800 --> 01:29:03,840
Speaker 4: young being drafted with these amount of expectations, which is,

1805
01:29:03,880 --> 01:29:06,240
Speaker 4: by the way, it's even more difficult now in the

1806
01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:08,400
Speaker 4: social media age that we're in now than it was

1807
01:29:08,479 --> 01:29:11,559
Speaker 4: even fifteen years ago. There's so many things working against

1808
01:29:11,560 --> 01:29:12,840
Speaker 4: these guys getting drafted high.

1809
01:29:13,640 --> 01:29:16,360
Speaker 1: I can't stop laughing and looking at some of these

1810
01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:19,160
Speaker 1: people in the twenty nineteen draft. Oh yeah, that were

1811
01:29:19,200 --> 01:29:22,800
Speaker 1: first round picks and I've never heard of them. You

1812
01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:25,439
Speaker 1: know what I did the other day, I went back,

1813
01:29:25,520 --> 01:29:31,360
Speaker 1: and I looked at second round picks, right, because I

1814
01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:34,800
Speaker 1: know the Nicola Jokic everyone. Now, every time a team

1815
01:29:34,840 --> 01:29:38,160
Speaker 1: wins a title, what becomes that theme. Man, I gotta

1816
01:29:38,160 --> 01:29:41,439
Speaker 1: build like Denver did, right, I gotta do what Denver did.

1817
01:29:42,160 --> 01:29:48,799
Speaker 1: I say this with all due respect, Denver got really lucky.

1818
01:29:49,280 --> 01:29:52,880
Speaker 1: I mean, let's just face it, Nicola jokicch is the

1819
01:29:52,920 --> 01:29:54,400
Speaker 1: first All.

1820
01:29:54,160 --> 01:29:57,439
Speaker 2: Star all right, let me let me make sure I

1821
01:29:57,439 --> 01:29:58,280
Speaker 2: get this phrasing right.

1822
01:29:58,400 --> 01:30:01,400
Speaker 1: He is the only All Star taken in the second

1823
01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:05,400
Speaker 1: round of the NBA Draft in the last decade. The

1824
01:30:05,520 --> 01:30:08,920
Speaker 1: year before he went in the second round, you had

1825
01:30:09,000 --> 01:30:12,280
Speaker 1: Draymond Green and I think it was Chris Middleton that

1826
01:30:12,360 --> 01:30:15,040
Speaker 1: also went in the second round. He was yes, So

1827
01:30:15,200 --> 01:30:18,040
Speaker 1: there's a certain level of luck that happens on this Now,

1828
01:30:18,160 --> 01:30:20,600
Speaker 1: there were good moves that were made, right, trading for

1829
01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:24,280
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon, you know, trading for Bruce Brown. But this

1830
01:30:24,439 --> 01:30:28,439
Speaker 1: is also a Denver Nugget team that traded Donovan Mitchell

1831
01:30:28,760 --> 01:30:31,360
Speaker 1: on Draft night. Right, they traded the rights to Donovan

1832
01:30:31,360 --> 01:30:34,400
Speaker 1: Mitchell and a deal that netted him Will Barton. And

1833
01:30:34,479 --> 01:30:36,400
Speaker 1: I was trying to look quickly and I didn't get

1834
01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:38,839
Speaker 1: there in time. But the guy they ended up taking

1835
01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:41,840
Speaker 1: in the first round. I don't know if he ever

1836
01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:45,639
Speaker 1: played in the league. So, you know, there's a certain

1837
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:49,120
Speaker 1: amount of luck that goes into this, right You gotta

1838
01:30:49,160 --> 01:30:52,439
Speaker 1: get a break every now and then, and so whenever

1839
01:30:52,479 --> 01:30:54,360
Speaker 1: people are like, gosh, you know you gotta you got

1840
01:30:54,360 --> 01:30:56,000
Speaker 1: to hit a home run in that second round, we

1841
01:30:56,080 --> 01:30:57,000
Speaker 1: gotta get no.

1842
01:30:57,680 --> 01:30:59,640
Speaker 2: That's it, I mean, you got no.

1843
01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:03,439
Speaker 1: Jokitch was announced while a Taco Bell commercial was on

1844
01:31:03,479 --> 01:31:05,840
Speaker 1: the air when he was drafted, and he was a

1845
01:31:06,000 --> 01:31:08,880
Speaker 1: nine point per game guy his rookie season. So in

1846
01:31:08,960 --> 01:31:11,200
Speaker 1: all of this talk about team building and things of

1847
01:31:11,240 --> 01:31:13,599
Speaker 1: that nature, you know, you pull back and you gotta

1848
01:31:13,600 --> 01:31:15,439
Speaker 1: get a break too. You got to find that right fit.

1849
01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:18,120
Speaker 1: You gotta find that right coach, you know. I feel

1850
01:31:18,120 --> 01:31:21,719
Speaker 1: like all of these teams, Sam Mitchell say this yesterday.

1851
01:31:21,920 --> 01:31:24,599
Speaker 1: I feel like all of these teams that are trying

1852
01:31:24,640 --> 01:31:29,759
Speaker 1: to build based on the hope that someone is unhappy Miami,

1853
01:31:29,800 --> 01:31:32,360
Speaker 1: what's there newt Well, maybe if Damian Lillard gets unhappy,

1854
01:31:32,600 --> 01:31:34,479
Speaker 1: he's going to be on the market or you know,

1855
01:31:34,520 --> 01:31:36,840
Speaker 1: the Lakers are guilty of that a lot, right, Well,

1856
01:31:36,840 --> 01:31:38,840
Speaker 1: if so and so gets unhappy, maybe he'll request to

1857
01:31:38,880 --> 01:31:40,920
Speaker 1: trade and will go get him. I mean, there is

1858
01:31:41,080 --> 01:31:44,479
Speaker 1: no magic way to build a team right now, and

1859
01:31:44,520 --> 01:31:47,240
Speaker 1: there's gotta be a certain sense of luck. Maybe the

1860
01:31:47,320 --> 01:31:50,080
Speaker 1: Lakers a little lucky with the way that Hachamora has

1861
01:31:50,080 --> 01:31:52,400
Speaker 1: fit in right it's been a great fit and they

1862
01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:54,280
Speaker 1: didn't have to give up a ton to go get him,

1863
01:31:55,040 --> 01:31:57,760
Speaker 1: and in the contract that he has right now, pretty

1864
01:31:57,800 --> 01:32:01,280
Speaker 1: big deal. I mean, Austin Reeves isn't incredib stroke of luck.

1865
01:32:01,479 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 1: I mean he was basically playing in an invite league

1866
01:32:04,439 --> 01:32:07,479
Speaker 1: just to get an opportunity after going undrafted. So every

1867
01:32:07,520 --> 01:32:09,840
Speaker 1: time we try to say this was a brilliant move,

1868
01:32:09,960 --> 01:32:11,639
Speaker 1: Sure there's good moves that are made in.

1869
01:32:11,600 --> 01:32:13,160
Speaker 2: There, but if I got you got to get a

1870
01:32:13,200 --> 01:32:14,000
Speaker 2: little bit of luck.

1871
01:32:14,040 --> 01:32:16,240
Speaker 4: Whenever it comes to some of these yeahs, especially in

1872
01:32:16,280 --> 01:32:20,360
Speaker 4: the NBA, you know, it's just because the talent the guys.

1873
01:32:20,439 --> 01:32:23,000
Speaker 4: You never can account for someone's work ethic, how hard

1874
01:32:23,040 --> 01:32:25,080
Speaker 4: they're going to work, the situation that they're in.

1875
01:32:25,400 --> 01:32:27,960
Speaker 2: So many factors outside of well, this guy.

1876
01:32:27,800 --> 01:32:29,600
Speaker 4: Is just you know, he's eighteen or nineteen and he

1877
01:32:29,640 --> 01:32:32,559
Speaker 4: can jump really high, you know, So that's the reason

1878
01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:34,679
Speaker 4: why they take flyers on guys high in the draft.

1879
01:32:34,760 --> 01:32:37,280
Speaker 4: It's no different than the NFL to a certain degree too. Sure,

1880
01:32:37,400 --> 01:32:38,960
Speaker 4: more willing to take a risk on a guy who

1881
01:32:38,960 --> 01:32:41,040
Speaker 4: has those measurables. But the guy who was willing to

1882
01:32:41,080 --> 01:32:43,200
Speaker 4: you know, bust his tail and work hard and stay late,

1883
01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:45,240
Speaker 4: who was taken in the sixth or seventh round, who

1884
01:32:45,280 --> 01:32:47,559
Speaker 4: ends up turning into a player. Those things are just

1885
01:32:47,600 --> 01:32:50,639
Speaker 4: really difficult to quantify. So yeah, it is an element

1886
01:32:50,640 --> 01:32:53,040
Speaker 4: of luck, and that's how the NBA goes. If you're able,

1887
01:32:53,040 --> 01:32:55,439
Speaker 4: if you're fortunate enough to be a franchise, like say

1888
01:32:55,840 --> 01:32:59,400
Speaker 4: the Lakers, who are a destination franchise, you know, the

1889
01:32:59,439 --> 01:33:01,960
Speaker 4: bar isn't high for you to necessarily find diamonds in

1890
01:33:01,960 --> 01:33:03,360
Speaker 4: the rough from the draft. Now, they've done a good

1891
01:33:03,400 --> 01:33:06,160
Speaker 4: job of doing that recently. You know, you mentioned Austin Reeves.

1892
01:33:06,160 --> 01:33:07,800
Speaker 4: I can go to Alice Caruso was a guy that

1893
01:33:07,800 --> 01:33:10,240
Speaker 4: they found and cultivated. So there are some teams that

1894
01:33:10,280 --> 01:33:13,120
Speaker 4: do solid jobs. The Spurs for years during their runs

1895
01:33:13,120 --> 01:33:15,200
Speaker 4: had did a good job of drafting guys and late

1896
01:33:15,240 --> 01:33:17,559
Speaker 4: in the draft and having them be productive. But in

1897
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:20,559
Speaker 4: a general sense, it really is all about a stroke

1898
01:33:20,600 --> 01:33:22,799
Speaker 4: of luck, especially if you are a lower a franchise.

1899
01:33:22,800 --> 01:33:25,040
Speaker 4: That's not in the marquee market, and you need to

1900
01:33:25,040 --> 01:33:26,680
Speaker 4: be able to draft guys who are willing to work

1901
01:33:26,680 --> 01:33:29,360
Speaker 4: hard and develop well. And a lot of times has

1902
01:33:29,400 --> 01:33:32,000
Speaker 4: little to do with you as an organization. It's just

1903
01:33:32,040 --> 01:33:33,680
Speaker 4: whether it's just the luck of the draw and this

1904
01:33:33,880 --> 01:33:34,759
Speaker 4: is out of your hands.

1905
01:33:35,240 --> 01:33:38,280
Speaker 1: By the way, the name I was looking for, Yes,

1906
01:33:38,360 --> 01:33:41,360
Speaker 1: that Donovan Mitchell was traded for, which, by the way,

1907
01:33:41,920 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 1: was a pretty good draft for the Lakers that year.

1908
01:33:44,360 --> 01:33:46,519
Speaker 1: They got Josh Hart in that draft. I think he's

1909
01:33:46,560 --> 01:33:48,400
Speaker 1: ended up being a good player. Yes, was Kuzma in

1910
01:33:48,400 --> 01:33:50,840
Speaker 1: that draft as well. Kuzma was in that draft as well.

1911
01:33:50,880 --> 01:33:58,240
Speaker 1: He was the twenty seventh pick overall. Tyler Lighten. Tyler Lighten,

1912
01:33:58,479 --> 01:34:04,160
Speaker 1: Wow was the the player that Denver picked in a

1913
01:34:04,240 --> 01:34:09,679
Speaker 1: trade for Donovan Mitchell. So again, there were there good

1914
01:34:09,760 --> 01:34:12,120
Speaker 1: draft picks before. Jamal Murray ended up being a great

1915
01:34:12,160 --> 01:34:15,400
Speaker 1: draft pick. Yes, right, he's a quarterback. Jokis great trafficck

1916
01:34:15,400 --> 01:34:16,280
Speaker 1: Michael Porter Jr.

1917
01:34:16,320 --> 01:34:16,760
Speaker 2: Great draftic.

1918
01:34:17,000 --> 01:34:20,920
Speaker 1: But you're gonna make mistakes, right and so knee Jerkin today,

1919
01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:25,160
Speaker 1: Knee Jerkin post draft never a good sign. I promised football,

1920
01:34:25,400 --> 01:34:29,040
Speaker 1: but figures. I think this is one of the more

1921
01:34:29,160 --> 01:34:32,520
Speaker 1: intriguing NBA off seasons because you have the new CBA,

1922
01:34:32,960 --> 01:34:35,400
Speaker 1: teams are gonna have to start building and understanding how

1923
01:34:35,439 --> 01:34:38,320
Speaker 1: to build differently, and I think we saw some of

1924
01:34:38,360 --> 01:34:40,960
Speaker 1: that last night. We're still waiting on James Harden. But

1925
01:34:41,040 --> 01:34:44,600
Speaker 1: as we stand here, gosh at the hour three of

1926
01:34:44,640 --> 01:34:50,160
Speaker 1: the show, no news this morning, Victor Oladipo late last

1927
01:34:50,280 --> 01:34:53,960
Speaker 1: night was dealt to the thunder Right, which again I

1928
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:56,400
Speaker 1: don't that made no sense to me. That's a good player,

1929
01:34:56,560 --> 01:34:58,759
Speaker 1: but the Miami Heat trying to clear a little cap space,

1930
01:34:58,800 --> 01:35:02,639
Speaker 1: I guess. And then the big signings was pretty much

1931
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:05,519
Speaker 1: chalk outside of Fred van Vliek going to the Rockets,

1932
01:35:05,960 --> 01:35:09,120
Speaker 1: Max deal for Van Vliet, bet On himself, Draymond Green

1933
01:35:09,280 --> 01:35:12,720
Speaker 1: back to Golden State, Kyrie Irving back to Dallas and oh,

1934
01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:17,080
Speaker 1: people are triggered over that, and Chris Middleton back to Milwaukee,

1935
01:35:17,240 --> 01:35:20,200
Speaker 1: while the Lakers lock back up ruy Haachimora and go

1936
01:35:20,240 --> 01:35:23,559
Speaker 1: out and sign Gabe Vincent. So is that a pretty

1937
01:35:23,560 --> 01:35:26,040
Speaker 1: good nutshell of what we got last night? Yeah, of

1938
01:35:26,080 --> 01:35:28,840
Speaker 1: all the major moves, absolutely yes. When we come back

1939
01:35:28,880 --> 01:35:33,040
Speaker 1: football right here on Fox Sports Radio, it is the

1940
01:35:33,120 --> 01:35:40,160
Speaker 1: Fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio eight seven seven

1941
01:35:40,240 --> 01:35:42,080
Speaker 1: ninety nine on Fox if you want to jump in

1942
01:35:42,560 --> 01:35:46,880
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio. On Twitter, and by the way,

1943
01:35:46,880 --> 01:35:50,080
Speaker 1: speaking of Twitter, just a couple of things I Calbert

1944
01:35:50,200 --> 01:35:52,639
Speaker 1: checked in a little bit ago at that Damn Bear

1945
01:35:52,840 --> 01:35:56,840
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Calberd rights. Free agency isn't what it used

1946
01:35:56,840 --> 01:35:59,360
Speaker 1: to be. Players go to a team that is willing

1947
01:35:59,400 --> 01:36:07,080
Speaker 1: to pay the money. It's now money over winning championships. Calbert,

1948
01:36:07,160 --> 01:36:13,200
Speaker 1: in fairness, I think it's always been money over winning championships.

1949
01:36:13,240 --> 01:36:16,400
Speaker 1: Outside of a handful of dudes, you know, early in

1950
01:36:16,439 --> 01:36:20,400
Speaker 1: your career, I think it's always about as as Kfig,

1951
01:36:20,439 --> 01:36:22,479
Speaker 1: who is much cooler than I am, would say, get

1952
01:36:22,479 --> 01:36:25,120
Speaker 1: in the bag, right, I mean, you want to get paid.

1953
01:36:25,760 --> 01:36:29,040
Speaker 1: But I mean as you get older, maybe that adjust

1954
01:36:29,280 --> 01:36:32,519
Speaker 1: just a little bit and you start thinking, Okay, what

1955
01:36:32,720 --> 01:36:36,120
Speaker 1: can I do title wise? You know, Kevin Durant maybe

1956
01:36:36,360 --> 01:36:41,040
Speaker 1: guilty of that maybe, But in other words, you got paid,

1957
01:36:41,120 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 1: you made your money.

1958
01:36:42,520 --> 01:36:43,880
Speaker 2: Now I want to go try to win.

1959
01:36:44,120 --> 01:36:47,680
Speaker 1: So I don't. I don't know Calbert if if I

1960
01:36:47,800 --> 01:36:52,200
Speaker 1: necessarily disagree with you, but I do think at the

1961
01:36:52,280 --> 01:36:55,200
Speaker 1: core it's always about the money. I mean, Bruce Brown

1962
01:36:55,280 --> 01:36:58,439
Speaker 1: is getting a bag because he won, but I mean

1963
01:36:58,520 --> 01:37:00,360
Speaker 1: if he wanted to put himself in a position where

1964
01:37:00,360 --> 01:37:02,280
Speaker 1: he could win right away and do it again. He

1965
01:37:02,280 --> 01:37:05,640
Speaker 1: would have gone back to Denver. So you're right in

1966
01:37:05,640 --> 01:37:09,200
Speaker 1: that sense that it's about the money. But what I mean,

1967
01:37:10,400 --> 01:37:12,760
Speaker 1: what what is it supposed to be about when you're

1968
01:37:12,760 --> 01:37:14,000
Speaker 1: talking about free agency?

1969
01:37:14,120 --> 01:37:14,280
Speaker 2: Right?

1970
01:37:14,720 --> 01:37:17,080
Speaker 1: People don't look that deep. I think it's like, all right,

1971
01:37:17,280 --> 01:37:20,280
Speaker 1: here's that spreadsheet. There's four years on hundred twenty six

1972
01:37:20,320 --> 01:37:23,679
Speaker 1: mil from one team, and there's three years and seventy

1973
01:37:23,680 --> 01:37:24,439
Speaker 1: mil from the other.

1974
01:37:24,720 --> 01:37:26,320
Speaker 2: I mean, let's go. I know where we're going.

1975
01:37:26,880 --> 01:37:29,599
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying, Calbert, but k fig, I mean,

1976
01:37:29,640 --> 01:37:31,200
Speaker 1: I think it's always been about the money.

1977
01:37:31,280 --> 01:37:34,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm not trying to take a like a

1978
01:37:34,080 --> 01:37:36,200
Speaker 4: shot at Calbert here or anything, but I do think

1979
01:37:36,240 --> 01:37:38,639
Speaker 4: it just it depends on where the players are coming from.

1980
01:37:38,680 --> 01:37:40,320
Speaker 2: I hughsed Fred VanVleet as an example.

1981
01:37:40,760 --> 01:37:42,960
Speaker 4: A guy was what a second round pick, you know,

1982
01:37:43,000 --> 01:37:46,040
Speaker 4: it was a backup to Kyle Lowry, cultivated his way,

1983
01:37:46,120 --> 01:37:49,720
Speaker 4: made himself into a veteran, got himself in an NBA championship,

1984
01:37:50,200 --> 01:37:52,519
Speaker 4: became a free agent, and has a chance to make money.

1985
01:37:52,600 --> 01:37:55,040
Speaker 4: Ef he's already won a championship. Why would I have

1986
01:37:55,040 --> 01:37:57,679
Speaker 4: a grudge him that different people play for different reasons.

1987
01:37:57,880 --> 01:38:01,240
Speaker 4: So you mentioned Bruce Brown, same situation, second round pick,

1988
01:38:01,280 --> 01:38:02,600
Speaker 4: finally won a championship.

1989
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Speaker 2: Now is a chance to earn money. I mean, I

1990
01:38:05,360 --> 01:38:06,240
Speaker 2: mean this happens for guys.

1991
01:38:06,280 --> 01:38:07,960
Speaker 4: Look at Harrison Barnes and I know he was traded

1992
01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:10,400
Speaker 4: away in the Kevin Durant dial, but I mean he's

1993
01:38:10,400 --> 01:38:13,360
Speaker 4: had a couple of opportunities now to go elsewhere to

1994
01:38:13,400 --> 01:38:14,840
Speaker 4: a place where he can win. But he's re up

1995
01:38:14,920 --> 01:38:18,200
Speaker 4: to Sacramento because they've paid him more money and he's

1996
01:38:18,240 --> 01:38:22,160
Speaker 4: won championships or a championship. I don't begrudge him that

1997
01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:24,920
Speaker 4: that's his right. And it's easy for us. Yeah, it's

1998
01:38:24,960 --> 01:38:27,479
Speaker 4: easy for us to say too, like, well, you know

1999
01:38:27,520 --> 01:38:30,080
Speaker 4: you should prioritize winning over money. Well, you know the

2000
01:38:30,160 --> 01:38:31,760
Speaker 4: Lakers are going to be able to offer Bruce Brown

2001
01:38:31,800 --> 01:38:34,240
Speaker 4: about twelve and a half million dollars, and Indiana swooped

2002
01:38:34,240 --> 01:38:38,200
Speaker 4: in and offered him forty five. I mean, I can't

2003
01:38:38,200 --> 01:38:41,280
Speaker 4: speak to your personal situation, Cawberd, and maybe yours is different,

2004
01:38:41,360 --> 01:38:44,640
Speaker 4: but it'd be difficult for most people to look at

2005
01:38:44,640 --> 01:38:47,080
Speaker 4: those two figures and say, yeah, I think I'd rather

2006
01:38:47,120 --> 01:38:50,760
Speaker 4: take twelve than twenty five. You know, when again you

2007
01:38:50,840 --> 01:38:53,240
Speaker 4: were a second round pick. And look all these guys

2008
01:38:53,280 --> 01:38:55,400
Speaker 4: are making, you know, to scale for what Chris and

2009
01:38:55,439 --> 01:38:58,320
Speaker 4: I make. All these guys are making gargantuans amount of money.

2010
01:38:58,760 --> 01:39:01,320
Speaker 4: But for Bruce Brown in the the NBA lifestyle is making,

2011
01:39:01,360 --> 01:39:04,560
Speaker 4: it was pennies compared to what he's making now in Indiana.

2012
01:39:04,640 --> 01:39:07,080
Speaker 1: I used to always Kevin figures as we come to

2013
01:39:07,120 --> 01:39:09,720
Speaker 1: you live from the ti raq dot com studios. I

2014
01:39:09,840 --> 01:39:13,880
Speaker 1: used to always like, early in my career, have this

2015
01:39:14,040 --> 01:39:17,120
Speaker 1: take of my gosh, you're making so much money. Can't

2016
01:39:17,160 --> 01:39:19,840
Speaker 1: even fathom what that money would be like quick complaining, go.

2017
01:39:19,920 --> 01:39:21,080
Speaker 2: Do your job right?

2018
01:39:21,360 --> 01:39:23,360
Speaker 1: Why are you asking for more money? I mean at

2019
01:39:23,360 --> 01:39:25,320
Speaker 1: that time it's probably like two mili a season. But

2020
01:39:25,400 --> 01:39:28,080
Speaker 1: then you realize we are talking about a whole nother

2021
01:39:28,200 --> 01:39:33,200
Speaker 1: level of compensation, right. And it was funny because I

2022
01:39:33,320 --> 01:39:36,360
Speaker 1: was watching last night and the numbers came up for

2023
01:39:36,479 --> 01:39:39,320
Speaker 1: Van Vliet, and in my mind, I'm like, someone pay

2024
01:39:39,360 --> 01:39:41,160
Speaker 1: me that much money after one year. I'd be like,

2025
01:39:41,600 --> 01:39:43,920
Speaker 1: it's been a good year around. I'm a retired and

2026
01:39:43,920 --> 01:39:44,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go sit.

2027
01:39:44,600 --> 01:39:48,600
Speaker 2: On the beach for a while. But you feel confident.

2028
01:39:48,800 --> 01:39:50,559
Speaker 1: I don't know how he ended up on Van Vliet here,

2029
01:39:50,560 --> 01:39:52,240
Speaker 1: but I think it's a great point you bring up.

2030
01:39:53,439 --> 01:39:56,240
Speaker 1: Van Vliet is that kind of guy where you look

2031
01:39:56,320 --> 01:40:00,479
Speaker 1: at how he got here undrafted out of Wichitas. You

2032
01:40:00,840 --> 01:40:02,720
Speaker 1: rant to the whole resume perfectly. I don't have to,

2033
01:40:03,640 --> 01:40:07,200
Speaker 1: but you get the sense if you invest in him,

2034
01:40:07,920 --> 01:40:09,960
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be a guy that would be like

2035
01:40:10,080 --> 01:40:12,639
Speaker 1: me and says, got my bag, I'm good to go.

2036
01:40:13,040 --> 01:40:16,000
Speaker 1: You'll get the sense he's a guy that says, Houston

2037
01:40:16,160 --> 01:40:18,760
Speaker 1: invested in me, I'm gonna show them that I was

2038
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:21,639
Speaker 1: worth that investment, and let's see if we can't turn

2039
01:40:21,720 --> 01:40:25,679
Speaker 1: this thing around with what is a ton of talent

2040
01:40:26,080 --> 01:40:29,760
Speaker 1: over the last three to four years of top picks

2041
01:40:29,800 --> 01:40:30,679
Speaker 1: for the Houston Rockets.

2042
01:40:30,760 --> 01:40:31,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, speaks to his.

2043
01:40:31,680 --> 01:40:33,800
Speaker 4: Character and that he embraces the role of being a

2044
01:40:33,880 --> 01:40:36,799
Speaker 4: leader for a young team and being that veteran presence.

2045
01:40:37,240 --> 01:40:39,639
Speaker 4: If anything, there's a small part of me that kind

2046
01:40:39,640 --> 01:40:42,120
Speaker 4: of LUTs him for doing it, because you can say

2047
01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:43,920
Speaker 4: that he's a veteran, He's been around the block, He's

2048
01:40:43,920 --> 01:40:45,920
Speaker 4: made a decent amount of money. Did he have to

2049
01:40:45,920 --> 01:40:47,880
Speaker 4: take forty plus million dollars a year for a bad

2050
01:40:47,880 --> 01:40:50,479
Speaker 4: team that's not going anywhere. No, he probably could have

2051
01:40:50,520 --> 01:40:53,759
Speaker 4: made twenty to go to a contender, but he's making

2052
01:40:53,800 --> 01:40:55,519
Speaker 4: more money. If you want to call it selfish, who

2053
01:40:55,520 --> 01:40:57,519
Speaker 4: can But I also think there's a part of it. Yes,

2054
01:40:57,560 --> 01:40:59,479
Speaker 4: he was able to get paid, but he also realizes

2055
01:40:59,640 --> 01:41:02,320
Speaker 4: he can make a positive impact on a roster full

2056
01:41:02,360 --> 01:41:04,120
Speaker 4: of young, really talented players.

2057
01:41:04,400 --> 01:41:07,000
Speaker 1: By the way, shout out to Rod who is checked

2058
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:10,640
Speaker 1: in here this morning. Ig also our man Mattie and

2059
01:41:10,680 --> 01:41:14,719
Speaker 1: Sedonia who apparently is tuned in for more Oklahoma this morning.

2060
01:41:14,720 --> 01:41:17,560
Speaker 1: But we did have one and since we're getting the

2061
01:41:17,600 --> 01:41:21,439
Speaker 1: football and not college football, my man Harry James Taylor

2062
01:41:21,520 --> 01:41:24,880
Speaker 1: did check in on national radio to make sure make

2063
01:41:24,920 --> 01:41:27,599
Speaker 1: sure kfig that we get some Ou talk in here.

2064
01:41:27,640 --> 01:41:30,240
Speaker 2: At some point, I loved Sooners.

2065
01:41:29,880 --> 01:41:33,720
Speaker 1: Who had a very wild couple of days for Oklahoma

2066
01:41:33,760 --> 01:41:36,880
Speaker 1: and a little shifting in the administration as far as

2067
01:41:36,920 --> 01:41:42,679
Speaker 1: the football program is concerned. But as an outsider, Harry writes,

2068
01:41:43,120 --> 01:41:47,599
Speaker 1: do you feel that for my Sooners that the coaching

2069
01:41:47,640 --> 01:41:50,920
Speaker 1: staff BV and company have to get back to the

2070
01:41:50,960 --> 01:41:56,160
Speaker 1: College football playoffs? Getting a Big twelve championship appearance is

2071
01:41:56,240 --> 01:42:00,760
Speaker 1: a must in year two, a must Kevin fig a

2072
01:42:00,960 --> 01:42:02,280
Speaker 1: must A must.

2073
01:42:02,920 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 2: I don't believe that it's a must.

2074
01:42:04,520 --> 01:42:07,160
Speaker 4: And by the way, you're obviously more closer to this,

2075
01:42:07,360 --> 01:42:10,360
Speaker 4: Chris than I am. But just from a five thousand

2076
01:42:10,400 --> 01:42:13,240
Speaker 4: foot view of Oklahoma from last season, you know, I

2077
01:42:13,320 --> 01:42:15,479
Speaker 4: said that, well, if venables can at least get that

2078
01:42:15,520 --> 01:42:17,880
Speaker 4: defense to be decent, which shouldn't be, you know, that

2079
01:42:18,000 --> 01:42:20,040
Speaker 4: difficult because I mean, my god, they couldn't be worse

2080
01:42:20,080 --> 01:42:22,639
Speaker 4: than they were last year, you know. I mean, I'm

2081
01:42:22,640 --> 01:42:24,960
Speaker 4: thinking if you can get nine wins, if you get ten,

2082
01:42:25,120 --> 01:42:27,600
Speaker 4: they're fine. If you could be in competition for the

2083
01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:31,120
Speaker 4: Big twelve championship game, I think that maybe enough, but

2084
01:42:31,200 --> 01:42:33,599
Speaker 4: maybe it's not. I know, the expectations are super high

2085
01:42:33,640 --> 01:42:36,760
Speaker 4: out there for Oklahoma. So you tell me, Chris, as

2086
01:42:36,760 --> 01:42:39,880
Speaker 4: someone who's as dialed into the Sooners as anybody, you know,

2087
01:42:39,960 --> 01:42:42,839
Speaker 4: what are the expectations for Oklahoma going into this season,

2088
01:42:43,360 --> 01:42:46,439
Speaker 4: knowing how much of a disaster it was last year?

2089
01:42:46,640 --> 01:42:47,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, last year was tough.

2090
01:42:47,920 --> 01:42:52,400
Speaker 1: I think I've got this really hot take that I

2091
01:42:52,479 --> 01:42:54,519
Speaker 1: break out every now and then, k fake and it's

2092
01:42:54,560 --> 01:43:00,200
Speaker 1: this one. You're ready. Winning cures all, It cures all.

2093
01:43:00,520 --> 01:43:03,680
Speaker 1: And if you win football games, you know, suddenly you're

2094
01:43:03,720 --> 01:43:06,600
Speaker 1: a genius. I mean, listen to the promos that we

2095
01:43:06,640 --> 01:43:09,639
Speaker 1: have going. You've got a couple different promos with Colin

2096
01:43:09,920 --> 01:43:12,000
Speaker 1: and I can't remember who else it was talking about.

2097
01:43:12,000 --> 01:43:14,559
Speaker 1: I'll look at Bill Belichick, look at him. What's going

2098
01:43:14,600 --> 01:43:17,040
Speaker 1: on there? He can't win without Tom Brady. You're talking

2099
01:43:17,080 --> 01:43:20,479
Speaker 1: about a dude that literally in a league that is

2100
01:43:20,560 --> 01:43:25,800
Speaker 1: built for parody. Has I mean, he's got more championships

2101
01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:31,839
Speaker 1: than any active coach, right, he's obviously, I mean seventy

2102
01:43:31,960 --> 01:43:35,200
Speaker 1: one years of age. He's sitting with how many super

2103
01:43:35,240 --> 01:43:37,800
Speaker 1: Bowl rings? Six super Bowl rings now, yep? I mean

2104
01:43:38,920 --> 01:43:41,880
Speaker 1: and eight total super Bowls as a coach. I mean,

2105
01:43:41,920 --> 01:43:45,240
Speaker 1: we just when you don't win, suddenly it's like, oh

2106
01:43:45,280 --> 01:43:46,120
Speaker 1: my gosh, what's wrong.

2107
01:43:46,160 --> 01:43:46,840
Speaker 2: Everything sucks.

2108
01:43:46,880 --> 01:43:49,479
Speaker 1: He's terrible. He can't win without Tom Brady. Take this city,

2109
01:43:49,520 --> 01:43:53,240
Speaker 1: Oklahoma Sooners or any program who kind of struggles. You

2110
01:43:53,320 --> 01:43:58,559
Speaker 1: have one bad season one and suddenly the roof is

2111
01:43:58,600 --> 01:44:02,160
Speaker 1: caven in. Suddenly everything is falling apart. Suddenly, oh my gosh,

2112
01:44:02,160 --> 01:44:04,920
Speaker 1: they're going to this conference. They're gonna stink. But you

2113
01:44:05,040 --> 01:44:07,559
Speaker 1: go out and against that schedule, you won a few games.

2114
01:44:09,080 --> 01:44:12,080
Speaker 1: Suddenly it cures all I've said this for eons, and

2115
01:44:12,400 --> 01:44:14,680
Speaker 1: I know we're doing update, which we'll get caught up

2116
01:44:14,680 --> 01:44:18,760
Speaker 1: on everything. Everyone tries to pinpoint this, all them Pack

2117
01:44:18,840 --> 01:44:21,880
Speaker 1: twelve in so much trouble because of mismanagement and Larry

2118
01:44:21,880 --> 01:44:24,519
Speaker 1: Scott screwing up and this and that, and partially that's right, Yeah,

2119
01:44:24,520 --> 01:44:28,240
Speaker 1: he didn't help. But do you think that if Oregon

2120
01:44:28,760 --> 01:44:33,000
Speaker 1: played for a couple more national championships, or if Washington was,

2121
01:44:33,640 --> 01:44:36,519
Speaker 1: you know, actually competitive when they made the play of

2122
01:44:36,560 --> 01:44:41,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs, if USC had been able to knock down

2123
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:43,880
Speaker 1: that door before they went to the Big ten consistently

2124
01:44:43,920 --> 01:44:47,400
Speaker 1: in the playoff era. I mean, you have programs in

2125
01:44:47,439 --> 01:44:50,320
Speaker 1: your conference that are winning at the highest level, winning

2126
01:44:50,360 --> 01:44:52,920
Speaker 1: cures all and again the circling back to the OU

2127
01:44:52,960 --> 01:44:57,280
Speaker 1: point you win, and if they don't worry about anything,

2128
01:44:57,600 --> 01:45:01,200
Speaker 1: I'm but to go right feed the beast, all right, Harry, Yes,

2129
01:45:01,240 --> 01:45:02,720
Speaker 1: they need to win ten games, and they got to

2130
01:45:02,760 --> 01:45:04,519
Speaker 1: be in the playoffs in two years. With that said,

2131
01:45:05,280 --> 01:45:08,439
Speaker 1: let's she caught up on everything. K Fig is obviously

2132
01:45:08,479 --> 01:45:11,519
Speaker 1: in the house, and we missed a lot, including a

2133
01:45:11,520 --> 01:45:13,599
Speaker 1: lot of baseball, a lot of NBA last night, Kevin.

2134
01:45:13,720 --> 01:45:15,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of the NBA, he had a lot of

2135
01:45:15,720 --> 01:45:19,280
Speaker 4: big time contracts handed out on Day one of free agency.

2136
01:45:19,320 --> 01:45:21,720
Speaker 4: The biggest one was actually an extension, not a free

2137
01:45:21,720 --> 01:45:24,680
Speaker 4: agent leaving his current team. That was Tyrese Halliburn and

2138
01:45:24,760 --> 01:45:27,559
Speaker 4: signing a five year extension with the Pacers two hundred

2139
01:45:27,600 --> 01:45:30,559
Speaker 4: and sixty million dollar contract that is a max contract

2140
01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:33,599
Speaker 4: for him. Indiana, as we mentioned, also signed Bruce Brown

2141
01:45:33,680 --> 01:45:36,320
Speaker 4: away from Denver to the tune of two years and

2142
01:45:36,360 --> 01:45:39,320
Speaker 4: forty five million dollars. Derek Rose was waived by the

2143
01:45:39,360 --> 01:45:41,760
Speaker 4: Knicks last week or didn't have his contract option picked up.

2144
01:45:41,760 --> 01:45:44,800
Speaker 4: He was signed by Memphis on Friday a two year contract.

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Speaker 4: Go along with Desmond Baines signing a five year, two

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Speaker 4: hundred and seven million dollar extension with Memphis as well.

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01:45:51,120 --> 01:45:53,920
Speaker 4: Lakers signing gave Vincent to a three year deal. Cam

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Speaker 4: Bridish and Touring Your Prince also in the mix on

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Speaker 4: one year deals. The Lakers also resigning Ruiy Hachimura to

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Speaker 4: a three year contract. Kyrie Irving back with Dallas on

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Speaker 4: a three year deal four years for Draymond Green one

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Speaker 4: hundred million dollars. Three of those years guaranteed player option

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Speaker 4: for the fourth. Fred van Vliet, as we mentioned, three

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Speaker 4: years one hundred and thirty million dollars with the Houston

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01:46:14,040 --> 01:46:17,240
Speaker 4: Rockets in Major League Baseball show Yotani a four hundred

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Speaker 4: and ninety three foot no doubt home run, longest in

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Speaker 4: the Majors this season, but the Angles lost to Arizona

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01:46:23,000 --> 01:46:25,800
Speaker 4: by the score of six to two. The Rays dominated

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01:46:25,800 --> 01:46:29,200
Speaker 4: Seattle fifteen to four, scored eight runs in the eighth inning,

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Speaker 4: two home runs from Matt Olsen, and a brave's victory

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Speaker 4: over Miami two home runs for Mookie Betts, says the

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Speaker 4: Dodgers b Kansas City. You had victories for the Astros

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Speaker 4: and the Giants as well.

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Speaker 1: Back to Chris Plank, thanks a lot kfig As we

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Speaker 1: as of this morning to get you caught up on

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Speaker 1: on the NBA deals from last night. It seems as

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Speaker 1: if everybody's taking a quick little nap all right. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna napen all right, four point thirty on the on

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Speaker 1: the West coast, you know, just waking up in the

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01:47:15,880 --> 01:47:18,200
Speaker 1: Central time zone. Maybe been up for a minute on

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Speaker 1: the East coast. Maybe we'll get a Celtics steal coming

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01:47:20,320 --> 01:47:23,880
Speaker 1: up here in just a bit. But this has been

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01:47:23,880 --> 01:47:28,920
Speaker 1: a weird week for football, and maybe I should be

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01:47:28,920 --> 01:47:31,160
Speaker 1: more specific, this has been a weird week for the

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Speaker 1: NFL because I I couldn't care less about those stupid

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Speaker 1: golf scrambles they do. I just couldn't care less. But

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Speaker 1: I also felt like Travis Kelcey before the scramble, had

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01:47:46,920 --> 01:47:52,000
Speaker 1: some interesting things to say about the NFL and pot

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01:47:52,200 --> 01:47:54,719
Speaker 1: and how I think his numbers was fifty to eighty

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01:47:54,760 --> 01:47:58,920
Speaker 1: percent of the league use marijuana, which again not a

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01:47:59,000 --> 01:48:03,240
Speaker 1: problem because you know, it's if you don't test positive.

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01:48:03,520 --> 01:48:07,240
Speaker 1: The policy is pretty leaning it towards marijuana. And I

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01:48:07,240 --> 01:48:09,839
Speaker 1: would also add, or however you call it, if sometimes

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01:48:09,840 --> 01:48:13,920
Speaker 1: you say marijuana, people like dude, how old are you?

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01:48:14,000 --> 01:48:19,960
Speaker 1: The weed? The weed, the devil's lettuce, what whatever?

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Speaker 4: I mean?

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Speaker 2: It's fine a marijuana cigarette.

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Speaker 1: But my point is I would much rather hear about

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01:48:27,080 --> 01:48:30,760
Speaker 1: a guy that maybe takes a THHC gummy after game

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01:48:30,800 --> 01:48:34,640
Speaker 1: than is having a pound pain pills regardless. Kind of

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01:48:34,680 --> 01:48:37,400
Speaker 1: weird to have that story come out, as Vanity Fair

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01:48:37,439 --> 01:48:41,760
Speaker 1: wrote an article on Travis Kelcey An Haskins last night

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01:48:41,920 --> 01:48:45,280
Speaker 1: was charged with aggravated assault. Not a good look, not

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01:48:45,439 --> 01:48:48,840
Speaker 1: a good look for the NFL. But I'm also in

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Speaker 1: speaking of not good looks, I don't know what to say.

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01:48:54,080 --> 01:48:58,560
Speaker 1: I don't know how to feel about the latest gambling

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01:48:59,160 --> 01:49:02,880
Speaker 1: shoe to drop, and it was one that had been

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01:49:02,960 --> 01:49:05,400
Speaker 1: rumored for a long time. I give a lot of

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01:49:05,439 --> 01:49:09,599
Speaker 1: credit to Mike Florio for reporting on this. Now did

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01:49:09,680 --> 01:49:13,600
Speaker 1: he maybe over inflate or or kind of tweet some

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01:49:13,680 --> 01:49:16,240
Speaker 1: things that would lead you to believe that there was

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01:49:16,280 --> 01:49:18,599
Speaker 1: gonna be maybe a bigger name or more money involved

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Speaker 1: in this? Sure? But it again, it comes down to

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01:49:22,320 --> 01:49:26,040
Speaker 1: me to the biggest question in all of this. If

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01:49:26,080 --> 01:49:29,200
Speaker 1: you're the NFL, do you look around and of these

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01:49:29,200 --> 01:49:29,720
Speaker 1: what are we had?

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Speaker 2: Seven?

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Speaker 1: I think the total number is ten, but it's been

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01:49:32,120 --> 01:49:34,080
Speaker 1: seven that have been reported so far.

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Speaker 2: Kfig.

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Speaker 1: If you're I'm gonna said Pete Roselle, if you're Roger Goodell,

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01:49:40,360 --> 01:49:43,040
Speaker 1: If you're Roger Goodell, do you feel like you have

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01:49:43,120 --> 01:49:47,120
Speaker 1: a problem, or do you step back and say, all right,

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01:49:47,360 --> 01:49:54,559
Speaker 1: the fail safs are in place, the monitoring is working.

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01:49:56,439 --> 01:49:59,400
Speaker 1: We may have a little pr hit in the short term,

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01:49:59,640 --> 01:50:01,840
Speaker 1: but in the long run, we're able to protect the

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01:50:01,840 --> 01:50:05,479
Speaker 1: integrity of the game because even as you know, maybe

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01:50:05,479 --> 01:50:07,960
Speaker 1: stringent as some of those rules are, hey, not betting

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01:50:08,000 --> 01:50:10,400
Speaker 1: at the team facility or anything of that nature. And

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01:50:10,439 --> 01:50:14,320
Speaker 1: maybe the most egregious concern here was what the over

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01:50:14,520 --> 01:50:19,280
Speaker 1: under bet on rushing yards that the Colts Isaiah Rodgers

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01:50:19,280 --> 01:50:19,720
Speaker 1: made for.

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't know, man, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: If you're looking at a situation where you do have

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01:50:27,160 --> 01:50:29,479
Speaker 1: a true issue right now with the NFL, what do

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01:50:29,520 --> 01:50:29,880
Speaker 1: you think.

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01:50:30,400 --> 01:50:32,080
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe you do have an issue, But I

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01:50:32,200 --> 01:50:34,439
Speaker 4: tend to look at the latter and agree with that

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01:50:34,520 --> 01:50:36,840
Speaker 4: notion that the NFL is actually out ahead of this

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01:50:36,920 --> 01:50:40,120
Speaker 4: and throwing out all of these suspensions and taking action

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01:50:40,760 --> 01:50:44,600
Speaker 4: against players, fervent public action against them, you know. So

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01:50:44,760 --> 01:50:46,559
Speaker 4: it tells you like, hey, we're on top of this.

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01:50:46,600 --> 01:50:48,920
Speaker 4: We realize we're in bed with DraftKings or whoever it

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Speaker 4: may be, and you know, people are talking about us

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01:50:51,720 --> 01:50:53,760
Speaker 4: being compromised, which is also ridiculous, But that might be

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01:50:53,800 --> 01:50:57,160
Speaker 4: a different discussion, but to show like we're serious about this,

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01:50:57,240 --> 01:50:58,960
Speaker 4: We're not just gonna let this fall by the wayside.

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01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:02,040
Speaker 4: Now look, I'm not saying that the NBA or NHL

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01:51:02,120 --> 01:51:05,240
Speaker 4: or any other league is allowing their players to do

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01:51:05,280 --> 01:51:07,479
Speaker 4: it and are not really striking down on them. But

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01:51:07,520 --> 01:51:10,599
Speaker 4: I think it's encouraging that the NFL as being this

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01:51:11,080 --> 01:51:14,400
Speaker 4: hard line against it and levying these suspensions against these

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01:51:14,439 --> 01:51:16,800
Speaker 4: players and are talking about First of all, I don't

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Speaker 4: know how the education process can be that difficult for

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Speaker 4: players to grasp. I'm sure they told all of them

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01:51:21,479 --> 01:51:23,360
Speaker 4: or they handed them a packet or don't bet on

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01:51:23,479 --> 01:51:26,040
Speaker 4: NFL games, don't bet while you're in the facility is

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01:51:26,080 --> 01:51:28,679
Speaker 4: really that easy. So I don't know how you would

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Speaker 4: be able to violate it, but if you do, it's

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Speaker 4: going to be severe consequences for you. The first big

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01:51:33,960 --> 01:51:36,479
Speaker 4: shoot to drop, like you mentioned, was Calvin Ridley, who

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01:51:36,640 --> 01:51:39,040
Speaker 4: so far has been the biggest name, and that was

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01:51:39,080 --> 01:51:40,920
Speaker 4: before this string of these last couple of guys that

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01:51:41,160 --> 01:51:43,479
Speaker 4: have happened within the last couple of months here. So

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Speaker 4: I'm actually encouraged that the NFL is cracking down on

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Speaker 4: these guys and making it publicly known of what's happening

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Speaker 4: and what the consequences are if you can see you.

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Speaker 2: To do it.

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Speaker 1: I know people are going to say it's unfair because

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01:51:54,720 --> 01:51:58,559
Speaker 1: it's legal in their state. Well, I mean, if you

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01:51:58,600 --> 01:52:01,240
Speaker 1: want to go fight the NFL in court about their

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01:52:01,280 --> 01:52:04,360
Speaker 1: gambling stance, I mean, good luck, and maybe at some point.

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Speaker 2: A player does.

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Speaker 1: But it's like any other any other entity that maybe

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01:52:10,680 --> 01:52:13,400
Speaker 1: you enjoy. I've used weed as an analogy a lot

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01:52:13,439 --> 01:52:15,160
Speaker 1: on this show today. I don't know where my head

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01:52:15,200 --> 01:52:18,559
Speaker 1: is this morning. But if you love marijuana and you

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01:52:18,640 --> 01:52:21,240
Speaker 1: love to smoke weed, if you have a job that

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01:52:21,400 --> 01:52:27,240
Speaker 1: tests for the devil's lettuce, then you probably have to

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01:52:27,280 --> 01:52:29,840
Speaker 1: stop smoking weed for a while. Yep. The notes from

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01:52:29,880 --> 01:52:33,280
Speaker 1: the doctors don't always work. So if you want to

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01:52:33,280 --> 01:52:36,479
Speaker 1: play in the NFL and you want to maintain your

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01:52:36,840 --> 01:52:40,240
Speaker 1: I mean the Colts cut Isaiah Rodgers, it's made. I

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01:52:40,240 --> 01:52:42,720
Speaker 1: mean Chris Ballard came out with a strong statement and

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01:52:43,040 --> 01:52:47,840
Speaker 1: basically saying, hey, we consequences for your actions, and we

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01:52:47,920 --> 01:52:50,639
Speaker 1: feel like we need to protect the integrity of our

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01:52:50,640 --> 01:52:53,040
Speaker 1: team in our league. I mean, they didn't mess around

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01:52:53,280 --> 01:52:56,280
Speaker 1: Sean Berry too, so I guess my point more than

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01:52:56,280 --> 01:52:58,840
Speaker 1: anything else. Kevin figures you hit it on the head

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01:52:59,240 --> 01:53:02,200
Speaker 1: if you want to gain amble, fine, it's still gonna

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01:53:02,200 --> 01:53:05,280
Speaker 1: be there when you retire. And if you're I mean,

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01:53:05,760 --> 01:53:07,880
Speaker 1: the bet was a thousand dollars.

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01:53:07,960 --> 01:53:10,600
Speaker 4: Right, You particially threw away your NFL career for a

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Speaker 4: one thousand dollars.

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01:53:11,439 --> 01:53:14,040
Speaker 1: Bit, and then there was what twenty five to thirty

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01:53:14,080 --> 01:53:16,639
Speaker 1: dollars bets leading up to that. Yeah, so I think,

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01:53:16,760 --> 01:53:19,639
Speaker 1: to me, I'm glad the NFL is doing this. Are

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01:53:19,680 --> 01:53:22,040
Speaker 1: some of the rules a little crazy, I'm sure they are,

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01:53:22,160 --> 01:53:24,040
Speaker 1: but you got to live by them.

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01:53:24,120 --> 01:53:25,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, as long as you as long as.

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01:53:25,600 --> 01:53:28,120
Speaker 1: You live by them, you're gonna stay I say eligible,

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01:53:28,160 --> 01:53:30,240
Speaker 1: You're gonna be able to play, and teams are still

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01:53:30,240 --> 01:53:31,920
Speaker 1: gonna want you around as long as you produce.

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01:53:32,240 --> 01:53:32,639
Speaker 2: No doubt.

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01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:35,240
Speaker 1: You decide you're going to go put a couple bucks

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01:53:35,280 --> 01:53:36,880
Speaker 1: on one of your running backs to hit it over

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01:53:37,160 --> 01:53:40,519
Speaker 1: on a rushing total, you're putting your career very much

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01:53:40,520 --> 01:53:43,200
Speaker 1: at risk. All right, We got a roll when we

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01:53:43,400 --> 01:53:47,000
Speaker 1: come back. There was one player, though, who did push

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01:53:47,120 --> 01:53:50,760
Speaker 1: back against the NFL and it's gambling policy. We'll talk

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01:53:50,800 --> 01:53:52,920
Speaker 1: about it next on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Polly Foolsco with Dony Fusco.

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Speaker 3: Yo.

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Speaker 5: Of course you know h S as the host of

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Speaker 5: The Paully and Tony Fusco Show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: ad time because they wanted us to tell you how

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Speaker 6: Why.

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01:54:10,800 --> 01:54:13,519
Speaker 5: Yeah, Instead of us doing that, let's just let our

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Speaker 5: millions of fans do the darker.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, play the tape you don't know crap about fool

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Speaker 2: I own this crap.

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Speaker 6: Whoa whoa, whoa whoa.

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Speaker 5: That's the wrong tape, wrong tape. Just forget that.

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Speaker 2: Look.

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Speaker 5: Listen to The Foully and Tony Fusco Show on the

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Speaker 1: Fellas on Fox Sports Radio with Kevin Figures. I'm Chris Plank.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to July. Everybody, and every nerd.

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Speaker 1: In sports radio today will remind you that it's Bobby

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01:54:45,480 --> 01:54:49,000
Speaker 1: Benia Day. I'll join that nerdom coming up here in

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Speaker 1: just a bit. Let me pay off our teas though.

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01:54:51,600 --> 01:54:54,280
Speaker 1: In our final few minutes here of hour number three again,

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01:54:54,760 --> 01:54:57,160
Speaker 1: news from the NBA last night, just quickly reset from

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01:54:57,160 --> 01:55:00,200
Speaker 1: the tyrack dot Com Studios, Draymond Green resigned to the

2335
01:55:00,200 --> 01:55:03,440
Speaker 1: Golden State. Kyrie gets a big deal to stay in Dallas.

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01:55:04,160 --> 01:55:08,120
Speaker 1: Staying in Milwaukee is Middlebrook. The Lakers go out and

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01:55:08,160 --> 01:55:11,640
Speaker 1: nat Gabe Vincent, while Dennis Shrewder moves on to Toronto.

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01:55:11,960 --> 01:55:12,320
Speaker 1: I don't know.

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01:55:12,400 --> 01:55:13,440
Speaker 2: I don't have that written down.

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01:55:14,080 --> 01:55:18,240
Speaker 1: Desmond Bain gets paid by Memphis, who also signs. Late

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01:55:18,360 --> 01:55:22,120
Speaker 1: last night Derek Rose and speaking of late last night,

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01:55:22,320 --> 01:55:26,240
Speaker 1: overnight Victor Oladipo traded to OKC. So we'll keep an

2343
01:55:26,240 --> 01:55:28,680
Speaker 1: eye on any moves that potentially take place over the

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01:55:28,760 --> 01:55:29,800
Speaker 1: next twenty four hours.

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01:55:29,840 --> 01:55:31,080
Speaker 2: No updates, right, k fig.

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01:55:31,200 --> 01:55:33,760
Speaker 1: We haven't seen anything on James Harden and nothing from

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01:55:33,760 --> 01:55:34,560
Speaker 1: the Clippers yet.

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01:55:34,680 --> 01:55:36,960
Speaker 4: Nothing new from James Harden, nothing new on the Clippers

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01:55:36,960 --> 01:55:39,040
Speaker 4: that I've seen, but I'm keeping an eye on it.

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01:55:39,320 --> 01:55:44,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's again. It's one of those stories that it's

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01:55:44,720 --> 01:55:48,360
Speaker 1: what's the term that the kids use. It's very fluid,

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01:55:48,960 --> 01:55:51,200
Speaker 1: So a lot of things could happen over the next

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01:55:51,200 --> 01:55:53,600
Speaker 1: few hours, next few days, whatever it might be.

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Speaker 2: All right, I.

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01:55:54,600 --> 01:55:58,640
Speaker 1: Mentioned there was one player who pushed back a bit

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Speaker 1: on the NFL gambling stands. I did hear this, yes,

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01:56:02,360 --> 01:56:07,280
Speaker 1: and this is Patriots quarterback Jonathan Jones, who took to

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01:56:07,400 --> 01:56:12,640
Speaker 1: Twitter on Thursday night following the latest wave of suspensions,

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Speaker 1: and he writes, I understand rules or rules, but I

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Speaker 1: can risk in my life so that my team wins.

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Speaker 1: But I can't risk it risk it on my team winning.

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Speaker 1: So in other words, how come I can't go out

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Speaker 1: and bet on my team?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: I think the obvious answer is, all right, Listen, there's

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Speaker 1: there's odds, there's spreads, there's numbers to where you're like,

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Speaker 1: I'm betting on my team to win. Yeah, but Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: you gotta win by six yep, or it's so. And

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Speaker 1: some might say, all right, well then just money line bets.

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Speaker 1: But I just I found it to be a fascinating

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Speaker 1: angle to this. And I don't know if Jonathan Jones

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Speaker 1: is mad because he can't gamble, or if he's around

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Speaker 1: And he just kind of was thinking about the hypocrisy

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Speaker 1: of it and said, Huh, I wonder why this isn't

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Speaker 1: a deal. Let's see what my Twitter friends happened to think.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, fig what'd you make of it?

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Speaker 4: I guess it was certainly interesting, But I mean, if

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Speaker 4: they're going to open up fludgates and allow you to

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Speaker 4: bet for your team. Who's to stop you from betting

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Speaker 4: against your team too, you know what I mean? And

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Speaker 4: who's going to monitor that sort of thing? Hey, listen,

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Speaker 4: it's okay.

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Speaker 1: We don't have to suspend Patrick Mahomes because he didn't

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Speaker 1: bet on the spread. He just took the money line

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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs to kick the snot out of the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, maybe we want to investigate.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to put a name out there, ex

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Speaker 1: player for the Raiders who actually put that money on

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs too. You know, Hunt, you can't monitor all

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Speaker 1: of it all the time. That's where the problem comes in,

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Speaker 1: I think.

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Speaker 4: And on an elementary level, you look at Jonathan Jones statement,

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Speaker 4: it's like, I guess it doesn't make all you know

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Speaker 4: that terrible at sense I mean, or not not that

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Speaker 4: bad a sense I should say. You obviously have the

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Speaker 4: motivation of to go out and win every game. And

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Speaker 4: if you think, look if there's actually more skin in

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Speaker 4: the game, which I don't think. I don't even know

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Speaker 4: if that's possible, But if I can bet money while

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Speaker 4: also going out there on the field and trying to win,

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Speaker 4: is a win win. I think that's on the surface level,

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Speaker 4: that's how people will look at it. But I think

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Speaker 4: if you dig a little bit deeper, it's more nuanced

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Speaker 4: than that.

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Speaker 2: You know, And I gotta be honest with you.

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Speaker 1: When I was reading this story, there was like an

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Speaker 1: editorial comment where they claim the NFL taking money to

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Speaker 1: advertise these gambling companies is a do as we say,

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Speaker 1: not as we do. Uh huh, sure, I mean, but

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Speaker 1: in fairness, no one associated with league can gamble. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you're saying do as we say, not as we do,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't just a policy for the players.

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Speaker 1: If you work at any level with an NFL team

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Speaker 1: or in the front offices, you can't go gamble.

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Speaker 2: So if you're saying, oh.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's obviously a catch twenty two because they

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Speaker 1: have these agreements with the gambling companies, well sure, but

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Speaker 1: there's a major difference from promoting their product. And then

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Speaker 1: if Roger Goodell was seen just loading up on DraftKings NonStop,

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Speaker 1: just gambling like crazy, so I understand the premise of that,

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Speaker 1: but no one can go out and gamble.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and by the way, the players are profiting off

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Speaker 4: of this new deal that they have in gambling companies too.

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Speaker 2: All of this is rolled in to the football revenue.

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Speaker 4: So whatever money the league is making or the teams

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Speaker 4: are making from sportsbooks, being in stadiums, deals with the

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Speaker 4: DraftKings and FanDuel, the players get a cut of it too.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, when we come back yesterday slash

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Speaker 1: into today, NFL free agency are NBA free agency. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at an NFL story as we speak NBA

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Speaker 1: free agency. But I want to give everybody a cause

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Speaker 1: for pause. I want everyone to take a moment kind

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Speaker 1: of like we did last hour with the draft, take

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Speaker 1: a deep breath while we project, I don't know, Dallas

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Speaker 1: to mplow, Memphis to be incredible now that they have

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Speaker 1: leaders the Lakers to run it back. I've got a

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Speaker 1: little theory for you and some facts. Next, Kevin Figures

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Speaker 1: and the crew, Mark Ramsey, Ethan Miller, they're the fellas.

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Speaker 1: I'm the fill in and you got me next week,

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Speaker 1: two ants touring the globe. By the way, I in

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Speaker 1: the initial schedule, I wasn't on it. And let me

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Speaker 1: tell you something I had already planned. How late I

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02:00:29,680 --> 02:00:32,640
Speaker 1: was gonna sleep. K fig I had already planned it

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02:00:32,720 --> 02:00:34,560
Speaker 1: was like, whoa, I guess Ant's back.

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Speaker 2: I'm sleeping until nine.

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Speaker 1: But we'll be with you for the next couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks while Ann and John's a little break.

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Speaker 2: Played with your emotions there for a little bit there, Chris.

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Speaker 1: You know what, And it's funny because I mean, not

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Speaker 1: to completely break down the fourth wall, but I do

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Speaker 1: more shows and that's good for me financially. And there

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Speaker 1: was a part of me that was like, ah, you know,

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Speaker 1: that would have been a fun show to have, and

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02:00:56,520 --> 02:00:58,920
Speaker 1: I like working with you like wise. But but then

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Speaker 1: in the end, I'm like, not really much going on,

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02:01:04,920 --> 02:01:06,920
Speaker 1: it seems like, but no, so I was glad that

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Speaker 1: it was just a simply mistake. And I'm bugging the

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Speaker 1: boss while he's on vacation too. It's just wasn't a

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Speaker 1: good look for me.

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Speaker 4: That's never fun category I had to do the same

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Speaker 4: thing for a different reason. But yes, like, hey Scott, sorry,

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Speaker 4: I know you're on vacation, but a little.

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Speaker 1: Help we'll help here, buddy. Hey, Howard Bender is coming

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Speaker 1: up in just a bit. We're gonna talk some fantasy

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Speaker 1: football with Howard that's coming up here in moments. Yes,

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Speaker 1: thanks Mike, shout out to my man Shady Sean. Shady

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Speaker 1: Sean for twenty on on Twitter might be his birthday

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Speaker 1: on April twentieth, I don't know, but he was busting

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Speaker 1: my chops because I, you know what, I have this

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Speaker 1: problem when I fill in, I'll start a tweet to

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Speaker 1: promote the show. Right, Hey, I'm not like like Arnie

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Speaker 1: has the same tweet he's used.

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Speaker 2: For a decade. Where should we start?

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Speaker 1: Like, you know where you want to start? You just

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02:01:55,320 --> 02:01:57,440
Speaker 1: sent up laundry list of topics you want to talk

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Speaker 1: about in roman numeral orders. What do you mean where

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Speaker 1: should we start? You're gonna go wherever you want anyway, Arnie.

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Speaker 1: And no, we're not gonna talk more about the dolphins

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Speaker 1: in Arizona because I think you're on for three hours

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow night, correct, and then you get four hours Monday

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Speaker 1: and four hours Tuesday, and that's all we're gonna hear about.

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Speaker 2: But you're right, Sean, I do not do.

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Speaker 1: A good job of promoting when we're on, because I'll

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Speaker 1: get going, like I have a text our tweet right

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Speaker 1: here in my drafts, but then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: it's like, let's let's do the show, and I'll forget

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Speaker 1: about it, and then by the time I want to

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Speaker 1: send it, it's like, oh, we're an hour and a

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Speaker 1: half into the show. I think I have a record

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Speaker 1: for most tabs open during a program, though right now

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Speaker 1: the Google tab, the Google Chrome tab function is definitely

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Speaker 1: should be. Now, Howard is coming up here in just

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Speaker 1: a bit. But I mentioned Kfig hitting the pause button

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Speaker 1: on the over which, again, if you've listened for all

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Speaker 1: four hours, you might consider this a little bit contradictory

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Speaker 1: because I did open the show talking about grades for

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Speaker 1: free agency.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I do, where're going here?

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Speaker 1: I did open the show talking winners and losers, but

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02:03:25,520 --> 02:03:27,400
Speaker 1: kind of like Kfig and I were talking about with

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Speaker 1: the draft, and there's a long way to go, not

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Speaker 1: just in the off season, but in whether or not

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Speaker 1: these moves work. So let me give you this is

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Speaker 1: according to clutchpoints dot com. I'm not a big clutch

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Speaker 1: Points subscriber. I don't check it out very often. But

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Speaker 1: when I googled NBA off season moves of twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: this was the number one thing that popped up. And

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Speaker 1: they have their seven most impactful moves of the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two off season. And this was written a little

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Speaker 1: bit around a year ago at this point. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: let's go through these as a good way to think

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Speaker 1: about how important yesterday and today has been for the

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Speaker 1: future of your franchise and how people say nice things

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Speaker 1: about your franchise. Well, guess what, it doesn't always work

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Speaker 1: out that way. Number seven Jalen Brunson too the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: I think we agree, k Fig, that's worked out pretty well.

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Speaker 1: Home run. Absolutely, Brunton's been a rock star with the Knicks,

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Speaker 1: right and I think even if you're the Mavericks right

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Speaker 1: now you're lamenting that you could have had Brunson for

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Speaker 1: what less than your paying kyrieing right now?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So that's that's a big it's the best way

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Speaker 1: to put it. That's a big win. Yes, that's truly

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Speaker 1: one of the works. Number six on this list, Christian

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Speaker 1: would to the Dallas Mavericks. Yeah. Number five Rudy Gobert

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Speaker 1: to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Now again the Timberwolves made the play in.

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Speaker 1: I kind of feel like anymore in the NBA, you

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Speaker 1: have to try to.

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Speaker 2: Lose to not make the play in tournament.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've got to be basically, Yeah, the teams

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Speaker 1: had missed the playing tournament were tanking, including the Mavericks,

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Speaker 1: so that I would say that even though for t

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Speaker 1: Wolf fans they might consider that like a thing, but

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Speaker 1: the Cat Gobert combo agreed not really working out to

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Speaker 1: the degree that it would be like one of these

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Speaker 1: most impactful Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And that's interesting because there was a lot of people

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Speaker 4: at the time the move was made. I vividly remember saying, like,

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Speaker 4: you're gonna trade Grobert and put him in there with kat.

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02:05:34,360 --> 02:05:35,440
Speaker 2: I don't know how it's gonna fit.

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02:05:36,000 --> 02:05:38,560
Speaker 4: Gobert gets played off of the floor because he can't

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Speaker 4: really switch. So that's interesting that I was thought of

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Speaker 4: as a it was an impactful move because it was

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Speaker 4: a significant move, right, I don't know if it was

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Speaker 4: a positive move.

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Speaker 1: How about this one, John Wall to the Clippers. Now,

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Speaker 1: I honestly I remember being on the air and I

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Speaker 1: think I was filling in here around the time that happened, Right,

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Speaker 1: and thinking to myself, boy, the Lakers really screwed up.

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Speaker 2: You know, John Wall could.

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Speaker 1: Be he could be a good exciting piece to help

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Speaker 1: compliment Lebron. And remember last year, the big before the

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Speaker 1: Lakers pulled off the Russell Westbrook deal, the big rumor

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Speaker 1: was that Buddy Heel trade that would have brought him

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Speaker 1: a shooter. Yeah, but it was also brought up, hey,

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe john Wall can be a fit after things

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Speaker 1: didn't necessarily go so well, to put it lightly with

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Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets, but my man played thirty four games,

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Speaker 1: he started only three and a average eleven points.

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Speaker 2: So it was a move that many of us praised.

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Speaker 1: But in the end, yeah, I don't really know if

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Speaker 1: I look at that as a major impactful move for

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Speaker 1: twenty two.

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02:06:43,720 --> 02:06:46,520
Speaker 4: It was a low risk, potential, high reward move. They

2570
02:06:46,520 --> 02:06:48,560
Speaker 4: got him, I think for the veteran's minimum when they

2571
02:06:48,640 --> 02:06:51,200
Speaker 4: signed him. So it's like he had a history of injuries,

2572
02:06:51,240 --> 02:06:53,600
Speaker 4: hadn't really played in over a year, so whatever you

2573
02:06:53,640 --> 02:06:56,600
Speaker 4: got from Hi would have been gravy. So I don't

2574
02:06:56,640 --> 02:06:58,720
Speaker 4: necessarily begrudge that when it's not like they paid him

2575
02:06:58,760 --> 02:07:01,720
Speaker 4: a crap ton of money. So if he flamed out,

2576
02:07:01,760 --> 02:07:03,320
Speaker 4: what you ended up doing. It didn't really end up

2577
02:07:03,360 --> 02:07:04,400
Speaker 4: costing the Clippers that much.

2578
02:07:04,560 --> 02:07:07,440
Speaker 2: It was worth the risk, the ultimate low risk.

2579
02:07:07,560 --> 02:07:11,200
Speaker 1: Yes, but as far as a franchise altering move, far

2580
02:07:11,240 --> 02:07:11,560
Speaker 1: from it.

2581
02:07:11,720 --> 02:07:12,560
Speaker 2: Far from it. Yeah.

2582
02:07:12,560 --> 02:07:15,320
Speaker 1: Here's here's another one celebrated as one of the top

2583
02:07:15,400 --> 02:07:21,040
Speaker 1: moves of the offseason last year, Dante divid Chinzio devin

2584
02:07:21,080 --> 02:07:24,960
Speaker 1: Cinzo signing with the Golden State Warriors, who, by the way,

2585
02:07:25,720 --> 02:07:27,280
Speaker 1: just signed a deal with someone else.

2586
02:07:27,400 --> 02:07:30,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, that did not work out. And I thought he's

2587
02:07:30,160 --> 02:07:34,840
Speaker 2: a good player, but impactful. No, he's a backup point

2588
02:07:34,840 --> 02:07:37,880
Speaker 2: guard who was a solid player. Exactly. He's not swing

2589
02:07:37,960 --> 02:07:41,440
Speaker 2: turning the tide for anybody. Here is let me make

2590
02:07:41,480 --> 02:07:42,880
Speaker 2: sure I've lost my list.

2591
02:07:43,000 --> 02:07:49,040
Speaker 1: Here's number two, Malcolm Brogden and Danilo Gallinari.

2592
02:07:48,520 --> 02:07:52,120
Speaker 2: To the Celtics. Another half, right, I mean exactly right.

2593
02:07:52,160 --> 02:07:56,000
Speaker 1: Brogden worked out and I think he's been I think

2594
02:07:56,040 --> 02:07:58,200
Speaker 1: he's been a really good fit and I think he's

2595
02:07:58,200 --> 02:08:01,160
Speaker 1: got a chance. So there's one it worked. One that

2596
02:08:01,440 --> 02:08:05,000
Speaker 1: not so much. And number one was the Jonte Murray

2597
02:08:05,000 --> 02:08:09,600
Speaker 1: to the Hawks. Now, wow, in fairness, it's not like

2598
02:08:10,200 --> 02:08:13,760
Speaker 1: Murray was terrible. It was the second highest point per

2599
02:08:13,840 --> 02:08:17,360
Speaker 1: game but in the way this thing was build when

2600
02:08:17,400 --> 02:08:21,720
Speaker 1: it happened, Kfig, It's not necessarily a honeymoon in that

2601
02:08:21,840 --> 02:08:24,760
Speaker 1: pairing between Murray right now and Trey Jung. There's some

2602
02:08:24,840 --> 02:08:28,440
Speaker 1: work that Quinn Snyder has to do, so it still

2603
02:08:28,480 --> 02:08:31,200
Speaker 1: may work out. But just as far as saying, oh yeah,

2604
02:08:31,200 --> 02:08:34,800
Speaker 1: it's a slam done, great, great move's gonna change the Hawks.

2605
02:08:35,000 --> 02:08:37,600
Speaker 1: So remember, there's a lot of work that still has

2606
02:08:37,640 --> 02:08:40,280
Speaker 1: to go into it, not just that in general, but

2607
02:08:40,480 --> 02:08:42,960
Speaker 1: in these moves that happen over the next twenty four hours.

2608
02:08:43,040 --> 02:08:45,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. So yeah, Look, there are moves that were

2609
02:08:45,400 --> 02:08:48,640
Speaker 4: made on Friday that could be more or less impactful

2610
02:08:48,640 --> 02:08:51,440
Speaker 4: based on what happens on Saturday or subsequently. You know,

2611
02:08:51,840 --> 02:08:53,640
Speaker 4: some guy's a good fit, but if you're bringing another

2612
02:08:53,640 --> 02:08:56,000
Speaker 4: player that compliments him even better, then it's or if

2613
02:08:56,040 --> 02:08:58,400
Speaker 4: you don't bring someone in and it's a clash, then

2614
02:08:58,400 --> 02:09:00,760
Speaker 4: then one sign can end up being worse. So it's

2615
02:09:00,760 --> 02:09:02,840
Speaker 4: sometimes it can be difficult to just greade these and

2616
02:09:02,880 --> 02:09:03,680
Speaker 4: a vacuum.

2617
02:09:04,120 --> 02:09:08,520
Speaker 1: You know what I am. I am quite interested to

2618
02:09:08,640 --> 02:09:11,440
Speaker 1: see if there is anything to the Ola Depot deal,

2619
02:09:11,800 --> 02:09:13,600
Speaker 1: and I'm not just like trying to Homer out for

2620
02:09:13,640 --> 02:09:17,680
Speaker 1: the four h five in Oklahoma City here. But you know, Oladipo,

2621
02:09:17,720 --> 02:09:20,400
Speaker 1: when he's been healthy, you know, you start thinking about

2622
02:09:20,440 --> 02:09:23,840
Speaker 1: some of the under the radar signings that have taken

2623
02:09:23,880 --> 02:09:28,560
Speaker 1: place over the last what twenty four hours. I mean,

2624
02:09:28,600 --> 02:09:32,480
Speaker 1: that's that's the one where I look at it and think, oh, okay,

2625
02:09:33,120 --> 02:09:35,760
Speaker 1: all right, I think I think that could be interesting.

2626
02:09:36,000 --> 02:09:36,400
Speaker 2: You know what.

2627
02:09:36,440 --> 02:09:39,640
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you, I was shocked to

2628
02:09:39,680 --> 02:09:42,400
Speaker 1: you know what, kfig that of the moves that have

2629
02:09:42,480 --> 02:09:46,320
Speaker 1: taken place that for some reason, I'm shaking my head at.

2630
02:09:46,480 --> 02:09:48,920
Speaker 1: But then in the same vein, I'm wondering that might

2631
02:09:48,960 --> 02:09:52,720
Speaker 1: be fun next year Kyle Kuzma to Washington. Now, this

2632
02:09:52,760 --> 02:09:55,440
Speaker 1: team isn't gonna play a lick of defense with Jordan

2633
02:09:55,480 --> 02:09:57,240
Speaker 1: Poole and the guy they brought in that was a

2634
02:09:57,280 --> 02:10:01,120
Speaker 1: teammate of wimben Yama. But I'm like kind of scratching

2635
02:10:01,160 --> 02:10:03,640
Speaker 1: my head at that. But we might look back and after,

2636
02:10:04,080 --> 02:10:06,280
Speaker 1: you know, the season, that Kuzma might end up having

2637
02:10:06,280 --> 02:10:08,440
Speaker 1: with as many attempts as he gets, that might end

2638
02:10:08,520 --> 02:10:10,760
Speaker 1: up being a good little under the radar resigning.

2639
02:10:10,800 --> 02:10:11,680
Speaker 2: What about Seth.

2640
02:10:11,520 --> 02:10:14,080
Speaker 1: Curry going back to the Mavericks, Right, the two year

2641
02:10:14,240 --> 02:10:16,320
Speaker 1: deal with that that might end up being a low

2642
02:10:16,440 --> 02:10:21,120
Speaker 1: key good move. So we're gonna talk high profile. Draymond Green,

2643
02:10:21,360 --> 02:10:24,520
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving, We're gonna talk high profile, you know, at

2644
02:10:24,600 --> 02:10:27,960
Speaker 1: least from my perspective seeing the amount of money that

2645
02:10:27,960 --> 02:10:31,080
Speaker 1: Fred van Vliet got. But you know, again, I bring

2646
02:10:31,120 --> 02:10:33,400
Speaker 1: hup that list from last year and to say it's

2647
02:10:33,400 --> 02:10:36,040
Speaker 1: not always gravy, it's not always a home run. But

2648
02:10:36,080 --> 02:10:38,920
Speaker 1: then also some of the under the radar moves are

2649
02:10:39,720 --> 02:10:42,120
Speaker 1: eventually what can end up leading you to.

2650
02:10:41,960 --> 02:10:43,480
Speaker 2: That next level as an NBA team.

2651
02:10:43,520 --> 02:10:45,320
Speaker 4: No doubt it could be a guy that you sign

2652
02:10:45,400 --> 02:10:47,360
Speaker 4: on the eve of training camp that was still sitting

2653
02:10:47,400 --> 02:10:49,080
Speaker 4: on the street that can come and end up making

2654
02:10:49,080 --> 02:10:50,080
Speaker 4: a huge impact for you.

2655
02:10:50,280 --> 02:10:50,880
Speaker 2: I'll look at it.

2656
02:10:50,960 --> 02:10:53,800
Speaker 4: Look from a Lakers standpoint, Dennis Shrewder second time around,

2657
02:10:54,040 --> 02:10:57,240
Speaker 4: couldn't get a contract signed for a vet minimum and

2658
02:10:57,400 --> 02:10:59,680
Speaker 4: had a phenomenal season coming off the bench in a

2659
02:10:59,760 --> 02:11:02,480
Speaker 4: time starting for them, and parlate that into a two year,

2660
02:11:02,600 --> 02:11:04,520
Speaker 4: twenty six million dollar contract with Toronto.

2661
02:11:06,280 --> 02:11:07,240
Speaker 2: It worked.

2662
02:11:07,760 --> 02:11:12,080
Speaker 1: It worked, and by the way, it wasn't something on

2663
02:11:12,120 --> 02:11:15,800
Speaker 1: that morning after he signed that Kevin Figures and if

2664
02:11:15,840 --> 02:11:17,880
Speaker 1: it was Ants or if it was me and Chris Plank.

2665
02:11:18,080 --> 02:11:21,400
Speaker 1: We're sitting here breaking down, going, oh my gosh, did

2666
02:11:21,440 --> 02:11:24,879
Speaker 1: you see that move? That move made all the difference

2667
02:11:25,400 --> 02:11:29,600
Speaker 1: in the world. All right, NBA free agency, nothing new

2668
02:11:29,640 --> 02:11:33,360
Speaker 1: to report this morning, but we do have some very

2669
02:11:34,200 --> 02:11:39,400
Speaker 1: angry people about Kyrie Irvings deal. In fact, yesterday on

2670
02:11:39,560 --> 02:11:45,320
Speaker 1: NBA TV, Ryan McDonough, former GM of the Phoenix Suns,

2671
02:11:45,680 --> 02:11:49,960
Speaker 1: was like many in the NBA world, out of his

2672
02:11:50,120 --> 02:11:53,440
Speaker 1: mind shocked by the three year, one hundred and twenty

2673
02:11:53,480 --> 02:11:55,360
Speaker 1: six million dollar deal that Irvin got.

2674
02:11:55,720 --> 02:11:57,840
Speaker 9: Side of this one Matt from Dennis and Tommy, who

2675
02:11:57,880 --> 02:12:00,560
Speaker 9: I love, I think they are crazy.

2676
02:12:00,040 --> 02:12:03,600
Speaker 5: I think Kyrie IRVINGO.

2677
02:12:03,320 --> 02:12:06,360
Speaker 9: Has been unhappy over the last six years on a

2678
02:12:06,400 --> 02:12:10,520
Speaker 9: winning Cleveland Cavaliers team, a winning Boston Celtics team, and

2679
02:12:10,560 --> 02:12:13,000
Speaker 9: a Brooklyn that super team where he chose to go

2680
02:12:13,240 --> 02:12:16,440
Speaker 9: four years ago today as a free agent with Kevin Durant.

2681
02:12:16,800 --> 02:12:18,400
Speaker 9: So why would you give him this kind of money?

2682
02:12:18,440 --> 02:12:20,520
Speaker 9: Why would you give him a player option in the

2683
02:12:20,560 --> 02:12:23,600
Speaker 9: third year? Forty two million dollars years insane for Kyrie

2684
02:12:23,600 --> 02:12:27,360
Speaker 9: irving combined with a player option. Who are they bidding against?

2685
02:12:27,360 --> 02:12:30,320
Speaker 9: I don't understand this at all. I get it's player empowerment,

2686
02:12:30,560 --> 02:12:32,920
Speaker 9: trying to keep players happy. But if this does not

2687
02:12:33,000 --> 02:12:35,040
Speaker 9: work out for Dallas, they're not going to be able

2688
02:12:35,080 --> 02:12:36,680
Speaker 9: to trade Kyrie Irving. They're going to be stuck with

2689
02:12:36,760 --> 02:12:38,480
Speaker 9: him for the next three years. And it is going

2690
02:12:38,480 --> 02:12:40,320
Speaker 9: to be for three years because I don't think anybody's

2691
02:12:40,360 --> 02:12:42,120
Speaker 9: going to pay him more than forty two million or

2692
02:12:42,160 --> 02:12:45,400
Speaker 9: whatever the number escalates two in his mid thirties. So

2693
02:12:45,840 --> 02:12:48,480
Speaker 9: this is a huge gamble for the Mavericks. I guess

2694
02:12:48,560 --> 02:12:50,560
Speaker 9: maybe it was to fend off the Houston Rockets, if

2695
02:12:50,600 --> 02:12:53,879
Speaker 9: you're worried about that in Dallas, But given Kyrie's history

2696
02:12:54,560 --> 02:12:58,120
Speaker 9: and his marcial nature in general unhappiness with his current situation,

2697
02:12:58,600 --> 02:13:00,720
Speaker 9: I have no idea who the Mavericks were against and

2698
02:13:00,720 --> 02:13:02,800
Speaker 9: why they give him a deal at this level. Three

2699
02:13:02,880 --> 02:13:05,720
Speaker 9: years is fine, but especially the level and the player

2700
02:13:05,760 --> 02:13:08,240
Speaker 9: option in the third year, I don't get it at all.

2701
02:13:09,160 --> 02:13:16,600
Speaker 1: So I would much rather in this free agency period

2702
02:13:17,400 --> 02:13:20,960
Speaker 1: sign a guy like Fred Van Vliet then give Kyrie

2703
02:13:21,000 --> 02:13:27,280
Speaker 1: Irving that kind of deal. But kfig if Mark Cuban

2704
02:13:27,600 --> 02:13:30,520
Speaker 1: has found the keys and it didn't go well down

2705
02:13:30,560 --> 02:13:33,800
Speaker 1: the stretch last year, that was midstream, you're trying to

2706
02:13:34,240 --> 02:13:36,320
Speaker 1: fit things together it just didn't work.

2707
02:13:36,720 --> 02:13:39,600
Speaker 2: It got worse. They had a worse record after the

2708
02:13:39,640 --> 02:13:40,320
Speaker 2: trade than before.

2709
02:13:40,880 --> 02:13:44,440
Speaker 1: But if you can unlock Kyrie, I mean, he was

2710
02:13:45,080 --> 02:13:49,640
Speaker 1: awesome with the Nets. Yeah, before getting traded to the Mavericks,

2711
02:13:49,640 --> 02:13:53,040
Speaker 1: he was awesome. He was awesome with the Celtics at times.

2712
02:13:53,280 --> 02:13:56,800
Speaker 1: But it's just the weirdness is the part that you

2713
02:13:56,920 --> 02:14:02,240
Speaker 1: can't ever quantify or understand. And I didn't mean to

2714
02:14:02,280 --> 02:14:04,400
Speaker 1: bring this up so close to the break because I

2715
02:14:04,440 --> 02:14:06,560
Speaker 1: do want to give plenty of time for Howard Bender.

2716
02:14:06,920 --> 02:14:09,120
Speaker 1: But I'm just in a tough spot right now and

2717
02:14:09,160 --> 02:14:11,840
Speaker 1: trying to figure out the benefits of giving that kind

2718
02:14:11,880 --> 02:14:15,080
Speaker 1: of deal to Kyrie Irving when you just you know,

2719
02:14:15,200 --> 02:14:19,240
Speaker 1: the product on the court when he's right, But kfig, how.

2720
02:14:19,080 --> 02:14:22,320
Speaker 4: Do you keep him right? That's the question. And no

2721
02:14:22,360 --> 02:14:25,520
Speaker 4: one ever questioned his talent or his ability. It's you

2722
02:14:25,560 --> 02:14:27,600
Speaker 4: know what headspace is he in on a given night.

2723
02:14:27,760 --> 02:14:29,840
Speaker 4: You just don't know. You don't know if the guys

2724
02:14:29,840 --> 02:14:31,560
Speaker 4: he's going to up and disappear for three weeks because

2725
02:14:31,600 --> 02:14:33,480
Speaker 4: he says, you know, basketball is not important enough for

2726
02:14:33,480 --> 02:14:34,160
Speaker 4: me to play right.

2727
02:14:34,040 --> 02:14:38,120
Speaker 1: Now, and I do. I do like some of the

2728
02:14:38,200 --> 02:14:41,360
Speaker 1: moves the Mavericks have made so far this offseason, right,

2729
02:14:41,360 --> 02:14:45,000
Speaker 1: you're building around a superstar. Yeah, but this is one

2730
02:14:45,000 --> 02:14:47,720
Speaker 1: that I'm just well right and what they did, but

2731
02:14:47,880 --> 02:14:49,959
Speaker 1: when they traded for him, they kind of back themselves

2732
02:14:49,960 --> 02:14:52,040
Speaker 1: into a corner. They don't have a lot of money

2733
02:14:52,360 --> 02:14:54,440
Speaker 1: outside of having his bird rights to be able to

2734
02:14:54,440 --> 02:14:55,880
Speaker 1: resign them. So it's not like they have a bunch

2735
02:14:55,920 --> 02:14:58,680
Speaker 1: of cap space to sign somebody else. So it's either

2736
02:14:58,840 --> 02:15:01,760
Speaker 1: you let him walk and you were rolling with Luca

2737
02:15:01,880 --> 02:15:04,200
Speaker 1: and Seth Curry or whatever whoever else you can scrounge

2738
02:15:04,280 --> 02:15:07,200
Speaker 1: together with the mid level exception, or because you gave

2739
02:15:07,280 --> 02:15:09,880
Speaker 1: up so many assets for him, you run it back

2740
02:15:09,920 --> 02:15:12,120
Speaker 1: and hope and pray that he's on his best behavior

2741
02:15:12,240 --> 02:15:15,040
Speaker 1: and look even for his even if his individual production

2742
02:15:15,120 --> 02:15:17,320
Speaker 1: has been good at times, I mean I can viverely

2743
02:15:17,360 --> 02:15:20,200
Speaker 1: remember the Celtics made it to the Eastern Conference finals

2744
02:15:20,200 --> 02:15:23,360
Speaker 1: without him. Like there are times where like the teams,

2745
02:15:23,520 --> 02:15:25,560
Speaker 1: the nets at times were better when he wasn't on

2746
02:15:25,600 --> 02:15:28,120
Speaker 1: the floor. It's the people that's the the old quote

2747
02:15:28,200 --> 02:15:30,400
Speaker 1: unquote empty numbers where it's like, yeah, the guy puts

2748
02:15:30,480 --> 02:15:33,080
Speaker 1: up you know, might have thirty points, but for whatever reason,

2749
02:15:33,160 --> 02:15:36,920
Speaker 1: the chemistry is just off and that happened oftentimes with Boston,

2750
02:15:36,960 --> 02:15:39,200
Speaker 1: and that happened a few times with Brooklyn too, So

2751
02:15:39,240 --> 02:15:41,240
Speaker 1: you just wonder and for by the way, from a

2752
02:15:41,240 --> 02:15:43,080
Speaker 1: fit standpoint, I don't know if it's the best fit

2753
02:15:43,160 --> 02:15:44,280
Speaker 1: for Luka Doncik.

2754
02:15:44,320 --> 02:15:47,040
Speaker 4: He doesn't play any defense. Kyrie doesn't play any defense.

2755
02:15:47,080 --> 02:15:49,520
Speaker 4: Neither does Seth Curry. That was the biggest issue, and

2756
02:15:49,640 --> 02:15:52,120
Speaker 4: they didn't really address that. There's still time in the offseason,

2757
02:15:52,160 --> 02:15:55,120
Speaker 4: like we've been talking about, but I really don't know

2758
02:15:55,160 --> 02:15:58,000
Speaker 4: what the what the expectation is for Dallas coming up

2759
02:15:58,040 --> 02:16:00,440
Speaker 4: this season, but there definitely will not be a defensive stalwart.

2760
02:16:00,480 --> 02:16:03,440
Speaker 1: I can tell you that Kyrie sticks with the Mavericks.

2761
02:16:03,440 --> 02:16:06,000
Speaker 1: More NBA news coming up, but when we come back,

2762
02:16:06,440 --> 02:16:10,800
Speaker 1: never too early to talk some NFL. Howard Bender is

2763
02:16:10,840 --> 02:16:15,480
Speaker 1: next on Fox Sports Radio. Man I am pumped to

2764
02:16:15,560 --> 02:16:18,360
Speaker 1: welcome in our next guest from the tire rack dot

2765
02:16:18,360 --> 02:16:22,040
Speaker 1: Com Studios with Kevin Figures on Chris Planks. Say hello

2766
02:16:22,760 --> 02:16:27,600
Speaker 1: to a man who understands fantasy better than anyone. Okay,

2767
02:16:27,600 --> 02:16:31,080
Speaker 1: that's high praise, Howard Bender. Howard Bender joins us here

2768
02:16:31,080 --> 02:16:35,000
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. Listen before we dive into some

2769
02:16:35,040 --> 02:16:37,800
Speaker 1: fantasy football talk and we appreciate you getting up early

2770
02:16:37,840 --> 02:16:39,959
Speaker 1: with us on a Saturday morning. Howard.

2771
02:16:40,400 --> 02:16:42,360
Speaker 2: We were talking about the Isaiah Rogers story.

2772
02:16:42,400 --> 02:16:45,360
Speaker 1: We were talking about the NFL, and I don't know

2773
02:16:45,360 --> 02:16:47,560
Speaker 1: if I'm at that position yet where I say, oh,

2774
02:16:47,600 --> 02:16:50,359
Speaker 1: the NFL has an issue with gambling and its players

2775
02:16:51,280 --> 02:16:54,200
Speaker 1: as much as I think, Hey, the fail safes are

2776
02:16:54,240 --> 02:16:58,080
Speaker 1: there right when guys step awry of the rules, we

2777
02:16:58,160 --> 02:16:58,680
Speaker 1: find out.

2778
02:16:58,760 --> 02:17:00,760
Speaker 2: So, Howard, what's been your take.

2779
02:17:00,560 --> 02:17:02,200
Speaker 1: On I don't want to see this rash, but the

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Speaker 1: latest news involving NFL players in the NFL gambling policy.

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Speaker 3: Well, first off, thank you so much for having me man.

2782
02:17:09,480 --> 02:17:13,000
Speaker 3: I really appreciate you guys having me on today. I'll

2783
02:17:13,040 --> 02:17:16,000
Speaker 3: tell you my stance about this is one of the

2784
02:17:16,040 --> 02:17:20,840
Speaker 3: more unpopular stances because I feel like the NFL needs

2785
02:17:20,879 --> 02:17:24,879
Speaker 3: to really set a precedent right now, and the suspensions

2786
02:17:24,879 --> 02:17:27,760
Speaker 3: that are happening are a must. I think that you

2787
02:17:27,959 --> 02:17:33,120
Speaker 3: need to really hammer this home that professional athletes should

2788
02:17:33,160 --> 02:17:37,480
Speaker 3: not be betting on sports, especially their sport. I mean,

2789
02:17:37,959 --> 02:17:41,279
Speaker 3: you know things like, you know, they shouldn't be gambling,

2790
02:17:41,280 --> 02:17:44,720
Speaker 3: they shouldn't be placing bets through their phone inside the

2791
02:17:44,800 --> 02:17:48,000
Speaker 3: team facility, everything like that. The biggest issue that we

2792
02:17:48,080 --> 02:17:52,320
Speaker 3: have with legalizing gambling around sports and throughout all the

2793
02:17:52,360 --> 02:17:57,240
Speaker 3: States is the fact that nobody wants point shaving scandals

2794
02:17:57,400 --> 02:18:01,680
Speaker 3: or the suspect the immediate cla that, oh, something happened

2795
02:18:01,680 --> 02:18:03,240
Speaker 3: in this game and the points spread. I mean, how

2796
02:18:03,280 --> 02:18:05,280
Speaker 3: many times do you see a point spread come down

2797
02:18:05,520 --> 02:18:08,039
Speaker 3: to the very end and it's a missfield goal and

2798
02:18:08,360 --> 02:18:11,120
Speaker 3: people start blaming other people about the way the play

2799
02:18:11,160 --> 02:18:14,800
Speaker 3: calling was and you know, it's the appearance of impropriety.

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02:18:15,000 --> 02:18:17,840
Speaker 3: So my feeling about it is is, listen, if you're

2801
02:18:17,879 --> 02:18:21,360
Speaker 3: a professional athlete, if you don't have a friend with

2802
02:18:21,440 --> 02:18:25,320
Speaker 3: a burner account somewhere someplace, you don't have to have

2803
02:18:25,520 --> 02:18:29,200
Speaker 3: your name attached to it, be smart about it and

2804
02:18:29,360 --> 02:18:33,440
Speaker 3: don't sit there and start placing bets yourself through your

2805
02:18:33,480 --> 02:18:37,400
Speaker 3: team facility, through your your your team's Wi Fi everything

2806
02:18:37,520 --> 02:18:40,240
Speaker 3: like that. I personally think that you just you need

2807
02:18:40,320 --> 02:18:43,280
Speaker 3: to ban it. If you're signing a professional contract to

2808
02:18:43,360 --> 02:18:47,119
Speaker 3: play sports, you should not be betting. And that's just that's

2809
02:18:47,160 --> 02:18:49,280
Speaker 3: just the way it goes. And you know, I'm sorry

2810
02:18:49,280 --> 02:18:51,280
Speaker 3: if you think that that takes the fun out of it.

2811
02:18:51,360 --> 02:18:54,080
Speaker 3: And somebody who you know plays football wants to bet

2812
02:18:54,120 --> 02:18:57,040
Speaker 3: on a baseball game. It's just the way it goes.

2813
02:18:57,080 --> 02:18:59,720
Speaker 3: And you have to set a really tough precedent right

2814
02:18:59,840 --> 02:19:02,960
Speaker 3: now now in order to make sure that you don't

2815
02:19:03,000 --> 02:19:04,720
Speaker 3: have issues down the road.

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02:19:05,959 --> 02:19:09,959
Speaker 1: In certain industries if you want to work in that industry.

2817
02:19:10,440 --> 02:19:14,800
Speaker 1: There's things that might be legal or are acceptable that Howard,

2818
02:19:14,800 --> 02:19:17,800
Speaker 1: you just can't do. And I'm not saying listen, if

2819
02:19:17,879 --> 02:19:21,400
Speaker 1: I could, I would, But in my line of work,

2820
02:19:21,520 --> 02:19:24,120
Speaker 1: I'm not Fox Sports Radio. But with one of my

2821
02:19:24,480 --> 02:19:27,400
Speaker 1: side gigs, if I start gambling on college football, I'm

2822
02:19:27,520 --> 02:19:29,280
Speaker 1: risking that and I don't want to risk that. And

2823
02:19:29,280 --> 02:19:33,160
Speaker 1: I'll never understand, especially with what Isaiah Rodgers was wagering. Man,

2824
02:19:33,200 --> 02:19:35,959
Speaker 1: we're not talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars. We're

2825
02:19:36,000 --> 02:19:37,720
Speaker 1: talking like twenty five, thirty five dollars.

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02:19:37,720 --> 02:19:43,720
Speaker 3: Bats Gibblin. It's mine numbing. It really is my numbing.

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02:19:43,760 --> 02:19:47,400
Speaker 3: You know, you've got this absolute gift, and you've got

2828
02:19:47,400 --> 02:19:51,280
Speaker 3: an NFL contract and you're playing professional sports. To piss

2829
02:19:51,320 --> 02:19:55,320
Speaker 3: it away for something like that, I find it so inane.

2830
02:19:55,840 --> 02:19:58,840
Speaker 2: Preach. All right, Well, it's interesting week.

2831
02:19:59,080 --> 02:20:02,279
Speaker 1: I think whenever you're trying to figure out there's obviously

2832
02:20:02,320 --> 02:20:06,520
Speaker 1: some dynasty drafts that are going on. Your focus has

2833
02:20:06,560 --> 02:20:09,200
Speaker 1: always been on fantasy, but I think you cover every

2834
02:20:09,200 --> 02:20:11,520
Speaker 1: sport so well, Howard, But I do want to focus

2835
02:20:11,560 --> 02:20:14,440
Speaker 1: on football here. Are you surprised that we haven't seen

2836
02:20:14,520 --> 02:20:18,400
Speaker 1: a landing spot for either DeAndre Hopkins or Dalvin Cook yet?

2837
02:20:18,440 --> 02:20:20,800
Speaker 1: And are those guys that you think are going to

2838
02:20:20,840 --> 02:20:23,320
Speaker 1: make an impact wherever they end up or are Again

2839
02:20:23,360 --> 02:20:25,199
Speaker 1: I'm piling on a lot here in this one question.

2840
02:20:25,440 --> 02:20:28,119
Speaker 1: Will it be very situational based on where they end up.

2841
02:20:30,080 --> 02:20:32,640
Speaker 3: I'm more surprised that we haven't found a home yet

2842
02:20:32,640 --> 02:20:35,879
Speaker 3: for DeAndre Hopkins, And there does seem to be something

2843
02:20:36,520 --> 02:20:40,959
Speaker 3: underlying that I find incredibly difficult to understand. Maybe it

2844
02:20:41,040 --> 02:20:42,840
Speaker 3: was the fact that he put out the demands that

2845
02:20:42,920 --> 02:20:46,360
Speaker 3: he wanted to play with an elite quarterback, But I mean,

2846
02:20:46,400 --> 02:20:49,840
Speaker 3: I genuinely thought that Cleveland and reuniting him with Deshaun

2847
02:20:49,879 --> 02:20:52,480
Speaker 3: Watson was going to be a great landing spot for him,

2848
02:20:52,720 --> 02:20:56,440
Speaker 3: but that didn't happen so far. It sounds like, you know,

2849
02:20:56,560 --> 02:20:59,560
Speaker 3: New England was looking at ten to thirteen million for

2850
02:20:59,720 --> 02:21:01,840
Speaker 3: a year, year long deal for him, but then they

2851
02:21:01,840 --> 02:21:04,320
Speaker 3: turn around and they and they signed Devonte Parker to

2852
02:21:04,400 --> 02:21:07,560
Speaker 3: a three year, thirty three million dollar deal. So I

2853
02:21:07,640 --> 02:21:10,640
Speaker 3: find it very weird that that DeAndre Hopkins hasn't found

2854
02:21:10,640 --> 02:21:13,680
Speaker 3: a home. He will. It's just a matter of where.

2855
02:21:13,879 --> 02:21:17,000
Speaker 3: Dear Lord, please don't let it be Tennessee. But let's

2856
02:21:17,000 --> 02:21:19,240
Speaker 3: put it out. Let's get him somewhere where he's going

2857
02:21:19,320 --> 02:21:22,840
Speaker 3: to be, you know, a featured ex receiver, and we're

2858
02:21:22,879 --> 02:21:26,320
Speaker 3: happy about that. Dalvin Cook, on the other hand, he's

2859
02:21:26,320 --> 02:21:29,199
Speaker 3: still coming off of another you know, clean out procedure

2860
02:21:29,240 --> 02:21:31,320
Speaker 3: of his shoulder, and I think it's you know, with

2861
02:21:31,400 --> 02:21:34,680
Speaker 3: the way that running backs tend to get banged up,

2862
02:21:34,760 --> 02:21:37,680
Speaker 3: I think it's okay for him to take his time

2863
02:21:37,760 --> 02:21:41,039
Speaker 3: a little bit more and see what happens when training

2864
02:21:41,120 --> 02:21:44,840
Speaker 3: camp starts and see if anybody really gets banged up

2865
02:21:44,920 --> 02:21:47,720
Speaker 3: or injured the landing spot. Right now, it sounds like

2866
02:21:47,840 --> 02:21:51,360
Speaker 3: Miami is the favorite, which as a Jets fan, that

2867
02:21:51,400 --> 02:21:54,560
Speaker 3: would upset me to no end because I personally, I

2868
02:21:54,840 --> 02:21:57,119
Speaker 3: don't think I don't have much confidence in breist Hall

2869
02:21:57,200 --> 02:21:59,920
Speaker 3: coming back from this torn acl. I was like, why

2870
02:22:00,040 --> 02:22:02,320
Speaker 3: why don't we just give Dalvin Cook a one year deal.

2871
02:22:02,800 --> 02:22:05,840
Speaker 3: E's Brees Hall back in and let Breese Hall, you know,

2872
02:22:05,959 --> 02:22:09,200
Speaker 3: come back second half of the season much stronger and

2873
02:22:09,240 --> 02:22:12,800
Speaker 3: then be the guy for the future. I think that's

2874
02:22:13,320 --> 02:22:16,240
Speaker 3: a you know, to me, it's a big landing spot

2875
02:22:16,720 --> 02:22:18,760
Speaker 3: for Dalvin Cook. I think it's going to be a

2876
02:22:18,800 --> 02:22:21,720
Speaker 3: matter of who wants him the most, who's going to

2877
02:22:21,800 --> 02:22:24,280
Speaker 3: pay him the most, and so far right now, it

2878
02:22:24,360 --> 02:22:26,440
Speaker 3: sounds like Miami is his landing spot.

2879
02:22:26,840 --> 02:22:29,400
Speaker 1: Howard, it sounds like you're a believer in what the

2880
02:22:29,480 --> 02:22:31,520
Speaker 1: Jets can be this year. I know, as you mentioned

2881
02:22:31,560 --> 02:22:34,480
Speaker 1: as someone who roots for him, but in the moves

2882
02:22:34,480 --> 02:22:37,720
Speaker 1: that they've made out Aaron Rodgers obviously, but what they

2883
02:22:37,720 --> 02:22:41,840
Speaker 1: did in the draft too, that AFC East is suddenly

2884
02:22:42,480 --> 02:22:44,400
Speaker 1: like what we thought the AFC West was going to

2885
02:22:44,440 --> 02:22:47,520
Speaker 1: be last year. And I don't know if Buffalo is

2886
02:22:47,560 --> 02:22:49,960
Speaker 1: to the east what the Chiefs are to the west.

2887
02:22:50,040 --> 02:22:51,840
Speaker 2: I feel like that's going to be wide open in

2888
02:22:51,879 --> 02:22:52,720
Speaker 2: the AFC East.

2889
02:22:53,440 --> 02:22:55,760
Speaker 3: I think it's definitely gonna be wide open. We're gonna

2890
02:22:55,760 --> 02:22:58,320
Speaker 3: say we've already seen some cracks in the armor for

2891
02:22:58,360 --> 02:23:02,120
Speaker 3: the Buffalo Bills, tension on offense, step on Diggs not

2892
02:23:02,200 --> 02:23:04,560
Speaker 3: getting the ball as much as he wants. They really

2893
02:23:04,600 --> 02:23:08,520
Speaker 3: don't have a complimentary receiver to help kind of alleviate

2894
02:23:08,560 --> 02:23:10,800
Speaker 3: some of the coverage. Gabriel Davis is not the guy

2895
02:23:10,840 --> 02:23:14,119
Speaker 3: to do that. So you look at Miami, you say,

2896
02:23:14,160 --> 02:23:17,560
Speaker 3: if to a stay is completely healthy, this team is insane,

2897
02:23:17,680 --> 02:23:20,680
Speaker 3: especially if they grab Dalvin Cook. You never want to

2898
02:23:20,720 --> 02:23:24,360
Speaker 3: discount the Patriots because well that's just you. You can't

2899
02:23:24,400 --> 02:23:27,280
Speaker 3: go against Bill Belichick. And now it's Bill O'Brien. There

2900
02:23:27,360 --> 02:23:30,480
Speaker 3: is the OC. So you know, you always worry they

2901
02:23:30,480 --> 02:23:33,640
Speaker 3: don't have the personnel that jumps off the page to you.

2902
02:23:33,680 --> 02:23:37,279
Speaker 3: But somehow Bill always seems to manage to get it done.

2903
02:23:37,440 --> 02:23:40,240
Speaker 3: And then you've got the Jets and the Aaron Rodgers saga,

2904
02:23:40,280 --> 02:23:43,720
Speaker 3: and how's he gonna gel with the new players on

2905
02:23:43,760 --> 02:23:47,080
Speaker 3: the team. You're giving him the comfort factor of Nathaniel

2906
02:23:47,160 --> 02:23:50,080
Speaker 3: Hackett and you know, rerunning that Green Bay offense that

2907
02:23:50,200 --> 02:23:54,600
Speaker 3: they did together. So you know, yeah, again it's a

2908
02:23:54,640 --> 02:23:57,879
Speaker 3: matter of just if all things stay healthy. In the

2909
02:23:57,920 --> 02:24:01,560
Speaker 3: AFC East, this is going to be one heck of

2910
02:24:01,600 --> 02:24:05,080
Speaker 3: a battle for supremacy. And I think that the fact

2911
02:24:05,120 --> 02:24:09,040
Speaker 3: that it makes it so tight inside the division with

2912
02:24:09,200 --> 02:24:11,760
Speaker 3: these guys just beating each other up, you know, then

2913
02:24:11,800 --> 02:24:14,280
Speaker 3: you wonder, you know, is somebody going to miss out

2914
02:24:14,280 --> 02:24:17,720
Speaker 3: on a wild card because this division is so stacked.

2915
02:24:18,280 --> 02:24:20,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, I know I'm keeping you long, Howard, but

2916
02:24:21,480 --> 02:24:24,920
Speaker 1: you tweeted about Miles Sanders, and obviously I think great

2917
02:24:25,000 --> 02:24:28,080
Speaker 1: landing spot. When we start thinking about value picks, if

2918
02:24:28,120 --> 02:24:29,520
Speaker 1: you keep talking about him, it's not going to be

2919
02:24:29,520 --> 02:24:32,039
Speaker 1: a value pick. We'll go in the first round. What

2920
02:24:32,080 --> 02:24:34,200
Speaker 1: do you make of Miles Sanders in his fit and

2921
02:24:34,320 --> 02:24:36,240
Speaker 1: is he a guy maybe along with the Tim Patrick

2922
02:24:36,240 --> 02:24:38,480
Speaker 1: out of Denver that you could look at and say, hey,

2923
02:24:38,520 --> 02:24:40,160
Speaker 1: these are dudes that you might be able to get

2924
02:24:40,200 --> 02:24:42,520
Speaker 1: a little bit later that can make your fantasy football

2925
02:24:42,520 --> 02:24:43,240
Speaker 1: team elite.

2926
02:24:43,640 --> 02:24:45,880
Speaker 3: Well, I like how you snuff Denver in there, the

2927
02:24:46,879 --> 02:24:51,120
Speaker 3: whole Sean Peyton Joe Lombardi situation, those guys coming back.

2928
02:24:51,360 --> 02:24:54,240
Speaker 3: I'm actually bullish on Courtland Sutton as the extra receiver

2929
02:24:54,360 --> 02:24:57,240
Speaker 3: because we all know what Joe Lombardi's offense does to

2930
02:24:57,400 --> 02:25:00,640
Speaker 3: the extraceiver. We saw it with Mike Williams, we saw

2931
02:25:00,640 --> 02:25:04,840
Speaker 3: it with Michael Thomas. So I'm very intrigued on that

2932
02:25:04,920 --> 02:25:08,520
Speaker 3: situation over there Miles Sanders. I mean, listen, he's going

2933
02:25:08,560 --> 02:25:11,400
Speaker 3: to a team that doesn't have a great offensive line.

2934
02:25:11,440 --> 02:25:14,200
Speaker 3: But the whole tweet and the player profile that was

2935
02:25:14,200 --> 02:25:17,600
Speaker 3: written by Andrew Cooper over at Fantasy Alarm dot Com

2936
02:25:18,080 --> 02:25:21,120
Speaker 3: focuses on the fact, and they showed a video of

2937
02:25:21,200 --> 02:25:27,760
Speaker 3: a meeting between Miles Sanders, Frank Reich, and Tom Brown,

2938
02:25:27,879 --> 02:25:31,080
Speaker 3: the offensive coordinator, and they basically turned around. They were like,

2939
02:25:31,280 --> 02:25:34,959
Speaker 3: you know, in Philly, you caught like fifty passes. That's

2940
02:25:35,160 --> 02:25:38,200
Speaker 3: something that we want. We want to bring that back.

2941
02:25:38,240 --> 02:25:41,560
Speaker 3: So when you've got a young qv like Bryce Young, yeah,

2942
02:25:41,600 --> 02:25:44,039
Speaker 3: you want him to get nice and used to the offense.

2943
02:25:44,080 --> 02:25:47,360
Speaker 3: You want him feeling comfortable throwing it downfield. But you

2944
02:25:47,440 --> 02:25:51,320
Speaker 3: also want him comfortable understanding that there's nothing no harm

2945
02:25:51,320 --> 02:25:54,400
Speaker 3: in a checkdown. And so if you've got Miles Sanders

2946
02:25:54,400 --> 02:25:57,000
Speaker 3: over there in the flat, just dump it off to him.

2947
02:25:57,360 --> 02:26:01,000
Speaker 3: You'll put the ball into your playmaker's hands. Let them

2948
02:26:01,120 --> 02:26:03,760
Speaker 3: do the work. That's what's gonna make you a great

2949
02:26:03,840 --> 02:26:08,000
Speaker 3: quarterback down the road. So I think that mcmiles Sanders,

2950
02:26:08,000 --> 02:26:11,320
Speaker 3: with an increase in RPO work, with an increase in

2951
02:26:11,440 --> 02:26:14,400
Speaker 3: passes out to the flat and check downs, I think

2952
02:26:14,440 --> 02:26:18,320
Speaker 3: that he definitely could turn around and give you a

2953
02:26:18,440 --> 02:26:21,400
Speaker 3: much better season, or at least an equivalent season to

2954
02:26:21,480 --> 02:26:23,720
Speaker 3: what he did last year. I mean his touchdown count

2955
02:26:23,800 --> 02:26:26,840
Speaker 3: last year was on point twelve hundred yards. I thought

2956
02:26:26,840 --> 02:26:29,880
Speaker 3: that was fantastic. So if you're going to increase his

2957
02:26:30,160 --> 02:26:33,760
Speaker 3: ability to catch passes, well, I mean put that down

2958
02:26:33,760 --> 02:26:35,240
Speaker 3: in PPR rankings for you.

2959
02:26:35,760 --> 02:26:39,680
Speaker 1: Love it, Howard Bender, Thank you so much for the time. Man.

2960
02:26:39,760 --> 02:26:42,240
Speaker 1: Always appreciate whenever I get a chance to catch you

2961
02:26:42,640 --> 02:26:43,560
Speaker 1: on the introwebs.

2962
02:26:43,600 --> 02:26:45,039
Speaker 2: And we'll have to do this again soon.

2963
02:26:45,600 --> 02:26:47,840
Speaker 3: Oh Eddy times. Thanks you so much again for having

2964
02:26:47,840 --> 02:26:51,359
Speaker 3: me really appreciate you. Guys. Let me shout out Fantasylarm

2965
02:26:51,400 --> 02:26:52,119
Speaker 3: dot com.

2966
02:26:51,879 --> 02:26:56,400
Speaker 1: To you fantasylarm dot com at fantasy Alarm on Twitter,

2967
02:26:56,440 --> 02:26:58,959
Speaker 1: and of course you can follow Howard there too at

2968
02:26:59,080 --> 02:27:01,160
Speaker 1: Rodo Buzz. All right, if we come to you live

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02:27:01,200 --> 02:27:04,119
Speaker 1: from the Tirack dot com studios, running a little bit behind,

2970
02:27:04,160 --> 02:27:06,520
Speaker 1: but hey, I had a chance to talk to Howard Bender.

2971
02:27:06,640 --> 02:27:09,160
Speaker 1: So ladies and gentlemen, Kevin Figures is in the house

2972
02:27:09,360 --> 02:27:11,240
Speaker 1: getting us caught up on everything going on in the

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Speaker 1: world of sports.

2974
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Speaker 2: What's up, k fig Yeah?

2975
02:27:12,959 --> 02:27:15,119
Speaker 4: The big time deals from Friday night in NBA's free

2976
02:27:15,160 --> 02:27:18,120
Speaker 4: agency period as it officially got under way, the Pacers

2977
02:27:18,160 --> 02:27:21,240
Speaker 4: signing guard Tyres Halliburton to a five year extension worth

2978
02:27:21,240 --> 02:27:23,840
Speaker 4: about two hundred and sixty million dollars. They also inked

2979
02:27:23,920 --> 02:27:26,440
Speaker 4: Bruce Brown to a two year contract. Has been making

2980
02:27:26,440 --> 02:27:28,520
Speaker 4: a five year extension for two hundred and seven million

2981
02:27:28,560 --> 02:27:31,760
Speaker 4: dollars with the Memphis Grizzlies. Kyrie Irving will returned to

2982
02:27:31,800 --> 02:27:33,640
Speaker 4: Dallas on a three year, one hundred and twenty six

2983
02:27:33,680 --> 02:27:37,000
Speaker 4: million dollar contract. Jaymond Green four year deal to return

2984
02:27:37,080 --> 02:27:39,520
Speaker 4: to Golden State. Fred Van Vliet on his way to

2985
02:27:39,600 --> 02:27:42,000
Speaker 4: Houston for three years and one hundred and thirty million.

2986
02:27:42,240 --> 02:27:44,520
Speaker 4: Chris Middleton resigns with the Bucks on a three year

2987
02:27:44,560 --> 02:27:46,560
Speaker 4: deal four years and one hundred and two million dollars.

2988
02:27:46,560 --> 02:27:49,960
Speaker 4: For Kyle Kuzma to remain in Washington, the Lakers sign

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Speaker 4: gave Vincent to a three year contract. They also re

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02:27:52,640 --> 02:27:55,680
Speaker 4: signed Rui Hachimura. In Major League Baseball, On Friday night,

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02:27:55,760 --> 02:27:58,120
Speaker 4: the Rays beat the Mariners fifteen to four. They had

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Speaker 4: an eight run eighth inning. Elsewhere hit his thirtieth home

2993
02:28:01,600 --> 02:28:04,080
Speaker 4: run of the season, but it wasn't enough. Arizona beat

2994
02:28:04,080 --> 02:28:06,240
Speaker 4: the Angels six to two to snap a two game skid.

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02:28:06,360 --> 02:28:08,520
Speaker 4: Two home runs form Mookie Betts leave the Dodgers over

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02:28:08,600 --> 02:28:11,360
Speaker 4: Kansas City Houston a victory over the Rangers five to three.

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02:28:11,640 --> 02:28:14,480
Speaker 4: The Braves hit six home runs, including two from Matt Olsen,

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02:28:14,760 --> 02:28:17,879
Speaker 4: in a sixteen to four drubbing of the Marlins. Back

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Speaker 4: to Chris plaink K, can we fit in this Otani

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Speaker 4: talk here real quick? Be sure I have to get

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Speaker 4: out of here all right?

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Speaker 1: This week I mentioned I nerded out over NBA podcasts,

3003
02:28:28,360 --> 02:28:32,840
Speaker 1: right NBA content, But I did catch this from Jeff Passon.

3004
02:28:32,920 --> 02:28:35,760
Speaker 1: He was on with He was on with Ryan Rosillo

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Speaker 1: on The Ringer Podcast, and again today another massive day

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Speaker 1: in the world of show Hey Otani doing Show Heyo

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02:28:44,400 --> 02:28:47,320
Speaker 1: Tani things right. Hit the longest home run of the

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02:28:47,320 --> 02:28:51,560
Speaker 1: season in Baseball longest home runs HiT's twenty fifteen for

3009
02:28:51,640 --> 02:28:56,160
Speaker 1: the Angels. In fact, Show Hey home run two Hawks,

3010
02:28:56,440 --> 02:28:59,480
Speaker 1: two scored runs. Mike Chroud goes two for four, but

3011
02:28:59,560 --> 02:29:04,360
Speaker 1: the angel lose six to two. The Angels are the

3012
02:29:04,360 --> 02:29:06,480
Speaker 1: playoff mix right now. They're only a couple games out

3013
02:29:06,520 --> 02:29:09,840
Speaker 1: of the wild Card. But we inevitably when we talk

3014
02:29:09,879 --> 02:29:12,720
Speaker 1: about show Hey talk about where he lands, where he

3015
02:29:12,840 --> 02:29:16,400
Speaker 1: ends up. Found this interesting from Jeff Passing about the

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02:29:16,440 --> 02:29:18,560
Speaker 1: possibility that maybe he stays with the Angel.

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Speaker 10: We talk about the money, we talk about the winning.

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02:29:23,040 --> 02:29:25,959
Speaker 10: I think those are two very important things. What we

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02:29:26,480 --> 02:29:28,959
Speaker 10: don't appreciate as much as we should, I think is

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02:29:28,959 --> 02:29:32,840
Speaker 10: the comfort Shoho. Tani has a lot of comfort with

3021
02:29:32,920 --> 02:29:37,200
Speaker 10: the Los Angeles Angels because that's been the platform for

3022
02:29:37,280 --> 02:29:39,520
Speaker 10: him to go out and do what he does. They

3023
02:29:39,520 --> 02:29:43,039
Speaker 10: have found what works. It took a few years, it

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02:29:43,080 --> 02:29:46,240
Speaker 10: took a Tommy John surgery, but they've figured out how

3025
02:29:46,240 --> 02:29:50,519
Speaker 10: to get on this schedule, and how this entire ecosystem

3026
02:29:50,600 --> 02:29:55,040
Speaker 10: around him almost moves to the side to playkate what

3027
02:29:55,160 --> 02:29:58,280
Speaker 10: he needs to let him be at his very best.

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02:29:58,640 --> 02:30:01,600
Speaker 10: And it's like, look, when we switch jobs, and that's

3029
02:30:01,680 --> 02:30:04,680
Speaker 10: essentially what moving teams is. Switching jobs. You're doing the

3030
02:30:04,680 --> 02:30:06,920
Speaker 10: same thing, but you're doing it for a new company.

3031
02:30:07,080 --> 02:30:10,040
Speaker 10: When we switch jobs, we never know if there's going

3032
02:30:10,080 --> 02:30:15,560
Speaker 10: to be an HR person who's a or a coworker

3033
02:30:15,959 --> 02:30:19,920
Speaker 10: who gives us grief, or a boss who's much more

3034
02:30:20,000 --> 02:30:23,360
Speaker 10: stringent than the previous one we had, And those are

3035
02:30:23,400 --> 02:30:26,440
Speaker 10: all risks that we're taking by jumping to another place.

3036
02:30:26,480 --> 02:30:30,400
Speaker 10: Otani knows exactly what he's going to get in Anaheim.

3037
02:30:30,879 --> 02:30:33,800
Speaker 10: And if you've spent the last three years looking like

3038
02:30:33,840 --> 02:30:36,440
Speaker 10: the best player in the history of the game, do

3039
02:30:36,480 --> 02:30:39,560
Speaker 10: you really want to take the risk in chasing these

3040
02:30:39,600 --> 02:30:42,280
Speaker 10: other things, whether it's money, whether it's winning, whatever it is,

3041
02:30:42,720 --> 02:30:45,320
Speaker 10: that you're going to lose that comfort you had and

3042
02:30:45,360 --> 02:30:47,039
Speaker 10: that routine that you'd established.

3043
02:30:48,760 --> 02:30:52,280
Speaker 1: Any you buying what Jeff Passon is selling, maybe the

3044
02:30:52,400 --> 02:30:57,320
Speaker 1: comfort of every situation that's laid out for him every

3045
02:30:58,640 --> 02:30:59,959
Speaker 1: I almost set help.

3046
02:30:59,800 --> 02:31:00,440
Speaker 2: That he's getting.

3047
02:31:00,440 --> 02:31:02,360
Speaker 1: But it's not like Oughtani needs help, but just you

3048
02:31:02,400 --> 02:31:06,279
Speaker 1: know what I mean, he's getting a high level of comfort.

3049
02:31:06,640 --> 02:31:11,959
Speaker 1: Could that factor in to maybe show hey staying with

3050
02:31:12,040 --> 02:31:12,680
Speaker 1: the Angels.

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02:31:13,240 --> 02:31:16,640
Speaker 4: No, not in the least bit. When you're talking about

3052
02:31:16,640 --> 02:31:18,520
Speaker 4: being courted out. Look, if you're being courted by a

3053
02:31:18,560 --> 02:31:21,640
Speaker 4: franchise like the Mets, who are going out and throwing

3054
02:31:21,680 --> 02:31:24,800
Speaker 4: money left and right and clearly are pretty rudderless at

3055
02:31:24,800 --> 02:31:27,280
Speaker 4: this point in time, then sure. But if you're talking

3056
02:31:27,280 --> 02:31:31,200
Speaker 4: about stable organizations like say the Dodgers, who have been

3057
02:31:31,320 --> 02:31:33,520
Speaker 4: had a consistent winner for the last ten years, who

3058
02:31:33,520 --> 02:31:36,600
Speaker 4: have a phenomenal ownership group, a great front office, a

3059
02:31:37,840 --> 02:31:39,960
Speaker 4: history of success, and knowing how to run a major

3060
02:31:40,000 --> 02:31:43,080
Speaker 4: league franchise, they're willing to bring you into their program,

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02:31:43,120 --> 02:31:45,240
Speaker 4: which you know works. Throw all the money in the

3062
02:31:45,240 --> 02:31:47,680
Speaker 4: world at you, and give you the opportunity to be

3063
02:31:47,680 --> 02:31:50,160
Speaker 4: able to win. I mean, that's something the Angels haven't

3064
02:31:50,160 --> 02:31:52,800
Speaker 4: been able to do, and he has no The person

3065
02:31:52,840 --> 02:31:54,959
Speaker 4: he can talk to is right across the locker room

3066
02:31:54,959 --> 02:31:56,960
Speaker 4: with him, by Mike Trout. Because you can say that

3067
02:31:57,000 --> 02:32:00,520
Speaker 4: about Mike. He signed a couple of extensions with the Angels. Yeah,

3068
02:32:00,560 --> 02:32:04,120
Speaker 4: he's comfortable. He's not winning anything. And after he and

3069
02:32:04,160 --> 02:32:05,880
Speaker 4: show a tiny faced off from the final of the

3070
02:32:05,920 --> 02:32:08,600
Speaker 4: World Baseball Classic, what did both of them say? This

3071
02:32:08,760 --> 02:32:11,920
Speaker 4: is the best I felt in years. I mean, I'm

3072
02:32:11,959 --> 02:32:15,119
Speaker 4: actually competing for something that felt important, the most important

3073
02:32:15,120 --> 02:32:18,160
Speaker 4: baseball I've ever I've played in in my major league career.

3074
02:32:18,680 --> 02:32:21,680
Speaker 4: Which is sad that you have arguably two of the

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02:32:21,680 --> 02:32:23,920
Speaker 4: top five players in the not in the history maybe

3076
02:32:23,959 --> 02:32:26,400
Speaker 4: the history of the sports show. Maybe, Yeah, playing on

3077
02:32:26,440 --> 02:32:29,320
Speaker 4: the same team and yet playing against each other in

3078
02:32:29,360 --> 02:32:32,720
Speaker 4: the WBC, of all things, is the biggest professional baseball

3079
02:32:32,720 --> 02:32:35,240
Speaker 4: they've played against each other they've played in their careers.

3080
02:32:35,720 --> 02:32:36,240
Speaker 2: That's sad.

3081
02:32:36,760 --> 02:32:39,880
Speaker 4: So I understand what Jeff Passon is saying, but I

3082
02:32:39,920 --> 02:32:41,640
Speaker 4: just don't necessarily agree with it.

3083
02:32:41,800 --> 02:32:45,560
Speaker 2: No, k Fig spitting facts.

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02:32:45,680 --> 02:32:49,320
Speaker 1: Quick Break will put a right on this edition of

3085
02:32:49,360 --> 02:32:52,720
Speaker 1: the fellas with what's on tap for a Saturday next

3086
02:32:53,080 --> 02:33:01,960
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. Clear the dock.

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, come up, ba, oh yeah, come up. Carlos

3088
02:33:07,879 --> 02:33:09,680
Speaker 8: Santana has won the game.

3089
02:33:10,640 --> 02:33:15,520
Speaker 7: Praise the Tully Roger his knights, but no daughter. He

3090
02:33:15,680 --> 02:33:21,800
Speaker 7: pauses around third, looks toward the sky, dances toward the plate.

3091
02:33:22,560 --> 02:33:26,560
Speaker 7: Carlos Santana a home run.

3092
02:33:26,879 --> 02:33:28,240
Speaker 8: To win this game.

3093
02:33:29,520 --> 02:33:33,440
Speaker 1: That's the progressive play of the day. The Pirates come

3094
02:33:33,520 --> 02:33:37,600
Speaker 1: back to get that dub yesterday. See what did I

3095
02:33:37,720 --> 02:33:40,160
Speaker 1: get a final score to that yet? By the way,

3096
02:33:40,200 --> 02:33:44,680
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh sneaky fun team they beat They beat the Brewers

3097
02:33:44,720 --> 02:33:49,160
Speaker 1: eight to seven and walk off fashion and oh, by

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Speaker 2: All right, Kfig.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned it's a little bit light on live sporting

3104
02:34:10,600 --> 02:34:14,760
Speaker 1: events today, but here's here's a couple of things that might,

3105
02:34:15,320 --> 02:34:21,040
Speaker 1: I don't know, intrigue you. Okay, The Rocket Mortgage Classic

3106
02:34:21,280 --> 02:34:22,400
Speaker 1: starts at noon for.

3107
02:34:22,360 --> 02:34:23,320
Speaker 2: The PGA Tour.

3108
02:34:24,320 --> 02:34:30,240
Speaker 1: Anything on the Rocket Mortgage Classic doing anything for you

3109
02:34:31,400 --> 02:34:33,560
Speaker 1: not really, No, yeah, I mean neither. In fact, I

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02:34:33,560 --> 02:34:35,840
Speaker 1: couldn't even tell you right now. I'm to try to

3111
02:34:35,879 --> 02:34:38,840
Speaker 1: Google up and find the leader board. But yeah, Rocket

3112
02:34:38,879 --> 02:34:42,840
Speaker 1: Mortgage Classic, Oh, Fowlers up there back. But oh and

3113
02:34:43,120 --> 02:34:45,680
Speaker 1: you have the dude that had the crazy spiked tair. Yes,

3114
02:34:46,520 --> 02:34:51,959
Speaker 1: this afternoon at four o'clock, you get a chance to

3115
02:34:52,000 --> 02:34:56,720
Speaker 1: see history in NASCAR as the Infinity Series will run

3116
02:34:56,760 --> 02:35:01,280
Speaker 1: the first ever race on the chic Haigo Street Course.

3117
02:35:01,800 --> 02:35:04,959
Speaker 1: It's a two point two mile course through the streets

3118
02:35:05,000 --> 02:35:07,880
Speaker 1: of Chicago adjacent.

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Speaker 2: To Lake Michigan. That's interesting, that's different.

3120
02:35:11,760 --> 02:35:15,879
Speaker 1: I think the Infinity Race will be fun because it'll

3121
02:35:15,920 --> 02:35:19,080
Speaker 1: be our first chance to unless you watch NASCAR practice

3122
02:35:19,080 --> 02:35:21,160
Speaker 1: like I do when you're a crazy person, but it'll

3123
02:35:21,200 --> 02:35:24,040
Speaker 1: be your first chance in a competitive situation to see

3124
02:35:24,080 --> 02:35:26,720
Speaker 1: how these cars are going to handle the streets of Chicago,

3125
02:35:26,760 --> 02:35:30,640
Speaker 1: which literally was a twenty four hour or less overhaul.

3126
02:35:31,040 --> 02:35:32,960
Speaker 2: So you've got that is NASCAR practice.

3127
02:35:32,959 --> 02:35:35,800
Speaker 4: The equivalent of watching like training camp practices in the NFL.

3128
02:35:35,920 --> 02:35:36,600
Speaker 2: Is that what I think it.

3129
02:35:36,879 --> 02:35:38,119
Speaker 1: Honestly, I think it's worse.

3130
02:35:38,560 --> 02:35:40,000
Speaker 2: It's worse because I do do that.

3131
02:35:40,240 --> 02:35:43,920
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, at least with training camp practice

3132
02:35:44,000 --> 02:35:48,200
Speaker 1: and things of that nature. It's you know, you at

3133
02:35:48,280 --> 02:35:51,360
Speaker 1: least can speculate on the players, and if you're watching

3134
02:35:51,440 --> 02:35:54,920
Speaker 1: NASCAR practice, you got issues. So welcome to my world.

3135
02:35:55,320 --> 02:36:00,400
Speaker 1: Baseball today on FS one Yankees and Cardinals. Now they

3136
02:36:00,400 --> 02:36:02,920
Speaker 1: got rained out yesterday, they did, but they'll try to

3137
02:36:02,920 --> 02:36:08,720
Speaker 1: give it a go today. And really, honestly, it's it's

3138
02:36:08,879 --> 02:36:12,800
Speaker 1: kind of about it. I mean, Strickland versus mcgammadov tonight,

3139
02:36:13,840 --> 02:36:19,120
Speaker 1: UFC Fight Night, that's on ESPN, USFL playoffs, are you

3140
02:36:19,280 --> 02:36:24,400
Speaker 1: in a prime time on NBC? The Maulers versus the Stallions,

3141
02:36:24,720 --> 02:36:29,920
Speaker 1: that's Pittsburgh versus Birmingham. Is the USFL doing anything for

3142
02:36:30,000 --> 02:36:30,800
Speaker 1: Kevin Figures?

3143
02:36:31,040 --> 02:36:32,440
Speaker 2: I didn't know what was still going on.

3144
02:36:34,240 --> 02:36:36,360
Speaker 1: I did not either. As a matter of fact, I

3145
02:36:36,440 --> 02:36:39,840
Speaker 1: was reading a story from Pro Football Talk during the

3146
02:36:39,840 --> 02:36:44,760
Speaker 1: break about the USFL and the competition they've had with

3147
02:36:44,800 --> 02:36:48,120
Speaker 1: the XFL and TV ratings, and I'm just like, what

3148
02:36:48,760 --> 02:36:51,800
Speaker 1: you fighting over dessert? I mean, it's not like they're

3149
02:36:52,040 --> 02:36:55,760
Speaker 1: it's not like you got a massive number. So with that,

3150
02:36:56,600 --> 02:36:59,400
Speaker 1: not a ton going on today. But that's why you

3151
02:36:59,400 --> 02:37:01,160
Speaker 1: need to keep it right here on Fox Sports Radio

3152
02:37:01,200 --> 02:37:04,160
Speaker 1: because I feel like there might not be a lot

3153
02:37:04,160 --> 02:37:06,800
Speaker 1: of live sporting events, but Kink, I feel like we're

3154
02:37:06,800 --> 02:37:08,560
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of news on the NBA. It's

3155
02:37:08,560 --> 02:37:11,080
Speaker 1: not gonna be your massive names. But something has to

3156
02:37:11,160 --> 02:37:12,879
Speaker 1: happen with James Harden here today.

3157
02:37:12,959 --> 02:37:15,680
Speaker 4: Eventually, I'd keep my eye on the other free agent

3158
02:37:15,720 --> 02:37:19,160
Speaker 4: ticker more than any of the USFL action. No offense

3159
02:37:19,200 --> 02:37:23,880
Speaker 4: to the Birmingham What are theyse again, Stallions? Stallions? Excuse me?

3160
02:37:23,959 --> 02:37:26,720
Speaker 4: Right right, yeah, I'm keeping my keep him my feet

3161
02:37:26,720 --> 02:37:29,640
Speaker 4: at tun into sham Sharania and Woes and those characters

3162
02:37:30,040 --> 02:37:31,640
Speaker 4: more so than watching the USFL.

3163
02:37:31,760 --> 02:37:32,640
Speaker 2: Sorry, k Kate.

3164
02:37:32,560 --> 02:37:36,520
Speaker 1: Fiko, all is said and done. Do you anticipate James

3165
02:37:36,560 --> 02:37:38,600
Speaker 1: Harden being a Clipper? Whenever you and I get a

3166
02:37:38,720 --> 02:37:42,000
Speaker 1: chance to sit here next Saturday morning from four A

3167
02:37:42,200 --> 02:37:45,800
Speaker 1: to eight A Central Standard time, God's time zone, do

3168
02:37:45,959 --> 02:37:49,960
Speaker 1: you anticipate that we'll be talking about James Harden as

3169
02:37:50,000 --> 02:37:50,440
Speaker 1: a Clipper?

3170
02:37:50,600 --> 02:37:50,800
Speaker 3: I do.

3171
02:37:52,360 --> 02:37:54,960
Speaker 4: He's gotten the endorsement from Kawhi Leonard and Paul George.

3172
02:37:55,000 --> 02:37:57,520
Speaker 4: According to reports, those two guys, by the way, have

3173
02:37:57,640 --> 02:38:00,640
Speaker 4: opted out to their contracts after next season. James Harden

3174
02:38:00,680 --> 02:38:03,000
Speaker 4: will be your free agent after next season. The experiment

3175
02:38:03,040 --> 02:38:04,960
Speaker 4: hasn't worked to this point, so if you're the Clippers,

3176
02:38:05,280 --> 02:38:07,440
Speaker 4: take one last big swing and see what you can do.