WEBVTT - Donovan Mitchell’s Big Game 7, Ant Edwards On The Rise & the NBA Coaching Carousel 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:08.520 The Anthony Edwards Donovan Mitchell playoff takeover, what's next for 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.720 the Sixers, what's next for the Bucks, what's next for 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:17.079 the Heat? And a spin on the NBA coaching carousel. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:21.239 All that is next on a brand new edition of 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:22.440 This League Uncut. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:27.120 Welcome to This League Uncut in the world. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:28.320 Of twenty four hour NBA news. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:34.240 This's you, Lou Chris Haynes. It's so time, Mark Stein, 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:42.680 it's some time. This League Uncut is underway and on fire. 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:45.879 This should be a good one. 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:52.800 Hey, everyone, Welcome into the latest edition of This League Uncut. 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:57.280 Mark Stein and Chris Haynes back together. It is the 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.440 waning hours of Cinco de Mayo. By the time this 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:05.919 podcast drops, it will be Monday, May sixth, the first 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:11.120 round of the NBA Playoffs finally complete. We are fully 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:18.040 onto the second round. Chris Haynes. After some arduous Sinko 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:23.880 Demayo travel, he is safely ensconced in New York, getting 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.720 ready to cover the start of the Knicks Pacers series. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:35.520 Game one of the Nixon Pacers, renewing nineteen nineties hostilities. 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:40.240 That is Monday night. I will be covering at least 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.880 some of the Dallas Oklahoma City series that starts Tuesday 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.960 night in OKC. We'll get to the second round matchups, 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:54.960 but man, this weekend was absolutely dominated by two NBA 0:01:55.080 --> 0:02:01.279 figures in the West. Anthony Edwards, who star just keeps 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:07.240 rising and staking Minnesota to a one oh series lead 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:13.400 with his Game one heroics Saturday night in Denver. Man 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.640 the Minnesota Timberwolves five and oh in these playoffs. In 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:22.960 the thirty four seasons of Timberwolves basketball before this season, 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.799 the Wolves as a franchise were only twenty one and 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:30.000 forty two all time in the playoffs. They're off to 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.880 this five and oh start, and then Donovan Mitchell with 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:39.040 the Cavaliers under huge pressure, they go down eighteen in 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:43.359 Game seven at home to Cleveland, end up coming all 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.400 the way back. Donovan Mitchell eighty nine points in Game 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.520 six and a loss and Game seven a win, but 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.800 eighty nine points in the final two games of the series, 0:02:54.960 --> 0:03:01.760 saving Cleveland season and delaying the inevitable speculation about Donovan 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:06.320 Mitchell's future and frankly JB. Bickerstaff's future. So Chris Haynes, 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.000 first of all, great to be back with you. Producer 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.480 Ryan is always getting on me that I talked too 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.600 long at the beginning. I don't get I don't toss 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.120 it to Chris Haynes fast enough, so I've already I'm 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.160 already off to a bad start. But maybe I too 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.320 will rally like the Cleveland Cavaliers did. 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:29.399 Earlier, Producer Rye. But he's he's showing his true colors. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.160 Of yeah, he's you don't know. He sends me notes 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.480 like will you just get to Haynes already? Shut up? 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:41.240 Damn, Producer Ryan got all right, Uh no, it was 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.040 it was. That was a pretty That was a pretty 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:49.600 good performance by Donovan Mitchell. Cleveland Calves Game seven. I watched, 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.960 try to watch some of it. I have to go 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:56.160 back and watch it the rest of it later in 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.720 the morning, maybe even later tonight. I'm up now. 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.120 But the Wi Fi on your two flights did not cooperate. 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:03.880 Not at all, not at all, And and my head 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.119 starts hurting when it starts when the picture starts pausing, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.880 and then the audio doesn't match what's actually being played. 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.720 So yeah, those were my difficulties. But I saw a 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.760 lot of the highlights. I saw a pretty good, decent amount. 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.960 I still want to watch some. But no, that was 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:25.880 a big, big game. Strus came through as well. Uh, 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:28.960 you know he could have definitely Miami could have used 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.880 him on the team that in this in this postseason. 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.200 But a good good win. So we get to see 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:40.440 the Cleveland and in Boston. I saw the fans in 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:44.800 Cleveland chanton, we want Boston, we want Boston. I'm not 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.159 I'm not so sure about that. I am not not 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:48.599 at all. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.600 Well, let's be honest. They obviously want Boston more than 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.320 a first round exit, which the way that game starts. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.400 Well just say they just say we want the second 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.560 round as catchy. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.320 That's not as catchy a chant. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.279 Come telling you I have Boston for most of that 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.159 first round. They are serious, They're legit. 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.799 Yeah. Look the Calves, their season has been an absolute 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:17.800 roller coaster, and of course the league at large, there 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:23.279 is great curiosity about giannas Antetokumpo. How does he respond 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:28.280 to Milwaukee's early exit, Jimmy Butler in the Miami Heat? 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.720 What happens there? How did the Heat respond to a 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.120 first round exit and not having Jimmy Butler on the 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.599 court and Jimmy Butler being eligible for a two year 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.560 extension worth an excess of one hundred million dollars as 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.159 of July seventh. How will the Heat react? How will 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:49.680 that impact Jimmy Butler's future? But Donovan Mitchell might be 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.880 at the top of the list for players who have 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:57.839 rival front offices wondering about his future. And had the 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.800 Calves lost a Game seven at home, surely JB. Bickerstaff, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.880 who has been under various levels of pressure all season, 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:11.560 he would have absorbed the immediate brunt of a second 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:15.720 straight first round exit for the Calves. But Donovan Mitchell 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.160 is eligible for an extension this summer. The belief has 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.240 been out there that if the Calves can't get him 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.480 to agree to an extension, that they're going to have 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.960 to trade him. The Calves, of course resist that thinking 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:34.160 and have brushed aside any notion that they're even thinking 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:40.359 about trading Donovan Mitchell, and they turned away all in 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:46.960 season trade interest in Donovan Mitchell. All of Monday's NBA 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:51.920 programming would have been talking heavily about Donovan Mitchell's future. 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:57.400 But with thirty nine points in Game seven to follow 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.359 the fifty ball he had in a losing effort in 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.039 Game six, where if he just had gotten a little 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.039 bit of help from somewhere. The Cavs probably finished that 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.920 series in Orlando, but Donovan Mitchell has put all that 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.760 to bed, at least for the short term. And man, 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:19.760 he just the aggression he was playing with just kept 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.560 getting to the rim. He was in such a fierce 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.360 attack mode against an Orlando team that look, we all 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:32.240 know about Orlando's offensive shortcomings. We saw them play out 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.960 as painfully as possible. Here the Magic are. It's the 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.880 only game seven in the first round. It's an ABC Sunday, 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.360 it's a rare national TV showcase for both of these teams. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.800 And man Franz Wagner goes one for fifteen from the field, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.360 just a nightmare. But Donovan Mitchell. The one thing we 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.920 know the Magic can do is defend. And Donovan Mitchell 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.320 just put on an offensive masterclass in the last two 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:04.040 games of this series and put it in my face 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.720 and others who question, you know, what's his health like? 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:11.800 Is he really? If my memory and math are correct, 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.760 Mitchell was only healthy enough to play six of Cleveland's 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.280 last twenty one regular season games, so there were legit 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:24.720 questions coming into these playoffs about what he would look like. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.040 But the Cavs did it. No Jared Allen at the 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.760 end of the season. But they find a way, they 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:35.040 get to the second round. They will now play the Celtics. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.480 But honestly, as great as Mitchell was in Game six 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:43.440 and Game seven, I'd say the weekend still belonged to 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.160 Anthony Edwards. This is such a weird time in the 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:51.640 NBA because you hear this now, you hear people covering 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.720 the game and they say Anthony Edwards is the best 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.520 American player, And it's just crazy that we even have 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:02.040 to say that. But because of what Jokic and Embiid 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:08.160 and Doncic and SGA and all these players who hold 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:12.720 other passports are doing, this has become a thing. But man, 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.920 Anthony Edwards, what a statement with the way he played 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.920 in Game one and Chris Haines, I'll just ask you, 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:23.520 I mean, can the Minnesota Timberwolves actually win this series? 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.880 Are they going to knock the defending champs out? That's 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.720 the first Game one loss for Jokic in five years, 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.559 going all the way back to twenty nineteen. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.600 Yeah, they got a shot. They're the truth. They are 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.760 absolutely the truth, and they can do it on both 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.880 ends of the floor. So that's what makes them scary. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.640 Anthony Edwards is just on a his confidence of sky 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.480 high right now. Man, you can't you can't guard him 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.920 one on one. And this season he stepped up his 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.760 ability to make plays for other people. So he's a 0:09:55.840 --> 0:10:00.560 much more well rounded player into your you know. But 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.760 you know, as you started talking about this series, you mentioned, 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.600 you know, is Carl excuse me, you mentioned as Anthony Edwards? 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:16.840 Is he the best United States born player? Might might be. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.880 I mean he might be. I mean it's still tough to. 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.800 I mean, he just I'm not ready to walk away 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.280 from the thirty your curries, your durrance, your. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:33.280 Obviously he just swept. Yeah, he just swept the durrant. Yeah, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:39.360 Booker Bradley Beal. I mean god, I mean, look, I'm 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.800 not I wouldn't place him like if I'm saying if 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.000 I'm given a top ten, if I had to give 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.720 a top ten player, the United States player in the league, 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.400 I don't know that I put him over KD yet 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:54.040 or maybe a few other guys. But he's definitely on 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.040 the verge. I mean, think about style. I wants jump 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.160 jump ahead to a couple of months down the road. Oh, 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.800 but you know who's going to be the go to 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:09.480 player for the Olympic team. You know, God, he's playing. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:10.880 He's bawling out right now. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.000 You know, since Jason Tatum texted you, I don't know, 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.040 maybe we should ask him, like, Jason Tatum, what do 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.040 you what should the rank? 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.679 I don't think Jason Tatum would give up. Yeah, I 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.400 don't think he would. He will put after that wards 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:30.280 above him right now. You know, you know, it's but 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.320 it's it's fun to watch. It's fun to watch. This 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:37.200 is really we are witnessing the changing of the guard. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:41.240 You know, not just United States player but s g 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:46.439 A and Okay, see you know what those what he's doing, 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.760 what those youngsters are doing over there, We're we're we're 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:52.439 we're witnessing a change right now. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.400 It doesn't bother me, though, How do you feel like, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.360 Like I'm like, I'm not sitting here throwing things at 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:01.600 my TV because some of these more marquee teams are 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:07.120 now home for the summer. Like I like seeing new 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:08.520 stuff in the playoffs. 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:12.560 Yeah, I mean, that's that's what happens. You know, at 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.480 a certain point, there's a changing of the guard, and 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.560 that's what happens. And I think right now We're just 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:23.080 seeing a plethora of the guys who used to be 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.439 the face of the league. Lebron, Lebron, James, Stephen Curry, 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.640 and I'm saying it used to be because they still 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.200 pretty much are still. Uh, face of the league doesn't 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.360 necessarily mean the best player, but it means probably the 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:35.080 most marketable. 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.680 I cannot that face of the league. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.480 Yeah, I mean it's still it's still hard. Like I 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:49.600 get I get you people struggle with that, but but Steph, Lebron, Katie, 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.440 those guys still have it. It doesn't mean that they're 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.400 the best in the league anymore, but those guys still 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.280 have the cachet to hold that. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.959 And look, I talked about this when the Solo pod 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.600 on Friday. It is crazy to look at it and 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:10.920 say that Golden State, the Suns, the Heat, the Sixers, 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.880 the Bucks and both LA teams. It's crazy that they're 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.320 all out. They're all done. Like I don't know what 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.760 kind of odds you could have gotten in Vegas for 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.280 such a thing, but that none of those teams could 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:29.320 get past round one is really wild. I can't even 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.600 do it justice. I just think about the Celtics. They 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.160 have a chance to get back to the NBA Finals 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:41.920 without facing Philly, without facing Milwaukee. And yes, they played 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.400 the Miami Heat in Round one, but the Miami Heat 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:48.439 without Jimmy Butler, it's just not the same. So things 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.840 have really opened up for the Celtics to get back 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.040 to the finals. And of course they likely won't have 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.920 Christaps Porzingis until the conference finals at the earliest, and 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.720 maybe not until the NBA Finals, so they will take 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.439 the easier path if that's indeed the way it plays out. 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:07.359 But like I said, I'm not sitting here just depressed 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:11.880 because all these marquee teams are on the sideline already. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.680 I think we have four really good second round matchups. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.720 Your series is going to be really interesting with the 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.640 emerging Pacers and the Knicks and the whole Madison Square 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:29.600 Garden factor and the history between those teams that had 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.480 such a good playoff rivalry in the nineties and Jalen 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.440 Brunson against Rick Carlile. I cannot wait for the Chris 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:40.760 Haynes sideline report about Jalen Brunson, remembering how he only 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.320 got ten minutes in a Game seven the last time 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.400 he played for Rick Carlile, and now he gets to 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.920 go up against Rick Carlile. There will be fireworks there. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.760 You know my series Dallas, Okay, see, that'll be a 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:58.040 good one. Boston, Cleveland will see how much the Cavs 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.520 have left after all the energy they expended just to 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.320 get to Round two. And then Denver Minnesota is just 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.600 a whopper of a second round series. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.080 And stein for the series that I'm doing, as you 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.360 mentioned New York Indiana, you know, it's a lot of 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:19.360 nostalgia attached to those two teams playing together, had some 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.360 big playoff bouts back in the day. I don't think 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.400 this is a secret. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.240 I hope it's a secret and you're revealing a secret. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:33.040 Yeah, yeah, well I'm gonna reveal it slightly. I don't 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.440 think it's a secret. But just in case it's a secret, 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:45.840 you want to pay attention to our broadcast coming up 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:53.120 where we might have somebody that was that had a 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:58.000 lot of history with that series back in the day, 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:02.000 with those playoff big playoffs bounce back in the day 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:07.400 between the Knicks and the Pacers. So you should know 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:13.000 what I'm talking about. But if you don't, you just 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:14.720 have to wait and see. 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.480 Well, I would like to think Reggie Miller is somehow 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:18.280 involved in this. 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:23.600 Oh, it's been interesting. Okay, that would be cool. 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.760 Are you how much of that series are you doing? 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:35.280 Do you know how many games you're doing in that 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:35.960 series already? 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.960 I'm doing I'm doing the whole series. So I'm doing 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.760 the whole series. Of the games that are tn T. 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.160 So Game one and Game two are tn T games. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:51.840 Game three and four ESPN and ABC. Game five is 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:56.040 tn T as well. If there is a game five, six, 0:16:56.120 --> 0:17:00.400 and seven is not. They haven't revealed that yet as 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:01.320 far as the game so. 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.560 But but you're gonna stay on that series even if 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.760 the games aren't on TNT. That is your series in 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:06.480 the second round. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.359 No, actually going home for three and four? 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.720 Okay, yeah, but you're not switching to some others. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.080 No, I'm not, No, I'm not. I'm just I'm staying 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.320 on that sitting in it was not just locking it 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:22.600 on the series. I'm locking it on New York because 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.520 the games that I'm assa signed that TNT has are 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.159 all the games that are in New York, which Stein 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.240 I have no problem with whatsoever. TNT has been treating 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.400 the brother really good this season, really good. Traveling is 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:40.639 the traveling my schedule Oh, it's been impeccable. Thank you everybody. 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.920 No more Miami games, but New York ain't a bad fallback. 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.160 New York is my favorite, my favorite city. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:49.800 Miami's your favorite. What do you mean New York? 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.080 Miami's my second. Miami is my second. You know that 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:53.520 New York. 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:55.800 I thought Miami was your favorite. 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:57.760 New York number one, Miami number two. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.399 I love Indy. I'm sad for you that you're not 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:04.760 getting to go to Indianapolis. I had a great time 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.439 at the All Star Game, especially Friday when it was 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.560 freezing cold. I loved it. 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.640 I'm not surprised. Don not surprised one bit. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.359 Hey when I sent you to Saint Elmos? Did it deliver? 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:16.600 Did you like Saint Elmos? 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.560 At least it did? It was great. I mean, I'm 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.920 not visiting Indiana just for Saint Elmos though, but it 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:23.680 was pretty great. 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.240 Producer Ryan, can you believe this guy like if it's 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:29.040 not Miami or New York, he just he'd rather be. 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.840 I'm still a little in shock that New York took 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.800 the top spot. Now, I think this bears a little 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.440 bit more discussion. Are we talking New York's number one 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.400 based off of the time of year, because I have 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.760 questions if New York is your favorite place in January 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.040 and February as opposed to Miami. 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.000 I also would love I don't. I know you can't 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:51.600 do this at the touch of a button, but I 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.560 do think we need to go back into the archives 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.760 of this league uncut, because I don't. I don't remember 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:01.000 Chris as ever saying Miami is my se favorite city 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:05.320 in the league. I remember those sentences. 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:06.720 I have. 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.400 I have an explanation I have to explain to dude, 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:13.400 you know, this is this league un cut. The listeners here. 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.160 I consider you guys family. You know. I pour out 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:20.199 a lot of my personal life to you guys and 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.520 gals and and hope that it will help you all out. 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.800 So if you did go back into archives, Stein and Ryan, 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.640 you might have heard me say Miami was number one. 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.200 But I'm gonna tell you I got a questions about 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.639 Miami being my number one about two weeks ago. And 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:41.119 the question came from my wife, and she's like, you 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:46.280 talk about Miami a lot. Why are you always raving 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:50.040 about it? Why are you always talking about you love 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.160 the scenery? She said, I know what you be talking about. 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:54.160 I know what you're talking about. 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.360 I know, the scenery you're talking aboutte Haynes. 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:59.960 Is hon Yes, she said, I don't think that's appropriate 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.200 it for you to be saying it like that. I said, Babe, 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.439 that's not though I like it. I like it for 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:07.480 the weather. I like the weather. You know, the weather 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:09.560 is beautiful, and every it's a it's a vibe. The 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.840 city is a vibe. Yeah, but I ain't. She was like, 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:13.960 that ain't what you're putting out there. People ain't thinking 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:15.960 you talking about just the weather of the vibe. They 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:20.200 think you talking about the scenery. And so uh. I 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.919 tried to thank you Steyn and Ryan because I tried 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:26.879 to like sneak in a new number one and then 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.560 like create a new narrative. But you guys stop me 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:36.159 in my tracks. So thank you for that. But New 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.119 York is always been. It was like New York in Miami. 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.080 So I'm not totally fibbing. I'm just. 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:47.480 Narrative was brought on, perhaps by a walk home from 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.080 KFC one night after a certain. 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:56.280 No Po Pope popa, yes, Popeyes, Papa, get it right right, 0:20:56.400 --> 0:21:00.600 get it right? Yeah. So uh yeah, y'all know how 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:02.359 I feel about Miami. But I had to have a 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:04.199 little I had to change, I had to move some 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.080 things around. But New York that I love New York. 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.840 I love it so to this day, there is no 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:14.359 place I would rather watch a game than Madison Square Garden. 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:18.280 I am old school. This will surprise you guys, zero percent. 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:24.600 I like an arena that features an old school organist. 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:31.359 And the soundtrack at MSG is poetic. It is magical. 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:37.359 Just I love hearing it. And when the knicks are 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.680 playing well and that building is rocking, it's just the 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:45.400 whole soundtrack. There is electric even on television when you're 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:49.280 not in the building. So I'll be jealous because working 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:52.040 sideline means you're on the floor. We've talked about this before. 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:56.640 In the glory days of MSG, when I started out 0:21:56.680 --> 0:21:58.440 as a beat writer, I mean, we used to get 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:03.119 incredible seats on the baseline and there was no real estate. 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:08.200 The baseline table was just stuffed right into the fan 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:11.919 area and there's like so little room to move around. 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:16.520 But just being at floor level at Madison Square Garden 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:21.600 is one of the truly special experiences in our profession. 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.359 And so for you to know that your next three 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:29.200 sideline gigs are there on that floor in that building. 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:32.320 You are a lucky, lucky. 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:35.320 Man, Stei. The Knicks feel the same way about me 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:38.760 being lucky because every game that I've covered in New York, 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:43.960 they've won. Jeremy Watkins, the head PR guy over there, 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:48.560 over both the business side and basketball side, he always 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:49.960 asked me, when am I coming to New York? We 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:51.800 need we need some good luck. We need some good luck. 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:57.400 So he's definitely ecstatic that I that I touched down 0:22:57.480 --> 0:22:59.680 over here. Now I can't you know, you can't put 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:01.840 it all on me. It has nothing to do with me, 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:06.000 even though Patune Patuone feels the opposite. He says, I'm 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:09.240 a black cat. Yeah, he hates having me around because 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:11.560 they do tend to lose whatever. When he was the 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:15.880 Clippers and then over there with the Sixers. So depends 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:16.600 on who you talking. 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:18.240 But how many games did you do in this series? 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:20.240 He can't blame you for this series? Right you didn't? 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:21.760 You did one game in that series? 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:24.679 Yeah, but it was that game too where they were up, 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:27.720 they were up, like. 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:30.680 No, I already forgot about that. 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:34.920 You did the game too, Yes, I was on that game. 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:38.480 Oh, Mike, did you talk to Batom after. 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:41.000 He just looked at me and hurry up and walked away. 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:45.040 Man I said, I'm sorry, brother. 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:47.560 He might have a point. He might be. 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:51.240 Of all games that one. 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:53.720 Yes, he's not going to come back on to give 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:56.400 us the breakdown because. 0:23:56.760 --> 0:24:01.520 Man he yeah, he finished, he finished the year strong. 0:24:01.680 --> 0:24:04.840 I'm happy for him. Man, I remember what was that 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:07.399 five years ago? It looked like he was out of 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:10.600 the league when he was with Charlotte, they weren't playing 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:13.680 them at all. And so he's he's been able to 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:17.720 find a find an extra life show with the Clippers 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:22.520 in finishing games strong for Philly, So kudos and Nicholas Patoon. 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:24.760 Well, you know we're gonna use that to segue. We 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:27.439 will get to the coaching carousel in a minute. Again. 0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:32.320