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Speaker 2: To another episode, a point game. We got a lot

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Speaker 2: to talk about. We got March Madness Bracket Day today obviously,

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Speaker 2: And I love your thoughts on so without furtherdo my

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Speaker 2: co host it, Isaiah Thomas, how you feeling, man?

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Speaker 1: And I'm good, Bro, happy to be back, happy to

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Speaker 1: be chopping it up about who It's a dope time

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Speaker 1: in the season for basketball. You know, the NBA playoffs

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, No, this is exciting year.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, like the MBA regular season, people are

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Speaker 2: just tell me, like one one, we're gonna get into

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Speaker 2: your historic career in college at Washington, but just tell us, like,

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Speaker 1: I remember as a kid going to school during this time,

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Speaker 1: So like, yeah, these moments, like you said, like, as

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Speaker 2: We haven't really talked about it that much, But man,

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Speaker 3: But I, you know, because we see these players who.

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Speaker 2: Well, now we invitationally talk about too, like it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I'm getting excited, Like I said, like I

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I see, you know, whoever gets in that

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Speaker 3: What do you think the game from what you've seen.

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Speaker 2: We've been talking college. We've been talking to your career

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Speaker 2: all time you dub players.

438
00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,680
Speaker 1: Ah, that's tough starting five. I'm gonna always put me on.

439
00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the sixth man, so then we six man. Yeah,

440
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,480
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna always pay homage to the guys that

441
00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,560
Speaker 1: did it before me and they paved away. So my

442
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 1: point guard gotta be Nate Robinson. And my point guard

443
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:08,359
Speaker 1: is Nate Robinson. My shooting guard, dang, this is tough.

444
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,240
Speaker 1: My shooting guard is I'm gonna go with Terrence Ross.

445
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with t Ross, number six pick. My

446
00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:23,360
Speaker 1: small ford is Brandon roy No, I know, dang, let

447
00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 1: me let me see Nate Robinson, t Ross, Brandon Roy

448
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:33,159
Speaker 1: Deatlift shrimp. Wow, my four man shout out to Delis

449
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,920
Speaker 1: Shrimp just got his jersey retired a couple of weeks ago.

450
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:44,120
Speaker 4: And then my five man, ah man, I'm gonna go.

451
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,120
Speaker 1: Since we don't got a lot of five mans, I'm

452
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 1: gonna go with Spencer Hawes Top ten NBA, and then

453
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:52,720
Speaker 1: I'll be the sixth man. We should have did a

454
00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,840
Speaker 1: whole team, fam, I'm not. I'm rounding out the whole.

455
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,120
Speaker 1: That's not hard that nah man.

456
00:21:59,440 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 4: Man.

457
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 1: I got Trey Simmons elite shooter is the seventh man.

458
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,159
Speaker 1: I got Will Conroy at eight, I got I got

459
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 1: Markel Folks is.

460
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 4: The number one Ada.

461
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 3: You done it.

462
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 1: To round him out, and I'm gonna go with Dejohntay

463
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 1: Murray as well.

464
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 4: Yeah that's ten. You could put the five on there.

465
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just round it out for the teams so

466
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 1: then I don't get in trouble or I don't get

467
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,959
Speaker 1: no no, and then yeah, yeah that's it.

468
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:25,439
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go.

469
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,400
Speaker 2: You can have a rotating starting five every other night.

470
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 2: Different players are all those.

471
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 1: We're missing a few guys like Quincy Pondex we're missing.

472
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 4: We're missing Jaden McDaniels.

473
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,359
Speaker 1: We're missing on my forward we're missing a few real

474
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,920
Speaker 1: hitters Matisse, Thaible, and there was defensive player of the

475
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 1: Year in college. So the list goes on fam but

476
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: I go with that starting five. I've rounded out with

477
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 1: being the sixth man. I come out and be a

478
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,200
Speaker 1: spark plug off the bench man.

479
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 2: That's dope, Okay, that yeah, I mean, honestly, I didn't

480
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,960
Speaker 2: even know half those guys play exactly. That's kind of

481
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 2: wild group. That's not like obscure names. There's are guys

482
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 2: who have now a legit tenure in the NBA.

483
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 4: For sure, real real deal roles in the NBA.

484
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 2: All Right, I did want to talk to some NBA

485
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 2: because we did take an episode off and some some

486
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 2: big stuff happened to the NBA.

487
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 3: The first one I wanted to get into is BAM's

488
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 3: eighty three.

489
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,159
Speaker 2: Now, I feel like a lot of things have been

490
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 2: already said about that eighty three points, but of course

491
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 2: I had to ask. You know, I got access to

492
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 2: a guy who's who scored at a high level in

493
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 2: the NBA. So obviously the argument here is unethical basketball,

494
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,919
Speaker 2: the fouling towards the end to get the possession, Like,

495
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 2: what did you think and why can't people just be

496
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:40,120
Speaker 2: impressed by by this.

497
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 4: Feat because people are haters. Bro.

498
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 1: Look, haten hours are Monday through Friday, nine am to

499
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 1: five pm. Is you're you no hating hours on the

500
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,399
Speaker 1: weekends or holidays. That's how we do it the world,

501
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: our haters. So we're gonna give flowers to Bam. We're

502
00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna give him his love. Eighty three beating

503
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 1: out Kobe the second highest point in NBA history, First

504
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: and foremost. I would say the last five six minutes

505
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: were nasty, Like I think any I think anybody would

506
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 1: say that, like there's no hate. How they did it

507
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: was nasty. But I'm not faulting him for doing that.

508
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 1: Like you guys to get your seventy, Yeah, even do that, Yeah,

509
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 1: Like like you had seventy at the end of the

510
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 1: third or whatever he had. I'm going forward to one

511
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,120
Speaker 1: hundred percent of the time, no matter how it happened.

512
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 1: Tell you another story, Devin Booker has seventy on us.

513
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 1: Back in the day he had I think he was

514
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: twenty years old, whatever he was. It was a game

515
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 1: in Boston. We were up twenty the whole game, fourth quarter,

516
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: up twenty. They did the extra possession thing, they did

517
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 1: the fouling Earl Watson was trying to get him to seventy.

518
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 1: They were celebrating, All yeah, we was hot about it.

519
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:49,360
Speaker 4: We was mad.

520
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: It extended the game, but at the end of the

521
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: day man, real game recognized real game. I'm gonna give

522
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: loved of Devin Booker for getting seventy at the age

523
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: of twenty or twenty one. I'm gonna give love to

524
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,120
Speaker 1: Bam for getting eighty three, no matter how he did it,

525
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: even if it's in a pro am game, a summer

526
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: League game, eighty three is eighty three. And one thing

527
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:15,399
Speaker 1: I would say the person that he beat would be

528
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: at would be at the crib if he was alive

529
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 1: right now like this.

530
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 3: That's all. That's all it needs to be said, exactly.

531
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 1: You know, the people that are hating and are are

532
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 1: putting negative energy on this are people that don't don't

533
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: belong in the sport, are people that aren't their peers,

534
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 1: some media people, people.

535
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 4: That love Kobe.

536
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,199
Speaker 1: It's like a real hooper is gonna congratulate that, because

537
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 1: that's hard to do no matter what you did. But

538
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna call a spade a spade. The last five

539
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: minutes was nasty, but he got eighty three. They won,

540
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 1: and it was dope to see that in our lifetime.

541
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 1: It was dope to see that again exactly. So shout

542
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: out to Bam, Shout out to Coach Spoke for allowing

543
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: that to happen. Like anybody in those shoes, you ain't

544
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 1: gonna stop at eighty. You're not gonna stop at seventy

545
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: five if you got a chance. So like over here

546
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: in point game, we're gonna give love, We're gonna give respect,

547
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: We're gonna give support to all hoopers and especially the

548
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: ones that.

549
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 4: Paved the way.

550
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,120
Speaker 1: Like eighty three is like somebody go get eighty five exactly,

551
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: somebody go break a hundred, like you might as well.

552
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: How the games play, now there's a chance for somebody

553
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 1: to do that.

554
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 2: And people don't realize. You watch on the league, I

555
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 2: see got like the scoring's going up a little bit.

556
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 2: Like I watched Luca at the Nuggets a few games after,

557
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 2: and he could see in his eyes a little but

558
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:33,919
Speaker 2: he was he was nearing fifty by the end of

559
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 2: the third, And some guys are like, oh might I

560
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 2: do Like maybe I'll do.

561
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:39,199
Speaker 3: This, Like now there's like a little bit of a

562
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 3: target to try to.

563
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: Why not you know, even CJ even like a couple

564
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: of years ago when Luca had seventy point triple double

565
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,679
Speaker 1: against the Hawks, like nobody was tripping on that. No,

566
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: Like nobody was tripping on Lillard getting seventy or I

567
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: think he had seventy and somebody else like mbad at

568
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: seventy one game or whatever. Like nobody's tripping on it

569
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: till you break it. That's what sucks. You could get eighty,

570
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 1: you could get seventy nine, you can get eighty two.

571
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: Now they bam got eighty three. Nobody would trip once

572
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: you break records, especially if it's Jordan's record, if it's

573
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: Kobe's record, Like guys don't want that to happen. But yeah,

574
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 1: that's how the game is, and that's how it's supposed

575
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 1: to be.

576
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 3: That's the one downfall.

577
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,120
Speaker 2: And I'm not you know, me and you are Kobe fans,

578
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 2: but we're not like this where it's Kobe and Kobe

579
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,360
Speaker 2: only are like, you know, because they showed the Lakers.

580
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 2: The Lakers announcer like said during a time out that

581
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 2: the record has been broken, and people.

582
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: Booed, I'm like, cut on, that's that's that pride bro

583
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 1: and I get it, I get it, but just think

584
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: I always think, what would Kobe Like Kobe would be

585
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: congratulating guys because that's what he did, Like, that's what

586
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,719
Speaker 1: who he was. I remember seeing a clip the other

587
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: day of him speaking about like stop getting mad at

588
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: like obviously it was way back.

589
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 4: But stop getting mad at records. They are being broke.

590
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: They're supposed to We're supposed to congratulate the guy that

591
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: you know takes the game further.

592
00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 4: And that's what Bam did.

593
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: That's what all these young and up and coming superstars

594
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 1: are going to do, is take the game further than

595
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: where they've seen it, where they got it, where they

596
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: left it.

597
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 4: And that's what the game is about.

598
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 2: It's weird, like it's armchair quarterbacks, you know, and it's

599
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 2: like even you look at it, like again, he had it,

600
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 2: he went to he shot what forty three free throws?

601
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 3: He had to hit those?

602
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 4: He had hit those six threes, CJ.

603
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: He didn't call the foul on himself exactly, Like let's

604
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: be mad at the refs. Let's be mad at the

605
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: Wizards for allowing that.

606
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 4: It was a Wizards. Yeah, let's be mad.

607
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 1: At the Wizards. For allowing that. Let's not be mad

608
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: at Bam forgetting that. Let's be mad at the Wizards

609
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,719
Speaker 1: and their coaching staff for allowing some stuff like that

610
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: to happen.

611
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 3: All Right, well we'll move on.

612
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 2: I just wanted to get your take on that and

613
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 2: thank you, Like we just got to respect the game. Also,

614
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 2: regular season, guys, nothing's happening. We've been talking about. Everyone

615
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 2: complains about slow news cycles. And a dude went off

616
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 2: for eighty three. No matter who it is, that's fun.

617
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 2: That's fun, fun to see.

618
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 4: You know, if it was Wimby, there'll be congratulating.

619
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: That's not a shot Atmby is just everything he does

620
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: like everybody loves.

621
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 4: But if somebody else does it, it's a problem.

622
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 2: So I think people it's the people who don't watch

623
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 2: basketball on a nightly basis and they want to They

624
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 2: want their narratives to just remain untouched or not change

625
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 2: because then they're like, oh, maybe I got to watch

626
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 2: Bam in the heat, maybe I gotta watch Oh maybe

627
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 2: I didn't know that Bam could score at a high

628
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 2: level like that. Like it's just you know, some people

629
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 2: are being challenged to watch basketball and they get.

630
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 3: Upset by it.

631
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 4: For sure. I agree with you. One.

632
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,239
Speaker 2: We talked about this a lot on the pod of

633
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 2: Seattle being one of the expansion teams. Adam Silver did

634
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 2: announce that they are nearing nearing the I guess the

635
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 2: Board of Governor's voting, and you know leading that are.

636
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 3: Vegas in Seattle. So we said, you're excited about Seattle.

637
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 2: Just want to talk about you know, we've said on

638
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 2: previous shows that you want to be involved in some ways,

639
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 2: so I want to reiterate that. And then also we

640
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 2: haven't really talked about Vegas as that other team and

641
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 2: what this sort of means, uh for sports and for

642
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 2: the NBA specifically, So just let your take as you

643
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 2: see this seatle I don't think becoming real how you're feeling.

644
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 2: And then also you take on Vegas.

645
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 4: Man, I'm excited. I'm excited for both spots.

646
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: Like even if Vegas happens that I'd be dope for

647
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: the for the NBA. Obviously, Seattle is something that's close

648
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 1: to my heart my whole playing career.

649
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 4: That's what I am upset about.

650
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: Now then I'm not playing, or now in a couple

651
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: of years when I retire, I'm not gonna be able

652
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: to play in Seattle one game. Like, That's all I

653
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: wanted was to be able to even if it was

654
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: for a role team, to be able to come back,

655
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: sleep at the Crib, play, play at the Key Arena,

656
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: play at the Climb Climbing Pledge Arena, and play in

657
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: front of my friends and family. But it's amazing, like

658
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: to hear that news. Obviously it's not official, but it's

659
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: going in the right direction. Bro that that the state

660
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: of Washington needs it. I think the NBA needs Seattle

661
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: just like Seattle needs the NBA. It would be great

662
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: for the NBA. I'm already putting my my my name

663
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: in the hat of being wanting to be a part

664
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: of that front office, wanted to be hopefully part of

665
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: some type of ownership because the Sonics made my childhood

666
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: for sure, and that there was a big part of

667
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: me growing up, and I want to bring that back

668
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: and I want to be a part of that. So

669
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: I think it's good for the NBA to hear about

670
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: those things and to be going in the right direction

671
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: of hopefully bringing back the Sonics and then bringing back

672
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: bringing back bringing a team to Las Vegas. And you

673
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: know with that that that means two teams are going

674
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: to have to move to the Eastern Conference. So yeah,

675
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: whether it's Memphis and New Orleans or maybe even Minnesota

676
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: because on that line of like, if you've ever been

677
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: on any of them teams, that travel sucks, being being

678
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: in Memphis and being on the Western Conference, or being

679
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: in New Orleans and being in a Western Conference team,

680
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: even Minnesota, you know, every team by them is close

681
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: and they're not in the Western Conference. So I think

682
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: out of those three teams, two of those will move

683
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: to the Eastern Conference to make room for you know,

684
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: the Seattle Sonics, that's the Las Vegas whatever they're going

685
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: to be named. But I think that would be that

686
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: would be good for the NBA for sure. I'm excited

687
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: about that and I hope and I really pray it happens.

688
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 3: Yeah.

689
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 2: Well, I think you said it right there with like

690
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 2: you experiencing the Sonics as a kid, like not having

691
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 2: that representation, and I guess you know, there's of course

692
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 2: the Portland Trailblazers, but we've talked about on this pot.

693
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 2: You said it five minutes ago about all the players

694
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 2: that came out a U dub like having that professional team,

695
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 2: and there has been the storm with the WNBA and

696
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 2: they've won some titles, but also to see the history

697
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 2: of the Sonics before they were sold and like all

698
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 2: the years that we've gone without them, and that what

699
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 2: we could have had they had KD. At one point

700
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 2: they drafted Russell Westbrook. Like you know, Evan, just speaking

701
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 2: for your kids and all the hooper up and coming

702
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 2: hoopers to now potentially have an NBA team that they

703
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 2: can go to the games, they can see those people

704
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 2: up close, know that it's real, you know, like you

705
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 2: said that with even like meeting Jamal and just getting

706
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 2: to see those like get up and close and watch

707
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 2: those guys potentially even meet them shake their hands, Like

708
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 2: that could change the trajectory of basketball and the players

709
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 2: that come out of you know, Pacific Northwest.

710
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it changed my life, like going to them

711
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: games and waiting after waiting after the games where the

712
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: player's interest they drive through the tunnel and all that.

713
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: Like I was, I was that kid begging my dad

714
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: to just wait to get an autograph.

715
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 4: It could be from a benchwarmer, it didn't matter.

716
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: Like that's how much the NBA meant to me, and

717
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: like how excited I was about it. So for you know,

718
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: we haven't had the Sonics since two thousand and eight,

719
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: so for seventeen years, kids growing up like having experienced that,

720
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: And for me individually, that changed everything. For me to

721
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: be able to go and watch Gary Payton and Sean Kimp,

722
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: to be able to see those guys in the city

723
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: walking around at the mall at games and like being

724
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: able to shake their hands made my dream that much

725
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: more real, that much more realistic. So to be without

726
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: the Sonics for seventeen years and that to be like

727
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: a bumping the road for these kids growing up and

728
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: not experiencing that, it's tough, man like it. So for

729
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: that to come back, like, that's gonna be everything. Man,

730
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: that's gonna that's gonna make kids dream that's much more real.

731
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: That's gonna make opportunities that much more real for kids,

732
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: not just even in playing the game, like even all

733
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: the jobs is gonna open up. For having a basketball

734
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: organization in the city, It's just gonna mean a lot

735
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: for the city. It's gonna it's gonna spark something that

736
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: we haven't had in a long time, and the city

737
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: needs it, like the state of Washington needs it. Like

738
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: anytime I've been in the NBA, and I've been around

739
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,720
Speaker 1: NBA personnel, they always say, man, we missed that Seattle trip.

740
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 4: Man, the NBA meet needs that Seattle trip.

741
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: So to hear that possibly coming back, Man, that's gonna

742
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: change kids' lives. That's gonna change the next generation lives

743
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: of being able to dream, being able to dream and

744
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: see it in your backyard. And that's like you said,

745
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: me me just meeting Jamal and meeting those guys that

746
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: changed everything for me. So just imagine being able to

747
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 1: see an NBA star in your backyard, to be able

748
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: to play against an NBA star's kid like in a

749
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 1: you and being being able to see that that NBA

750
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: starr in the stands, like all of those things matter, bro,

751
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 1: And that's the gonna be big for the city.

752
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 2: Now, Okay, they got to make up their roster and

753
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 2: this is based on no rumors at all, But what

754
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 2: I would love to see are some of those names

755
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 2: that you've mentioned making up, you know, going over the

756
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: Sonics team because honestly, some of them, you know, they're teams,

757
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 2: are current teams.

758
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 3: They've tried it, like they might need to move on.

759
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 2: So some players that I would love and I'm looking

760
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,720
Speaker 2: for your reaction here, if we got Paulo over the Sonics,

761
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 2: if we got Deshonte, if you got Gary Payton Junior

762
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 2: on that squad, Like, who are some of those players

763
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 2: that you would love? And I'm not really even sure

764
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 2: how I got to like relook at like the expansion

765
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 2: draft and like how you can pull from other teams.

766
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 2: How do you how do you want that team sort

767
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,720
Speaker 2: of build? You get some hometown love and then obviously

768
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 2: fill out the rest.

769
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 1: First and foremost, Paulo, we need the number one, number

770
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: one expansion draft pick or whatever you want to call it.

771
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 4: We been pollow back.

772
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 1: You get guy like Jaden McDaniels, you only need like

773
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 1: two or three, and then you know every free agency

774
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: you get one one Seattle guy to come back. So like,

775
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 1: you know, it would be dope, Like it would be

776
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: dope to see you know, I think that would be

777
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 1: important to have somebody from the city on that team

778
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,479
Speaker 1: to to get that support and just to get that love.

779
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: So whether it be Polo, Jaden McDaniels to John T. Murray,

780
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 1: Zach Levine, like we could keep going.

781
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 3: I went back and finished his career, Yeah.

782
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 4: Go play one year there? Why not end it?

783
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: The right way you play your rookie year there ended

784
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: the right way that the city would love you.

785
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 4: It would be dope.

786
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: Like I've had talks with KD just about you know,

787
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: wanting to be part of ownership and wanted to be

788
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: a part of that Sonings organization when they come back.

789
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 4: So that's always going to be a good thing.

790
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 2: Now on the Vegas side, obviously, Like I think that

791
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 2: is that's interesting because you know it's a betting town,

792
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 2: casinos and whatnot, and they're just you know, with the

793
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 2: Raiders going in there and the Athletics going over there.

794
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 3: It's it's interesting.

795
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 2: I feel like they gotta win win over their fan

796
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 2: base a little bit because I've been to some Raiders

797
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 2: games and it's a lot of transplants.

798
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 4: So what do you think about it.

799
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be tough because the Raiders. The

800
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: Raiders is tough because there's so many people coming in

801
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 1: in and out of the town, so there's no real fans.

802
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: But it's easier in football because the games around Sunday.

803
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: You probably leave the city Sunday you want to go

804
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: to a game, you want to cheer in the Raiders.

805
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,720
Speaker 1: For basketball, it's gonna be a little difficult because games

806
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: is every other day, so it's like, obviously people are

807
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:36,399
Speaker 1: in Vegas, people visit Vegas, but early on, it's gonna

808
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: be tough to have a real deal, you know, a

809
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,399
Speaker 1: real a real Vegas fan. It's gonna be people from

810
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: out of town. So I think it's gonna be interesting.

811
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 1: But they've done a hell of a job like that.

812
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: The hockey team wanna wanna Stanley Cup. You know, I

813
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: think at the first or second year, the Raiders obviously

814
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: they got work to do, and then and then the

815
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: athletics got some work to do.

816
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 4: But I think it's gonna it might work out.

817
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: Right, You're not gonna have real fans there at first,

818
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: but if you if you start out winning, I bet

819
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: there'd be a lot of Las Vegas fans and in

820
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: them seats for sure.

821
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 4: Yeah.

822
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 2: Well, I mean with the Raiders, like they they weren't winning,

823
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 2: so they brought in Tom Brady and so.

824
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to do all those things, yeah, to

825
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: attract real fans, especially in Las Vegas.

826
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 2: Well, and that was the old rumer that Lebron could

827
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 2: potentially like everyone's saying Cleveland right now or never know,

828
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 2: Olden State, but.

829
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 4: You's not have a hit like that.

830
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to have somebody, somebody superstar type, yeah,

831
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: to get fans in those seats, you know, consistently.

832
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 3: Okay, I wanted to move on this one.

833
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 2: This one's a little this is basketball expertise and little

834
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 2: trivia knowledge. But I don't know if you saw this.

835
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 2: There was a clip that came out that went viral

836
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 2: of like a comedic rapper or comedic singer made this

837
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 2: song about how there are too many Jalens in the

838
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 2: in the NBA, which is one thousand percent true. And

839
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 2: if anyone knows historians, Jalen Rose might have been the

840
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:00,720
Speaker 2: first Jalen.

841
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: I mean he says it. He says he always you know,

842
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: RP is mom. He always just shout out to mom's.

843
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: He got to be the first Jalen. So if he's

844
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: saying it, there gotta be some truth behind it.

845
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 2: Well, and so I even and I believe in it too,

846
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 2: because I gave my my my first son his middle

847
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 2: name is Jalen because I was like, I think that's first,

848
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 2: that's like a step towards maybe making the league someday.

849
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: So see, my son's name is Jaden, So you know,

850
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: you get Jalen.

851
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 4: All of them are like that's a pro era.

852
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, all of them are in that era of names,

853
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: Like there's too many of them names.

854
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 2: But I would say too Isaiah. And I feel like

855
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 2: Isaiah is up there in the NBA.

856
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: It's up there, not like, yeah it is, you know

857
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: my name is, Like I like, I love my name,

858
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: but dang, like it's sometimes I'll be wishing I had

859
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 1: another name.

860
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 3: Well, so we thought we want we could play a

861
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 3: game here.

862
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 2: How many Isaiah's current informer in the NBA could you name?

863
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 3: You want to play this game?

864
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I could play that game. I don't know

865
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 4: if I'm gonna get a lot.

866
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 2: All right, so we're gonna put one minute on the

867
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 2: clock and we're gonna see how many Isaiah's I can name?

868
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 3: Ready, go all right?

869
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: You got Isaiah Thomas, Let's go both Isaiah Thomas, Isaiah

870
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 1: Austin got drafted to the NBA. You got Isaiah Hartenstein, Uh,

871
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: Isaiah Stewart.

872
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,840
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Speaker 3: Let me give you that one. Isa is Isaiah Joe.

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Speaker 2: Through any Isaiahs you played in college that potentially played

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's hard. It's over there. I had six

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Speaker 3: Six, same bad, six, same bad.

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Speaker 4: There's a few more, but they're probably they're probably young though. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, well we're gonna do some more trivia

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Speaker 2: games here on Point Game because we know we got

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Speaker 3: Just like you, you're never hanging knowledge.

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Speaker 4: But that was tough.

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Speaker 3: That was tough.

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Speaker 4: That was tough. I'm never even thinking that.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a break here on Point Game.

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Speaker 2: the Er. All right, there there are two clear favorites

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Speaker 2: Michigan's always They're always going to the tournament. Although in

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Speaker 4: But that did hurt a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and sometimes you got to have that upset right

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Speaker 2: We're closing things out of course, I've said it on

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Speaker 2: And I think one game that was was pretty big

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Speaker 2: in this last week that I feel like people and

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Speaker 2: we've been tricked before that they might be for real,

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Speaker 2: but that that game.

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Speaker 3: Against the Nuggets.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's fun to note or important to

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Speaker 2: note that the Lakers were They're looking pretty healthy, you know,

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Speaker 2: Lebron is I feel like he's turning on, like we're

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Speaker 3: But Austin Reeves is healthy. He signed out a bunch

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Speaker 3: of games.

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Speaker 2: And so the moment I wanted to talk about specifically

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Speaker 2: to you was Austin Reeves.

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Speaker 3: I think they were down by three.

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Speaker 2: Austin Reeves, they followed him, which is, you know, with

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Speaker 3: To shoot two, which is what you should do.

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Speaker 2: And he made that first one and then he and

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Speaker 2: this is the thing that anyone who's watched basket, who's

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Speaker 2: grabbed the rebound, hit it to tie its in it overtime,

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Speaker 2: which then Luca hit the game winner to win it.

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Speaker 2: So I just wanted to talk to you about what

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Speaker 2: you thought when you saw that play and if you've

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Speaker 2: ever been in a scenario like that and it was

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Speaker 2: it successful.

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Speaker 1: Those are the hardest situations to be And when you

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Speaker 1: got to miss a free throw, yeah, you got to

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Speaker 1: miss it perfect. And usually when you do it like

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Speaker 1: Austin did it, he usually is a laying violation. They

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974
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Speaker 1: they always call it out before the ball even gets.

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Speaker 4: To your hands.

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Speaker 3: They're looking for it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so like that was perfect. Like I don't know

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Speaker 1: if he works on that, I don't know. Like that

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Speaker 1: was crazy that it hit him, it came right back

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Speaker 1: to him and he scored on that. I never seen

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Speaker 1: the free throw the guy shooting the free throw score

982
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Speaker 1: off of that, like get the rebound and score. Usually

983
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Speaker 1: it might be a tip in by another teammate, a

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Speaker 1: tip out or something and you get a little cool

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Speaker 1: little shot. But that was crazy. If I'm Denver, I'm hot.

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Speaker 4: How I lost?

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Speaker 1: I lost because of that? And then the game winner.

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Speaker 1: That's like a that's like two losses in one. Like

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Speaker 1: we had the game for the most part. So shout

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Speaker 1: out to Austin Reeves.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 1: He's a he's a real deal hooper. So I'm not

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Speaker 1: surprised he's able to do some stuff like that. But

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Speaker 1: that's like that's tough to do.

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Speaker 2: Any Austin dowters out there, Like, come on, what does

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Speaker 2: the guy gotta do?

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Speaker 4: Nah, he's a real deal.

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Speaker 3: That's crazy.

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Speaker 4: It's just probably because he's white.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 4: Well, he he's the real deal.

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Speaker 3: Though, even in college.

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Speaker 2: Like I remember I went up to his hometown actually,

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Speaker 2: and I was meeting some people that watched him coming up,

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Speaker 2: and it was him versus Malik Monk his whole career,

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Speaker 2: and they said, Malik and who's an absolute hooper too,

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Speaker 2: was just has been overshadowing him obviously.

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Speaker 3: You know, he went to UH played college.

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Speaker 4: He went to Kentucky, right, Kentucky. Ye went to Kentucky Oklahoma.

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Speaker 2: Once he went to Wichita State and then Oklahoma, but

1011
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Speaker 2: like he had a transfer, you know, and he kept

1012
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Speaker 2: having a you know, like you you went late in

1013
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Speaker 2: the draft.

1014
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Speaker 1: He went undrafted, So like, let's let's talk about that.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy. That's somebody like who he is now. I

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Speaker 1: feel like he's probably always been with the opportunity.

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Speaker 4: How are you not drafting people?

1018
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Speaker 3: Gotta get fired for that. And they're gonna find out

1019
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Speaker 3: the people he passed.

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Speaker 1: And we put the names out that are passing on

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Speaker 1: these guys, because one day I'm gonna be in that

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Speaker 1: situation where I'm making these decisions and I'm not messing

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Speaker 1: up on that. No, I've been the last pick, so

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Speaker 1: I know how to find some talent, not saying I'm

1025
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Speaker 1: great at it, but how is he not getting picked?

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Speaker 1: And then he turns into this three or four years later.

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Speaker 1: This isn't something like he just got skills all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, like that's another day we can talk about.

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Speaker 3: Skinny white dude.

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Speaker 2: It's a it's a tough people don't know and this

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Speaker 2: is like they count them out a little bit like truth.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was because he was worse.

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Speaker 3: Yep, all right, let's go into it.

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Speaker 2: We actually have a segment obviously that we do every

1035
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Speaker 2: every week on the show. Here will we spotlight some

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Speaker 2: Days Off, who were watching these past few weeks, and

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Speaker 2: who we like and who deserves the.

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Speaker 1: Spotlight No Days Off. You know, I'm gonna give a

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Speaker 1: shout out to all the guys that don't, you know,

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Speaker 1: under the radar, don't get the media attention that that

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Speaker 1: they deserve. But we're always gonna do that. We're always

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Speaker 1: going to give show love and support to, especially the

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Speaker 4: This week's No Days Off.

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Speaker 1: He's been playing well all season, stepped into a bigger

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Speaker 1: role than probably what he expected over there in Dallas,

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Speaker 1: my guy, Naji Marshall is.

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Speaker 4: Man doing his thing.

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Speaker 1: Bro Like he's getting the opportunity to play alongside Cooper

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Speaker 1: Flag and really get real minutes.

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Speaker 4: So I got to give a shout out to him.

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Speaker 4: I played with him.

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Speaker 1: I signed a ten day with New Orleans Pelicans a

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Speaker 1: long talks with him while I was there for a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, just about you know, not giving up

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Speaker 1: and taking advantage of your opportunity and I and you know,

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Speaker 1: he got paid this past this past summer. He stepped

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Speaker 1: into his opportunity and really took advantage of it. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying it was because of me, but like those

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Speaker 1: good talks with older guys really probably laid the foundation

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Speaker 1: for him.

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Speaker 4: So I'm I'm super proud of him.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to our No Days Off winner Naji Marshall

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Speaker 1: with the Dallas Maveriget.

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Speaker 3: Like, I feel like people gotta right now.

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Speaker 2: People are still clowning the MAVs and obviously with training Luca,

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Speaker 2: that was that was crazy. People regret it is a

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Speaker 1: So yeah that it just no matter if they win

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Speaker 1: ten championships, they gonna still be mad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna hurt. That's gonna hurt too. That's gonna hurt

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Speaker 1: to the end of time. They might have been win

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Speaker 3: Yeah that's tough, all right.

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Speaker 2: I another episode of point game in the can What

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Speaker 2: you got departing words for our fans out there?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 1: You know, I always appreciate you CJ making this easy

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Speaker 1: for me. Of course, we got to start doing more

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Speaker 1: fan interaction stuff. I feel like it's gonna always be dope.

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Speaker 1: You bring more thoughts to what we want to talk about.

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Speaker 1: But shout out to March Madness, Shout out to the

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Speaker 1: NBA at this space right now, because it's getting real.

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Speaker 1: Teams are trying to win, trying to get focused for

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Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs. But like I said, it's always a

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Speaker 1: big love and support to you and making this thing

1092
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: easy for me, and it's always good chopping it out

1093
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: with you.

1094
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 3: Feel likewise, man.

1095
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 2: I mean, it's crazy as we're about to watch marsh

1096
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 2: Madness and all these game winners about to have buzzer beaters.

1097
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,800
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be like, is anyone gonna have as cold

1098
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 2: blooded as a shot as you?

1099
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 3: Man?

1100
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 2: And it's cool that we get to get on here

1101
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 2: and I get to talk to you every week about it.

1102
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 3: So guys, watch basketball.

1103
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:10,439
Speaker 2: Anyone watching this, we're gonna be talking about it every

1104
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 2: week when highlighting everything. And it's a fun time. So everyone,

1105
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 2: everyone out there, stay safe and enjoy enjoy some hoop.

1106
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:18,399
Speaker 2: We'll be back here on point game next week.

1107
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 3: Peace.