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Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Driving the Great Episode four thirty four,

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Speaker 1: friends at boost Mobile Demons. Good morning, good to see you.

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Speaker 2: How's it going.

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Speaker 1: Just full disclosure here. This is a weird day to

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Speaker 1: But once you know noon Eastern hits not a lot

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Speaker 1: of sports fans that are like, you know what, forget

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Speaker 1: the tournament. I gotta I got we gotta see what

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Speaker 1: Nick Brew and Wilde are saying about these Stefan Diggs rumors, Like,

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Speaker 1: just so you know, if there was ever a day

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Speaker 1: should have planned that Japan trip a little better. I

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Speaker 1: and this is on demand. Let's go straight to voicemail

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Speaker 1: brought to you by your friends at boost Mobile. Alex

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Speaker 1: Cruzo uses his shoot to block a shot and then

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Speaker 1: seems stunned that that's not allowed. The Eagles signed Hollywood Brown,

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Speaker 1: and then some real news that we're gonna spend a

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Speaker 1: minute on Caid. Cunningham diagnosed with a collapsed lung. Now,

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Speaker 1: obviously this could knock him out until next season, it

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Speaker 1: would appear. The doctors on the internet are saying it

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Speaker 1: also might only knock him out for two or three weeks,

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Speaker 1: like the rest of the regular season. Two major takeaways

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Speaker 1: on that other than the obvious, which is you hope

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Speaker 1: Caid's okay, ye, collapsed lung. I don't want to get

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Speaker 1: myself in trouble here, but it seems to be. I like,

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Speaker 1: when I say that, the producers immediately take Demanse off

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Speaker 1: the screen. They're like, we don't know what Nick's about

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Speaker 1: not gonna but but I'm not gonna say anything egregious here,

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Speaker 1: I hope, but it does from reading what the doctor say,

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Speaker 1: it seems like this type of collapsed lung is an

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Speaker 1: actually is. Does that like I think blood clot is

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Speaker 1: things that come to mind are one, the Pistons already

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Speaker 1: I think going to be a very unpopular one seed

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Speaker 1: Caid has been there, Kate has not been load managing.

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Speaker 1: it came to MVP, because MVP's always play like more

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Speaker 1: pod Demons. Let's get to the game last night.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, so earlier this week, JJ said the best

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Speaker 1: So so a bunch here one is Lebron went thirteen

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Speaker 1: the second straight game against the Rockets when Lebron is

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Speaker 1: in the his next game, Demons, he ties Robert Parrish

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Speaker 2: Is honestly kind of surprising to me that.

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Speaker 1: He's that he doesn't have it already. Yeah, exactly, Well,

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Speaker 1: He played. He played twenty one years and until his

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Speaker 1: three games. His first twenty years, Demonse, the fewest games

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Speaker 1: I mean, he played. He's one of the only guys

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he should he said he would go to

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Speaker 1: actually not Lebron, it's Luca. But I was out of

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Speaker 1: town when Lebron passed Kareem for most baskets in NBA history.

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Speaker 1: It's the most baskets. Themes kind of like might be like, okay,

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Speaker 2: That that he If Robert Parrish pulls up to the game,

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Speaker 2: then they probably I mean, I imagine they'd stop it.

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Speaker 1: Like we saw last night. The this was the last

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Speaker 1: he was ten years into his career and has that historic,

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Speaker 1: do this, Demanse. Let's talk Luca here and then we

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Speaker 2: So, after Luca dropped forty against the Rockets, you updated

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Speaker 1: Well, and I did this before the CAID news, So

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Speaker 1: I'm totally fine with that. What are you laughing about?

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Speaker 1: No, Like if you get flooded with mentions like will

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Speaker 1: They have the best record in basketball. He scores twenty

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Speaker 1: and thirteen, thirty six, six and four, and then last

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Speaker 1: night forty nine and ten. They have beaten on this

430
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: winning streak the Knicks, the Wolves, the Nuggets, the Rockets,

431
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: the Rockets plus Pacers, Bulls. Yeah, he has a legitimate

432
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: and again, two weeks ago, I think people thought he

433
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Speaker 1: wasn't even first team All NBA. And here is what

434
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Speaker 1: I will say about Luca's attitude because last night he

435
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: was mother fing the fans. Yeah, Luca is at his

436
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: greatest when he is turning the vitriol, and I think

437
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: deep personal and intense hatred he has for the officials,

438
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: to the fans and other players. Yeah, when he pivots

439
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: it from I'm being persecuted to I'm gonna make you

440
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: cry and just does like what he did to Devin

441
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: Booker in that series against the Suns.

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Speaker 2: No, because when he's in a bad headspace, when he's

443
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 2: arguing with the refs, it's like, I don't he some players,

444
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 2: you know, it's cool when they're angry, but I don't

445
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 2: think it works for him when he's into it with

446
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Speaker 2: the refs, he's not having a good game.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, and I'll say something else that

448
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: I really think has helped him being one tech away

449
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: from a suspension. Yeah, it he doesn't like he's at

450
00:32:55,200 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: fifteen now. I honestly think just so it kind of

451
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: reset the clock a bit. It would have been kind

452
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: of smart if with like thirty seconds left last night,

453
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: he would have walked up to a ref and just

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Speaker 1: been like f U U F and f to get

455
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Speaker 1: because he's gonna sit tonight no matter what I think

456
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna sit either on a back to back in Miami.

457
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: They got there at five in the morning. Just be like,

458
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not gonna play, so just I'll

459
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: just take my suspension here. But that's you know, five

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Speaker 1: d chests. I'm wanting him to play.

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00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 2: Anybody was.

462
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Speaker 1: Screaming at the fans, you know. I think I feel

463
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Speaker 1: like that happened recently and somebody talked about it. Hold

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Speaker 1: on technical for screaming at fans. NBA. Still it was

465
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Speaker 1: remember hold On. Remember last year against OKC at the

466
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:04,719
Speaker 1: very into the regular season in the fourth quarter, Luca

467
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: screamed at a fan and the ref thought he was

468
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: screaming at him and threw him out. They ejected him

469
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: like that was the no. Yeah, it just stayed ejected

470
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,720
Speaker 1: and it was like a tie game with six minutes left.

471
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: I feel like that might have been Easter Sunday for

472
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: some reason. I was. I feel like I was at

473
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 1: Let me see if that was Easter Sunday, because I

474
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: feel like I was at my mom's house when this happened.

475
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Speaker 2: Easter Sunday last year.

476
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 1: When was Easter Sunday? Easter Sunday last year? No way

477
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: to tell April twentieth. This looks like it happened April eighth,

478
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: so I'm not even close to rights. Well, listen, I

479
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,320
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna win in and I'm being fair

480
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: right now. I wouldn't vote for him for MVP, but

481
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: he's got to be first team All NBA. He's got

482
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: to be top three on your ballot and Lakers Spurs

483
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: Round two. Here's the awesome thing about a potential Lakers

484
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: Spurs Round two series from Wimby's perspective. Either way, it's

485
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: an amazing opening ish chapter in the story of Victor

486
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: winbin Yama's playoff career. Either and this is more about

487
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: the Lebron piece than the Luca piece. But either in

488
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: his first ever playoff run, he runs into forty plus

489
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: year old goat and beats him and it's a passing

490
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: of the torch, or the first guy ever to beat

491
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 1: him in a playoff series is maybe like there is

492
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: there's a non zero chance that Wimby's first ever series

493
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 1: defeat and Lebron's final series win are the same moment

494
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: like that, And there's a non zero chance that right

495
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:37,280
Speaker 1: that Lebron's finals playoff series defeat comes at the hands

496
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: of Wimby. Either way, it's awesome. Like either way, it's

497
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:48,280
Speaker 1: a really cool potential moment, and it looks like that's

498
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Speaker 1: the round two we're gonna get because and this is

499
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Speaker 1: the point I was trying to make on Twitter, but

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00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: I'll just make again here quickly. It now would be

501
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,720
Speaker 1: stunning demons if the Akers don't get the three seed.

502
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: So they now have the tiebreaker with Minnesota, Houston, and Denver.

503
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: They also are at twenty five losses, while Minnesota and

504
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 1: Houston are at twenty seven. Denver is at twenty eight.

505
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: They also have five games remaining against tankers in Brooklyn, Utah, Indiana, Dallas,

506
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 1: and what's the one other team I'm forgetting Washington, Washington.

507
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:46,399
Speaker 1: So if they win those five games against tankers, that

508
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: puts them at forty nine wins. They then in their

509
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: remaining eight games, which is Miami tonight, they're gonna lose Orlando,

510
00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:04,760
Speaker 1: Detroit with NOCAID, Cleveland ok OKAC again Golden State Phoenix

511
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: in those eight games. Demands if they just go two

512
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: and six, they're at fifty one wins. Again two and six,

513
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: which they should be able to do better. But say

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00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: they just go two and six. They're at fifty one wins,

515
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: which would mean Minnesota has to go nine and what

516
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: would that be? Nine and three the rest of the way,

517
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: and Anthony Edwards is out a couple of weeks. Houston

518
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: would have to go eleven and three the rest of

519
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 1: the way, and Denver would have to go ten and

520
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: two the rest of the way. They's just not happy

521
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I mean you have to like their

522
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,839
Speaker 1: position in that regard. All right, let's talk a little

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Speaker 1: Lebron ownership stuff quickly before we move on to other things.

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Speaker 2: Uh So, the Athletic reporter that Finway Sports Group is

525
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 2: not chasing an NBA expansion team, But why is it

526
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 2: in the NBA's best interest in your opinion, that Lebron

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Speaker 2: ends up owning one.

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00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: Well, so here's the thing. I it's not just that

529
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: Finnway Sports Group said they're not pursuing an NBA an

530
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 1: expansion team. It's that Bron was as directly last night,

531
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: are you still interested? And he said the real news

532
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: came late last night. In the locker room, Lebron was

533
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 1: asked about this, Are you still interested? And he said no,

534
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: not at all, And the reporters seemed shocked. And that

535
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: was all he said on it. I'm stunned by this.

536
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: If I'm being totally honest, this is probably something that

537
00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: I should run down what's happening here. I'm not a reporter,

538
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: but this is a story that I could probably get

539
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:11,720
Speaker 1: more info on, and so I will. I will briefly

540
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,320
Speaker 1: put on my reporting hat over the next few weeks

541
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Speaker 1: and try to bring you guys real info on what

542
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: has changed. Because Lebron has been adamant for years that

543
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: he wants to own a team, and for him to

544
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Speaker 1: just be like no, say it again.

545
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Speaker 2: The price tag.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the price tag can't help, but I think he

547
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 1: would be able to come up with the money, not himself,

548
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 1: but like you know what, I mean, that he could

549
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: get involved with a group that has it. So I

550
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: think this is stunning, and I think that this is

551
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: real news. And I think that it's not that the

552
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: NBA needs Lebron to own a team pardon me when

553
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: he's done. It, is that it would be very good

554
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 1: for the league if Lebron owned a team, And I

555
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: think that it's in Adam Silver's interest to see if

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00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: there's a way to get Lebron to change his mind

557
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: on this. It is and I couldn't. I saw the

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00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: news that Finway's Sports Group's not pursuing an NBA expansion team,

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00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 1: and that was noteworthy. But the real noteworthy piece of

560
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: this to me is Lebron flatly saying not at all

561
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: when asked if he's still interested. And I will do

562
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:11,280
Speaker 1: my best to figure out what changed here and get

563
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: But like again, I saw this when I woke up

564
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: this morning and watched the Oh you did you'll talk

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00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 1: to your guys too, Okay, good, I appreciate that. Yeah,

566
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: you made some connections at that clutch party. Yeah, yeah,

567
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:27,720
Speaker 1: what's the phones?

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Speaker 2: Buddy?

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Speaker 1: Well you can have a race all right before before

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Speaker 2: So we know the state of the Bucks right now.

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Speaker 2: They're not doing too great and they want to shut

605
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 2: Giannis down, but not want to be shut down. He

606
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 2: wants to finish out the season. Do you think this

607
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 2: is the move of somebody that wants to stay or

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Speaker 2: somebody that wants to leave, maybe buff the value a

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Speaker 2: little bit.

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Speaker 1: I actually think this is a sign that he's leaving.

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00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 1: And the reason for that is twofold one is if

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00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 1: he's leaving, he doesn't really care like, oh, if we

613
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: lose one more game, we have two percent better chance

614
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: of improving our lottery odds. Right, That's what does it

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00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: matter to him?

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00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: But more more importantly is this, if he's leaving, I

618
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: think Giannis wants to have an unofficial goodbye to the

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Speaker 1: fans a final home game that he plays. You are saying,

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Speaker 1: I mean not just like, oh, we shut down for

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Speaker 1: the year, and that's that. You know, was playing in

622
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Speaker 1: the game against the Pacers, got hurt, and now he's

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Speaker 1: done and they have They have home games remaining against

624
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Speaker 1: the Spurs, Clippers, MAVs. They're then on the road in Houston.

625
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: They then are home against Boston, home against Memphis, and

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00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: then one of the saddest games on the NBA calendar,

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Speaker 1: Game eighty one, the Bucks who want a tank against

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Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets, who just scored twenty four points in

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Speaker 1: the first half. So I Giannis should get at least

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Speaker 1: one more home game against the whomever, but in Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: as a salute and as a goodbye. And I think

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Speaker 1: that that would I think that's why he wants to play.

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00:46:55,320 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 1: I don't know that, but I also demands think at

634
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: this point it's just as over as anything could be, Like,

635
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: that's got this has to be the end.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, Yeah, I mean, I don't think he's playing

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Speaker 2: in Milwaukee next year. But you think if Milwaukee cues

638
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 2: beefing with the honest, he'll request a trade or demand

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Speaker 2: a destination and that possibly hurt his trade value.

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Speaker 1: Well, if he demands a specific destination, that certainly hurts

641
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Speaker 1: his trade value. But they obviously don't have to do that.

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00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: And I this is the Bucks did everything they they

643
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: they pushed chips into the middle of the table to

644
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 1: win a title with Giannis, and it worked. They then

645
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: pushed more chips in the middle of the table to

646
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: try to extend that window with the Dame trade. They

647
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: then to continue torturing this metaphor after going bust on.

648
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: So let me analogy over, say it again, all.

649
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 2: Those moves though, Oh yeah, response responsible for where they're

650
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 2: at right now.

651
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 1: But what there's obviously he can't make a move himself. No, no, no,

652
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: but he he co signed it, for sure. But they also,

653
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: you know, Dame Dori's achilles, like there's someone there's some

654
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: bad luck. They they didn't want to admit it was

655
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: over and the last you know, they I glossed over

656
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 1: some of the stuff. So they trade for Drew Holliday,

657
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: They win a title. They then are the favorites to

658
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:53,839
Speaker 1: win the title again. Middleton gets hurt. They then are

659
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 1: right there supposed to be in the mix. Yannis gets

660
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,240
Speaker 1: hurt or you know, or falls on his back early

661
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: in that series, and it's okay, And so now they

662
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: fired Bud. They bring in Adrian Griffin. Adrian, they're thirty

663
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: and thirteen with Adrian Griffin. They fire him. They bring

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Speaker 1: in Doc, they trade for Dame, Dame tears his achilles.

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00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 1: They then stretch Dame and sein Miles Turner, which, if

666
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Speaker 1: I was going to continue the going all in analogy,

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00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: that's where you see the guy at the poker table

668
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:35,399
Speaker 1: who has bought in three times and lost, and all

669
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're like, is he taking his shoe off?

670
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: And the guy takes his boot off, reaches into his

671
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,919
Speaker 1: sock and there's a sweaty one hundred dollars bill in there.

672
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 1: He puts that on the table. Yeah, that's the Dame stretch, which,

673
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: by the way, we've all seen at a card table done.

674
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: And you're like, that was that guy's gas money. And

675
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 1: by the way, when I say we've all seen it done,

676
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: hand up, I've done that, I've I've had I've had

677
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 1: the the my case money in a sock that I

678
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: reached into at the table and got. I've had my

679
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: case money locked in my car. That was like a

680
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: fifteen minute walk from the poker room that I'm like,

681
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: all right, I'm leaving it here in the way. No, man, no,

682
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, it's uh. There is an unbelievable, unbelievable

683
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: gambling story that Bobby Baldwin told me of a guy

684
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: who just lost and lost and lost thousands and thousands,

685
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:52,800
Speaker 1: like real money, and then was had one hundred dollars

686
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: left and didn't live in Vegas. Was like visiting this,

687
00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: you know, fifty years ago though, and that hundred dollars

688
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 1: was how he was gonna drive back to wherever he

689
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: was going. And I don't know if it was Bobby

690
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,439
Speaker 1: himself or someone else, was like, all right, I'll walk

691
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: you to your car. And as they get to the car,

692
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:21,879
Speaker 1: he's the guy who walked this, this poor lose guy

693
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: who lost all his money, all he left was one

694
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: hundred bucks to his car said to him like, hey man,

695
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:34,720
Speaker 1: you know rough night, I'll bet you your one hundred bucks.

696
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 1: I can throw this ace, this playing card across the street,

697
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: like give you an easy win. And that's the impossibility

698
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: anybody that's ever seen you know, it's just gonna flutter

699
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: in the wind or whatever. And the guy's like, okay, sure,

700
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: I guess. The guy grabs the ace, flicks it like

701
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: a frisbee because it was actually a fake card that

702
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: was metal, across the street, takes the guy's last hundred bucks,

703
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: leaves in the parking lot, and everybody's like what. He

704
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: comes back into the pogram and guy's like what you.

705
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: He tells story and guys are like, why did you

706
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: do that? He's like, listen, man, that guy planned to

707
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 1: lose all his money, wanted to lose all his money,

708
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: and I was making sure he lost all his money.

709
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 1: Real brutal stuff.

710
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 2: Man.

711
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 1: Uh, it's really terrible. It's really truly terrible like that.

712
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: He might have ruined that guy's life. And he is correct,

713
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:42,240
Speaker 1: and he told that story when Bobby told that story,

714
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 1: dying laughing. Bobby's probably got one hundred million dollars and

715
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: is dying laughing about taking this guy's last hundred bucks

716
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:53,280
Speaker 1: forty years ago.

717
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 2: He's just so bad.

718
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk a little Max Crosby here quickly.

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00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, So some weird stuff with my team in

720
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 2: Max Crosby. It seems like when he went in for

721
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:08,839
Speaker 2: the physical, the GM and the head coach weren't even

722
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 2: in the building. This situation just keeps seeming fisher and fishier.

723
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: So here's the deal. I think the Max Crosby trade

724
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:24,479
Speaker 1: would have been bad business. I would rather have Trey

725
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:29,800
Speaker 1: Hendrickson in two first round picks. Than Max Crosby. I also,

726
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: when the news initially broke, I believed the Ravens they

727
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 1: saw something very scary on that physical and they said

728
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 1: we can't do this, and I believed that. I'm not

729
00:53:55,480 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: gonna say I no longer believe it, but I'm starting

730
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 1: to have doubts. I cannot believe that Eric DaCosta and

731
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 1: Jesse Mentor did not greet Max Crosby at the door

732
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: when he got to the Ravens facility. That is stunning

733
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 1: to me. I'm a little surprised Tomans they didn't fly

734
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: in private first of all. So here's here is what

735
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: I have gathered about the flight of Vegas to Baltimore.

736
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 1: There are two airlines that fly non stop Vegas to Baltimore,

737
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:52,880
Speaker 1: Spirit and Southwest. No disrespect to either of those airlines.

738
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:57,840
Speaker 1: I used to fly Southwest LA to Houston every weekend, right,

739
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 1: And while I haven't flown much on Spirit, I've certainly

740
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: bought plenty of plane tickets for my children to fly

741
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: on Spirit and it seems like it's a fine operation.

742
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 1: How However, they don't Neither of those airlines has a

743
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 1: first class yeah, and so if you want to fly

744
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:30,280
Speaker 1: non stop Vegas to Baltimore. There's no first class option,

745
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:41,800
Speaker 1: So again the assumption would be the Ravens would spend

746
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 1: the thirty grand to charter a private plane. Again, thirty

747
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 1: grand is a ton of money for a person, It

748
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: shouldn't be for a professional football team. The Chiefs flew

749
00:55:55,760 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 1: a Lowie Gilman private to come from Balton More to

750
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: KC to come or wherever he was to come sign.

751
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: The Ravens chose not to do that, so they flew

752
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:12,760
Speaker 1: him first class to DC and then drove him two hours.

753
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Okay, oh my god, goodness.

754
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:20,799
Speaker 1: So think about this. You have just traded two first

755
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: round picks for a player who is about to become

756
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 1: the second highest paid player in the history of your team.

757
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: You know he had knee surgery two months ago. You

758
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: fly him. You don't fly him private. You fly him

759
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: when you then know he's gonna then after a five

760
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,359
Speaker 1: hour flight, gonna have a two hour car ride, and

761
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 1: then you don't meet him at the door. When I

762
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: when I went to La NBA All Star weekend and

763
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 1: came on the Fox lot to do Coward Show, my

764
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 1: boss went met me at the door. Me I've worked there,

765
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 1: not ten years I've just he' not there that often.

766
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: It is so that that all of that was to me.

767
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 2: Noteworthy.

768
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 1: Well, it just made me wonder demons were they And

769
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: the most important part of that that I left out

770
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: he had not yet had his physical, So it makes

771
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: me wonder were they having second thoughts before he even

772
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:35,919
Speaker 1: got there and then used the physical as an out.

773
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: I'm not accusing them of that. I don't even know

774
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: if I if I'm right now at fifty one percent,

775
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: I think that's what happened more likely than not. But

776
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: it is weird that the head coach, who's a new

777
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: head coach, defensive guy, this is your big acquisition and

778
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 1: the GM, it's the biggest trade you've ever made, aren't

779
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: there to greet him and don't see him for hours.

780
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: He's in the facility for hours. He's like asking the

781
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: like the secretary, He's like, hey, what's the code to

782
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 1: the bathroom? Like what do I do? Like, It's just

783
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:16,919
Speaker 1: that's weird.

784
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 2: I feel like, if you probably want to do your

785
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 2: best to you know, make make that.

786
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: But so oh, this is a good point by Daniel.

787
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: Daniel adds that the Ravens did a really good job

788
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: on that NFLPA report card thing. They are considered a

789
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:48,920
Speaker 1: first class organization, which makes this even more odd. All right,

790
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:54,080
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Speaker 1: real quick, Let's get to this Brown's rule change proposal.

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00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 2: Rule change proposal from the Browns. They want to be

805
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 2: able to trade draft picks up to five years in

806
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 2: the future. Of course, coming from Cleveland.

807
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: This this is your buddy who has filed for bankruptcy

808
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: over payday loans. And now pays for Door Dash, Chipotle

809
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: on Klarna or whatever. Those those the little loaned micro

810
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 1: loans you can get right in stock right that guy saying,

811
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 1: you know, the government's banking regulations are far too onerous

812
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:28,439
Speaker 1: on us consumers, Like, no, bro, they're guardrails because you're

813
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Speaker 1: right now, you're on Amazon buying a video game and

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01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 1: clicking the button to pay for it over the next

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01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: eighteen months. It's your buddy who who you know, works

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Speaker 1: eighteen hours a week, and all of a sudden they

817
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 1: pull up to your house in a three series BMW

818
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: and you're like, huh and they're like, you're not gonna

819
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: believe it. I'm only paying two hundred and eighty dollars

820
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: a month. They're like, really, how many months? And at

821
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: first they don't know, and then they're like, let me check,

822
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 1: and they're like, one hundred and eight months? Is that

823
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:23,280
Speaker 1: a lot? Like you get a nine year car loan.

824
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:30,040
Speaker 1: The reason the NFL doesn't allow you to trade draft

825
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 1: picks more than three years in the future is to

826
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: save teams from themselves, and teams need to be saved

827
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:47,280
Speaker 1: from themselves, and so I do not support this rule change.

828
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:54,520
Speaker 1: In theory, it's very Darwinian. Let the fittest survive. But

829
01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 1: pro sports are a bit of a communistic enterprise anyway,

830
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 1: or socialistic inner prize anyway, And we don't need teams

831
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:09,640
Speaker 1: being able to take second and third mortgages out particularly.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, No, I'm sorry, go ahead, Yeah.

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01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 1: I just it is. Now. You can say ownership can

834
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:22,760
Speaker 1: veto trades. I get that, but GMS, if a GM

835
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: is on the hot seat, the hell does he care

836
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 1: about what five years from now looks like like you

837
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 1: should be able to in less than half a decade

838
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 1: dig yourself out of a hole of a horrible general manager.

839
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 1: So I do not I do not like this this

840
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 1: rule change idea at all. Also, last note, little sports

841
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:56,080
Speaker 1: media note, whoever leaked the WNBA CBA details to Shams

842
01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 1: instead of to some of the women who are out

843
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 1: there everyday report on that story. Shame on. You have

844
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:09,120
Speaker 1: some professional courtesy for the people that were grinding on

845
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 1: that beat and let one of them break the story

846
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:17,320
Speaker 1: they deserve to break, rather than curry a small favor

847
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 1: with Shams. I don't blame Shams, Listen, it's not He's

848
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:26,280
Speaker 1: a reporter. He got the story a you know, maybe

849
01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 1: in a perfect world. He would have then fed it

850
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:32,240
Speaker 1: to one of his colleagues who had been covering it,

851
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 1: but that's probably asking too much. I didn't love that.

852
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:39,960
Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna save questions for the mail bag.

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