Speaker 1: What's like the one thing that you learn the most
Speaker 1: from your dad that you use in your life.
Speaker 2: Now, if a deal isn't good for both sides, then
Speaker 2: it's not a good deal. A one sided deal is
Speaker 2: eventually going to either fall apart or come back and
Speaker 2: haunt you. It's just not the way to do business.
Speaker 2: And my dad was a very fair man and didn't
Speaker 2: take advantage of people, and that's a carry in that tradition.
Speaker 1: I love that that was a fair trade with Luca thing.
Speaker 1: I guess, I mean it had to go there. GEDI
Speaker 1: welcome to Games with Names. I'm Julian Edelman. They're Jack
Speaker 1: and Kyler, and we're on a mission to find the
Speaker 1: greatest game of all time. On today's episode, we are
Speaker 1: covering game six of the twenty twenty NBA Finals, Miami
Speaker 1: Heat versus the la Lakers, with co founder of Wow
Speaker 1: Women of Wrestling, La Icon and Lakers Governor Jeanie Buss.
Speaker 1: We get into talking Lebron James Bubble Championship.
Speaker 2: Lebron comes over and hugs me and whispers in my ear,
Speaker 2: I told you we would do this.
Speaker 1: What Kobe Bryant means to the Lakers.
Speaker 2: I know that Kobe knew how much we loved him.
Speaker 3: You can't replace that.
Speaker 1: And behind the scene of the Luca trade, it could.
Speaker 2: Blow up our season, so it was completely kept under wraps.
Speaker 1: And then we're checking in with Jackie in this week's
Speaker 1: chill Zone, presented by Whor's like you Gotta stick around
Speaker 1: to the very end. Games with Names is a production
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Speaker 4: October eleventh, twenty twenty, ESPN Worldwide Sports Complex, Lake Bueno Vista, Florida.
Speaker 2: Uncertain times make for an unprecedented path to winning it.
Speaker 1: All, but one things for certain.
Speaker 4: Lebron James and the Lakers have banners seventeen in their sights.
Speaker 2: This is the banner seventeen games.
Speaker 1: Well, we have a very very special guest, the Queen
Speaker 1: of la the Queen of sport. We got Genie Buss
Speaker 1: in the nuthouse. Welcome to the nuthouse. In one sentence,
Speaker 1: why did we pick game six, twenty twenty NBA Finals
Speaker 1: eight versus Lakers game?
Speaker 2: Because that was the most recent one, most recent championship
Speaker 2: and a unique game because it took place in the bubble.
Speaker 1: Is it the greatest game of all time? No? I
Speaker 1: mean that's an integrity type score.
Speaker 3: But I think it's the most interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a very interesting game. I want to
Speaker 1: dive into it, but at first, can you walk us
Speaker 1: through the day to day life of an owner of
Speaker 1: an NBA team. I'm interested because I kind of know
Speaker 1: what the NFL is. You guys have so many less players.
Speaker 1: You have to have such intimate relationships with like all
Speaker 1: your players. What's your day to day life.
Speaker 2: Well, we like to color ourselves governors as opposed to owners,
Speaker 2: and I'm a co owner. It's my family's team, and
Speaker 2: we have other partial owners. But I'm the governor, which
Speaker 2: the governor means that you are responsible for every decision
Speaker 2: that is made by the team.
Speaker 3: You know, there's only one governor.
Speaker 2: There's only one governor, so you know, it's it is about,
Speaker 2: you know, putting out fires when things go wrong, and
Speaker 2: there's always something that goes wrong or never prepared for everything.
Speaker 2: But you know, I oversee the business operations, which includes broadcast, marketing, sponsorship,
Speaker 2: season seat sales, you know, social media, and then of
Speaker 2: course the basketball department, which would be responsible for putting
Speaker 2: together the roster, hiring the coach. You know, we're a
Speaker 2: particularly close team, and I think some of the things
Speaker 2: that we've gone through the last few seasons, especially most
Speaker 2: recently the fires in LA has you know, kind of
Speaker 2: put the friendships in an even more meaningful way because
Speaker 2: you realize how quickly you can lose things. And so
Speaker 2: our brand new coach, Jj Reddick, and you know, when
Speaker 2: we hired him, I was very excited. Clearly a basketball mind,
Speaker 2: great communicator, great competitor, you know, wants to win, super smart.
Speaker 2: And he had to move his family from Brooklyn and
Speaker 2: his wife and two young kids, and I'm not sure
Speaker 2: they were really excited about moving because he took the job.
Speaker 2: You know, they were already in school and you know,
Speaker 2: so now they have to uplift away from all their
Speaker 2: friends and come to LA. So they rent a house
Speaker 2: and it lost it in the fires. So you know,
Speaker 2: I was worried that his wife was going to say, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm out, I'm done. I'm not this was not meant
Speaker 2: to be. But instead, it's like they realize, you know,
Speaker 2: they want to be part of.
Speaker 3: You know, rebuilding the community.
Speaker 2: And they've already you know, really taken their place in
Speaker 2: Laker you know, the Laker family, and you know, so
Speaker 2: you know, I do a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. And when you talk about community and Laker
Speaker 1: I've been in La now for like fifteen years full
Speaker 1: time two years, and this is such a Laker town.
Speaker 1: Like that's the one thing, you know, because I'm a
Speaker 1: football guy. They always have a couple of football teams.
Speaker 1: They're bouncing back and forth. Baseball is pretty good. They
Speaker 1: love the Dodgers. But this is like such a Laker town.
Speaker 1: And it's so great to see how you guys are
Speaker 1: with the community because I watch the local news. You
Speaker 1: put on local news when you get older. I'm sitting
Speaker 1: there watching. I see you guys going to charity events,
Speaker 1: rebuilding stuff, and it's freaking like. The Lakers are La
Speaker 1: and it's awesome. I also have a really important question.
Speaker 1: I'm a podcast host. Do you think Patriots will probably
Speaker 1: gave me a shot at a head coaching title?
Speaker 3: Are you interested in that?
Speaker 1: No? I'm not not at all. Are you sure podcast
Speaker 1: head coach? I know?
Speaker 2: You know, Bob Craft was really really good friends with
Speaker 2: my dad. As a matter of fact, he credits my
Speaker 2: dad it to getting him involved in sports because the
Speaker 2: very first team that Bob Craft owned was a team
Speaker 2: called the Boston Lobsters, which was part of World Team
Speaker 2: Tennis and that was you know, my dad's first team
Speaker 2: was the La Strings World Team Tennis, a league that
Speaker 2: was started by Billy Jean King. And you know, through
Speaker 2: their friendship, every year on my dad's birthday until he
Speaker 2: passed away, Bob Craft would send him live lobsters from Boston, which.
Speaker 3: Was very cool.
Speaker 2: But he you know, they were talking about the Patriots
Speaker 2: for sale, and he called my dad and said, what
Speaker 2: do you think about that? And he said, absolutely, do
Speaker 2: whatever it takes to get the team.
Speaker 3: And so he got.
Speaker 2: He bought the Patriots history. He's a great honor an.
Speaker 1: He's an unbelievable guy. Like I love mister Kraft. We
Speaker 1: had a very special special relationship. I just want to
Speaker 1: thank you because it's because of your bloodline.
Speaker 2: That it's awful circle.
Speaker 1: It's awful circle. What's it like on an NBA team?
Speaker 1: Like and you you were born in this because you
Speaker 1: were eighteen when when your dad got the team. You've
Speaker 1: been around the team, You've had so many different roles
Speaker 1: in other sports to prepare you to become this. What's
Speaker 1: it like owning a goddamn what's the biggest perk? You
Speaker 1: got to have some crazy perks out here in La
Speaker 1: Do you know the tunnels? Is there underground tunnel system?
Speaker 1: I'm really interested in that. Is that? Is that real?
Speaker 1: I know you have you have a key?
Speaker 3: You mean underneath that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's an underground tunnels. Yes, Jesus, what is it?
Speaker 1: How is it?
Speaker 2: I mean it was just so you can access across
Speaker 2: the street without having to leave the area and across
Speaker 2: the street.
Speaker 1: Guys, it's real.
Speaker 2: But I still don't understand why you don't want to
Speaker 2: be a coach? Can I talk you into it?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this right now. I love football, and
Speaker 1: I have a lot of great experience from football, and
Speaker 1: I have a lot of knowledge of the game because
Speaker 1: I learned from probably two of the greatest sports minds,
Speaker 1: three of the greatest sports minds in my sport, mister
Speaker 1: Craft as an owner, UH coach Belichick and Tom Brady
Speaker 1: as a competitor. So but I love I love the game.
Speaker 1: But I remember as a player, I would leave a
Speaker 1: twelve hour job, like twelve thirteen hours of putting my
Speaker 1: work in all day. Football is different. We're preparing all
Speaker 1: day because there's one game, so you're literally doing everything
Speaker 1: you can to perform your best for three hours on
Speaker 1: a Sunday. So I would leave after a fourteen hour day,
Speaker 1: and our coaches are in the parking lot seeing their
Speaker 1: family for the first time, and they would go back
Speaker 1: in for night meetings and that's the only time they
Speaker 1: would see their family. Now, when you're a coach, you
Speaker 1: sacrifice in so much. And I've put my time in
Speaker 1: and I've already had said those nose to my family,
Speaker 1: my daughter, my brothers, my sisters. I've set those nose
Speaker 1: for a long time. So like I enjoy football, I
Speaker 1: love football. I get my football fix on Fox promoting
Speaker 1: the game. And then I love learning about other people
Speaker 1: in their preparation process and their love of their sport.
Speaker 1: Like and I get to have my relationship with my
Speaker 1: kid where I'm still picking her up every day or
Speaker 1: you know, at school, I pick her up, take her
Speaker 1: you know when I have, So there's a there's a sacrifice.
Speaker 1: I love the time, but it's just you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta have, you gotta have, Like coaches, I experienced winning
Speaker 1: at playing the game. Like, if you're a coach or
Speaker 1: someone and you love it like that and you're putting
Speaker 1: that much, do you got to have something wrong with you?
Speaker 1: A little. Those guys are nuts.
Speaker 2: How about just don't rule it out completely? And do
Speaker 2: you mentor any players?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: I do? I mean I talk with a lot of guys. Uh.
Speaker 1: Social media is awesome for that that specific. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: you know, you hit a guy's story, a young player,
Speaker 1: he'll tap into you. And so it's a great way
Speaker 1: to communicate with young guys through that. I love. I
Speaker 1: love telling my story and giving what I felt helped
Speaker 1: me get to where I was at two guys, because
Speaker 1: that's all you really have once you leave the game,
Speaker 1: is the knowledge that you passed down to the other guys.
Speaker 3: Well, that sounds like a coach to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a podcaster.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so the perks you asked me, what
Speaker 2: are the perks of being give me back and forth
Speaker 2: the owner.
Speaker 1: You know you need a podcast?
Speaker 2: No, I don't know.
Speaker 3: So my husband has a podcast, but and I was.
Speaker 3: I was a guest on his podcast.
Speaker 2: That's actually how we got anyway, So I I guess
Speaker 2: you know, I can sit.
Speaker 3: Anywhere I want.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just kidding, you know.
Speaker 3: It's it's for me.
Speaker 2: It's about the fans, and it's about doing things the
Speaker 2: right way. The way we play the game. The type
Speaker 2: of players we have, you know, we look at you know, character, integrity,
Speaker 2: and it really is about putting together a team of talent.
Speaker 2: But by coming together as a team, they can and
Speaker 2: exceed their own expectations of what is it obtainable for
Speaker 2: their career. So it's you know, that's the part that
Speaker 2: I love is watching the success of a team coming
Speaker 2: together and sacrificing for each other in order to win.
Speaker 2: And you know, my dad, you know, I mean, I
Speaker 2: learned from the best owner, the most winningest owner of
Speaker 2: all time according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Speaker 1: That's really good.
Speaker 2: And so you know, he talked about, you know, really
Speaker 2: people in our position, you know, our job is to
Speaker 2: give the team the resources to get to you know,
Speaker 2: get to the playoffs, win around or two. But to
Speaker 2: win a championship that comes from inside. That comes from
Speaker 2: diving for that loose ball, for you know, making that
Speaker 2: effort that you can't coach, that you can't it comes
Speaker 2: from within. And if you have that special you know,
Speaker 2: bond that players play for each other, then you know,
Speaker 2: the sky's the limit.
Speaker 1: That's when good things happen. A lot of perks. What's
Speaker 1: what's the annoying, the annoying part of being the governor.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't make laws, but you got to
Speaker 1: enforce them, you know.
Speaker 2: I I think the part that kind of makes me
Speaker 2: crazy is when I you know, fans tell me you
Speaker 2: know what the coach needs to do or what players
Speaker 2: to trade for, and you know they're they It's kind
Speaker 2: of like, why are you telling me this? Because I mean,
Speaker 2: you couldnot like the coach or you cannot like a
Speaker 2: move that was made, but like by you telling me
Speaker 2: how to correct it, you're insulting the people that work
Speaker 2: for me. You know, I'm gonna be that's defensive about that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's got to be so much harder to
Speaker 1: be an owner nowadays because everyone has an opinion behind
Speaker 1: a keyboard that can somehow get picked up in another way.
Speaker 1: And there's just so many things coming from you and
Speaker 1: so many different directions with all the access to social
Speaker 1: media and the internet and everything. And now we're hitting AI.
Speaker 1: It's so gnarly. You talk with so much passion about
Speaker 1: your father, you know, and you can clearly tell that
Speaker 1: there was an unbelievable relationship, and you know you've been
Speaker 1: in this family, the Laker family pretty much along the
Speaker 1: existence of a lot of this What's like the one
Speaker 1: thing that like you learn the most from your dad
Speaker 1: that you use in your life.
Speaker 2: Now, you know, it's about if a deal isn't good
Speaker 2: for both sides, then it's not a good deal, right,
Speaker 2: Like you can't you know, a one sided deal is
Speaker 2: eventually going to either fall apart or come back and
Speaker 2: haunt you.
Speaker 3: It's just not the way to do business.
Speaker 2: And my dad was a very fair man and didn't
Speaker 2: take advantage of people, and that's a carry in that tradition.
Speaker 1: I love that that was a fair trade with Luca thing,
Speaker 1: I guess. I mean, it had to go there. You
Speaker 1: guys just got the best damn player at like twenty
Speaker 1: one years old.
Speaker 2: Look what we had to give up though, I know
Speaker 2: he's I mean, Anthony Davis, we want a championship.
Speaker 1: That's a great owner.
Speaker 2: Do you know how hard that was? We were not
Speaker 2: looking to trade Anthony Davis. Dallas contacted us and he'd
Speaker 2: been making it clear that he wasn't happy that he
Speaker 2: was having to.
Speaker 3: Play the five.
Speaker 2: He wanted to play the four, So it sounded like
Speaker 2: he was unhappy, and so, you know, I mean, it
Speaker 2: was a it was the deal that both sides wanted
Speaker 2: to make.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a mega. That was a mega.
Speaker 1: That's like the biggest trade I've ever seen in all
Speaker 1: of sport, where you have two bases of the league swapping,
Speaker 1: and that's got to be awesome. And that's so exciting
Speaker 1: for the Lakers to have another young, prominent face. That's good.
Speaker 1: I think that's going to raise the Lakers even the
Speaker 1: higher levels because he's international.
Speaker 2: I didn't anticipate the global impact it would have. I mean,
Speaker 2: I knew it was gonna be a big story in
Speaker 2: the NBA, but that he really is a global superstar.
Speaker 2: And you know another story that I'd like to tell
Speaker 2: about my dad is my dad was one of the
Speaker 2: best poker players, amateur poker players in the world. He
Speaker 2: was on the Poker Tour for a while in nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety three, was Rookie of the Year on the Poker Tour.
Speaker 2: So he kept trying to teach me how to play poker.
Speaker 2: And I'm a terrible poker player because I don't have
Speaker 2: a poker face right like, I can't I can't bluff.
Speaker 3: I'm not a good liar.
Speaker 2: And he kept trying and trying to find on this, Like, Dad,
Speaker 2: why are you doing this to me? I don't like it.
Speaker 3: I don't I'm never going.
Speaker 2: To be good and he goes, he goes, well, I'm
Speaker 2: just I'm trying to teach you something.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 2: A lot of people think that poker is about, you know, like,
Speaker 2: you know, bluffing, and you know, he said, it's not.
Speaker 2: It's a game of patience and you have to wait
Speaker 2: until you have the cards. And he said, and I
Speaker 2: know you can get that part of it, he said,
Speaker 2: but once you get the cards, you got to be
Speaker 2: able to go from zero to one hundred in a
Speaker 2: drop of a hat. And he goes, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: you can do that. And so you know, when we
Speaker 2: traded for Anthony Davis, we had to trade all of
Speaker 2: our young players plus draft picks Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram,
Speaker 2: Josh Hart and draft picks. I knew right then, that's
Speaker 2: what he meant, Like, Okay, here's here's the moment of truth.
Speaker 2: Genie can get Anthony Davis. But you got to put
Speaker 2: your cards in. You gotta you know, this is it.
Speaker 2: And you know we did that. We got Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: and that led us to a championship. So I think
Speaker 2: he his lesson was learned.
Speaker 1: Man. You know, my dad's still around, but I still
Speaker 1: have my dad's head in my anytime I'm making a decision,
Speaker 1: I just hear my dad like like the same way
Speaker 1: the lessons that he taught me. And that's so I
Speaker 1: just that's touching. You know you still use it now.
Speaker 1: How big is this move going forward?
Speaker 3: You mean the trade?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, we I think we need
Speaker 2: to get the right players around him.
Speaker 3: I think we have.
Speaker 2: It's very interesting to watch him play with Lebron. We
Speaker 2: don't have enough of a sample size yet, but wow,
Speaker 2: this kid can pass the ball like he sees the
Speaker 2: game like no one I've ever It's it's you know,
Speaker 2: I really had no idea how great of a mind
Speaker 2: he has for basketball.
Speaker 3: So it's exciting.
Speaker 2: But people got to remember he hadn't played in months.
Speaker 2: He'd been out with an injury, so he's he's going
Speaker 2: to have to like acclimate to, you know, playing full
Speaker 2: time again. And he didn't play last night we played
Speaker 2: in Portland. We won, so all that part is good.
Speaker 2: But I think there's just gonna be it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Our fans are already the static
Speaker 2: static going crazy.
Speaker 1: See Luca jerseys everywhere in Brentwood. It's crazy again how
Speaker 1: they make those already?
Speaker 2: And I love that he wears seventy seven because we've
Speaker 2: never had like if he, you know, was wearing twenty four,
Speaker 2: it's like, sorry, you can't wear twenty four, it's retired.
Speaker 2: But seventy seven, we've never had a seventy seven.
Speaker 1: He's got his own. Yeah, it's just it's waiting to happen. Now,
Speaker 1: how does this move happen? In the front office, the
Speaker 1: Mavericks call you. Are you sitting there like scratching you? Like,
Speaker 1: how does this go down? Do? They call the GM?
Speaker 1: And then they contact you and they tell you what's.
Speaker 2: Going, Like, hey, you know the timeline started, you know,
Speaker 2: just because you'll never forget that day, January seventh, the
Speaker 2: Lakers were in Dallas and that was the night that
Speaker 2: the fire started. Yeah, so I was, you know, watching
Speaker 2: the fires, but also watching the game, and it was
Speaker 2: you know, Luca was out, I think Kyrie was out,
Speaker 2: and you know, I'm like, oh, good, an easy win,
Speaker 2: you know, like we can win this game. And of
Speaker 2: course the players were all watching their phones because they
Speaker 2: didn't know what was happening, you know, especially JJ. You know,
Speaker 2: his wife had to evacuate, so it's like they were
Speaker 2: completely distracted from the game. And at that point, that's
Speaker 2: when Rob was at our GM. Rob Polinka was at
Speaker 2: the game and he met with the GM of the
Speaker 2: Dallas team and they had a conversation and Rob thought
Speaker 2: about it for a day and then came to me
Speaker 2: and said, here's something that was kind of talked about,
Speaker 2: a framework.
Speaker 3: And I said, well, I hope you.
Speaker 2: Told him that we're not trading Anthony Davis, like that's
Speaker 2: not you know, we're not trading him. And as then
Speaker 2: we talked more and more we figured out a framework
Speaker 2: that could work, and then the rest went on. And
Speaker 2: I said, what's the most important thing is that if this,
Speaker 2: if the conversations become public, it could blow up our
Speaker 2: season because now you have a player who thinks.
Speaker 3: They're going to get traded.
Speaker 2: It's hard for them to recalibrate, so you know what
Speaker 2: that's like. So it was completely kept under wraps, and
Speaker 2: I think that that's why it took everybody by such surprise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that that's gonna be tough, Like what
Speaker 1: a resilient group though, for like the players looking at
Speaker 1: their phone. I was glued to the TV for six
Speaker 1: days straight. Shout out to all the news stations in LA.
Speaker 1: I was like glued this thing. They had the they
Speaker 1: had the maps and stuff so you could see the
Speaker 1: road with the live pictures. That was a crazy time.
Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately, and this shows maybe the lack of our
Speaker 2: you know, preparedness from at the government level, was that
Speaker 2: we were finding out our information from the news, not
Speaker 2: from any official It was like there was a lack
Speaker 2: of leadership unfortunately. And I agree with you the news
Speaker 2: people they're out there, there's embers flying, like how does
Speaker 2: their hair not catch on fire?
Speaker 1: They were going nut. That was a That was a
Speaker 1: cool time for the community during a very horrific time
Speaker 1: that I saw for the first time this community come together.
Speaker 1: That was like my first experience of the LA community
Speaker 1: coming together to help people that were in need. The
Speaker 1: responders people helping people that were from other eight neighborhoods
Speaker 1: that weren't affected and helping given time and food. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was it was pretty scary. But jump in and
Speaker 1: and talk about the hiring process of a guy like
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick, like that is a splash because young gun
Speaker 1: obviously brilliant mind coming from TV. Now are we we
Speaker 1: hearing pops in the brain when we're doing these are
Speaker 1: these these moves where like we gotta how did how
Speaker 1: did that process go down?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's kind of like what you have
Speaker 2: to do is you have to decide, you know, what
Speaker 2: kind of team, what kind of you know, what style
Speaker 2: of play you want to play, and then you hire
Speaker 2: the coach that fits that, and you fill the roster
Speaker 2: with players that mirror that style.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like it's kind of like the most important decision
Speaker 2: you make and then all the decisions, you know, fall into.
Speaker 3: Line from there.
Speaker 2: And you know, I had told our general manager, you know,
Speaker 2: I want you to find, you know, a coach that
Speaker 2: you know, mirrors what is important to you in basketball,
Speaker 2: and I want you to to think differently, Like don't
Speaker 2: you know, just do what the safe bed is, you know,
Speaker 2: somebody you know, just like just give yourself the opportunity
Speaker 2: to like think outside the box, you know, to use
Speaker 2: a cliche.
Speaker 3: So, you know, we.
Speaker 2: Started conversations with.
Speaker 3: Dan Hurley.
Speaker 2: Yukon which I'm sure you know him.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 2: JJ and you know, Rob was impressed with both of them.
Speaker 2: Both of them had a philosophy that matched his philosophy,
Speaker 2: and you know, we kind of went on a parallel path,
Speaker 2: and you know, the Dan Hurley path didn't work out,
Speaker 2: and so we pivoted to JJ and had him meet
Speaker 2: with key people in the organization and he just kept
Speaker 2: impressing everybody. And you know, it's certainly a risk when
Speaker 2: you hire someone who's never been a head coach. And
Speaker 2: he was very, you know, very forthcoming about like I
Speaker 2: don't have experience as a head coach, So you know,
Speaker 2: I need coaches on my staff that are going to help,
Speaker 2: you know, shore up what I don't know. So we
Speaker 2: have probably the best coaching bench in the league in
Speaker 2: Scottie Brooks and Nate McMillan, you know, who've had tons
Speaker 2: of experience and tons of success in the NBA. And
Speaker 2: you know, it all just came together the right way.
Speaker 2: The one concern I had was, you know, his wife
Speaker 2: is going to say, no way, I'm not moving to
Speaker 2: l Yeah. They had just built a home, they had
Speaker 2: just built a home in Brooklyn, and you know she
Speaker 2: jumped on board.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's a it's been a great
Speaker 1: little move. Like he's like for me, I love former
Speaker 1: players that become head coaches. We just did that with
Speaker 1: the Patriots with Mike Rabel. Guys that have performed at
Speaker 1: a high level know what the locker room's about, but
Speaker 1: that are also brilliant minds. Like I'm sure guys that
Speaker 1: played with JJ thought he was going to be a
Speaker 1: coach because he seems like whenever he talks about basketball,
Speaker 1: he knows, like all the x's and o's. That's a
Speaker 1: football term. Do they use it for basketball?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Maybe all the x's and o terms. Like he just
Speaker 1: is one of those brilliant minds. But he also can
Speaker 1: communicate with the young fellows because he's been in that
Speaker 1: locker room as such an early like not that far removed.
Speaker 1: So I think it's amazing. You gotta tell me about
Speaker 1: the Forum back in the day. What was the vibe like?
Speaker 2: It was exactly what the eighties were all about.
Speaker 1: Oh, man, I walked down those hallways because we did
Speaker 1: the roast at the Forum. Oh that's right, So we
Speaker 1: did the roast at the Forum. He walked down these
Speaker 1: and this is my first time at the Forum. I
Speaker 1: walked down these hallways and I see all these pictures.
Speaker 1: You see the pictures of all the stars that have
Speaker 1: been there, that played there, and there's just like an
Speaker 1: aura about the Forum because you're in the parking lot
Speaker 1: of the other place. And then with the Forum, it
Speaker 1: just it's a it's a landmark. You walk in there.
Speaker 1: We went and saw I just took my daughter to
Speaker 1: Billie Eilish there. Oh it was rocking. Well, like that
Speaker 1: had to be. Did that help you with your experience
Speaker 1: a learning pro ownership, all that experience that you had
Speaker 1: doing all the Forum stuff and all your other leagues.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was.
Speaker 2: It was a very important experience for me. I ran
Speaker 2: the Forum for five years in the nineties and that
Speaker 2: I need. I needed that experience for the position that
Speaker 2: I'm in now, because you know, when you operate a venue,
Speaker 2: you're dealing with the unions, the people, the box office,
Speaker 2: you know, the food and beverage, customer service. And it
Speaker 2: was security, security, it was really good. And the Forum
Speaker 2: is just one of the most beautiful buildings ever built.
Speaker 2: And if you notice, the Forum is built halfway underground
Speaker 2: so that it's not this big behemoth that sits on
Speaker 2: top of the grounds. It's it's beautiful to look at. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: the whole thought my dad didn't build it. Jack can
Speaker 2: Cook built it. And his thought was when people walk
Speaker 2: into the building, half of them are going to walk downstairs.
Speaker 2: Like I'm sitting in the front row. I'm in the
Speaker 2: downstairs section right. That's it was all marketing. And I'm
Speaker 2: glad that your daughter is a Billie Eilish fan.
Speaker 1: She's cool, She's really cool. When we're talking about eating
Speaker 1: lunch girls lunches and stuff, it's a little a little
Speaker 1: too much for an eight year old, But dad, try
Speaker 1: to be cool. We will hit the concert of what
Speaker 1: there's got to be what's the funnest memory you have
Speaker 1: of the Forum?
Speaker 2: Oh, there's so many, gotta.
Speaker 1: Be one crazy story.
Speaker 2: You know what it just pops in my mind is that,
Speaker 2: you know, my dad was the first, you know owner
Speaker 2: to have the Laker Girls, you know, and and you know,
Speaker 2: people ask me, why isn't there a male dancer with
Speaker 2: the Laker Girls. And the whole point that he made
Speaker 2: about having a dance squad was that when the men play,
Speaker 2: they're the center stage. When they take a break, now
Speaker 2: it's the women's turn to be center stage. So it
Speaker 2: was all about equal opportunity and giving women the chance
Speaker 2: to perform in front of a huge audience. And so
Speaker 2: one of the very first Laker Girls was a girl
Speaker 2: by the name of Paula Abdul and because she yeah,
Speaker 2: so this is that's how she was discovered because she
Speaker 2: did a lot of the choreography for the Laker Girls.
Speaker 2: And at that time, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, all the
Speaker 2: Jacksons would come to Laker games and they liked the
Speaker 2: way the Laker Girls danced, and they hired Paula to
Speaker 2: do the choreography for their music videos and then that
Speaker 2: led to her music career.
Speaker 3: So it's it's stuff like that that like it was.
Speaker 2: Just kind of the whole world came together for Laker
Speaker 2: games and the show. It's a show, it's showtime.
Speaker 1: It's like when I went there, I didn't realize they
Speaker 1: don't even dim. They dim all the crowd. It's like
Speaker 1: one of the only places that does that because they
Speaker 1: want everything on the show. It's like the damn circuses
Speaker 1: in town or something you get excited with.
Speaker 2: Like boxing matches.
Speaker 3: That's what they do.
Speaker 2: It's like, this is what you're everybody focused on.
Speaker 1: How cool is that that story about doctor b Us
Speaker 1: giving the girls the whole floor. This is their time
Speaker 1: to shine. Hey, the boys go sit down and get
Speaker 1: some water. Let the girls get a little shine exactly.
Speaker 2: And that's where it's like, like, why are like, and
Speaker 2: you know, we do pay the girls to money to rehearse,
Speaker 2: to do everything.
Speaker 3: It's the teams that you know, don't do that that
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: It's it's not fair to you know, because girls, you know,
Speaker 2: they they have to sacrifice to be there, to practice,
Speaker 2: to be a Laker girl, so they should.
Speaker 3: Be compensated for their time.
Speaker 2: And so but why they started canceling the girls the
Speaker 2: women's dance teams is I don't understand it because it's
Speaker 2: it's equal time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never even thought of that. That's like such
Speaker 1: a great perspective. How how hard was it to leave
Speaker 1: the Forum and go to the Staples Center.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's awful.
Speaker 2: It was like I remember getting in a fight with
Speaker 2: a fan who said, I don't want to drive down
Speaker 2: to downtown La. I want my same seed at the Forum,
Speaker 2: And I said, well, you could have your same seed
Speaker 2: at the Forum, but the Lakers won't be there.
Speaker 1: So it's.
Speaker 2: It's like and when you when the fans are upset
Speaker 2: with a building, like the hot dogs taste bad. They
Speaker 2: complain about everything, right, and so I recommend everybody moving
Speaker 2: into a new arena that win a championship that first season,
Speaker 2: because then all the complaining goes away, so that you know,
Speaker 2: of course, that's exactly what happened. Lakers had hired Phil
Speaker 2: Jackson as the coach, we had Shack, we had Kobe,
Speaker 2: We won a championship, and the fans never looked back,
Speaker 2: like you know, they were worried about losing the mojo
Speaker 2: that the Forum had and that will never win in
Speaker 2: an new building. Well we did, and we won three
Speaker 2: in a row as well.
Speaker 1: Fack, that's crazy because that's what mister Craft did. Maybe
Speaker 1: you took another page out of your dad's book. We
Speaker 1: won a championship after we left Foxboro Stad. This scripted,
Speaker 1: Genie is this.
Speaker 2: Script the universe has it.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this quick break. All right,
Speaker 1: let's let's let's jump into our segment where we go
Speaker 1: back in the time of when the game took place
Speaker 1: and we go over to pop culture. This game took
Speaker 1: place October eleventh because of the COVID season. This is
Speaker 1: weird timing. This is like literally what saved COVID was
Speaker 1: being able to watch these damn things. Twenty twenty number
Speaker 1: one movie, which this everyone was just glued to their
Speaker 1: screens of some sort. But you couldn't go anywhere. This
Speaker 1: was This was a weird year, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: I mean I wasn't. I had to do I was
Speaker 1: still playing, and I remember we had to get tested
Speaker 1: every day. You guys did the Bubble, which I think
Speaker 1: would have been kind of cool. It'd been like summer
Speaker 1: camp if you think about it, you know, but the
Speaker 1: routines and stuff of the twenty twenty was so terrible.
Speaker 1: Number one movie, The War with Grandpa? Is that? Have
Speaker 1: we heard of that one?
Speaker 6: The real pop culture thing here is Queen's Gambit.
Speaker 1: That was the best one. Everyone was playing chess in
Speaker 1: the locker room after this.
Speaker 6: You were just playing checkers.
Speaker 1: Then now I could play some chess.
Speaker 6: Last Dance was released around this time too, That.
Speaker 1: Was also that was huge. What did you think about that?
Speaker 1: We need?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 2: I knew I knew. What happened was that last year.
Speaker 2: They knew the Bulls were going to break up because
Speaker 2: they had the Bulls management had told Phil Jackson, this
Speaker 2: is your last year. We don't care if you want
Speaker 2: a championship, You're.
Speaker 3: Not coming back. So they knew that. They that's why
Speaker 3: they called.
Speaker 2: It the Last Dance. This is our last time together.
Speaker 2: And so NBA Entertainment, being smart, said, hey, if this
Speaker 2: is going to be your last year, can we film
Speaker 2: everything and then we'll lock the footage in a vault
Speaker 2: for twenty years and no one will see it so
Speaker 2: that everybody by the time it comes out, everybody will
Speaker 2: be retired, so there won't create any animosity because everybody
Speaker 2: will be out of the game. And so there it
Speaker 2: was twenty years later. You couldn't ask for better timing
Speaker 2: for it to come out, because it was everybody wanted
Speaker 2: to They were so hungry for something new, and it
Speaker 2: was all footage that had never been seen before.
Speaker 1: NBA TV. Is it what it's called? The Is that there,
Speaker 1: NBA Entertainment, NBA Entertainment, Yeah, locked away for an a
Speaker 1: vault twenty years. I actually recently just looked out. It's
Speaker 1: kind of reminded me of when I wrote a letter
Speaker 1: to myself in eighth grade that I got it when
Speaker 1: I was going to graduate. It was like, hopefully you're
Speaker 1: going to the NFL. You're you're graduating from the University
Speaker 1: of Miami with the national championship, and uh, you're happy.
Speaker 1: So Braxton Barrios is living Braxton Barrios is living my life.
Speaker 1: Now champions you guys want it this year? Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: Giannis this huh be honest, the Greek freak. Now, what
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on all the international players, Like, there's
Speaker 1: no American guys. Like the last NBA m v p s,
Speaker 1: they've all been international people.
Speaker 3: I mean it's a global.
Speaker 1: I think as an American player, for me, like, I'm like, boys,
Speaker 1: let's get let's get on the asphalt, let's get better.
Speaker 1: We gotta get it going. What was life like for
Speaker 1: Jeanie Buss in twenty twenty You were in the bubble.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I mean I'd like to kind of go
Speaker 2: back to how that season started, back to you know,
Speaker 2: the off season of you know, twenty nineteen we made
Speaker 2: the trade to get Anthony Davis. Yeah, so now we
Speaker 2: have this new player that comes in the NBA.
Speaker 3: Every couple of years.
Speaker 2: You're required to go play overseas, and you know that's
Speaker 2: happening in every sports league that you have to go overseas.
Speaker 2: So this that year October of twenty nineteen, we were
Speaker 2: scheduled to be in China.
Speaker 1: So logistics for that as an owner.
Speaker 3: It's awful.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's I mean, that's that's it's a big
Speaker 2: burden to put on a team.
Speaker 1: You got to bring like six hundred people.
Speaker 2: And so now we are flying over to China. The
Speaker 2: team I stayed in la but our GM a bunch
Speaker 2: of executives are with the team and a tweet comes
Speaker 2: out from another executive in our league that talks about
Speaker 2: freeing Hong Kong from you know, the rule of you know, yes,
Speaker 2: and it didn't sit well.
Speaker 3: And so as the team's flying.
Speaker 2: Over there, they land and now the decision has been
Speaker 2: made by the Chinese government that they are no longer
Speaker 2: going to televise the games that we've flown all the
Speaker 2: way over there. They did allow us to televise them
Speaker 2: back to our country, but that's the whole reason you
Speaker 2: go is to like celebrate, you know, the NBA and China.
Speaker 2: And now they they you know, took down. There was
Speaker 2: no mention of the games. They still allowed us to
Speaker 2: play the games. They even thought about not allowing fans
Speaker 2: to attend the games. So it was very intense because
Speaker 2: our players kind of they didn't understand what was going
Speaker 2: on because there was there was literally they watched them
Speaker 2: take down all the banners of the players, the advertisements.
Speaker 3: It was. It was intense and.
Speaker 2: You know, thankfully they got back safely. But during that time,
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis got injured, injured his thumb, and you know,
Speaker 2: so the season didn't get off to the right start.
Speaker 2: Once we got back home, the team did start to
Speaker 2: gel and you know, we were doing really well, and
Speaker 2: for me personally, in December of twenty nineteen, my mother
Speaker 2: passed away and very suddenly. And I remember them calling
Speaker 2: me and saying because she was an assisted living and
Speaker 2: she's they said, we're going to transport your mom to
Speaker 2: the hospital because she's having trouble breathing it and she
Speaker 2: went so quickly, like I couldn't even get.
Speaker 3: There in time.
Speaker 2: And it makes me think that that might have been
Speaker 2: the beginning of COVID, right, because they talked about how
Speaker 2: people all of a sudden they can't breathe, and then
Speaker 2: they passed like that, and so that was, you know,
Speaker 2: hard on me. Then a couple of weeks later, David
Speaker 2: Stern passed away, and then a couple of weeks later,
Speaker 2: Kobe and Gig passed away. So this all happened in
Speaker 2: the matter of December and January, and it was just
Speaker 2: really difficult to process all of what happened. When Kobe passed,
Speaker 2: we asked the league if if we get you know,
Speaker 2: we had a game the next day against the Clippers,
Speaker 2: and our organization was in such shock. We couldn't function
Speaker 2: and we had to bring in grief counselors. It was
Speaker 2: it just what I what I can't get over was
Speaker 2: how our fans they didn't know where to go and
Speaker 2: so they they just went to the arena because everybody
Speaker 2: needed to be together, and it was it was like
Speaker 2: we were lost, like we just it just it was
Speaker 2: so hard to comprehend this loss. And you know, I
Speaker 2: mean it's still hard to accept five years later, but.
Speaker 3: You know it, it.
Speaker 2: Just really struck me how important the team. We started
Speaker 2: this whole comversation about community and what a team means
Speaker 2: to the fans, and it showed me this is like
Speaker 2: our strength, this is what brings everybody together, is under
Speaker 2: the purple and gold umbrella, and how they process the
Speaker 2: good times when we're winning, but also process the devastating
Speaker 2: news and you know, the Clippers were very nice and
Speaker 2: agreed to postpone the game. But then we eventually had
Speaker 2: to get back to basketball. So we played January thirty first,
Speaker 2: and Lebron addressed the crowd and he gave such a
Speaker 2: moving speech about how we have to lift each other
Speaker 2: up and that through the game of basketball is how
Speaker 2: we cope with our grief, and that he said, I
Speaker 2: have I have big shoulders, Let me carry you, let
Speaker 2: me climb on board, like we're going to get through
Speaker 2: this together.
Speaker 3: And you know, that just.
Speaker 2: Made you know, made me realize his ability as a leader,
Speaker 2: and for him to articulate all of what we were
Speaker 2: feeling and what we needed to hear was beautiful.
Speaker 3: And you know, so we get back to basketball.
Speaker 2: We're doing really well. We won nine of the next
Speaker 2: ten games, and you know, we're looking great. And then
Speaker 2: at the beginning of March, you know, you're hearing stuff
Speaker 2: about COVID now.
Speaker 3: And you know kind of what's happening, and when you
Speaker 3: are in a.
Speaker 2: Business where you interface with the public, you know that
Speaker 2: you bring people together. We were monitoring it very closely.
Speaker 2: But then there was you know, famous press conference with
Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert where he kind of challenged Covid to come
Speaker 2: get him, and sure enough, the next day the league
Speaker 2: shut down. And at first it was going to be
Speaker 2: like for a week, you know, until we figure this out.
Speaker 2: All everyone thought, yeah, and then it became two weeks.
Speaker 2: Then it became you know, it was like, are we
Speaker 2: ever going to finish this season? And as time went on,
Speaker 2: the isolation was unbearable because we were dealing with the
Speaker 2: loss of Kobe and Gig And I remember I would
Speaker 2: wake up and I'd been crying in my sleep.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know that.
Speaker 2: Was physically possible, but it was just so the sadness
Speaker 2: was was so overbearing, and the idea that we couldn't
Speaker 2: come together as a community, it was like the total opposite.
Speaker 2: We had to isolate and be disconnected. And then of
Speaker 2: course zooms and you know, thankfully they that gave you
Speaker 2: a little bit of comfort to see other people and
Speaker 2: talk about how you were feeling, and you know, the
Speaker 2: last dance and you know, just things that you know,
Speaker 2: sports could you know, soothe you take you out of
Speaker 2: your head. So then the league came up with the
Speaker 2: idea of salvaging the season by creating this bubble. It
Speaker 2: really was brilliant, but it was a huge sacrifice because
Speaker 2: now you're taking everybody away from their families and they
Speaker 2: have to commit to being We were in the bubble
Speaker 2: for like ninety days, like that's months and months, and
Speaker 2: that's a huge sacrifice that the players had to make.
Speaker 2: And they were able to figure out, Okay, we'll take
Speaker 2: the twenty two teams out of thirty that looked like
Speaker 2: they were going to make the playoffs, and then we'll
Speaker 2: created this schedule and you know, I mean, it was
Speaker 2: it was something, and you know, the players union agreed
Speaker 2: to it, and we took off for Orlando, and so
Speaker 2: you know, they get that going because now when they
Speaker 2: get to Orlando, they've got a sequester for two weeks
Speaker 2: before they can all come together. I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: it was so complicated how they did it, but it
Speaker 2: was it was the only way to make sure that
Speaker 2: you would have a pristine, you know, area that would
Speaker 2: not get infected. And so they started playing and doing
Speaker 2: all of that, and then there was a police shooting
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin of a person by the name of Jacob Blake, and.
Speaker 3: It was again another.
Speaker 2: You know, seemingly you know, police shooting for no reason
Speaker 2: for you know, and everything stopped again. The players wanted
Speaker 2: to decide if they wanted to continue to play or not.
Speaker 2: And mind you, they're worried about their families back home,
Speaker 2: and this was exactly the kind of things that they
Speaker 2: were worried about. And so the bubble was fragile, and
Speaker 2: the players asked to meet with all the governors on
Speaker 2: a zoom call, and you know, it was a conversation
Speaker 2: that needed to be had in order for the players
Speaker 2: to feel that we were partners with them in you know,
Speaker 2: wanting things to change. And you know, the players agreed
Speaker 2: to resume playing again. So after another four days break,
Speaker 2: we came back and played the games, and the Lakers
Speaker 2: were playing great, and the playoffs started, and I kept saying, well,
Speaker 2: I'll come to the bubble if if it looks like we,
Speaker 2: you know, might go far on the playoffs. So eventually
Speaker 2: I joined the team in Orlando and we kept winning
Speaker 2: and we found ourselves in the championship against the Miami
Speaker 2: Heat with Jimmy Butler and of course my idol.
Speaker 3: Pat Riley.
Speaker 2: And you know, I had mixed feelings about having to
Speaker 2: go against Pat because you know, he's kind of.
Speaker 1: Like family, like family, right We'll be right back after
Speaker 1: this quick break. Let's let's jump into it and break
Speaker 1: down the teams real quick and let us jump into
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 7: Also, the Miami Heat went forty four and twenty nine
Speaker 7: this year. If they're twelve season't under Eric Spolstra. This
Speaker 7: was their first season without Dwayne Wade since the two
Speaker 7: thousand and two two thousand and three season and the
Speaker 7: prior season back in July twenty nineteen, they traded for
Speaker 7: Jimmy Butler. This was also Tyler Hero's rookie season. Tyler
Speaker 7: hero Hey culture pat Rise.
Speaker 6: The main takeaway from the Heat here.
Speaker 1: What's a fun pat Riley's story? When you were probably
Speaker 1: like a little kid. But how was he as a coach?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, he really kind of backed his way
Speaker 2: into being a coach. I mean, he wanted to be
Speaker 2: a coach, but he was. You know what happened was
Speaker 2: he was he was the color commentator with chaquern on
Speaker 2: the broadcast. We had hired a coach who had an
Speaker 2: accident at the start of the season, so his assistant
Speaker 2: coach had to take over for him, and at that
Speaker 2: time he only had one assistant coach.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was the olden days.
Speaker 2: And they needed to phill the assistant coach spot. So
Speaker 2: Paul west Head said, how about pat Riley Because he's
Speaker 2: been with the team, he's watched practice, he was at
Speaker 2: training camp.
Speaker 3: He would be a good fill in.
Speaker 2: So Pat became the assistant coach under west Head. We
Speaker 2: won a championship that year, but then west Head wanted
Speaker 2: to change the offense. Magic Johnson didn't like that. West
Speaker 2: Head was let go and pat Riley became.
Speaker 3: The head coach.
Speaker 2: And I'll never forget because you know, I'd known Pat
Speaker 2: when he was, you know, just the radio guy. And
Speaker 2: I was walking down the hallway one day and his
Speaker 2: nickname was Ryle's, like that's what you call, like, hey Ryles.
Speaker 2: He stopped stop me, He said, call me coach. I'm
Speaker 2: coach now. And that's when he like started slicking back
Speaker 2: his hand, you know, like he knew, like everybody knows
Speaker 2: me as this, I have to like now command respect
Speaker 2: as the coach, So everybody needs to think of me
Speaker 2: as coach. So from then on I called him coach.
Speaker 1: So he went, Gordon, getto From then on, ye, slick back,
Speaker 1: is he the best dressed.
Speaker 2: Guy in It's like he was like the most handsome.
Speaker 2: That'stra I mean he was.
Speaker 3: He was La for sure.
Speaker 1: Freaking pat Riley Ryles. I'm not called. I'm calling. Let's
Speaker 1: jump into the the Lakers.
Speaker 6: They went fifty to nineteen.
Speaker 7: This is their first season under Frank Vogel, second season
Speaker 7: of the Lebron James era in Los Angeles. In the
Speaker 7: off season, as you mentioned July twenty nineteen, the Lakers
Speaker 7: trader for Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: What makes Lebron special? You told the story about him
Speaker 1: and his leadership post Kobe after that through this run,
Speaker 1: what when did you say, Like this guy is a
Speaker 1: bad man in a great way, like bad man meaning
Speaker 1: good man.
Speaker 2: Just watching him work like in practice, I mean, it
Speaker 2: just it doesn't it's it's hard to comprehend what he does, yeah,
Speaker 2: at his age, and that he's hungry for it, and
Speaker 2: that he works so hard because there's no shortcuts for
Speaker 2: this guy. It's Kobe esque, yeah, but in a different way.
Speaker 2: You know, Like he he's just I mean, he's his
Speaker 2: his physique, he's like a train. Like he's just so
Speaker 2: strong you can't stop him. There's if I saw him
Speaker 2: coming at me, I'd be like, oh my god, scream.
Speaker 3: I'd be sc sick, Harry.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's probably what ninety percent of the league says, exactly,
Speaker 1: what's the first thing that comes to your mind when
Speaker 1: you think of this team?
Speaker 2: Well, here's here's you know, I will say that I
Speaker 2: kind of came from the philosophy, you know, kind of
Speaker 2: inspired by Phil Jackson that when a team wins a championship,
Speaker 2: they should have the right to defend their championship. And
Speaker 2: we didn't do that and I regret that. And one
Speaker 2: of the players on the list that Markuith Morris just
Speaker 2: rejoined the team in the in.
Speaker 3: The trade for Luca.
Speaker 2: He was one of the players that came and I
Speaker 2: told him, I said, I'm really sorry that we didn't
Speaker 2: get a chance for you to defend that championship. And
Speaker 2: I'm really glad you're here.
Speaker 3: And you know, so.
Speaker 2: We just you know, obviously didn't win a championship the
Speaker 2: following year.
Speaker 1: But that's still like the year you guys had going
Speaker 1: into this. It's like storybook ending stuff. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: storybook ending.
Speaker 2: LA needed that need it. LA was heartbroken over the
Speaker 2: loss of Kobe and this and you know, there was
Speaker 2: one play that AD won a game I think against
Speaker 2: in the Denver series where he hit a shot at
Speaker 2: the buzzer and he screamed Kobe's name and everybody heard
Speaker 2: it because there was no fans, but everybody could hear
Speaker 2: it on the microphone, picked it up and it was
Speaker 2: That's how we all felt.
Speaker 3: This was for Kobe.
Speaker 1: What does Kobe mean to Lakers organization.
Speaker 2: Because he he came and played twenty years for one team.
Speaker 2: That made him very special because he could have easily
Speaker 2: been traded and chased rings or whatever. But he went
Speaker 2: through one rebuilding period after winning three, you know, we
Speaker 2: traded Shack to Miami, kind of hit bottom for a
Speaker 2: couple of seasons, but then pau Gasol came and he
Speaker 2: won two more. So I think that that really endears
Speaker 2: a player to fans because they stick with it, they
Speaker 2: stick with their team, and you know, he loved the Lakers,
Speaker 2: and the Laker fans loved him. And you know, I
Speaker 2: talk about how glad that we had the opportunity because
Speaker 2: we retired both his numbers. He wore eight and twenty four,
Speaker 2: And if you just took his career as number eight
Speaker 2: in his career while wearing twenty four, both of those
Speaker 2: players would have gone in the Hall of fame. So
Speaker 2: we decided to retire both his numbers, and we had
Speaker 2: an opportunity to celebrate him while he was still alive.
Speaker 3: And I know that.
Speaker 2: He Kobe knew how much we loved him and appreciated him.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite memory of him? Your story? Like you know,
Speaker 1: what's what's the one thing like your happy place?
Speaker 2: You know? He he was somebody that you know, after
Speaker 2: my father passed away, he saw that I struggled, and
Speaker 2: you know, he was always trying to cheer me on.
Speaker 2: And you know, I was, you know, with Phil Jackson
Speaker 2: for fifteen years.
Speaker 3: And when Phil took.
Speaker 2: The job to go to the New York Knicks, the
Speaker 2: NBA literally made us sign a you know, an agreement
Speaker 2: that he and I would not talk about basketball because
Speaker 2: there cahoots, right and you know, but when two brothers
Speaker 2: are running two different teams or you know, it's something
Speaker 2: about the male female relationship, which I don't know how
Speaker 2: fair that is, but anyway, that kind of became that
Speaker 2: kind of eroded my relationship because he was in New York,
Speaker 2: I was in LA.
Speaker 3: But when Phil laughed, he said, you know, I want.
Speaker 2: You to know I can't help you anymore like you
Speaker 2: can't call me and bounce ideas off of me. But
Speaker 2: you always have Kobe, and Kobe will always have your back.
Speaker 2: You know you can trust Kobe, and you know Kobe
Speaker 2: was that friend for me and you can't replace that.
Speaker 1: No, sorry for bringing it up.
Speaker 3: No, that's okay.
Speaker 2: I love to talk about Kobe always.
Speaker 1: I can see how much you care about him through
Speaker 1: how you answer your questions and how big of an
Speaker 1: impact his career had with the Lakers. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: very touching. It's crazy. Everyone remembers that day, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're a sport fan or any kind of fan, anyone,
Speaker 1: everyone remembers that day.
Speaker 2: Well, in Luca's press conference once he was traded here,
Speaker 2: he said this, the only thing that would make this
Speaker 2: better is if Kobe and GG were here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So even he he understands, Yeah, he understands. You know,
Speaker 1: the Lakers, you guys have so many great players, and
Speaker 1: I you don't want to miss any of them. We
Speaker 1: got to do like a word association. We got to
Speaker 1: do to word association. First word that comes up to
Speaker 1: your mind when we bring up a player, Chack goofy, goofy.
Speaker 2: He loved to like play ranks.
Speaker 3: Do you know he just it's like a big kid.
Speaker 1: Kareem brilliant mind, brilliant magic.
Speaker 2: His smile could light up you know, los Angeles like
Speaker 2: he he.
Speaker 3: He and Los Angeles are soulmates.
Speaker 1: Lebron tough, Phil Zen, your dad.
Speaker 2: He loved this team, He loved this He's just synonymous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, synonymous. Yeah, let's break down this game.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 7: The season was suspended on March eleventh, twenty twenty, after
Speaker 7: all one hundred and forty one days. The season returned
Speaker 7: July thirty first in Walt Disney, twenty two teams went
Speaker 7: to the Bubble. The Bubble consisted of thirteen Western Conference
Speaker 7: teams and nine Eastern Conference teams. They would play eight
Speaker 7: regular season games to nail down playoff seedings. And there
Speaker 7: was also a play in game on August thirteenth between
Speaker 7: the Portland Portland and Memphis that would go want to
Speaker 7: play the number one seed Lakers not to start the
Speaker 7: tournament and the Miami wore the fifth seed from the East.
Speaker 1: And this is post Dwayne Wade Game five, the game
Speaker 1: play this thing. It was kind of a BLOWOUTI or
Speaker 1: Game six. It's kind of a blowout, wasn't it? When
Speaker 1: did you know the game was kind of because you
Speaker 1: guys went up twenty and then they came back and
Speaker 1: then it got when did you feel all right, I'm
Speaker 1: getting we're getting it. It's in it. It's in the bag, yeah,
Speaker 1: like by.
Speaker 2: The second half. But can we go back to game five?
Speaker 2: Because well, I mean we don't have to. I mean
Speaker 2: it's just that Game five we lost and I wore
Speaker 2: my best outfit.
Speaker 1: Thinking what was the outfit?
Speaker 2: I don't remember, but it was like, you know that
Speaker 2: I've thought, okay, I'm going to be accepting the trophy
Speaker 2: because we win.
Speaker 1: And like, did you have a did you have a.
Speaker 2: It was my better outfit? Like my outfit that I wore.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm in the bubble. There's no you can't
Speaker 2: go shopping, there's no I've been there for weeks.
Speaker 1: You know, and I recycled. What did you do for
Speaker 1: the next outfit?
Speaker 2: I just you know, I just wore a blazer and
Speaker 2: a shirt. I mean it was like I had a
Speaker 2: better outfit for gam there I wore it for I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: so it reminds.
Speaker 1: Me of like you have a good hair day for
Speaker 1: a man, you don't want it. You have to shower
Speaker 1: you don't want to shower because it'll mess up the
Speaker 1: hair and you're never going to be able to get
Speaker 1: that hair like that. Again, that's my hair.
Speaker 3: I had a bad hair day too.
Speaker 1: Hair day. Well, what was the day like in the bubble?
Speaker 1: Like pregame? What's your pregame?
Speaker 2: It's like there's nothing to do in the buffet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's like there's like they had a menu, but there
Speaker 2: was like three things on it. Oh yeah, So like
Speaker 2: you're eating.
Speaker 3: The same thing every day.
Speaker 2: You're having the same conversations because it's only you know,
Speaker 2: like fifty people there.
Speaker 1: You didn't send someone to go get you little Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler coffee that he was selling in there. I heard
Speaker 1: was slanging coffee with me.
Speaker 2: But they they kept you so far apart, like you
Speaker 2: just couldn't. It wasn't like a party. It was like
Speaker 2: just go to your room, Go.
Speaker 5: To your room.
Speaker 3: It was awful.
Speaker 1: Now, the atmosphere inside when they had like the fans
Speaker 1: and the fake fans and you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: how was that had to be almost like a practice.
Speaker 3: It was bizarre.
Speaker 1: When we were playing our games, we played in empty stadiums,
Speaker 1: and I remember playing in Seattle and it reminded me
Speaker 1: of like reminded me of high school football when you
Speaker 1: were scrimmage scrimmaging against another team because you could hear
Speaker 1: we could hear them making their calls. You know, you
Speaker 1: could hear the coach, their coaches on the sideline. You
Speaker 1: can never hear any of that. It was just like
Speaker 1: all you heard was like the love of the game,
Speaker 1: which there was something special about that, you know. Was
Speaker 1: it like that for basketball? All you hear is just yes,
Speaker 1: that's all you hear it because there's no surrounding noise.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 1: So you guys have it in the bag. You have
Speaker 1: your second best outfit. Yeah, did you have something prepared
Speaker 1: for afterwards to say the team? Yeah? I had.
Speaker 2: I had my speech and you know, written out and
Speaker 2: that's like your Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so like I, you know, I.
Speaker 2: It was really important to me to get that right
Speaker 2: because that's you know, that's what the governor does. And
Speaker 2: if you notice in my speech, you know, I talk
Speaker 2: about the fans and how it was really for them
Speaker 2: and that we were going to bring the trophy.
Speaker 3: Back to LA where it belongs.
Speaker 2: And so now I'm done with my speech and normally
Speaker 2: the commissioner would hand you the trophy, right, but we
Speaker 2: were like everybody was like eight feet apart, so so
Speaker 2: you know, that part didn't happen. And I didn't want
Speaker 2: to walk over and pick up the trophy myself and
Speaker 2: I so I said to the players, that's your trophy.
Speaker 2: You pick it up, like I'm not going to hand
Speaker 2: it to you, Like I don't need the photo of
Speaker 2: me holding the trophy. So I like, if you notice
Speaker 2: I never hold the trophy. I walk over to the
Speaker 2: team and Lebron comes over and hugs me and whispers
Speaker 2: in my ear. I told you we would do this. This,
Speaker 2: you know, this is what we This was our goal
Speaker 2: and we did it. Like enjoy this moment, and that
Speaker 2: was really you know, he's done it a few times. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I better practice at it that I did.
Speaker 1: It's something different though in your Laker I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's it's the Lakers. Yeah, there's the Celtics Lakers. That's basketball.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So now like we win seventeen, now we're tied
Speaker 2: with Boston in terms of championships, but then they went
Speaker 2: one number eighteen before we did.
Speaker 1: So we'll get there more, it'll get it'll get there.
Speaker 1: So the clockhead zero.
Speaker 6: Lakers wearing one six ninety three clockhead zero.
Speaker 1: First thing you think about.
Speaker 3: Do I go over and give pat Riley a hug?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: And I didn't. I mean I felt bad, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean it's hard you talk.
Speaker 1: You talked about it about sport being so much about relationship,
Speaker 1: and I mean the relationship that you've had with pat
Speaker 1: Riley and the success that you guys those memories to
Speaker 1: see after the game, in between the lines. During the game,
Speaker 1: everyone we want to kill you, but the aftermath, like
Speaker 1: that's when you you appreciate your competitor and that real
Speaker 1: human side comes where you're like, oh man, but it
Speaker 1: was you know, did you hug them? No?
Speaker 3: I did not hug up, and I felt bad, but.
Speaker 1: It was still kind of weird to hug people.
Speaker 2: Then yeah, yes, And we were all still wearing masks
Speaker 2: until we got down.
Speaker 1: I was just thinking about, what would you talk about
Speaker 1: Lebron hugging you. I was like, man, people probably got
Speaker 1: so scared about that during COVID, like people touching.
Speaker 2: But just recently I had the wonderful opportunity to be
Speaker 2: on a Zoom call with a bunch of our former
Speaker 2: Showtime players and surprise, pat Riley with the announcement, our
Speaker 2: next statue is going to be pat Riley that we're
Speaker 2: going to have at Crypto.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 3: So, so we're in good. We're in good.
Speaker 2: You know, our relationship is still great.
Speaker 1: That statue garden, by the way, it's cool, right, I
Speaker 1: mean that thing is awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What's the threshold to get in the statue?
Speaker 2: There really isn't yet, but like pat Riley, you know,
Speaker 2: just you know, so cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people want to see it.
Speaker 1: Let's put a bow on this game.
Speaker 7: So, as we mentioned, the Lakers won their seventeenth NBA championship.
Speaker 7: This is the eleventh for the Bus family and first
Speaker 7: Regina Number Trail as governor.
Speaker 6: And the Celtics have won five since the Bus took over.
Speaker 7: Everyone likes to do Celtics, Celtics Lakers, but five to eleven,
Speaker 7: let's go.
Speaker 1: He's from Boston too, and I'm a hockey guy.
Speaker 6: You don't want to hear right thing?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 7: And this was the longest season in NBA history, three and.
Speaker 6: Seventy seven days.
Speaker 1: Much needed though. We needed this because there was no entertainment.
Speaker 1: Everyone was so bored out of all the same streaming stuff.
Speaker 1: That's what's awesome. About sport, brings brings people together.
Speaker 6: There's only so much Tiger King you can watch.
Speaker 7: Lebron James won Finals MVP and got his fourth ring
Speaker 7: and moved the first and career playoff games with two
Speaker 7: hundred and sixty. The Lakers and the Dodgers both won
Speaker 7: a championship this year, and then in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 7: LA hired JJ Redick as head coach.
Speaker 1: That's the aftermath, and so.
Speaker 2: I was the first female govin or to win a championship.
Speaker 1: Freaking go.
Speaker 2: My first thought was who's going to be the next?
Speaker 2: Who's going to.
Speaker 1: Be the next? I mean your first thought, who's going
Speaker 1: to be the next? And you're also the first female
Speaker 1: and first owner in general to win the in tournament
Speaker 1: in season tournament. Yeah ever, yeah that'll go down.
Speaker 3: Thank you. That was cool too.
Speaker 1: Let's score this game, so the last thing before everything,
Speaker 1: we score the game and we see where it stands
Speaker 1: on all the games that we've done. Because the reason
Speaker 1: for this show is determined, what's the greatest game of
Speaker 1: all time? Let's name the game banner seventeen game. These
Speaker 1: are some that we came up with. If you have
Speaker 1: a name that you want to name the game. You
Speaker 1: can name it as well, South Beach versus Sunset, the
Speaker 1: Bubble Banner, Bubblicious balling in the Bubble Love, Bubble Championship,
Speaker 1: or any anyone that you have that comes up to
Speaker 1: your mind.
Speaker 3: It's like Banner seventeen.
Speaker 1: We still like call it that Banner seventeen. Let's score
Speaker 1: the game. Is this the greatest game of all time?
Speaker 1: Let's score it? Stakes genie, zero to ten decimals, okay,
Speaker 1: steaks of this game? Six game to cap off the championship.
Speaker 2: Stakes of this, I would say it's nine.
Speaker 1: I'd say like nine to two because this was like
Speaker 1: a needed thing. I'm just saying for like the world, this,
Speaker 1: like basketball was like the only thing we had, going,
Speaker 1: only thing we had and fighting.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, Jack got a eight point one. I
Speaker 6: had an eight point zero.
Speaker 1: Star power of this zero ten decimals, Okay, nine point five,
Speaker 1: nine point five, I'm gonna I'm gonna go with eight
Speaker 1: point eight because they didn't have the fans and the
Speaker 1: star power of the Lakers. Does Jack Nicholson have to
Speaker 1: pay for his courtside seats? No? What's a fun Jack
Speaker 1: Jack story? He's gotta be one fun Jack story.
Speaker 2: Well, there's let's put it this way, there's a reason
Speaker 2: we have him sitting next to the visiting bench because
Speaker 2: he's they just never know if he's gonna be the
Speaker 2: Jack from the Shining.
Speaker 1: Johnny exactly awesome. Game play.
Speaker 7: Jack got an eight point seven out of seven point
Speaker 7: eight gameplay zero ten decimals.
Speaker 3: Okay, I would say an eight.
Speaker 1: It's a it's an integrity type score because it was
Speaker 1: it was blowing out, then they came back. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go seven point two.
Speaker 6: Jack had a six point five out of six point one.
Speaker 1: And then lastly, we grade the name of the game
Speaker 1: banner seventeen, ten, ten. Yeah, I'm gonna go with a
Speaker 1: nine because we all know what it like, the culture reverence.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows banner seventeen.
Speaker 6: Jack at eight point five. I had a six point three.
Speaker 1: What's it come up to?
Speaker 6: An eight point one seven?
Speaker 1: Or does it stand on the list that puts us.
Speaker 6: Right here?
Speaker 7: Twenty sixth just below the Shrug Game nineteen ninety two
Speaker 7: NBA Finals Game one, Blazers versus Bulls, and just above
Speaker 7: the Millennium.
Speaker 1: Wave with Larry hand Hamilton. You remember the Millennium Wave. No,
Speaker 1: it was on Time Magazine.
Speaker 3: Do you mean just the wave that he was riding.
Speaker 1: Yea, oh my god, the heaviest wave of WA all time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably yeah, yeah I do, and that like,
Speaker 2: oh I love that?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 1: Is that what? Like?
Speaker 3: Who came up with that name? Did you guys come
Speaker 3: up with that Millennium Wave? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think time did.
Speaker 6: We wanted him on the show because he's awesome.
Speaker 3: No, he's amazing.
Speaker 2: So did you give him other suggestions?
Speaker 5: We did.
Speaker 7: We googled some stuff and because he's not a competitive surfer,
Speaker 7: he's like against the ocean, we like looked up and
Speaker 7: then we found this thing like the Millennium Wave, and
Speaker 7: we looked into it. It was like in two thousand,
Speaker 7: he rode this crazy wave that was like the heaviest switch.
Speaker 1: And we broke down the wave. We were breaking out
Speaker 1: the game, and then we broke down the surfer of
Speaker 1: Larry and his resume of the other waves that he surfed.
Speaker 1: But this wave is taking lives.
Speaker 2: Can I find this list somewhere? Yes, I gotta go.
Speaker 7: Through this brand new We can send it to you,
Speaker 7: but it's actually now send it to me.
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, this is amazing.
Speaker 7: We've had some fun little Patriots heavy if you look
Speaker 7: up to the top.
Speaker 1: Of course, I don't know what you're talking about. This
Speaker 1: is this is completely there's no bias in any of them.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. Well, Jeanie, do
Speaker 1: we miss anything?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: We we all gotta we gotta, we gotta plug some
Speaker 1: stuff the wow can you talk to us about Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I it's it's my passion project. I've invested my
Speaker 2: own money, not LA your money. I you know, saw
Speaker 2: a need. You know, there's so many great Division one
Speaker 2: female athletes that don't get a chance. Unless you're a
Speaker 2: basketball player, you know, or you know, a golfer or whatever.
Speaker 2: There's no place to go pro after and you know,
Speaker 2: if you played field hockey or you know whatever. It's like,
Speaker 2: women deserve a place to go. And they've become athletes,
Speaker 2: they've shown the dedication and the sacriface of what it
Speaker 2: takes to be an athlete. So where can we help
Speaker 2: them get a platform where they can perform? And so
Speaker 2: we're the only all female wrestling outfit. We're in our
Speaker 2: third season. We're in syndication in LA. We're on KKEL
Speaker 2: on Saturday nights at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 2: You know, I just I can't tell you the amount
Speaker 2: of talent that we have. And what we do is,
Speaker 2: you know, women come and try out and if they
Speaker 2: show potential, we train them. And you know, it's character driven.
Speaker 2: It's good versus evil. It's wrestling. But our characters are great.
Speaker 2: They're over the top. But what's important to me is
Speaker 2: that these women fight their own battles. They don't run
Speaker 2: to a man to save them. And I think that's
Speaker 2: an important message for young girls especially there's so much
Speaker 2: bullying that goes on and to be able to stand
Speaker 2: up for what you believe in, stand up for yourself,
Speaker 2: you know, and you know, so that you know, there's messages,
Speaker 2: but it's still entertainment and about ten years, okay, no,
Speaker 2: I it's like dad, you're a girl, Dad.
Speaker 5: Years.
Speaker 3: And so I also if I.
Speaker 2: Could plug next week, there's a show that will premiere
Speaker 2: on Netflix called Running Point, and I'm an executive producer
Speaker 2: along with Mindy Kayling created the show and it's it's
Speaker 2: loosely based on a character like me that you know,
Speaker 2: ends up running NBA team. It's the teams called the
Speaker 2: La Waves.
Speaker 3: It's not the Late.
Speaker 2: It's much easier I had to get league approval.
Speaker 6: We're dealing with that right now with the project so small.
Speaker 2: So see like that's I'm very happy and so gives
Speaker 2: us license to be able to come up with storylines.
Speaker 2: It's really funny. And the lead actress is Kate Hudson,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, who is a movie star. So the idea
Speaker 2: that we were able to get her to do this part,
Speaker 2: she's fantastic. So that drops February twenty seventh. That's called
Speaker 2: running point.
Speaker 1: Running point.
Speaker 6: We've been talking with Max Greenfield to come on.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, wrote the show. He plays my character's Beyonce,
Speaker 2: who's a doctor.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for taking time and coming
Speaker 1: to the Nutthouse. We are so happy to have you.
Speaker 1: We feel like we finally made it being in La
Speaker 1: and Geenie Buss in the Brentwood studio. Thank you so much. Genie,
Speaker 1: thanks so much. It's so fun to learn from you
Speaker 1: and hear your passion for the game and your memory
Speaker 1: for everything has been crazy, just like hearing your knowledge
Speaker 1: of all the rosters when we're breaking down in roster
Speaker 1: like not of like the Magic Johnson's but we were
Speaker 1: talking about the guy who you just traded. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: that's crazy. That's how in depth you are with everything
Speaker 1: from the hot dog stand to freaking charity events, making
Speaker 1: your own other enterprises. It's been so awesome to get
Speaker 1: to have you here. Thank you so much for coming.
Speaker 6: Gee, what an interview?
Speaker 1: Well, what an interview?
Speaker 5: Owner?
Speaker 1: No governor governor?
Speaker 6: That's right, no governor, governor class.
Speaker 1: I didn't know, that's the thing. I had no clue
Speaker 1: there is there a governor in NFL.
Speaker 7: After that, other mayors too. You should have saw the
Speaker 7: face she made. I don't know if I can say this,
Speaker 7: but afterwards, because you and Jay Moore were going through
Speaker 7: the whole thing, and we gotta get him on the
Speaker 7: show too.
Speaker 6: He can't. We told talk about the score.
Speaker 7: Like, man, I was really impressed to give a great score,
Speaker 7: really integrity score, and I was like, you know, Mark
Speaker 7: Cuban gave tense to everything, and she was like had
Speaker 7: the biggest eye roll on the planet, which is just
Speaker 7: like she's like classic Mark, It's just.
Speaker 1: Like the Owners Club. Yeah you didn't.
Speaker 7: I wish you dive into more of like the Owner's dynamics,
Speaker 7: but I know, yeah, it was okay.
Speaker 1: We can get Genie again.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she was great.
Speaker 1: You know what I ever since we you know, we've
Speaker 1: done this episode watching those Lakers a little, a little closer.
Speaker 6: I know you're gonna get a little flirting with the enemy.
Speaker 1: I'm not flirty, but it's just like I'm out here
Speaker 1: Celtics games on at fucking five o'clock. I'm still fucking
Speaker 1: I'm at soccer practice at five o'clock. I can't catch
Speaker 1: a Lake or the Celtics game. I get Lily down.
Speaker 1: You know, she's in bed by the time. That's it's
Speaker 1: fucking We're in the third quarter of the Laker game,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I see Luca and Austin
Speaker 1: Reeves and fucking Lebron balling. It looked pretty good, Genie.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Well, it's about that time. It's that time.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's a great sound. It is a great sounds,
Speaker 1: like a refreshing sound.
Speaker 6: Or today, I've got a little surprise for you.
Speaker 1: What do you got, Jackie, boys, what's up?
Speaker 6: What's up?
Speaker 5: I'm hanging in there, but I'm I'm hurt. Man. Bob
Speaker 5: Sugar was in the nuthouse without me.
Speaker 1: He's pretty cool too. You guys would have fuck. He's
Speaker 1: a he's a Jets guy, Day Moore and he you
Speaker 1: could tell he he knows sports. He loves sports, even
Speaker 1: kind of communicating via text.
Speaker 5: Oh is he trying to sign you?
Speaker 1: Bro? He's uh no, I think he's I think we're podswapping.
Speaker 1: We gotta get him on the pod. I think he'd
Speaker 1: be a fun guest butt fumble butt fumble game, yeah,
Speaker 1: or some sad Jets game, but fumble might be. He's hurt.
Speaker 1: Jeanie was awesome. You would have loved her.
Speaker 5: Is she gonna hook us up with some court sides
Speaker 5: or what?
Speaker 1: You know? A? Yeah, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 5: I'm not. I want to.
Speaker 1: I'm if you're you know I won't. I'm not an asker.
Speaker 5: I know we can't. We're not that kind of guy.
Speaker 1: You have a mouse to cook the ash for a
Speaker 1: glass of milk. Okay, maybe she gives the rafters. I
Speaker 1: know the Celtics already came in town, so.
Speaker 5: Fuck, I know, maybe I have to wait till the finals.
Speaker 1: You are you? Are you saying Luca I don't know
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves le taking them.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, you guys already cracked the bad words
Speaker 5: without me, by the way, get up in there ready.
Speaker 5: It's like when Lil Wayne used to spark the lighter
Speaker 5: into the mic.
Speaker 1: Oh, oh good, do that sound that sounds good? Oh?
Speaker 1: Jackie settled down, jack So I'm just so excited.
Speaker 5: I'm just so excited.
Speaker 1: It's so good when it hits your lips where you been.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna pull back the curtain a little bit. We
Speaker 5: talked about this internally at the nuthouse, but this hasn't
Speaker 5: really gotten out to the people. So I'll speak candidly
Speaker 5: here if you will, Jules in.
Speaker 1: Your mind, yeah, go ahead and speak Candy. There comes
Speaker 1: a moment when I like that course light in the
Speaker 1: background too, Yes, Therr. The where you get is that
Speaker 1: where you get lost in the background? Is that where you're.
Speaker 5: That's where I get my foot picks off?
Speaker 1: All right? Where you've been, where you've been?
Speaker 5: Where As you know, in the nuthouse world, when you
Speaker 5: hit a certain age, you gotta go out on your
Speaker 5: nuthouse mission. Kyler went down to I don't know the rainforest.
Speaker 5: I think in Brazil or something. You were in the
Speaker 5: the out back out in Australia. So I'm over here
Speaker 5: in the American southeast, moving up into the rust belt,
Speaker 5: you know, uh, mid Atlantic. I'm just trying to convert
Speaker 5: these people to being nuthouse members. Bro.
Speaker 7: Spread the circumcise the people of Southeast Tea.
Speaker 1: But it's more of the Mormon route. Bro, We're just
Speaker 1: sitting them out there. Instead of the the shirt and tie,
Speaker 1: the little slurt short sleeve shirt and tie, we give
Speaker 1: him nuthouse hat.
Speaker 5: We go forty seven brand hitch hats, we wear black Tea's.
Speaker 5: We get a company issued Honda ruckas. And I'm just
Speaker 5: going door to door, bro, knock knock. Have you heard
Speaker 5: the good word of Ernest Adams? Maybe the teachings of
Speaker 5: William Belichick? Mind if I come in and then I
Speaker 5: do you think.
Speaker 6: The goodest of all time?
Speaker 1: Is? Wow?
Speaker 5: You'd be amazed how many people they don't know about
Speaker 5: the Millennium waver or you know game six of the
Speaker 5: two thousand and seven opening round, you know, Baron Davis Dunk.
Speaker 5: They they just don't know.
Speaker 1: Dude, what's the weirdest doorstep?
Speaker 5: You like?
Speaker 1: There's some weird people over in those appellations where you're
Speaker 1: at Yeah, oh yeah, any did you go into it
Speaker 1: like it's been That's what I want to I want
Speaker 1: to know. This is what I want to know. They
Speaker 1: should make uh, they should make a TV show of all,
Speaker 1: like the crazy stories of the Mormons going into neighborhoods
Speaker 1: that they probably shouldn't have been in, and like there's
Speaker 1: got to be some crazy stories about like like Mormons
Speaker 1: going to Texas going on like property line guy the
Speaker 1: shotgun coming out chasing him, or going up in the
Speaker 1: hood and stuff.
Speaker 6: You know, what's the Book of Mormon about?
Speaker 1: I forgot, but I saw it. It was really funny.
Speaker 5: Then they get sent on their mission, they go to Orlando,
Speaker 5: or do they want to go to Orlando? They get
Speaker 5: sent to Africa? Yeah, so they Yeah, hilarity ensues.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Like what about those Mormons that roll up into
Speaker 1: Africa and like some there's got to be a group
Speaker 1: of people that are like, what the who are these
Speaker 1: fucking people?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's insane, bro, it's insane.
Speaker 1: I mean hat in mid combo hat I just.
Speaker 5: Got drafted bro by Team Cores. But the thing is, dude,
Speaker 5: you don't really get kicked off porches or pulled shotguns
Speaker 5: on you when you got the cores on your arm.
Speaker 5: They let me right in.
Speaker 1: They let you right in.
Speaker 5: Next thing, you know, you're talking about the Subway series
Speaker 5: from two thousand, Mike Piazza, bro.
Speaker 1: All right, give me the I want. I want to
Speaker 1: hear it right now. Yeplay, you're knocking on my door.
Speaker 1: Let me hear, let me hear your pitch. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: do you want, dude?
Speaker 5: Sure do you have a moment to hear?
Speaker 1: A moment for fucking What.
Speaker 5: Do you know about twenty eight to three or some
Speaker 5: of the other greatest games of all time?
Speaker 1: You mean when them Atlanta Falcons pissed down their leg?
Speaker 5: Yep, that that is the game, sir?
Speaker 1: What about that game? Oh, Brady boy? Pretty good?
Speaker 5: Would you like to know what happened at halftime in
Speaker 5: that game? Or who came up with the phrase gotta believe?
Speaker 5: Just a few more things about it to really learn
Speaker 5: about this game?
Speaker 1: What? What? What else we got? Kid?
Speaker 5: I gotta I got a twelve back? Of course?
Speaker 1: Come on in? Why didn't you say so? Come on in?
Speaker 1: Works every time, brow.
Speaker 5: Works, every time I see he told you it's something else, man.
Speaker 5: A lot of full conversions, some partial conversions. So I
Speaker 5: gotta I got a whole book full to show you
Speaker 5: when I get back.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see the book.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course a full is you subscribe to the
Speaker 5: YouTube rss feed and us on all social platforms. Partial
Speaker 5: is just maybe r ss.
Speaker 6: Dick doc on Spotify.
Speaker 5: Yep, we'll take what we can get. But you'd be
Speaker 5: kyler man. It's it's eye opening, bro. You'd be amazed
Speaker 5: how many people they don't even know what the RSS
Speaker 5: feed is or a YouTube short. So I'm just doing
Speaker 5: a lot of a lot of teaching, bro, but a
Speaker 5: lot of a lot of fellowshipping and evangelizing and proselytizing it.
Speaker 1: It's great as long as you're spreading the Gospel of
Speaker 1: the nuthouse.
Speaker 5: Every day. Brother, I'm doing it the right way.
Speaker 1: And our Holy waters core is light. You just sprinkle,
Speaker 1: sprinkle you with it a little dabble, do you there?
Speaker 1: You go?
Speaker 7: Thank you, Jackie, Thanks you assume guys, people back home. No,
Speaker 7: jack is Jack's a part of all the shows right
Speaker 7: when he's even not here, he's in Riverside. He's texting
Speaker 7: me constantly. So like if anything's like smart comes out
Speaker 7: of my mouth mostly it's just Jack's line.
Speaker 6: So like Jack, Jack dming us. So Jack's very much
Speaker 6: a part of the show, even if he's just sliding.
Speaker 5: DM Kyler's wearing a wire every year, Bro, he's.
Speaker 1: Wearing a wire. He's had an ear piece.
Speaker 5: Yeah all right, Jack Man. You can't wait to be
Speaker 5: back in the flesh boys.
Speaker 1: I love you you boys late late. Great to hear
Speaker 1: from Jack, so good to see him. Excited to get
Speaker 1: him back soon.
Speaker 7: Whispers got some couple episodes lined up that are gonna
Speaker 7: be awesome.
Speaker 1: I miss him, but I still we have him in.
Speaker 1: He's like, like we said, here, he's here. He's here.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
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