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Speaker 1: Welcome to this League Uncut in the rule of twenty

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Speaker 1: four hour NBA news miters. You lo, Chris Haynes. It's time,

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Speaker 1: Perk Stein, It's so time. This League Uncut is underway

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Speaker 1: and on fire. This should be a good.

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Speaker 2: One friends, Thanks for joining us for another edition of

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Speaker 2: this League Uncut. Mark Stein here with Chris Haynes. It

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Speaker 2: is going to be a good one. A special one

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Speaker 2: because we have a special guest, the official NBA Draft

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Speaker 2: expert of this podcast, because at this point in the

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Speaker 2: draft process, we're only talking about one guy, and no

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Speaker 2: one knows Victor wembin Yama better than our guest today,

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Speaker 2: Nicola Batoum of the La Clippers, is here to educate

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Speaker 2: us on his countrymen and do a little dunking on

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Speaker 2: Chris Haynes since he told Chris Chris could have been

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Speaker 2: the number one draft expert in the media if he

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Speaker 2: would have just listened to Monsieur Batoum when he told

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Speaker 2: him three four years ago about this kid. Chris did

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Speaker 2: not heed the advice, and look what's happened. Now, Look

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Speaker 2: what's happening.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure I was in good company when we

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Speaker 3: heard about Victor three four years ago. I wasn't alone,

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Speaker 3: so I don't feel too bad. But definitely Nick Nick

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Speaker 3: tried to put me on game years ago. He definitely did.

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Speaker 2: How did you know? How did you know instantly that

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Speaker 2: this kid was going to captivate us all and get us?

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Speaker 2: I mean, there will be fifty eight players instead of

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Speaker 2: the usual sixty drafted on June twenty second. But all

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Speaker 2: anybody's talking about is the is the French Feenix.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he is special. Now. The first time I

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Speaker 4: didn't really know him. And you know, when I got like,

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Speaker 4: I mean, I like scanning young guys. I used to

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Speaker 4: go to different your camp, like watch young guys in

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Speaker 4: your play. I like to do that. I mean I

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Speaker 4: saw presently it's a seventeen and so Yanni's at sixteen seventeen,

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Speaker 4: like all those guys, I saw them like at the

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Speaker 4: young age before they get drift. I like scanning do

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Speaker 4: stuff like this. But when you when I saw him

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Speaker 4: for the first time, like I never seen like something

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Speaker 4: I was like, maybe it's too early to say something.

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Speaker 4: But I start following him, and when he turned like

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Speaker 4: be like different, like literally different to what we've seen before.

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Speaker 4: And he is actually.

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Speaker 3: Stein next, say the way he described as years ago.

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Speaker 3: He was like, Nah, he's the next He's the next

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Speaker 3: best thing in the NBA. And I took that as

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Speaker 3: meaning like he's the next best kid from France. He

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Speaker 3: be the face of the NBA. Nick when you were

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Speaker 3: when you were looking at him, scouting him and seeing

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Speaker 3: how he moved. I remember when I started hearing a

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Speaker 3: you're describing him to people that didn't see him, what

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Speaker 4: I mean, when I when I start describing like what

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Speaker 4: coop person because he's huge. Was Rudy because the tall

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Speaker 4: guy from France, so it's easy to compare him from

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Speaker 4: Defensive Priiod of the Year and the French Dick too.

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Speaker 4: imagine Rudy shooting like pausing gis. That's how I described

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Speaker 4: him first, Then he had the end those, but now

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Speaker 4: and the shooting abilities. It was like running like Yannis.

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Speaker 4: But now you can't dribble too. At seven four, people

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Speaker 4: was like yeah, right, yeah, come on, Nico. He's not

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Speaker 4: too good about real life. I'm like, you see, I

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Speaker 2: You know, you know him, and really over here, none

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Speaker 2: There were the two games in Vegas. He spent some

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Speaker 2: that's just saying that is crazy. But in the last

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Speaker 4: I mean, he is blessed and lucky to have a

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Speaker 4: a lot of time. His family is great. No agent,

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Speaker 4: we have the same agent, the same representatives. I mean

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Speaker 4: there great. I know, Like was walking with him and

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Speaker 4: the coach, yeah this year. The coach who coached him

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Speaker 4: got in the NBA. I could program me to being this,

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Speaker 4: get me ready to be in the NBA. So I

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Speaker 4: know what's going through right now, like on daily basis.

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Speaker 4: But he's a smart kid. I mean that's what I'm shocked.

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Speaker 4: Like with him, when I met him, and uh and

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Speaker 4: me and Tony Parker, we're on the team with Tony

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Speaker 4: he's been on the pressure, but he knows, I mean,

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Speaker 4: he knows who he is and what he can becoming,

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Speaker 4: what he has to become, I mean at this point

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Speaker 4: what I'm all pre impressed about him so far.

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Speaker 3: Nick, covering you, especially your time when I covered you

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Speaker 3: with the Portland troubles, it seemed like it was just

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Speaker 3: you were gonna partner with Tony Parker over there, get

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Speaker 3: to play under Pop. And I know at times you

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Speaker 3: thought you probably thought the same thing. So what what

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Speaker 3: san Antonio warned the lottery got the number one pick?

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Speaker 5: Now you know where Victor's head.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's like the story. The thing about the

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Speaker 4: NBA is about all about the storytelling. It's like when

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Speaker 4: Dirk was about to retire, of course is going to

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Speaker 4: end up in the MAVs. We all know, like the

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Speaker 5: Of course is going to end up with.

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Speaker 4: The MAVs and the next twenty years after Dirk no whiskey.

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Speaker 4: We all know that. And so when you saw Vic,

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Speaker 4: it's like, yeah, it's gonna be Spurs. We all knew

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Speaker 5: Said, Dick All you said the lottery is fixed, Nick,

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying it's fixed. I'm not saying that. But

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Speaker 4: the NBA is so crazy about this storytelling stuff like

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Speaker 4: the destiny of everything. I mean, everything is destined by

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Speaker 4: and that's a perfect land. I mean I knew I

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Speaker 4: perfect spot. I mean Tony left. Tony is the great

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Speaker 4: So and being walking Tony step after what Tonya has

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Speaker 4: because okay, Tony got six all start four rank that

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Speaker 2: Do you think French fans because of Tony, because of

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Speaker 4: I think so. Yeah. I think I think, like he

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Speaker 4: I mean, because what Tonya has done there. I mean yeah,

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Speaker 2: You mentioned Luca, and you know Luca. Luca was the

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Speaker 2: People don't realize that, yes, that actually is the second

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Speaker 2: into what Doncic is doing at Real Madrid as big

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Speaker 4: That's what that's what I love about this country. Actually,

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Speaker 4: Victor Prenodic last year he did play, and I don't

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Speaker 4: think people know that. I mean they just find out

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Speaker 4: about him after Vegas, Okay, beat the Jedig team. I

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Speaker 4: mean he played great against the Jediic team two times

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Speaker 4: in three days. Yes, but the year before he was

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Speaker 4: seventeen years old, he didn't dominate the league like Lucas.

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Speaker 4: What Luca has done in Jodic is insane. At that age,

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Speaker 4: nobody has done that. I prayed Yodic before I got draft,

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Speaker 4: getting Narraedy, Marco Berny, like a lot of guys plan Yodick.

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Speaker 4: We're no near to be like top twenty players in

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Speaker 4: the Jodic. It was Ruca was the MVP and he

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Speaker 4: It's insane or he's done, but still like he's a god.

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Speaker 4: It's about Domino God and Luca was technically his body

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Speaker 4: was technically ready to be in the NBA. Viig is

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Speaker 4: seventy five. He's still growing. Actually, I think he's still growing.

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Speaker 4: just he just turned nineteen two months ago and I

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Speaker 4: saw him like last week, was seventeen years old. We're

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Speaker 4: playing in new league, facing him like big monster guy.

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Speaker 4: I practice first and then in games, and I saw

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Speaker 4: some stuff from him at seventeen years old and the

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Speaker 4: second best team in the league. I was like, Okay, yes,

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Speaker 4: people are going to go hid him in the NBA

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Speaker 4: in two years. But he mean he's going to be ready.

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Speaker 4: I mean my rookie. I mean, I don't compare myself

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Speaker 4: I got there, I was nineteen years old, and you

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Speaker 4: I've been there two or three years ago already. The

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Speaker 5: So what did what do you do? Nick?

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Speaker 3: As far as your role is, you're a mentor of his.

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Speaker 5: What do you do? What's your role in his life

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Speaker 4: Every time I got a chance to talk to him

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Speaker 4: He's ready mentally. I mean, he doesn't need advice from us,

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Speaker 2: You keep referring to him as Vic obviously, I'm sure

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Speaker 2: So he's coaching. He's coaching to at least eighty seventy

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be the greatest SIBAS competition of all time.

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Speaker 2: It, and I can't resist ask you because I wrote

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Speaker 2: What do you think? What do you think?

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Speaker 4: I wish? And to be honest, I don't know, but

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Speaker 2: And there's room for it all. Coach Kala can handle

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Speaker 4: All of them, why not put three and you're at

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Speaker 2: At the one.

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Speaker 5: I'm the one.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's easy and the one. I just bring

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Speaker 5: How many more Olympics you got, Nick.

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Speaker 4: One, that's it. I got this work up. I gets

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Speaker 5: Start you'll cut you well.

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Speaker 2: Last summer?

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Speaker 4: Is it is it?

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Anger? I mean I know how I can well, I

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Speaker 4: coming for us. And Katie was amazing that game. Katie

433
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 4: had a big game. But that's a three pound game

434
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 4: with ten seconds to go. I mean, I know, five

435
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 4: poon game. I think with that, with that, I think

436
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,160
Speaker 4: we cut it to two or three with two minutes

437
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 4: to go, So we were right there. We knew we

438
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 4: could have done it again. But no, they're amazing. No,

439
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 4: the guy we are player they made play at the end.

440
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 4: German was good at the end for them. Remember he

441
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,719
Speaker 4: made plays a German only can't do. But they made plays.

442
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,639
Speaker 4: And I mean we were mad, but no, I remember

443
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 4: in the locker room we were not. Nobody was sad

444
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 4: or crying, like we were pissed, like and that's what

445
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 4: I love. But that team because and people ask me, like,

446
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:06,160
Speaker 4: what's about French basketball, And I'm like, ten years ago,

447
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 4: we're just happy to be there. Now we passed because

448
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 4: we lost by five the USA team at the Olympics.

449
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 4: Go with a game that means this is where we

450
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 4: are right now. This is where the international basketball is

451
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,119
Speaker 4: right now, Like the dream team stuff is over, like

452
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 4: taking pictures with them, like were pretty much teammate with

453
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 4: them now. I mean then was a starting point guard

454
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 4: and them is I'm pretty close to him because we

455
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 4: pray to get I'm close to him. So I'm not

456
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 4: impressed technically impressed by him in a good way, you

457
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,640
Speaker 4: know what I mean. So but now I think when

458
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 4: we lose against now, now you lose against the USA team,

459
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 4: you piss because like, damn, maybe we could have done it.

460
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 4: When you beat them, like okay, we've done it. Just

461
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 4: move on, to keep on because next time they're going

462
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 4: to be trying to get at us, and then you

463
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 4: have to be a ready for them and try to

464
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,439
Speaker 4: beat them again. But this is this is still the

465
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,479
Speaker 4: best team in the world no matter what, no matter

466
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 4: what they're going to bring, they don't, You're going to

467
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 4: be the big team. Yeah, they beat team is gonna

468
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 4: better have the better roaster than anybody else anyway. I mean,

469
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 4: the Olympics did have Steph Curry or Lebron James or whatever.

470
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 4: This got KD and JT and damon whatever. So but

471
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 4: that's the beauty now about the all gam is He's

472
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 4: not like the USA like he's dropping. He's just the

473
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 4: world is getting better. We're just getting better. And uh

474
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 4: there's one day maybe able to be damn every time,

475
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 4: but maybe and we never know. But this still the

476
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 4: best team in the world.

477
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 5: Nathan.

478
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 3: I would talk about you on on on this podcast

479
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 3: during the playoffs. It was like a running joke for

480
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 3: for a few episodes about how you.

481
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 5: Would blame me for your team Clippers losing.

482
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 3: When did you When did you start to recognize that

483
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 3: I might be the black cat?

484
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,120
Speaker 5: When did you start to realize that?

485
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 4: I think I don't know which game we play. I

486
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 4: was like, damn, every time I see you were losing

487
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 4: and win Golden State, go to State, should run Golden States.

488
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,639
Speaker 4: I'm like, yo, you're my guy. But we are all

489
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 4: in three, So.

490
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 3: I think I was telling the story about how you know,

491
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 3: as a as a TNT side reporter, I go behind

492
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 3: you guys, bitch through.

493
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,919
Speaker 5: A time bouts, and you're just staring at me, like

494
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 5: bugging me.

495
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 4: First off, I think we're like fifteen, we are fifteen

496
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 4: and a halftime, like, ko, why was great? PG was cooking?

497
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,640
Speaker 4: Like up thirteen or fifteen a halftime, I'm like, oh,

498
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,919
Speaker 4: and on this crazy run man, and the fourth like

499
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 4: we're down fifteen now.

500
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm like, and I'm trying not to

501
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,640
Speaker 3: laugh because I'm right by your bitch, right by your bitch.

502
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 5: I'm trying not to laugh.

503
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,200
Speaker 3: I don't want people looking at me think about later

504
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 3: that y'all lose it, like it's Nick's fault.

505
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 5: Man.

506
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 2: But they won the But in the playoffs they won

507
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 2: the first game with you there, right.

508
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, But that's when I knew. When a new were

509
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 4: on tn T, I texted Mar, I'm like, please don't

510
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 4: don't be now serious. Go somewhere else. I don't want

511
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 4: to see you.

512
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 5: He gave.

513
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 3: He gave me a hug right after the game where

514
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 3: they beat the He said, all right, bring it there,

515
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:27,160
Speaker 3: you're good.

516
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 2: You should have got the game ball.

517
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 3: I should have. I should have, I would say, Nick.

518
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 3: With the Clippers, every everything ended abruptly, how have you

519
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,640
Speaker 3: processed the season and how it ended?

520
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 4: Stuff? For sure? You know when you come in the

521
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 4: season with you expectation. We had expectation, we got big goals.

522
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 4: I mean you see the roster we had, no we

523
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 4: had Kawhi was back p g over everything. So yes,

524
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,679
Speaker 4: we came in the season with expectations. For sure. We

525
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 4: made some move that trade deadline, like, okay, you see

526
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 4: the roster we have, but we can be good and

527
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 4: we have some good stuff we have, like good games

528
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 4: that you know when PG went down and we uh

529
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 4: three weeks before the playoffs, No, that was tough. And

530
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 4: then Kawhi went out after the second game. We tried,

531
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 4: I mean, we still try to fight anyway. You know.

532
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 4: That's beauty with tyoo Is, He's going to get us

533
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 4: sweeting no matter what who was on the court or

534
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 4: and Russ was great as well. Ross was really really

535
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 4: good for us. It's tough. I mean, it's tough when

536
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 4: you missed the two best players, like because we run

537
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 4: everything around them, so we try to survive. When the

538
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 4: Sons were at a good team, they got it. Roting

539
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 4: book was amazing and KD was KD and uh, you

540
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 4: know it was a was a tough one because were

541
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 4: in five. But that's pretty much close game every time.

542
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 4: When we did wet beside game four, I think, but

543
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,239
Speaker 4: we see it came back at the end. It was

544
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 4: like a tire game, a close game everything every every time.

545
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 4: So but we can't do it. So I don't know

546
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 4: what's gonna happen, But we just hope we'll get those

547
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 4: two guys back and and well because we know we

548
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 4: can't do it. No, we can't do it. So so

549
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 4: we're gonna get take care of what we have to

550
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 4: take care off and be ready for next season.

551
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 2: It appears that the Suns and maybe another team or

552
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 2: two out there are trying to steal your coach. How

553
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 2: confident are you that the Clippers can hang on to

554
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 2: tylu No.

555
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 4: We know how ty Dole is for us. I mean,

556
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, I love that coach. He pretty

557
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 4: much said my career. So that told that last year,

558
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 4: this dude saved my career. So we need him. I

559
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 4: mean we don't want him to go anywhere. You know,

560
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 4: we respect him, we want him, we love him, and

561
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 4: we wait it hope like that mean that shows you,

562
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 4: like like I saw some team wanted him and which

563
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 4: she wanted him. I mean that's show like who he is,

564
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 4: what type of coach is. He's a good, great, great coach.

565
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 4: So but that's why I want to keep him because

566
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 4: I don't need to seem I don't see him in

567
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 4: Phoenix or Milwaukee. I don't as a creepers.

568
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 2: I don't want when you say he saved your career,

569
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 2: what did he do? Like what what specifically did he do?

570
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 4: You know what happened my last eighteen months because COVID

571
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 4: happened with the honest. So when Steve Clifford their fire

572
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 4: to bring like a new coach, new management knew everything.

573
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 4: So I wasn't in their plan anyway. So yeah, I

574
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 4: was pretty much out of the leg That's what I

575
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 4: thought that when I got waived and I signed with

576
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 4: the Clippers. You know, I signed with them to be honest,

577
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 4: I didn't have a lot of expectation. I knew they

578
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 4: told me to come over and I could help them.

579
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 4: Sometimes my gol was to, Okay, if I can't be

580
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 4: in rotation some game, that's cool. But this dude put

581
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 4: me in the starting lineup quite away, and they came

582
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 4: out of the bubble like after the big loss, but

583
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 4: in their expectation too, And because ma Chris Morris was out,

584
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 4: he said, not you're going to start for us, You're

585
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 4: going to play for us. And he put me in

586
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 4: a situation like I could have the team because you said, yeah,

587
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 4: you're gonna play for me. Don't don't. I don't care

588
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 4: about what happened the last two years out of literally

589
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 4: literally don't care. Like I know you. I know what

590
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 4: you can bring to a team full of people that

591
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 4: we have, and I know it can mix with those

592
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 4: guys because I know my role. I'm gonna just say

593
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 4: I'm a glue guy. I'm a guy try to fit

594
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 4: in with what I have around me. And when you

595
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 4: play with guys like having my team, it's pretty much

596
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 4: that's what It's easy for me because my goal is

597
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 4: to make their life easier. So and it works pretty

598
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 4: way with him.

599
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 3: And Nick, you talk about lose saving your career. You

600
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 3: got a new contract out of it, and Nick, I

601
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 3: don't know if you know this, but I actually broke

602
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 3: your your deal, your your contract with the Clippers, and

603
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 3: I have to I have to admit, but to with

604
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 3: A source gave me the news.

605
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 5: It gave me the number. I said, are you sure that?

606
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 5: Are you sure this is right? Are you sure this

607
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 5: this number is correct? This numbers it seems the same

608
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 5: little high, same little high, like are you sure you

609
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 5: were like that? The person was like, yes, yes, this

610
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 5: this is the number. When you think about did you

611
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 5: did you envision that? Did you envision sign and get

612
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 5: another two year deal? And people could look up your

613
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 5: number out there, it's public knowledge. But did you did

614
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 5: you see this happening?

615
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 4: I got three bigger offer?

616
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 5: You got bigger? Is that right?

617
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 4: Three more? Three three offer way begger than this one way?

618
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 4: Trust me?

619
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 5: Your wow?

620
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 4: Well? Okay, well I got added three years thirty five.

621
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 3: Three years thirty five, Nick, since we're all Nick, since

622
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 3: we're already devosing the number devoted the teams, Nick, no.

623
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 5: I tried three thirty five? So what made you? What

624
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 5: made you go with with this deal? With the Clippers.

625
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 4: Tyler, I'm like, I'm going nowhere. I'm staying with it. Really,

626
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 4: I'm sticking with him. I don't want to go anywhere else.

627
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 4: I don't want to go. I mean, I don't care

628
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 4: what's happening, if Kawhi Pg's coming back. I mean, I

629
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 4: just I mean, these dudes like trusted me when I

630
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 4: wasn't my lowest. So yeah, I'm not. I told that

631
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 4: I'm not living. At least you kick me out, you

632
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 4: give me a new contract, a pretty good one. So yeah,

633
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 4: I'm gonna stay. Of course, I'm staying.

634
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 2: Before we let our draft expert leave, can I ask

635
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 2: him a soccer question because I know mister Botoom likes

636
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 2: his football. Please, I want to ask him at least

637
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 2: one good, proper footy question before we.

638
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 4: Let him go.

639
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 2: So you've had Messi at PSG for the last couple

640
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 2: of years. I was actually the beginning of the season,

641
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 2: I was. I was able to see PSG in a

642
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 2: Champions League game in Israel. All three guys scored. It

643
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: was the first time ever that Messi and Bappe and

644
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: neymar At all scored in the same game. It's gotten

645
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 2: messy for Messi but are you going to walk away

646
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 2: from this glad that he was there for a couple

647
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 2: of years playing for PSG.

648
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 4: What's the.

649
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 2: Put your fan cap on and tell me what tell

650
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Speaker 2: me kind of how you how you look at this situation.

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Speaker 4: You know to be as an athlete. I can't understand

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Speaker 4: that when you spent twenty years in one spot and

653
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Speaker 4: you're pretty much a god for half of those times

654
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 4: you a god down there, and you changed to a

655
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 4: new team and you're not the same at thirty four

656
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Speaker 4: years old. I can understand like it might be tough

657
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Speaker 4: to adjust, So I'm not mad about it, because especially

658
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 4: when's when you want the work up against us in

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Speaker 4: the middle of the season, I can't understand that the

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00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 4: adjustment can be different. So I'm not mad about Messi.

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Speaker 4: He tried, he came over. It wasn't supposed to be

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Speaker 4: I mean, it was supposed to stay in Barcelona forever. Anyway,

663
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 4: it was supposed to end up like plays okay on

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Speaker 4: that jersey. He came over with us, he played some game,

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00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 4: he tried. I was happy to see him with that

666
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Speaker 4: the PSC jersey, But I don't know what it's going

667
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 4: to happen next year with him I saw some crazy

668
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 4: numbers also for him, like maybe going to another team.

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Speaker 4: I was going back to Barcelona. No, I don't know

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Speaker 4: what's gonna happen, but I'm not. You can't be mad.

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Speaker 4: He's one of the great spirit of all time, so

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Speaker 4: to play for us, so I just appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: And I just thought of one last thing, and then

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00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 2: we promised to let you go.

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Speaker 5: I got one.

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Speaker 2: If I got Victor wen min Yama, can I got

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Speaker 2: one last thing?

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Speaker 5: Oh okay?

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Speaker 2: If Victor wenman Yama can be all the things we

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00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 2: we are saying, he could be. Well a French athlete

681
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 2: being that good in the NBA, is that even bigger

682
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 2: than like what Mbappe is now because it's not you know,

683
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 2: it's not football, it's not a European sport. For a

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00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 2: Frenchman to come and conquer the NBA, how huge would

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00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 2: that be?

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Speaker 4: He might be bigger than him bad they actually and

687
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 4: Babe can become like great can at the Battle door,

688
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 4: you wont the World Cup already, can go anywhere and

689
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 4: make all the money wanted. He can do everything because

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00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 4: it's that great. But if Victor become like whatever, m

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00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 4: VP's rings whatever, like all of them at the end

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00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 4: and it become one. I mean, if everybody is online,

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00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 4: we talk about international players, if everybody is online, because

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00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,439
Speaker 4: the best international player right now ever is a Chemo

695
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 4: Aduan or Duptin whiskey. They wanted to are the two

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00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 4: best in the NBA. If he beat those guys in

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00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,439
Speaker 4: twenty years, yes, it'd be the greatest French artet of all time.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Nick, where are you at right now? You're in France,

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00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 5: Sorry that you're in La Okay. I wanted to ask you.

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Speaker 3: I saw your your tweet and I wanted to give

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00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 3: you time to acknowledge acknowledge them. This is a gentleman

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00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 3: that I saw in Arenas and I would talk to

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Speaker 3: him every now and then.

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Speaker 5: But I never knew his name.

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Speaker 3: But I just obviously you see the afro, you see

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Speaker 3: him taking the photographer, So he was always a cool

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00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 3: face to see. And uh, can you just talk about

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Speaker 3: I saw the tweet the brother past. I didn't know

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00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 3: that I saw your tweet. Can you just I guess

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Speaker 3: I give you time just to just to mention him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I heard the news about Chris. Chris was a

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00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 4: photograph photograph photograph from France. He's one of those dudes

713
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 4: who just tried to leave the NBA, the American dream.

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00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 4: It just came over from France, was passionate about taking

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00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 4: pictures in the NBA. Just met his trail to the

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00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 4: NBA ended up being like court sized for so many

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00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 4: many years in the NBA games. I mean pretty much

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00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 4: see something Rookie. I've seen him basby been traveling around

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Speaker 4: and he just swapped part of the French family because no,

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Speaker 4: we have like a little French figgers, got some trainers,

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Speaker 4: but we got guys like him as well, like media

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00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 4: members and him as a photograph taking pictures like yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean, I know the eydelices of his career, but

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Speaker 4: he took the picture of Noble Brown Duncan jet terry

725
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 4: in Boston, like when the Brown played for the Miami

726
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 4: he got he took the picture like that picture was everywhere.

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Speaker 4: I know, I knew it was really very part of

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00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 4: it because I was the idelight of his work. And

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00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 4: I know he was married, got a wife now and

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Speaker 4: what happened. So I'm just just sad for his wife,

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Speaker 4: his family, and I mean every close one just convalescence

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Speaker 4: because he was a great guy. You know, I've been around.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I talked to him, We have dinner with

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Speaker 4: him a couple of times. And I heard when news yesterday.

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00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,479
Speaker 4: I just went into confirmation, like it's not a fake.

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Speaker 4: We never know what happened with stuff like that. So

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00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 4: and Iden's this morning was like he was true. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean just said was one of the French guy,

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Speaker 4: French family in the NBA. We just also a good guy.

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Speaker 3: Gonna miss some familiar brother. Like I said, the Afro

741
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,439
Speaker 3: stood out, but he was a cool dude. So I

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00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 3: was sad to see that news. So my condolences to

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Speaker 3: him and his family as well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, well, look, thank you for everything that you

745
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 2: shared with us today. This was fantastic to get your

746
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 2: perspective on Victor wembin Yama, since you know you know

747
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,879
Speaker 2: much more about him than we do. And we appreciate your,

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00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 2: uh your draft expertise, which Chris and I are both

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Speaker 2: sorely lacking.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he could have against some sum beceieve he

751
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 4: said to me four years ago, but he nick, you.

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Speaker 3: Know how many people come up to me and say,

753
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Speaker 3: this kid is the next great thing coming up?

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Speaker 4: How many time I told you that for Luca and

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Speaker 4: Vic that's it.

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Speaker 3: You did do Luca. I was a little bit Yeah

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00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 3: you did, Yeah, you did do Luca. I didn't know

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00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 3: he was gonna come and dominate that one. I knew

759
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 3: he was gonna be okay. So I hope for too.

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Speaker 3: I'll listen to the next one.

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Speaker 2: Let me know when you see the next fourteen year old.

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Speaker 2: I will not ignore.

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Speaker 4: Uh. Beck.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate you man for a couple but no, man,

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Speaker 3: you know it's always a pleasure. Man. But you know

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Speaker 3: I got numb of love for you and the family

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Speaker 3: mans to the wife, I said hello, but thank you brother.

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Speaker 4: With thank you guys, thank you very much. And that'll

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Speaker 4: do it for us. See you next time.

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