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Speaker 1: and you are now listening to the Robert DeNiro line

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Speaker 1: of the Week. The Robert DeNiro line of the Week

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Speaker 1: is from probably my all time favorite movie. Uh. It's

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Speaker 1: a fixture of the Iron Wrap PORP podcast. It is

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Speaker 1: Raging Bull. I mean this, this movie to me is

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Speaker 1: absolute perfection as far as I'm concerned. It's just a

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Speaker 1: masterpiece everything directorially, visually, sound design, set, wardrobe, performance, everything.

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Speaker 1: And there's so many fucking lines, so many scenes I

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Speaker 1: that that that's something I want to do on the

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Speaker 1: Iron Wrap or podcast is doing all Raging Bowl episode

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Speaker 1: That would be a dream come true. But this is

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite lines. It's when uh Raging when

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Speaker 1: Jake La Maatta played by Robert DeNiro goes over and

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Speaker 1: he visits, uh the Tommy who's the gangster and uh,

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Speaker 1: in the in the movie Raging Bowl He doesn't like

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Speaker 1: and uh, they asked him about his fight. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: of the week. He's says to Uh, he says the Tommy,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna open his hole like this. Please excuse my French,

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Speaker 1: because Tommy says him. Now this Gennaro, Okay, when you

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna open his hole like this, Please excuse my French.

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Speaker 1: if I should fuck him or fight him. I guarantee

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Speaker 1: want to know was that line written. He's a pretty kid.

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Speaker 1: then Salvey played by uh fuck, what's that? Frank Vincent

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Speaker 1: He says, yeah, he he's not. I don't want him

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Speaker 1: That is the Robert de Neiro line of the week

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Speaker 1: from probably my all time favorite film, Raging Bull. American

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Speaker 1: dot Com. All right, this is the I M Rappaport Podcast.

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Speaker 1: And this is Michael Rappaport, and I am in here

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Speaker 1: with my guests today. Eric pinkis, who is Well, who

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Speaker 1: are you? Eric? He's a he's a basketball Are you

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Speaker 1: some sort of savant like you know, ship, like you're

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Speaker 1: to you, to your face, you you know, all kinds

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Speaker 1: as the Lakers. I covered the Lakers. I do the

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Speaker 1: blog for the Lakers at the right times. It's always good.

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Speaker 1: Don't you feel good when I have you as a guest.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know what the funk exactly now I

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Speaker 1: know you, but it's better you could articlate because I

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Speaker 1: dot com. I am a senior right there, and most

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Speaker 1: I focus on the salary cap and the salaries and

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Speaker 1: I want to do the salary cap for dumb Fox. Okay. Now,

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Speaker 1: I consider myself a very knowledgeable basketball fan. I don't

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Speaker 1: What is the NBA salary cap? In a nutshell? Like,

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Speaker 1: He was talking about a technically we're not gonna get

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Speaker 1: past junk of a season. Right, we're second worst team

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Speaker 1: how to use Hibbert, who's you could shoot free throws?

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Speaker 1: Now Hibbert is not a great rebounder, but whatever you

423
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Speaker 1: put him. So now let's say you call it Indiana

424
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Speaker 1: and you make a deal with them and you move

425
00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:04,600
Speaker 1: down to their pick there. I think they're fourteen, No,

426
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Speaker 1: they're eleventh, right, something like eleventh. So now you get

427
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Speaker 1: the eleventh pick, you get Roy Hibbert, you trade them, uh,

428
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Speaker 1: you trade them whatever. You trade them your pick. And

429
00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,040
Speaker 1: it's complicated that they can make it work. You might

430
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Speaker 1: have to wait till July, but you can do something

431
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Speaker 1: like that. All right. So now you've got Roy Hibbert

432
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Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars. But we said they have twenty eight

433
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Speaker 1: million dollars. Now they only have about twenty three to spend.

434
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Speaker 1: It would change, numbers would change. Let's say have twenty

435
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Speaker 1: They still have some money to spend. They could still

436
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Speaker 1: get a good player. They might be able to get

437
00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,520
Speaker 1: up to a Greg Monroe type player. But you've got Hibbert.

438
00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,480
Speaker 1: You don't need Monroe anymore. We're still spending power. But

439
00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,280
Speaker 1: now you've got a center. You've got the eleventh pick,

440
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Speaker 1: you get trade Lyles. Let's say now you got your

441
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Speaker 1: power forward and you've got Carmelo, and so now you

442
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Speaker 1: you got you spend eight million, ten million on a

443
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,920
Speaker 1: point guard, and you wait a year, and now other

444
00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:46,920
Speaker 1: players become available. You'd be as good as you can.

445
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,159
Speaker 1: There's no one and and I guess here, here's the

446
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,920
Speaker 1: best way to look at it. Dallas Mavericks a few

447
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,000
Speaker 1: years back, they broke it up. They they want championship.

448
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 1: They Tyson channel lead went to the Knicks, right all that,

449
00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,160
Speaker 1: and they went and said, okay, we're gonna have cap room,

450
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna go spend. And they went to go spend

451
00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,919
Speaker 1: and get went. After all, they wanted Darren Williams, who

452
00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:07,920
Speaker 1: was really good at the time. They wanted Dwight Howard.

453
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Speaker 1: He ended up staying in Orlando and traded and they

454
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Speaker 1: ended with O. J. Mayo. Right, Okay, that was their

455
00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 1: big haul. Okay, they were they were bad. Next year

456
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 1: they got Monte Alas. Okay, year after that, now they've

457
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:23,679
Speaker 1: got Chandler Parsons. They got Tyson Chandler back, and they

458
00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,440
Speaker 1: didn't have a great, great team, but they were better.

459
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Speaker 1: And you say, okay, in year three they had a

460
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Speaker 1: team that made the playoffs. A good team, imperfect, but whatever. Okay,

461
00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,320
Speaker 1: it's a three year you gotta look at it like

462
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 1: a three year contentt three year plan. Yeah, and so

463
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 1: this is year one for the Knicks, Year one for

464
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Speaker 1: the Lakers. You know that, Knicks fans, you're saying, I

465
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Speaker 1: understand why you're saying it's year one, but because but

466
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Speaker 1: we already went through one year with this regime. So

467
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Speaker 1: but now we got I know, I understand, but I

468
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Speaker 1: just want to I just want to clarify tone. It's

469
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Speaker 1: year one, It's year one where we have the ship

470
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Speaker 1: to do. But this year, the first year, this year

471
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Speaker 1: was like one year. But you know what, they were

472
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Speaker 1: splashing the toilet, It was flushed. But do you know

473
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 1: what the mental strain was like? Six? That was six.

474
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,320
Speaker 1: I covered the Lakers. I covered them when twenty one games,

475
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,159
Speaker 1: I mean every single day. I don't you see what

476
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,239
Speaker 1: I'm saying. If you think you're gonna get compassionate for

477
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Speaker 1: me as a Nicks fans come through the Lakers, it

478
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 1: was no. You guys haven't been there. You haven't been

479
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 1: through anything I have been. I cannot believe that Laker

480
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Speaker 1: fans are trying to compare themselves to Nicks fan. You

481
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Speaker 1: guys have banners in a new fucking stadium and shock

482
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Speaker 1: comes and people come. It works out of the I

483
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Speaker 1: don't you don't get you don't get any sympathy. But

484
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,159
Speaker 1: this is year after year we go through with this

485
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Speaker 1: ship with the Knicks. Every year I hear, I hear

486
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Speaker 1: you guys have banners and rings. I have covered the

487
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,680
Speaker 1: Clippers as well, and I went through too. Man, they're

488
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Speaker 1: back to I mean, this is like, this is crazy.

489
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to hear anything the Clippers.

490
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 1: Can you have something? But that was in the past.

491
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Speaker 1: At least they got guys. They got Blake Griffin, they

492
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Speaker 1: got they got all kinds of but when they got Blake,

493
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Speaker 1: it took them in the right. They got Blake, yes, right,

494
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Speaker 1: and they got you know, they placed this first year right,

495
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,439
Speaker 1: So Blake ms first year, second year was his rookie year.

496
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 1: He was good. They were They still weren't that good.

497
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 1: Then they got CP three and they've been stagnated at

498
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 1: where they are as even as it is. They I know,

499
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Speaker 1: I know, I know Clippers can argue, but I've heard

500
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 1: so many Lake you don't know what it's like. I'm like,

501
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: are you fucking kidding me? You guys? Do you know

502
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:18,680
Speaker 1: what it's like? Do you know that the New York,

503
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 1: New York. I'm a New York with the possibility of

504
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: dying before I actually see the Knicks win a championship

505
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,360
Speaker 1: and I'm forty five, like I'm looking ahead forty five

506
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: years from They're like, I don't want to We're not

507
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 1: this isn't the Chicago White Sox. We don't want to

508
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 1: be five years and three years. It could happen. I mean,

509
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 1: but it literally like it could. It could. Like we're

510
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: in that position like the Knicks fans, our heads are

511
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 1: all funked up, that that is looming, Like we could

512
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Speaker 1: be like those people like the Boston Red Sox, those

513
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Speaker 1: poor bastards years. I don't want, Like I can't die

514
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: until I see them win. That's what we're dealing with here, right.

515
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 1: I don't think it's I don't think it's that bad.

516
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 1: They're they're in a position where they may aid so

517
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,919
Speaker 1: many bad choices through the years. We know this, right,

518
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: and then we made another We we we we just

519
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 1: made a great choice somehow or another. Isaiah Thomas is

520
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 1: back in the garden. Yes, yes, but he's not having

521
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,880
Speaker 1: anything to do with Phil and his decisions. We don't think,

522
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Speaker 1: We don't think. But he got hired back. And let

523
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Speaker 1: me ask you a question, just as as a smart person.

524
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Speaker 1: Let's say you work at the l A Times, Right,

525
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Speaker 1: if a gentleman, I'm just gonna pose this out that

526
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Speaker 1: you can answer that got fired from the l A

527
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Speaker 1: Times or forget fired left the l a Times because

528
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,640
Speaker 1: of a sexual harassment suit that costs the Only Times

529
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Speaker 1: twelve point five million dollars. Do you think within the

530
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 1: next five years the Only Times will be like, you

531
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,199
Speaker 1: know what I mean? If if you at work at

532
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: Starbucks and this happens, they're not going to call you

533
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 1: back a few years later and be like, you know what,

534
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 1: forgive and forget, come back and work at Starbucks. Probably

535
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,400
Speaker 1: only in New York. Only in the fucking New York

536
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 1: only the Knicks. Right now, let me ask you about

537
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,439
Speaker 1: your Lakers. What is first of all, what does Kobe

538
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 1: Bryant make next year? What are the hopes for the

539
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: Lakers next year? All? Right, Kobe's making and should he's

540
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 1: the highest paid player in the league next year? This? Well, yeah,

541
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 1: and this season two and a half? This okay, okay.

542
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: The Lakers made a bold move and giving him this

543
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: money because it actually hurts them to pay him this

544
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 1: money because he's not a million dollar player on the

545
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: court anymore as far as what he does on the court.

546
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Speaker 1: When you start talking about what he contributes because he

547
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,360
Speaker 1: can't play the same amount of minutes, he gets hurt

548
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: a lot. Now, but this was not about that, and

549
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 1: we could argue this, and if you had some Laker

550
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 1: people in here, they some get up in arms about this.

551
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 1: The Lakers gave him this money because they wanted to

552
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Speaker 1: impress upon whoever else the next star. This is how

553
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: we treat our guys. Okay, while the Miami Heat or

554
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,919
Speaker 1: nickel and diming and asking way Dwyane Wade to take

555
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: less money. And some of these teams are Tim Duncan's

556
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 1: getting less money, right, Kevin Garnett took less money. These

557
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 1: guys are taking less money. Lakers will go in the

558
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 1: opposite direction. We say, yeah, the teams are asking the

559
00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 1: biggest stars, the ones who really bring people in the seats.

560
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 1: We're gonna pay our guy, and we want you to

561
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 1: see the next guy when you come in here. This

562
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: is we're gonna how we're gonna treat you as well.

563
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 1: Who makes these decisions for the Lakers. Is it Mitch

564
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: cup checked? Is it the it's Jim Buss and Mitch

565
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,959
Speaker 1: cup shack. Okay, Jim bust Jim Buss Now dr Bus passed. Okay.

566
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Speaker 1: The way he operated was is he let the basketball

567
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Speaker 1: people make the decisions, but he got involved on the

568
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: final call, and every so often he would disagree, but

569
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Speaker 1: the most party went with what Mitch cup Shack, we're

570
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: doing before that, Jerry West and be so often they disagree.

571
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Speaker 1: Jim Buss is in that same position where he's involved,

572
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: but Mitch makes most of the calls. U Genie Buss

573
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Speaker 1: and Jim Buss were both on board for paying Kobe

574
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Speaker 1: Bryant because, from a business perspective, deserves it. I mean,

575
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: you could say he doesn't deserve it. Now. I am

576
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: a Kobe Bryant supporter. I think that someone who has

577
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: done what Kobe Bryant has done you, he deserves to

578
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: be paid. Period. It hurts their flexibility and their ability

579
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Speaker 1: to spend right now this summer because if they're paying

580
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Speaker 1: him fifteen million, they have ten more to spend. But

581
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: that's that's the choice they make. Kobe is not going

582
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: to be like you ain't coming to Kobe and be like, hey, Kobe,

583
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: can you take a salary cut like that? Like that

584
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: doesn't Once you're paid a guaranteed money, it's it's that's

585
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: locked in, so you can't have to look forward to

586
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 1: you you got misery next year? Well it's I don't

587
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 1: know if they're gonna be a playoff team next year.

588
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 1: But it depends on you know, they have the spending power.

589
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: They have roughly twenty two and a half million to spend.

590
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: They're gonna have the number two pick. Right, So let's

591
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 1: say they get this kid to Okra for and if

592
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,360
Speaker 1: they can convince LaMarcus Aldridge to come. Now you've got

593
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: Oka for at center, Aldridge, and you've got Julius Randall

594
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: off the bench. Okay, that's a nice front court right there.

595
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 1: You've got Kobe, You've got Jordan Clarkson, this kid, and

596
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: they got about like five six million dollars spent on

597
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 1: I get a vet point guard to get a that's

598
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,439
Speaker 1: small forward coming to the Lakers. If if if they

599
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: can get that and get round over four or five

600
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: million dollars, and he wants to come for that, and

601
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: you've got Rondo, Kobe, with Clarkson off the bench, find

602
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 1: a small forward, maybe Nick Young, maybe they trade Nick Young,

603
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 1: get someone else, get him out of here. The point

604
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: is is that now suddenly that's a team that is

605
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: a competitive team and it's a fun team. Well all

606
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 1: that happened, honestly is up to uh LaMarcus Aldris what

607
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: he wants. But now you start going down the list.

608
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: What if all doesn't come, I don't think marcusol is coming.

609
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: He and his brother Pow didn't really end on great terms. Makers.

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00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 1: I don't think that coming. I don't ken talk to

611
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: each other in Spanish and some cryptic Spanish and it

612
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,360
Speaker 1: ain't happen. Right, There's no way Kevin Love has the shoulder.

613
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 1: I don't see that. There's been a lot of talk

614
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: Kevin Love is gonna stay. Well, don't you think Kevin

615
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: Love's gonna stay? I think he'll stick around because because

616
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: of two reasons. Number one, it doesn't fair like he

617
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: didn't finish what he came there to do. And number

618
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: two because the following year he'll be able to do

619
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: that thing with the money. Right, So all these guys,

620
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: that's another whole another questions, are these guys are gonna

621
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: come in for the biggest, most money they can get

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00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: right now, knowing that if they wait a year able

623
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Speaker 1: to crapload more. I think Love is staying Cleveland, right,

624
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: But what guys might do. Lebron will probably opt out

625
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: this year and take what's called it one plus one,

626
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: where he'll sign for a two year deal. Second year

627
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: is his option. So it's like insurance, right, so he'll

628
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: he'll come back on basically on a one year deal.

629
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: He'll just probably for the rest of his career just

630
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,239
Speaker 1: go on like one year deal. So he always has

631
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: this power over the franchise, right. So it'll be like

632
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: you can opt out and let's say you get hurt

633
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: and now you've got that second year it's twenty seven million,

634
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: and you don't opt out. Now you've got that money there.

635
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: So these guys might do one and once and when

636
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: a team goes to resign their guy, they can give

637
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: them five years. Okay, when they go to another team,

638
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: they can get four. So there's usually like a difference

639
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: about thirty million dollars what these guys can sign for.

640
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: But these guys are signing two year deals. That extra

641
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: year doesn't mean a thing doesn't hold any bearing if so.

642
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: There there, it's a very curious. A lot of NBA

643
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: people are very curious to see how this summer goes

644
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: because it's an unknown because of this big cap jump.

645
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: Never had this before in the NBA before. They've never

646
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: seen the salary cap jump million dollars in one summer.

647
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: It's LaMarcus Aldridge, the prize jewel of free agents this summer.

648
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: But I think it's because people think he's gonna leave,

649
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: and I think it's who are the other free agents? Like,

650
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: give me some names, Marcus saw a lot of people

651
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: think are gonna stick He's gonna stick around. There's the

652
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: Kevin Love questions. You think that they think that Gasol

653
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: is gonna stick around in Memphis. That's he seems like

654
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: the type of guy went to high school there. He

655
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: grew up there when Pal was playing, right, Like, they

656
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: they're good. They they had they had Golden States without

657
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: that injury. Right, So what's his name? Mike Conley and

658
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: also Tony Allen they had him on the ropes. Then

659
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: let let me ask you a question. So so basically,

660
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: you're not you're not that excited about what's going to

661
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: go on with the Lakers next year either. Well, you see,

662
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: you know, from first of all, as a journalist, we're

663
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: not supposed to get excited about any of all this stuff.

664
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: We're supposed to take any emotion out the door. It

665
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 1: would be nice when you're covering a team that it's

666
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: not losing every game, where the games are over before

667
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: they be looking for sympathy. Eric, I'm just saying after

668
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: a while writing the stories about draft lottery position. I mean,

669
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: like writing about drafts, like when it's December, right right,

670
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: So I mean from a storyline, if they're in the chase,

671
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: it's much more interesting to write about. But I don't know.

672
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: I mean, look, the Lakers could get all those pieces,

673
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: the Knicks could get all those pieces. Someone someone LaMarcus

674
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: All just gonna go somewhere. Marcusol might stick around. There

675
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: are other free agents. Paul millsaps a free agent, right,

676
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: that's a nice player. And we can go through the

677
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: list the names. Let's name drop. Well, let's see Brook

678
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: Lopez is a potential guy. Might doubt he has stopped out.

679
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: Let's see. I don't think Mike Dunlevy's on your list.

680
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: Lebron and Kevin Love Hey, j R. Smith will probably

681
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: be a free agent. Want him now see? He he

682
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: should go somewhere else. They I mean, if they had

683
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: one and they had the game, yes, to know, if

684
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: they had the other guys, They're like, if you're relying

685
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: on Jr. Smith, that's a problem, no ship. If he's

686
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: the guy who's coming in who when he gets super

687
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: nova hot? So you can win? And they did this,

688
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: they want a few games. It's just because. So if

689
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: you have loved there and all these guys, and Jared

690
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: Smith comes in and flamethrows again and you win one

691
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: of the games, he want a few games, and you're

692
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: relying on him to be your guy. That different story.

693
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: Tyson Chandler is a free agent. Gen Rondo, Uh, and

694
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss some. But of course we said Mark

695
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: g Assol. Uh. Greg Monroe is an interesting guy. I

696
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: think he's gonna leave. Um. Let's see here on the Rockets,

697
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley is restricted. Uh. Raybert can opt out. I

698
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: don't think you. I don't know if he will. He

699
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: makes sixteen million dollars. I don't think I would opt

700
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: out of our him. That's mine. That's my recommendation to him.

701
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan interesting free agent right now. The Clippers want

702
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 1: him and need him. Yes, they need him, and they

703
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: can't afford not to keep him. I think he's going

704
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: to stay. But he's a good player. He's he's he's

705
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: and good dude. I think he would help as long

706
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: as you know that. What you God, you have a

707
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: guy who's not gonna score and hit free can He

708
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: can score on lobs, but he can't do. You can't

709
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:42,479
Speaker 1: shoot away from the basket. Jeremy Lynn. You know Laker fans, uh,

710
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: Jeremy Lynn, or as I like to call him, Jeremy Delava, Nova, Delavanova.

711
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: I can't say his name if I've been trying for

712
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: two months. Delavadova, Jeremy Lynn, Delavadova or Matthew Lynn. They're interchangeable. Interesting.

713
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, Delavadova was Alan Iverson and

714
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: then he became Yeah, Dwyane Wade might he might opt

715
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: out and leave Gordon drag interesting player. That's not like

716
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: he'd be great for the Knicks as well, because that's

717
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: a guy who can do. He'd be a great try

718
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: and Wayne Wade can can can opt out saying yeah,

719
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: he can opt out, Wade can opt out not going anywhere. Well,

720
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: that's the thing is that this is what Kobe did right.

721
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: Kobe got his money. Wade is looking at Kobe and saying,

722
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: why did Kobe get twenty five million dollars I took

723
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: last year? Wade took fifteen, which is a drop down

724
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: for a guy who's like the franchise guy who helped

725
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: them win. He played great things right and he played great,

726
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: he got fifteen million dollars after all that next year,

727
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: he wants to get his max conscience. He deserves it.

728
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: And from that perspective, that's what the that's what the

729
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: Lakers message was when they did that. Now, whether it

730
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: resonates and helps them, we don't know. But Wade might

731
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: leave because and he's putting pressure on the heat because

732
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: he wants his money. He should get his money right.

733
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: And and pat Riley, though he didn't play that. Yeah,

734
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know how that's gonna

735
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: there's no there's no pat Riley. I bet you is

736
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: like a grandpap patter. He's not giving away big gifts.

737
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: He don't give a fuck like I know you're my grandson.

738
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: Take the five hours, go get a Frankfurt and get

739
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: out of my face. Like he doesn't funk around. He

740
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: didn't called Lebron James. That's why Lebron left and he

741
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: let he did. He did it. Pat Riley's way, which

742
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,439
Speaker 1: better or worse, has been successful over a very long time.

743
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy's got rings with different organizations. What

744
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 1: did Lebron want? He wanted his friends to run? Is

745
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 1: that true? Is that like? Is that the reputation like that.

746
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: He wanted his friends to do what Lebron's friends are

747
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: like agents, and like his agent is his best friends

748
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: coming up and uh, he had a lot of people

749
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: who were around the Calves that were working for the calves,

750
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,399
Speaker 1: are involved with the Calves that he helped get there.

751
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, he had an entourage on some level, you know,

752
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,879
Speaker 1: and that that's you know, these guys. I'm not gonna

753
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,919
Speaker 1: say who should have what or whatnot. But pat Riley

754
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: was like, no, we don't play that. So the Calves

755
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 1: are definitely more accommodating to Lebron. Want, Okay, now what

756
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: about let's because we're on le um Is David Black

757
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: and a coach to Cleveland Cavaliers next year. Yeah, they're

758
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: not going to fire him. I mean I can't. I

759
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 1: can't see Lebron that. I don't think it looks well.

760
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: I think the crazy look crazy. Yeah, at this point,

761
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 1: Lebron don't don't if they can always fire Black next year,

762
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: right and put Tyron Louis the head coach. But it

763
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 1: doesn't work out and they started of a sudden, Tyron

764
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: lose a commodity. He's the highest paid assistant coach in

765
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: the league. Okay, okay, and you know he's got great experience,

766
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: he's got great irritation, go with players. They respect him,

767
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: and having respect is the difference here. I don't think

768
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: Black has Lebron's respect. Right. Let me go over a

769
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: few other free agents real quick. It's not shortlist Omar

770
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: Chik right, big center, of course. Uh. Let's see, there's

771
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: Reggie Jackson restricted, though, Draymond Green restricted. These guys wanted

772
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: to get, hard to get. Raymond is not going to

773
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: leave the Warriors, Jimmy Butler restricted, all these guys. Problem

774
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: is that you can't really get these guys. The way

775
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: to restricted free agency works is that the Knicks can say,

776
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,959
Speaker 1: here's all the money we got, and the Bulls simply say, okay,

777
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: well we'll pay him that. And there's nothing that the

778
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: Knicks can do. And how do you get to be

779
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: a restricted free agent versus free agent? If you are playing,

780
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: that's your third grader, who's not who should be in

781
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: the fifth Okay, after you get drafted, if you're drafted

782
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: in the first round, top thirty players, okay, once your

783
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: contract runs out, you're restricted. Okay, wait, say so if

784
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: you're if you if you top thirty draft, Top thirty draft.

785
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,479
Speaker 1: Plick your first contract that you sign your last four years.

786
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: Okay when that is up. Now you're restricted. You're restricted

787
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: so that team can can can match anything that anyone

788
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: offers that someone that says, here, we're gonna give this

789
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: guy four years of the MAX, and the Bulls say,

790
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, you're staying with us for that contract. So

791
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: so so, I don't think the Warriors are gonna get

792
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 1: let go of Draymond and I don't think the Bulls

793
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: are gonna let go of no of Jimmy Butler. Now

794
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:55,760
Speaker 1: give me some insight to this Thibodeaux, give me something.

795
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: Thibodeaux gets fired. He has a great record, he's a

796
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: great coach, brings a lot of ship to Chicago underman,

797
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: the Derrick rose X factor, we know all this stuff.

798
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: He gets fired because essentially he doesn't get along with

799
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 1: the GM. Now does that mean like Thibodeaux might be

800
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: a vegetarian in the GM like to steak or is

801
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: it like play this guy? Uh? Like it's a it's

802
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 1: a philosophical thing, and that the way the teams run

803
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: from the top down, they have a way they want

804
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: to do things and they're the authority figure and when

805
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: one guy isn't doing what they're telling them to do,

806
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 1: they wanted these guys to rest more. He Thibodeau plays

807
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: his guys to the bone, right, Uh, the choices he

808
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: made and his communication with management wasn't there. And so

809
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: is that like fout like like like it's a difference

810
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: part but like with the forty nine is like they're like,

811
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 1: he doesn't get along with like because you never like

812
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: you hear they don't get along. They get along, but

813
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: like it's never articulated, Like what don't they get along?

814
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: They're winning? Obviously the forty nine. Well, the winning covers

815
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: up a lot of flaws and that's why, Right, But

816
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: how many guys in the last five years have been

817
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: fired after like fifty win seasons like Lionel Hollands right,

818
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: different philosophy, Memphis Grizzlies go down the list. It happens

819
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: all the time. My My thing is the rule I'm

820
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: trying to get implemented is is that you're the GM,

821
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,800
Speaker 1: You're the big shot. The guy has fifty wins, you

822
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: fire you coach, asshole, you you you got it all

823
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: figured out? You coach flips is doing that go ahead

824
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: of coach and let's see what you can do. You

825
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: want to fire these guys because I thought Thibo, I

826
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: like the way he coached, and I like what he

827
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:30,359
Speaker 1: got out of that team. Right, Well, that's you think

828
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: that will ever work out? Like this rule that I'm

829
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: trying to You don't think it's it's great. First, the

830
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: guy in Chicago who's the gm uh gar Foreman, whoever

831
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: that is? What's his name, gr gar Foreman? His name

832
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: is gar Foreman. He's got a name that I've never

833
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: even Jim or John Paxson. Jim, I think it is.

834
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: I don't get out of here. And why is Patrick Ewing?

835
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: These are random questions. Why is my man Patrick Ewing

836
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: when the greatest players of all time who obviously wants

837
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: to coach, relegated to doing uh shot sharts and and

838
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: and for the Bobcats, can we can I make Pat's

839
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: never gonna get ship. He's gonna look like, you know,

840
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: Bob McAdoo, looks got the hunch over back for Miami,

841
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: and he's like, we like you, Bob, but it's never

842
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Is that gonna happen to one of the

843
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: greatest centers ever? Like, we like you Pat, like I

844
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: feel like Michael Jordan is still fucking with Pat Ewing.

845
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: It's like he's always gonna get one up on Pat

846
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: at some point either you become it's all perceptual. And

847
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: they don't see him as that material. They don't seem

848
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: as head coaching. They don't. They didn't see Jabbar as

849
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: head coaching material. Rick Berry is the guy who always

850
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: wanted to coach never And now you could say Rick

851
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: Berry has a temperamental personality. Kareem was a little anti social, Yeah,

852
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 1: I don't. I never got that out of Pat Ewing

853
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: that he was some anti social. I just don't want

854
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: to see him hunched over, like the way they have

855
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: Bob McAdoo on the bench and then he's just down there.

856
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 1: He's got he's got reading glasses on, he's it's just

857
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: I don't like it. It's not a good look. It's

858
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: Patrick Ewing. I hear you, I hear you. I I don't.

859
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: I'm not optimistic that he will be head coaches. But

860
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: then they pull Fred Hoiberg out of fucking I don't

861
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: know where, you know, And and in Jack Vaughan, what

862
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: the fucking Jack Vaughans a coach, and Vaughan worked with

863
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 1: the Spurs, and so basically the anyone who had any

864
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: sort of connection to the Spurs got a job. Okay, Okay,

865
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: that's how Jack Vaughan got that job. Hoiberg. He's been

866
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: impressent for whatever he coached Iowa right a college and

867
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 1: for whatever it is. He's been like that guy that

868
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: like people said, yeah, he's gonna be an NBA coach.

869
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: They've said the same thing about some guys. Kevin Ollie

870
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: is supposed to be something, the guy who's going to

871
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: come up, but he did well though. Yeah, a few

872
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: other free agents to talk about, Spurs Kevin, Tim Duncan.

873
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: They're signing right if he retires, and then they're gonna

874
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 1: go after marcusol or La Marcus Aldridge, and I wouldn't

875
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: be shocked if they get one of them. But if

876
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan, he's not going to retire. But if Tim

877
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: Duncan comes back, they can't really afford any of those guys. Okay,

878
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: So now they've got a dump Thiago Splitter. Okay, so

879
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: some of that he makes uh nine eight and a

880
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,479
Speaker 1: half million dollars next year. So let's say the Knicks

881
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: things Splitter is the guy who can help them. They

882
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: could take him for nothing. Basically, OK, spirs have to

883
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: just so in July they this person can call it

884
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: the Knicks and say we'll give you Thiago Splitter and

885
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: we'll give you a draft pick and or whatever or

886
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: and the Nicks gave a second rounder and the next

887
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:20,359
Speaker 1: thing you know, you've got a serviceable center and you're

888
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 1: only paying eight and a half million dollars said twenty

889
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: whatever million. Now they have a lot more money still

890
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: to spend, go after a bigger name. How much is

891
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: Tim duncan make a year? I only made ten point

892
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: four I say only for a guy of his caliber.

893
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,800
Speaker 1: So when you talk about is that the most he's made? No,

894
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 1: he used to make more than that, but he took less.

895
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 1: So that four, right, that's for a guy of his caliber.

896
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: That's not a lot of man. That's that's crazy, and

897
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: that's that's what the message that that the Lakers put

898
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: out there that's different, and that we're gonna pay our

899
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: guys our code, We're gonna pay our superstars what they're worth.

900
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:56,800
Speaker 1: And so that's they're hoping that translates into something this

901
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: because Tim Duncan looked excellent against the Clip first in

902
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs. He looked great, he looks great, He's fantastic STI.

903
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna come back. But if your money, well,

904
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: that's the thing is that if if he comes back,

905
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: he's gonna come back at a discount, They're gonna have

906
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: to dumb splitter and they're probably gonna lose Danny Green

907
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: to free agency because they can't afford to pay him.

908
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: They can't play Marco Belinelli. They can't pay these guys

909
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: and go get a uh Marcus Solo La Marcus Alders

910
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: and keep Duncan. So they're gonna have to really cobble

911
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: this thing down. Yeah. Well, I don't feel bad for

912
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: them either. I mean, but but the thing about the

913
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: Spurs is like they always find somebody they're they're Some

914
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: teams are just good at managing their cap, managing their

915
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: and Mark Huban's going to that Mark Huban. Some owners

916
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: are not that hands on, uh their absentee owners where

917
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: they let the Mark Huban's very hands on and he

918
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: understand manipulates his team as he should. He has a

919
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 1: GM Donnie Nelson, who's Don Nelson's kid, and they work

920
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: together very closely and they work and and so some

921
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,959
Speaker 1: teams are really good at cap management, right, some teams

922
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: are not. The Knicks have not been a good team

923
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: at cap management. No, but now that's what Phil Jackson's doing.

924
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: He's saying, we're gonna dump off all this junk. We're

925
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: gonna bite the bullet and stink it up for a

926
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 1: year or two and then when we get to our

927
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: cap room, then we're gonna start on this three year plan. Now,

928
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 1: everyone hopes that the three year plan takes one year.

929
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: Maybe it takes two years, maybe two years. I'd like

930
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: to be having a discussion with you in two years

931
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: that the Knicks this could be their year. It ain't

932
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: gonna be next year. Lance Stevenson. Now he comes to

933
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: the to the Clippers. Now you got rid of one

934
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: guy who's a little wacky. Maybe put on a little

935
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: mental mental stabilizer. Barnes showed up, hit big shots, brings

936
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: that toughness and you've got a total X factor and

937
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: Lance Stevenson. And not only is he an X factor,

938
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 1: it's an X factor in Hollywood, California. What's the word

939
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 1: on this on him coming on? I like it. I

940
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 1: like it, And I said when Lance was in Indiana

941
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: and he became a free agent. I said, I wouldn't

942
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,839
Speaker 1: touch him, Okay, and if if he's your one, two

943
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: or three best player, now you've got a problem. Because

944
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: in Indiana they had Paul Jorge, they had Hibbert playing well,

945
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: they David West, they had other guys, and so he

946
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 1: was a role player who killed it. Right. He played

947
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: great like JR. Smith type exactly wild card. Right, he's

948
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: a wild card, but he's a little bit more reliable

949
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: and dependable than Jerry Smith. He can't shoot as well.

950
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: That's the problem is Steven. He's a very much better

951
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: an agitator. He's got a little bit of our tests

952
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: in him. Not met a world piece. I've got him

953
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: out and so on the Clippers where you've got the vets.

954
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,959
Speaker 1: He got a good coach and he's gotta he's gotta

955
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 1: prove himself to get paid again. Right, So that's a

956
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: big what's he going to get this year? He's getting

957
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: about nine million dollars all right, but he's got a

958
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 1: two year deal, but the second year isn't guaranteed, so

959
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: he's got to earn that extra money. Right, So yeah,

960
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: he's nine million flat. And then the year after nine

961
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: point four in uh for sixteen seventeen. But the Clippers

962
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: can opt out of that and say, never mind if

963
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: you come here and act like a fucking nut job. Right,

964
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 1: they got rid of Spencer Hawes, who was a terrible fit. Right,

965
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: decent guy, just was terrible, terrible fit for them. I'm

966
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 1: online and I answer questions, and I'm I'm very active

967
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Speaker 1: on Twitter, social media, emails, R I C P I

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