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Speaker 2: You know Team USA is already practicing, and my worst

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Speaker 2: nightmares have already been realized. We're gonna put that for

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Speaker 2: first thing I'm gonna do on this Sunday night, July seventh,

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Speaker 2: is welcome back to my patna A from Salam.

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Speaker 1: It's been a couple of weeks. How are we doing tonight,

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Speaker 1: of Mary? I'm good man. How you doing. I'm fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're refreshed and ready.

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Speaker 2: I think we got like, uh, seven weeks till football

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Speaker 2: or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Eight weeks, maybe got to carry for eight weeks.

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Speaker 2: Come on, man, put it on your back and and

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Speaker 2: uh and keep on trucking. I'm gonna start off tonight

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Speaker 2: with a question that I know there's an answer to.

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Speaker 2: I don't even need to ask you if there's an answer.

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Speaker 2: I know there's an answer. What's that thing that your

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Speaker 2: parents once upon a time told you they knew all along,

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Speaker 2: the thing that you thought you were hiding from them,

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Speaker 2: And then when you become an adult, they're like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we knew, we knew you were lying, or we knew

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Speaker 2: you were doing that all along.

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Speaker 3: What was that thing for you?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, come on, right, one thing? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: How many do you want to pick from?

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Speaker 1: I mean, we could go categories, but I'll just give

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Speaker 1: an easy one. I used to be an habitual cookie sneaker. Okay,

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Speaker 1: a cookie sneaker, a cookie sneaker, and I just thought

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Speaker 1: I just knew. I just knew that no one would

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Speaker 1: know these cookies. W wasn't missing, nobody knew, nobody knew.

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Speaker 2: Mama always knows exactly what's in that kitchen.

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Speaker 1: I mean, hell, I'm not a mom. I know what's

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Speaker 1: in my kitchen. As an adult, you look and be like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, how stupid? Was exactly because my kids

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Speaker 1: are now stupid and they are doing this thing, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just like I can hear them in the kitchen,

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Speaker 1: and they tried, they try to do it while we're

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Speaker 1: still up. That's how dumb I are. At least I

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Speaker 2: I was a big baseball fan. I used to hide

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Speaker 2: a transistor radio underneath my pillow and listen to late

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Speaker 2: night baseball games. And I was dumb enough to think

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Speaker 2: mom and dad didn't know. You want to talk about

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Speaker 2: what food? I would sneak. My mom is one of

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Speaker 2: these also, that's like you can't open up a new

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Speaker 2: this until that's already gone.

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Speaker 3: So everything like we kept track of everything.

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Speaker 2: And you know how young boys are, like they just

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Speaker 2: eat constantly, none eat in the NonStop. And so whenever

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Speaker 2: I got the hey mom, can I have a snack,

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Speaker 2: and she'd be like, don't ruin your dinner. We're having

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Speaker 2: dinner in thirty five minutes. And you know what a

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Speaker 2: little boys think, and a little boy's thinking, thirty five minutes,

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Speaker 2: eat two meals.

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Speaker 1: By the birthday will be here before thirty five minutes

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Speaker 2: I used to go in there and sneak out whatever

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Speaker 2: kind of meat was in the fridge, lunch meat, didn't matter,

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Speaker 2: just start grab it and go. And my dad loved

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Speaker 2: to film things. He was kind of a videographer of sorts.

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Speaker 2: And one time he set up a camera on a

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Speaker 2: it was just sitting by itself across the room. Everybody

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Speaker 2: when he reviewed it later, there's me two three times

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Speaker 2: leading right up to dinner, running over to the fridge,

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Speaker 2: just in case somebody would see me sneaking like turkey

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Speaker 2: breast or ham or salami or something like that. The

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Speaker 2: parents know, they always know, all right, So why am

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Speaker 2: I asking this? My Gotti from its twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 2: I feel like in the age of technology, people have

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Speaker 2: things are going on. So I think it's high time

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Speaker 2: that we the parents explain to Lebron his family and

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Speaker 2: his team, no matter which team it is in any

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Speaker 2: given year, it's time for us to explain to him

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Speaker 2: that we know. We know that he's running the team.

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Speaker 2: We know that he's making the moves. He's been doing

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Speaker 2: this for twenty years, two decades now. Why this is

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Speaker 2: my only question? Why does everybody still feel the need

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Speaker 2: through this Charelle. We think he's a phenomenal young player,

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Speaker 2: and that's exactly who we wanted the whole time.

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Speaker 1: We never even love. Why are we doing this?

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Speaker 3: Why just say it? It's fine. We all know we've

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Speaker 3: been getting used to this for two decades. Now, just

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Speaker 2: Pick the dude, because it's Lebron's son, and that's cool.

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Speaker 3: So we did it. Why can't we say that What

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Speaker 3: would happen if we just said.

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Speaker 1: That, I think you know, you know what, I honestly

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Speaker 1: I would feel bad. As a fan, I would feel

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Speaker 1: better about that. Thank you. I would be like, straight up,

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Speaker 1: I get it, Okay, I get it right, cool boom,

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Speaker 1: I get it. But everybody wants to give the illusion

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Speaker 1: of being taken serious. That's what it is. So as

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Speaker 1: a GM, as an owner, you want to give the

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Speaker 1: illusion of being taken serious. So you don't readily admit

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Speaker 1: when you're doing something that may not benefit your team,

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Speaker 1: but just because like the fact that when they gave

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Speaker 1: Kobe his last deal that wasn't to benefit the team all.

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Speaker 1: It made the team impossible to have a winning team,

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Speaker 1: but it was for Kobe, and they were like, wait, man,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Five championships, thank you. Take this with you, right,

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Speaker 1: So look, it is what it is. You know, Kobe

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Speaker 1: didn't say, hey, I'm gonna give some of his money

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Speaker 1: say that he wanted his money, so he got his money.

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Speaker 1: So look, I don't even fault the Lakers for that.

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I mean, how could you. I'm a Kobe fan,

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Speaker 1: I'm a Kobe guy, So I get it. I get

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Speaker 1: the respect of it. Coming from a sport where there

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Speaker 1: is no loyalty, I understand that. Right. Well, day, San

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Speaker 1: Francisco didn't want Jerry Rice anymore. Huh right, Like it's

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Speaker 1: it's like, wait, what the Dallas Cowboys didn't want Emmitt

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Speaker 1: Right, the New England Patriots didn't want Tom Brady anymore.

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Speaker 1: So I'm okay with it. Re sign him for two years,

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Speaker 1: bring his son in. His son is not overly talented,

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Speaker 1: but hopefully he can develop into something. But yeah, you

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Speaker 1: said a couple of years ago, you want to you

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Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, play with your son. Yep, we

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Speaker 1: want you still here in the franchise. So we'll draft

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Speaker 1: your son with our fifty fifth pick in the draft.

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Speaker 1: There's only fifty eight picks in the draft. So and

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Speaker 1: for all and for all those out there screaming, bloody murder,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, bloody murdered. That's kind of what I'm even

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Speaker 2: getting at. Like the silly thing is the charade. You know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you were watching the draft live.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how many people watch the secondft right, Well, no,

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Speaker 2: it's a terrible draft and nobody's heard of anybody, and

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Speaker 2: so there's just absolutely a complete disconnect. I mean, yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 2: And the second round was even funnier. It felt like

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Speaker 2: a soap opera. It was on in the middle of

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Speaker 2: the day, in the middle of the week. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I don't even know what's going on here. Only reason

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Speaker 2: I'm seeing it is because I host a show during

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Speaker 2: those hours and it's on in the studio in the background.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, my god, this is the oddest sporting event

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Speaker 2: war room. Only one time did we go to the

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Speaker 2: war room. I'll let you guess which team it was.

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Speaker 2: And the build up as we go fifty two, fifty three,

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Speaker 2: and what there they are. There's Pulinky's on the phone.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who he's talking because here's the real

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Speaker 2: Nobody else is.

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Speaker 1: Calling that young man. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Was that Lebron on the other line? I don't know,

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Speaker 2: was it his other son? I have no clue what's

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Speaker 2: going on. And then after the fifty fourth pick has made,

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Speaker 2: the phone and eight people stand up and start clapping

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Speaker 2: as if they just pulled one over on everybody when

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Speaker 2: nobody else even considered picking the young man, and Bob

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Speaker 2: Myers is on TV reporting that Clutch Sports is calling

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Speaker 2: all the other teams and telling them do not pick

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Speaker 2: Bronnie James, which was also a charade because nobody else

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Speaker 2: wanted to pick Bronnie James. None of this is to

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Speaker 2: make fun of Bronnie James. It's to make fun of

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Speaker 2: the charade. I don't understand it. I truly come from

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Speaker 2: a space right now. I don't get why we have

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Speaker 2: to do this. I don't understand why Lebron still needs

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Speaker 2: to answer questions the way that he does now.

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Speaker 3: Just look at people and go because I'm Lebron.

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Speaker 1: That's why.

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Speaker 2: I like, That's how it sat with people when he

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Speaker 2: did the decision. Everyone's like, who's this guy? Well, that's Lebron,

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Speaker 2: that's who. So just that's why I'm I'm Lebron and

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Speaker 2: we're doing this. Like I it's odd, but I'd accept

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Speaker 2: that more than more than the ridiculous quotes that are

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Speaker 2: kid in a way that I actually find very uncomfortable

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Speaker 2: for his own success.

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Speaker 1: Look, man, the man has earned it. Okay, he's got

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Speaker 1: more points than anybody. He's got four championship, brought a

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Speaker 1: championship to the Lakers. So yeah, I'm his son is

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Speaker 1: a prospect like everybody else from uh thirty eight to

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Speaker 1: fifty eight, they're all prospects. If Yannis can have his brother,

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Speaker 1: brother with the night his own Nike deal, then yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think Lebron James has earned the right to have

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Speaker 1: the Lakers use their fifty fifth pick on his son,

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Speaker 1: who's a prospect. So I don't get what the man

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Speaker 1: somebody else could have had that? Who? What what are

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Speaker 1: we talking about? Yeah? Where the where? Yeah, only fifty

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Speaker 1: eight players got draft. Only fifty eight players are coming

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Speaker 1: in to the NBA on the draft, and I would

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Speaker 1: guess that probably two thirds of those guys won't you know,

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Speaker 1: play enough to to make a difference. It's this year. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I think your number is low. But yeah, I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's no big Oh, I can't believe Yeah, whatever,

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Speaker 1: trust me. If I'm if I have a chance to

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Speaker 1: get come on, you want to talk about fatherhood. It's

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Speaker 1: at its finest. Yeah, who's not doing that? That's the

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Speaker 1: other thing. Everybody if they had the opportunity to.

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Speaker 2: Nepotism, it's I know, people get so outraged, Oh, nepotism.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, I mean, I'm sorry, who's running the Lakers?

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Speaker 1: Who's running the Lakers?

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Speaker 2: From the Lakers? The name sounds familiar to me. The

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Speaker 2: whole thing like nepotism. People are outraged by it. But

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Speaker 2: you know, like I know, when my son last summer

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Speaker 2: wanted his first job, you know who picked up the

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Speaker 2: phone first?

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Speaker 3: I did, of.

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Speaker 2: Course, not him, and and and you can criticize that,

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Speaker 2: but like, that's that's life, that's relationships. You'll leverage the

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Speaker 2: things that are presented to you. I've got no issues

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Speaker 2: with the Lebron effort.

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Speaker 1: People just understand.

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Speaker 2: I don't understand why we have to act like this

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Speaker 2: isn't what it is.

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Speaker 1: Let me drop this one and then we can go

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Speaker 7: those finishes the last two weeks would have been worth

433
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Speaker 7: over eight hundred thousand dollars if he had only been

434
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Speaker 7: a pro golfer.

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Speaker 1: Oh, goss back to you.

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00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 3: That's so golf of them.

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Speaker 2: Yes, everything that you just said, Like the sport of

438
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 2: golf is so interesting, like it sort of plays winners outs,

439
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 2: You know what I mean by this, Like the wors

440
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 2: Your shot is the harder, the next one is the better.

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00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 3: Your shot is the easier, the next.

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Speaker 2: One is so Steve, when you just mentioned that three

443
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 2: way tie, and it goes to the player who's the best,

444
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 2: like it.

445
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: Should go the other way around.

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00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 2: Give it to the guy who needs it, right, not

447
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 2: the guy who's already high in the world rankings and

448
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 2: already has a bunch of money.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So we had two out of the three where

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00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 7: college golfers, and they are not going to the British Open.

451
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 7: On top of that, of course amateurs cannot collect from this.

452
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Speaker 3: Or they don't get any money.

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00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 2: Well, if they got an experience, how about you go

454
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 2: to Live next year. Then go to Live next year

455
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 2: and everything will be fine. All right, Steve, great great stuff,

456
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 2: as always appreciate it. We'll talk to you in an hour.

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Speaker 2: Mark willard E from Salam Live in the tairaq dot

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Speaker 2: com studios.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I got more Lakers questions? How about this one?

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00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 1: Uh? Do you buy that Ronnie James has knee swelling today?

461
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: Oh my god, No, it's too much. Man. Look I

462
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: don't know what it is, whether I buy it or not.

463
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: I think it's not a good look. I think he

464
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: should be out there playing as much basketball this summer

465
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 1: as possible. This is the only way for him he'll

466
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: be comfortable and locked into what He's not playing against

467
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: any NBA talent right now, so he should really be

468
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: out there killing.

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00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 2: And we've only I'm not going to be small sample

470
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 2: sized Steve over here, and I don't mean Steve de Seger,

471
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 2: but one game, so only one game.

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Speaker 1: But he was not, as you said, killing it no, Look,

473
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: he should be like, look, okay, Boom got the jitters

474
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: out out there in the Lakers uniform. You know, had

475
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: a good drive, had a nice little move on a jumper.

476
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: But now it's about consistency. It's about you know, working

477
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: on your defense. It's about getting yourself ready to go

478
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: to training camp and to actually make a roster and

479
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: fight for it. So yeah, I want to play. Yeah,

480
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: my knee's fine. All right, there's things come on, man

481
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: Nie swelling.

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Speaker 2: Nice swelling after what was it two for nine, missed

483
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 2: both of his free.

484
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: Throws miss twenty minutes or someone, yeah, miss both.

485
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 2: Of his three point attempts, got cooked on defense a

486
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 2: couple of times, tripped when someone gave him a little

487
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 2: shimmy set crossover again. And this that we're doing right

488
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 2: now from is the part about this story that I

489
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 2: actually hate the most, and I wish it wasn't gonna

490
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 2: come out sounding like I know it sounds, but the

491
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 2: bottom line is is going to sound like people are

492
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 2: taking shots at Bronnie James and not wanting him to

493
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Speaker 2: succeed and all the hater raid stuff, And I've got.

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Speaker 3: None of that in my heart.

495
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Speaker 2: What I had all along was a curiosity about whether

496
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Speaker 2: or not this was the best thing for Bronnie. The

497
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 2: weirdest part about this story is that Lebron for two years.

498
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Speaker 3: Has been talking about playing with.

499
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Speaker 2: His son, but I never really heard his son talk

500
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 2: about playing with his dad number one, number two, And

501
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 2: I know he's addressed it here and there, but he

502
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 2: never expressed that as a dream. And he couldn't because

503
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 2: it's like, you got to earn your way supposedly.

504
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 3: Into the NBA.

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00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 2: But if a kid is not ready, is it best

506
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 2: for him? I know he gets a four year guaranteed contract.

507
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 2: Is that what's best for his development? Or was this

508
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 2: just what's best for Lebron's dream? And after watching him

509
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 2: play one time, that's an even bigger question than it

510
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 2: already was.

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Speaker 1: I mean, would have been best for his career? Let's

512
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: take college off the table, all right, Like if he

513
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: would have gone back to college and went to a

514
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: real program, not a school, but a program, I think

515
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: it would have helped with his development in terms of

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00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: a player. Would it have helped his chances of getting draft?

517
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure, because he may have found himself

518
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: having to be there for two more years opposed to

519
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: just one more. Now he's a pro, he's in the league.

520
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: Is this best for him? Would have been best for

521
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: him is for him to go to Miami. That's what

522
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: it would have been best for him, because Miami develops

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00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: young talent. They have a knack for taking guys who

524
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: are undrafted late round draft picks and developing them into

525
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: actual basketball players who can contribute. Golden State. Another stop

526
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: that would have been best for him, maybe the Sacramento Kings.

527
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: Like there are different spots that would have been best,

528
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: are better for him to develop as a player, the

529
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: Lakers not being one of them, because the Lakers really

530
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: don't develop young talent. There's some one officer and stuff

531
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: in there, but for a large part, all of the

532
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: Lakers young talent became All Stars for other teams. Julius Randall,

533
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: ingram A, Lonzo Ball, like Josh Hart. The list goes

534
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: on and on and on, Evita Zubat, all of the

535
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: the Lakers had all of these young players, they did

536
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: not develop them because they want to win. Now, the

537
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 1: Lakers don't strike me as an organization that brings in

538
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: young talent and develops them and gets them ready to play. Yeah,

539
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: and it's my team, So I know. I know this.

540
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 2: The biggest question I have about all of this, the

541
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 2: biggest question of all I haven't even asked yet, because

542
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 2: there's a hole in the whole theory that's being created, which.

543
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: I want to ask. Coming up next.

544
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 2: Also top of the hour, I got a hot take

545
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 2: about Team USA and Olympic basketball, So we'll get to

546
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 2: all of that with Ipram Salam.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mark Weather. This is Fox Sports Radio.

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551
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Speaker 2: Right with Efram Salam, Markweather Live tyrack dot com studios. Yeah,

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00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 2: coming up in ten minutes. I got something to say

554
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 2: about Team USA that I freely admit is maybe a

555
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 2: little off, maybe a little off putting, maybe a little unpopular,

556
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 2: but it's how I feel, so I have to say it.

557
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 2: We'll do that coming up here at six Pacific in

558
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 2: nine Eastern. But do you know what question I still

559
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 2: have about Lebron and Bronni is this, Well, Okay, they're

560
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 2: gonna make history, they're gonna play together, and then the

561
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 2: Lakers are like, we're gonna spend the year in.

562
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: The G League? Well, which is it?

563
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 2: It's as if they're guaranteeing something that they're also not

564
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 2: guaranteeing is going to happen. And I would forecast the

565
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 2: likelihood of them doing it in a way that feels

566
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 2: even a little bit purposeful or organic.

567
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 3: Is very low.

568
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 2: So the likelihood is, how does Bronny get onto the

569
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:39,479
Speaker 2: Laker roster?

570
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 3: Okay?

571
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: Imagine that? Now, how does he get into the game? Okay,

572
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:48,240
Speaker 2: imagine that? Now? Is it only during garbage time? Okay,

573
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 2: let's imagine that. Are we actually going to get what

574
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 2: I think is being pitched to us, which is this

575
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 2: cool thing of a father and a son playing in

576
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 2: the same jersey on the same team that's trying to

577
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 2: win a basketball game. In other words, how do they

578
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 2: do this without it being a clear sideshow.

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00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you this. What we've seen in the

580
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 1: NBA is every team, at some point they're going to

581
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: put people in a basketball game that we've never seen before. Yeah,

582
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:44,760
Speaker 1: the Lakers. I'm a Laker fan, and they were putting

583
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: people in the game and I was like, who is

584
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: that and where did he come from? Yeah, it's the

585
00:36:53,120 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: nature of the game in terms of health. So there'll

586
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 1: be times where he's called up from the G League

587
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: team and he'll be on the active roster and he'll

588
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: get a chance to play. Will he play meaningful minutes?

589
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: Probably not, But he'll get a chance to play, just

590
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 1: like every year since the D League, G League, since

591
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: that whole thing has was created.

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00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 2: Well, you're not wrong, However, you're making it sound like

593
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 2: all the G leaguers always come up, Oh no, no

594
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:42,720
Speaker 2: for a year, right, And what happens in most NBA

595
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 2: games when the G leaguers are inserted, usually the future

596
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:53,240
Speaker 2: Hall of famers are watching, usually, of course. So again,

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00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 2: I still I'm failing to see how in the next

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00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 2: year or two, if he plays that long. I'm failing

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00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 2: to see at least the likelihood of this happening in

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Speaker 2: such a way where it actually is supposed to happen,

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00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It's not like, here's the

602
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 2: comparison I feel. Remember when Strahan broke the sack record, Yes, okay,

603
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 2: did you feel like that was organic?

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00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: Okay?

605
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 2: So Brett Favre takes a step to his right and

606
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 2: falls over. Michael breathes on him, and he's got the

607
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 2: sack record and the whole world went, well, you did

608
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 2: that on purpose, and it doesn't feel as good.

609
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 3: Same thing is probably gonna happen here, so it's like.

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00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:46,399
Speaker 2: Oh, what a moment, Well not really, not really, Like

611
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 2: Niagara Falls is not as beautiful as Yosemite Falls.

612
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: One of them's real and the other one we made.

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00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 2: So that's all I'm getting at. That's all I'm getting at.

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00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 2: This is gonna be a man made, feel good moment.

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00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:06,879
Speaker 1: That's all.

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00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,919
Speaker 2: As long as long as as long as you're cool

617
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 2: with that, then we're cool with that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what what what is the option? Of course

619
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: we have to be cool with it. It's gonna be

620
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: what it's gonna be. Man, it's something that's never happened.

621
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Speaker 1: Lebron James seems to specialize in doing things that have

622
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: never been done before, So why not this one? And

623
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: to be honest, why not this one? Yeah? Man? Thousand points?

624
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 1: No one will ever ever score that many points?

625
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 3: Right, No, it's it's not offensive.

626
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 2: I just want it to be presented as it made

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00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 2: My whole point this hour.

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00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 3: Present this as what it.

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00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,280
Speaker 1: Is, as what it is. Right, It's not being presented

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00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: as what it is.

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Speaker 2: It's being presented as the basketball version of Ken Griffy

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Speaker 2: and Ken Griffy Jr.

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Speaker 1: Right, And it is flatly not that. No I mean

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Speaker 1: at all. I mean, in no way, shape or form,

635
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: could le Bronni eclipse his father in terms of talent

636
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: and abilities. It's just not. I mean, Lebron's a one

637
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: of one, So it just it is what it is,

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00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: all right. Coming up next, I got something to say

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Speaker 1: about Team USA that.

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Speaker 3: You might not like. It's around the corner.

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Speaker 2: was talking about two months ago on my show in

651
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 2: the Bay Area. I got ripped for this. I have

652
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 2: no problem with that. That comes with the territory. But

653
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 2: here's the headline from NBC Sports locally in the Bay Area.

654
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 2: Quote Steph Curry addressed a bloody hand injury. He appeared

655
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 2: to sustain during today's Team USA scrimmage. Now, I haven't

656
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:41,280
Speaker 2: even read what Steph said. My bet is, ah, bloody hand.

657
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 2: I'm a tough guy. We're fine, I'm a professional. Everybody relaxed,

658
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 2: and my answer will be now, I am not going

659
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 2: to relax. Here's my take a from and I'm sorry

660
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 2: if this sounds unpatriotic.

661
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:05,439
Speaker 3: I hate it with a capital H when the.

662
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 2: Best players on my favorite team play for TMUSA. Can't

663
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 2: stand it. Sorry, can't stand it. You know where I

664
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 2: want those guys in July. Bubble wrapped Barca loungers, swimming pools, whatever,

665
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 2: golf courses, all good. That's where I like to see

666
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 2: my favorite players in the offseason.

667
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 3: I know it's not realistic.

668
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,760
Speaker 2: I know that they've got all of their career goals

669
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 2: and it is probably one of the few things that

670
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 2: he doesn't have on his resume that he wants on there.

671
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 2: And so this is not a criticism. This is simply

672
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 2: me explaining an emotion to you. I can't stand it

673
00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 2: that Steph Curry, in his now late thirties or at

674
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 2: least past thirty five, can't stand it that as he

675
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 2: finally gets a summer away from playoff basketball that he

676
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 2: is now using that to go play for Team USA,

677
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 2: And I just hope that all of the bones and

678
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 2: the ligaments are all attached when they get on the

679
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 2: other side of France.

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00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: Look, I get it, I understand that. And when Lebron

681
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: and ad were like, we're going, I was like, oh,

682
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: But on the flip side of that, I want the

683
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: best players to go because we know how close the

684
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: world is in terms of talent, and we know what

685
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: happens if we don't send our best over there. If

686
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: we send guys who are showing up to not play

687
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: defense or to you know, score a bunch of points

688
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: with no party in France, right like, then we're going

689
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: through be in trouble. Yes, So I want the best

690
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: that we have to offer, because the best at the

691
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: NBA has to offer. The top twenty I would say

692
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: ten of them, maybe even more, are playing for their

693
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: respective countries, which isn't the United States. So yeah, it

694
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: would be nice for them to be you know, hanging out,

695
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: just working out, enjoying some sun, banana, bolton, whatever it

696
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: is that they want to do in the off season.

697
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: But the realization of we need them to play is

698
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: more prevalent than ever right now.

699
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't disagree with that. Here here's the question

700
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 2: i'd ask you. Let's say, let's go back to when

701
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 2: the Lakers came out of the play in tournament and

702
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 2: they were facing the Denver Nuggets and it was game

703
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 2: one of the playoffs. What matters to you more game

704
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 2: one of their first round series.

705
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: Or the gold medal? Uh? The game one? I mean,

706
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: it's just you know.

707
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 2: Well, there you go, well, there you go, and a

708
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 2: like again, I don't want this to be some sort

709
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 2: of conversation about about patriotism because your country and however

710
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 2: you're feeling at a divisive political time and all all

711
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: of these things that go into this, to me, doesn't

712
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 2: really have a whole lot to do with the Olympic Games.

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00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: That's sport. I think it's wonderful. Will I watch? Yes?

714
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:04,720
Speaker 1: Will I be on the edge of my seat?

715
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 3: Not really? Like, let's be real. What you're saying is correct.

716
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 2: We have reached a time where America is not guaranteed

717
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 2: gold in basketball. You've got to bring your best and

718
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 2: if they don't, and if they end up with the

719
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 2: bronze medal, I will get over it.

720
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 1: In three two one scene that makes sense.

721
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry if I'm sorry if somebody doesn't like that,

722
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 2: But I get old reality of it.

723
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 1: That's the reality, man, That is the reality of the

724
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: situation where if we don't win gold, you will be like, man,

725
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: they tripping. Man, I can't believe they went over there

726
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: and did that. Man, who can't wait till the season start.

727
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 3: Right, I can't believe they did that?

728
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: Now, what do you want for dinner? Right? Yeah? I mean,

729
00:46:55,920 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 1: it's be embarrassing, It'll be sure, seriously embarrassing, But embarrassing

730
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:03,319
Speaker 1: stuff happens in sports all.

731
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 3: The time, all the time, you know what I mean

732
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 3: all the time.

733
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 2: Like there'll be an NFL team that's one in fourteen

734
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 2: and then they'll beat somebody who's like trying to go

735
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 2: to the playoffs, and like that's embarrassing.

736
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: All right, who we got next week? You know? I mean,

737
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 1: that's I don't know.

738
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 2: So I wondered, especially with a couple of Lakers and

739
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 2: one of them not being so young.

740
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:34,240
Speaker 1: And the other one I was very brittle.

741
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 2: Right, Like, I wondered how you felt about it, because

742
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 2: quite frankly, ever since I've never ever and.

743
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:45,879
Speaker 3: He wasn't even on a team that I knew much

744
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 3: about her that I followed or anything like that.

745
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 2: But ever since Paul George had leg bones going opposite

746
00:47:52,320 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 2: direction in the FOBA tournament, I'm like, I'm out. I'm

747
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 2: out on the best players on the team. I root

748
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 2: for playing like I get it. Put the USA on

749
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 2: your chest. I bet it feels amazing. And I bet

750
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 2: if you win a gold medal you'll cry. And I

751
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,359
Speaker 2: want that for you, but not as much as I

752
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,399
Speaker 2: want you to play in the playoffs next year.

753
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: That's just me. I'm just being real. Yeah, and and

754
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: and it's okay, just so you know more, it's okay

755
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: to feel like that, all right, But I need us

756
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: to show up and show out at these Olympics. I

757
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: hope so, because it's you know, it's getting real scary

758
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:50,280
Speaker 1: when you're MVP voting the top three. None of them

759
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: have a US peport. They do not wear Rookie of

760
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:01,240
Speaker 1: the Rookie of the Year also doesn't have a US passport.

761
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 1: They have work VISUS. So uh yeah, it's a little like,

762
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: come on, guys, let's re establish our dominance in something.

763
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 2: Well actually, so let me rewinding back up a little bit.

764
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:24,840
Speaker 2: If they don't win gold, is it actually embarrassing, Yes,

765
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 2: very much.

766
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:29,479
Speaker 3: Why why. I mean, the world has shown that they're

767
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 3: right there.

768
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're not there. Right there is not there, Okay,

769
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 1: right there is not there.

770
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

771
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 1: So yeah, that that that's a huge embarrassment. I mean

772
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:49,240
Speaker 1: it's happened before. Yes, it has happened before multiple times.

773
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: And uh it Kobe Bryant, well right right, it was.

774
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 3: It was gonna happen again if they didn't all follow

775
00:49:59,520 --> 00:49:59,879
Speaker 3: him too.

776
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:04,320
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's why I don't like when young guys

777
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,359
Speaker 1: go over there and they got all the talent and

778
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:10,359
Speaker 1: a lot of energy, and they don't they don't keep

779
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: their eyes on the prize. Right. A lot of distractions, right,

780
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: A lot of world literally worldly distractions at the Olympics,

781
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 1: and it's just you know, getting caught up in the

782
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: pageantry of the Olympics and watching your other American athletes

783
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 1: perform and all of that. You know, it's intoxicating, and

784
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: you sometimes figure, oh, we're the best in the world.

785
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: We can go out here and just show up and

786
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: it's just gonna go our way, and the world is like,

787
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 1: we can't wait to get our hands on them. You know,

788
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting. As Steve said it in the

789
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 1: update last hour. The US and Canada's friendly on Wednesday

790
00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: and exhibition that's going to be in just interesting because

791
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: most people don't know that the NBA players stars like

792
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 1: you know, number what was it, number three and MVP

793
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: voting number two and MVP voting Shay Gilders Alexander is Canadian. Yep, right,

794
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: He's leading their team and it's a bunch of NBA

795
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: players on that Canadian team. So it's gonna be Uh,

796
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 1: that's a fun friendly. I guess you can say.

797
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 2: Uh, Andrew Wiggins disallowed from playing hmm, Yeah, Warriors blocked.

798
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: Him from playing. Wow mm hmm.

799
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 2: I mean that's pretty easy thing to to unpack, though,

800
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 2: don't you think? Yes, And it's kind of it actually,

801
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 2: I think it proves my point.

802
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: It proves my point, which.

803
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 2: Which is you're blocking Andrew from playing not because you're

804
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 2: worried about him getting hurt, but because you're worried about

805
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 2: him getting hurt. And here's what I mean by that.

806
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 2: You're not worried about him missing games for the Warriors.

807
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 2: You are currently dangling him in every single trade proposal

808
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:22,319
Speaker 2: that is possible right now, and all of that, like

809
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 2: literally the future of the organization, based on some reports,

810
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 2: could be hanging in the balance if this guy were

811
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 2: to get hurt. Well, couldn't I argue the exact same

812
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 2: thing about Steph Curry?

813
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: No, why not?

814
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 2: Because he's the future of the Warriors organization for the

815
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 2: next two years hanging in the balance, yea, with every

816
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 2: ankle turned.

817
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, but there's no loss in value. Right. They don't

818
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 1: want Andrew Wiggins to play because if he gets hurt,

819
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: he's no longer valuable to them. I don't know how

820
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: valuable he is now, but well, he may not have

821
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: value for them, but someone may think he's valuable enough

822
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: to propose a trade or accept the trade. That's the

823
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: whole point. Steph's not going anywhere. There's no no, no

824
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 1: worry of Steph Curry getting hurt, and now it just

825
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: implodes anything you had moving forward in terms of a

826
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 1: trade or anything like that.

827
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 3: Well, no it doesn't.

828
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 2: It doesn't break down a trade, but it could break

829
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:33,880
Speaker 2: down your season.

830
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's the point he's going to be.

831
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,359
Speaker 2: The point of the trade is any trade The point

832
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 2: is like, right, DeMar DeRozan's on the Kings because they're like,

833
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 2: that will make us better and we're going to try

834
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:44,239
Speaker 2: to win this year.

835
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 1: That was a good move by them, you think so.

836
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear more about that.

837
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 2: By the way, like the uh, the recalibration of the

838
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 2: Western Conference. Uh, let's take a look at that, plus

839
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 2: a surprise comment made at Kawhi Leonard with the Team

840
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,799
Speaker 2: USA group. We'll get to all of that coming up

841
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 2: next with E from Salama, Mark Willard.

842
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: This is Fox Sports Radio. You could say it again.

843
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:13,400
Speaker 2: That's right, we're LIVINTHETI Rank dot Com Studios. That's E

844
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 2: from Salam. I'm Mark Willard. What about those free agent signings?

845
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:20,479
Speaker 2: What are they good for?

846
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 1: You? Tell me?

847
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 2: Give me your rundown to the Western Conference after the

848
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 2: moves that we have seen. Klay Thompson goes to the

849
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:39,720
Speaker 2: Dallas Mavericks, DeMar DeRozan goes to the Sacramento Kings, Paul

850
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:43,239
Speaker 2: George leaves the Los Angeles Clippers.

851
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 3: I could go on and on.

852
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:51,240
Speaker 1: How do you see it? I think I think Dallas

853
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:57,440
Speaker 1: got better. I think where Clay is now in his career,

854
00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: I think that's the perfect fit for him. It gives them,

855
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: you know, some real shooting ability at the wing for

856
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 1: the driving kick. They got two guys who are gonna

857
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 1: drive and kick. He's gonna have more wide open looks

858
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: than it than he's had the last few years. I

859
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: think that's a great signing. I think, uh DeRozan to

860
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 1: the Kings is good. It gives them a mid range

861
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: specialist and some toughness, a little bit of edge there,

862
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 1: uh with their with their core nucleus. I just think

863
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: it just it gives them you know, you would want

864
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:46,919
Speaker 1: that from Sabonis, but he's not that type of player. Uh.

865
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 1: It just it makes them a tougher guard. Now with

866
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: Malik and Dearon Foxbonis and now the mid range, the

867
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: mid range of sass and DeMar DeRozan. I think that's

868
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:10,800
Speaker 1: that they've gotten better. De Chante Murray goes to the Pelicans.

869
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 2: We've got kind of a dot dot dot on Brandon

870
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:18,920
Speaker 2: Ingram for right now mentioned that the Clippers lost George,

871
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 2: the Nuggets lost k c p Oklahoma City got Hartenstein.

872
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:27,959
Speaker 2: I don't know what else, Yeah, what else stands out

873
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:29,240
Speaker 2: to you up at the top.

874
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 3: Well, the lack of.

875
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: Any movement from the Lakers stands out at the top

876
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: for me, you know, going.

877
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 3: To me, they picked up picked up Browny James.

878
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 1: Going after See, we're trying to have a real conversation

879
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:43,759
Speaker 1: right here.

880
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 2: You want to come on, man, I had I don't

881
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 2: know what.

882
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:48,919
Speaker 1: You're doing.

883
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 3: Go ahead, go ahead, I know.

884
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:51,359
Speaker 1: What you're doing.

885
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 2: Well, what was your take on? And these are just reports?

886
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 2: But I gotta think because Klay Thompson, For people who

887
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:05,399
Speaker 2: don't live in LA and you don't know, there's this

888
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 2: thing called hashtag future Laker, and Laker fans like to

889
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 2: affix it to every good player who's ever walked the

890
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:14,479
Speaker 2: green Earth.

891
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 3: But Klay Thompson, with his.

892
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 2: Bloodlines and his dad being one of the broadcasters and

893
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 2: growing up idolizing Kobe Bryant, he has sort of been

894
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 2: one of those guys that always felt like it would

895
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 2: fit and the only thing that was getting in the

896
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 2: way was, Dude, that guy's gonna live and die and

897
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 2: start and finish as a warrior because that's the way

898
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 2: he saw it. I know that that family saw it

899
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 2: that way. And then when things went south over the

900
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 2: last eighteen months, all of a sudden, the possibility became

901
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 2: real and we get to this point and he turns

902
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:58,919
Speaker 2: down more money to not wear that jersey. That had

903
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 2: to feel some kind of way A little bit.

904
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, it did. I think him playing for the Warriors

905
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 1: and and that rivalry between you know, Lebron and him,

906
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: I think that, uh, that weigh that heavy on the

907
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: decision do you want to go join the guy? Are

908
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: essentially play against him still, and he chose to play

909
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: against him, you know, And when you look at it,

910
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 1: you look at the two superstars for for Dallas, I

911
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 1: mean they're in better shape than two superstars for the Lakers. Uh,

912
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: Dallas just played in the NBA Finals, right, the Lakers

913
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: were put out in the first round. You're he's trying

914
00:58:59,960 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: to go get another ring. He wants desperately to get

915
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: another ring before Steph and Dre can get another ring. Right.

916
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:13,360
Speaker 1: He wants to show the organization, which I get and

917
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: I understand, and I'm not mad at that at all.

918
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 1: So you know, I gotta imagine.

919
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 2: And I do think Michael was quoted as saying maybe

920
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 2: it was more my dream than his, and that hit

921
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:41,840
Speaker 2: on a couple of levels because and I don't know,

922
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 2: if you know Michael, you know he kicks around in

923
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 2: Los Angeles media circles.

924
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: Michael and I host this show three years.

925
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 2: I know the man very very well. Considered him a

926
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 2: very good friend, and he is just an absolutely tremendous

927
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 2: human being. It's a great individual. And when he set

928
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 2: out loud, you know, maybe it was more my dream

929
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 2: than his.

930
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 1: As a father to a son, I was like, y'all

931
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 1: see the irony, right?

932
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 2: Did everybody catch that in in Lakerland? Did you catch

933
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 2: the dad say maybe it was more my dream than his.

934
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 2: Did anyone else make the connection? Please tell me you did?

935
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 2: Please Please tell me you did. You caught it right?

936
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 2: It didn't go I know you're a smart man. I

937
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 2: know it didn't get by you. Come on, of course,

938
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 2: Oh goodness, all right, we'll get back to Clay.

939
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: We'll get back to Clay.

940
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 3: Know there's some more.

941
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 2: There's some larger questions there just about Clay, not not

942
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 2: the Lakers side of it.

943
01:00:56,360 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: But you do your sound, and I get it uncomfortable

944
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: at the lack.

945
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:09,440
Speaker 2: Of movement and improvement with the Lakers. It does right now,

946
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 2: and it's early. There's still things developing. Free agency is

947
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 2: only one week old, but a lot of the movement

948
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 2: happens and it feels a little bit like a Dallas

949
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 2: Cowboys offseason so far.

950
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 1: Look, I think this free agency was was good for

951
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 1: the League. Okay, I love movement. I love teams not

952
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 1: standing back. I love Paul George, Like, look, I got

953
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 1: to get out of here, right yep. I mean when

954
01:01:55,120 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 1: you look at our team and we normally don't have

955
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:07,760
Speaker 1: cap space here on our show because we keep, we

956
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 1: consistently keep you know, maxing. So it's called the supermax. Right,

957
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:18,840
Speaker 1: It's called we keep giving one of our team members

958
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:24,000
Speaker 1: a Supermax. And that is one Stephen S de Seger.

959
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 7: You could not keep straight face.

960
01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: No, no, this is it's almost getting cruel, to be

961
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 1: honest with you.

962
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:32,000
Speaker 3: It's it's it's approaching it.

963
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 1: I hope you know I'm aware of that. Yeah. Yeah.

964
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:39,120
Speaker 7: By the way, as you talk about Lebron and the Lakers,

965
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 7: let's not forget that he showed what a team player

966
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 7: he is this weekend by only taking fifty one million

967
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:49,080
Speaker 7: dollars a year instead of the fifty two max.

968
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 1: I thought that was huge because you know, that keeps.

969
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,640
Speaker 7: Him under the second. I mean, who who's more of

970
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:56,480
Speaker 7: a team player, who from day one has had the

971
01:02:56,600 --> 01:03:01,480
Speaker 7: organization more in mind than Lebron James. Okay, maybe there's

972
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:05,479
Speaker 7: somebody they really really thought about it. By the way,

973
01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:07,960
Speaker 7: Brownie James did not play at the Summer League game

974
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 7: today in the Bay Area, Golden State ninety to sixty eight.

975
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 3: The final.

976
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 7: Golden State had ripped Miami and their opener in San

977
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 7: Francisco yesterday. Summer League games begin in San Francisco and

978
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 7: Sacramento yesterday, and the brief Salt Lake City Summer League

979
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:25,080
Speaker 7: will be Monday through Wednesday this week. The Las Vegas

980
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:29,400
Speaker 7: Summer League goes from July twelfth to twenty second, with

981
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 7: all thirty NBA teams. Each club will play at least

982
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:36,440
Speaker 7: five games there. In the WNBA, all four games are

983
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:38,960
Speaker 7: now final. Phoenix Is won at LA eighty four to

984
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 7: seventy eight. Seattle got a home win over Chicago, although

985
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:45,400
Speaker 7: Angel Reese had her thirteenth straight double double. Las Vegas

986
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 7: sent Dallas to another loss, and Connecticut seventeen and four

987
01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 7: defeated Atlanta. The WNBA is off tomorrow, which is one

988
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 7: game on Tuesday. As for the NASCAR, it is finally over.

989
01:03:57,280 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 7: On the rainy streets of Chicago. They have called the

990
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 7: race didn't get all seventy five laps, but in fifty

991
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:06,600
Speaker 7: eight laps, Alex Bowman is the winner. Tyler Reddick finished second.

992
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:10,720
Speaker 7: Ty Gibbs was third at Wimbledon. Coco Golf lost her

993
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 7: fourth rounder against fellow America and the Emma Navarro six

994
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 7: four to sixty three. American Madison Keys had to retire

995
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:19,520
Speaker 7: from her match due to injury. Tied five all in

996
01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 7: the third set. Number one Egis Fiontek lost on the

997
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:26,040
Speaker 7: grass court in three sets. Yesterday, Davis Thompson took the

998
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 7: PGA's John Deer Classic in Illinois by four strokes at

999
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:33,320
Speaker 7: twenty eight under par a tournament record. The Sunday Night

1000
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 7: ballgame has two outs. Bottom of the ninth. Kenlee Jansen

1001
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:38,880
Speaker 7: on the mound for Boston going for the save. He's

1002
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 7: facing Aaron Judges. The Yankees are getting shut out tonight.

1003
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:45,120
Speaker 7: It's Boston three to nothing with the advantage with three

1004
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 7: late solo homers, one in the seventh by rafae Old Devers,

1005
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:50,560
Speaker 7: one in the eighth, and then one in the ninth

1006
01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 7: by Devers, who was named an All Star today. In fact,

1007
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:57,160
Speaker 7: we got all the All Stars named today pretty much

1008
01:04:57,320 --> 01:05:00,640
Speaker 7: except for the injury replacements of course. Mookie bats for example,

1009
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 7: of the Dodgers, has a broken hand after being hit

1010
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 7: by a pitch. Recently, he was named an All Star

1011
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:08,600
Speaker 7: for the eighth straight year. There are six Dodgers on

1012
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:11,840
Speaker 7: the NL roster. Freddie Freeman was named for an eighth

1013
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 7: year in his career. Philadelphia has the most seven All Stars.

1014
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:18,360
Speaker 7: The All Star Games on Fox TV from Texas a

1015
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:22,120
Speaker 7: week from Tuesday. Thirty two players are now first time

1016
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:26,959
Speaker 7: All Stars, including ten National League pitchers. Pittsburgh rookie Paul

1017
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:30,200
Speaker 7: Skeins will be an All Star. Baltimore was a six

1018
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 7: to three winner at Oakland, the win to Grayson Rodriguez,

1019
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 7: who's eleven and three. Toronto in ten innings, won five

1020
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:39,120
Speaker 7: to four at Seattle Milwaukee Blitz the Dodgers nine to

1021
01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:41,480
Speaker 7: two in La and Arizona. Was a nine to one

1022
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 7: winner at San Diego. It's now final at Yankee Stadium,

1023
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 7: Boston three nothing and Guys Grease's men's basketball team qualified

1024
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 7: for this month's Olympics, being in Croatia eighty to sixty nine.

1025
01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:56,040
Speaker 7: There were four tournaments wrapping up at various spots on

1026
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:58,800
Speaker 7: the globe today, and those four winners in those four

1027
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 7: finals get the last four spots in Paris for the

1028
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 7: tourney later this month. At the Summer Games, eight teams

1029
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 7: had already qualified, including the US US men's basketball currently

1030
01:06:09,280 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 7: in Vegas practicing, has a first exhibition there on FS

1031
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 7: one Wednesday against Canada. Then the Americans from Abu Dhabi

1032
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:20,440
Speaker 7: will be on FS one in games against Australia and

1033
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 7: Serbia as we lead up to the actual Olympic Games

1034
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 7: in France late this month. As for who's going, not

1035
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:30,920
Speaker 7: just Greece, and by the way, yes, Giannis Antenakumpo is

1036
01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 7: now an Olympian. He was in tears on the bench

1037
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 7: at the end of this game. He had twenty three

1038
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 7: points in twenty eight minutes as they beat Croatia. And

1039
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:43,400
Speaker 7: by the way, Croatia had one stellar performance after another

1040
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:46,800
Speaker 7: this week from Iviza Zubats of the Clippers. He had

1041
01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 7: nineteen points twelve rebounds today. Yesterday in the semis of

1042
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 7: that tournament, Greece had eliminated Slovenia. So Luka Donsich is

1043
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 7: not going to the Olympics. They got blown out yesterday

1044
01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:01,160
Speaker 7: and Danciic had ten turnovers. Ain't want at home, going

1045
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 7: four and oh for the week, beating the Bahamas eighty

1046
01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 7: six seventy eight. DeAndre Ayden in defeat had seventeen points,

1047
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 7: fourteen rebounds. Brazil and Puerto Rico each advance back to you.

1048
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:15,720
Speaker 2: As it turns out, Steve Jannis was actually crying on

1049
01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:18,720
Speaker 2: the bench because he had watched that Warrior Laker Summer

1050
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 2: League game and andy he viewed. He watched all thirty

1051
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 2: four to three point attempts from the Lakers, and and

1052
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:33,360
Speaker 2: that was his reaction. Sixty eight did they play forty

1053
01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:33,920
Speaker 2: eight minutes?

1054
01:07:34,440 --> 01:07:39,520
Speaker 1: Listen, listen, go ahead. Are Jannis's brothers on the Olympic

1055
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:42,160
Speaker 1: team with him? I was gonna ask the same question,

1056
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 1: not the one that I know.

1057
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:45,720
Speaker 7: I believe you know. It's grease. So they all have

1058
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:48,479
Speaker 7: names exactly that long. But I thought there was one,

1059
01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 7: not the who is it? Tanasas? Not him, He's not there.

1060
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:56,800
Speaker 2: If there are other brothers on the Olympic team, that

1061
01:07:56,840 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 2: would actually be even funnier, amazing. He's like, you get

1062
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,000
Speaker 2: to play for the box, you get to play for

1063
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:03,720
Speaker 2: your country.

1064
01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 1: Well, I mean one of the one of the championship

1065
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:10,480
Speaker 1: with the Lakers. They all three have NBA championships.

1066
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:13,680
Speaker 7: So also on the Grease team veteran from the University

1067
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:17,840
Speaker 7: of Florida and Nick Koalathus fourteen points, eleven assists, only

1068
01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:22,800
Speaker 7: one turnover today, tremendous By the way, Buddy healed, Yes,

1069
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,080
Speaker 7: this close to going to the Olympics. He was on

1070
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 7: that Bahamas team with Michael Thompson as assistant coach. By

1071
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:31,479
Speaker 7: the way, Buddy healed in another good game nineteen points.

1072
01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:32,639
Speaker 1: But he and.

1073
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:34,800
Speaker 7: DeAndre Ayton are not going Bahamas.

1074
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:39,320
Speaker 1: What's that close? And what is my Warrior fan reaction

1075
01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:40,400
Speaker 1: to Buddy.

1076
01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:46,599
Speaker 2: Heel to thank goodness, play Warrior basketball next year instead?

1077
01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:48,760
Speaker 7: And this is all official, right The new league year

1078
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 7: opened yesterday. Yeah, those reported signings and deals and everything

1079
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Speaker 7: we've heard about official news.

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01:08:54,080 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 1: The first six team trade in NBA.

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01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,840
Speaker 7: History, right with the Dallas and by the way, with

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01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 7: the lebron fifty one million dollars salary also now official.

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01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:05,880
Speaker 7: The new salary caps about one hundred and forty million

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01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:08,639
Speaker 7: per team. So there's fifty one of it right there.

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01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go, more than a more

1086
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:12,559
Speaker 1: than a third of the cap.

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01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:16,400
Speaker 7: Perfect, But he cares about the franchise. Did I not

1088
01:09:16,479 --> 01:09:17,960
Speaker 7: say that at the beginning of this.

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01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:23,679
Speaker 1: He should have gave money back just because they drafted

1090
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:24,240
Speaker 1: his son.

1091
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:27,760
Speaker 2: Like right, he should have to at least pay for

1092
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:29,120
Speaker 2: Browny's contract.

1093
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:32,719
Speaker 7: Stracted his son counts against the cap. That's a regular

1094
01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 7: roster spot, a regular contract. So the son's getting two mil.

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01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:37,840
Speaker 7: He only gave back one mill.

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01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 2: Oh so actually he didn't give money back. He found

1097
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Speaker 2: a way to get more. That's that's incredible.

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01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:49,160
Speaker 7: Because if there's one thing Brittany needed, it was money.

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Speaker 1: Why are you gasping so much? You're doing a lot

1100
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:57,280
Speaker 1: of gasping this segment because it's my team, all right,

1101
01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:00,680
Speaker 1: and things aren't going the way they should go.

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01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:04,000
Speaker 3: Did you watch you sounded like you watched that summer

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01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 3: league game.

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01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:06,679
Speaker 1: I did watch it, you did? Yeah?

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01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:09,599
Speaker 3: Do you know who the leading score was for the Lakers?

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01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:12,439
Speaker 1: No? I don't know any of those people, you know.

1107
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:15,320
Speaker 7: Except for the two draft choices. No, we've never heard

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01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:16,120
Speaker 7: of any of them.

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01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, actually one of the draft choices was the

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01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:24,600
Speaker 1: leading scorer. Yeah, I think that A Dalton thought that

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01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:25,599
Speaker 1: was a great pick.

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01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 7: He was three three of thirteen today, three of two

1113
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:28,920
Speaker 7: off shooting.

1114
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:30,360
Speaker 1: Yes, that's okay, he gonna be all right.

1115
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:33,720
Speaker 3: But he lit it up with with twelve points.

1116
01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 7: And he actually made a three pointer in this game.

1117
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 3: He made one.

1118
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:40,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys are team double team and me not.

1119
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:43,960
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I mean, I thought I thought we were.

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Speaker 1: See you've changed desk, miss I missed a couple of days,

1121
01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 1: and now now with the.

1122
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:54,920
Speaker 7: Team goes four of thirty four from three point range.

1123
01:10:54,960 --> 01:10:56,599
Speaker 7: That is the definition of news.

1124
01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:59,160
Speaker 1: Steve sometimes connects to yourself.

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01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 3: Connect with one of three, which was lighting it up.

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01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:06,240
Speaker 2: I mean the team shot eleven point eight percent from

1127
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:07,120
Speaker 2: beyond the arc.

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Speaker 1: Half all you want now, I'll see you how to

1129
01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:10,320
Speaker 1: play in next year?

1130
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:14,240
Speaker 7: If they really want to be like the winners, like

1131
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:16,639
Speaker 7: the Celtics, it would have been more like forty four

1132
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:17,639
Speaker 7: three pointed tests.

1133
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:21,639
Speaker 2: That's amazing trash talk. Can you imagine Kobe doing that?

1134
01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 1: Almost? See you in the play in turnament the play

1135
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:28,320
Speaker 1: in that's right, see you in the season tournament? Exactly?

1136
01:11:28,720 --> 01:11:31,719
Speaker 7: Are they going to unveil the in season tournament banner

1137
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 7: for opening day next year?

1138
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:35,840
Speaker 1: Yeah? Good question there, Good question there.

1139
01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:39,280
Speaker 7: That was pretty much the beginning of the end, wasn't it.

1140
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 7: That was the high point of the season.

1141
01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:46,599
Speaker 1: Right next to the old Copper divisionship. It's to be

1142
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:52,880
Speaker 1: all right, fast neutral party here. It doesn't sound very

1143
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:53,680
Speaker 1: neutral to me.

1144
01:11:54,280 --> 01:12:02,760
Speaker 7: Well, you know I would say that contract yeah, yeah, yeah.

1145
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:05,200
Speaker 1: What happens when you when you give a guy all

1146
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 1: the money and a no trade clause. Only one in

1147
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:09,400
Speaker 1: the business.

1148
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:14,200
Speaker 2: Oh, very good, very good. Well, it was fun for

1149
01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:17,759
Speaker 2: at least two of us. So we're in the tyrack

1150
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:20,800
Speaker 2: dot com studios. I do have Klay Thompson questions and

1151
01:12:20,840 --> 01:12:23,840
Speaker 2: this has nothing to do with the Lakers, but i'd

1152
01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:25,240
Speaker 2: love to you said, good fit.

1153
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:27,320
Speaker 3: Let's let's talk that out a little bit.

1154
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:31,439
Speaker 2: Coming up next and then top of the hour, let's

1155
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:35,200
Speaker 2: let's have some more fun at our own expense with

1156
01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:39,040
Speaker 2: the Major League Baseball All Star rosters. Uh, that's also

1157
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:42,760
Speaker 2: coming up. Mark Willardy from salam Fox Sports Radio. Oh,

1158
01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:45,519
Speaker 2: that's what Clay's looking for. He's gonna pay it back,

1159
01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 2: not pay it forward. We're live in the Tirack dot

1160
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 2: com studios. This is an appropriate jam. Uh, the big payback.

1161
01:12:56,320 --> 01:13:03,439
Speaker 2: All right, you're Klay Thompson Ephraim, and here's what was

1162
01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:06,639
Speaker 2: on the table. If you believe all the reports going

1163
01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 2: back as far as a year ago, a year ago,

1164
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:15,679
Speaker 2: or at least a basketball year ago, Clay was offered

1165
01:13:15,680 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 2: two years and forty eight million dollars to continue to

1166
01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:26,080
Speaker 2: be a Golden State Warrior. As things approached free agency,

1167
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:29,240
Speaker 2: he can still talk to the Warriors. I think he's

1168
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:33,599
Speaker 2: offered something more in the neighborhood of two years than

1169
01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:38,000
Speaker 2: thirty five to forty million dollars, but is also largely

1170
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 2: told for the most part, actually, we're just gonna need

1171
01:13:41,160 --> 01:13:44,920
Speaker 2: you to wait because now we miss the playoffs and

1172
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:51,000
Speaker 2: we got a bunch of stuff we're working on. Okay, then,

1173
01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:57,160
Speaker 2: if we believe all reports, Dallas three years fifty million dollars,

1174
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:04,960
Speaker 2: Lakers four years eighty million dollars, did Clay make the

1175
01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:07,720
Speaker 2: right choice?

1176
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:11,599
Speaker 1: I think for him he did. I think he went

1177
01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:14,400
Speaker 1: to the team that he felt had the opportunity to

1178
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:19,680
Speaker 1: get the next championships. Uh and if he happens to

1179
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:23,439
Speaker 1: go through, I don't know, team in the West that

1180
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:27,120
Speaker 1: he may have may not have paid played with who

1181
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 1: no longer wanted him. I think that's added bonus. No

1182
01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:43,360
Speaker 1: longer wanted him offered him seven per year. I get it,

1183
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:47,320
Speaker 1: and you're right, and you're right, But but you know,

1184
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:52,880
Speaker 1: they re upped on Draymond, they re upped on Wiggins

1185
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 1: ago two years ago, right, so he just feels like

1186
01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:01,800
Speaker 1: odd man out. I get it. Well, remember he was

1187
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:03,160
Speaker 1: one of the Splash brothers.

1188
01:15:03,439 --> 01:15:05,920
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, so I struggle with this. You've been in

1189
01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:09,200
Speaker 2: pro athlete negotiations. So you helped me on this because

1190
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:13,840
Speaker 2: I do I struggle with this because I sort of

1191
01:15:13,880 --> 01:15:15,960
Speaker 2: see where both sides are coming from. And just to

1192
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:19,320
Speaker 2: give sort of a quick backgrounder for those who aren't

1193
01:15:19,680 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 2: real tapped in on the story, you know you could

1194
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:27,360
Speaker 2: look at this very easily through separate lenses. The Warriors

1195
01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:30,240
Speaker 2: look at a five year max contract that paid him

1196
01:15:30,280 --> 01:15:33,040
Speaker 2: forty three million dollars a year, and this is how

1197
01:15:33,080 --> 01:15:37,680
Speaker 2: the five years went. Okay missed with injury, but they

1198
01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:41,679
Speaker 2: knew that at the time, followed by missed with injury,

1199
01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 2: followed by was only healthy enough to play half the games,

1200
01:15:47,600 --> 01:15:49,160
Speaker 2: but won a championship.

1201
01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:51,719
Speaker 1: Followed by.

1202
01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:58,680
Speaker 2: Wobbly like played most of the games, played kind of

1203
01:15:58,720 --> 01:16:03,960
Speaker 2: well sometimes, but was struggling with shot selection, and the

1204
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:09,759
Speaker 2: Warriors were a second round out. Followed by played almost

1205
01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:13,640
Speaker 2: all the games, was largely consistent, but is not his

1206
01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 2: dynamic former self, not much of a player on defense,

1207
01:16:17,400 --> 01:16:19,920
Speaker 2: could still shoot it on most nights, and a team

1208
01:16:19,960 --> 01:16:24,719
Speaker 2: that missed the playoffs entirely. That's what the Warriors got

1209
01:16:25,439 --> 01:16:29,960
Speaker 2: for a five year deal at forty three.

1210
01:16:29,840 --> 01:16:35,839
Speaker 1: Per Now, somehow Clay came.

1211
01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:42,280
Speaker 2: Out at that feeling disrespected, disrespect. Now, the reason he

1212
01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:46,759
Speaker 2: feels disrespected is because of some of the things you mentioned.

1213
01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 3: Draymond got a four year deal.

1214
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:53,960
Speaker 2: The whole world's talking about maximizing Steph's window. Jordan Poole

1215
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:58,120
Speaker 2: got a contract, Andrew Wiggins got a contract. All of

1216
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:04,840
Speaker 2: those deals were four year years or longer. And Clay

1217
01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:10,479
Speaker 2: did not get an offer like that. And so I

1218
01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:15,759
Speaker 2: think the specter of Jordan Poole's contract and Jordan wanting

1219
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:18,719
Speaker 2: to start, and Clay was benched at times this year,

1220
01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:21,759
Speaker 2: had a lot of closed door meetings with Steve Kerr,

1221
01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:27,120
Speaker 2: but again was offered too and forty eight at the

1222
01:17:27,120 --> 01:17:30,160
Speaker 2: beginning of the year, when you hear all of those

1223
01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:33,599
Speaker 2: things sitting on a table, and the fact that both

1224
01:17:33,640 --> 01:17:38,280
Speaker 2: sides in the end were kind of like, yeah, let's part.

1225
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:44,640
Speaker 2: I don't know who's got the right approach.

1226
01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:48,920
Speaker 1: Look, they had to they had to do it right now.

1227
01:17:49,200 --> 01:17:51,759
Speaker 1: He should have taken the deal they offered him before

1228
01:17:51,880 --> 01:17:57,120
Speaker 1: last year. That was his pride in the way for

1229
01:17:57,280 --> 01:18:00,000
Speaker 1: what he had brought into the table the last three years.

1230
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 1: That was a great deal and it would have kept

1231
01:18:02,680 --> 01:18:07,160
Speaker 1: him with the team. He chose not to do it,

1232
01:18:07,439 --> 01:18:10,920
Speaker 1: and then chose not to actually show up when they

1233
01:18:11,040 --> 01:18:16,639
Speaker 1: needed him. I can't fault the organization for that. I can't,

1234
01:18:18,240 --> 01:18:26,880
Speaker 1: And so it's sometimes you gotta move on. This is

1235
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:30,439
Speaker 1: one of those times. I know it hurts you were

1236
01:18:30,479 --> 01:18:35,000
Speaker 1: somewhere wanted to be one of those guys that spent

1237
01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:37,920
Speaker 1: your whole career in one place. All three of you

1238
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:43,000
Speaker 1: guys were probably gonna retire together and put the jerseys

1239
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:45,760
Speaker 1: in the rep. It was gonna be an unveiling of

1240
01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 1: three statues together. Well that's not gonna happen. So use it,

1241
01:18:54,880 --> 01:19:02,080
Speaker 1: use it, get back in the lab and help propel

1242
01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:07,400
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks to a championship, and just hope that

1243
01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:10,960
Speaker 1: you can beat the Golden State Warriors on the way

1244
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:13,400
Speaker 1: to the NBA Finals.

1245
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:18,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it, and I get the idea that

1246
01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:21,519
Speaker 2: as an athlete sometimes you even have to sort of

1247
01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:24,640
Speaker 2: like manufacture this whole like the world's against.

1248
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:25,120
Speaker 1: Me and everything.

1249
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:29,559
Speaker 2: But I would ask Clay that if I were sitting

1250
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:31,400
Speaker 2: in front of him, you want to get the Warriors

1251
01:19:31,439 --> 01:19:33,360
Speaker 2: back for what exactly?

1252
01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:38,040
Speaker 1: What exactly was it that they did to you? Nothing?

1253
01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:43,280
Speaker 1: Nothing gave him opportunity to retire a Warrior, and he

1254
01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:44,080
Speaker 1: didn't take it.

1255
01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:50,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, and what the Warriors know now

1256
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:52,360
Speaker 2: that they didn't know when they offered him that is

1257
01:19:52,360 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 2: that they didn't.

1258
01:19:52,840 --> 01:19:56,320
Speaker 1: Even make the playoffs and therefore you got to make changes. Right.

1259
01:19:57,040 --> 01:19:59,439
Speaker 2: We'll get into the All Star roster coming up next

1260
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 2: on Fox It's Radio. We've been basketball heavy and we're

1261
01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:05,640
Speaker 2: not done yet. We will get back to it, but

1262
01:20:06,120 --> 01:20:08,960
Speaker 2: want to hop on over to the baseball diamond where

1263
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 2: E from Salam, who is an accomplished coach, may have

1264
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:16,679
Speaker 2: a thing or two to say about the All Star

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Speaker 2: Game rosters that have been released as of today. First,

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1274
01:20:42,680 --> 01:20:46,240
Speaker 2: varying levels, varying sports, they're all into it. I do

1275
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:49,519
Speaker 2: know that my two sons come All Star Game time,

1276
01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:53,760
Speaker 2: actually get very into it. And yes they like baseball

1277
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:56,280
Speaker 2: and they will sit down and watch a game, but

1278
01:20:56,520 --> 01:21:00,880
Speaker 2: usually usually not from start to finish. But when we

1279
01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:03,679
Speaker 2: get to things like home run Derby's and all.

1280
01:21:03,560 --> 01:21:05,200
Speaker 3: Of this, they're they're in.

1281
01:21:05,880 --> 01:21:08,479
Speaker 2: And I know your boys are kind of on their

1282
01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:11,600
Speaker 2: way maybe out of baseball, but have been playing it

1283
01:21:11,680 --> 01:21:15,680
Speaker 2: a lot. They're out, Like, where where are they like

1284
01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:17,920
Speaker 2: the All Star Game when it gets here?

1285
01:21:18,280 --> 01:21:19,719
Speaker 3: Are they just like? Who cares?

1286
01:21:19,920 --> 01:21:22,360
Speaker 1: Never even watched one? Okay?

1287
01:21:22,600 --> 01:21:23,000
Speaker 3: All right?

1288
01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:26,760
Speaker 2: And where are you in terms of interest on the

1289
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:29,040
Speaker 2: forthcoming Major League Baseball?

1290
01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 1: Are you've never watched one? Have do your interest?

1291
01:21:35,600 --> 01:21:37,360
Speaker 3: Do you like the NBA All Star Game?

1292
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:41,720
Speaker 1: Unwatchable? Now? It's unwatchable? You used to love it, used

1293
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:44,960
Speaker 1: to love the whole weekend unwatchable now right.

1294
01:21:45,280 --> 01:21:46,600
Speaker 3: That's a correct answer, by the.

1295
01:21:46,560 --> 01:21:48,759
Speaker 1: Way, Oh it's the only answer.

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01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:56,120
Speaker 2: The one thing I sort of grapple with with the

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01:21:56,120 --> 01:22:02,000
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball All Star Game, and I get it,

1298
01:22:02,080 --> 01:22:04,760
Speaker 2: but the idea that every team has to at least

1299
01:22:04,760 --> 01:22:11,960
Speaker 2: have one player, like, what is really at stake here?

1300
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:18,479
Speaker 2: Do you think that fans of the Royals are like,

1301
01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:25,160
Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna watch, but we have a relief pitcher

1302
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:29,759
Speaker 2: who's on the team and he might get to face

1303
01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:30,559
Speaker 2: three hitters.

1304
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:36,639
Speaker 3: So come on, fam, gather around the old tube.

1305
01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:44,080
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at this thing, especially if said

1306
01:22:44,280 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 2: Royals reliever or whatever is at the expense of a

1307
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:56,360
Speaker 2: player you've heard of and might actually because I will

1308
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:58,599
Speaker 2: tell you this, my sons who were into the All

1309
01:22:58,600 --> 01:23:03,920
Speaker 2: Star Game couldn't really give a rip who plays for?

1310
01:23:04,040 --> 01:23:04,280
Speaker 1: Who?

1311
01:23:05,600 --> 01:23:08,719
Speaker 2: They want to see the big bad dudes taking big

1312
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 2: bad swings, right yeah, all right, let me let me

1313
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:20,120
Speaker 2: let me throw this at you. I have a list

1314
01:23:20,400 --> 01:23:27,160
Speaker 2: of the American League pitchers. Okay, the starting lineups have

1315
01:23:27,240 --> 01:23:30,439
Speaker 2: been out for a little bit, but that obviously does

1316
01:23:30,479 --> 01:23:35,280
Speaker 2: not include a pitcher. So I'm going to roll through

1317
01:23:36,080 --> 01:23:40,519
Speaker 2: the names of the American League All Star pitching staff.

1318
01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:45,680
Speaker 2: You tell me if you can guess what team that

1319
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 2: player plays on?

1320
01:23:49,080 --> 01:23:51,000
Speaker 3: All right, you ready?

1321
01:23:51,160 --> 01:23:53,400
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I'm not gonna know this.

1322
01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 2: You're not going to know any of them. Like if

1323
01:23:56,160 --> 01:23:58,519
Speaker 2: I said, Aaron Judge, who does he play for?

1324
01:23:59,000 --> 01:23:59,719
Speaker 1: But Yankees?

1325
01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:00,720
Speaker 3: Okay?

1326
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:03,120
Speaker 2: Like I could go through the that You got it,

1327
01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:05,920
Speaker 2: and I bet you could do more. What if I

1328
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:13,840
Speaker 2: said to you, uh, Vlad Guerrero Junior, who's he played for?

1329
01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:19,599
Speaker 1: Really?

1330
01:24:21,240 --> 01:24:30,240
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, you don't even know who who Vlad Guerrero

1331
01:24:30,400 --> 01:24:31,160
Speaker 2: Junior plays?

1332
01:24:31,160 --> 01:24:34,520
Speaker 3: For What about Jose.

1333
01:24:34,400 --> 01:24:40,240
Speaker 4: Altuve Astros Astros, that's right, that's right.

1334
01:24:40,320 --> 01:24:52,000
Speaker 1: What about one Soto one? Yeah, he plays for Come on, man,

1335
01:24:52,120 --> 01:24:57,160
Speaker 1: he plays for the Yankees. What about your Don Alvarez?

1336
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:07,679
Speaker 1: Your Don Alvarez plays for Orioles. He plays with the Astro.

1337
01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:14,280
Speaker 1: What about Adley Retchman? What super the star catcher, young player,

1338
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:21,280
Speaker 1: but the Red Sox? Okay, no, not at all? What

1339
01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:27,439
Speaker 1: what if I what if I do some National League guys? Right?

1340
01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:32,719
Speaker 4: How about show hey o Tani hey man, the Dodgers?

1341
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:36,000
Speaker 4: What why you're over like you don't even okay, Dodger.

1342
01:25:36,600 --> 01:25:39,320
Speaker 4: How about Fernando Tatis Junior.

1343
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:46,599
Speaker 1: Padres? All right? How about Bryce Bryce Harper? Bryce Harper

1344
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:49,759
Speaker 1: is don't I know that? That's Phillies?

1345
01:25:51,080 --> 01:25:54,840
Speaker 3: Okay, okay. How about Christian.

1346
01:25:54,439 --> 01:26:02,520
Speaker 1: Yelicks, Christian Yelich, Yeah, the Brewers, that's correct.

1347
01:26:03,479 --> 01:26:08,960
Speaker 2: How about Jerrikson? Profar, Profar, profar.

1348
01:26:09,360 --> 01:26:09,959
Speaker 1: The Braves.

1349
01:26:10,680 --> 01:26:16,839
Speaker 2: No, come on, what about Trey Turner.

1350
01:26:17,360 --> 01:26:19,600
Speaker 1: Trey Turner. I know this one. That's the that's the

1351
01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:23,640
Speaker 1: that's the Dodgers. It used to be, yeah, used to be.

1352
01:26:24,560 --> 01:26:25,120
Speaker 1: What are you doing?

1353
01:26:26,760 --> 01:26:32,200
Speaker 2: He's on the Phillies. Now, all right, let's change the

1354
01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:32,960
Speaker 2: game on the fly.

1355
01:26:33,280 --> 01:26:33,920
Speaker 1: I want you.

1356
01:26:35,200 --> 01:26:37,800
Speaker 3: I want you to keep the music going, keep the

1357
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:38,360
Speaker 3: music going.

1358
01:26:38,439 --> 01:26:42,519
Speaker 2: I want you to yell when I simply say a

1359
01:26:42,640 --> 01:26:47,200
Speaker 2: name you've heard of, Okay, I don't care if you've don't.

1360
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:51,200
Speaker 1: I don't care where they play. You say I heard

1361
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:53,400
Speaker 1: of him.

1362
01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:54,400
Speaker 2: As soon as I get to someone you've heard of.

1363
01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:58,840
Speaker 2: All right, this is the American League pitching staff in

1364
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:01,519
Speaker 2: the All Star Game. All right, yes, all right, here

1365
01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:22,320
Speaker 2: we go. Kirby Yates, Cole Reagan's, Mason Miller, Seth Lugoma.

1366
01:27:19,560 --> 01:27:29,920
Speaker 1: Clay Holmes, who Tanner Hawk, No, No, not Tanner Uh,

1367
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:33,120
Speaker 1: Taric Scooball.

1368
01:27:34,760 --> 01:27:36,559
Speaker 3: I don't even know if I'm saying that one, right.

1369
01:27:36,800 --> 01:27:50,840
Speaker 2: Uh Logan Gilbert Garrett Crochet Emmanual class A.

1370
01:27:51,080 --> 01:28:01,680
Speaker 1: Uh, Corbin Burns Corburn. I thought you're gonna say Corbyn Dallas. No,

1371
01:28:02,120 --> 01:28:03,919
Speaker 1: that's from Element.

1372
01:28:05,360 --> 01:28:06,639
Speaker 3: That one went over my head.

1373
01:28:08,560 --> 01:28:15,840
Speaker 2: Tyler Anderson, Oh no, no, all right, that's the entire

1374
01:28:16,040 --> 01:28:17,519
Speaker 2: American League pitching staff.

1375
01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:24,559
Speaker 1: Hey, that's okay, they are all right. We did it, y'all.

1376
01:28:24,640 --> 01:28:28,360
Speaker 1: We did it. We did it.

1377
01:28:30,160 --> 01:28:31,320
Speaker 7: Hey, look mom, we made it.

1378
01:28:31,560 --> 01:28:35,120
Speaker 1: We did it. Man, we are in the building depressing.

1379
01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:38,800
Speaker 3: Have you heard of Paul Skeens? Have you heard that name?

1380
01:28:38,920 --> 01:28:39,040
Speaker 1: No?

1381
01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:41,360
Speaker 3: Okay, all right?

1382
01:28:41,479 --> 01:28:46,880
Speaker 1: The you know what's more depressing, what I'm not alone? Well,

1383
01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:48,360
Speaker 1: and there's the point.

1384
01:28:48,320 --> 01:28:50,280
Speaker 3: There might be alone about Paul Skins.

1385
01:28:50,800 --> 01:28:53,320
Speaker 2: It's kind of like a yeah, like I mean he's

1386
01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:55,639
Speaker 2: kind of he's a rookie, but he's kind of taken

1387
01:28:55,680 --> 01:29:00,360
Speaker 2: the whole place by storm, like in a pretty significant way.

1388
01:29:00,520 --> 01:29:02,400
Speaker 1: Well not on radar.

1389
01:29:03,200 --> 01:29:05,320
Speaker 3: Have you heard of showta.

1390
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:16,360
Speaker 1: Ohota? Yeah, not show hey, showta no show to I

1391
01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:16,800
Speaker 1: have not.

1392
01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:22,800
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, So.

1393
01:29:22,800 --> 01:29:27,200
Speaker 2: There it is, ladies and gentlemen, your Major League Baseball

1394
01:29:28,439 --> 01:29:32,480
Speaker 2: All Star rosters.

1395
01:29:33,680 --> 01:29:39,240
Speaker 1: The thing for the most part, So the thing about

1396
01:29:39,880 --> 01:29:44,040
Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball in the All Star Games, it's

1397
01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:50,760
Speaker 1: the only All Star game that's played on weekdays. So

1398
01:29:51,400 --> 01:29:54,040
Speaker 1: that's correct. There's no All Star weekend where you you know,

1399
01:29:54,120 --> 01:29:57,280
Speaker 1: it's like you want to talk about making it impossible

1400
01:29:57,320 --> 01:30:00,400
Speaker 1: for your fans to travel to the location. Make it

1401
01:30:00,400 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 1: it a you know, make it a weekend away, and

1402
01:30:05,240 --> 01:30:07,240
Speaker 1: you know we're going to put it in the middle

1403
01:30:07,280 --> 01:30:08,120
Speaker 1: of the work week.

1404
01:30:08,280 --> 01:30:11,160
Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's what the that's what the NBA

1405
01:30:11,360 --> 01:30:12,439
Speaker 2: just did with its draft.

1406
01:30:13,479 --> 01:30:16,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the draft is that something you go to

1407
01:30:17,280 --> 01:30:21,120
Speaker 1: and tell the NFL that well, no, no, no, you're confusing

1408
01:30:21,160 --> 01:30:21,639
Speaker 1: things here.

1409
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:24,439
Speaker 3: Wow, No, I'm not confusing anything. I understand. The NFL

1410
01:30:24,520 --> 01:30:26,160
Speaker 3: is a bigger deal than anything in the world.

1411
01:30:26,200 --> 01:30:29,240
Speaker 1: We can't even talk about other sports and the NFL

1412
01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:32,360
Speaker 1: at the same time, because true they're not.

1413
01:30:32,479 --> 01:30:37,519
Speaker 2: However, however, I'd argue drunk guy that travels to draft

1414
01:30:38,160 --> 01:30:41,400
Speaker 2: if I said to him before the draft started, I'm

1415
01:30:41,400 --> 01:30:45,000
Speaker 2: gonna put the over under on six and a half

1416
01:30:45,080 --> 01:30:50,760
Speaker 2: players that you can name right now and tell me

1417
01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:54,760
Speaker 2: what college they went to. I'm gonna put the over

1418
01:30:54,880 --> 01:30:57,680
Speaker 2: under six and a half players that are about to

1419
01:30:57,680 --> 01:30:58,320
Speaker 2: get drafted.

1420
01:30:58,439 --> 01:31:00,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's the spectacle of it. That's the thing

1421
01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:07,240
Speaker 1: the NFL has created through marketing and through all of

1422
01:31:07,720 --> 01:31:12,200
Speaker 1: you know, the things the NFL have really capitalized on

1423
01:31:13,320 --> 01:31:18,040
Speaker 1: that no other sport does, especially baseball. Baseball doesn't even

1424
01:31:18,040 --> 01:31:22,000
Speaker 1: market itself the right way. What are the players? Oh

1425
01:31:22,080 --> 01:31:24,719
Speaker 1: and by the way, let's slap our All Star game

1426
01:31:25,040 --> 01:31:32,920
Speaker 1: on two week days. My thing is why why, I

1427
01:31:32,960 --> 01:31:36,920
Speaker 1: don't know, that's the crazy part about it. Why not

1428
01:31:37,040 --> 01:31:40,519
Speaker 1: make it a baseball bonanza over the weekend? Make like

1429
01:31:41,479 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 1: let's add they just don't It's just like, eh, well,

1430
01:31:44,080 --> 01:31:45,679
Speaker 1: if you show up, you show up. It's cool.

1431
01:31:47,400 --> 01:31:50,000
Speaker 2: Well they get they get those three days pretty much themselves.

1432
01:31:50,040 --> 01:31:51,240
Speaker 2: It's like the only thing happened.

1433
01:31:51,360 --> 01:31:56,920
Speaker 1: That's what I mean. Okay, I just you know, look,

1434
01:31:57,040 --> 01:31:59,240
Speaker 1: I've actually been feeling like this a lot lately.

1435
01:31:59,280 --> 01:32:01,360
Speaker 2: Did you know that, like a day or two after

1436
01:32:01,439 --> 01:32:04,200
Speaker 2: the NBA Draft was the NHL Draft.

1437
01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:08,280
Speaker 1: No, it was, well, but it was on a Friday.

1438
01:32:09,160 --> 01:32:11,479
Speaker 1: At least it was on a No.

1439
01:32:11,720 --> 01:32:13,559
Speaker 3: But I don't mean this in a good way.

1440
01:32:14,120 --> 01:32:17,840
Speaker 2: They did all the drafting in something that started at

1441
01:32:17,880 --> 01:32:23,880
Speaker 2: like three o'clock Pacific on a Friday. I'm like, nobody's

1442
01:32:24,840 --> 01:32:28,519
Speaker 2: what's happening right now? Like it's three o'clock in the West,

1443
01:32:29,000 --> 01:32:31,439
Speaker 2: it's dinner time in the East on a Friday night.

1444
01:32:33,040 --> 01:32:34,960
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I don't know. I don't know. No

1445
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 1: one cares, no one watches.

1446
01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:40,599
Speaker 2: Remember that time that the College Football Playoff put its

1447
01:32:40,640 --> 01:32:43,439
Speaker 2: semifinals on New Year's Eve at like seven o'clock, tried

1448
01:32:43,479 --> 01:32:45,560
Speaker 2: to break up every marriage in America?

1449
01:32:46,439 --> 01:32:51,360
Speaker 1: Remember when they did that. Yeah, Yeah, this feels like that. Yeah,

1450
01:32:51,439 --> 01:32:54,920
Speaker 1: it's just not when it comes to marketing, man, and

1451
01:32:55,080 --> 01:33:01,800
Speaker 1: really just you know, getting eyes and and and all

1452
01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:05,240
Speaker 1: of these things on your sport and celebrating the greatness

1453
01:33:05,280 --> 01:33:10,160
Speaker 1: of the players. It just seems weird to do that

1454
01:33:10,640 --> 01:33:15,840
Speaker 1: on a Monday and a Tuesday? Am I wrong? Am I?

1455
01:33:15,920 --> 01:33:17,920
Speaker 1: Am I it?

1456
01:33:19,160 --> 01:33:20,639
Speaker 3: No, You're You're not wrong.

1457
01:33:21,760 --> 01:33:26,920
Speaker 2: I'm sure television executives somewhere could explain it.

1458
01:33:27,840 --> 01:33:30,320
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what drives this stuff. Of course, Yeah,

1459
01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:32,920
Speaker 1: so someone could explain it.

1460
01:33:33,520 --> 01:33:37,400
Speaker 2: But I'm with you, like it feels to me like,

1461
01:33:37,479 --> 01:33:42,439
Speaker 2: for instance, there's a Sunday Night baseball game that.

1462
01:33:43,960 --> 01:33:48,400
Speaker 1: You know happens every single week, and.

1463
01:33:49,720 --> 01:33:51,960
Speaker 2: You know, the Red Sox just beat the Yankees a

1464
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:54,720
Speaker 2: short time ago three to nothing Sunday night baseball.

1465
01:33:55,800 --> 01:33:57,799
Speaker 3: When you want your All Star game.

1466
01:34:00,160 --> 01:34:04,559
Speaker 1: Day Sunday evening, think how about the home run derby

1467
01:34:04,600 --> 01:34:09,120
Speaker 1: on Saturday, All Star weekend, you know, followed by a

1468
01:34:09,200 --> 01:34:14,839
Speaker 1: concert in the park. Right, there's too many good ideas.

1469
01:34:14,960 --> 01:34:19,120
Speaker 1: I mean, how about listen, let's make it a thing. Right,

1470
01:34:20,080 --> 01:34:26,720
Speaker 1: We're gonna turn the parking lot into an experience and

1471
01:34:26,760 --> 01:34:29,920
Speaker 1: then have the home run derby and then we're going

1472
01:34:30,000 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 1: to have a concert and then play the game on Sunday. Man,

1473
01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:42,400
Speaker 1: that to me seems like that's an event I'd like

1474
01:34:42,479 --> 01:34:45,479
Speaker 1: to travel with my family too. That I don't have

1475
01:34:45,560 --> 01:34:49,519
Speaker 1: to take off work. Yeah, I just somehow to me.

1476
01:34:51,520 --> 01:34:54,559
Speaker 2: Again, Yeah, a television exact could tell us why, because

1477
01:34:54,600 --> 01:34:56,080
Speaker 2: I mean what you're saying to me makes sense.

1478
01:34:56,880 --> 01:34:59,160
Speaker 1: Just this thing about that we're gonna grab the kids,

1479
01:34:59,640 --> 01:35:03,479
Speaker 1: We're gonna gonna head out Friday after work, or you know,

1480
01:35:03,800 --> 01:35:06,760
Speaker 1: take half a day off Friday. We're going out, We're

1481
01:35:06,760 --> 01:35:11,200
Speaker 1: gonna go to whatever. Where is it this year? Where's

1482
01:35:11,240 --> 01:35:13,960
Speaker 1: the All Star Game? This year? The All Star Game?

1483
01:35:15,800 --> 01:35:22,200
Speaker 1: No one knows, exactly, No one knows exactly. No one knows,

1484
01:35:23,160 --> 01:35:25,080
Speaker 1: no one knows. I would put it in Vegas every year.

1485
01:35:26,439 --> 01:35:27,160
Speaker 1: That's not about it.

1486
01:35:27,240 --> 01:35:27,720
Speaker 3: I put it in.

1487
01:35:27,760 --> 01:35:30,519
Speaker 1: Vegas every single year. Oh it's a Globe Life Field.

1488
01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:32,000
Speaker 1: Where is that?

1489
01:35:32,000 --> 01:35:32,879
Speaker 3: That's in Texas?

1490
01:35:32,920 --> 01:35:39,520
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it's in Texas. I put it in every year. Yeah,

1491
01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:43,840
Speaker 1: put year. Yeah, I would have. I mean I would

1492
01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:45,800
Speaker 1: do that with the NBA All Star Game that every

1493
01:35:45,840 --> 01:35:52,000
Speaker 1: single year. Make it a thing. Yep, that's justly that's

1494
01:35:52,040 --> 01:35:55,120
Speaker 1: what I do. But that's coming up next.

1495
01:35:55,200 --> 01:35:59,160
Speaker 2: It was probably the most surprising thing to come out

1496
01:35:59,240 --> 01:36:02,320
Speaker 2: of Team USA practice, and this.

1497
01:36:02,439 --> 01:36:05,280
Speaker 3: Truly even for the biggest of NBA fans.

1498
01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:08,960
Speaker 2: We'll surprise the heck out of you, and that's coming

1499
01:36:09,040 --> 01:36:10,800
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1509
01:36:35,120 --> 01:36:37,280
Speaker 2: your podcasts. You see the show posted right after we

1510
01:36:37,320 --> 01:36:39,679
Speaker 2: get off the air. But we're not done yet. Hey,

1511
01:36:39,720 --> 01:36:43,280
Speaker 2: did you catch all the interviews today where they asked

1512
01:36:44,160 --> 01:36:46,719
Speaker 2: Team USA, who's the funniest guy on the team?

1513
01:36:46,880 --> 01:36:47,800
Speaker 3: Did you see their answer?

1514
01:36:47,840 --> 01:36:50,400
Speaker 1: See it? What was the answer? Who do you think

1515
01:36:50,439 --> 01:36:56,000
Speaker 1: it was? Let me see, A few.

1516
01:36:55,800 --> 01:36:58,519
Speaker 2: Guys had the exact same answers, So that took off

1517
01:36:58,560 --> 01:37:00,799
Speaker 2: as like, well, that must be the answer, then.

1518
01:37:01,560 --> 01:37:10,160
Speaker 1: Kawhi kawhi Leonard. I guess why I could say that,

1519
01:37:10,240 --> 01:37:13,479
Speaker 1: you know why? Why? No one expects him to be

1520
01:37:13,600 --> 01:37:30,160
Speaker 1: funny and so that dry sense of humor like yeah right,

1521
01:37:30,400 --> 01:37:35,360
Speaker 1: Like imagine him saying something funny and then laughing at

1522
01:37:35,400 --> 01:37:38,320
Speaker 1: his own statement like that.

1523
01:37:38,160 --> 01:37:42,839
Speaker 2: Well, okay, but that's like funny in spite of himself,

1524
01:37:44,080 --> 01:37:49,200
Speaker 2: not purposeful. Let's be real, that's people laughing at him.

1525
01:37:49,200 --> 01:37:52,800
Speaker 1: Not well, I mean, it depends, it's all part of it.

1526
01:37:53,560 --> 01:37:57,759
Speaker 1: I guess. I guess that man.

1527
01:37:58,400 --> 01:38:01,760
Speaker 2: That man and I know you got guys, have you

1528
01:38:01,800 --> 01:38:05,519
Speaker 2: know you've got some collegiate bloodliner in common here? That

1529
01:38:05,720 --> 01:38:09,760
Speaker 2: man has got to have one of the strangest superstar

1530
01:38:09,880 --> 01:38:11,840
Speaker 2: careers I've ever seen an athlete have.

1531
01:38:12,400 --> 01:38:15,680
Speaker 1: Yes, he has.

1532
01:38:17,400 --> 01:38:23,800
Speaker 2: Been a champion in multiple cities, in multiple countries as

1533
01:38:23,840 --> 01:38:29,200
Speaker 2: a one, and I don't feel like anybody knows him

1534
01:38:29,600 --> 01:38:35,840
Speaker 2: at all. Yeah, not even a little bit. I don't

1535
01:38:35,880 --> 01:38:41,160
Speaker 2: think he cares that well, No, he clearly doesn't. I

1536
01:38:41,200 --> 01:38:43,360
Speaker 2: have heard stories that he's one of the funniest trash

1537
01:38:43,360 --> 01:38:46,200
Speaker 2: talkers ever. Have you heard about like the way like

1538
01:38:46,280 --> 01:38:48,400
Speaker 2: when he drives and puts one in, he just goes

1539
01:38:48,479 --> 01:38:52,599
Speaker 2: buckets And.

1540
01:38:49,400 --> 01:38:57,000
Speaker 1: That is funny, that's hilarious. But that's what I've heard.

1541
01:38:57,240 --> 01:39:04,600
Speaker 1: I've heard buckets. I love that that. That's good buckets.

1542
01:39:05,680 --> 01:39:10,599
Speaker 2: It is right. It's an odd concoction. I still don't

1543
01:39:10,640 --> 01:39:11,800
Speaker 2: know how to put my finger on it.

1544
01:39:12,960 --> 01:39:18,840
Speaker 1: He's unique to say the least. And you know, if

1545
01:39:18,880 --> 01:39:23,360
Speaker 1: he could have stayed healthy, he had an opportunity to,

1546
01:39:24,080 --> 01:39:28,160
Speaker 1: you know, go down as one of you know, the

1547
01:39:28,200 --> 01:39:33,240
Speaker 1: best players ever to play. Body just wouldn't agree with him. Yep,

1548
01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:38,000
Speaker 1: and it happens. It happens for some people. He still

1549
01:39:38,040 --> 01:39:44,519
Speaker 1: managed to win, but you know, his body was just like, nah, Bro,

1550
01:39:45,000 --> 01:39:46,280
Speaker 1: not this road, not this trip.

1551
01:39:47,560 --> 01:39:50,160
Speaker 2: It is interesting what the Clippers and I don't know

1552
01:39:51,120 --> 01:39:53,720
Speaker 2: exactly what kind of decisions they had in all this,

1553
01:39:53,920 --> 01:39:59,240
Speaker 2: but I do think it's interesting. As they try to

1554
01:39:59,240 --> 01:40:00,400
Speaker 2: push forward.

1555
01:40:00,200 --> 01:40:02,880
Speaker 1: They're about to be some trash, right, like the new

1556
01:40:02,920 --> 01:40:05,280
Speaker 1: Arena and all of this. And you know why the

1557
01:40:05,320 --> 01:40:10,200
Speaker 1: Clippers have always been the Clippers. Why, like they can

1558
01:40:10,280 --> 01:40:13,479
Speaker 1: never get over the hump. It's the Kobe curse. Have

1559
01:40:13,560 --> 01:40:18,000
Speaker 1: you ever seen that clip where Kobe works out for

1560
01:40:18,080 --> 01:40:21,720
Speaker 1: the Clippers coming out of high school. Yes, I mean

1561
01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:25,120
Speaker 1: he didn't miss a shot, I mean he did everything.

1562
01:40:26,280 --> 01:40:28,080
Speaker 1: And they said, this is probably one of the best

1563
01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:31,960
Speaker 1: workouts we've ever seen. And Kobe was excited to go

1564
01:40:32,560 --> 01:40:36,960
Speaker 1: play for the Clippers and they said He's like, wow,

1565
01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:39,599
Speaker 1: I can't I would be honored to play here. Blah

1566
01:40:39,600 --> 01:40:41,600
Speaker 1: blah blah. The whole thing and they said, oh no,

1567
01:40:41,640 --> 01:40:49,840
Speaker 1: we can't draft you. We can't draft you because we

1568
01:40:49,880 --> 01:40:53,920
Speaker 1: want to be taken serious here in LA and if

1569
01:40:53,920 --> 01:40:56,920
Speaker 1: we draft a seventeen year old high school kid, no

1570
01:40:56,960 --> 01:41:00,439
Speaker 1: one would take us serious. So he said, huh okay,

1571
01:41:01,640 --> 01:41:04,679
Speaker 1: hmm all right, Well we know how that played out.

1572
01:41:05,320 --> 01:41:05,640
Speaker 1: Mm hm.

1573
01:41:07,320 --> 01:41:13,880
Speaker 2: He also, though, about eleven years later, came within about

1574
01:41:13,880 --> 01:41:16,840
Speaker 2: a centimeter from joining them as a free agent.

1575
01:41:17,960 --> 01:41:19,519
Speaker 1: That was never gonna happen. He was never going to

1576
01:41:19,560 --> 01:41:23,479
Speaker 1: the Clippers. Are you saying that as a Laker fan?

1577
01:41:23,560 --> 01:41:25,679
Speaker 1: Are you saying no? I'm seriously he would come, you would,

1578
01:41:25,720 --> 01:41:29,000
Speaker 1: But that's like they thought they had him. That's like

1579
01:41:29,560 --> 01:41:38,080
Speaker 1: being the face of Chanel and then flirting with the

1580
01:41:38,680 --> 01:41:46,120
Speaker 1: being the face of coach. Wow, coach, I can't even say.

1581
01:41:46,240 --> 01:41:49,920
Speaker 1: I can't even say coach because that's also a luxury brand.

1582
01:41:52,680 --> 01:41:55,080
Speaker 1: Let's say, I don't know. I don't want to be

1583
01:41:55,120 --> 01:42:04,680
Speaker 1: disparaging to a brand, but not coach. Not how about that? Right?

1584
01:42:04,760 --> 01:42:04,960
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1585
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:07,840
Speaker 1: You flirt with it, you, yeah, you know, we we'll

1586
01:42:07,840 --> 01:42:11,120
Speaker 1: see you. Yeah, and then do you get palagosol? And

1587
01:42:11,120 --> 01:42:14,719
Speaker 1: then everything happens right like it, That's just how it goes.

1588
01:42:16,040 --> 01:42:18,360
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say. I thought you

1589
01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:18,920
Speaker 1: were going to say.

1590
01:42:18,960 --> 01:42:22,320
Speaker 2: I can't say coach because that is one of the

1591
01:42:22,320 --> 01:42:24,160
Speaker 2: many nicknames that we use.

1592
01:42:24,320 --> 01:42:25,519
Speaker 1: For ste.

1593
01:42:28,040 --> 01:42:31,120
Speaker 3: There you go, Steven coach, some coach.

1594
01:42:32,080 --> 01:42:35,559
Speaker 1: I'm off Steve because of the verbal bashing that you

1595
01:42:35,840 --> 01:42:40,479
Speaker 1: and the verbal fisticuffs you and Steve took part in

1596
01:42:40,600 --> 01:42:46,360
Speaker 1: together against me last did you kind of asked for it?

1597
01:42:46,439 --> 01:42:49,400
Speaker 7: So we will get to the baseball news in a moment.

1598
01:42:49,439 --> 01:42:51,599
Speaker 7: You guys are mentioning All Star games, so I looked

1599
01:42:51,600 --> 01:42:53,559
Speaker 7: it up. It's I did not realize that the other

1600
01:42:53,600 --> 01:42:56,519
Speaker 7: three major sports, all three had their All Star Games

1601
01:42:56,560 --> 01:42:59,519
Speaker 7: all in the same month in February of this year,

1602
01:42:59,800 --> 01:43:02,320
Speaker 7: and needless to say, the NHL All Star Game was

1603
01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:07,280
Speaker 7: the lowest rated, well under two million viewers. The NBA

1604
01:43:07,439 --> 01:43:10,920
Speaker 7: All Star Game got roughly five million viewers, and what's

1605
01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:13,240
Speaker 7: left of the Pro Bowl for the NFL got under

1606
01:43:13,360 --> 01:43:16,800
Speaker 7: six million viewers. Baseball just the home run Derby got

1607
01:43:16,840 --> 01:43:19,400
Speaker 7: over six million viewers last year, and the All Star

1608
01:43:19,479 --> 01:43:23,439
Speaker 7: Game itself seven million viewers. And the home run Derby

1609
01:43:23,520 --> 01:43:27,280
Speaker 7: is well attended, which always surprises me because not everybody

1610
01:43:27,320 --> 01:43:30,599
Speaker 7: can sit in the outfield seats. It's a home run derby,

1611
01:43:30,680 --> 01:43:34,800
Speaker 7: that's where the ball is going. But tickets start at

1612
01:43:34,840 --> 01:43:39,160
Speaker 7: two hundred and seventy five dollars for some of these

1613
01:43:39,200 --> 01:43:42,720
Speaker 7: All Star events, like the Home Run Derby. It's kind

1614
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:43,400
Speaker 7: of stuff been to.

1615
01:43:43,880 --> 01:43:47,439
Speaker 2: I have been to a home run Derby and sat

1616
01:43:47,479 --> 01:43:50,599
Speaker 2: behind the plate, but I don't think I had tickets.

1617
01:43:50,600 --> 01:43:53,639
Speaker 3: I think this was a credentialed experience.

1618
01:43:53,160 --> 01:43:54,920
Speaker 7: So you wouldn't have been able to keep a ball

1619
01:43:55,080 --> 01:43:56,760
Speaker 7: than any no meeting.

1620
01:43:56,600 --> 01:43:57,000
Speaker 1: No no.

1621
01:43:57,080 --> 01:43:58,800
Speaker 2: And yeah, not a lot of foul balls in the

1622
01:43:58,800 --> 01:44:03,800
Speaker 2: Home Run Derby. But also I can honestly say that

1623
01:44:03,880 --> 01:44:08,559
Speaker 2: I remember almost none of it. Absolutely nothing stood out

1624
01:44:08,840 --> 01:44:09,919
Speaker 2: that was memorable.

1625
01:44:10,040 --> 01:44:12,000
Speaker 7: And one thing to point out about the host city,

1626
01:44:12,080 --> 01:44:15,040
Speaker 7: it's not just a couple days event. They got stuff

1627
01:44:15,120 --> 01:44:19,360
Speaker 7: at Texas Stadium from Friday through Tuesday. In addition to

1628
01:44:19,600 --> 01:44:22,080
Speaker 7: like the NFL experience, where they have an expo for

1629
01:44:22,120 --> 01:44:24,800
Speaker 7: the sport for the league. It's something in the town

1630
01:44:24,840 --> 01:44:27,240
Speaker 7: at a convention center. That sort of thing is going

1631
01:44:27,280 --> 01:44:30,200
Speaker 7: on every day. But like this Friday, they're having the

1632
01:44:30,920 --> 01:44:34,720
Speaker 7: HBCU All Star Game at the Texas Rangers Stadium, and

1633
01:44:34,760 --> 01:44:37,559
Speaker 7: then Saturday is the Futures Game, which is basically the

1634
01:44:37,600 --> 01:44:41,439
Speaker 7: Minor League Prospects All Star Game and the Celebrity Softball Game,

1635
01:44:41,560 --> 01:44:44,640
Speaker 7: and then the MLB Draft is Sunday it starts, and

1636
01:44:44,680 --> 01:44:47,040
Speaker 7: then the Home Run Derby on Monday. The All Star

1637
01:44:47,080 --> 01:44:50,320
Speaker 7: Game itself is on Fox TV a week from Tuesday

1638
01:44:50,400 --> 01:44:53,439
Speaker 7: from Texas, and the complete All Star Game rosters came

1639
01:44:53,479 --> 01:44:56,559
Speaker 7: out today. Thirty two players are now first time All Stars,

1640
01:44:56,960 --> 01:45:01,080
Speaker 7: including ten of the NL pitchers, Pittsburgh rookie Pole Skimes

1641
01:45:01,120 --> 01:45:05,160
Speaker 7: among them. Pitchers and reserves were revealed today for both teams.

1642
01:45:05,160 --> 01:45:08,719
Speaker 7: Philadelphia has seven All Stars the most. Dodgers have six.

1643
01:45:08,760 --> 01:45:11,719
Speaker 7: That includes Mookie Betts, an eighth straight All Stars selection,

1644
01:45:11,800 --> 01:45:14,960
Speaker 7: although he is currently injured. The Dodgers lost at home

1645
01:45:15,080 --> 01:45:18,240
Speaker 7: nine two to Milwaukee today all star Christian Yelich with

1646
01:45:18,280 --> 01:45:21,439
Speaker 7: three hits, three RBIs, including a home run. The Brewers

1647
01:45:21,439 --> 01:45:24,160
Speaker 7: are first place in the NL Central, five games over

1648
01:45:24,200 --> 01:45:27,200
Speaker 7: Saint Louis Baltimore a six to three winner at Oakland

1649
01:45:27,200 --> 01:45:29,880
Speaker 7: today the win to Grayson Rodriguez He's eleven and three.

1650
01:45:29,960 --> 01:45:32,080
Speaker 7: The O's are first in the AL East, now three

1651
01:45:32,120 --> 01:45:34,400
Speaker 7: games up on the Yankees, who lost at home shut

1652
01:45:34,400 --> 01:45:37,639
Speaker 7: out in fact by rival Boston three nothing. The Yankees

1653
01:45:37,680 --> 01:45:40,920
Speaker 7: have lost fifteen of their last twenty games. Tonight, they

1654
01:45:40,920 --> 01:45:43,960
Speaker 7: had just four hits as a club. Rafael Devers, a

1655
01:45:44,000 --> 01:45:47,600
Speaker 7: Boston All Star, had three hits, including solo homers in

1656
01:45:47,640 --> 01:45:49,679
Speaker 7: the top of the seventh and the top of the ninth.

1657
01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:53,439
Speaker 7: Atlanta shut out Philadelphia six nothing. All Star Raynaldo Lopez

1658
01:45:53,520 --> 01:45:57,160
Speaker 7: seven and two got the win six scoreless innings six strikeouts.

1659
01:45:57,160 --> 01:45:59,439
Speaker 7: For him, Lopez has an e array of one point

1660
01:45:59,520 --> 01:46:02,479
Speaker 7: seven one. Minnesota on a solo homer bottom of the

1661
01:46:02,560 --> 01:46:05,280
Speaker 7: ninth edge Houston three to two. Texas at home beat

1662
01:46:05,320 --> 01:46:08,560
Speaker 7: Tampa Bay thirteen to two. NASCAR Street Race in the

1663
01:46:08,600 --> 01:46:12,479
Speaker 7: Reign of Chicago went to Alex Bowman. Tonight's the winner,

1664
01:46:12,479 --> 01:46:16,479
Speaker 7: snapping in eighty race victory. Drought Tyler Reddick finished second

1665
01:46:16,720 --> 01:46:19,920
Speaker 7: at Wimbledon. Coco Goff lost her fourth rounder against fellow

1666
01:46:19,960 --> 01:46:24,000
Speaker 7: American Emma Novarro. Davis Thompson won the PGA's John Deere

1667
01:46:24,040 --> 01:46:28,880
Speaker 7: Classic in Illinois. Grease men's basketball qualified for this month's Olympics,

1668
01:46:29,000 --> 01:46:32,120
Speaker 7: winning today, as did Spain and Brazil and Puerto Rico.

1669
01:46:32,240 --> 01:46:35,280
Speaker 7: Those four get the last four spots in Paris in

1670
01:46:35,320 --> 01:46:39,879
Speaker 7: the WNBA victories for Las Vegas and Connecticut. NFL rookies

1671
01:46:39,920 --> 01:46:43,320
Speaker 7: report to training camp for Baltimore this Saturday. The report

1672
01:46:43,400 --> 01:46:45,879
Speaker 7: dates for some other teams are the next week, including

1673
01:46:45,920 --> 01:46:49,479
Speaker 7: some reporting on the sixteenth. This would be July seventh

1674
01:46:49,560 --> 01:46:51,200
Speaker 7: right now, So we got a ways to go. For

1675
01:46:51,400 --> 01:46:55,240
Speaker 7: most teams. The Hall of Fame Exhibition August first, it'll

1676
01:46:55,240 --> 01:46:58,080
Speaker 7: have the Texans against the Bears. Every other team starts

1677
01:46:58,120 --> 01:47:00,080
Speaker 7: the preseason at least a week after.

1678
01:46:59,840 --> 01:47:04,679
Speaker 3: That ANFL training camps.

1679
01:47:05,400 --> 01:47:07,120
Speaker 2: Would you if you were the Bears, would you play

1680
01:47:07,240 --> 01:47:08,479
Speaker 2: Kaleer Williams in that game?

1681
01:47:10,640 --> 01:47:11,480
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1682
01:47:11,760 --> 01:47:12,160
Speaker 3: You would?

1683
01:47:12,640 --> 01:47:12,880
Speaker 1: Yes?

1684
01:47:13,520 --> 01:47:14,559
Speaker 3: What did you say it?

1685
01:47:14,600 --> 01:47:14,680
Speaker 1: Like?

1686
01:47:14,720 --> 01:47:19,000
Speaker 2: It's like it's a ludicrous idea to not I would

1687
01:47:19,400 --> 01:47:23,559
Speaker 2: in every game. Guys are barely playing in any preseason that.

1688
01:47:23,560 --> 01:47:26,000
Speaker 2: Sean McVay would laugh at you in the other direction.

1689
01:47:26,479 --> 01:47:29,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not doing that, man. We well, we need to.

1690
01:47:29,880 --> 01:47:31,400
Speaker 1: We need to see what's going on.

1691
01:47:31,880 --> 01:47:32,560
Speaker 3: I understand.

1692
01:47:32,720 --> 01:47:36,200
Speaker 1: We don't want to be surprised opening day like whoa hey.

1693
01:47:36,400 --> 01:47:39,120
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, but that's kind of what I'm getting at.

1694
01:47:39,160 --> 01:47:41,000
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do? What if you don't like

1695
01:47:41,000 --> 01:47:41,640
Speaker 2: the preseason?

1696
01:47:41,640 --> 01:47:44,519
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? Not play them? No? Look, man,

1697
01:47:46,439 --> 01:47:49,640
Speaker 1: what you gotta understand in the NBA, I mean the

1698
01:47:49,760 --> 01:47:55,559
Speaker 1: NFL is the more you play if you have talent,

1699
01:47:56,439 --> 01:48:02,320
Speaker 1: the better you get. You don't get good just hanging

1700
01:48:02,400 --> 01:48:11,000
Speaker 1: out like you have to be thrown in to the fire.

1701
01:48:11,400 --> 01:48:14,519
Speaker 7: Mark, he's just grateful there's not an Olympic football team

1702
01:48:14,720 --> 01:48:15,760
Speaker 7: for his players to go to.

1703
01:48:16,000 --> 01:48:16,719
Speaker 1: Thank goodness.

1704
01:48:16,800 --> 01:48:19,080
Speaker 3: Can you imagine you imagine?

1705
01:48:19,720 --> 01:48:23,720
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's mahomes wants to play for America.

1706
01:48:24,040 --> 01:48:27,400
Speaker 7: McCaffrey's on the US team, Mccafrica.

1707
01:48:28,479 --> 01:48:35,040
Speaker 1: What don't we Can you imagine Olympic football? Anyway? Did

1708
01:48:35,120 --> 01:48:38,639
Speaker 1: japan team beat the US? Was it under eighteen?

1709
01:48:39,840 --> 01:48:41,599
Speaker 7: I saw that headlined a couple of weeks ago.

1710
01:48:41,760 --> 01:48:44,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, routed blew them out though.

1711
01:48:44,160 --> 01:48:46,240
Speaker 7: Couldn't you see that with flag football?

1712
01:48:46,320 --> 01:48:46,479
Speaker 1: Right?

1713
01:48:46,560 --> 01:48:49,280
Speaker 7: Any host country can add a sport that someone like

1714
01:48:49,320 --> 01:48:51,160
Speaker 7: Tyreek Hill is just going to be some sort of

1715
01:48:51,240 --> 01:48:52,960
Speaker 7: ringer throwing their late right.

1716
01:48:53,080 --> 01:48:56,240
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, of course, but I look, hey man, I

1717
01:48:56,280 --> 01:48:59,639
Speaker 1: saw what Japan did to the US under eighteen team.

1718
01:49:00,120 --> 01:49:03,840
Speaker 1: I don't know world football, I don't know what it was,

1719
01:49:03,920 --> 01:49:07,360
Speaker 1: but they detroyed seem Mark.

1720
01:49:07,400 --> 01:49:09,800
Speaker 7: He doesn't want the US embarrassed. We should send our

1721
01:49:09,840 --> 01:49:12,440
Speaker 7: best basketball players to the Olympics.

1722
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Speaker 1: There it is there, it is in the best.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna feel embarrassed as soon as Anthony Davis limps

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Speaker 2: off for the first time.

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01:49:21,320 --> 01:49:29,280
Speaker 1: You Steve, your update is over turn his microphone off.

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Speaker 7: Okay, this was actually called him brittle. This was brought

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01:49:34,640 --> 01:49:38,719
Speaker 7: up during the week a year ago because Jason Smith

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01:49:38,840 --> 01:49:41,840
Speaker 7: Mets lost their closer at the World Baseball Classic. He

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01:49:41,960 --> 01:49:44,160
Speaker 7: was so proud to play for his country and then

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Speaker 7: in celebration he heard himself coming off the mound.

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Speaker 3: And he's been awful ever since.

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Speaker 2: Correct, And what was the coolest actually the coolest thing

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01:49:56,120 --> 01:50:01,760
Speaker 2: about baseball just poof went away, which was Diaz's entrance, uh,

1734
01:50:01,920 --> 01:50:03,760
Speaker 2: celebration or whatever you want to call it.

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Speaker 1: The music.

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01:50:04,920 --> 01:50:07,880
Speaker 2: The music people were on horses. There was all kinds

1737
01:50:07,920 --> 01:50:11,160
Speaker 2: of good stuff happening. Nobody's doing that now because he

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01:50:11,320 --> 01:50:13,639
Speaker 2: gives up three runs every time he goes out there.

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01:50:14,760 --> 01:50:20,080
Speaker 2: So anyway, you know, there were six quarterbacks taken in

1740
01:50:20,120 --> 01:50:23,719
Speaker 2: the first twelve picks. Not all of them are just gonna,

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01:50:24,040 --> 01:50:28,960
Speaker 2: you know, go play them. Well, I get it. I

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01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:29,679
Speaker 2: heard what you're saying.

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01:50:29,880 --> 01:50:34,479
Speaker 1: But the Bears have another one that's true. So that

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01:50:34,600 --> 01:50:37,679
Speaker 1: is that is accurate. What will be we'll be waiting

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01:50:37,760 --> 01:50:39,840
Speaker 1: on just what will we be waiting to see?

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01:50:40,400 --> 01:50:41,559
Speaker 3: How much would you play him.

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01:50:42,160 --> 01:50:46,080
Speaker 1: I play him a quarter, Okay, okay, oh yeah, yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's let's see what we got. I mean, the way

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01:50:48,080 --> 01:50:49,720
Speaker 1: you were talking, I was that maybe just playing the

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01:50:49,720 --> 01:50:50,960
Speaker 1: whole game. No, no, we can't do that.

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01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:53,040
Speaker 3: We can't do that every every rep matter.

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01:50:53,200 --> 01:50:55,920
Speaker 1: I no, no, we we we you know. Let's well,

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01:50:56,400 --> 01:50:59,400
Speaker 1: we'll play him, Okay, first first quarter. It's gonna be

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01:50:59,400 --> 01:51:01,800
Speaker 1: a lot faster. What you got to realize is preseasons

1755
01:51:01,800 --> 01:51:06,000
Speaker 1: is a lot faster than college and the regular season

1756
01:51:06,400 --> 01:51:09,680
Speaker 1: is not even close, not even close, and in the

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01:51:09,720 --> 01:51:16,600
Speaker 1: playoffs not even close to the speed of the regular season. Seriously,

1758
01:51:16,800 --> 01:51:22,760
Speaker 1: like it. That's interesting, man. I was like, oh my goodness,

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01:51:22,800 --> 01:51:27,360
Speaker 1: it's that's true. Ask anybody it's true. I mean, there's

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01:51:27,400 --> 01:51:29,200
Speaker 1: so much on the line in the playoffs that.

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01:51:29,960 --> 01:51:33,479
Speaker 2: Makes it sound like no one is playing at speed

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01:51:33,560 --> 01:51:34,920
Speaker 2: until until January.

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01:51:35,320 --> 01:51:39,360
Speaker 1: It almost. It may feel like that, but you don't

1764
01:51:39,400 --> 01:51:42,880
Speaker 1: know because the urgency. Just think about it, in a

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01:51:42,920 --> 01:51:46,799
Speaker 1: regular game and a two minute offense, how much faster

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01:51:47,000 --> 01:51:51,880
Speaker 1: is that than the regular game flow? Right? So you

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01:51:51,920 --> 01:51:59,840
Speaker 1: just use that equation and that's the heightened sense of Oh,

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01:51:59,840 --> 01:52:02,200
Speaker 1: we gotta get the week, this has to happen now.

1769
01:52:03,760 --> 01:52:07,000
Speaker 1: In the playoffs because it's winner go home, right, you

1770
01:52:07,120 --> 01:52:09,679
Speaker 1: down by six, it's two minutes left in the game.

1771
01:52:09,720 --> 01:52:13,479
Speaker 1: You got the ball. It's like, we have to do this.

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01:52:14,080 --> 01:52:17,120
Speaker 1: Everybody get up to the line. Boom. Everything is faster

1773
01:52:18,120 --> 01:52:25,800
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Adjustments they have to be made now, right.

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01:52:25,840 --> 01:52:28,280
Speaker 1: You gotta be able to make those adjustments at a

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01:52:28,320 --> 01:52:31,960
Speaker 1: speed that you you like. It's no everybody has to

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01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:36,720
Speaker 1: be on the same page. So the heightened sense and

1777
01:52:36,760 --> 01:52:40,679
Speaker 1: the adrenaline and the energy is so much greater than

1778
01:52:41,320 --> 01:52:46,280
Speaker 1: a regular season game because there is no next week, right,

1779
01:52:47,560 --> 01:52:51,240
Speaker 1: So that drives the speed and the focus up higher.

1780
01:52:53,400 --> 01:52:56,880
Speaker 1: Like you can come out in the NBA games, you know,

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01:52:57,240 --> 01:53:00,000
Speaker 1: seven game series and just get walloped in the first

1782
01:53:00,200 --> 01:53:03,600
Speaker 1: game and come back and win the series because you

1783
01:53:03,680 --> 01:53:09,760
Speaker 1: know there's a tomorrow, right, there is no tomorrow. That's it.

1784
01:53:10,680 --> 01:53:11,840
Speaker 1: I got you, I got you.

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Speaker 2: We're live in thee Tireck dot Com Studios, Mark with

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Speaker 2: it E from Salam. Coming up next, I want to

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01:53:17,120 --> 01:53:19,120
Speaker 2: read a new quote that I just read. This is

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01:53:19,160 --> 01:53:21,920
Speaker 2: the first time I read it from Lebron James about

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01:53:21,920 --> 01:53:24,040
Speaker 2: everything going on with his son. I want to read

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01:53:24,080 --> 01:53:26,000
Speaker 2: it to you see what your reaction is we'll do

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01:53:26,040 --> 01:53:28,519
Speaker 2: that coming up next on Fox Sports Radio. All right,

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01:53:28,560 --> 01:53:33,519
Speaker 2: Tyreck dot com Studios. Let me read this to you

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01:53:33,920 --> 01:53:35,880
Speaker 2: a little bit of a beefy quote, but let me

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01:53:35,920 --> 01:53:41,000
Speaker 2: read this to you. And this is Lebron talking about

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01:53:41,040 --> 01:53:43,000
Speaker 2: Brownie Mark with it he from Salam with you.

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01:53:43,200 --> 01:53:45,160
Speaker 3: Here's what Lebron said.

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Speaker 2: Quote, just imagine if you were a kid, you were

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Speaker 2: born into a situation where your dad was super famous,

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Speaker 2: super wealthy, and you the kids still have the drive

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Speaker 2: to want to be able to accomplish things for yourself.

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01:53:57,600 --> 01:53:59,719
Speaker 3: I personally don't know if I would have been.

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01:53:59,600 --> 01:54:02,840
Speaker 2: Able to do that if the roles were reversed when

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01:54:02,880 --> 01:54:05,679
Speaker 2: I was coming up, I had no choice. I had

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01:54:05,720 --> 01:54:07,960
Speaker 2: to make it out for me, my mom, my family,

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01:54:08,040 --> 01:54:11,559
Speaker 2: my hometown, my city. If Brody wants to stop right now,

1806
01:54:11,720 --> 01:54:14,799
Speaker 2: never play basketball or just be a gamer or a chef,

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01:54:15,240 --> 01:54:18,759
Speaker 2: he could have done that. People don't understand how hard

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01:54:18,840 --> 01:54:22,679
Speaker 2: that is and the commitment for him to be coming

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01:54:22,720 --> 01:54:26,200
Speaker 2: out of heart surgery less than a year ago, for

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01:54:26,320 --> 01:54:29,559
Speaker 2: him to be able to be in the NBA. The kid,

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Speaker 2: he's special. End quote. What stands out to you there?

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Speaker 1: I love that. I mean, that's okay, that's very poignant

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01:54:41,480 --> 01:54:47,600
Speaker 1: as someone who's raising kids outside of the traumas that

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01:54:47,720 --> 01:54:51,360
Speaker 1: I was, you know, born into. And I'm not talking

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01:54:51,400 --> 01:54:56,920
Speaker 1: about physical abuse or anything like that, but a socioeconomic

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01:54:57,680 --> 01:55:04,920
Speaker 1: environment that wasn't conn deducive to picking what you wanted

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Speaker 1: to do. Now, look, both my parents are educated. My

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01:55:10,600 --> 01:55:16,160
Speaker 1: mother's as a doctor's degree in education. My father worked

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01:55:16,760 --> 01:55:24,560
Speaker 1: twenty five twenty six years correctional offices in you know,

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Speaker 1: the prison system in California. And so I come from

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01:55:30,800 --> 01:55:42,160
Speaker 1: very humbled upbringing. So I understand what he's talking about

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Speaker 1: in terms of the drive a kid who presumably has

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01:55:48,120 --> 01:55:54,080
Speaker 1: everything he's ever wanted, the drive to do something impossible

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01:55:56,360 --> 01:55:59,920
Speaker 1: in the shadow of one of the all time grew

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01:56:00,040 --> 01:56:07,000
Speaker 1: great impossible figures. Yes, that drive alone is enough to

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Speaker 1: take over the world, because when you take the have

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01:56:14,320 --> 01:56:22,880
Speaker 1: to out of motivation, very few people can continue to go.

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01:56:23,520 --> 01:56:32,560
Speaker 1: Very few people can continue to push for greatness because

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01:56:32,680 --> 01:56:40,440
Speaker 1: the desire isn't there, The cold, crying, hungry isn't there.

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01:56:43,600 --> 01:56:47,160
Speaker 1: Brian James was a millionaire before he even left high school.

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Speaker 1: Right from his own on his own account, it was

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01:56:52,560 --> 01:56:56,840
Speaker 1: a McDonald's All American, signed a big deal with a

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01:56:56,920 --> 01:57:06,040
Speaker 1: gaming and he had his own Niow money, so he'd

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01:57:06,080 --> 01:57:14,720
Speaker 1: already been on pace to have a comfortable life whether

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01:57:14,800 --> 01:57:19,720
Speaker 1: he decided he wanted to continue to pursue the NBA,

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Speaker 1: but he did, he right, and that is impressive.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't suffer from what John McEnroe wants called affluenza.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people suffer from that.

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01:57:30,520 --> 01:57:34,920
Speaker 2: Right right, you know what the cynic would say, though,

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Speaker 2: And I hate to bring this up because well, no,

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01:57:39,520 --> 01:57:42,760
Speaker 2: ninety five percent of that quote and everything you just said,

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01:57:42,840 --> 01:57:43,800
Speaker 2: that's beautiful.

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01:57:44,120 --> 01:57:46,440
Speaker 1: It really is. That's beautiful.

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01:57:46,880 --> 01:57:51,160
Speaker 2: So if you're just focusing on the drive, I'm totally

1845
01:57:51,240 --> 01:57:54,360
Speaker 2: with you. But this is the world in which we

1846
01:57:54,400 --> 01:57:57,320
Speaker 2: live right now, where someone will get that last sentence

1847
01:57:57,560 --> 01:57:59,560
Speaker 2: and when he says for him to be able to

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01:57:59,600 --> 01:58:04,760
Speaker 2: be in the NBA, he's special, and the response will be, but.

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01:58:04,880 --> 01:58:05,839
Speaker 1: No, you're special.

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01:58:06,200 --> 01:58:10,320
Speaker 2: Right, Well, you only made the NBA because you forced

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01:58:10,400 --> 01:58:11,200
Speaker 2: that to happen.

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01:58:13,160 --> 01:58:16,280
Speaker 1: Either way, it's up to him to see if he

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01:58:16,280 --> 01:58:17,320
Speaker 1: can stick and stay.

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01:58:17,840 --> 01:58:19,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, the drive is the drive.

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01:58:19,440 --> 01:58:21,760
Speaker 1: The drive is the drive. The drive is the drive.

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01:58:21,840 --> 01:58:25,080
Speaker 1: And nobody knows how hard this kid has worked. Remember

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01:58:25,200 --> 01:58:28,000
Speaker 1: he did have a heart attack, Yes he did one

1858
01:58:28,080 --> 01:58:28,560
Speaker 1: year ago.

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Speaker 2: Like that's the worst part about this E is that

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01:58:33,520 --> 01:58:37,760
Speaker 2: this kid is someone who I find very easy to

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01:58:37,880 --> 01:58:44,120
Speaker 2: root for. I want him to be an actual NBA player,

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01:58:45,920 --> 01:58:49,760
Speaker 2: I really do. And I watch him play yesterday and

1863
01:58:49,800 --> 01:58:56,720
Speaker 2: I go, God, I how about another year of college? No,

1864
01:58:59,400 --> 01:59:03,320
Speaker 2: I'm just that's what my eyes tell me. And I

1865
01:59:03,360 --> 01:59:04,000
Speaker 2: hope I'm wrong.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but when you go through something as traumatic as

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01:59:07,160 --> 01:59:09,800
Speaker 1: you know, heart attack and heart surgery and all of that,

1868
01:59:10,240 --> 01:59:13,600
Speaker 1: there is no less wait and see. Yeah, I feel you.

1869
01:59:13,760 --> 01:59:16,880
Speaker 1: Let's go right now. Let's go right now. There is

1870
01:59:16,920 --> 01:59:19,880
Speaker 1: no wait and see and I and I'm okay with that,

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01:59:21,400 --> 01:59:22,120
Speaker 1: Okay with it.

1872
01:59:22,400 --> 01:59:23,960
Speaker 2: There's not a lot of people that are going to

1873
01:59:24,000 --> 01:59:26,880
Speaker 2: turn down seven figure contracts.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's just the bottom line.

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01:59:30,040 --> 01:59:33,400
Speaker 2: I get it. I get it. Great to have you back, brother,

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01:59:33,920 --> 01:59:36,680
Speaker 2: Thank you. Great to be all right, absolutely for E

1877
01:59:36,760 --> 01:59:40,000
Speaker 2: from Salama, Mark Willard, stay right here, Plank and Spaniard

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Speaker 2: coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.