1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: The Super Bowl Reaction pod you didn't know you needed 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: and that you didn't know you were getting, which also 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: includes lots of NBA trade talk, Hawks, Lakers, Trey Young. 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: We're gonna get into all that, as well as some 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: serious issues that I have with some of Chris Haynes's 6 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: recent wardrobe choices. Stay tuned, because all that's next right here, 7 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: only on this league. 8 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 2: I'm cut. 9 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 3: Welcome to this league. I'm cutting in rule of twenty 10 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:35,160 Speaker 3: four hour NBA news. 11 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 2: This you'll. 12 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 3: Chris Haynes. It's so time, work's time, It's so time. 13 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 3: This league un Cut is underway and on fire. 14 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 1: This should be a good one. Everyone, Welcome in to 15 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: the latest edition of this League Uncut. Mark Stein here 16 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 1: with Chris Haynes. I wish you could see this, America. 17 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: Chris Haynes is still wearing Chiefs gear. 18 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 2: There's a reason for that. 19 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: And he is really this is the foremost most divisive 20 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 1: wedge that he has ever brought into our relationship. I 21 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: don't even want to talk about the Super Bowl. I 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,199 Speaker 1: didn't anticipate that we would be doing so, but Chris 23 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: Haynes is forcing the issue. So before we get to 24 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: trade deadline reaction, where the NBA season goes from here? 25 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: Chris Haynes, why are you? Why have you landed on 26 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: the Chiefs bandwagon? Did the Chiefs really need another fan, 27 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: a Fresno born, Bay Area based fan? They really need 28 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: you wearing their gear? Why is my son telling me? Hey, Dad, 29 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: did you see that Chris posted on Instagram? He's wearing 30 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: a Kelsey jersey? What the hell is going on around here? Why? 31 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: Why yourself? 32 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 2: I'm glad you asked. I'm very glad you asked. You know, 33 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 2: it's really simple. I have nothing against Niner fans. I 34 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 2: just found a lot of them really obnoxious. Let me 35 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 2: give you the short story of why I chose to 36 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 2: root for the Kansas City Chiefs. I have a real 37 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 2: tight group of neighbors. It's about six different houses, and 38 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 2: we're just tight on this block. You know. I live 39 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 2: in Sacramento, and most of them, ninety of them are 40 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 2: Niner fans. And we do everything together on this block. Steinle, 41 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 2: I mean, we we do pot lux here, we play 42 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 2: basketball together here, real tight group, about twenty of us. Right. 43 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 2: So the NFC Championship game, one of our neighbors decided 44 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 2: to have a Niners fan only party and didn't invite 45 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 2: some of us to this party. We were not invited. 46 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 2: The only way we were invited if we were to 47 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 2: wear Niner gear. That was the only way we were were 48 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 2: to be invited. I didn't take too kindly of that stun. 49 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 2: I didn't go I'm like, hell Na, you ain't gonna 50 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 2: force me to go pick somebody else just to show 51 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 2: up in your house, hell Na. So one of our 52 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 2: other neighbors hosted the super Bowl party, and he was like, 53 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 2: everybody is invited. Anybody can come regardless. So I made 54 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 2: sure the day before the super Bowl party with the 55 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 2: Dick Sporting Good and I'm in Sacramento. It is very 56 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 2: hard to find anything Kansas City related. I found a 57 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 2: Kelsey Jersey slash shirt, bought it for fifty dollars, and 58 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 2: I showed up at the super Bowl party when the 59 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 2: Niners were up ten oh and I came back and 60 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 2: shifted the momentum. And then when you saw what happened, 61 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 2: kmsas City Chief came back won that thing and stein 62 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 2: the way they won it to the last second, like 63 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 2: they I was, I'm in I'm in nither territory in 64 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 2: this house. They're going crazy. They're thinking they're about to 65 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 2: win the Super Bowl, and the way my homes just 66 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 2: snatched victory away from defeat like that and brought it home. 67 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 2: And I posted a video of that moment here while 68 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 2: I was in Niner Land at this house, and I 69 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 2: went off on my neighbor who didn't invite us to 70 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 2: the NFC championship party. So, in a long story short, Styn, 71 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 2: that's why I'm wearing this Kansas City Chiefs jersey slash 72 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 2: shirt today. I went to the gym this morning because 73 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 2: there's a bunch of Niner fans that I played basketball more. 74 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 2: You know what, I wore that shirt and you know what, Stein, 75 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:07,039 Speaker 2: they didn't show up. They didn't show up. So I'll 76 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 2: be wearing a shirt again tomorrow morning because they're going 77 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 2: to see this. I'm gonna get all my use from 78 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 2: buying this shirt. There, you have it, all right. 79 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: So first of all, let me correct myself. Bay area 80 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: based is poor terminology for me. You are Sacramento based. 81 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: You are nine to one six based. 82 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 2: It's not a territory. That's not a territory. 83 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: Let's let's clarify that. Point two tomorrow's tweets today, I 84 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: can already see it Tuesday when this episode drops, I'm 85 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: waiting for the aggregation from the Dunk Central. Haines takes 86 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: credit for Chiefs overtime rally. Haines, not Mahomes, propels Chiefs 87 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: to second straight Super Bowl title, and. 88 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 2: You know what, that would be accurate again, I wasn't. 89 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 2: I showed up at the Super Bowl party late because 90 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 2: my daughter had a volleyball tournament and those things last 91 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 2: from morning till four thirty five thirty. So I got 92 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 2: home and the Niners were up tn O and I'm 93 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,679 Speaker 2: dreading Stein. I'm dreading going to this super Bowl party. 94 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 2: I'm like, man, heyll no, they up ten. Oh yeah, 95 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 2: I'm already feeling some type of way about them not 96 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 2: inviting us to the NFC party. But you know what, 97 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 2: I showed up anyway, and when I showed up, the 98 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 2: Chiefs showed up, and they showed out, and the rest 99 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:30,160 Speaker 2: is history. 100 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: I assume you watched the NFL as as a young 101 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 1: lad in Fresno. What was your favorite team as a kid? 102 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 2: You know what? And the reason I could do this 103 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 2: flip flopping. I don't have an NFL team. I don't 104 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 2: I root for players. I don't have an NFL team 105 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 2: but growing up, growing up, my favorite player was Jerry Rice. 106 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 2: Then it was Terrell Owens, and that was it. Those 107 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 2: were my two favorite players growing up. 108 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: Well, look, I'm already dreading. You know, this is a 109 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill household, and so my ability to stomach anything 110 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: about the Chiefs is pretty much extinguished. To complicate my 111 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: own personal situation further, Patrick Mahomes is a Mavericks fan. 112 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and Luca are super tight. So I know 113 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: that I am mere weeks, maybe even mere days away 114 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: from Mahomes showing up to a Mavericks game triumphantly being 115 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: courtside hugging Luca. I'm gonna have to watch them walk 116 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: down the hallway together, and it's going to be it's 117 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: going to be incredibly painful. I will say this though, 118 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: the only thing, and we're gonna end the NFL talk 119 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: and move on to the matters that we are more 120 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: qualified to discuss. But the Chiefs this much, I know 121 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: you can't win three Super Bowls in a row. So 122 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:54,119 Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills are the favorites to win the twenty 123 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: twenty five Super Bowl based on the exclusive handicapping of 124 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: this league. Uncut heard it here first, right, now Bills 125 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: beat the Lions in Super Bowl fifty nine, two incredibly 126 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: long suffering franchises, and the Bills are finally going to 127 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: have their moment, the coronation of Josh Allen and the 128 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: lifting of a curse as painful and as long as 129 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: what Lebron James did for the Cavs in twenty sixteen. 130 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: That is coming in February of twenty twenty five. So 131 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: just there you go. 132 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 2: Well, hold on, since you're going that far, who's going 133 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 2: to Who's gonna Who's going to be the Super Bowl performer, 134 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 2: halftime perform. 135 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: I don't have that. I don't have I don't have 136 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: that kind of intel. Were you? Were you happy with 137 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: the Usher performance? 138 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 2: That that editing nuts ten out of ten, ten out 139 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 2: of ten, he killed it. I mean, it's one of 140 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 2: those performances where it's like, if you got your woman 141 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 2: by your side, your wife or your significant other, you 142 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 2: gotta let her. Just let her have it, let her dream, 143 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 2: let her have it. Usher takes everybody's woman for that 144 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 2: ten fifteen minutes of time days performing And that's why 145 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 2: I didn't let my wife go to his performance in 146 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 2: Vegas when he had to stay there. But yeah, he 147 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:23,719 Speaker 2: killed it. He absolutely destroyed it. 148 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: So that might make it tough on them. I mean, 149 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 1: who wants to follow that. I mean, that's a tough 150 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: act to follow, apparently. 151 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 2: You know what, It's always a tough act to follow. 152 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 2: But you know what, if you're a competitor, you go 153 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 2: for it. Period you're a comparitor, you go for it. 154 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 2: I was talking to about my daughter stein volleyball. She 155 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 2: had the volleyball tournament. They went two and two yesterday, 156 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 2: and me, I don't hide my frustration or my disdain 157 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 2: for a lack of performance or a lack of hustle. 158 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 2: So she sees it. Her ankle is bothering her. She 159 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,079 Speaker 2: puts an ankle brace on in the second game, and 160 00:09:58,120 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 2: it's bothering her. You could see it in her face. 161 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 2: And I pulled her to the side doing one of 162 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 2: the timeouts. I said, believe it or not, nobody cares 163 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 2: if your ankle is hurt. I said, you're either playing 164 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 2: or you're not. That's it. If you're too hurt, sit down. 165 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 2: Daddy will understand. But if you're in there, I don't. 166 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 2: You can't let them know that you're hurt. You gotta 167 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 2: go have a poker face. Nobody cares. It's one of 168 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 2: those things. They don't care. All they're gonna do because 169 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 2: she was playing against a high school teammate as well. 170 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 2: This is club volleyball here, So I said, listen, you 171 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 2: got that. That's your high school teammate right there. If 172 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 2: she beats you, she's gonna talk. She's gonna talk. She 173 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 2: don't care if you hurt or not. She's gonna talk. 174 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 2: So you better get it. My daughter went and got it. 175 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 2: So if you a competitor, star, it don't matter if 176 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 2: us should followed Prince, followed Michael Jackson, the Beatles. You 177 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 2: go out there if they called me to, if they 178 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 2: called me and won't us to come do our podcast? 179 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 2: This league gun cut for the Super Bowl half. That's 180 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 2: what we're doing, Stan, I don't care if Prince was 181 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 2: there last year. We're doing it me and you. 182 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 1: Well, I don't think we're going to get that invite. 183 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 1: But I have to say, remember when you late last 184 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: year you issued the mandate that producer Ryan Music must 185 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,439 Speaker 1: now keep his camera on so we can see him 186 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: during the recording of these podcasts. We haven't said a 187 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,959 Speaker 1: word about the NBA yet. I have never seen him 188 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 1: so happy. Like he is enjoying this NFL coverage in 189 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: these life lessons far more than anything we say about 190 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 1: the NBA. So I'm a little bit worried because I've 191 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,839 Speaker 1: never seen him this dialed into what we're talking about. 192 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 2: Stein Ryan is from the Colin Cowherd tree. He's from 193 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 2: the branch the tree of cow Herd. That's NFL talk. 194 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't even like the NBA. I asked him. 195 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: I asked him before we came on, how much NBA 196 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: was on today's show. I knew the answer was absolutely zero. 197 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: Maybe in April they'll start paying attention to the NBA. 198 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: All Right, we've talked about enough extra curricular activities. Let's 199 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: talk about the NBA. Because before we get into some 200 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: of the trade deadline minutia, I have to say. I 201 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: have to get this off my chest. And our good 202 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: friend Bill Simmons said it. I've seen other people say 203 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: it talking about how last week was the trade doudline. 204 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: It was a dud. There was nothing. People. Come on, man, listen, Okay, 205 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna go through this one last time. 206 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: There were six trades in the NBA before last week 207 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 1: during the season. James Harden was traded on Halloween. Og 208 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: An Andobi was traded on December thirtieth. Pascal Siakam, like 209 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: James Harden, a former All Star and a former All 210 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: NBA selection. He was traded in mid January, right before 211 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: the season. Damian Lillard was traded from Portland tim Milwaukee. 212 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: A trade gets no larger than that. And Drew Holliday 213 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 1: himself a former All Star, who was in the trade 214 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:06,559 Speaker 1: that got Damian Lillard from Portland to Milwaukee. Portland turned 215 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: right around and traded Drew Holliday to Boston and then 216 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: on deadline day, Okay, the Atlanta Hawks kept a Jontay Murray. 217 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,559 Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that it was a dud. We still 218 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 1: got fifteen trades on deadline day, and Okay, no All 219 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: Stars moved, but probably that's because we had multiple current 220 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:35,839 Speaker 1: and former All Stars moving in trades before deadline day, 221 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: and I would say on deadline day we still had 222 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: plenty of suspense and action. The Knicks made very significant 223 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: moves by bringing in Boyon Bogdanovic and Alec Burks. The 224 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:51,080 Speaker 1: Oklahoma City Thunder gave you a surprise trade. When people say, oh, 225 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:54,079 Speaker 1: teams are just doing this for tax reasons, and luxury 226 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: tax reasons. Gordon Hayward and his thirty one point five 227 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 1: million dollar contract was unexpected traded on deadline day. Oklahoma 228 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: City acquires Gordon Hayward and then after the deadline they 229 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: bring in Bismack Biyambo to address the size issues. Dallas 230 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: couldn't have been much more aggressive. Dallas woke up Thursday 231 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,439 Speaker 1: with one first round pick to trade. They went out 232 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: and got another first round pick to trade and traded 233 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: them both. So we did see action and surprises. It 234 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: wasn't just little salary dumps and moves to reduce luxury 235 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: tax bills. There was significant trade action on deadline day. 236 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: And I just say that because I just think we're 237 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: getting spoiled, like you're not gonna have blockbuster trades at 238 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: every single turn. No league can just have infinite, huge trades. 239 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: The previous two deadlines, former MVPs got traded James Harden 240 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, both Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook 241 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. I say all this just to 242 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: kind of put a bow on this. I don't think 243 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: fans of the transaction game have been cheated. I think 244 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: they've gotten plenty of action over the past five six months. 245 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: And you know you can tell me now you agree, 246 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: you disagree. But just because Atlanta said, you know what, 247 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 1: we're not trading de Jante Murray to me, did not 248 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 1: make the trade deadline a non event. 249 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Stein don't hold that. Let's know how 250 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 2: you really feel. You don't get that from Stein too often, 251 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 2: so I relish it. I wasn't expecting that star. I mean, 252 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 2: was was was this twitter? Was this twitter? That was? 253 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: I think it's everywhere. No, like I mean, I think 254 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: it's everywhere. Like I said, every you know, every time 255 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: I dial into a podcast, it's the trade deadline? 256 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 2: Was it was a. 257 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: Done the trade deadline, right, I mean, like, like again, 258 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: you're not gonna get all stars moving in every single 259 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: transaction cycle. And like I said, I think you have 260 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: if you you don't just judge the deadline by deadline day. 261 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: You have to say your Pascal Siakam was traded on 262 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: January seventeenth, that's, you know, three ish weeks before the deadline, 263 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: but that is still part of the deadline. 264 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 2: I agree, I agree. I mean the Knicks, don't you know, 265 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 2: they don't feel like they had a dead of a 266 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 2: deadline and no, I. 267 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: Mean, I think the Knicks. I mean to bring in 268 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: Annaoby and Boyan Bogdanovic and Alec Burks and to do 269 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: so without giving up a first is it's not just activity, 270 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: it's impressive activity. 271 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 2: They didn't give up a first or anybody from their 272 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 2: their core rotation. You know, they they just you know, 273 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 2: they got better. They definitely got better, increasingly better. Dallas Mavericks. 274 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 2: It was one thing I knew well. Signs were pointing 275 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 2: to the Mavericks making a move anyway, because you've been 276 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 2: reporting for so long how they did a Ford going 277 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 2: after a Ford, a big man or whatever. So I 278 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 2: had the last game before the trade deadline that I 279 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 2: had was the Dallas Mavericks and the Brooklyn Nets. And 280 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 2: I initially had the Dallas Mavericks against the Knicks game 281 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,719 Speaker 2: on Thursday night, but I got pulled off of that 282 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:07,199 Speaker 2: so I can focus on just trade stuff because I 283 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 2: was doing TV from two pm to eight o'clock that day. 284 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 2: But I bring that up to say that Jason Kidd 285 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 2: told me on Tuesday that he was not going to 286 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 2: have shoot around on Thursday because Betraye goes down after 287 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,239 Speaker 2: that shoot around. He said players would have been all 288 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 2: in their heads, they would have forgot everything that they 289 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 2: were trying to tell him about the game that morning, 290 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,159 Speaker 2: and so he didn't want to have the distraction of 291 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 2: having a shoot around, then having a couple of players move, 292 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 2: and then the team just being out of sorts mentally 293 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 2: and not being prepared for that New York Knicks game. 294 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:50,640 Speaker 2: So once he told me he was going to cancel 295 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 2: shoot around, I was like, Oh, yeah, something is going down, 296 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 2: something's going and I was I knew it was going 297 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 2: to be Grant. I knew it was going to be Grant. 298 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,120 Speaker 2: So that wasn't that part wasn't a surprise. They made 299 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 2: two moves so that, you know, I didn't see the 300 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 2: other one coming. But you know, definitely Dallas, New York 301 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,880 Speaker 2: definitely the winners. More so for me, New York definitely 302 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 2: the winners of that trade deadline. And again if you 303 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,199 Speaker 2: add in what they did a few weeks prior and 304 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 2: pulling in og, you know, come on, that was a 305 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 2: It was pretty good to me. 306 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: I'm so glad actually you brought up that TV assignment 307 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: because what happens soon after the deadline. Just a few 308 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: hours after the NBA trade deadline passes TNT's Inside the NBA, 309 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 1: the most celebrated studio show in sports history. Who do 310 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:54,880 Speaker 1: they turn to for their trade deadline analysis? Our very 311 00:18:54,920 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: own Chris Haynes, Star of this League on UH and 312 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: there's the Chuckster, Shack Kenny, the venerable Ernie Johnson. Except 313 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 1: Chris Haynes was in some sort of dungeon room at 314 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: the Bleacher Report New York offices, and it was great 315 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 1: to hear the guys giving mister Haynes a hard time 316 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: about the very man, I don't even know what the 317 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 1: right word is, the very understated setup that Chris Haynes 318 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: was in as he delivered his post trade deadline analysis. 319 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 3: Chris Haynes, who was joining us tonight from New York, Chris. 320 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 2: Is it in a dungeon somewhere? No, he's not in 321 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 2: a dungeon. He's in a studio somewhere. That is not 322 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 2: a studio. Telling me you're in a studio? 323 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 3: Will you got one wall and one other? 324 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,640 Speaker 2: Chris, you're in New York? Said it? Man? 325 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:04,360 Speaker 1: Did you find out that cheap bass studios dot com? 326 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 2: You're in a studio right, you know studio here in 327 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:23,439 Speaker 2: New York? Yes, studios. So for context, for background. I 328 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 2: was in New York. I was at the New br 329 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 2: Bleacher Report studio. First time I was there. You know, 330 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:31,880 Speaker 2: I don't get to New York often, so first time 331 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:36,160 Speaker 2: I was there. And uh, I mean it's a cool studio. 332 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 2: I mean the back, the backdrop. Uh it was two 333 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 2: walls in the back. One was like a wooded it 334 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 2: was a wooden type of decoration. In the on the 335 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 2: right side of it, I believe it was like just concrete. 336 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 2: So in the so in the shot you see wood 337 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 2: on one side, concrete on the other side. Mexic It 338 00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 2: makes it really looked like I am in some dungeon. 339 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 2: That's I didn't even think about that, you know, until 340 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 2: Chuck said something like that, And then when he says something, 341 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 2: I look behind me, I'm like, I guess this is 342 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 2: all you see. I guess because everything around me in 343 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 2: the front it's nice, like a nice plus studio. But 344 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,920 Speaker 2: this backdrop that I was using, I was like, Okay, well, yeah, 345 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 2: I guess I could see why they would would say 346 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 2: such a thing. I don't know. 347 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: You know, now that show is truly it's amazing how fast. 348 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: It's amazing how fast the viewers tweet in the memes 349 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: and like they get him on the air so quickly. 350 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: And you and I have both been on a zillion 351 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: TV shows in our life, and like, I don't know 352 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: how they react so quick, but their staff is truly amazing. 353 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: How fast because the guy but somebody tweeted that picture 354 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: of you with the video of throwing a ball against 355 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: the wall and a jail cell, and they had that 356 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 1: thing on air in seconds. 357 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what one of the staff is the best, 358 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,439 Speaker 2: you know, the best in the country. But nah, it's 359 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 2: it's all well, you never that's the that's the thing 360 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 2: about it. Like they will tell you, okay, you're going on. 361 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 2: You're talking with Ernie and Chuck and them, and they'll 362 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,359 Speaker 2: go over like some topics that we might you know, 363 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 2: want to discuss. The problem is with especially Chuck and Shot, 364 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 2: you don't know which direction they're going in, you know 365 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 2: what I mean, Like you you have no clue. We 366 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 2: can have a plan set up, but nine times out 367 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,159 Speaker 2: of ten they're going to derail that play and go 368 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,400 Speaker 2: into their own zone. So uh, that's that's what makes 369 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 2: it their show so much. Magic man, It's it's a 370 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 2: spot to the house hold on It's the it make sure, 371 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 2: I say that it's the spotting, you know what st 372 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 2: the spontananity. There you go, you know what I was 373 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 2: going on. 374 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: You know, I haven't seen those guys in a long 375 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: time and one of the it's one of the highlight 376 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,399 Speaker 1: like I am, as I mentioned, I think on the 377 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 1: last pod we did, or one of the most recent 378 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: pods we did. I finally have secured my plane ticket 379 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: and hotel room for Indianapolis, so I will be meeting 380 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: you there. Of course you'll be you know, you'll be 381 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 1: floor level the Panini Future Stars Game, All Star Saturday 382 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 1: Night All Star Game. You know, I'll need binoculars to 383 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: see the court from where I am, but at least 384 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 1: I will be in Indianapolis. There are rumors, there are rumblings, 385 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: there are sourced whispers that Stein and Haynes might be 386 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 1: getting together for some sort of special edition of This 387 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: League Uncut, maybe even with an audience more. We will 388 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 1: reveal more on that when we know it's going to 389 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: happen for sure. But we are working feverishly behind the 390 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 1: scenes to make some sort of live Indianapolis edition of 391 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 1: This League Uncut happen, and I am fairly confident that 392 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: it will happen, so you and I will be in 393 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: the same place at least for that. I hope I 394 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 1: see more than that, but I know at least at 395 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,639 Speaker 1: least we're going to get together at least once. But truly, 396 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: one of the things I look forward to most about 397 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 1: a trip to All Star Weekend is seeing the Chuckster, 398 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,199 Speaker 1: seeing Shaq, who I covered as a beat writer in 399 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: LA with the Lakers. I only covered Shack one year, 400 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: but it was the It was the first year of 401 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: Shaq and Kobe, and that was a huge, huge pivotal 402 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: season for me, and both Shaq and Kobe always made 403 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: time for me after that. Just having been the beat 404 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: writer with those guys for one season, it was hugely 405 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 1: important for me. So I mean seeing them all, seeing 406 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: seeing Ernie, Kenny, Shack, Charles together, that is always one 407 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 1: of the highlights of an All Star Weekend. So I'm 408 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: definitely looking, definitely looking forward to with with any luck, 409 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:07,640 Speaker 1: crossing paths with them too. 410 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 2: Are you coming to any of the events, Are you 411 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 2: coming to any of the parties with me? Stein? Are 412 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 2: you doing anything? Are you stepping out of your zombie 413 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 2: solo self and going out and joining everyone else? 414 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: I have I did R s v P to one brunch. Now, 415 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,159 Speaker 1: whether I actually attend it will see? 416 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 2: Is that is that on Sunday. 417 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: That's on Sunday. But you know, like I said, you know, 418 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 1: I know, well, first Sunday, we gotta make our thing 419 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: happen first. 420 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 2: That is my Sunday priority. 421 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,920 Speaker 1: So that's all I'm really thinking about. Uh Thursday, I've 422 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,719 Speaker 1: already turned down a couple of things. It's just not 423 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 1: I'm just I just I don't know, man, It's just 424 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: it's not I don't know. It's just not me. Turn 425 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,120 Speaker 1: are you Where are you going? You're let me guess 426 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:03,679 Speaker 1: you're going to the Clutch party. 427 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 2: The Clutch The Clutch party is should I say what 428 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 2: day it is? But yes, I'll be I'll make an 429 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,120 Speaker 2: appearance there for sure. 430 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 1: I don't even get I don't even get invited to 431 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,439 Speaker 1: that party. So I would have to go as your 432 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: plus one to get in there. 433 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 2: Please. I the brunch that you mentioned, I'll uh, we 434 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 2: gotta make our that's around the time where we have 435 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 2: our pot uh timing set up, so after that maybe 436 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 2: we can do you know, hit that up. I'm not 437 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 2: turning down Stein, I'm just not replying to those that 438 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 2: I am not going to Turning down is such a style. 439 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 2: I mean, there's a better way, there's a more delicate 440 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 2: I'm not even you know what I don't. I should 441 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 2: don't show up. 442 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,400 Speaker 1: I shouldn't even say turning down because I haven't been. 443 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: I've barely been invited to anything. I think people. You know, 444 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: I don't really get invited to that much stuff. I 445 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: have been invited to the NBA Tech Summit on Friday morning. 446 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,199 Speaker 1: I do hope to attend at at least some of that. 447 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 1: But that's not you know that. I know that doesn't 448 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 1: really excite you. You're you're more interested in the nighttime activities. 449 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:09,199 Speaker 1: And like I said, I have. 450 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 2: No no star. I've grown. 451 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 1: I've grown. 452 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 2: That's not not necessarily true, but check it checks out. 453 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 2: There is a party that you can come with me 454 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 2: Saturday night, the T and T wrap up party. You 455 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,159 Speaker 2: can be you can be my guest for that, and 456 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 2: you have all your fablure. 457 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,360 Speaker 1: You know what, I've never I've never been to one 458 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:33,159 Speaker 1: of those. I might actually to be your guest of honor. 459 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: That might that might. 460 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 2: Do it all right, but just don't. Just don't turn 461 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 2: me down if you're not gonna come just don't come. 462 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 2: Don't tell me you got better things to do. I'm like, 463 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 2: what better thing you got to do on Saturday night 464 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 2: than to come to the T and T wrap up 465 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 2: party featuring your guy Chris Hanes, Shack, Chuck, Ernie ej 466 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 2: and the rest of the T and T crew. 467 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 1: Come Ho star well I can also, I'm also quite 468 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 1: excited to report that I have two reservations at Saint 469 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: Elmo already in the books, and fingers crossed that I 470 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 1: get drafted into someone else's reservation. So I'm I'm the 471 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: over under is how many times I eat it Saint Elmo's. 472 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: The over under is his three. 473 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 2: For three days. 474 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: Uh No, I'm there for I'm there Thursday through Monday. 475 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 1: So I mean I I you know, Okay, two are 476 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 1: already in the books, and we'll see if there, we'll 477 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 1: see if there's a third. 478 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,200 Speaker 2: That's a lot of almost. 479 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 1: All right, before we go, we've talked. We've talked about 480 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: social matters far too much in this show. I would 481 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: like to hear from you, you know again. There were 482 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: fifteen trades on deadline day, but so much of the 483 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: focus was Atlanta did not trade to Jante Murrie, the 484 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: Lakers did not make a trade today. On my sub stack, 485 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,040 Speaker 1: I wrote a long piece about how there seems to 486 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: be a rising belief around the league that Atlanta is 487 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: going to at least consider the prospect of keeping de 488 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: Jonte Murray and entertaining trade pitches for Trey Young after 489 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: the season. I think, obviously that will depend on how 490 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 1: the rest of this season goes. Entering Monday Nights play, 491 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: Atlanta was twenty four and twenty nine in the tenth spot. 492 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: The Hawks should be able to secure a play in 493 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: Berth at worst, because I don't really think any of 494 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 1: the teams chasing the top ten. You know, the Brooklyn 495 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: Nets really have been going in the other direction, the 496 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 1: wrong direction since early in the season. So I mean 497 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 1: the Hawks are gonna finish somewhere between seven and ten, 498 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: most likely in the East, and how this season wraps 499 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 1: up will certainly factor into some degree. But around the 500 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 1: league there is a belief in some rival front offices 501 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: that the Hawks might finally be ready to listen to 502 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 1: Trey Young trade pitches after the season. So just give 503 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: me kind of your take on the Hawks and the Lakers, 504 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: since I know you were tracking those teams pretty closely. 505 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: As the deadline was winding down. 506 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I reported on T and T that the 507 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 2: Lakers plan to go after a big star. I didn't 508 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 2: name names. I didn't want to do that at the time. 509 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 2: I didn't want to name names. But they plan on 510 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 2: going after a big star in the offseason, although they'll 511 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 2: be equipped with three first round picks, and they believe 512 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 2: that there will be players this coming up off season 513 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 2: that will request the trade and they feel like they 514 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 2: will be in play as it pertains to Tray Young. Yes, 515 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 2: trade has been linked to the Lakers for quite some 516 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 2: time now, and so I don't know if it. I 517 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 2: don't know if his situation will be a matter of 518 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,480 Speaker 2: him request the trade or Atlanta choosing to go in 519 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 2: a different direction. But whatever the case may be, Yes, 520 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 2: we heard that. I can I can echo you know 521 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,480 Speaker 2: what you're hearing. You know, that's how that's how people 522 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 2: within the league view where the Hawks are headed and 523 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 2: could possibly go down that road where they feel like 524 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 2: they probably need to shake things up. And you know 525 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 2: that's that if they make that move, that's shaking things 526 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 2: up with your cornerstone cornerstone player. You know, again, it's 527 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 2: a new regime out there. In the front office with 528 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 2: the Atlanta Hawks Landry Field. So does he want to 529 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 2: or does ownership want to equip him with the opportunity 530 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:44,719 Speaker 2: to bring on his personnel, his group of players to 531 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 2: try to build his way. I don't know, but it's 532 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 2: things are getting definitely interesting in Atlanta. So yeah, I'm 533 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing how how everything unfolds towards the 534 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:55,959 Speaker 2: end of the season. 535 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 1: Well, a couple of points there. First, on the Lakers. 536 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: You know, there was great anticipation leading up to the 537 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,800 Speaker 1: deadline what would the Lakers do? And I think they 538 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 1: actually made the right call. They only had one first 539 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 1: round pick they could have moved at the deadline by 540 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: not making a trade. Once Draft night hits, the Lakers 541 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 1: will have access to three first round picks they can trade. 542 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: In addition to the twenty twenty nine first that they 543 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: could have parted with at the deadline. They will also 544 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 1: have access to a twenty thirty one first that can 545 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: be moved, and then either either a first in this 546 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: draft in June or in twenty twenty five. It's up 547 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 1: to New Orleans to decide when it wants to take 548 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: the one first rounder that remains to complete the obligations 549 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: from the original Anthony Davis trade. But yes, the Lakers 550 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 1: as of June twenty sixth, will suddenly have three draft 551 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 1: picks that they can put into deals. And I think 552 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 1: it's important for them to wait, not just because were 553 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 1: they really going to be able to acquire a certain 554 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 1: difference maker at this deadline? I think that weighed on 555 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: them heavily. If you give up what you have to 556 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,760 Speaker 1: give up to get de Jonte Murray, are the Lakers 557 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 1: really any closer to title contention? But something that has 558 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: to factor in to their calculations here. Lebron James has 559 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 1: a player option for next season, and the Lakers don't 560 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 1: know yet if Lebron is exercising that player option. I 561 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 1: think we expect him to. I think the lead wide 562 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 1: expectation is that he will exercise the option, But the 563 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 1: Lakers didn't know that as of February eighth, and it's 564 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 1: something they might not know until June. And if Bronnie 565 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,640 Speaker 1: James puts his name in the twenty twenty four draft, 566 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,560 Speaker 1: and if Bronnie James is drafted by a team, that 567 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 1: suddenly Lebron says, you know what, I want to go 568 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,480 Speaker 1: to Team X because They've drafted Bronni and I'll sign 569 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: there for way less than fifty four million. That is 570 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: a scenario that the Lakers do have to keep in mind, 571 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:16,040 Speaker 1: keeping their thoughts in case they suddenly have to pivot 572 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,520 Speaker 1: and fill a Lebron sized hole on their roster. And 573 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,719 Speaker 1: if they do end up in that position, they're obviously 574 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 1: going to be thankful that they have three first to 575 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 1: work with instead of just two. But from the Atlanta perspective, 576 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 1: I think the reason that Trey Young's name is coming 577 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 1: up more and more in terms of buzz around the 578 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:45,600 Speaker 1: league and rival teams trying to project what Atlanta might 579 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: do is because, for the first time that I can remember, 580 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 1: there really does seem to be a market forming for 581 00:34:54,719 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: Trey Young where you could see San Antonio if any 582 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,959 Speaker 1: team makes sense for Tray Young, that is the one 583 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:09,960 Speaker 1: Tray Young's offensive gifts. There is no question about what 584 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,959 Speaker 1: he can do offensively. The guy's averaging twenty seven to ten. 585 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: He is an offense under himself, But if you wanted 586 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 1: to pair him with someone who could cover his defensive deficiencies, 587 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 1: Victor web min Yama would be as ideal a tag 588 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,160 Speaker 1: team partner for Trey Young. As you could come up with. 589 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 1: And I think you could say the same about Anthony Davis. 590 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,200 Speaker 1: So the Spurs and the Lakers are two teams that 591 00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,960 Speaker 1: would naturally have interest in Tray Young if he's made available, 592 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 1: And so I think that is why this is becoming 593 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:45,360 Speaker 1: more of a topic. 594 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,000 Speaker 2: Okay, I grew with you him seeing that. And before 595 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,640 Speaker 2: we dip out of here start, I want to give 596 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,840 Speaker 2: a shout out to somebody who I don't think is 597 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 2: getting enough credit for what he is about to put 598 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:04,720 Speaker 2: himself in. And that person that is Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown, 599 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:11,279 Speaker 2: he's entering the Dunk Contests and he's the only household 600 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,120 Speaker 2: name in this dunk contest. He's the only star in 601 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:19,080 Speaker 2: dunk contest. I mean Jacob topping him, the rookie in Miami, 602 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 2: and Matt mcclong, you know, spends most of the time 603 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 2: in the G League. You know, most stars do not 604 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,799 Speaker 2: want to get put themselves in these competitions because it's 605 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,040 Speaker 2: they have a lot they have there's more to lose 606 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,960 Speaker 2: than than to gain. But I have to credit Jalen 607 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,080 Speaker 2: Brown for putting himself in this situation. I don't know 608 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,120 Speaker 2: how he's gonna do in the Dunk Contest because mcclong 609 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 2: is a is a real dunker. And I've seen some 610 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:48,279 Speaker 2: clips of Obie topis brother Jacob and he's a you know, 611 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,360 Speaker 2: he's a dunker like his brother. So uh, man, I say, 612 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 2: I think Jime won the high school dunk contest or 613 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,960 Speaker 2: something like that. I believe back in the day. So 614 00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,920 Speaker 2: I don't know, but I gotta give him credit for 615 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,719 Speaker 2: being a competitor going out there and say I'm gonna 616 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 2: leave it all out so. 617 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,600 Speaker 1: I can't remember. Is the dunk contest on your menu 618 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:07,440 Speaker 1: of assignments. 619 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,799 Speaker 2: I'm doing some sidelines, yes, but I'm doing this. It's 620 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:17,000 Speaker 2: a simulcast that I'm doing, not the main broadcast. It's 621 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:21,200 Speaker 2: a simulcast for that's going to be I believe on TBS. 622 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 1: Maybe can Jalen Brown win the dunk contest? 623 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,279 Speaker 2: Listen, man, I mean mcclong is a professional dunker, like 624 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,120 Speaker 2: that's what he is. We've seen what he does, like 625 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,640 Speaker 2: you know, is the NBA player, Nah, he's not really, No, 626 00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:41,640 Speaker 2: but he's a dunker. He's a professional dunker. So I 627 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,680 Speaker 2: don't know. The os is not their odds are not 628 00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,040 Speaker 2: in his favor. I will say that that's what I say, 629 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,440 Speaker 2: I gotta give him props because I believe a lot 630 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 2: more people are going to tune in just because of 631 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,440 Speaker 2: his star prowess is included. 632 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,080 Speaker 1: All right, Well, look, we had a very tight window 633 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:03,560 Speaker 1: to get today's podcas cast recorded. I'm all over the place. 634 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,240 Speaker 1: The Wizards are in town. I went to Wizards shoot around, 635 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,520 Speaker 1: I got Wizards maps tonight. I know you will be 636 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:13,680 Speaker 1: hitting the road soon Big week. We will have much 637 00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:17,720 Speaker 1: more All Star talk to come because again both Chris 638 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,520 Speaker 1: and I will be in Indianapolis. We're still putting together 639 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:26,440 Speaker 1: exactly when and where and how the podcast we do 640 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 1: from Indie will come together, but the signs are promising 641 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,520 Speaker 1: that we will be able to make something happen from 642 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,080 Speaker 1: the ground in the three one seven. Indianapolis is one 643 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,280 Speaker 1: of my favorite cities on the NBA map. I haven't 644 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,360 Speaker 1: been there in a long time. I'm really excited to 645 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,839 Speaker 1: go and let's do it All Star twenty twenty four. 646 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:47,920 Speaker 1: You were in Salt Lake City. I was not. So 647 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,920 Speaker 1: this is the first time in show history that we 648 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,880 Speaker 1: will be together on the ground at All Star weekend. 649 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,800 Speaker 2: Yes, and I'm as glad to get these this cold weather, 650 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,879 Speaker 2: these years of cold water sitting out the way. Let's 651 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,759 Speaker 2: get to La. Let's get to go to State. 652 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,920 Speaker 1: I looked at the weather forecast. It ain't gonna be 653 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,000 Speaker 1: that cold. Don't be soft. It's gonna be fine in Indianapolis. 654 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,960 Speaker 1: It's gonna be fine. Forties and fifties. You can hack it. 655 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,040 Speaker 1: Just put on your new Travis Kelcey hoodie and your 656 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:19,200 Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey puffer jacket and whatever whatever, whatever chief scare 657 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,879 Speaker 1: you've been purchasing. All right, everyone, that will do it 658 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:27,799 Speaker 1: for this edition of This League Uncut. At least one 659 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,480 Speaker 1: more episode to come this week, maybe two. If the 660 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:35,319 Speaker 1: podcast gods smile upon us, stay tuned, we will be 661 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:39,560 Speaker 1: back again with you soon. Stein and Haynes as ever 662 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:46,840 Speaker 1: as always be at This League Uncut. And that'll do 663 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:47,359 Speaker 1: it for us. 664 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:48,480 Speaker 3: See you next time. 665 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:58,920 Speaker 1: This League UNCUTAG and iHeartRadio Production. Chris Haynes and Mark Stein, 666 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:04,920 Speaker 1: the