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Speaker 2: I'm Mark Willard. However, you are bringing us in tonight

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Speaker 2: across the land. We thank you so much for doing it.

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Speaker 3: Listen.

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Speaker 2: Now, I have a point, e from have a point

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Speaker 2: that I'd like to make. Well, no, no, no, no, I all,

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Speaker 2: but I think you should have first surf. I think

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Speaker 2: you should have for what that was a nice, little, tidy,

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Speaker 3: That was tidy. That was tidy. It was party.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't brock party, it was just straight party. And

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Speaker 2: I'd like to I'd like to hear your thoughts.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, since you since you ass you know,

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Speaker 1: the thing I wanted to see with the Lakers is playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Is there's always this notion, especially teams that have a

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Speaker 1: storied history and have dynamic players that actually won championships

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Speaker 1: and been through the grind. Like when you get there, right,

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Speaker 1: when you get there, it clicks in. It's a completely

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Speaker 1: different story than the regular season. It's a whole second season. Okay,

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Speaker 1: everything you did in the regular season, however you got there,

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Speaker 1: none of it matters because now you're in, you know,

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. This is when every team has an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to win a championship. Very few teams have won championships

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Speaker 1: that are in these playoffs. And you know the Lakers

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Speaker 1: coming into this, I wanted to see where they gonna

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Speaker 1: They had plenty arrests four days four days, right, they

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Speaker 1: battled that back in the play in and got themselves

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Speaker 1: on the road, and that's what they did. They came

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Speaker 1: forth game they were playing Memphis was would go on runs,

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Speaker 1: they would go on runs, and they came down in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. John Moran hurt his hand, had to

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Speaker 1: leave the game, and then the Laker others really stepped

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Speaker 1: up to me if that can if that happens consistently,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not asking Rwery to go out and give

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Speaker 1: us almost thirty a night, but if he could consistently

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Speaker 1: knock down and open shots and put the pressure on

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Speaker 2: U Hatchemora and Austin Reeves the two leading scorers for

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Speaker 2: the Lakers. Just like you drew it up, so everybody

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Speaker 2: talks about the championship DNA of Lebron, James and Anthony Davis.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead and put the Splash Brothers in there as

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Speaker 2: well for the Golden State Warriors. And it's Hatchemora and

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Speaker 2: Austin Reeves combining for fifty two points in a Laker

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Speaker 3: Okay, beautiful, you're not wrong. You're not wrong with And

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Speaker 3: if you know what.

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Speaker 1: The biggest thing that Lebron only played thirty four minutes,

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Speaker 1: that's outstanding. That's outstanding. That's gonna be I'm telling you, boy.

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Speaker 1: If that, oh my goodness, it's gonna be helpful. Because

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Speaker 1: if they could get through these this grind of a

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Speaker 2: Boy, well, let let me all share something that you

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Speaker 2: probably already know. But as a follower and a fan

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Speaker 2: you this is not to say that the Memphis Grizzlies

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Speaker 2: are not good, but boy, I know their bark is

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Speaker 2: worse than their bite.

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Speaker 3: That is a fact.

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Speaker 2: Their bark is really good. Their bite's fine, it's good,

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Speaker 2: it's good. This series is not over yet to play.

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Speaker 2: But man, there, but their bark is way worse than

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Speaker 2: their bite. Well, absolutely, absolutely, And the Grizzlies have always

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Speaker 2: spoken like a franchise that has achieved more than it has.

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Speaker 2: So okay, let's put that over here for a second

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Speaker 2: because I like everything that you said. But I have

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: The Kings showed Themlves exactly like they needed to last

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Speaker 2: night they beat the Golden State Warriors. However, I happened

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Speaker 2: to think that the Warriors in that game there were

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Speaker 2: Let's just say. And I've always had a healthy respect

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Speaker 2: give me your marketing slogan for next year's NBA regular.

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Speaker 1: Season, if the the if the.

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Speaker 2: If the Warriors in Round two, Warriors and the Lakers

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Speaker 2: playing Round two. The popular thought is, well, the NBA

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Speaker 2: will just be darned thrilled, won't they look at this.

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Speaker 2: It's it's Los Angeles, and it's San Francisco, and it's

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Speaker 3: And that is all correct.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Now do next year's Now do next year's regular

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Speaker 2: season and give me your marketing slogan.

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Speaker 1: Championships start in California.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's one thing. You could say. I have an idea.

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Speaker 2: How about go to sleep and we'll see you in April.

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Speaker 2: How about that was like a T shirt that says,

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Speaker 2: go to sleep, we'll see you in April.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's that's pretty much it, because.

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Speaker 4: That's what that's exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I and I understand exactly what you're doing there,

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Speaker 1: because these are two Both teams were much maligned, especially

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Speaker 1: Sacramento on the road, injuries, missing players, limping in down

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Speaker 1: just missed a play in for Golden State, and they

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Speaker 1: the NBA Playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Now the Kings won last night, that's not lost.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about that game, because that was a great game.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, I'm gonna let you go ahead to dive

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Speaker 3: It was a great game. It was a great game.

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Speaker 2: I think that it would be a disservice to anybody

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Speaker 2: with the Kings organization to start anywhere other than d

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Speaker 2: Aaron Fox. This was no surprise to me, but I

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Speaker 3: This young man. He is He is restaurant quality.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this guy, he's fantastic, and in the second half

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Speaker 3: That's that's when he's at his best.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he's necessarily going to look like

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Speaker 2: that's how you look in the second half of your

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Speaker 2: wait for it, first ever playoff game ever, that has

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Speaker 2: to be a concern for the Warriors, because the whole

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Speaker 2: thought going in is, well, when we get there, you

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Speaker 2: guys will see what this is actually like, Like, these

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Speaker 2: are the playoffs. I think it's wonderful that that you're

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Speaker 2: dearon Fox, no one told him, no one told him

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Speaker 2: that it's different. And he's like, it's not different. The

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Speaker 3: Ball in it.

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Speaker 4: But you now, okay, go ahead, go ahead. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: You know what the scary thing is what people are

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Speaker 1: not really understanding. Well, well, that's just an obvious. That's

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Speaker 1: five for seventeen. He's not gonna do that. That's not

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Speaker 3: They defend him, well, yes.

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Speaker 1: But once you get a little bit of Graymond Draymond,

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Speaker 1: I guarantee he's gonna come out more aggressive. But the

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Speaker 1: thing that people aren't familiar with with Sacramento is Malik

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Speaker 1: Monk coming off the bench. This dude is a bona

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Speaker 1: twenty nine minutes, and you score thirty two points.

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Speaker 4: That's a problem.

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Speaker 1: This is not this is what he's been doing the

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Speaker 2: So the issue for the Warriors there is And it's

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Speaker 2: funny because you're watching the Kings and I watched them

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Speaker 2: We Believe Warriors. And if you're not familiar with who

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Speaker 2: Stephen Jackson Al Harrington Warriors who upset the Mavericks as

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Speaker 3: And then that was it. That's all they did. They

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Speaker 3: just won one round.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 2: They're still they're beloved here in the Bay Area as

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Speaker 2: if they won a title the way people talk about

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Speaker 2: them because they were two things. They were surprising, an upstart, right,

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Speaker 2: And that's the Kings, And that's no surprise. They are very,

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Speaker 2: very good offensively. And I love the way did you

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Speaker 3: I love the way he's coaching them.

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Speaker 2: They're young, they're brand new, they're dynamic offensively, and he

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Speaker 2: the sideline going, guys, as soon as you get across

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Speaker 2: half court, go crazy, let it fly, let it rip,

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Speaker 2: shoot it, shoot it fast, shoot it again.

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Speaker 3: If it doesn't go in, shoot it. I love it.

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Speaker 2: He is coaching the team that he has, and so

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Speaker 2: that is really really good. All of that said, I'll

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Speaker 2: a Warrior fan wants to see to think that they

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Speaker 2: still do indeed have a chance. The Warriors on the

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Speaker 2: road this year against elite offensive teams kept getting overwhelmed

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Speaker 2: in the second half to lose by fifteen, seventeen, nineteen points.

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Speaker 2: That didn't happen in this one. The Kings needed to

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Speaker 3: They deserve all that credit.

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Speaker 2: But as the Warriors said after the game, with Andrew

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Speaker 2: whole for the first time all year. They lost by

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Speaker 2: three points. If they lose tomorrow night, I might have

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Speaker 2: a different tune. I don't think they're going to lose

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Speaker 2: tomorrow night. I still have them in six games. Don't

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Speaker 4: The thing I.

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Speaker 3: Know that they don't.

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Speaker 1: First of all, it's difficult to play in Sacramento. The

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Speaker 2: Played very well. I thought I thought he played very well.

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Speaker 2: here's where I'll meet you. I think the winner in

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Speaker 4: Oh that's good, that's yeah, Okay.

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Speaker 3: I think the winner tomorrow Night's game is winning the series.

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Speaker 2: And I think that I've watched Golden State all year

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Speaker 3: So that's what I expect tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: I remember Game four in Boston last year in the finals,

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Speaker 3: I'm with you.

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Speaker 2: The intensity gets ratcheted up, and I believe the winner

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Speaker 2: Oh, this is a big big big boy game tomorrow night.

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Speaker 3: Oh e o e O. Well, I was like, I

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Speaker 4: You've had to be.

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Speaker 3: Done. Oh man, Okay, so.

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Speaker 2: We got major injuries already, Oh my goodness, we got

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Speaker 2: we got major upsets already, certainly the one that just

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Speaker 2: You know what, both teams, both teams lose a star.

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Speaker 3: One is out out.

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Speaker 2: Tyler Harroll's out, that's gonna hear that's a rap for him.

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Speaker 1: It's it's crazy because you know, watching the Bulls and

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Speaker 4: Be praying.

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Speaker 1: That the Bulls win this game because what they don't

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Speaker 4: He just plays.

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Speaker 1: He is going to kill you, you know, and in places

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Speaker 3: But I just I have this question.

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Speaker 2: This is it is a relatable story. We've all been

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Speaker 2: If you go outside the building and get something shiny

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Speaker 3: What are we doing here?

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Speaker 2: I guess something in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Needs to be harder.

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Speaker 2: You got to play more games, you gotta play more

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know what the incentive is

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Speaker 1: Well, you got to play the games. You gotta be

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Speaker 2: Right, And they know that they'll do enough of those

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Speaker 2: that's what these teams all did. Eh oh, look, you know,

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Speaker 3: It's exactly what they all did. Well.

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Speaker 1: There was some contention there because you know, not everybody

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Speaker 1: They got them, and now they're here, right, they got them.

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Speaker 3: And even the Lakers like, hey, hang on the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: Admit it. They looked.

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Speaker 4: That was a ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: They didn't want to be there.

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Speaker 3: It looked awful.

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Speaker 2: And only because the Wolves looked even worse did the

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Speaker 4: This is dangerous team man.

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Speaker 1: I know, when you when you're on the court and

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Speaker 1: a tough win for anybody. That's a tough win because

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Speaker 1: you know Lebron James and Anthony Davis one healthy, are

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Speaker 1: the two best players out of the starting ten. Then

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Speaker 1: you got job right and then probably Jared Jack Junior.

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Speaker 1: And then I think, well Austin Reeves man, shoot lord.

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Speaker 1: But look, but that was that wasn't a fluke that,

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Speaker 1: That wasn't a fool like that wasn't He's been.

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Speaker 4: No, he's been.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's been doing that this this season, especially

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Speaker 1: coming down the stretch. He's been that guy. You heard

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Speaker 1: him yelling, right, I'm him, yep.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's I've already had enough.

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Speaker 4: I'm him him.

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Speaker 2: There's too many right, If you're him, there can't be

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Speaker 2: any other hymns.

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Speaker 3: And in every game, somebody's him.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know, But no, I would not be

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Speaker 2: surprised at all if the Lakers won this series, and

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Speaker 2: I felt that way before today, I would not be

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Speaker 2: surprised at all. If Steve de Sager starts talking here

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Speaker 2: in just a moment, I wouldn't be surprised. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I'd be surprised if he didn't, because well, it's time

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Speaker 2: for what's trending, right, Yeah, they're hellas Steve, How are

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Speaker 2: we doing?

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Speaker 7: Hello, gentlemen, and mister Mark Willard could not be more

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Speaker 7: correct on American sports in general. I have the best

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Speaker 7: NFL example that comes to mind as one of the

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Speaker 7: Eli Manning New York Giants teams that approached Christmas with

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Speaker 7: a seven and seven record, and nobody remembers because they

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Speaker 7: beat the Patriots to win the Super Bowl. They were

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Speaker 7: seven and seven on Christmas Eve. Nobody remembers. The National

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Speaker 7: League expanded the playoffs last year in the baseball season,

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Speaker 7: they led in six teams. Who are the only two

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Speaker 7: teams that made the National League playoffs that couldn't win

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Speaker 7: ninety games during the year. The two teams that played

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Speaker 7: for the National League Championship, the Phillies and the Padres.

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Speaker 7: It reminds me of there was one of the European

479
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Speaker 7: soccer stars that came over to play MLS and at

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Speaker 7: one point of the season in an interview, he said,

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Speaker 7: wait a minute. You win all these games during the season,

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Speaker 7: have a great year, and then you decide your champions

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Speaker 7: by a little tournament at the end. That's yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 7: pretty much.

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Speaker 3: That's what we do in the United States.

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Speaker 7: We don't crown necessarily the best, but we certainly reward

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Speaker 7: the hottest there is that. Speaking of hot, I'm glad

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Speaker 7: you mentioned Jimmy Butler great again in the postseason as

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Speaker 7: Miami wins at Milwaukee won thirty to one seventeen game

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Speaker 7: one of their first round series, Butler with thirty five

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Speaker 7: points eleven assists. I saw a list tonight from the

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Speaker 7: league most thirty five point playoff games in the history

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Speaker 7: of the Miami Heat. Lebron James did it nine times there.

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Speaker 7: This is Jimmy Butler's tenth thirty five point playoff game

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Speaker 7: with Miami. Dwayne Wade with fourteen at the top of

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Speaker 7: the list. Also read the Miami Heat only played Let's

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Speaker 7: see nine players tonight, and four of them were undrafted

498
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Speaker 7: and they went at number one. Milwaukee Jannis Antenakunpo left

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Speaker 7: with a bruce lower back. Tyler Hero of the Heat,

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Speaker 7: left with a broken hand. We can update the game

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Speaker 7: that's in progress. The Clippers Russell Westbrook is zero for

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Speaker 7: five from the floor already, and the Clippers lead at Phoenix.

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Speaker 4: We would be.

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Speaker 7: No Paul George's not there.

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Speaker 2: He just squared up Kevin Durant a second ago, and

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Speaker 2: it was just you could see it's like, okay, dude,

507
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Speaker 2: just just make your brick so we can move on.

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Speaker 2: And he hit the backboard and the ram and then

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Speaker 2: we moved on. I mean, yeah, he's all turned up

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 7: I believe you just said Westbrook. I believe I heard

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Speaker 7: Westbrook from you.

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Speaker 2: I you know, it's funny. I I it just comes

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Speaker 2: out now. I didn't even have to think out that way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, totally.

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Speaker 7: Paul George out and might miss the series with his

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Speaker 7: brain knee. But Eric Gordon has ten points in the

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Speaker 7: first less than ten minutes of this game, eighteen fifteen.

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Speaker 7: Clippers lead at Phoenix. By the way, I think reading

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Speaker 7: lips that Russell Westbrook said, I'm him.

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Speaker 3: He said that it be first quarter here today.

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Speaker 7: The late game is gonna be Denver hosting Minnesota after

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Speaker 7: ten thirty pm Eastern time. The Lakers won Game one

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Speaker 7: at Memphis today, won twenty eight one twelve. My goodness,

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Speaker 7: they were good in so many spots in this game.

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Speaker 7: You know, they were up ten late first quarter, had

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Speaker 7: no turnovers in the game at that point, and then

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Speaker 7: get out scored by seventeen the next quarter and a

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Speaker 7: half and still respond. John Morant left in the fourth

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Speaker 7: quarter right hand injury. X rays negative. He was hurt

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Speaker 7: on an offensive foul of his game two is Wednesday.

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Speaker 7: Jaron Jackson thirty one points in defeat. And you look

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Speaker 7: at the Laker box score, and my goodness, I'm sure

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Speaker 7: some people were watching Laker game, perhaps for the first time,

535
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Speaker 7: first to fourth quarter today and say, ha, who what

536
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Speaker 7: Austin Reeves twenty three points, Ruyachi Murray twenty nine points,

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Speaker 7: and he played thirty minutes off the bench. He almost

538
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Speaker 7: couldn't miss in the second half. Me wound up a

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Speaker 7: oven of fourteen shooting from the floor. And yes, Lebron

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Speaker 7: James twenty one points and Anthony Davis had twenty two

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Speaker 7: and seven blocks in the game. Lakers up one game.

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Speaker 7: Then tomorrow night it's Brooklyn at Philadelphia, Golden States at Sacramento.

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Speaker 3: Again, my goodness, was at entertaining in northern.

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Speaker 1: California last night. Give me more of those.

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Speaker 7: The NHL Stanley Cup playoffs start Monday night. Matt Fitzpatrick

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Speaker 7: won the golf event at Hiltonhead. Kyle Larson took NASCAR's

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Speaker 7: four hundred at Martinsville, and the Sunday Night ballgame has

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Speaker 7: the Texas Rangers scoreless at Houston, bottom of the six.

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Speaker 7: Notable because it is manager Bruce Bouchie against manager Dusty

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Speaker 7: Baker yet again. They meet for the one hundred and

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Speaker 7: ninety fourth time in the regular season. The first was

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Speaker 7: when Dusty's Giants were in San Diego against Bochie's Padres.

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Speaker 7: That was Barry Bonds and Matt Williams in the Giants

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Speaker 7: against Ken Cammanadi and Tony Gwynn of the Padres in

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Speaker 7: the mid nineties. And these two are still man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all kinds of fun for a Giants fan. It's

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00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 2: really cool Sunday Night baseball Boach versus Dusty while the

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Speaker 2: Giants are coming off back to back, come from the

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Speaker 2: head losses against the Tigers, and today got rained out

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Speaker 2: after sitting there for about seven hours, said it wasn't

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Speaker 2: raining and they still somehow.

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Speaker 7: Postponed the gay And then they say, Miami, bro exactly

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Speaker 7: leave town. They say come back in July.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, on an off day that was tucked into a

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Speaker 2: three city ten game trip.

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Speaker 3: This whole I'm already annoyed.

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Speaker 2: Steve that we're ten games in or something, and the

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Speaker 2: whole thing stinks already. So I'm glad Boach and Dusty

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Speaker 2: are having a good time in.

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Speaker 3: The American League. Good lord, what a mess.

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Speaker 2: By the way, if we're gonna rip while Westbrook's OH

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Speaker 2: for five, should we mention Kevin Durant's OH for four?

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Speaker 4: Might as well?

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Speaker 1: But well, who would you bet on to write the

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Speaker 1: ship though?

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Speaker 2: Notta No, Maybe you know Durant? Do you think I'm

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Speaker 2: thinking Durant? Yes, I'm gonna pick Durant. I'll pick Durant

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Speaker 2: on that one. Yeah, how about this. It's a bad

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Speaker 2: comp but I'm gonna try and make it anyway from

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Speaker 2: especially as a football guy. Steve mentions the New York Giants,

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Speaker 2: you want to mess around and be seven and seven

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Speaker 2: on Christmas Eve.

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Speaker 3: Here's the deal.

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Speaker 2: You don't get to play at home in the playoffs period,

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Speaker 2: So what if we do that.

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Speaker 3: First round eight and you don't go home? Do it

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Speaker 3: all on the road.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I'm just I'm totally spitballing here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you you know it's the league is for

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Speaker 1: the fans, and you would punish the fans.

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Speaker 4: Right like that?

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you want to see the team.

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Speaker 2: I'm rewarding the fans whose players played and actually try

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Speaker 2: in the regular season and earned something. I mean, do

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Speaker 2: think about it the other way, if you would for

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Speaker 2: a second, how odd it is that the Memphis Grizzlies

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Speaker 2: would go north of fifty wins. Have I think the

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Speaker 2: best home record in the NBA, if I'm not mistaken. Okay, right,

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Speaker 2: get all the way here and here come the Lakers

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Speaker 2: who had a game four days ago, played awful in it,

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Speaker 2: and now you have forty eight minutes. It doesn't go

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Speaker 2: your way. Home court advantage is gone. Does that actually

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Speaker 2: make sense?

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Speaker 1: Yes it does. Yes, I don't think that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Does make sense because you have to win the game.

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Speaker 1: If you're that good at home, win that game. I

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Speaker 1: guess the lower seed I mean the seeding. But it's

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Speaker 1: all set up for you to win.

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Speaker 2: If the game one game, somebody named Hatchamura might freak

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Speaker 2: out and then all of a sudden you've lost home

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Speaker 2: court advantage.

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Speaker 1: Hey, that is on you. You're playing the game.

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Speaker 3: I hear you, I hear you. I get it. I

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Speaker 3: get it. I'm just telling you what are we rewarding.

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Speaker 2: Are we rewarding a good regular season, or are we

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Speaker 2: rewarding the Lakers, who are like, you know what, we

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Speaker 2: sat down in October and decided that on March twenty eighth,

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Speaker 2: Anthony Davis isn't playing. So he's not playing, and we're

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Speaker 2: rewarding it because now they're going to try. Look, man,

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, Look, I have a point. We're in the playoff.

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Speaker 3: No, I have a point.

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Speaker 1: We're in the playoffs. The season is long. You get

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Speaker 1: down to this point, you need to be playing your

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Speaker 1: best basketball going into the playoffs. We've had several storied

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Speaker 1: teams limp into the playoffs. They made the playoffs. That's

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Speaker 1: all they're worried about.

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Speaker 3: They're there, limp in the playoffs. It's they lived. No no, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: no, no no.

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Speaker 1: What the Lakers went through with Anthony Davis being heard

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Speaker 1: Lebron James being hurt, Yes.

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Speaker 3: Davis being hurt? When the hell is that not true?

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Speaker 4: Well, I get it.

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Speaker 1: Look, and I almost I almost had another remote situation.

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Speaker 1: I almost had another remote situation going into halftime when

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis grabbed his arm like it was severed from

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Speaker 1: his body and looked at John Isship, who was their

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Speaker 1: head trainer, and said, I can't move my arm. I said,

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Speaker 1: look here bad I said, look, but you know what

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Speaker 1: I left. I paused the game and I left that

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Speaker 1: baseball practice. I left. I didn't know if he was

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Speaker 1: coming back. I didn't know if he was hurt forever.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was it. I left halftime,

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Speaker 1: I believe minutes. I mean Memphis was up by six

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Speaker 1: or something like that.

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Speaker 3: I think they're sick.

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Speaker 4: Turn it off, went to baseball.

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Speaker 1: Practice, you know, a couple hours there, came back and

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Speaker 1: just fast forward all through halftime to the start of

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Speaker 1: the third quarter, and I saw him there and I

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Speaker 1: was like, okay, let's go.

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Speaker 2: All right, We're not done with this conversation. And also,

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Speaker 2: when it comes to injuries, Anthony Davis, he's him. I

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Sunday.

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Speaker 3: That's heat from Salama.

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Speaker 2: Mark Willard, listen, I want to be clear all I'm

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Speaker 2: not overreacting to.

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Speaker 3: The fact that the Lakers beat the Grizzlies today.

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Speaker 2: This is kind of an if then scenario. But for

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Speaker 2: my I do think that the NBA, whether it's this year,

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Speaker 2: whether it's another year, let's not act like they don't

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00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 2: have something to address here. Minimizing their regular season more

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00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 2: and more and more every year is not going to

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Speaker 2: pay dividends in the end. That's not that's not what

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Speaker 2: you want to do. So I know that that to

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Speaker 2: a degree is a the way American sports fans look

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00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 2: at it, championship or bust. And I know they're not

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Speaker 2: the only sport with a meandering regular season. Hell, look

675
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 2: at baseball. But the NBA is different because it is

676
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 2: it's the only sport through all of this that reacts

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Speaker 2: to its meandering regular season and makes it feel that

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Speaker 2: way by by having its players not play and and

679
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 2: and and if you're going to not play and then

680
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 2: just be like, look, everything's about April, and then you

681
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: show up in April with a worse seed because of

682
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 2: that philosophy, and then you win any anyway, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Man to me, the fans lose.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't go that far. What I'd say is, I

685
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: think the NBA would be better served cutting down the

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00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: season starting during Christmas, so two months later. I think,

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Speaker 1: I think Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, it should be the

688
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve should be the beginning of the NBA season, well,

689
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Speaker 1: Christmas Day. So that will put you right around what

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Speaker 1: sixty games, sixty five games. I think you minimize the

691
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: sitting out. I think you'd be able to get more

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Speaker 1: rest for those teams that make deep playoff runs, and

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Speaker 1: you'll be able to develop players more with a real

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00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: training camp and not one in Hawaii hanging out, chilling,

695
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Speaker 1: but you can bring those younger players in and really

696
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Speaker 1: develop them and get to a situation where you're putting really,

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Speaker 1: really good product on the on the court.

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Speaker 2: You know, I see what you're saying, but you know

699
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Speaker 2: what the number one response, I mean, the owners are

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Speaker 2: not going to shorten the season.

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Speaker 3: They're not going to do it. You're you're you're not.

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Speaker 4: Taking you away, right right? I understand, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 4: So I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, I I hear what you're saying, but but what

705
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 2: I'm looking for is a way to not take money

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Speaker 2: out of owner's pockets. Not that I care about that,

707
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 2: but that's just realistically not going to happen. And uh,

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Speaker 2: and incentivize showing up to work and playing.

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00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: Well, then you got to put that type of stuff

710
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: in that type of language in the contract with the

711
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Speaker 1: which you know the PA will never allow to happen.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, well you know what, and I'll tell you

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Speaker 2: this coming up next my show.

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Speaker 3: During the week we had we had Kevon Looney on.

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Speaker 2: This week from the Warriors, and he played eighty two

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Speaker 2: games this year and he usually plays eighty two games.

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Speaker 2: You'll want to hear what he says about load management.

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Speaker 2: We'll have that coming up for you next. Mark Willardy

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Speaker 2: from slam It's Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: I got questions. I got questions.

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Speaker 2: In fact, do you see a little bit of your

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Speaker 2: also this, I promised you what Kevon Looney, who played

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Speaker 2: eighty two games this year said about load management and

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Speaker 2: ephrom as somebody who's been in professional locker rooms. Maybe

736
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Speaker 2: this won't surprise you, but I think the majority of

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Speaker 2: NBA fans will be surprised by this. So I sort

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Speaker 2: of made a joke to him. I'm like, you played

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Speaker 2: eighty two games this year. Again, He's like, yeah, I go,

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Speaker 2: what is going on? Like when you play eighty two games?

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Speaker 2: Can you tell me what is it that's so important

742
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Speaker 2: to you versus the players who, it seems to fans

743
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 2: need an invitation to actually show up for regular season games.

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Speaker 3: And he goes, you.

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Speaker 2: Know what, the players get a bad rap on this,

746
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Speaker 2: and here's why not just because he's standing up for teammates.

747
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 2: He goes, I often see players begging to play. I

748
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 2: see players trying to come up with different angles with

749
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Speaker 2: their team to try to play, to try to find

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Speaker 2: a way to change their mind.

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Speaker 8: But it's the teams, it's the analytics department, it's the

752
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 8: pre dates that are set at the beginning of the year,

753
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Speaker 8: as we've watched with the Lakers, where team says you're

754
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,399
Speaker 8: not playing, and often it's the players.

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Speaker 2: Who trying to beg their way into the game and

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Speaker 2: the team won't let them. Is that your perception of

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Speaker 2: how it went or is that surprise you a little bit?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a little different in football. Guys just play.

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00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: Guys really just play. It's a little bit different. It's

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00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: not a lot of legitimate backups at certain positions. For

761
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: receiver goes down, you're you usually have you know, three

762
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: four receivers, even your top tier receiver, you gotta you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, you got a two and the three you

764
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: guys can step up. But offensive lineman, you don't have

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of spare parts for offensive linemen. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Most teams don't have a backup quarterback or cornerback like

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00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:29,840
Speaker 1: so these positions are at a premium uh in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and guys are expected to play through injury because everybody's injury. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: everybody's hurt every single time every game. Outside of you

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Speaker 1: know it quarterbacks are you know, you know, receivers that

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Speaker 1: don't get hit and stuff like that. But for the

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Speaker 1: most part, the mentality is all we you got to

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Speaker 1: play through it. It's a different mentality in basketball.

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Speaker 2: Right it's it's a mentality, but it's also an urge

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Speaker 2: andcy of the regular season.

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Speaker 3: You can't kick a game in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: No, he only got seventeen, right, right, right, So that's

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Speaker 2: that's the issue. But it's fascinating to me at least

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Speaker 2: that through the words of one I think most fans

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Speaker 2: think that these players are you know, the Lebron's, the

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Speaker 2: ads of the world, all of them for that matter.

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Speaker 2: You know, boy, I gotta protect my body is kind

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Speaker 2: of the thought from star players. Looney's telling me, No,

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Speaker 2: it's the team. They won't let them out there when

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Speaker 2: even when they want to.

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Speaker 4: Well they got to.

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Speaker 1: They don't protect the investment. Right, these are guaranteed contract.

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Speaker 1: This is you got eighty two games, so there's some

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Speaker 1: room for some leeway. You don't have a lot of

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Speaker 1: leeway in the NFL. Every single game is important, every

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Speaker 1: single one of them. Unless you've locked something up in

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Speaker 1: your you've solidified a position and you can you can

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Speaker 1: just coast through the end like the Suns did, and

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Speaker 1: some other teams coming down the stretch and not having

795
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 1: to play everybody Milwaukee, that's about the only time. But

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, there's you know, unless you lock it

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00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: up like Philly did early, you know, and and and

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Speaker 1: they still came down and and and and had Jalen

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Speaker 1: Hurts play in the in the in the last game,

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Speaker 1: you know, because they had to solidify the Well, you

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00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 1: only get one team with a buy so in each cover.

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Speaker 1: So these games, man, these games really matter. These games

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Speaker 1: really matter, And it's just a different mindset when you

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Speaker 1: have so many, Like in baseball, there's a million games. Man,

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Speaker 1: you can miss ten games and not be missed. Think

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Speaker 1: about that. In baseball.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they lucked out though as far as the load

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Speaker 2: management conversation, because A, with one hundred and sixty two games, there's.

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Speaker 3: Always been a few days off in baseball, so we're

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Speaker 3: used to it.

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Speaker 2: But B what analytics has done in baseball that doesn't

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Speaker 2: really necessarily translate to other sports is you can say,

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Speaker 2: even with your left handed star hitter, like well, we're

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Speaker 2: facing Kershaw today, so we're gonna set this one out

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Speaker 2: and you get them a day of rest. Well, the

816
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 2: fans think it's like strategic, You're doing it purposefully to

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Speaker 2: win the game. You know, nobody there there there's no

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Speaker 2: comp for that in sports where it's like yeah, in basketball,

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Speaker 2: we're sitting out Luca today because we think we got

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Speaker 2: a better chance to win without them.

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Speaker 1: No, no, you you can't believe you have a better

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Speaker 1: chance without your star players. Well, I mean one of

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Speaker 1: the top five best players in the league. No, that's

824
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Speaker 1: not a thing. That's not a thing.

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Speaker 3: I just think there's a there's a tipping point. We

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Speaker 3: haven't really it is yet.

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Speaker 4: It is, it's coming.

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Speaker 2: There's gonna there's gonna be, there's gonna be. Yeah, there's

829
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Speaker 2: gonna be a tipping point, you know. I mean we

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Speaker 2: we talked about this, and I'm sure you saw it.

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Speaker 2: This was a big topic of conversation for you and

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Speaker 2: I last weekend with regard to the Dallas Maverick situation.

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Speaker 3: I knew my suggestion.

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Speaker 2: Was not going to be how the NBA handled it,

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Speaker 2: But my suggestion was that that if Dallas wants to

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Speaker 2: punt the last game of the regular season and not

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Speaker 2: get into the playing so that they can have a

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Speaker 2: three percent chance at Victor wimbin Yama.

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Speaker 3: Here's the deal. You don't get to move up in

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Speaker 3: the lottery.

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Speaker 1: You know what else that they did and why they

842
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Speaker 1: did that. They wanted to hold on to a draft pick.

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Speaker 1: If they would have been in the play in, they

844
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: would have lost the draft pick, right, So they held

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Speaker 1: on to their first round draft pick, which is woof

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Speaker 1: the punishment should have been. They still had to give.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember which team they the punishment should have been.

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Speaker 1: They had to still forfeit that draft pick.

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Speaker 3: Well, and as we know, the punishment is money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, Mark Cuban. Mark

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Speaker 2: Cuban made another seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars while

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Speaker 2: I said seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: Like, who cares? Of course you're going.

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Speaker 2: To hold onto the draft pick for a seven hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty thousand dollars fine. The NBA has got all

856
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 2: of these leagues stop finding owners. It doesn't matter. It

857
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 2: absolutely does not matter.

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Speaker 3: Like right.

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Speaker 2: If somebody who is and this is just the first

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Speaker 2: comping came to mind to not take this personally former

861
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 2: offensive lineman, but if somebody weighs three hundred and fifty

862
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 2: pounds and they lose a pound, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: Then you're three hundred and forty nine pounds. Is because

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00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 3: you're still huge.

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Speaker 2: You gotta stop finding owners seven hundred grand that means

866
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Speaker 2: absolutely nothing to them. You gotta find ways where it

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Speaker 2: actually hurts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got to be something, is it. Whatever they

869
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: were trying to do, trying to accomplish, you have to

870
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Speaker 1: take that away from them. That's the only way you

871
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Speaker 1: stop bad behavior.

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Speaker 4: That's the only.

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Speaker 3: Way spoken like a true parent.

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Speaker 2: That's facts, you know, you know what that lesson is

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Speaker 2: for the parent, though, I wonder if you could relate

876
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 2: to this, like you have to be willing to follow

877
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 2: through with those threats from I.

878
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,760
Speaker 3: Know I'd be willing to follow through.

879
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 4: I know.

880
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:08,720
Speaker 2: I watched I watch people sit there in line trying

881
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 2: to get through the front turnstiles of Disneyland. They they've

882
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 2: spent twelve hundred dollars to be there that day. The

883
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 2: kid is acting up in the first five minutes. They

884
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 2: look at that kid and that said, if you don't

885
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 2: start acting right, we are leaving.

886
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 3: And I'm like, no, you're not. You're not going anywhere.

887
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:27,720
Speaker 3: They're not going anywhere.

888
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: We will though, Well that kid, that kid knows it

889
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: too well. We go all the time. Well they go

890
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: all the time, but will exactly get in the car.

891
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:40,720
Speaker 3: They're like, fine, we'll be back tomorrow.

892
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,479
Speaker 1: Especially if I'm there. I'm like, getting the car because

893
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 1: I will.

894
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 3: I will because you that's because you want to leave.

895
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I'm ready to go.

896
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, before we even get started.

897
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,800
Speaker 2: What I know about you A day of walking around

898
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 2: Disneyland is probably not that's.

899
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 3: Not option, that is it? No rb RC right, that's funny.

900
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Speaker 4: I love them.

901
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,880
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I know, I know.

902
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: For the kids, for the kids.

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00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 2: You once were on a playoff team that everyone was like, oh,

911
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 2: that's nice. You're a brand new to the playoffs. You're

912
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 2: not going to do anything here, and the next thing

913
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 2: you knew, you ended up in the super Bowl. So

914
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 2: I wonder if you see any Atlanta Falcons in the

915
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 2: Sacramento Kings. We'll get to that coming up next on

916
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. These here arethe tire rack dot Com studios.

917
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:58,439
Speaker 2: Mark Willardy from Salam So my many, I have been

918
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:03,879
Speaker 2: patting the Kings on the head for the last three

919
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 2: weeks or so on my Monday through Friday show. I'm

920
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 2: not going to stop now either, because here's why. It's

921
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 2: not that I ever uh doubted their abilities, their danger.

922
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 2: It's none of that. I just happened to find their

923
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:30,439
Speaker 2: whole story and the way their fan base reacts to them.

924
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 3: I happen to find it to be a cute story. Now.

925
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,439
Speaker 2: They don't like the words that I use, of course,

926
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 2: and they're adorable, right like right, I.

927
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 3: Mean, but but.

928
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 2: The lips well, because speaking of slapping things, go with

929
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 2: me for a second now, because you're a Laker fan,

930
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 2: I'd like you to tell America what would have happened

931
00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,720
Speaker 2: at the end of a playoff game at Staples Center

932
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 2: if that man Kobe Bean had just dropped thirty eight

933
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 2: on someone's head and they walked up to him with

934
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:14,720
Speaker 2: a button and said, okay, mister Brian pushes the button

935
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:15,840
Speaker 2: to turn the light on.

936
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 3: What do you think that guy would have done?

937
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,840
Speaker 1: But what you gotta we gotta realize this, and you

938
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: gotta order this. Hold on, hold on. There's an expectation

939
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles just different anywhere else, right, and

940
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 1: maybe in Boston it's the saying, wait, yeah, but the

941
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:35,439
Speaker 1: Kings don't have that. They've never had that, They've never

942
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 1: had that, So give something.

943
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 4: Rudge them, give something. Right, they pushed the button.

944
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:43,279
Speaker 1: I remember, I was on the freeway headed back to

945
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: say I'm to LA, and right when he pushed the button,

946
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: I had the beam shot up in that like, I

947
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: get it.

948
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 4: They're holding on to that beam. That bean got them

949
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 4: up one.

950
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 3: Kobe would have punched that man in the face.

951
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:01,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Kobe has an expect the five time NBA champion.

952
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:06,280
Speaker 3: I understand. I'm not criticizing.

953
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: I can't.

954
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 3: No, I'm not.

955
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 1: No, I'm not How.

956
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:16,280
Speaker 2: Can I Why should I apologize for finding it cute?

957
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 2: It is now? Listen, I wasn't in Sacramento last night,

958
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,399
Speaker 2: but I saw the video and I have friends up there,

959
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,879
Speaker 2: and you spoke to what it was like before the game.

960
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 2: But that at now they're being criticized this morning for

961
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:34,359
Speaker 2: partying like it's nineteen ninety nine when they won Game one.

962
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 4: Hey, man, you're.

963
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 2: Not gonna find me on that dah. Yeah, I'm not

964
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 2: on that wagon. Have a great time. This is your

965
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 2: first playoff win in sixteen years. I hope you still

966
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 2: haven't gone to bed.

967
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: No, No, it's over now. They got gearing up, They

968
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 1: getting ready for the next one.

969
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:57,439
Speaker 2: The players are. If you're a fan, you face down

970
00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 2: in your driveway.

971
00:54:58,280 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 3: I don't care. I don't care.

972
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:05,840
Speaker 2: Error have a blast, remember this forever, light the beam.

973
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 2: That's all totally fair, and I think it's fair that

974
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 2: I find it all cute.

975
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 3: Doesn't mean they're not gonna win, but I get to

976
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 3: find it cute. It is.

977
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 2: It's different. Tell me it's not different. Hey, man, I

978
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 2: mean it's not different.

979
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 1: And I love the first rounds of the playoffs because

980
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:33,759
Speaker 1: you get immediacy. Right tomorrow, we're gonna find out, Like

981
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:35,439
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, it's on Pop.

982
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 2: We're gonna find out. We're gonna find out. You're right,

983
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 2: We're gonna find out, no doubt. But I so I

984
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 2: bring it up for a reason because I want to

985
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 2: know the experience you had as a rookie on the

986
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:49,320
Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcons when you weren't supposed.

987
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:50,840
Speaker 3: To go, but you did.

988
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 4: We did go, So did you did.

989
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 2: Did you have some of this where people pat and

990
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 2: you on the head on your way in.

991
00:55:59,000 --> 00:55:59,720
Speaker 4: No, they weren't.

992
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: Because we were dominant going in. You couldn't stop us.

993
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: Our defense was one of the tops in the leagues,

994
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:07,880
Speaker 1: and we had the best second best running game in

995
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 1: the league. Uh so we we It wasn't pretty. It

996
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: was oh, they're gonna they're gonna sock you in the mouth. Right,

997
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: it was one we went up against the pretty team.

998
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:19,359
Speaker 4: Right.

999
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,839
Speaker 1: We went up against the Minnesota Vikings too, where the

1000
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 1: flashy you know, score more points than anybody in NFL

1001
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 1: history at the time. Yeah, we we were the rough

1002
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: and tumble. Yeah, we're gonna scratch and claw and in

1003
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: the words of Dan Campbell, bite their kneecaps. And so

1004
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: it was it was you're not gonna pat us on

1005
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 1: the head because you might get your hand bit.

1006
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:50,280
Speaker 3: But they were the favorite.

1007
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: They were the favorite. Yeah, they were the favorite. But

1008
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:56,399
Speaker 1: we didn't care about what. In our minds we were

1009
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: the favorite. It was like they can't beat us.

1010
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:02,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Warriors and Kings both going to bed tonight

1011
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 2: being like they can't beat us.

1012
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 1: The Kings really believed that the Warriors can't beat them,

1013
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 1: though and the Warriors, Oh they believe it. They're not

1014
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,399
Speaker 1: just saying it. They believe it, which is dangerous. It's

1015
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 1: also dangerous. It would have been a great situation for them,

1016
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 1: the Golden State, to come up there and take their

1017
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: heart just like, come on now, a little bro, right,

1018
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 1: we get you a little like his eighty game.

1019
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 2: That one, right, the Kings needed that more than the Warriors.

1020
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 2: We all agree, right, because you're right. If the Warriors

1021
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 2: win that by three points, then then it was six

1022
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 2: months of okay, you let the beat Okay, great, that's

1023
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 2: now you're here though, and on your home floor, here

1024
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 2: come the champs. And they reminded you of that that

1025
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 2: that would have been the thought if they had lost

1026
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 2: last night. So they needed that. But I think they

1027
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 2: need the next one too.

1028
00:57:55,880 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, they they need to protect home court. On to

1029
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: Golden State up two games. That's now. Now that's a

1030
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: different story. Now okay, now Golden State, right has to

1031
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: focus because now you can't slip up. You can't let

1032
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: you can't have a bad shooting night, no, like you cannot.

1033
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: So now the pressure is now put back on the champions.

1034
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 1: That's the word, and that's the correct hand. Yes, y'all

1035
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 1: was messing with my man forty up and sack right.

1036
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: He can't do that now?

1037
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, well what what was that all?

1038
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 4: No, we don't want to do that.

1039
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 1: It's very few people more beloved than the forty up

1040
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: in the entire northern California.

1041
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,040
Speaker 2: Well that's no, But he forty, that's that's he's representing

1042
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 2: the Warriors.

1043
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 1: Now he's not reports, no, but it's still he's still.

1044
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 1: Come on, I see forty.

1045
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 3: I know believe you mean, do you see the statement

1046
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 3: that he put out?

1047
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 2: He forty is at every forty nine er game, he

1048
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 2: is at every Warrior game, He's in every San Francisco

1049
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 2: Giants game. That is not all of them. But do

1050
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying? Like he is representing the

1051
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 2: Bay and he this was my favorite.

1052
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 3: We actually should talk about this for a second because

1053
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 3: forty is alleging racism.

1054
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 2: He is saying that the security staff immediately, without questioning

1055
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 2: anyone sided with a Caucasian female who got into a

1056
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 2: verbal whatever te with one another. But Marcus Spears has

1057
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 2: a report out. Do you want to know what this

1058
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 2: is actually about? Because I'm always like, Okay, who said

1059
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 2: what to who? And who took it the wrong way

1060
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 2: after four beers all that stuff. No, do you want

1061
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:58,320
Speaker 2: to know what this is about? He from excessive standing.

1062
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 2: He was standing and the person behind who couldn't see,

1063
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:12,320
Speaker 2: and he had been warned e from He'd been asked

1064
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 2: multiple times to sit down, and he wouldn't do it.

1065
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 3: The whole arena was standing. Everybody was the whole arena

1066
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:27,680
Speaker 3: that you keep it.

1067
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: Why were you sitting? That's the better question.

1068
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 3: My gosh, I mean, so e forty and listen, I

1069
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 3: wasn't there. I'm not gonna act like I was there.

1070
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 2: The man's reputation in terms of how he treats people

1071
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 2: is spotless, spotless.

1072
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 3: He's at every game, every big game.

1073
01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 2: I mean, Klay Thompson is holding press conferences today after

1074
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 2: their their media gathering, and this is one of the questions.

1075
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 2: It's not like, how do you get more rebounds? What

1076
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 2: did you think about eve Fordy getting kicked out of

1077
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 2: the game? Had Golden one center? You can't do that, man,

1078
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 2: This pat karma, right, yeah, if the Kings lose this series,

1079
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:16,640
Speaker 2: and now you know why.

1080
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 1: He just had that earlier that day in Sacramento. He

1081
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: had a cause he has. He's big in the spirit market,

1082
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:30,480
Speaker 1: like huge, huge. He's bigger in the spirit market than

1083
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 1: he ever was a music He makes more money off

1084
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 1: his wines and liquors than I mean.

1085
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 4: Then, uh so.

1086
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 1: He had, you know, a bottle signing and an event

1087
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 1: in Sacramento is packed. Beloved man, Yes he is, Yes

1088
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 1: he is, hey man, he said racial. Unfortunately, it was

1089
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:02,920
Speaker 1: yet another minder that despite my success and accolades as

1090
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 1: a musician and entrepreneur, wheracial bias remains prevalent. Security saw

1091
01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 1: a disagreement between a black man and a white woman

1092
01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:14,120
Speaker 1: immediately assumed that I was at fault.

1093
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:22,400
Speaker 3: Hmm, there you go. Not gonna go well.

1094
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 2: I mean, you got broadcasters, NBA dignitaries all over the

1095
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 2: place who may or may not have been there, but

1096
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:34,000
Speaker 2: they're all coming down on his side. Jalen Rose sat down,

1097
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 2: did a selfie video two hours ago, says he forty

1098
01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 2: needs an apology right.

1099
01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 4: For real, for real?

1100
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:42,200
Speaker 3: Uh huh.

1101
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 1: I'm telling you San Francisco from you know, it's understand.

1102
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what San Francisco up there. I

1103
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:56,480
Speaker 1: tell you what. He could go a whole other way.

1104
01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:59,200
Speaker 1: Now I can tell you another way.

1105
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 4: They can go a whole another way.

1106
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:06,640
Speaker 2: Now, I don't want to get penalized for excessive standing.

1107
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna sit down and listen to see if

1108
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 2: Di Sega sit down, find.

1109
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 3: Out what's trending.

1110
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 7: I bet if he promised to light the beam, he'd

1111
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:15,280
Speaker 7: still be at the building.

1112
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 2: Exactly there, you go, give me that button. I'll push

1113
01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:21,440
Speaker 2: your button right now, lady.

1114
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 3: Oh, buttons were pushed. I have no doubt about that.

1115
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:29,160
Speaker 7: Lakers one at Memphis, Miami one at Milwaukee. Clippers are

1116
01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 7: leading at the half at Phoenix, Minnesota at Denver, had

1117
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 7: no promises coming up later. That's the last of our

1118
01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 7: playoff opener winners. And by the way, it's just gone final.

1119
01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:41,240
Speaker 7: US women's hockey has just won a gold medal game

1120
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 7: at Canada with three late goals six to three the

1121
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:46,440
Speaker 7: final in the World Championships final. So road team's not

1122
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 7: doing too poorly. And by the way, as we talk

1123
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:52,560
Speaker 7: about Golden States, the Warriors do list Jordan Poole as

1124
01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 7: questionable for Game two with a sprained ankle last night.

1125
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 7: In the close loss at Sacramento, Golden State from three

1126
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 7: point range with sixteen for fifty in the forty eight

1127
01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 7: minute game, first time Golden States ever missed thirty four

1128
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:09,840
Speaker 7: to three point attempts in one postseason game. Obviously, under

1129
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 7: coach Steve Kerr, they've had a decent amount of postseason success,

1130
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 7: but especially in game ones. They had been twenty one

1131
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 7: to three in series openers until last night. By the way,

1132
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,840
Speaker 7: AP says, the NBA is gonna announce the award winner

1133
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:25,720
Speaker 7: Tuesday for Clutch Player of the Year and the award

1134
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 7: winner Wednesday for Coach of the Year. So dearon Fox

1135
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 7: and Mike Brown. Perhaps on those. Mike Brown of Sacramento

1136
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 7: was already voted coach of the Year this past week

1137
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:38,800
Speaker 7: by the league's head coaches. He's in his first season there,

1138
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 7: got Sacramento into the playoffs for the first time since

1139
01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:46,200
Speaker 7: two thousand and six. Well, the Lakers were at Memphis

1140
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:49,760
Speaker 7: and pretty good one twenty eight, won twelve the final,

1141
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 7: and Lakers trailed with about eight and a half minutes

1142
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 7: to go. LA did have a fifteen to zero run

1143
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:56,800
Speaker 7: at the end. John Morant left in the fourth quarter

1144
01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 7: with a right hand injury. X rays were negative. Ruey

1145
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 7: Ji Murray twenty nine points in thirty minutes off the bench.

1146
01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 7: Second half shooting, he was eight of nine from the floor,

1147
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 7: Memphis has now lost its first home game of a

1148
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 7: series in each of its last three postseason series. Then

1149
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 7: Miami won at number one. Milwaukee won thirty to one

1150
01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 7: seventeen Jimmy Butler thirty five points and eleven assists.

1151
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:23,040
Speaker 3: The Miami Heat.

1152
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 7: And the regular season were one of the worst three

1153
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:26,440
Speaker 7: point shooting teams in the.

1154
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 1: League, not today.

1155
01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 7: They were also not a not a good road team

1156
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:33,040
Speaker 7: of the regular season, not today. In fact, against the

1157
01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 7: East regular season, Miami was nine and seventeen on the road.

1158
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 7: Can I mention that no Milwaukee starter had played a

1159
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 7: game in the last ten days since they clinched the

1160
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 7: number one seed, and the Bucks were down fourteen in

1161
01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 7: the first half, and then Yannis left with a bruce

1162
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:51,440
Speaker 7: lower back. Tyler Hero of the Heat left with a

1163
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:55,200
Speaker 7: broken hand. The three point shooting Miami was fifteen for

1164
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:58,960
Speaker 7: twenty five, Milwaukee eleven for forty.

1165
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:00,000
Speaker 3: Five from long distance.

1166
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 7: The Clippers Russell Westbrook started oh of seven from the floor.

1167
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 7: Paul George of the Clips might be missing this series

1168
01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:08,720
Speaker 7: against Phoenix with the spray knee, but the Clippers do

1169
01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:10,959
Speaker 7: add the halftime lead in Game one on the road

1170
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 7: fifty nine fifty four Kawhi Leonard thirteen points, starter Eric

1171
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 7: Gordon with fourteen, Kevin Durant to the Suns after a

1172
01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:23,120
Speaker 7: slow start with seventeen points, Steven Booker with sixteen points.

1173
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:26,200
Speaker 7: In the Sunday night ballgame, it was scoreless for a

1174
01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:28,760
Speaker 7: while and then Texas scored six times in the top

1175
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:30,960
Speaker 7: of the seventh. It's now six to one at Houston.

1176
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,440
Speaker 7: Rangers lead top of the eighth inning. San Francisco at Detroit,

1177
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 7: as you may have heard earlier on the show, was

1178
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 7: rained out. Mets were ten inning winners at Oakland four

1179
01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 7: to three. Pete Alonzo with his eighth home run.

1180
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 2: Back to you, all right, Steve, thank you very much. Yes,

1181
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook is going streaking. He is hit two in

1182
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:52,560
Speaker 2: a row after his zero for seven start. He's all

1183
01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:55,880
Speaker 2: the way up to five points, Aphraim, Here we go,

1184
01:06:56,800 --> 01:06:57,480
Speaker 2: there we go.

1185
01:06:57,720 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 3: Five points?

1186
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:02,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Which is the Clipper lead fifty nine to

1187
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 2: fifty four over the Suns. Those injuries, man, that's the

1188
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 2: other reason I come out of this sort of still

1189
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:13,840
Speaker 2: cautiously optimistic as someone who pulls for the Warriors. Even

1190
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 2: though they lost Game one. Look, they were the underdog

1191
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:20,480
Speaker 2: in that game. They're on the Road. I'm not surprised

1192
01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:23,920
Speaker 2: that they lost it at all. But so much, as

1193
01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 2: we've learned so much about this time of year comes

1194
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:33,320
Speaker 2: down to health, and the Warriors are the healthiest they

1195
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:37,240
Speaker 2: have been all year. Sacramento is two. But look at this,

1196
01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:41,560
Speaker 2: Look at game ones around the NBA, and I know

1197
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:45,000
Speaker 2: that the X rays were negative for Jah, but that's

1198
01:07:45,160 --> 01:07:50,800
Speaker 2: now already something that bears watching Giannis. Everybody hold their

1199
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:55,360
Speaker 2: breath there, Tyler Hero, He's now got a broken hand.

1200
01:07:56,040 --> 01:08:01,800
Speaker 3: Bye bye. So it happens here in the playoffs where.

1201
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:06,600
Speaker 2: The benches get shorter, everybody goes to an and rotation,

1202
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:11,880
Speaker 2: the minutes up, and big names go out, and I mean,

1203
01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:14,000
Speaker 2: kid has already down one game to nine, and they

1204
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,840
Speaker 2: don't know what the status of their star is.

1205
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:20,320
Speaker 3: I mean, I ain't Milwaukee.

1206
01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:22,719
Speaker 2: I kind of had them penciled into the NBA Finals,

1207
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:25,559
Speaker 2: but one game later, I don't know about now.

1208
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's the crazy thing about the playoffs, man,

1209
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 1: anything injury plays a huge part. We've seen it over

1210
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: the years. You know, Golden State knows a lot about that, right,

1211
01:08:37,400 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 1: The Lakers know a lot about that. All of these

1212
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:42,960
Speaker 1: teams know a lot about that. Kevin Durant, no matter

1213
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:45,600
Speaker 1: which team he's on, knows a lot about that. So

1214
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 1: does Chris Paul. And so the war of attrition is

1215
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:54,439
Speaker 1: the real winner here, right. So I was asked I

1216
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 1: was on the eye couple, I did my odd couple,

1217
01:08:57,240 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 1: my customary Tuesday eye couple hit and Rob Parker asked me,

1218
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 1: do you think the Lakers can win it all? And

1219
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:05,559
Speaker 1: I said, well, you know, that really depends.

1220
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:07,559
Speaker 4: Oh no, you got to be Adam and Wyrey.

1221
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:10,719
Speaker 1: I said, no, no, no, man, that's not of course

1222
01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:13,880
Speaker 1: I would like the Lakers, But I said, if they

1223
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:17,160
Speaker 1: can remain healthy, then yes, I do think they can

1224
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:19,599
Speaker 1: win them all. I think they can win it all.

1225
01:09:20,280 --> 01:09:24,479
Speaker 1: But that's a big if. And that goes for anybody

1226
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:30,439
Speaker 1: that goes for anybody. If Kd's ankle gives out, or

1227
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:34,160
Speaker 1: or even if Chris paul Is hamstring goes out, or

1228
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 1: if Gianni's is back, he's unable to go. If Jack

1229
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 1: can't go with his hand, all those teams that someone

1230
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:42,080
Speaker 1: may have favored, that's all gone.

1231
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 4: It's over.

1232
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:48,839
Speaker 1: So I think the war of attrition is the one

1233
01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:52,200
Speaker 1: that has the upper hand. Whoever can stay the healthiest

1234
01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:56,479
Speaker 1: during this playoff run has a good opportunity to go

1235
01:09:56,560 --> 01:09:57,000
Speaker 1: all the way.

1236
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:01,640
Speaker 3: I wonder know if I can get these updated. I

1237
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:02,160
Speaker 3: think I can.

1238
01:10:02,240 --> 01:10:07,479
Speaker 2: I'm wondering, uh, kind of how the odds to win

1239
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:12,640
Speaker 2: the whole dang thing changed with the information that we

1240
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:16,800
Speaker 2: now have. And gosh, I'm looking at it right now,

1241
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:22,200
Speaker 2: and the Lakers already have their championship. Odds are already

1242
01:10:22,200 --> 01:10:24,640
Speaker 2: about twice as good as Memphis.

1243
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:27,360
Speaker 3: After one game.

1244
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:31,160
Speaker 4: Mhmm, just that fast.

1245
01:10:32,280 --> 01:10:36,880
Speaker 3: It's that fast.

1246
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:41,080
Speaker 2: My point to my point, guess, guts, I think you

1247
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 2: know who the Western Conference favorite is, right, Phoenix Suns.

1248
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:49,720
Speaker 3: You know who number two is? Right? What was?

1249
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:50,360
Speaker 4: The Lakers?

1250
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:56,000
Speaker 1: Clippers, Golden State Will?

1251
01:10:56,840 --> 01:11:00,200
Speaker 2: Sorry, still still know and they're ahead of the Why

1252
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 2: didn't you say the Nuggets?

1253
01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:06,840
Speaker 3: You say the Nuggets? At you got? You got? You

1254
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:09,679
Speaker 3: got all kinds of Western Conference teams ahead of the Nuggets.

1255
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:16,080
Speaker 2: But no, right now, no, I don't know. I don't

1256
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 2: think the Nuggets are going to the finals. I don't

1257
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:20,360
Speaker 2: think that at all. I mean, I I think that

1258
01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:23,400
Speaker 2: they've got They're on the list of teams where it's possible,

1259
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 2: it's possible.

1260
01:11:25,320 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 3: They're the third favorite right now, and they're right clipping.

1261
01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:29,920
Speaker 2: At the heels of the Warriors because the Warriors lost

1262
01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:33,560
Speaker 2: Game one, but I do I also I find that fascinating.

1263
01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:39,519
Speaker 2: The Warriors their title odds did not change much even

1264
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:43,880
Speaker 2: though they lost Game one. The Lakers shot up, you know,

1265
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:50,400
Speaker 2: like well favored over Memphis now already the two seed.

1266
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a I mean, that was at that's

1267
01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:01,639
Speaker 1: difficult matchup for them from Memphis.

1268
01:12:02,120 --> 01:12:05,559
Speaker 2: Big in to the West right now title odds, yeah,

1269
01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:08,360
Speaker 2: title odds. And by the way, Boston, I don't know,

1270
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:10,720
Speaker 2: I don't I didn't look before the game started, but

1271
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:15,680
Speaker 2: Boston is your current favorite over Milwaukee, and and that

1272
01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:17,599
Speaker 2: due to a now O one.

1273
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:19,160
Speaker 3: Deficit and Giannis questions.

1274
01:12:19,160 --> 01:12:23,120
Speaker 2: But the Western Conference shakes out in order, Phoenix, then

1275
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:28,440
Speaker 2: Golden State, then Denver, then the Lakers, then Memphis, then Sacramento.

1276
01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:32,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, we win the Clippers and then Minnesota.

1277
01:12:32,200 --> 01:12:34,760
Speaker 1: We got some teams that we haven't talked about. This

1278
01:12:34,840 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: started the playoffs with with Philly and some series that

1279
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:41,760
Speaker 1: Philly and Brooklyn that like, that's a note, that's a

1280
01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:48,360
Speaker 1: that's a sweep, that's a walkover Boston. Atlanta's aston Atlanta totally.

1281
01:12:48,439 --> 01:12:50,640
Speaker 1: The other series that's going to be interesting is that

1282
01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 1: New York Cleveland that was a good game. That was

1283
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:58,160
Speaker 1: the first watchable playoff game on Saturday.

1284
01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 3: Yep, yep.

1285
01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:00,800
Speaker 4: Other than that.

1286
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:06,880
Speaker 3: Terrible it's oh gosh, yeah, I won't watch one game

1287
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:08,200
Speaker 3: from Boston and Atlanta.

1288
01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:11,920
Speaker 1: Hard to make myself do that.

1289
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 2: Wake me win those teams when they when when the

1290
01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:19,000
Speaker 2: East gets to the final four, then I'm like, next round.

1291
01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:22,160
Speaker 2: I think that there could be some really good stuff.

1292
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:23,160
Speaker 4: I agree with that.

1293
01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:28,200
Speaker 2: It's going to take until then for for sure. Okay, Uh,

1294
01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:32,120
Speaker 2: it's Mark Wardy from Salam. Hey, I got one football

1295
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 2: thing for you today. With the NFL Draft surprisingly not

1296
01:13:38,400 --> 01:13:43,920
Speaker 2: far off. Is there a surprise trade coming? I gotta

1297
01:13:44,040 --> 01:13:48,040
Speaker 2: ask you what your reading of the tea leaves is

1298
01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:51,719
Speaker 2: in this situation. So we do that coming up next

1299
01:13:51,920 --> 01:13:55,680
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, it's Mark Willard and e

1300
01:13:55,800 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 2: from Salam on Fox Sports Radio in the Tire Rank

1301
01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:04,519
Speaker 2: dot Com studios. Before we go any further, let's get

1302
01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:05,840
Speaker 2: Steve de Seger in here.

1303
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:07,960
Speaker 3: We have got some breaking.

1304
01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 6: News, breaking news from Fox Sports.

1305
01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:16,559
Speaker 7: Update from TNT on the injury to Miami guard Tyler

1306
01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:19,120
Speaker 7: hero It was called a broken hand as he left

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Speaker 7: today's Game one victory at Milwaukee. According to the Chris

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01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:26,320
Speaker 7: Haynes report. X rays revealed he actually fractured his middle

1309
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:30,360
Speaker 7: finger and fractured the ring finger, both on his shooting hand,

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01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:34,120
Speaker 7: and he will miss quote four to six weeks. Six

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01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:36,840
Speaker 7: weeks from now is Game one of the NBA Finals

1312
01:14:36,880 --> 01:14:39,599
Speaker 7: on June first. Just for the record, Tyler hero averaged

1313
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:42,320
Speaker 7: twenty points a game this year, twenty points a game

1314
01:14:42,400 --> 01:14:44,880
Speaker 7: last year, and certainly had his moments in their run

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01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:46,360
Speaker 7: to the finals three years ago.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, okay, so thank you for that, Steve,

1317
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:52,519
Speaker 2: thank you foremost. And secondly, yeah, let me let me

1318
01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:54,880
Speaker 2: say it a different way. That's maybe got a little

1319
01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:59,240
Speaker 2: snark to it. Tyler heroes out for the year. Yes, yeah,

1320
01:14:59,720 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 2: that's I hate it right, Miami, Miami heater and not

1321
01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:04,200
Speaker 2: going to the NBA Finals.

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01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:08,519
Speaker 4: No, it's too much of a gauntlet, yep.

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01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:11,840
Speaker 3: Yep, and especially without him.

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01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:15,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, this thing could be leveled out

1325
01:15:15,760 --> 01:15:19,680
Speaker 1: depending on what's going on with Giannis, you know.

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01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:23,240
Speaker 2: So that's fair, that's fair. But I like those I

1327
01:15:23,360 --> 01:15:24,720
Speaker 2: like those other teams too, though.

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01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: I I'm just speaking in terms of this series. I'm taking, Yes,

1329
01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:37,640
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler Miami over you know, uh, jannisless Milwaukee.

1330
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 2: If that's what it is. Then I think that's that's believable.

1331
01:15:41,960 --> 01:15:45,280
Speaker 2: But but with Philadelphia and Boston and even even that

1332
01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:49,200
Speaker 2: Cleveland Knicks series waiting, I don't uh, I don't see

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01:15:49,240 --> 01:15:52,519
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Speaker 2: we're knee deep in the NBA playoffs. I won't belabor this,

1339
01:16:07,680 --> 01:16:10,439
Speaker 2: but I did want to ask you read the tea

1340
01:16:10,520 --> 01:16:13,240
Speaker 2: leaves for me. You think the forty nine ers are

1341
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 2: about to trade Trey Lance?

1342
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 1: Hm, No, I don't think so, Okay, I don't.

1343
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:32,120
Speaker 2: This was sort of discussed with me last week. And

1344
01:16:32,160 --> 01:16:34,639
Speaker 2: when you start looking at all of the bullet points,

1345
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:38,960
Speaker 2: which is a whether this is behind the scenes or not.

1346
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:41,599
Speaker 2: The forty nine ers have made it clear to those

1347
01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:44,160
Speaker 2: on the inside that Brock Purdy is their quarterback.

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01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:47,280
Speaker 3: Yes, that's their starter. Right then.

1349
01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:52,400
Speaker 2: You went out and signed what is considered a high

1350
01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:58,960
Speaker 2: level backup, Sam Darnold. By extension, you could ask the

1351
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:03,840
Speaker 2: question early in free agency. Why would Sam Donald have

1352
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 2: said yes if he was not going to be QB

1353
01:17:08,200 --> 01:17:16,000
Speaker 2: two but QB three in theory, those are all fair questions.

1354
01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 2: Then you start listening to both what the forty nine

1355
01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:24,400
Speaker 2: ers have said publicly and add in what they've reportedly

1356
01:17:24,439 --> 01:17:28,760
Speaker 2: said privately. And there are a number of insiders who

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01:17:28,800 --> 01:17:32,599
Speaker 2: believe that the forty nine ers at minimum have been

1358
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:38,480
Speaker 2: very underwhelmed by where Trey Lance is right now. Then

1359
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 2: extend this into the season and understand what it looks

1360
01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:48,400
Speaker 2: like if Trey gets beaten out by Sam Donald, or

1361
01:17:48,479 --> 01:17:51,639
Speaker 2: even if he doesn't and simply spends the year as

1362
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:55,760
Speaker 2: a backup. That's a visual on TV every week that

1363
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 2: is not going to do wonders for his value right now?

1364
01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:03,720
Speaker 2: You can still legitimately sell teams on No, no, no,

1365
01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 2: this is the guy we drafted. Sure needs a little development,

1366
01:18:08,120 --> 01:18:12,200
Speaker 2: but he just got beat out by somebody that we

1367
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:15,799
Speaker 2: didn't see coming. Add all that into this.

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01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:21,080
Speaker 3: And it's not a crazy thought, it's not.

1369
01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 1: But where's the value? What is his value?

1370
01:18:26,800 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 3: Could you get a second rounder for him right now?

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Speaker 4: No?

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01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:33,360
Speaker 3: You don't think so. No, I don't a lot of

1373
01:18:33,439 --> 01:18:34,799
Speaker 3: quarterback hungry teams.

1374
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:37,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, But what I'm saying is no other team was

1375
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:40,000
Speaker 1: going to come up and take Trey Lance the way

1376
01:18:40,040 --> 01:18:43,960
Speaker 1: they did and what he's done. That's like saying, this

1377
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:46,880
Speaker 1: is exactly what it's like saying, you think Green Bay,

1378
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:48,759
Speaker 1: if Aaron Rodgers was still there, can get a second

1379
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:49,800
Speaker 1: rounder for Jordan Love.

1380
01:18:52,560 --> 01:18:55,600
Speaker 2: Uh? Is it like saying that Jordan Love's been in

1381
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:57,240
Speaker 2: the league for what four years?

1382
01:18:57,320 --> 01:18:58,720
Speaker 1: How long had the Trey Lance been in the league.

1383
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:00,960
Speaker 1: This will be his third year, right, and it's being.

1384
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:03,719
Speaker 3: A ser year right right? Four games? Yeah?

1385
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:08,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the fact that he hasn't played enough football

1386
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:11,960
Speaker 1: diminishes his value because if a team is trading a

1387
01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:15,240
Speaker 1: second round draft pick, they want a quarterback who's gonna

1388
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:15,840
Speaker 1: come in and play.

1389
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:18,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're not.

1390
01:19:18,680 --> 01:19:21,120
Speaker 1: They're not given a second round draft pick up for

1391
01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:23,200
Speaker 1: a project.

1392
01:19:23,479 --> 01:19:26,719
Speaker 3: No, but he was given a job. Now he got hurt,

1393
01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:28,920
Speaker 3: has been given the job.

1394
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:32,839
Speaker 1: So he hasn't stayed healthy, right, and he hasn't shown

1395
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:38,240
Speaker 1: anything when he played that will make a team want

1396
01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:39,400
Speaker 1: to invest in his future.

1397
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Speaker 4: That's all I'm saying.

1398
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:43,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it.

1399
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:46,680
Speaker 1: So now if they want to trade him for a

1400
01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:50,920
Speaker 1: six round picker, okay, there there was obviously a team

1401
01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:53,600
Speaker 1: will in a heartbeat, but you're not gonna get him,

1402
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, first, the third through third.

1403
01:19:57,120 --> 01:20:02,360
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, we have clay'sson, rumors and questions about what

1404
01:20:02,520 --> 01:20:04,320
Speaker 2: this postseason means for Lebron.

1405
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Speaker 2: be more on the Lakers sect. Most feel like America

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Speaker 2: saw that one coming that is going to be a series.

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01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:56,599
Speaker 2: Same for the Warriors and Kings. Entertainment value absolutely turned up,

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01:20:56,960 --> 01:21:01,400
Speaker 2: and Ephraim, I don't mean to dispair everyone or anyone,

1421
01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:05,479
Speaker 2: or maybe I do. I don't know, but as I

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01:21:05,600 --> 01:21:09,040
Speaker 2: watch what Steve just said, or as I guess I

1423
01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:11,680
Speaker 2: watched this game and heard what Steve just said with

1424
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:14,880
Speaker 2: regard to Russell Westbrook. It brings me back to a

1425
01:21:14,920 --> 01:21:17,280
Speaker 2: comment I made to you a week or two ago,

1426
01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:19,800
Speaker 2: which is that I don't and I didn't understand this

1427
01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:22,160
Speaker 2: at the time, which is the only reason I feel

1428
01:21:22,439 --> 01:21:25,040
Speaker 2: it's fair for me to come out and criticize it now.

1429
01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:31,160
Speaker 2: When the Clippers signed Russell Westbrook, I just I thought

1430
01:21:31,200 --> 01:21:37,760
Speaker 2: to myself, why and when you hear someone say that,

1431
01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:42,000
Speaker 2: and I know he's an easy target. Oh, just another

1432
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:46,280
Speaker 2: media member coming down on Russell Westbrook. Look, there are

1433
01:21:46,280 --> 01:21:49,840
Speaker 2: good aspects of his game. The man plays so damn hard.

1434
01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:53,799
Speaker 2: He is a former MVP, he has an unbelievable skill set.

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01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:55,599
Speaker 3: These things are all true.

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01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:59,360
Speaker 2: Unfortunately for him, what one of his skill sets is

1437
01:21:59,439 --> 01:22:03,280
Speaker 2: not is playing winning basketball. And we have reached a

1438
01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:07,519
Speaker 2: point where there are three players in the NBA I've

1439
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:12,040
Speaker 2: decided are completely.

1440
01:22:12,479 --> 01:22:16,360
Speaker 3: Negative net negatives.

1441
01:22:15,600 --> 01:22:19,040
Speaker 2: For their team, even though they are big names and

1442
01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:27,839
Speaker 2: highly paid, Russell Westbrook, Kyrie Irving and Rudy Gobert. Why

1443
01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:32,680
Speaker 2: does any general manager want these three players?

1444
01:22:33,120 --> 01:22:35,200
Speaker 3: You're not gonna win with them, period.

1445
01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good assessment of those three players. Talent

1446
01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:48,280
Speaker 1: doesn't always equate to wins, doesn't equate to team chemistry,

1447
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:52,720
Speaker 1: so on and so forth, And that's what we see with.

1448
01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:53,840
Speaker 4: Those three players.

1449
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:58,680
Speaker 1: Kyrie's there's no question about his talent, one of the

1450
01:22:58,680 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 1: most dynamic ball handlers, get any shot the whole thing.

1451
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:04,160
Speaker 1: How does he work well within the team? Well, not

1452
01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:11,480
Speaker 1: very good unless he's on the team with Lebron James Westbrook.

1453
01:23:12,920 --> 01:23:18,639
Speaker 1: Not questioning his talent, I questioned his basketball IQ as

1454
01:23:20,720 --> 01:23:30,519
Speaker 1: point guard. His disregard for the basketball bothers me situations

1455
01:23:31,040 --> 01:23:35,320
Speaker 1: on the court. It bothers me. And his lack of

1456
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:43,760
Speaker 1: understanding about his own abilities, right Like, he'll just keep

1457
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:45,920
Speaker 1: shooting him, He'll shoot the three, he'll shoot him and

1458
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:49,400
Speaker 1: shoot him, and yeah, he can get streaky, and he can.

1459
01:23:49,479 --> 01:23:52,120
Speaker 1: But for the most part, he is the worst three

1460
01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:56,200
Speaker 1: point shooter in the NBA and one of the worst

1461
01:23:56,280 --> 01:23:59,639
Speaker 1: free throw shooters in the NBA. He turns the ball

1462
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:04,800
Speaker 1: over more than anybody else in the NBA. So not

1463
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:08,040
Speaker 1: understanding those things about yourself could be a detriment to you.

1464
01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:18,040
Speaker 1: And so I think each he really is just like,

1465
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:22,439
Speaker 1: I mean, goodness, gracious, do.

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01:24:22,479 --> 01:24:24,960
Speaker 3: You know who's taking the most shot attempts for the Clippers? Tonight.

1467
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:25,960
Speaker 1: I guarantee it's him.

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01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:29,880
Speaker 3: Well, why wouldn't it be Russell Westbrook? Why wouldn't it

1469
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:33,320
Speaker 3: read for sixteen? Yeah, he just gonna keep going to

1470
01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:34,200
Speaker 3: three for sixteen.

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01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard is seven for fourteen, but no, No, Eric

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01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:43,439
Speaker 1: Gordon is six for ten, right, sixty percent from the field,

1473
01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:47,479
Speaker 1: But no, Russell Westbrook is going to push the ball.

1474
01:24:47,880 --> 01:24:51,639
Speaker 1: He's going on one on four fast break. He did

1475
01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:53,880
Speaker 1: it all the time with the Lakers. I saw it.

1476
01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:57,400
Speaker 1: Drove me crazy. They can make if you get it. Look,

1477
01:25:00,520 --> 01:25:02,720
Speaker 1: the Clippers have now lost the league, so now they

1478
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:04,280
Speaker 1: can go on a run, right, they can go on

1479
01:25:04,320 --> 01:25:06,880
Speaker 1: a run, they can get the leak back, and I

1480
01:25:06,920 --> 01:25:15,080
Speaker 1: guarantee you Westbrook will just completely halt that run because

1481
01:25:15,360 --> 01:25:21,160
Speaker 1: he's going to not focus on what's happening in the game.

1482
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:23,840
Speaker 1: How they got back into the game, and he's going

1483
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:27,360
Speaker 1: to do his own thing. I saw a time time again.

1484
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:29,920
Speaker 2: Yep, they're gonna get back in the game because he's

1485
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:32,720
Speaker 2: not in it right now. So that's on ty Lu.

1486
01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 2: That's what I don't understand. There's a comment made this

1487
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:36,000
Speaker 2: week in the.

1488
01:25:35,960 --> 01:25:38,559
Speaker 3: NBA and I look at it and I go gosh,

1489
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:41,479
Speaker 3: why right, why is life this way.

1490
01:25:42,880 --> 01:25:45,720
Speaker 2: It was Mark Cuban or somebody with the Dallas Mavericks,

1491
01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:49,760
Speaker 2: even though he's been silent and did not participate in

1492
01:25:49,840 --> 01:25:53,559
Speaker 2: exit interviews, which should have been clue number eighty four,

1493
01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:58,479
Speaker 2: get out of the Kyrie business, get out of the

1494
01:25:58,560 --> 01:26:01,960
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving business. But here are the Mavericks saying the

1495
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:05,519
Speaker 2: same thing that has always said about big name free age. Well,

1496
01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:10,120
Speaker 2: we really believe that Kyrie wants to be here, and

1497
01:26:10,160 --> 01:26:13,880
Speaker 2: we're gonna show him everything he needs to see. Oh

1498
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:18,080
Speaker 2: my gosh, here you go kissing his butt again. Why

1499
01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:23,720
Speaker 2: are you kissing his butt? I don't understand, man, what

1500
01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:25,240
Speaker 2: is it you're trying to achieve?

1501
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:27,160
Speaker 4: Somebody about to give him one hundred and.

1502
01:26:28,720 --> 01:26:28,920
Speaker 6: Right?

1503
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:31,040
Speaker 3: Was it?

1504
01:26:31,400 --> 01:26:32,719
Speaker 4: What eighty million dollars?

1505
01:26:33,640 --> 01:26:36,679
Speaker 3: Call my man Joe sigh and ask him how it goes?

1506
01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:40,840
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, know what you want?

1507
01:26:40,920 --> 01:26:42,599
Speaker 3: It's just crazy to me, man, I get it.

1508
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:46,320
Speaker 2: I it's an entertainment business, and he is. Skill set

1509
01:26:46,680 --> 01:26:49,240
Speaker 2: is unbelievable. And of the three players, he's the one

1510
01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:51,360
Speaker 2: who could at least clap back and be like, what

1511
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:54,240
Speaker 2: are you talking about? I've won a championship, but that

1512
01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:55,880
Speaker 2: was a lot of jerseys ago.

1513
01:26:56,080 --> 01:26:59,280
Speaker 1: You got a pair him. And you know with Rudy Gobert,

1514
01:26:59,360 --> 01:27:04,240
Speaker 1: I mean I need I mean, oh god, I mean

1515
01:27:04,800 --> 01:27:10,519
Speaker 1: head case. Remember he was got teammates patient zero in

1516
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:12,080
Speaker 1: the COVID fiasco.

1517
01:27:12,439 --> 01:27:17,960
Speaker 3: Yes, his patient zero and COVID uh. Donovan Mitchell never

1518
01:27:18,520 --> 01:27:19,360
Speaker 3: made up with him.

1519
01:27:20,120 --> 01:27:23,120
Speaker 4: No, And and.

1520
01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:26,000
Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell, look at what he's done. He's fantastic.

1521
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:28,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was like I'm out, Yeah, I gotta leave.

1522
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:30,520
Speaker 3: You got other teammates.

1523
01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:34,000
Speaker 2: Now you have teammates breaking their own hand when they

1524
01:27:34,040 --> 01:27:35,400
Speaker 2: weren't even a part of the fight.

1525
01:27:36,439 --> 01:27:42,160
Speaker 3: They're so mad at this guy. I just I don't

1526
01:27:42,200 --> 01:27:42,599
Speaker 3: get it.

1527
01:27:42,840 --> 01:27:48,320
Speaker 2: I don't understand why owners in the NBA field that.

1528
01:27:50,040 --> 01:27:50,519
Speaker 3: Cornered.

1529
01:27:52,640 --> 01:27:56,920
Speaker 2: I don't like you're what You're that cornered to the

1530
01:27:56,960 --> 01:28:01,200
Speaker 2: point where you're going to cowtow to a guy who

1531
01:28:01,240 --> 01:28:02,080
Speaker 2: has gone.

1532
01:28:02,120 --> 01:28:05,520
Speaker 3: Jersey Jersey Jersey.

1533
01:28:05,200 --> 01:28:12,680
Speaker 2: And single handedly ruined the last three places where he's arrived.

1534
01:28:14,160 --> 01:28:16,960
Speaker 2: The team just gets worse every time, And all three

1535
01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:21,600
Speaker 2: of them were set up for supposed championship contention, and

1536
01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:24,840
Speaker 2: then he shows up and they're a hot mess, and

1537
01:28:25,080 --> 01:28:26,400
Speaker 2: and here they are again.

1538
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:31,439
Speaker 3: Well boy, we can't wait to offer Kyrie Irving the

1539
01:28:31,479 --> 01:28:35,400
Speaker 3: Max and to make it worse.

1540
01:28:35,960 --> 01:28:39,639
Speaker 2: Kyrie then responds by going, I don't even have time

1541
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:40,400
Speaker 2: to respond to you.

1542
01:28:43,240 --> 01:28:45,560
Speaker 3: Man, what's happening.

1543
01:28:46,800 --> 01:28:52,920
Speaker 1: It's I guess player empowerment, you know, when you know

1544
01:28:53,479 --> 01:29:00,600
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna pay you. You know what I mean, somebody's

1545
01:29:00,640 --> 01:29:05,200
Speaker 1: gonna pay. It's one of those things where he was

1546
01:29:05,240 --> 01:29:08,439
Speaker 1: accountable at the end and he you know, showed up

1547
01:29:08,479 --> 01:29:10,919
Speaker 1: and he played and he played. Well, somebody's going somebody's

1548
01:29:10,960 --> 01:29:11,719
Speaker 1: gonna write the check.

1549
01:29:11,760 --> 01:29:14,800
Speaker 4: Man. It's a big check too.

1550
01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:22,639
Speaker 2: It's yeah, and I you know, like I I've sound

1551
01:29:23,360 --> 01:29:24,080
Speaker 2: bothered by this.

1552
01:29:24,200 --> 01:29:25,160
Speaker 3: These aren't my teams.

1553
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:32,519
Speaker 2: Keep ruining yourself, that's fine. If the Mavericks want to

1554
01:29:32,640 --> 01:29:38,400
Speaker 2: stink for the next twelve years, knock yourselves out, and

1555
01:29:38,400 --> 01:29:41,280
Speaker 2: and and Luca can request a trade a year from now,

1556
01:29:41,320 --> 01:29:43,280
Speaker 2: and all kinds of great you want to do it,

1557
01:29:43,520 --> 01:29:47,880
Speaker 2: go for it, go for it. But they just, boy,

1558
01:29:47,960 --> 01:29:52,040
Speaker 2: I'm scratching my head. Yeah, that's tough.

1559
01:29:53,040 --> 01:29:55,080
Speaker 3: I just I don't know what it is people think

1560
01:29:55,120 --> 01:29:57,560
Speaker 3: it's going to happen next. What did what they do?

1561
01:29:57,840 --> 01:29:58,240
Speaker 3: I don't.

1562
01:29:58,560 --> 01:30:01,000
Speaker 1: It's like it's all there fort point. You are who

1563
01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:01,919
Speaker 1: you are, man.

1564
01:30:02,520 --> 01:30:05,679
Speaker 2: Right right, it's all there for you have you gone

1565
01:30:05,720 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 2: back and looked at the Rudy Gobert trade.

1566
01:30:07,520 --> 01:30:13,640
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's now, that's funny.

1567
01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:23,280
Speaker 1: M He made Kevin Durant untradable at the beginning. He

1568
01:30:23,600 --> 01:30:27,200
Speaker 1: made him untradable because if Rudy will Obert got that,

1569
01:30:28,040 --> 01:30:31,840
Speaker 1: then you had to name your third son as a

1570
01:30:32,080 --> 01:30:33,800
Speaker 1: as an owner after.

1571
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:38,240
Speaker 2: After Kevin Durant, one more time for the people in

1572
01:30:38,280 --> 01:30:42,840
Speaker 2: the back, Rudy Gobert was acquired by the Minnesota Timberwolves

1573
01:30:42,840 --> 01:30:53,559
Speaker 2: in exchange four Malik Beasley, Patrick Beverley, Leandro Bomarrow, Walker Kessler,

1574
01:30:54,920 --> 01:31:02,920
Speaker 2: and Jared Vanderbilt and four first round draft picks and

1575
01:31:03,000 --> 01:31:03,759
Speaker 2: the pick swap.

1576
01:31:07,160 --> 01:31:09,440
Speaker 4: Thank you because we Gotsy Vanderbilt.

1577
01:31:09,520 --> 01:31:17,840
Speaker 2: So Minnesota's fun man like they are just they're just

1578
01:31:17,960 --> 01:31:21,240
Speaker 2: out there slinging everything all over the place. I will

1579
01:31:21,280 --> 01:31:28,600
Speaker 2: tell you, like the Golden State Warriors, this franchise, Minnesota's

1580
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:31,240
Speaker 2: on the Christmas card list. They send him a thank

1581
01:31:31,240 --> 01:31:36,799
Speaker 2: you every single year. I know you like D'Angelo Russell,

1582
01:31:36,880 --> 01:31:41,200
Speaker 2: but turning D'Angelo Russell into this version of Andrew Wiggins

1583
01:31:41,600 --> 01:31:44,320
Speaker 2: and a draft pick that turned into Jonathan Kaminga. It's

1584
01:31:44,400 --> 01:31:47,360
Speaker 2: also the franchise that took two point Guards in the

1585
01:31:47,400 --> 01:31:51,719
Speaker 2: same draft prior to Steph Curry's name being being called.

1586
01:31:52,240 --> 01:31:57,600
Speaker 2: I mean, Minnesota is a gift. They're a gift for everybody.

1587
01:31:58,800 --> 01:32:01,240
Speaker 4: Yes, they are gift to keep Zoning giving.

1588
01:32:02,720 --> 01:32:05,439
Speaker 3: It's amazing, It's absolutely amazing.

1589
01:32:06,320 --> 01:32:09,719
Speaker 2: All right, let's get into this coming up next, because

1590
01:32:09,760 --> 01:32:13,479
Speaker 2: you said if the Lakers are blessed with health, you

1591
01:32:13,520 --> 01:32:16,840
Speaker 2: think they can win the whole thing. All right, let's

1592
01:32:16,880 --> 01:32:20,840
Speaker 2: pretend that they do. And then what will we say

1593
01:32:20,880 --> 01:32:25,160
Speaker 2: about Lebron James. So that's coming up around the bend.

1594
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1598
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Speaker 2: you from Salama, Mark Wetherard is Fox Sports Radio.

1599
01:32:41,240 --> 01:32:42,840
Speaker 3: Yo, dude, are you are you watching this?

1600
01:32:43,720 --> 01:32:44,240
Speaker 4: Of course?

1601
01:32:45,400 --> 01:32:50,880
Speaker 2: Are you watching this? Yeah, we're in the tyrack dot

1602
01:32:50,880 --> 01:32:55,880
Speaker 2: com studios. You know what I stand corrected, I messed up.

1603
01:32:58,680 --> 01:33:05,200
Speaker 2: The Clippers are perfect for so Westbrook. That's the only

1604
01:33:05,200 --> 01:33:07,360
Speaker 2: place he could go where the fan base won't get

1605
01:33:07,400 --> 01:33:12,360
Speaker 2: crazy because there isn't really a fan base that is correct.

1606
01:33:14,120 --> 01:33:20,320
Speaker 3: So like, have you ever heard of an irate Clippers fan? No?

1607
01:33:21,800 --> 01:33:25,240
Speaker 3: They are I know, Like, yeah, I know one or two,

1608
01:33:26,320 --> 01:33:26,559
Speaker 3: you know.

1609
01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:30,920
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just what it's been.

1610
01:33:33,160 --> 01:33:33,680
Speaker 3: How did you?

1611
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:37,200
Speaker 2: I mean, I got to ask you for real, because

1612
01:33:37,240 --> 01:33:39,720
Speaker 2: I know the Laker fan base well as you know.

1613
01:33:39,840 --> 01:33:42,639
Speaker 2: I worked at the flagship station for years. I lived

1614
01:33:42,640 --> 01:33:47,040
Speaker 2: in LA I know exactly how this operates. I and

1615
01:33:47,120 --> 01:33:51,000
Speaker 2: I heard you. Everybody the world heard you when Russell

1616
01:33:51,120 --> 01:33:52,880
Speaker 2: was was doing what he was doing there.

1617
01:33:55,240 --> 01:33:55,920
Speaker 3: But I don't know.

1618
01:33:55,880 --> 01:33:59,680
Speaker 2: How you were as quiet as you were, man like

1619
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:08,160
Speaker 2: to what on earth is this and why it's tylu

1620
01:34:09,880 --> 01:34:12,960
Speaker 2: putting him in the game. You got a back and

1621
01:34:13,040 --> 01:34:16,000
Speaker 2: forth tie game. There's now six minutes to go and

1622
01:34:16,040 --> 01:34:18,759
Speaker 2: the Clippers are up one. This is rough and tumble.

1623
01:34:18,960 --> 01:34:23,559
Speaker 2: This is beautiful. This is back and forth basketball. And

1624
01:34:23,840 --> 01:34:25,639
Speaker 2: look at him calling for the ball right now. Look

1625
01:34:25,680 --> 01:34:30,760
Speaker 2: at this his playground. He thinks it's his playground. He

1626
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:37,719
Speaker 2: just did a back to the basket shack type post up, bump, bump, bump,

1627
01:34:38,080 --> 01:34:45,719
Speaker 2: turn around from four feet finger roll, airball, air ball,

1628
01:34:47,479 --> 01:34:58,680
Speaker 2: and then got mad at the ref. Amen, Amen, it

1629
01:34:58,800 --> 01:34:59,480
Speaker 2: is stunning.

1630
01:35:00,600 --> 01:35:04,559
Speaker 1: We got de Angelo Russell. Okay, you know how many

1631
01:35:04,600 --> 01:35:06,599
Speaker 1: turnovers he had today, you won.

1632
01:35:07,000 --> 01:35:07,920
Speaker 3: You wouldn't care.

1633
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:12,519
Speaker 2: You wouldn't care if his name was Angelo Russell.

1634
01:35:12,720 --> 01:35:14,960
Speaker 3: I mean, you'd have taken anyone.

1635
01:35:16,280 --> 01:35:16,639
Speaker 4: Man.

1636
01:35:17,760 --> 01:35:24,479
Speaker 1: It just I just need you. Do you remember what

1637
01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:27,840
Speaker 1: they asked him, what were your expect did you have

1638
01:35:27,880 --> 01:35:30,880
Speaker 1: any expectation? What were your expectations coming to the Lakers?

1639
01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:33,400
Speaker 1: He said, I didn't have any Well, you're wrong. You're

1640
01:35:33,400 --> 01:35:38,240
Speaker 1: in the wrong place. You're in the wrong place. That's

1641
01:35:38,280 --> 01:35:40,120
Speaker 1: just what it is. You're in the wrong place. No, Nope,

1642
01:35:40,120 --> 01:35:43,479
Speaker 1: you're doing it wrong because anybody who joins the Lakers,

1643
01:35:43,479 --> 01:35:47,200
Speaker 1: the expectation is a championship period. That's just what it is.

1644
01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:51,240
Speaker 1: And if you don't have a championship aspiration, this is

1645
01:35:51,280 --> 01:35:54,160
Speaker 1: not the league. This is not the place for you.

1646
01:35:54,600 --> 01:35:58,080
Speaker 1: Go back to the Wizards, the Rockets. Okay, see they're

1647
01:35:58,160 --> 01:36:07,960
Speaker 1: okay with that, but the Lakers are not. The Lakers

1648
01:36:07,960 --> 01:36:14,719
Speaker 1: are not. And look, I am so happy. Russell feels

1649
01:36:14,760 --> 01:36:18,280
Speaker 1: comfortable still in LA with the Clippers. The Clippers. They

1650
01:36:18,280 --> 01:36:21,760
Speaker 1: embrace him. Go ahead, embrace him. Pay him a bunch

1651
01:36:21,800 --> 01:36:27,800
Speaker 1: of money. Next year he's up, he's up. Pay him

1652
01:36:27,800 --> 01:36:30,200
Speaker 1: a bunch of money.

1653
01:36:36,560 --> 01:36:36,840
Speaker 4: You know.

1654
01:36:39,840 --> 01:36:43,160
Speaker 2: That man is wearing his fifth Jersey since COVID come man,

1655
01:36:44,120 --> 01:36:44,720
Speaker 2: and I love.

1656
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:46,559
Speaker 3: I shouldn't say I love.

1657
01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:48,760
Speaker 2: I mean we all know these people, right, we know

1658
01:36:48,840 --> 01:36:54,040
Speaker 2: these people in our lives who who are on their whatever,

1659
01:36:54,400 --> 01:36:57,439
Speaker 2: they're twenty seventh pairing. They go through friends, they go

1660
01:36:57,479 --> 01:37:00,599
Speaker 2: through relationships, they go through jobs, and at the end

1661
01:37:00,640 --> 01:37:03,040
Speaker 2: of every one of them, they're like, gosh, can you

1662
01:37:03,080 --> 01:37:04,000
Speaker 2: believe these people?

1663
01:37:06,280 --> 01:37:06,880
Speaker 3: Can you? Can you?

1664
01:37:07,000 --> 01:37:09,160
Speaker 2: Can you believe that they fired me? Can you believe

1665
01:37:09,160 --> 01:37:11,160
Speaker 2: that she broke up with me? Can you believe that

1666
01:37:11,240 --> 01:37:15,639
Speaker 2: this person turned their back? Do you notice how many

1667
01:37:15,720 --> 01:37:18,679
Speaker 2: places you've been through and had the same result.

1668
01:37:18,800 --> 01:37:22,720
Speaker 1: Everybody else's fault and it hasn't clicked in that.

1669
01:37:22,880 --> 01:37:25,400
Speaker 2: Maybe it's you, it's just it doesn't even occur to

1670
01:37:26,479 --> 01:37:27,639
Speaker 2: it doesn't even occur.

1671
01:37:28,520 --> 01:37:33,000
Speaker 1: It's everyone else that's the problem.

1672
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:36,479
Speaker 4: It's wild.

1673
01:37:37,200 --> 01:37:42,679
Speaker 1: I told you your teams on a run and he'll

1674
01:37:42,880 --> 01:37:49,800
Speaker 1: just bam, It'll just completely deflate anything you guys had going.

1675
01:37:57,120 --> 01:38:01,200
Speaker 3: Well, it's about my pay grade, man, it's above my

1676
01:38:01,280 --> 01:38:01,760
Speaker 3: pay grades.

1677
01:38:01,840 --> 01:38:04,240
Speaker 1: Hey, it's fun to watch when it's somewhere else.

1678
01:38:04,280 --> 01:38:05,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I.

1679
01:38:05,640 --> 01:38:08,280
Speaker 2: Bet you love that he's on the Clippers. You're like

1680
01:38:08,360 --> 01:38:10,240
Speaker 2: Clippers Celtics.

1681
01:38:10,400 --> 01:38:12,759
Speaker 4: Oh it was perfect, perfect, right.

1682
01:38:13,240 --> 01:38:15,280
Speaker 2: Or maybe the Warriors with all those those are the

1683
01:38:15,320 --> 01:38:20,559
Speaker 2: three teams that you would have loved to see Employee Russell. Yes, well,

1684
01:38:20,920 --> 01:38:25,200
Speaker 2: well well yeah you got your wish. So what what

1685
01:38:25,280 --> 01:38:29,280
Speaker 2: about Lebron? I will tell It's funny. So at h

1686
01:38:29,960 --> 01:38:32,559
Speaker 2: at my station last week, they're doing like these little

1687
01:38:32,640 --> 01:38:34,599
Speaker 2: videos and you know, I'd love to ask people all

1688
01:38:34,600 --> 01:38:37,000
Speaker 2: the questions, what's your favorite this, what's your favorite that?

1689
01:38:38,040 --> 01:38:43,280
Speaker 2: And they're talking about what's the what's the one thing

1690
01:38:43,360 --> 01:38:47,639
Speaker 2: on sports radio that you would not mind like never

1691
01:38:47,760 --> 01:38:51,800
Speaker 2: talking about ever again? And I'm like, oh, that's easy.

1692
01:38:51,800 --> 01:38:55,840
Speaker 2: Please don't ever ask me Lebron or MJ ever again.

1693
01:38:56,080 --> 01:38:58,519
Speaker 2: I don't want to talk about it. I don't.

1694
01:38:58,600 --> 01:39:02,120
Speaker 3: I don't want to go to the barbershop. I don't.

1695
01:39:02,760 --> 01:39:04,960
Speaker 2: I don't want to talk to either of the people

1696
01:39:05,000 --> 01:39:08,760
Speaker 2: who answer for either of those players. I'm done with everybody.

1697
01:39:08,880 --> 01:39:12,240
Speaker 2: It's an unanswerable question. We're never going to get to

1698
01:39:12,320 --> 01:39:18,320
Speaker 2: the end of it. Gosh, please no more of that. However,

1699
01:39:18,560 --> 01:39:23,760
Speaker 2: if what you said a short time ago is the

1700
01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:27,759
Speaker 2: result of this, the Lakers were to stay healthy, and

1701
01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:31,320
Speaker 2: they were to go on a run, and something good

1702
01:39:31,360 --> 01:39:35,000
Speaker 2: were to happen here in June for the Los Angeles Lakers.

1703
01:39:35,840 --> 01:39:40,519
Speaker 2: How does that change the whole Lebron James story in

1704
01:39:40,560 --> 01:39:41,040
Speaker 2: your mind?

1705
01:39:44,439 --> 01:39:45,680
Speaker 4: Which story would that be?

1706
01:39:47,320 --> 01:39:48,240
Speaker 3: I mean what.

1707
01:39:48,360 --> 01:39:55,920
Speaker 2: People will use the word legacy, resume, career, what have you?

1708
01:39:56,080 --> 01:40:00,760
Speaker 3: I mean? I and you know.

1709
01:40:00,920 --> 01:40:07,960
Speaker 1: He'll still be the second greatest basketball player to ever play.

1710
01:40:09,760 --> 01:40:16,000
Speaker 1: And he would walk himself into possibly getting a statue

1711
01:40:16,040 --> 01:40:20,519
Speaker 1: in front of the Stable Center or the Crypto.

1712
01:40:22,760 --> 01:40:24,880
Speaker 2: I didn't think. I didn't think you were gonna take

1713
01:40:24,880 --> 01:40:27,639
Speaker 2: it there. Oh my gosh, don't do that because that'll

1714
01:40:27,680 --> 01:40:28,520
Speaker 2: get vandalyzed.

1715
01:40:30,280 --> 01:40:32,839
Speaker 4: Now if he bring another chip, well now.

1716
01:40:33,280 --> 01:40:35,720
Speaker 3: No, yes it will, Yes, it will. You know how

1717
01:40:35,800 --> 01:40:36,280
Speaker 3: that is?

1718
01:40:36,960 --> 01:40:40,719
Speaker 2: You know Lebron like if you if you compliment Lebron

1719
01:40:40,760 --> 01:40:46,680
Speaker 2: in l A, it like Kobe Fan thinks that you're

1720
01:40:46,720 --> 01:40:47,839
Speaker 2: attacking him.

1721
01:40:49,160 --> 01:40:53,599
Speaker 3: I don't know why, but that's that's the way it is.

1722
01:40:56,680 --> 01:40:59,880
Speaker 1: I get it because they you know, they played sim

1723
01:41:00,080 --> 01:41:04,240
Speaker 1: my same era almost sort of overlap.

1724
01:41:04,320 --> 01:41:11,920
Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, it's just.

1725
01:41:11,920 --> 01:41:19,000
Speaker 1: Look, I I won another championship. I want eighteen. I

1726
01:41:19,040 --> 01:41:23,799
Speaker 1: don't want to be tied with the Celtics. I want eighteen.

1727
01:41:30,640 --> 01:41:35,280
Speaker 1: Wow sounds about wow, this is a good game.

1728
01:41:37,320 --> 01:41:39,479
Speaker 2: I know you want eighteen as soon as you get eighteen,

1729
01:41:39,520 --> 01:41:42,599
Speaker 2: at some point you're gonna want nineteen. That's what a

1730
01:41:42,600 --> 01:41:45,519
Speaker 2: fan does, that's that's what that's what you're supposed to

1731
01:41:45,600 --> 01:41:49,880
Speaker 2: root for. But Lebron James in the Laker uniform, you

1732
01:41:49,960 --> 01:41:53,320
Speaker 2: gotta admit, is one of the more complex things that's

1733
01:41:53,360 --> 01:41:57,559
Speaker 2: out there in the NBA. It is due to the

1734
01:41:57,600 --> 01:42:00,840
Speaker 2: fact that right like the most of Theaker fans, I know,

1735
01:42:00,920 --> 01:42:03,400
Speaker 2: it's even like you just said it, if there were

1736
01:42:03,400 --> 01:42:05,800
Speaker 2: a way, if I offered the Laker fan away.

1737
01:42:05,520 --> 01:42:08,400
Speaker 3: For the Lakers to win their eighteenth championship.

1738
01:42:07,880 --> 01:42:11,160
Speaker 2: Without Lebron getting a ring in the process, y'all would

1739
01:42:11,240 --> 01:42:16,880
Speaker 2: love that. And that's a fact. Y'all don't even want

1740
01:42:16,920 --> 01:42:19,360
Speaker 2: to hear you deny it, because it's a fact.

1741
01:42:19,800 --> 01:42:20,080
Speaker 3: Jack.

1742
01:42:22,680 --> 01:42:29,479
Speaker 1: Look, once Lebron came to the Lakers, that's just what

1743
01:42:29,600 --> 01:42:34,840
Speaker 1: it was. You know, I'm right, once he came to

1744
01:42:34,880 --> 01:42:37,960
Speaker 1: the Lakers. Man, as long as he's winning championships for us,

1745
01:42:38,200 --> 01:42:45,400
Speaker 1: way get them all then, man, Chris Paulo, yep, paul

1746
01:42:45,439 --> 01:42:46,559
Speaker 1: got to show up man.

1747
01:42:49,439 --> 01:42:53,080
Speaker 2: All right, tyrack dot Com Studios, Let's get uh, let's

1748
01:42:53,080 --> 01:42:55,120
Speaker 2: get Steve de Seger in here, because this one is

1749
01:42:55,200 --> 01:42:58,920
Speaker 2: getting hot and heavy and he's got all of the latest.

1750
01:42:58,600 --> 01:43:01,559
Speaker 7: Hello there is the Clippers are up one about three

1751
01:43:01,560 --> 01:43:03,360
Speaker 7: and a half minutes to go at Phoenix. You mentioned

1752
01:43:03,360 --> 01:43:05,920
Speaker 7: the Lakers. There was a stat today stats Inc. That

1753
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:10,880
Speaker 7: the Lakers franchise in their postseason history, they have now

1754
01:43:11,040 --> 01:43:17,880
Speaker 7: faced twenty nine different teams in their history, the most

1755
01:43:18,000 --> 01:43:22,120
Speaker 7: different playoff opponents for any franchise in NBA history. Now

1756
01:43:22,120 --> 01:43:24,280
Speaker 7: that they faced Memphis for the first time ever in

1757
01:43:24,320 --> 01:43:28,479
Speaker 7: the postseason, that's twenty nine. Wow, different franchises they faced.

1758
01:43:28,520 --> 01:43:31,040
Speaker 7: And by the way, Lakers since they moved to LA

1759
01:43:31,439 --> 01:43:35,400
Speaker 7: regular season winning percentage about six hundred, postseason winning percentage

1760
01:43:35,520 --> 01:43:38,000
Speaker 7: about six hundred. And I'm glad you brought up mark

1761
01:43:38,040 --> 01:43:41,200
Speaker 7: about Russell Westbrook with five teams he's played for in

1762
01:43:41,240 --> 01:43:42,360
Speaker 7: the last five years.

1763
01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:43,800
Speaker 4: I looked it up.

1764
01:43:43,880 --> 01:43:47,559
Speaker 7: Jim Jackson, in a fourteen year career, played for twelve

1765
01:43:47,680 --> 01:43:51,559
Speaker 7: different teams, including his few games with the Lakers before

1766
01:43:51,600 --> 01:43:54,600
Speaker 7: he retired at the end. The Lakers were winners in

1767
01:43:54,680 --> 01:43:57,439
Speaker 7: Game one at Memphis today, one twenty eight to one twelve.

1768
01:43:57,560 --> 01:43:59,599
Speaker 7: Jah Morant left in the fourth quarter with a right

1769
01:43:59,640 --> 01:44:02,360
Speaker 7: hand injury. Lakers trailed with about seven and a half

1770
01:44:02,400 --> 01:44:04,559
Speaker 7: minutes left. LA had a fifteen to zero run at

1771
01:44:04,560 --> 01:44:07,840
Speaker 7: the end. Miami won its playoff opener at number one.

1772
01:44:07,880 --> 01:44:11,720
Speaker 7: Milwaukee won thirty to one seventeen. Jimmy Butler thirty five

1773
01:44:11,760 --> 01:44:15,799
Speaker 7: points and eleven assists. Giannis Attenacumpo with the Bucks left,

1774
01:44:16,240 --> 01:44:18,320
Speaker 7: he had a hard fall in the first half. Bruce

1775
01:44:18,439 --> 01:44:21,320
Speaker 7: lower back is the problem. But for Tyler Hero, who

1776
01:44:21,320 --> 01:44:24,000
Speaker 7: averages twenty points a game again for the Heat this year,

1777
01:44:24,439 --> 01:44:27,040
Speaker 7: he left with what was called a broken hand. TNT

1778
01:44:27,240 --> 01:44:29,719
Speaker 7: says he's out four to six weeks with two broken

1779
01:44:29,760 --> 01:44:32,880
Speaker 7: fingers on his shooting hand. Clippers are at Phoenix for

1780
01:44:32,920 --> 01:44:36,600
Speaker 7: a game one tonight. Russell Westbrook started two to fifteen

1781
01:44:36,680 --> 01:44:39,360
Speaker 7: from the floor. Paul George of the Clippers might be

1782
01:44:39,400 --> 01:44:41,840
Speaker 7: missing the whole series with a spring knee, but the

1783
01:44:41,880 --> 01:44:45,679
Speaker 7: Clippers lead with three minutes left, one hundred to ninety nine.

1784
01:44:46,400 --> 01:44:48,919
Speaker 7: We're actually getting to see Kawhi Leonard in a playoff

1785
01:44:48,920 --> 01:44:52,000
Speaker 7: game in a Clipper uniform tonight. He has thirty two points.

1786
01:44:52,439 --> 01:44:56,519
Speaker 7: Eric Gordon at a hot start yes starter tonight, fourteen points.

1787
01:44:56,520 --> 01:44:57,200
Speaker 3: In this game.

1788
01:44:57,600 --> 01:45:01,600
Speaker 7: Westbrook does have at this point six siss and one turnover.

1789
01:45:02,040 --> 01:45:06,320
Speaker 7: Kevin Durant twenty four points, ten assists, one turnover, but

1790
01:45:06,400 --> 01:45:09,360
Speaker 7: the Suns are down one three oh seven remaining in

1791
01:45:09,400 --> 01:45:11,200
Speaker 7: this game. The late game in a few minutes will

1792
01:45:11,200 --> 01:45:15,320
Speaker 7: have Denver hosting Minnesota Tomorrow night. It's Brooklyn at Philadelphia.

1793
01:45:15,680 --> 01:45:19,920
Speaker 7: Golden States is at Sacramento again tomorrow night after the Kings.

1794
01:45:19,960 --> 01:45:23,200
Speaker 7: Daron Fox had thirty eight points in Game one last night,

1795
01:45:23,240 --> 01:45:27,000
Speaker 7: a narrow victory. It was the second most points ever

1796
01:45:27,040 --> 01:45:30,880
Speaker 7: scored by a player in his playoff debut. Still the

1797
01:45:30,920 --> 01:45:33,880
Speaker 7: record is Luka Donsich three years ago, who had forty

1798
01:45:33,880 --> 01:45:36,240
Speaker 7: two against the Clippers in a series where he could

1799
01:45:36,320 --> 01:45:39,679
Speaker 7: not stop scoring against the Clippers in the bubble. Fox

1800
01:45:39,720 --> 01:45:42,519
Speaker 7: with thirty eight last night. Other guys on the list,

1801
01:45:42,760 --> 01:45:46,479
Speaker 7: let's see, there's George Mikeen in his Minneapolis Lakers playoff

1802
01:45:46,520 --> 01:45:50,240
Speaker 7: debut with thirty seven nineteen forty nine, Derek Rose in

1803
01:45:50,320 --> 01:45:53,200
Speaker 7: his playoff debut for the Bulls two thousand and nine,

1804
01:45:53,200 --> 01:45:56,960
Speaker 7: had thirty six, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar in his nineteen

1805
01:45:57,120 --> 01:46:03,000
Speaker 7: seventy playoff debut for Milwaukee, had thirty six points. NHL

1806
01:46:03,080 --> 01:46:05,800
Speaker 7: Stanley Cup playoffs start tomorrow night. That will include Number

1807
01:46:05,840 --> 01:46:09,200
Speaker 7: one Boston against Florida. US women Hockey beat Canada in

1808
01:46:09,320 --> 01:46:11,519
Speaker 7: Canada in the World Final six to three tonight with

1809
01:46:11,560 --> 01:46:14,840
Speaker 7: three late goals and Hillary Knight had a hat trick

1810
01:46:14,920 --> 01:46:17,559
Speaker 7: for the winners. Matt Fitzpatrick won the golf event at

1811
01:46:17,640 --> 01:46:20,519
Speaker 7: hilton Head, South Carolina in a playoff over Jordan Speath.

1812
01:46:20,920 --> 01:46:24,280
Speaker 7: Kyle Larson took NASCAR's four hundred at Martinsville, his second

1813
01:46:24,400 --> 01:46:27,880
Speaker 7: victory this season. In the MLB Action at Houston to Night,

1814
01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:31,080
Speaker 7: Texas nine to one winners, and the Mets in ten

1815
01:46:31,160 --> 01:46:33,839
Speaker 7: and ings beat slumping Oakland for to three. Pete alonso

1816
01:46:34,000 --> 01:46:35,160
Speaker 7: Is eighth home run.

1817
01:46:35,200 --> 01:46:38,720
Speaker 2: Back to you, Steve, do you have I feel like

1818
01:46:38,800 --> 01:46:41,800
Speaker 2: you're you're the kind of guy that you know. This

1819
01:46:41,880 --> 01:46:44,680
Speaker 2: is almost like Morgan Freeman and Shawshank. He was the

1820
01:46:44,720 --> 01:46:47,200
Speaker 2: guy who could get stuff. I feel like you're the

1821
01:46:47,280 --> 01:46:50,400
Speaker 2: guy who could just look stuff up, right, Like I

1822
01:46:50,400 --> 01:46:52,599
Speaker 2: bet you could access If I said, Hey, what's the

1823
01:46:52,640 --> 01:46:55,720
Speaker 2: record for blank? And I give you two and a

1824
01:46:55,760 --> 01:46:57,519
Speaker 2: half minutes, you could get the answer.

1825
01:46:58,360 --> 01:47:00,800
Speaker 7: Yeah, I probably wouldn't say no pub linked to that.

1826
01:47:00,880 --> 01:47:03,280
Speaker 7: I would certainly attempt it in two and a half minutes.

1827
01:47:04,000 --> 01:47:08,200
Speaker 2: The record for shot attempts in a game without scoring

1828
01:47:08,280 --> 01:47:14,080
Speaker 2: double digits in the game. The record for shot attempts

1829
01:47:14,479 --> 01:47:17,599
Speaker 2: a game without anything, any game.

1830
01:47:18,360 --> 01:47:22,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's up to three eighteen.

1831
01:47:22,120 --> 01:47:22,960
Speaker 3: Shot at tamps.

1832
01:47:22,960 --> 01:47:25,479
Speaker 2: He's got seven points.

1833
01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:26,360
Speaker 3: Well, it could have.

1834
01:47:26,479 --> 01:47:28,680
Speaker 2: And he just hucked the ball out of bounds too,

1835
01:47:28,840 --> 01:47:29,639
Speaker 2: just for good measure.

1836
01:47:30,400 --> 01:47:32,960
Speaker 7: He could have a three here coming at some point.

1837
01:47:33,200 --> 01:47:33,960
Speaker 1: It's a tight game.

1838
01:47:34,040 --> 01:47:35,640
Speaker 7: Could you know he's gonna chuck one up?

1839
01:47:35,680 --> 01:47:37,840
Speaker 3: Still? Right? Right?

1840
01:47:37,920 --> 01:47:40,160
Speaker 2: No, I'm not saying it doesn't apply yet, but we

1841
01:47:40,320 --> 01:47:42,599
Speaker 2: got two plus minutes left to go.

1842
01:47:42,479 --> 01:47:44,479
Speaker 3: Here, three.

1843
01:47:48,360 --> 01:47:50,960
Speaker 7: Three nine Clippers two and a half minutes to go.

1844
01:47:51,640 --> 01:47:57,240
Speaker 2: There You go all Aztecs all the time, Yes, all

1845
01:47:58,040 --> 01:48:02,200
Speaker 2: the time. Good cutaway to Steve Olmer two. Who's got

1846
01:48:01,600 --> 01:48:02,960
Speaker 2: the shake?

1847
01:48:03,680 --> 01:48:03,880
Speaker 3: Right?

1848
01:48:11,880 --> 01:48:15,200
Speaker 2: That guy better hide on Thanksgiving? Somebody's gonna eat him

1849
01:48:15,520 --> 01:48:23,280
Speaker 2: with that gobble gobble? Holy smoke, Oh gosh, yeah, all

1850
01:48:23,280 --> 01:48:28,479
Speaker 2: the shots, he should shoot all the shots obviously, don't

1851
01:48:28,560 --> 01:48:34,240
Speaker 2: let Russell Westbrook shoot again. Holy smokes. That's funny, all right?

1852
01:48:34,680 --> 01:48:38,720
Speaker 2: Uh with he from salam Mark Willard. It's Fox Sports Radio. Hey,

1853
01:48:38,760 --> 01:48:40,360
Speaker 2: can I throw something else at you?

1854
01:48:41,080 --> 01:48:41,960
Speaker 3: Warrior related?

1855
01:48:42,040 --> 01:48:45,439
Speaker 2: Remember you said you said that if the Kings can

1856
01:48:45,479 --> 01:48:51,160
Speaker 2: win them all night, it changes obviously. The pressure then

1857
01:48:51,240 --> 01:48:55,040
Speaker 2: shifts to the Warriors and and it's it's a different

1858
01:48:55,120 --> 01:48:57,639
Speaker 2: kind of pressure other than just like, oh no, if

1859
01:48:58,120 --> 01:49:00,799
Speaker 2: if they don't win, they're they're gonna was the series

1860
01:49:01,040 --> 01:49:06,480
Speaker 2: that that's inherent in all playoff series, But you're potentially

1861
01:49:06,560 --> 01:49:11,400
Speaker 2: talking about the end of an era, a franchise altering

1862
01:49:11,560 --> 01:49:16,559
Speaker 2: type defeats. If if the Kings knock you out quickly, right,

1863
01:49:16,680 --> 01:49:20,000
Speaker 2: so that if the Warriors lose them, all Night Thursday

1864
01:49:20,160 --> 01:49:26,360
Speaker 2: does become an unbelievably pressure packed, kind of heavy type

1865
01:49:26,439 --> 01:49:30,440
Speaker 2: game for the whole organization. There's a story on CBS

1866
01:49:30,760 --> 01:49:33,800
Speaker 2: got a writer by the name of Brad Botkin that

1867
01:49:33,920 --> 01:49:36,280
Speaker 2: he put this together, but the report apparently came from

1868
01:49:36,360 --> 01:49:41,640
Speaker 2: WOJ and WOAG said that Klay Thompson, who's eligible for

1869
01:49:41,680 --> 01:49:45,839
Speaker 2: an extension this offseason, is expecting the max.

1870
01:49:46,320 --> 01:49:47,160
Speaker 4: He's not gonna get it.

1871
01:49:49,600 --> 01:49:50,679
Speaker 3: Expecting the max.

1872
01:49:52,360 --> 01:49:53,200
Speaker 4: He's not gonna get it.

1873
01:49:53,439 --> 01:49:55,799
Speaker 3: You wouldn't You wouldn't give that to him for the Warriors.

1874
01:49:55,840 --> 01:50:00,720
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, you can't afford him.

1875
01:50:00,760 --> 01:50:02,600
Speaker 4: You can't afford him. I mean, you just gave it.

1876
01:50:02,720 --> 01:50:05,160
Speaker 3: Seems like the Warriors you just gave Pool, you just

1877
01:50:05,240 --> 01:50:06,520
Speaker 3: gave Bull.

1878
01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:10,800
Speaker 2: Got Bull Wigans, We's got nine and Stephan is making

1879
01:50:10,920 --> 01:50:12,599
Speaker 2: sixties s dep's got three more years.

1880
01:50:12,640 --> 01:50:14,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's making sixty a year.

1881
01:50:14,960 --> 01:50:18,600
Speaker 1: All right, who's where's the money coming from?

1882
01:50:18,760 --> 01:50:22,720
Speaker 2: And Draymond is up potentially this year, Well, he's not

1883
01:50:22,720 --> 01:50:27,360
Speaker 2: coming back. He's well, he's got an opt in or

1884
01:50:27,400 --> 01:50:29,680
Speaker 2: an opt out, however you want to phrase it. Well,

1885
01:50:29,880 --> 01:50:35,000
Speaker 2: can be a free agent after this season. Yeah, it's

1886
01:50:35,120 --> 01:50:38,599
Speaker 2: you know, he has also he has also stated many

1887
01:50:38,600 --> 01:50:40,559
Speaker 2: many months ago that he wants the MAX.

1888
01:50:41,160 --> 01:50:42,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's they don't have it.

1889
01:50:42,720 --> 01:50:44,760
Speaker 1: It's not enough money. And you we knew this would

1890
01:50:44,760 --> 01:50:47,880
Speaker 1: come though. We knew this would happen. We knew this

1891
01:50:47,920 --> 01:50:52,280
Speaker 1: would happen. You can't keep giving keep giving all these guys,

1892
01:50:52,479 --> 01:50:55,280
Speaker 1: the same core guys, the Max every year.

1893
01:50:57,360 --> 01:50:58,519
Speaker 4: You're gonna run out of money.

1894
01:50:58,680 --> 01:51:02,200
Speaker 3: This well, well, Joe Lakm's not gonna run out of money.

1895
01:51:02,080 --> 01:51:03,880
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I don't mean he's gonna

1896
01:51:03,880 --> 01:51:05,840
Speaker 1: be running. I'm talking about you're gonna be running out

1897
01:51:05,840 --> 01:51:08,480
Speaker 1: of the ability to pay them the money.

1898
01:51:08,560 --> 01:51:11,720
Speaker 3: You're you're talking about luxury taxi pas go north a

1899
01:51:11,840 --> 01:51:13,720
Speaker 3: billion of Union.

1900
01:51:13,560 --> 01:51:16,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, forth of a half billion, Come on, Steve, Steve,

1901
01:51:16,600 --> 01:51:18,000
Speaker 2: Steve to say you're back on the show.

1902
01:51:18,040 --> 01:51:18,479
Speaker 3: What's going on?

1903
01:51:18,560 --> 01:51:21,240
Speaker 7: We might have a winner. There was an NBA Finals

1904
01:51:21,280 --> 01:51:25,320
Speaker 7: game twenty years ago for Kenyon Martin as New Jersey

1905
01:51:25,320 --> 01:51:30,080
Speaker 7: played at San Antonio. He was three for twenty three

1906
01:51:30,280 --> 01:51:33,800
Speaker 7: from the floor. Six points in a final.

1907
01:51:34,160 --> 01:51:37,400
Speaker 4: Is a win. That's a win, man.

1908
01:51:38,400 --> 01:51:40,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, this game could go to overtime.

1909
01:51:40,520 --> 01:51:42,920
Speaker 7: He still needs to miss five more shots to.

1910
01:51:43,400 --> 01:51:46,639
Speaker 3: Go for five. If anybody can do that in a minute,

1911
01:51:46,640 --> 01:51:48,920
Speaker 3: it's him, It is true. Yeah.

1912
01:51:49,240 --> 01:51:51,040
Speaker 4: Is he out of the game? Is he in the game?

1913
01:51:52,000 --> 01:51:53,960
Speaker 3: Oh? How would you not put him in the game

1914
01:51:54,040 --> 01:51:56,960
Speaker 3: right now? Rooting on the line, rooting for overtime?

1915
01:51:57,040 --> 01:52:01,479
Speaker 2: Now, please please all right, Clippers up by one with

1916
01:52:01,640 --> 01:52:03,840
Speaker 2: a minute eight to go. We'll keep you up to

1917
01:52:03,920 --> 01:52:08,200
Speaker 2: date on Westbrook's missus west Brooks if you will, okay,

1918
01:52:09,439 --> 01:52:11,920
Speaker 2: all right? You know I got more to say about

1919
01:52:11,920 --> 01:52:17,639
Speaker 2: what you just said with the Warrior finances and something

1920
01:52:17,680 --> 01:52:21,240
Speaker 2: that Clay said a few years ago that seems very

1921
01:52:21,320 --> 01:52:25,080
Speaker 2: relevant in this conversation now, So that's coming up next.

1922
01:52:25,080 --> 01:52:35,920
Speaker 2: Mark willard E from salam Fox Sports Radio Banks of

1923
01:52:36,000 --> 01:52:40,040
Speaker 2: the game hot your more unbelievable game for the Lakers.

1924
01:52:40,080 --> 01:52:40,960
Speaker 3: They win Game one.

1925
01:52:41,040 --> 01:52:44,720
Speaker 2: That's courtesy of ABC and that's the progressive play of

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1932
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Speaker 2: three for nineteen. It was almost three for twenty, but

1933
01:53:04,120 --> 01:53:08,240
Speaker 2: he got fouled. He made both free throws, but he's

1934
01:53:08,240 --> 01:53:15,360
Speaker 2: still single digits nine points three for nineteen from the field.

1935
01:53:16,080 --> 01:53:19,759
Speaker 2: But those free throws did give us another Steve Baumer waddle,

1936
01:53:20,000 --> 01:53:21,839
Speaker 2: which was fun for the whole family.

1937
01:53:24,280 --> 01:53:28,320
Speaker 1: Oh man, boy, he's so excited. Man, I love owners

1938
01:53:29,680 --> 01:53:32,080
Speaker 1: excitable that. Mark Huban used to be like that when

1939
01:53:32,080 --> 01:53:34,439
Speaker 1: he first came into the league. Now he's just looking

1940
01:53:34,560 --> 01:53:35,479
Speaker 1: older and older.

1941
01:53:36,439 --> 01:53:41,400
Speaker 2: I know his shirts aren't even tighty. It's not the same. Yeah,

1942
01:53:41,600 --> 01:53:47,799
Speaker 2: Like he just Taggard. Well, it's because he's got Kyrie

1943
01:53:47,880 --> 01:53:52,600
Speaker 2: on his team, so he warn't out. He's exhausted. I understand.

1944
01:53:52,840 --> 01:53:55,680
Speaker 2: I'm with you though, Like we make fun, but they

1945
01:53:55,840 --> 01:54:00,519
Speaker 2: had so much better now you can overly met too,

1946
01:54:00,760 --> 01:54:04,599
Speaker 2: Jerry Jones. That might be the best part about Steve Balmer.

1947
01:54:04,720 --> 01:54:08,839
Speaker 2: Balmer is just running around waddling and jumping and yelling

1948
01:54:09,439 --> 01:54:11,760
Speaker 2: and being like totally invested.

1949
01:54:12,560 --> 01:54:18,600
Speaker 1: But he doesn't think he's the GM. Yeah no, so

1950
01:54:18,720 --> 01:54:23,599
Speaker 1: that's good. Yeah, he's just enjoying the sport of it.

1951
01:54:30,560 --> 01:54:33,240
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this because I I wonder if.

1952
01:54:33,160 --> 01:54:44,160
Speaker 9: You think that okay with okay with Brooky, pretty elite

1953
01:54:44,160 --> 01:54:44,920
Speaker 9: defensive play.

1954
01:54:45,240 --> 01:54:48,480
Speaker 3: See, that's the thing that happens. Look at that he had.

1955
01:54:48,360 --> 01:54:52,560
Speaker 2: Two he had two offensive boards, and he had an

1956
01:54:52,560 --> 01:54:53,800
Speaker 2: elite defensive play.

1957
01:54:54,040 --> 01:54:55,440
Speaker 3: And the Clippers are going to win.

1958
01:54:55,320 --> 01:54:57,240
Speaker 2: The game now and people are gonna be like, Wes,

1959
01:54:58,880 --> 01:55:02,240
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, they'd be up by twenty right now

1960
01:55:02,280 --> 01:55:04,480
Speaker 2: if it weren't for his decisions on offense.

1961
01:55:04,720 --> 01:55:06,160
Speaker 3: That is really good defense though.

1962
01:55:06,200 --> 01:55:08,800
Speaker 4: That's he's been perfect.

1963
01:55:08,920 --> 01:55:15,240
Speaker 3: He's been great. It's really good. Yeah, but goodness, he's

1964
01:55:15,320 --> 01:55:17,280
Speaker 3: so happy not on your team anymore.

1965
01:55:17,720 --> 01:55:19,839
Speaker 1: I'm extremely happy.

1966
01:55:22,840 --> 01:55:25,960
Speaker 3: Okay, Eric Gordon at the free throw line. We'll keep

1967
01:55:26,000 --> 01:55:27,840
Speaker 3: you up to date. Clippers looking in good shape. But

1968
01:55:27,840 --> 01:55:28,760
Speaker 3: I want to ask you.

1969
01:55:28,880 --> 01:55:32,320
Speaker 2: Clay said something we were talking about Klay Thompson and

1970
01:55:32,440 --> 01:55:36,000
Speaker 2: Woj's report that he's expecting the max. Now you'll say

1971
01:55:36,040 --> 01:55:39,720
Speaker 2: the Warriors can't afford it, they will too. Then some

1972
01:55:39,760 --> 01:55:42,400
Speaker 2: Warriors fans will say why not, Yes you can, You've

1973
01:55:42,440 --> 01:55:46,520
Speaker 2: got the money. Ryan Windhorst already he already said this

1974
01:55:46,640 --> 01:55:48,800
Speaker 2: was a checkbook championship last year.

1975
01:55:49,120 --> 01:55:50,000
Speaker 4: That was last year.

1976
01:55:51,360 --> 01:55:53,880
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no two ways about it that the

1977
01:55:53,880 --> 01:55:58,520
Speaker 2: Warriors they could afford anything. They could afford anything. They

1978
01:55:58,560 --> 01:56:02,200
Speaker 2: own that arena, they own a top five NBA franchise.

1979
01:56:02,880 --> 01:56:05,920
Speaker 2: I mean they're printing money. So yes, they can't afford it,

1980
01:56:07,600 --> 01:56:12,760
Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean they will, right, that doesn't mean

1981
01:56:12,800 --> 01:56:16,120
Speaker 2: they will. Clippers have won, by the way, Clippers will

1982
01:56:16,120 --> 01:56:18,200
Speaker 2: win this one by five over.

1983
01:56:18,120 --> 01:56:19,000
Speaker 3: The Phoenix Suns.

1984
01:56:19,040 --> 01:56:22,120
Speaker 2: They grabbed came one and Russell Westbrook is showing his

1985
01:56:22,280 --> 01:56:24,680
Speaker 2: breast on national television.

1986
01:56:24,720 --> 01:56:26,440
Speaker 3: So that was fun anyway.

1987
01:56:27,520 --> 01:56:33,560
Speaker 2: So Clay Thompson a number of months ago, I think

1988
01:56:33,600 --> 01:56:37,880
Speaker 2: this might have been at the SP's He said out loud.

1989
01:56:39,440 --> 01:56:43,880
Speaker 2: The Warrior franchise is so classy. They kept paying me

1990
01:56:44,120 --> 01:56:49,320
Speaker 2: max money even though I was hurt. They showed up

1991
01:56:49,360 --> 01:56:55,120
Speaker 2: at the hospital to offer me a MAX extension, knowing

1992
01:56:55,160 --> 01:56:56,800
Speaker 2: that I was going to miss the next year.

1993
01:56:57,480 --> 01:57:03,160
Speaker 3: And he said, quote, who does that? Mm hmm, Well.

1994
01:57:05,440 --> 01:57:08,880
Speaker 2: Does that now mean that Klay Thompson owes the Warriors

1995
01:57:08,920 --> 01:57:14,800
Speaker 2: a discount discount.

1996
01:57:15,200 --> 01:57:16,879
Speaker 4: No, he's not about to go out a discount.

1997
01:57:17,640 --> 01:57:18,320
Speaker 3: But who does that?

1998
01:57:19,280 --> 01:57:24,000
Speaker 1: Right, No, who does that? What's the discount?

1999
01:57:24,000 --> 01:57:26,160
Speaker 3: Though? Well, I don't know.

2000
01:57:26,360 --> 01:57:29,120
Speaker 2: I mean obviously that means, you know, you have to

2001
01:57:29,160 --> 01:57:34,040
Speaker 2: wait and see what he's offered by somebody else if

2002
01:57:34,080 --> 01:57:37,400
Speaker 2: it were to get to that. He's trying. He's trying

2003
01:57:37,480 --> 01:57:40,400
Speaker 2: right now to have it not get to that. I mean,

2004
01:57:40,440 --> 01:57:44,840
Speaker 2: he's talking about a MAX extension that will kick in

2005
01:57:44,920 --> 01:57:47,280
Speaker 2: before his contract is even up. He's not up this year,

2006
01:57:47,360 --> 01:57:49,960
Speaker 2: he's not up until after next year. He wants to

2007
01:57:50,000 --> 01:57:52,040
Speaker 2: talk about this. He wants to talk about it now.

2008
01:57:52,280 --> 01:57:55,920
Speaker 1: If they lose the series, then that is.

2009
01:57:56,680 --> 01:57:56,880
Speaker 3: Right.

2010
01:57:57,160 --> 01:58:01,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, so interesting timing for this to come out.

2011
01:58:02,760 --> 01:58:04,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, they need to focus on this one first.

2012
01:58:05,720 --> 01:58:08,360
Speaker 2: Well, and again he not going out there and saying

2013
01:58:08,360 --> 01:58:11,320
Speaker 2: it publicly. Woe is saying that that's what Clay feels.

2014
01:58:11,880 --> 01:58:16,360
Speaker 2: So it's not like he took the comments public. But

2015
01:58:16,840 --> 01:58:19,600
Speaker 2: I'm curious, and I know what most people will say,

2016
01:58:19,640 --> 01:58:23,040
Speaker 2: because why would we side with owners. I'm always going

2017
01:58:23,120 --> 01:58:26,200
Speaker 2: to be pro player, get your money, get whatever you deserve.

2018
01:58:26,280 --> 01:58:28,320
Speaker 2: But if you publicly are out there going, man, the

2019
01:58:28,320 --> 01:58:30,000
Speaker 2: Warriors gave me a bunch of money that I didn't

2020
01:58:30,040 --> 01:58:38,080
Speaker 2: really earned. Well okay, then how about next time.

2021
01:58:38,480 --> 01:58:44,640
Speaker 4: You do us as valid? No, there's no, it doesn't

2022
01:58:44,680 --> 01:58:45,200
Speaker 4: work like that.

2023
01:58:46,480 --> 01:58:48,840
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I didn't think so.

2024
01:58:49,800 --> 01:58:53,680
Speaker 2: But you know, I mean those comments could come back

2025
01:58:53,680 --> 01:58:54,240
Speaker 2: to bite him.

2026
01:58:55,720 --> 01:59:00,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, somebody's gonna pay Clay to max.

2027
01:59:02,080 --> 01:59:02,440
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.

2028
01:59:04,400 --> 01:59:06,200
Speaker 1: Is it market out there for him?

2029
01:59:06,480 --> 01:59:07,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh, there's a market for him.

2030
01:59:07,760 --> 01:59:10,280
Speaker 4: I don't take them. I take them in l A.

2031
01:59:10,680 --> 01:59:12,880
Speaker 2: I know that that's been I know the Lakers have

2032
01:59:12,920 --> 01:59:14,080
Speaker 2: been waiting for him for years.

2033
01:59:14,080 --> 01:59:17,640
Speaker 4: Oh man, I know his dad would love that. Yeah.

2034
01:59:17,720 --> 01:59:21,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, come home, man, great stuff tonight, my.

2035
01:59:21,440 --> 01:59:23,320
Speaker 4: Man, always brother, great show.

2036
01:59:23,440 --> 01:59:26,960
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah you too for ee from salam Mark Willard

2037
01:59:27,200 --> 01:59:28,920
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, the Nuggets are about to

2038
01:59:28,920 --> 01:59:30,520
Speaker 2: play the Tea Wolves. If you're a fan of one

2039
01:59:30,520 --> 01:59:32,680
Speaker 2: of those teams, you're like, geez, are we ever going

2040
01:59:32,760 --> 01:59:35,960
Speaker 2: to get this series started? Stay right here? More coming

2041
01:59:36,040 --> 01:59:36,839
Speaker 2: up on FSR