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Speaker 1: A recap of Chris's trip to Milwaukee, fresh turmoil and

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Speaker 1: tumult in Golden State, surrounding Draymond Green, the latest on

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Speaker 1: the sale.

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Speaker 2: Of the Minnesota Timberwolves, that is now the non sale

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Speaker 2: of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the afore mentioned Chris Haynes.

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Speaker 2: He's got stories for us, involving Malik Beasley, involving Lebron James,

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Speaker 2: and involving home life. All of that is next. You're

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Speaker 2: on the latest edition of This League Uncut.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to this league cut in the rule of twenty

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Speaker 3: four hour NBA.

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Speaker 4: News You, Chris Hanes. Let's go time, Cork time, Chris time.

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Speaker 4: This leaguean cut is underway in fire. It should be

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Speaker 4: a good one.

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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome in to another edition of This League Uncut.

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Speaker 2: Mark Stein here with Chris Haynes. We are recording late

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Speaker 2: Thursday night before a pretty stacked Friday schedule of games

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Speaker 2: in the NBA. But honestly, this whole week, as tends

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Speaker 2: to happen this time of year, it's been pretty chaotic.

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Speaker 2: There's been crazy stuff happening day after day after day. Thursday,

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Speaker 2: even with only two games on the schedule, a very

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Speaker 2: eventful Bucks loss at New Orleans and Atlanta with another

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Speaker 2: another crazy ending forty four shots for Dejonte Murray en

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Speaker 3: No Trey Young.

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Speaker 2: But first, I think before we proceed into all of

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Speaker 2: the madness happening around the league, Chris Haynes, Welcome back

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Speaker 2: to Sacramento. You are home in time for a Friday

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Speaker 2: night quite a quite a Friday night game in your

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Speaker 2: Mavericks in the second half of a two game baseball

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Speaker 2: series after the MAVs probably played their best game all

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Speaker 3: All Right, I babbled on too long. How was you

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Speaker 5: Weather was Okay, it didn't snow, so no complaints there.

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Speaker 5: But obviously that was a great game, double overtime. It

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Speaker 5: was definitely a fun night. Fun night for sure, good

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Speaker 3: Before the end of the regular season. Only nine games to.

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Speaker 5: So I just looking, you know, looking at those raw

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Speaker 2: Well, the thing I feel most confident about when we

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Speaker 3: But well it's in dispute, of course.

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Speaker 5: Honestly, Stein, I don't think it matters much to them.

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Speaker 5: Doesn't change what they do their preparation. You know they're

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Speaker 6: Know?

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Speaker 6: You know, that'd be awkward.

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Speaker 2: teams in.

437
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 3: The whole league.

438
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 2: And you know, they've led the West for nearly one

439
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 2: hundred days during the season for a franchise that has

440
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 2: I think it was ten days. They had held the

441
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 2: number one seed as a franchise only ten days in

442
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 2: thirty four years coming into this season. So they have

443
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 2: this really good team, and I look, I tend to

444
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 2: agree with you. I don't think it's going to cause

445
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 2: an immediate distraction. I don't think this current team is

446
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,959
Speaker 2: going to get too hung up about this. But in

447
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 2: the offseason, I mean, the Wolves have major, major, major

448
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 2: financial decisions to deal with with how expensive this team

449
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: is getting, and so they need clarity on the ownership

450
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 2: situation sooner rather than like, so, yeah, short term, is

451
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 2: it really a big deal for the players who have

452
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: had such a great season.

453
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 3: Probably not, But I think.

454
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 2: It won't be long before this does become a pretty

455
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 2: significant story.

456
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 3: Any more, Wolves on your schedule.

457
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 5: So my final two games of the regular season next

458
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 5: week I have the Kings at the Knicks next Thursday,

459
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 5: and then the final regular season game is a King's

460
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 5: home game. They play let me see, they play New

461
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 5: Orleans Pelicans. So those are the final two games in

462
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 5: the regular season. But I do have I do have

463
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 5: the first playing game for the Western Conference, whichever matchup

464
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 5: that is.

465
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 2: And I think you said you will be representing this

466
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 2: league uncut as opposed to a TNT assignment. But Friday

467
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 2: night King's playing host to the map Rick, you are

468
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 2: going to represent this league uncut at that game with

469
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 2: huge playoff implications at Golden One Center.

470
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 5: No, that's that should be a really good game. The

471
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 5: Kings are looking for a bounce back performance. No, I'll

472
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 5: be there.

473
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 2: How much trouble you think the MAVs got into these

474
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:20,959
Speaker 2: last two nights in Sacramento.

475
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 5: In Sacramento, yeah, you act like you act like we

476
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 5: in Miami.

477
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 6: So I think they are fine. Yeah, I'll think a

478
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 6: lot of room service.

479
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 3: I think I think they're fine.

480
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 6: I think.

481
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 2: Before we go and look, you know there's another huge

482
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 2: you know, speaking to the Timberwolves, there's another huge game

483
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 2: Friday night Minnesota at Denver, the first of two more

484
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 2: games where the the Nuggets are hosting the Timberwolves before

485
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 2: the end of this regular season, so I know the

486
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 2: focus is on the college game right now. The college

487
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 2: game has invaded my city. Spoke to your colleague Grant

488
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 2: Hill today. Of course, by the time this pod airs,

489
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 2: Grant will probably be heading to the arena for Houston

490
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 2: against Duke on Friday night, huge game here in Dallas.

491
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 2: He was disappointed with me to hear that I will

492
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 2: not be attending Houston against Duke.

493
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 3: I am not going to make it there.

494
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 2: I will be feverishly preparing for my Saturday morning radio show,

495
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 2: which there will be some NCAA coverage since we've got

496
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen and the Elite eight here in my city.

497
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 2: But man, there's just the focus.

498
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 3: Is on the colleges right now.

499
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 2: But the NBA, the night tonight madness, chaos, jockeying for seeds.

500
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 3: I think it's pretty wild myself.

501
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,719
Speaker 5: Before we get out of here, Stein, let me empty

502
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 5: the clip a little bit. This is something I didn't

503
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 5: get to bring up.

504
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 6: You know.

505
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 5: It was a cool It was a cool family oriented

506
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 5: story that I didn't get to mention. During the broadcast

507
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 5: of the game. I was working the Bucks Lakers game

508
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 5: last Tuesday. So on Tuesday, Malik Beasley's son, Micah, that

509
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 5: was his birthday. On that day, he turned five years

510
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 5: old and the one birthday present he wanted from his

511
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 5: dad was for his dad to hit five.

512
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 6: Threes for him in the game.

513
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 3: Wow.

514
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, they hit five threes for the game.

515
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 3: That's a high bar.

516
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, is a high bar.

517
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 5: At Malik got test fifth three in the second overtime

518
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 5: period and at one point star At one point during

519
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 5: the game, Maleek had looked over to me because again

520
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 5: I'm sitting over there by Reggie.

521
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 6: He looked over to me. He said, what I got?

522
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 6: What I got? What I got?

523
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,479
Speaker 5: And I had to I had to point he had

524
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 5: he had four at the time, So I had to

525
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 5: point four figures throughout it at the time. But uh,

526
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 5: you know it was a losing effort, but uh, that

527
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 5: was pretty cool. He was able to get his son

528
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 5: the birthday gift he wanted his son, his son, Micah

529
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 5: turned five, he was able to get make five threes

530
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 5: for him.

531
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 2: So you're playing scoreboard for Malik Beasley, You're texting Lebron.

532
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 3: You were active on tam.

533
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 5: Oh Lebron Lebron that came about so okay, you know,

534
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 5: so Lebron, we knew Lebron wasn't playing that morning, Tuesday morning,

535
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 5: and so I go to shoot around and Lebron is there,

536
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 5: but you know he's in He's in street clothes, you know,

537
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 5: sweats and stuff like that. Wouldn't say street clothes, but

538
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 5: sweats and everything. You know, he didn't he didn't participate

539
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 5: in shoot around and and you know he was he

540
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 5: wasn't available for media, and so I asked him out,

541
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 5: you know, you know, you know how I go pull

542
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 5: Bron to side, Hey, Bron, man, come on, man, you

543
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 5: know I need something on you.

544
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 6: Help a brother, I need something on you. You know.

545
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 5: He started laughing and everything, and we was talking for

546
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 5: a little bit. But he was like, I'll get something

547
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 5: for you before the game. I'll get something for you.

548
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 5: So that's what he said. So I'm like, okay, all,

549
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 5: I appreciate it, Bron. So I'm thinking that, you know,

550
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 5: I got to try to find him. So, you know

551
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 5: how with star players like well Stian, you know, so

552
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 5: let me explain for everybody else, like when star players

553
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 5: aren't playing that day, but they have to be in

554
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 5: the building, they have to sell on the bench now,

555
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 5: but they can show up at the arena whenever they

556
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 5: want to. There is no obligation, no stupid so they're

557
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 5: not coming in with the team. And so my thing

558
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 5: was like, damn, So you know, I have a lot

559
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 5: of obligations. I got people to talk to before the game,

560
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 5: and so I'm like, Damn, Now I gotta i gotta

561
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 5: chase Lebron.

562
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 6: I gotta figure out when he's gonna come to the arena.

563
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 6: You know how I'm gonna catch him.

564
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 5: You know, team officials they don't like you talking to

565
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 5: a star player when he's not playing because he's he's

566
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 5: supposed to be unavailable to media. So I'm just like, man,

567
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 5: I you know, I'm just I'm not stressing, but I'm

568
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 5: just trying to figure out when I'm running to Bron,

569
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 5: when I'm a bumping to him, when he's gonna show

570
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 5: up at the arena.

571
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 6: We're doing our our meeting.

572
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 5: It's a meeting we have, we have an addressing room

573
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 5: with TNT, meet me, Reggie Miller, Spiro Deep.

574
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 6: Sponge, the game producer.

575
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 5: And I just get a text out of nowhere is

576
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 5: from Lebron, and it was in that text he was

577
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 5: detailing like his approach to this this stretch, at this

578
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 5: end of the season stretch and how he's approaching his

579
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 5: ankle slash foot injury. And I was like, WHOA, Okay.

580
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 5: I appreciated that because he didn't forget about me, you

581
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 5: know what I mean. He didn't forget like this is

582
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 5: Bron here, Like Bron is a guy that is pretty untouchable.

583
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 5: You know, you hear about guys and like, trying to

584
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 5: get in contact with him, you got to get through.

585
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 5: You know, there's usually a force field around Bron. There's

586
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 5: people you got to go through to get to him.

587
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 5: So for him to like not just keep his word,

588
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 5: but you know, he went the extra mile and just

589
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 5: text me because I wasn't expecting that.

590
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 6: I just I thought I was going.

591
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 5: To run into him and then he'll remember then you know,

592
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 5: at the arena and then you know, give me a quote.

593
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 2: But I thought you guys were going to get together

594
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 2: and trade podcasting strategies.

595
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 3: But I guess that's for down the road.

596
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 5: Listen, start, do not make me ask him to do

597
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 5: a swap a podcast swamp.

598
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 6: He'll come on our podcast and then won't come on

599
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 6: him to him and.

600
00:35:55,640 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 3: J what's the harm in asking shoot your shot?

601
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,839
Speaker 5: Shoot your shot, Come on, Dal, Yeah, that's one.

602
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 2: That's one I think we can probably safely assume would

603
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 2: be a hard No.

604
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't like and I don't like rejections just

605
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 5: to hear it, you know what I mean. Like it's

606
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 5: enough for our job, but rejection is part of it,

607
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. But you shoot your shot.

608
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 3: You miss the shots you don't take.

609
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, but then there.

610
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 5: Are some shots you just know you're gonna miss, and

611
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 5: there's no there's no need of going down that road.

612
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 5: We already got some rejections coming up anyways, you know,

613
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 5: let's not add an extra one just to add it. Stein,

614
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 5: Before I let you go, I need to tell you

615
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 5: about something.

616
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 3: Sty I'm afraid. Go ahead.

617
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 5: I'll tell you about some sty. So I remember Stein,

618
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 5: and I think a lot of men can relate. Maybe

619
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 5: some women I don't know, but me and in particular Stein,

620
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 5: I remember whening me and my wife before when we

621
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 5: were married. You know, we were nineteen eighteen around that age.

622
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:11,720
Speaker 5: You get into arguments, right, You get in arguments, and

623
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 5: you see it on TV, see it on movies when

624
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 5: you know certain women do this. But you get in

625
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 5: an argument and my girlfriends, you know, is my wife,

626
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 5: my girlfriend in town. She had a habit of when

627
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 5: we're driving, we're getting an argument. It doesn't matter where

628
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 5: we're at, where we're at, she'll get out that car

629
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 5: and start walking. Let me out the car, let me

630
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 5: out the car, and she'll get out the car and

631
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 5: start walking. And Stein, at that point, you have a

632
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 5: decision to make. You either gonna drive away. Oh you

633
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 5: got out the car. Okay, go ahead. You ought to

634
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 5: gonna drive away, let her walk, let her find a

635
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 5: way home or whatever. Or you're gonna do what I

636
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 5: think what most men do, and you go pull up. Baby,

637
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 5: come get in the car. Come on, baby, stop it,

638
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,760
Speaker 5: stop it, Come get in the car. And every time Stein,

639
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 5: every time she pulled that wanted to get the car

640
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 5: for a argument. Back in our teens and young twenties,

641
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 5: I had to pull off to the side.

642
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 6: Baby, come on getting a car. Come on, but let's

643
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 6: talk about this. She'll get in the car. Stein every time.

644
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 6: But Stein. Two days ago, we.

645
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 5: Were at the drive through and Popeye, Stein, me and

646
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 5: my wife got into it. Stein and I had enough.

647
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 5: I got out the car. So I got out the car.

648
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 5: I was like, this is the let me out. I

649
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 5: got the car, and now, I mind you our home.

650
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 5: Our home is three miles from where I got off at.

651
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,720
Speaker 6: So I got off and start walking.

652
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 5: And while I'm walking, I'm thinking in my head, why

653
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 5: in the world did I do this?

654
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 6: This was stupid.

655
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 5: But I'm walking, and when I'm thinking back to the

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Speaker 5: moment of times that she used to do that way

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Speaker 5: back in the day. So I'm thinking, Okay, I'm walking

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Speaker 5: a little bit. She's still at Popeyes, and to drive through,

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Speaker 5: she's going to have to drive by me, and she's

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Speaker 5: gonna come over and and try to talk to me,

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Speaker 5: talk some system to me, and get into the car. Stein,

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Speaker 5: don't you know, she just drove right past me. She

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Speaker 5: drove right past me, and I was so heated. U'm like, no,

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Speaker 5: she didn't just drive past me. All those times back

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Speaker 5: when we were younger, I would pull over to the

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Speaker 5: side and Mabbie, come on, get in the car, and

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Speaker 5: she would get in.

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Speaker 6: She'd drave I walked three miles, three and a half miles.

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Speaker 3: Okay, time out, time out? Time out.

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Speaker 2: First of all, yes, based on my very rough math,

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Speaker 2: what I really took from this conversation is she has

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Speaker 2: put up with you for more than twenty years.

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Speaker 3: I guess I have that.

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Speaker 6: Right, yes, but you can say it's vice versa as well.

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Speaker 6: But go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Second of all, in your teens or your young twenties,

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Speaker 2: as you put it, there was no uber.

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Speaker 3: Why didn't you just uber?

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Speaker 6: After?

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Speaker 5: I felt like I thought about that, but I felt

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Speaker 5: like I had to see this through.

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Speaker 6: I had to walk the hole.

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Speaker 3: You walked the full three miles home.

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Speaker 6: Walked through full three and a half miles home.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I had your food like I was

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Speaker 3: in her car.

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Speaker 6: Food was what.

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Speaker 5: She didn't even order my food. It was that she

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Speaker 5: got that mad. I got out the car. I ain't

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Speaker 5: I ain't get any food. So I get home no food.

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Speaker 5: And so when I got home, I said, oh, so

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Speaker 5: you you wasn't going to he didn't think the stop

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Speaker 5: by and pick a brother up. She said, you gott

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Speaker 5: the car, that's on you. I figured I figured to

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Speaker 5: give you time to cool off. I'm like, ain't this something?

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Speaker 6: All this all that?

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Speaker 5: All those times she used to just get out the car,

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Speaker 5: get out. I'm walking and I'm I'm the gentleman. I

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Speaker 5: come over.

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Speaker 6: I pull up to the side. Baby, Come get in

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Speaker 6: the car. I open up the door.

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Speaker 5: Come get in the car. We'll work this out. We'll

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Speaker 5: work this out. And when it was my turn, she

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Speaker 5: just drove right past. That's something, boy, that's something.

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Speaker 2: He didn't specify what the dispute was, and that's probably

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Speaker 2: too personal, so we don't need to specify. But just

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Speaker 2: let's just let's just mean whose fault was it?

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Speaker 5: I swear I don't remember. I swear I don't remember,

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Speaker 5: but I'm gonna tell you right now, Stan, I felt empowered.

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Speaker 5: I had, like I said, I couldn't uber at this point,

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Speaker 5: I ran towards the smoke of getting out the car

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Speaker 5: and looking at it.

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Speaker 6: Three and a half mile journey in the sun I

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Speaker 6: had now.

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Speaker 3: Three and a half. It started out three miles, now

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Speaker 3: it's three and a half.

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Speaker 5: Oh, it took me a long time three and a half.

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Speaker 5: It took me a long time to get there, Star.

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Speaker 5: It took our thirty minutes to get home. I had

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Speaker 5: to do it, and I felt empowered. But start, I'll.

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Speaker 6: Tell you this.

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Speaker 5: I'm not doing that again. I'll wait until we get

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Speaker 5: home to pitch a fit.

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Speaker 2: Something tells me a listener or two might just want

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Speaker 2: a weigh in on this tale and share their opinion.

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Speaker 3: So we'll see. We'll see what kind of reaction this gets.

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Speaker 2: Chris unscripted script Steine check us out, because listen, listen

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Speaker 2: when the shoe was on the other foot.

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Speaker 5: Ladies, y'all way in listen. I know it's a lot

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Speaker 5: of husbands or men who have significant others out there.

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Speaker 5: Y'all been in these situations. And you know, when they

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Speaker 5: get out that car, Stein, you know, if you just

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Speaker 5: take off, even though they jumped out the car and

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Speaker 5: I don't want to take this anymore.

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Speaker 6: I'm getting out.

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Speaker 5: I'm walking, even though they stepped up the car style.

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Speaker 5: You know, if you leave and go home, the relationship

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Speaker 5: is over. It's over. Even though they stepped out the car,

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Speaker 5: it is over. If you leave home, go ahead and

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Speaker 5: think she's just gonna be all rational when she gets

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Speaker 5: back from that three mile walk.

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Speaker 6: Hey, y'all just go work it out. It is over.

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Speaker 5: So you have to go to the side and say, baby,

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Speaker 5: come on in. But it doesn't work that way for us.

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Speaker 5: If we get out the car, we are walking. That's

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Speaker 5: just the way it is.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, if you listen to This League Uncut regularly, you

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Speaker 2: know that this is really two podcasts in one. This

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Speaker 2: League Uncut, which covers the NBA twice a week, and

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Speaker 2: Chris Haynes Unscripted, which you never know what kind of

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Speaker 2: tales you're gonna get.

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Speaker 3: And I promise you this one was not on the rundown.

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Speaker 3: I did not know this is where we were going.

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Speaker 2: I kind of knew we were going to talk about

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Speaker 2: the lebron Tech situation, did not know about the Malik

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Speaker 2: Beasley story, and I certainly was not expecting life advice

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Speaker 2: from Chris Haynes. And again, well, we will see something

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Speaker 2: tells me, we will see what the audience has to

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Speaker 2: say about the choices.

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Speaker 3: That you made.

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Speaker 6: I'm here to help, that's all.

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Speaker 2: Here to help others and maybe get yourself in trouble

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Speaker 2: along the way. Okay, that is going to do it

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Speaker 2: for this edition of This League Uncut. As always, please

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Speaker 2: follow the show, rate the show, review the show. We

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Speaker 2: would love a five star review.

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Speaker 3: Chris Haynes deserves.

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Speaker 2: A five star review for repeatedly baring his soul and

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Speaker 2: taking us deep inside what's going on. What's going on

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Speaker 2: in the life of Haynes. He alone, that kind of

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Speaker 2: candor alone merits a five star rating. All right, that

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Speaker 2: is going to do it for This edition of This

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Speaker 2: League Uncut Again taped late on Thursday night out Friday.

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Speaker 2: Chris and I will be back together again very soon.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much for listening everybody.

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Speaker 4: And that'll do it for us. See you next time.

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Speaker 4: This League UNCUTTA is an iHeartRadio production.

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Speaker 3: SCA Loka, Chris

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Speaker 4: Haynes and Mark Stein