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Speaker 2: Hello, welcome in side hour three the Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 2: with my bass friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 3: Well dressed hobo.

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Speaker 2: We got Rick Buker on the way in about twenty minutes,

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Speaker 2: and boy, all of a sudden, Lakers have a Luca

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Speaker 2: dontage issue. Luca leaving Tonight's blowout loss at the hands

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Speaker 2: of the Oklahoma City Thunder with a hamstring injury. MRI

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Speaker 2: already set for Friday. Hopefully it's good news, but yo,

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Speaker 2: look we got into a little bit ago. This is

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Speaker 2: the the only question mark you have about Luca is

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Speaker 2: his long term health. Can his body withstand the riggers

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Speaker 2: of the NBA. His games played the last few years

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Speaker 2: haven't been great, and we know that. The reason he

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Speaker 2: was dealt by the Mavericks, one of the big reasons

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Speaker 2: why Nico Harrison wanted to trade him was, Hey, we

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Speaker 2: don't know that he can stay healthy, and he's doing

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Speaker 2: a lot of money from us. What are we gonna do?

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Speaker 2: And it was like, we don't want to be the

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Speaker 2: guys that have sunk all this money into someone that

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Speaker 2: we don't know if he can stay healthy. And it's

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Speaker 2: not just about taking care of your body. It's just

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Speaker 2: can your body with stand the pounding of the NBA.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of minutes for Luca. Every minute is

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Speaker 2: a heavy minute for him, a lot of pace, highest

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Speaker 2: usage rate in the NBA. He pulls up on a

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Speaker 2: pull up and goes straight to the court, and you

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Speaker 2: saw the look of horror from his teammates and even

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Speaker 2: the thunder looking around thirty two point deficit at that point,

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Speaker 2: seven thirty eight remaining in the third quarter, and nobody

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Speaker 2: was able to at least give the old College try

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Speaker 2: and rally because they got bludgeoned. But now your season

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Speaker 2: that after a fantastic march, not only for him, but

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Speaker 2: for your squad trying to you know, at chesty and

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Speaker 2: say hey we're here, we've arrived. We're ready to make

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Speaker 2: some noise and maybe upset the apple cart at the

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Speaker 2: top of the Western Conference. Suddenly he's laying in a heap.

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Speaker 2: I really, it's it's really you look back and go, yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is the Mavericks going, this is this is kind

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Speaker 2: of why we we didn't want to give him that money. Now,

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Speaker 2: I hope it's a blip and he's back out soon.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, the flip side of it is

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Speaker 2: that if it's a case of where he needs a

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Speaker 2: week to rest, not the worst thing, because look, the

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Speaker 2: Lakers aren't catching anybody else in the Western Conference. Could

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Speaker 2: they drop past third, Yeah, sure they could drop past third,

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Speaker 2: But does it really matter. You're not dropping out of six.

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Speaker 2: You know you've won a lot, You've proven you're a

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Speaker 2: fifty win team. You are a heavyweight playoff team. If

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Speaker 2: this is Luca just having to sit out for a bit, okay,

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Speaker 2: it's it's almost because look, you see this for players

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Speaker 2: that where like the the I don't want to call

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Speaker 2: it an advantageous injury because no injuries are like that.

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Speaker 2: But when when you know that guys are gonna go

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Speaker 2: through the year right now in in the NBA and

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Speaker 2: they're gonna get dinged up, and the one thing you

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Speaker 2: do don't want is you don't want it to sync

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Speaker 2: up with the playoffs. What you want to do is

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Speaker 2: and he doesn't, you know, you know he's able to

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Speaker 2: you know, hit recharge on the on the batteries, and

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Speaker 2: maybe this is great. Luca's been going at at you know,

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Speaker 2: he's been going you know, hair on fire, for the

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Speaker 2: past two and a half months. So if he's got

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Speaker 2: to sit for a little bit and it's not that serious, okay,

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Speaker 2: oh maybe maybe maybe this is one of those hey

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Speaker 2: silver lining things where we make them sit for a

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Speaker 2: little bit, because hey, look, the Lakers are who they are.

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Speaker 2: They they've bought in. We we know who they are,

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Speaker 2: we know we know their identity. Nothing's going to change

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs. Nothing's going to change them with the

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Speaker 2: course the next few games, so everything is going to

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Speaker 2: be just fine. So but if it's a couple of games,

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Speaker 2: he's back for the beginning of the playoffs, Okay, great

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Speaker 2: like that. That's something where Luca gets a week and

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Speaker 2: at this from a positive stands. Oh, that's it, right,

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Speaker 2: Any of those pipe dreams that he was going to

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Speaker 2: four percent implied odds. When for Alexander, Guildtess Alexander, let

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Speaker 2: me get it right. Hyphenation at this moment, But your

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Speaker 2: only chance is him as close to one hundred percent

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Speaker 2: a hammi, right, it's not a low ankle spraying high

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Speaker 2: maybe you know he bumped knees with somebody. No, no,

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Speaker 2: we're talking about a hamstring, which finicky would be the

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Speaker 2: itself in a day or two. Right, So if that

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Speaker 2: means he's done for a week and a half before

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Speaker 2: you get into your first round matchup and you roll

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Speaker 2: from there, so be it. But your proof of concept

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Speaker 2: has worked, right, you can build a pretty good squad

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Speaker 2: and you haven't even done the real building yet. That's

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Speaker 2: the thing. This roster is flawed. We've watched it all

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Speaker 2: year long and they got Lebron to buy in change

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Speaker 2: his role. Reeves has at times been you know, as

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Speaker 2: you called him, Scottie Pippen. See, I'll even give you

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Speaker 2: that one because that was an old one. But the

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Speaker 2: rest of that roster you've got to go in every

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Speaker 2: night wishing and hoping that DeAndre Ayton is gonna play well.

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Speaker 2: Or that ruy Ha Chamora is a available and b

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Speaker 2: is gonna hit some shots. Like there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: the Lakers can be. It all rests on seventy seven

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Speaker 2: shoulders now, So if he's got to be compromised, you know,

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Speaker 2: and for two weeks sitting him down gives you a

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Speaker 2: puncher's chance to make a little bit of noise in

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Speaker 2: the West. Guess what he's on Ice. He's gonna go

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Speaker 2: watch some movies and give us some reviews on letterbox.

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Speaker 2: So we'll have more from Rick Bucker coming up in

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Speaker 2: about that a little bit less than fifteen minutes on

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Speaker 2: Luca of the Future. Again, this is it's a crappy

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Speaker 2: reminder of why the Lakers, of why the Mavericks traded him.

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Speaker 2: It's it's a real crappy reminder. What do you think

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Speaker 2: Nico said? Nico was like, now, I mean, look, because

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Speaker 2: it sucks, right, it sucks that he's hurt. It's the

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Speaker 2: only question about him. It's the only question about him,

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Speaker 2: is that can you trust his health long term? And

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Speaker 2: the fact that they the Mavericks felt they couldn't that

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Speaker 2: we have to, all right, we're either gonna give him

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Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty million dollars or we're not. Do

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Speaker 2: we know he's going to be healthy for us. And

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Speaker 2: it's it's a different it's a different situation with the

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Speaker 2: he's taking care of his body. And still you have

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Speaker 2: a little bit. It's it's sane. It's the same concern

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Speaker 2: where it's the overall health of Luca. But it's different

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Speaker 2: for the Mavericks who felt it, well, he's not gonna

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Speaker 2: listen to us. For the Lakers, that's while he's listening

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Speaker 2: to us, he's doing this and still he's not like

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Speaker 2: that's the one thing it's like going forward with Luca.

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Speaker 2: You say, man, it's it's the one question about him,

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Speaker 2: and it's and it's the Maverick saying, yeah, this is

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Speaker 2: we were really uncomfortable with with with all of his

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Speaker 2: Cooper Flaga. So again, we got more on this coming

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Speaker 2: up at about fifteen minutes. But you want a great

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Speaker 2: big hot take over the first big NFL story of

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Speaker 2: hot take. So Kirk Cousins is now a Raider. Yeah, now,

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Speaker 2: we talked about this when happened. Hey, who's gonna be

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Speaker 2: the great backup? Hey? Fanana Mendoza reminds you a lot

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Speaker 2: of Kirk Cousins. They both have the great smile and

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Speaker 2: the kind of laws Shuck's quality. Right, So Kirk Cousins,

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Speaker 2: almost like his older brother, has come into you know,

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Speaker 2: here's how you store stuff in for it. I was

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Speaker 2: gonna go, yeah, I'm gonna put my Heisman trophy first

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Speaker 2: then he says, you're a wizard. So the hot take

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Speaker 2: after today is, are we sure that the Raiders are

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Speaker 2: gonna take for Nanda Mendoz with the number one pick,

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Speaker 2: because I don't know that that's happening anymore. Okay, right,

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Speaker 2: kirk Cousins had no suitors, no suitors at all, didn't

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Speaker 2: have to give him one year and twenty million dollars,

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Speaker 2: didn't certainly didn't have to go to the extent of

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Speaker 2: here's a five year, one hundred and fifty million dollar contract, which, hey,

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Speaker 2: that's great, congratulations to kirk cousins agent. It looks great

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Speaker 2: look at this contract. It's a one year, twenty million

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Speaker 2: when you didn't need to give kirk Cousins twenty million dollars.

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Speaker 2: He's a backup company. Couldn't even eight million dollars six

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Speaker 2: to eight million one year. That's it. Why this bit.

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Speaker 2: He didn't have any sort of leverage coming at all.

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Speaker 2: Nobody else wanted him. But yet this is the contract

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Speaker 2: that could roll into another couple of years of contract

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Speaker 2: one pick in the draft. He sinks to he swims.

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Speaker 2: We put him out there. We're not gonna sit here

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Speaker 2: and sit have Fanano Mendoza sit on the bench. First

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Speaker 2: Don't sit right. But I get the Raiders. Their heart

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Speaker 2: supposedly is in the right place here with this situation

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Speaker 2: and it's Kirk Cousins. And then eventually for Nana Mendoza

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Speaker 2: will take over Week eight, Week nine, blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: But this contract changes a lot, especially right after his

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Speaker 2: pro day. They go out and get Kirk Cousins and

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Speaker 2: want to keep them they can whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.

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Speaker 2: Hang on a second, are we sure they're gonna take

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Speaker 2: They're gonna take for Nando Mendoza, and it's not gonna be. Hey,

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Speaker 2: we really like the quarterbacks next year better after seeing

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Speaker 2: it's a bad quarterback draft. We're probably gonna be here

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Speaker 2: when it's Arch Manning and it's Dante More and it's

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Speaker 2: Mike Harmick. Spell Yeah, the extended intro dition of One

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Speaker 2: Night in Bangkok by Murray Head. Uh. This song okay,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, this song is about chess. Oh, I guess.

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Speaker 2: idea that this song was about chess. It's called a metaphor.

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Speaker 2: It's about it's about someone play, you know, playing in

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Speaker 2: I had no idea this this is again nineteen eighty five.

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Speaker 2: I think this song was eighty five. So thirty five

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Speaker 2: for all these years Murray's been dancing around in your head. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, when I was fifteen, I thought the lyrics

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Speaker 2: be completely wrong, really, because without the backdrop of Chess

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Speaker 2: You're just bopping along. It's a song about Bangkok. Okay, No, exactly? Way? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: You're on the hook for this money. You've seen it

423
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,160
Speaker 2: used to great effect by the Braves. You've seen other

424
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,560
Speaker 2: teams also use this, bringing up their big prospects, especially

425
00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,239
Speaker 2: the small market teams, that we don't know if we're

426
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,000
Speaker 2: going to sign him in five years. But if we

427
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 2: give a nine year deal for one hundred and twenty

428
00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 2: million dollars, hey we can keep them. Right. So, I'm

429
00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,199
Speaker 2: not the biggest fan of the strategy, but I understand

430
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,040
Speaker 2: it and I get that. This is the way of life. Now.

431
00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,359
Speaker 2: This is how small market teams try to hold on

432
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 2: to guys. They have to take risks like this. Right,

433
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,640
Speaker 2: you have to say, how is this guy, if he's

434
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,560
Speaker 2: any good, is he going to be a Pittsburgh Pirate? Trevor, No,

435
00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 2: forget it. Right, So I understand that, and I get it,

436
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 2: and I see that that's how it's done. It's how

437
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 2: to keep this long term and hopefully the Pittsburgh Pirates

438
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:47,120
Speaker 2: can finally compete again. Right, it's a great day. This

439
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 2: is what should have happened with Paul Skins. And I

440
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,359
Speaker 2: don't know why. And I guarantee you every day the

441
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,400
Speaker 2: Pirates think about it because they have Paul Skins under

442
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,159
Speaker 2: control for the next four years. Right, the time to

443
00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,919
Speaker 2: get Paul Skins and say, hey, Paul, how about you know,

444
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 2: before your MLB debut, how about a six year deal

445
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,160
Speaker 2: for one hundred and ten million dollars. Right, that's when

446
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 2: you do something now. They're not gonna do it now

447
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 2: because they're not Paul Skeens is going to get a

448
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,080
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty million dollar contract whenever he becomes

449
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Speaker 2: a free agent. So they're not gonna make and they're

450
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:18,879
Speaker 2: not gonna make out on the deal by signing him,

451
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,360
Speaker 2: right they got him for the next four years. They're

452
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,879
Speaker 2: not gonna say, Okay, how about four years after that,

453
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,360
Speaker 2: we give you another one hundred and fifty million. They're

454
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,159
Speaker 2: not gonna do it. They've missed their window to do

455
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 2: this with Paul Schemes, and I don't know why they didn't.

456
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 2: This was something the team's been doing for a little while.

457
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 2: The Braves had done it for a while, right they

458
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 2: got You have Ronald Lacunya, who's someone who hey, they

459
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 2: made out on that couple of deals they didn't make

460
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,199
Speaker 2: out on. But they're able to win the World Series

461
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 2: and keep it, keep a great young group of players,

462
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 2: and they do it by giving them way more money

463
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 2: than you would get your first few years in the league.

464
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:54,719
Speaker 2: But it's also not nearly what they would get when

465
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 2: they hit the market as free agents, right, because you

466
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,439
Speaker 2: see what's going on again. I don't know why it

467
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 2: didn't happen Paul Skeans and the next four years are

468
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,680
Speaker 2: going to be really, really difficult because Paul Skian it's

469
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,920
Speaker 2: fourth that's a long ass time for Paul Skins starts

470
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 2: seeing some real money or a team that's gonna win.

471
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 2: Because you know, the Pirates, while they gave they gave

472
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 2: Connor Griffin all their money, right, they all the money

473
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 2: gets to him. There's no money for Paul Skeans. There's

474
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 2: no way to do this. There's no So they're just

475
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,119
Speaker 2: gonna hold on to him for the next four years

476
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,120
Speaker 2: and hope that well, Paul Skeans the next four years,

477
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 2: we do something until he leaves for us and goes

478
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 2: to the Yankees or everything else. Now, could Paul Skans

479
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 2: make it difficult by saying I don't want to be here.

480
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 2: You gotta trade me, I gotta get out. I'm not

481
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 2: gonna I want a new contract. My new team's gonna

482
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 2: sign me to a new contract. Yeah, it could get

483
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,640
Speaker 2: really ugly. But I get that this is the wave

484
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,199
Speaker 2: of the future. But I really I look at this

485
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 2: and I go, how did the Pirates not do this

486
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,879
Speaker 2: with Skeens. I get it's a starting pitcher, but this

487
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 2: is the way you're doing it. And I bet you

488
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 2: they rue that they didn't do it because it's too

489
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 2: late to do it now, way too late. They should

490
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 2: have done it two years ago, when when it was okay,

491
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 2: you can say, well, we don't know how your major

492
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,400
Speaker 2: league career is gonna we think you're gonna be great.

493
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,439
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't we think of But you never know. You

494
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,959
Speaker 2: never know. You never know what an adult shoulder problem,

495
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 2: elbow problem, you never know. Sure, here's one hundred and

496
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 2: thirty million dollars for the next seven years or eight years,

497
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 2: and okay, you have one hundred third. You have generational

498
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 2: wealth for three or four generations of your family, and

499
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,919
Speaker 2: whatever happens, you're taken care of. But now, hey, I've

500
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 2: been in the league a couple of years, I won

501
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 2: the cy young. I feel pretty good. Yeah, I can

502
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 2: wait four years now. I don't need to sign one

503
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 2: of those contracts like that. I look back, I look

504
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:30,959
Speaker 2: at what the Pirates of to day go, this was

505
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:32,919
Speaker 2: this is a smart risk, you have to do it,

506
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 2: But wow, that should have happened with Paul skin. No,

507
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 2: that's it. I mean you mentioned everything that goes along

508
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 2: with starting pitchers and to some degree that inevitability of

509
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 2: the big injury that comes and decimates a guy for

510
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 2: a year. Or do you decide, hey, that guy pitching

511
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 2: once every fifth day is not worth it? All right?

512
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 2: And then if you're a small market and look, by

513
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,359
Speaker 2: by way of comparison, Griffin's gonna get this one hundred

514
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 2: and forty million dollar deal. The for the Pirates for

515
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,159
Speaker 2: this year is one to twenty, right, I mean, just

516
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 2: to put it in perspective, right, the White Sots tried this,

517
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 2: and every guy except for Lewis Robert, who had some

518
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 2: pretty good moments, all the other guys went belly up, right,

519
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 2: Mancatta and Jimenez and all the Not to say they

520
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 2: didn't have little stretches where they showed glimpses of the

521
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 2: guys that they thought they would be, but consistency didn't

522
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 2: work and that went belly up. So your gun shy

523
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 2: again until Ishbia takes over fully to spend any more

524
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 2: money with Pittsburgh. With Griffin. To your point is if

525
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,640
Speaker 2: he becomes the player he's supposed to. About midway through

526
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 2: this deal, when the Yankees and everybody else are sniffing around.

527
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 2: He's at a very low cost on a relative basis,

528
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,880
Speaker 2: So you can play the game of all, right, how

529
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 2: much are you bringing back because you're getting this great contract,

530
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 2: not just a great player, but you got him for

531
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 2: another four years or whatever whatever else it would be

532
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 2: at that time. But your point about Skins, Yeah, it's

533
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 2: absolutely the case, and they rue it every time out.

534
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,479
Speaker 2: But for Griffin in theory, you know, as an everyday player,

535
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 2: it begins that turnaround, it also begins. And they could

536
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 2: have done this with Skiens just the hey, we're investing

537
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 2: in our guys, because I don't think there was anybody

538
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 2: that had any doubts that Paul Skeens was going to

539
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 2: be some shade of where he is right. It's just

540
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 2: a matter of did you think it would be that

541
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 2: high maybe a tick lower. Either way, you knew he

542
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 2: was going to be a great pitcher coming out of college.

543
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 2: Now what's funny is as I do traverse the trading

544
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,959
Speaker 2: card memorabilia market, remember, because that was the other thing

545
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 2: the Bird's gaffed with Paul Skeens, right, one of their

546
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 2: other missteps when they should have gone and bought that

547
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 2: card and said, here's your million dollar card. Is a

548
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 2: good will. If you're our guy, we love you. Let's

549
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 2: put it on display and it's here forever. With Griffin,

550
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 2: the day before I was watching a couple of higher

551
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 2: end products of his, and then twenty four hours later

552
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 2: they were back up for sale because someone bought him

553
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 2: and said, I don't know it hasn't even gotten to

554
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 2: me in just yet, because I'm going to turn around

555
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 2: and I'm going to be able to flip it immediately.

556
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 2: The current high sale looking off of a recent repork,

557
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 2: you got a card at number out of five that's

558
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 2: sold for thirty grand. That's just the tip of the

559
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 2: iceberg of what's to come coming out of Connor Griffin products.

560
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 2: But for the Pirates, it's a nice, big step. It's

561
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,680
Speaker 2: an investment in the future. It's one Unfortunately you can't

562
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,640
Speaker 2: clone him and get him to play other other positions

563
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 2: round out a starting lineup. But the long road begins

564
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 2: with the first step of showing you're serious as an organization.

565
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 1: Yeah.

566
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 2: Look, and you're seeing guys like this with Tampa Bay,

567
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 2: with with the Royals, with all these small market teams

568
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 2: that yeah, we're gonna keep our guy that we think

569
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 2: is that good if he if he projects through the

570
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 2: miners to be that near to the number one prospect

571
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 2: in baseball, the number two prospect. It's different if Hey,

572
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 2: a guy comes up and suddenly he's good, Oh what

573
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 2: are you gonna do? Okay, great, he's good. But someone

574
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 2: that projects this way like this is gonna this is

575
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 2: start gonna be the norm, and this record that he

576
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 2: set is going to get eclipsed by another small market

577
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 2: player coming up that's number one pick in the draft,

578
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 2: that's gonna be a shortstop or power hitting first baseman

579
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 2: or center fielder, and we're gonna look back over the

580
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 2: next four years and go, wow, Paul Skeans is the

581
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 2: one guy that didn't get that done, Like, how did

582
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 2: the pirates not do that?

583
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 1: Well?

584
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 2: At some point they realize the error of their ways.

585
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 2: And at some point you have to show some confidence

586
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 2: in what you're doing, right, any job, relationship, whatever you're doing,

587
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 2: walking your dog across the street, worried whether the guy's

588
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 2: gonna stop at the light. You gotta show absolute resolve

589
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 2: that this is the direction we're heading in. And for Pittsburgh,

590
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 2: someone in the front office set he's like, you know,

591
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 2: at some point we have to actually work from a

592
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 2: position of power and show that we're a serious organization.

593
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,040
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Speaker 2: in the point total for the Lakers tonight against the Thunders.

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00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 2: What was the under fifty fifty? Yeah, that's it for sure.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah.

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Speaker 4: The thunder are literally just crushing the Lakers from the

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606
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Speaker 4: now one twenty seven to eighty two.

607
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Speaker 2: They're halfway through the fourth quarter.

608
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 4: Shay Gilgess Alexander twenty eight points, seven rebounds, seven assists.

609
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 4: Luka Doncic left the game with a hamstring injury, and

610
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Speaker 4: they are reporting that he's going to undergo an MRI

611
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 4: on Friday to determine the extent of that injury.

612
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 2: Is he really injured or is he just getting embarrassed?

613
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Speaker 2: I don't know.

614
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 4: In the third quarter, the Cavaliers lead the Warriors seventy

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00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 4: two to seventy and at halftime, I don't want to

616
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 4: talk about it, but the Spurs, who are playing without

617
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 4: Victor Wehn Badnyama are up on the Clippers and into

618
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 4: it Dome sixty eight to forty four. San Antonio shooting

619
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Speaker 4: sixty three percent from the field, d'aron Fox eighteen point

620
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Speaker 4: seven rebound, seven rebounds, Kawhi Leernard thirteen points for LA.

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Speaker 4: The Hornets already defeated the Suns one twenty seven to

622
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Speaker 4: one oh seven. With the Suns lost, the Rockets have

623
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Speaker 4: clinched a playoff spot, and the Pistons, playing without some

624
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 4: of their starters note Tobias Harris and no Kate Cunningham,

625
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,960
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626
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards one thirteen to oneh eight in that one.

627
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Speaker 4: When it comes to base ball going on right now,

628
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Speaker 4: the oh it was ten to one when I checked.

629
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Speaker 4: Now it's twelve to one. Atlanta up on the Diamondbacks

630
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 4: in Arizona, twelve to one is the score bottom of

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Speaker 4: the sixth inning. The Giants have also added some more

632
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 4: runs against the Mets in San Francisco. Seven to two

633
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Speaker 4: is the score bottom of the sixth inning.

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Speaker 2: There.

635
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 4: The Twins earlier today defeated the Royals five to one.

636
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Speaker 4: The Blue Jays and the White Sox. That game was

637
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Speaker 4: postponed due to inclement weather. And you guys were just

638
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 4: talking about Connor Griffin. That's step one in retaining Paul Skins.

639
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 4: That's what they're thinking, you know what I mean, maybe

640
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 4: he's his best friend, right like?

641
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 2: That is step one.

642
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 4: And trying to keep Paul Skins doing this, That's what

643
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 4: they're doing.

644
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 2: That's what they're trying to do. Get everybody to go

645
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 2: see Baywatch when it comes down. I mean, Doc, but

646
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 2: where's my money? Oh, we don't have enough money for you.

647
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 2: We give it all to this kid. Sorry, Paul, I

648
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 2: have thought you would like.

649
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 4: It if we have someone else next to you, you

650
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying.

651
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, of course, that think absolutely was. He's gonna

652
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 2: say twenty four runs a year. Listen, wait, you picked,

653
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 2: You've been great, You've won a cy Young It's awesome.

654
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 2: But this kid that's never even played. We're going to

655
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 2: give him one hundred and forty million dollars because why not?

656
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 2: Because why not?

657
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 4: At the NIT Semifinal and Men's college hoops if you cared,

658
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 4: Tulsa defeated in New Mexico seventy four to sixty nine.

659
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 4: Auburn took down Illinois State eighty eight to sixty six.

660
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 4: Other NCAA news, Kansas sophomore Flory Badunga intends to declare

661
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 4: for the NBA Draft while maintaining his college eligibility, So

662
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 4: he's gonna enter the NCAA Transfer portal because of that,

663
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 4: so he can keep his open to return to college.

664
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 4: When it comes to the NFL, free agent quarterback Kirk

665
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 4: Cousins headed to the Raiders. That's going to be a

666
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 4: deal that's going to guarantee him twenty million dollars. The

667
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 4: Raiders are also going to be hosting quarterback for Nando

668
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 4: Mendoza for a Top thirty visit on Tuesday, and five

669
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 4: time Pro Bowl cornerback Stefan Gilmour announced his retirement from

670
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 4: the NFL after thirteen seasons. And lastly, here guys, three

671
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 4: time Masters champion Phil Mickelson will not be playing in

672
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 4: next week's Masters, saying that he's taking an extended leave

673
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 4: from playing as his family is dealing with a personal

674
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 4: health matter.

675
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Speaker 2: Back to you guys, first one without Tiger or Phil

676
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: so crazy nineteen ninety four, unbelievable since nineteen ninety four.

677
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 2: Thank you Mins, We're all we pops back then, Jason Smith,

678
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 2: Mike Harmon Love from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming

679
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 2: up next, we break down an injury that might have

680
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 2: a huge effect on the NBA playoffs. It's next right here, Jason.

681
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

682
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684
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Speaker 3: I am doing well. I'm back from two days in Waco, Texas.

686
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 2: Wow, okay, doing a feature on the Baylor basketball team.

687
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 2: What were you doing?

688
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 3: No, doing a personal feature on the wave pool there?

689
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: Sweet?

690
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 2: Wow? Okay?

691
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: Yes, I was.

692
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 3: Yeah. It was like a little, little, not even forty

693
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 3: eight hour get away. I figured out I was. I

694
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 3: was surfing in this wave pool. Within an eighteen hour period,

695
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 3: I caught like fifty fifty waves. I every part of

696
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 3: my body hurt, but it was amazing. It was an

697
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 3: amazing It was amazing thing. Longhorn steers staring at me

698
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 3: as I was catching a wave. There's only one place

699
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 3: that I think you can do that. That's in Waco, Texas.

700
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Speaker 3: I had to find out about it. I did, and

701
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 3: now I'm back at it. You know everyone, So I

702
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 3: just need to zig when everybody else is zagging, to

703
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 3: keep your mind right, and and that's what I did.

704
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 3: So now I'm here with you. My mind is right.

705
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 2: All right, Well we'll see what we can do about that. Yeah, no,

706
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 2: give us a few minutes. Well, you know, I have

707
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 2: no doubt about that.

708
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 3: I have no doubt about that. That's when when I

709
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 3: got the call and I was like, hey, Jason would

710
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 3: like to have you on, I go, well, there goes

711
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 3: that reprieve.

712
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 2: Well, I gotta say I felt I was channeling you

713
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 2: after the Luca injury, because Luca gets hurt tonight and

714
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 2: now now who knows what the MRI coming up, And

715
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 2: all I can think of is the conversations we have

716
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 2: had where it's like, this is why the Mavericks wanted

717
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 2: to trade Luca. They were worried about his health long term.

718
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 2: And while it's a different situation with the Mavericks and

719
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 2: with the Lakers. With the Mavericks it was he doesn't

720
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 2: do what we want him to do. With the Lakers,

721
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 2: it's boy, Kenny, really stay healthy. You just thinks back

722
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 2: and go, this is why the Mavericks did it, because

723
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 2: they were unshore that, hey, can we commit three hundred

724
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 2: and fifty million dollars to a guy that we don't

725
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 2: know about his long term health. And everything was great

726
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 2: for Luca making a big run at the MVP, and

727
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 2: all of a sudden it crops back up again. Here's

728
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 2: an innocuous jumper in a thirty point blowout and all

729
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 2: of a sudden, who knows what he's got going for

730
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 2: the rest of the year.

731
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean it's exactly it. And so like

732
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 3: that's that's the yin and the yank. Because Luka Doantsich

733
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 3: has been playing as well as anybody in the league,

734
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 3: has showed how unstoppable he can be. The Lakers have

735
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 3: been on an absolute tear. The chemistry has come together

736
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:39,720
Speaker 3: with them Lebron accepting that third wheel role and everybody

737
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 3: else understanding this is how we have to play and

738
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 3: Luca doing the same thing. And this is this is

739
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 3: the tricky part when a guy has traditionally not been

740
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 3: in shape and has already suffered some dings, some Nixon

741
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 3: dings physically, is that then when he tries to get

742
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 3: in shape and play at both ends of the end

743
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:04,479
Speaker 3: the floor, his body's already got some you know, some

744
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 3: some defects. And so I like, I hate, I absolutely

745
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 3: hate to see it because I think Luca has probably

746
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 3: been in the best shape that we've seen him and

747
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,919
Speaker 3: has played as as hard at both ends as we've

748
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 3: seen him to this point. But this, it's this is

749
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 3: exactly it. So this is going to be the most amazing,

750
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 3: most terrifying roller coaster in watching Luka Dancis because there

751
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 3: will be times where we will be saying, the Dallas Mavericks,

752
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 3: what what could they have possibly been thinking when they

753
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 3: traded him? And that's that's how I've been feeling, like

754
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,439
Speaker 3: the previous eighteen games, and then you have a game

755
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,280
Speaker 3: like tonight and you go, this is why they traded

756
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 3: him because he means everything to your team. And I

757
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 3: mean like the Lakers, the Lakers without Luka Dansvich, Like

758
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,439
Speaker 3: I I was, you know, I thought, look at them,

759
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 3: looking at their chemistry, like they're more formidable than people

760
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 3: are giving them credit for. I know their defense is

761
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 3: not is going to be picked on in the playoffs.

762
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,879
Speaker 3: I know that they're vulnerable that way, but so are

763
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 3: a lot of teams in the Western Conference. They all

764
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 3: have their Achilles heel. And the way the Lakers were playing,

765
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 3: the way Luca was playing, I thought that they're going

766
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 3: to be able to overcome their weaknesses. And then you

767
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 3: extract Luke out of that and it's it's well, they

768
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 3: they'll make the playoffs, but I don't know that they

769
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 3: get they get out of the first round if Luca's

770
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 3: not back in the next couple of weeks.

771
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 2: And then we had the fun chatter and everybody campaigning

772
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 2: for MVP. SGA says like Live Morgan of the WWE

773
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 2: watch me, just watch me work. And they go and

774
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 2: obliterate these guys, almost as if they had a bunch

775
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 2: of press clippings up in the locker room.

776
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I mean, Sta, if you look at his

777
00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 3: his season this year, he's the defending Mostvaluable Player. He's

778
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 3: been better this year than he was last year. I

779
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 3: know the points might be down a little bit, but

780
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 3: he's been more efficient. Uh, he's done more with less

781
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 3: and so I look, I'm I'm a voter. I have

782
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 3: to pick five guys for that ballot. I have to

783
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,359
Speaker 3: figure out one through five how I'm going to order

784
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 3: them and uh and and part of me is looking

785
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 3: forward to that because I like challenges. The other part

786
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 3: of me is like, you know, it's it's how do

787
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 3: I how do I determine that? I mean, how do

788
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 3: you if you look at what what Nikola Jokic is

789
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 3: doing is out of this world. We would have been

790
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 3: we would have been saved if if if somehow Victor

791
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 3: woman Yama and Nikola Jokic had not meant met the

792
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 3: sixty five game minimum like that would have really made

793
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:58,479
Speaker 3: things a lot easier. But now, as good as Shay

794
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 3: has been, I mean, it's hard to think that he's

795
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 3: not going to be at the top of my ballot.

796
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 3: But then I look at what Nikola Jokic is going

797
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 3: to be is on his way to being the second

798
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 3: player ever to lead the league in total rebounds, in

799
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 3: total assists. The only other guy who's done that is

800
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 3: Wilt Chamberlain in sixty seven sixty eight. How do you

801
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 3: ignore that? How do you ignore what Jalen Brown has done?

802
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 3: With the Boston Celtics, what I mean, Kate Cunningham probably

803
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 3: not going to play enough games to qualify, but they're

804
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 3: the best team in the in the Eastern Conference, and

805
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 3: he was the central part of that. And then you

806
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,479
Speaker 3: got Luca who has come on has been a house

807
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,919
Speaker 3: on fire. So I feel like I'm I may even

808
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 3: be forgetting somebody like and for my money, is the

809
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 3: best two way player in the league, the most the

810
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 3: most impactful away player in the league, more more so

811
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:08,439
Speaker 3: even than than Shay or Jalen Brown. So Shay's if

812
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 3: if Shay ends up winning it again, I have no

813
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 3: problem with that. If Joki gets his fourth in five years,

814
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 3: I don't know that I have a problem with that.

815
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 3: If Victor Wembinyama somehow ends up there, I don't think

816
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:28,760
Speaker 3: it he will. But we have a lot of worthy

817
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 3: m vps in in this race, and I'll be really

818
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 3: interested to see how the other ninety nine voters vote,

819
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 3: because I don't even know how I'm going to vote

820
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 3: at this point.

821
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:39,839
Speaker 2: Well, you know you said you said you were going

822
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 2: Brunson first, uh, and right, and then Josh Hart third.

823
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 2: You drop Karl Anthony Towns because you know he's getting

824
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 2: dropped out of the rotation a lot lot more off.

825
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 2: So I think that was that that was the top

826
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 2: of your ballot you had.

827
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Speaker 3: Well, I will say that Fielan Brunston probably deserves a

828
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 3: little more attention than than than he has gotten. But

829
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 3: it tells you just how you know how sick the

830
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 3: race is. I'm curious how you are feeling about your

831
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 3: New York Knicks at this point before I tell you

832
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 3: how I'm feeling about them.

833
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 2: Okay, all, I'm glad you asked because I've thought about this,

834
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 2: and I went because I knew you're gonna ask me

835
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 2: about it. One of two things is going to happen.

836
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 2: Either this is a team that is just waiting for

837
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 2: the playoffs and they've been waiting for the playoffs for

838
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 2: a little while, right, because you kind of get that

839
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 2: a bit where, hey, the Knicks have been in the

840
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 2: thick of it the last few years. They know how

841
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 2: to win playoff basketball. The home court advantage thing is

842
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 2: not that big a deal. At some point, I think

843
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 2: the Knicks got to where, hey, we're just waiting for

844
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 2: the playoffs. But there's a big part of me that

845
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 2: gets bigger every day that just says this Jalen Brunson,

846
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 2: Karl Anthony Towns thing is going to absolutely erupt and explode,

847
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 2: and the Knicks are going out in the first round

848
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 2: and they're going to completely remake the roster after this year,

849
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 2: and Karl Anthony Town's are going to get dealt and

850
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Speaker 2: somebody else is gonna get because to continue to see

851
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 2: this not working in Karl Anthony Towns to be benched

852
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 2: and why is he why the fact that he's still

853
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 2: being benched at times at this point in the season

854
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 2: tells you that is this really gonna work? Like part

855
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 2: of me thinks they're just waiting and then it's gonna

856
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 2: be like a light switch when the playoffs start. They've

857
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 2: been here before, they do it. But man, Rick, I

858
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 2: see this every single that was in New York all

859
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 2: week last week, and every single topic every day was

860
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 2: what is up with this? Why is Karl Anthony Towns

861
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 2: not the All Star that he was? Why are they

862
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 2: still having problems? And I can see it really flaming

863
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 2: out in the first round.

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Speaker 3: You know, it reminds me of what the Minnesota Timberwolves

865
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 3: have gone through at times, because there are times where

866
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 3: they just can't play Rudy Gobert and you're paying him

867
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 3: a ton of money and you know he's multiple defensive

868
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 3: Player of the Year. I mean obviously different types of players,

869
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 3: Kat and Rudy, but it's the same issue in terms of, like,

870
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 3: you are paying him a lot of money and he's

871
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 3: supposed to be a foundation, a piece of what you do,

872
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 3: and yet there are times where you simply can't play him.

873
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 3: And then it's like, well, how do we play now?

874
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 3: Because we were counting on that guy being a big

875
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 3: piece of what we are and now he's not here

876
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 3: and we don't really have like a substitute that works.

877
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 3: Mitchell Robinson is great, and he's great in his role.

878
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 3: He's great off the bench. Anybody who thinks that, well,

879
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 3: if Kat's not playing, well we just insert Mitchell Robinson

880
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 3: and we played him thirty minutes. That just means that

881
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,800
Speaker 3: Jalen Brunson is going to see double teams from the

882
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 3: beginning of the game to the end. They'll make somebody

883
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 3: else beat him because they'll make Mitchell Robinson be a score.

884
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 3: Go ahead, kill us, go get fifty Mitchell, We dare

885
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 3: you go ahead? And so yeah, I mean, this is

886
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 3: this is where how teams are constructed. But look, you

887
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 3: can look at you look across the board at teams

888
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 3: that we were very high on at the beginning of

889
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 3: the year, and their flaws, their inherent flaws are exposed.

890
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:13,280
Speaker 3: The Houston Rockets not having a point guard, not having

891
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 3: a a floor leader that runs the show that's going

892
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 3: to come invite them. I mean, it's somewhere along the

893
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 3: line Minnesota. The fact that with Mike Conley, you know,

894
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:29,439
Speaker 3: being as old as he is and not being able

895
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 3: to play the same role, they don't really have that

896
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 3: guy they can organize everything, and that all of that

897
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 3: is going to loom large when you get to the playoffs.

898
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 3: People are going to focus on that. They're going to

899
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 3: pinpoint it, and they're going to take advantage of it.

900
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 3: And that's why I still look at the you know,

901
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 3: I mean, Oklahoma City, did they have they They played

902
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 3: the entire year without their second best player, Dalen Williams,

903
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 3: and are running away with the league. It's to me,

904
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 3: it's okay, see it's Denver. Whoever comes out of the

905
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 3: out of the Eastern Conference is going to be fodder

906
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 3: for for whoever comes out of the West.

907
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Speaker 2: As I see it, all right, Rick, last one for

908
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 2: you real quick talking about New York greats and Jason

909
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 2: stock in the streets there and getting consoled by other

910
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 2: Knicks fans. Amri stodamar is reportedly going into the Hall

911
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 2: of Fame other than the wine bats. How do you

912
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 2: remember him?

913
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Speaker 3: I just remember him, you know, as part of that

914
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 3: Phoenix Sun seven seconds or less and with Sean Marion

915
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 3: and Steve Nash. I mean basically the the combo with

916
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:36,280
Speaker 3: Steve Nash, sort of the modern day version of Stockton Malone.

917
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 3: Different style of play, but you know, he was just

918
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 3: he was a pogo stick. He was he was just

919
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 3: you know, wearing the goggles and just crushing dunks on

920
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 3: people time after time after time. Ultimately, I'm I'm That's

921
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Speaker 3: That's how I'm going to remember him. I'm going to

922
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 3: remember him before the knees went bad and then the

923
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 3: New York The Knicks said, oh, there's a guy who

924
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 3: was once was good and now he has bad knees,

925
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 3: and we could pay a lot of money for him

926
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 3: to come to New York. Sign us up.

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Speaker 2: Let's do that. Wait, which guy you talking about. There's

928
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Speaker 2: a couple of those guys, Rick, Yeah, he enumerate those

929
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 2: like you did the MVP race.

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Speaker 3: Exactly exactly right. That was that was a Nick special

931
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Speaker 3: he was. I mean, you know the best part of

932
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 3: that is because I was uh uh that you know,

933
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 3: that was the summer of Lebron, if I'm not mistaken,

934
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 3: and and and so I was steeped in all of that.

935
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 3: And I remember, like Amars Thottemeyer was even surprised that

936
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 3: Dick were going to get He would like, but you

937
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 3: know what what it was the next the next came

938
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 3: up empty on everybody else. Isaiah Thomas had convinced them

939
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 3: that they were going to get Lebron James and uh

940
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 3: and and maybe Twain Wade too, And when they didn't,

941
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,399
Speaker 3: they were left holding the bag and said, Okay, well

942
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 3: Amari is still out there. We got we gotta give

943
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:05,760
Speaker 3: him money to somebody might as well be Amarri.

944
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Speaker 2: He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, that is at Rick Buker.

945
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 2: Check him out on FS one as well the on

946
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 2: the Ball podcast. Rick has always man appreciated Glad, Glad

947
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 2: you're able to get some waves in and keeping some

948
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 2: positivity for you here on a Thursday night.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you so much. And you know what,

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Speaker 3: I still feel a little of that think camna yo