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Speaker 2: this is how it started mont Scene. We got teamed

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Speaker 1: We're like, yes, well does a bear poop in the woods?

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. I mean, we always have plenty

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Speaker 2: to talk about, so we're going to get a full

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Speaker 2: four in here on a fabulous Sports Saturday. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I want to share a quick story that's non sports

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Speaker 2: related before we get to all the sports talk. And

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Speaker 2: we got plenty to get to on a very very

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Speaker 2: busy time in the world of sports. But yesterday I

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Speaker 2: was at your old stomping grounds at Universal Studios.

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Speaker 3: Eew.

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Speaker 2: Now you and your man Sean met a Universal Studio

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Speaker 2: we did.

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Speaker 1: We met on a tram.

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Speaker 2: Well, the tram is a big part of my story.

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Speaker 1: Oh goody, did you Indonise fall back in love on

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Speaker 1: a tram?

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Speaker 4: Was that?

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Speaker 1: What's happening here?

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Speaker 2: No, that did not happen. But you know, we are

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Speaker 2: there to celebrate the birthday of our younger son. He's

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Speaker 2: twenty six years old enough. So it was Denise, my

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Speaker 2: daughter of Paris is in Europe right now with her grandma.

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Speaker 2: And then obviously Drake, our oldest was there as well,

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Speaker 2: so the four of us and we did get the

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Speaker 2: express passage you need toom yeah, and that is well

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Speaker 2: worth it. Although it's not cheap obviously, but it's pricey,

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Speaker 2: but if you want to go to Universal Studios and

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Speaker 2: literally get on.

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Speaker 1: All the ride without stress.

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Speaker 2: Without stress, and we were able to do that over

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Speaker 2: the course of the day. Now, the tram ride was

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Speaker 2: sort of our planned last thing of the day, you know,

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Speaker 2: because it takes about forty five minutes on the tram ride.

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Speaker 2: The tram ride well chronicled about you and Sean falling

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Speaker 2: in love. Actually you fell in love. Sean didn't realize

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Speaker 2: that he had quite fallen in love yet.

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Speaker 1: You know what, See, we don't need to go into

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Speaker 1: the detail.

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Speaker 2: All right, So here's what happened. So it's said on

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Speaker 2: the website, because we checked this all out. The last

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Speaker 2: tram left at six thirty. The park closes at eight.

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Speaker 1: Sounds about right.

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Speaker 2: So but I when we got there, we saw a

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Speaker 2: lot of high school It was grad sort of a grading. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So we're down in the Harry Potter area. We had

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Speaker 2: dinner there, wonderful dinner. Did the two Harry Potter rides,

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Speaker 2: which are normal. Had dinner in Hogsbeat, like the absolutely

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Speaker 2: and I had the chicken with the corn on the cars.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely delicious.

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Speaker 1: It is actually really good food and really.

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Speaker 2: Really good food. And then we did the the two rides,

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Speaker 2: the very quick roller coaster and then the.

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Speaker 1: Long ride of the Hippogriff, Yes, and the Forbidden Journey.

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Speaker 2: Correct. So we did both of those and now we're

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 2: Then if last tram leaves at six thirty according to

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Speaker 2: the website that morning. Yes, So we get there and

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Speaker 2: we got our express passes ready to roll and they're like, no,

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Speaker 2: we're shut down. Last tram left at six fifteen. I

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Speaker 2: said no, it said specifically They're like, no, there's signs

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about on the website at six thirty?

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Speaker 2: And I'm losing it. Mike like, I can. I can

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Speaker 2: maintain a certain level of calm, but if you really

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Speaker 2: So the girl, who has obviously nothing to do with

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Speaker 2: it's six nineteen. Yeah, she refers me to guess relations.

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Speaker 2: So I literally leave the three of them and I

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Speaker 2: So I get up to the boot this guy and

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Speaker 2: I said, we got problems here, and I'm showing him

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Speaker 2: six nineteen and we're turned away and he goes, yeah,

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Speaker 2: well there's signs at say six fifteen. I said, I

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Speaker 2: want a refund on the We don't give refunds, sir, Well.

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Speaker 1: Today I'm as Goona said, today, you will.

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Speaker 2: So I'm losing it. Finally, Denise and the boys show up,

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Speaker 2: knowing that Dad, you don't want to unleash Dad. They

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Speaker 2: almost pull me away, right, so we almost resign ourselves

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Speaker 2: that we just got screwed. We're just gonna have to

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Speaker 2: We did a couple other rides and then it's getting

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Speaker 2: chocolates and a couple of muffins, sort of wrap up

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Speaker 2: our day. And then I see Denise and you see,

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Speaker 2: you know, you know how Denise is. She's talking to guy,

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Speaker 2: looks very official. And the next thing I know, this

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Speaker 2: and by the way, she's a big KTLA fan where

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Speaker 2: up b shawn aylock words so that you know we're

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Speaker 2: talking about that, and she brings in another guy. She

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Speaker 2: goes arrange for a future day where they can get

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Speaker 2: four express passes. So my oldest son says, well, his

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Speaker 2: birthdays in October, so there you go, that'd be great.

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Speaker 2: And then the guy says, well, we have the Halloween

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Speaker 2: you know, yeah, would you rather have that as well?

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Speaker 2: And he's like, yes, yes, they've been to that event

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Speaker 2: many times in the years. Express passes for them.

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Speaker 1: That is expense more expensive.

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Speaker 2: Really expensive for that night. Yes, four passes.

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Speaker 1: Wow, I'll give you a tour right now, so you know, Studios,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to feel like you've missed it. You

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Speaker 1: want you want me to give you my spiel going

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Speaker 1: down the movie timeline on your left hand side. Sound

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Speaker 1: Stage twelve, one of the biggest in the world, where

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Speaker 1: the Voice film, where Scarface film that happened right in there,

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Speaker 2: I bet you know I actually did that. I did

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Speaker 2: your job for one day. It was a big station

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Speaker 2: promotion where I got to do the reading of it.

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Speaker 2: But the fact that now I want to thank these

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Speaker 2: people Universal Studios. You were very cool, came through. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: not necessary, we'd accepted our fate. But then for him

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Speaker 2: to score those four tickets.

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Speaker 1: For that night, yeah, no, that's pretty incredible.

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Speaker 2: People. If you don't understand how expensive those Halloween Horror

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Speaker 2: Nice Express Express tickets are for that and it's.

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Speaker 1: A hard cap, like the amount of Yes, Like there's

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Speaker 1: also a cap for the day operation, but it's a

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Speaker 1: different cap, the night one. It's like a hard cap

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Speaker 1: and it sells out quickly and it's very expensive to do.

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Speaker 2: So they did that.

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Speaker 1: Well listen, it's I will thank you, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's so funny. When I used to work

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Speaker 1: there on the tram, people would would cut Like the

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Speaker 1: park closes at eight, and people would show up at

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Speaker 1: seven thirty. They're like, this is all we wanted to do,

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Speaker 1: So why did you come at seven thirty at nine?

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Speaker 1: If this was why you came from Florida to do

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Speaker 1: And it always closed early, but sometimes people will come

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Speaker 1: would get so mad. I was like, well, probably you

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Speaker 2: Chris?

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Speaker 6: How are you today? I'm doing alright? You know your

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Speaker 6: stories are dredging up memories of mine. When my first

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Speaker 6: of hell because there was no sign posted that carousel

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Speaker 6: And I'm kind of getting a little bit of PTSD here,

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Speaker 2: You don't want to be around me. The poor guy,

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Speaker 2: this guy? How old was when you say guy, how

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Speaker 2: The only thing that's saved Hector, Denise and the boys

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Speaker 2: I'm trying. I've tried everything in my power to get

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the guy, the guy from my youth, was threatening

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Speaker 2: Oh I hadn't. I had it all over. I said,

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Speaker 2: false advertising. You know, we'll do a full investigation on

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Speaker 2: the TV. What's your name? Is that your real name?

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Speaker 2: I was. I was so obnoxious, it was ridiculous, but

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Speaker 2: of that, we had a wonderful dad. It's a great

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Speaker 2: it's a great time. So if you're listening wherever you are,

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Speaker 2: a chance to go out to Universal Studios. I've only

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Speaker 2: been there like a thousand times, you tell me, And

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Speaker 2: it's uh, it's well worth it to go to the

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Speaker 2: water World show.

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Speaker 1: That is such a good show.

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Speaker 6: Still still still twenty four and we still have a show,

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Speaker 6: a live show with water World, probably because they haven't

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Speaker 6: made another movie that involves both pyrotechnics and jet skis.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The one ride where the express pass does not

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Speaker 2: work is the Nintendo Ride, which is the new one

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Speaker 2: and for my generation. I'm just not a video game guy.

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Speaker 2: I know that seems archaic, like you really have to

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Speaker 2: be old. Not Nintendo is old too. I imagine you

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Speaker 2: have found something well. I mean, by the way, our

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Speaker 2: to my boys. They're like, you know, you just shoot.

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Speaker 2: I mean I was just, you know, hitting the buttons

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Speaker 2: as fast as they could. I didn't even know what

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Speaker 2: I was saying. I hear Drake like yelling at me.

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Speaker 2: He's in the front seat. He's got turn Dad turn

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Speaker 10: People don't realize that, right Like they are only twelve teams,

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Speaker 10: hit hit, bombs, hit logo threes, And so it was

438
00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,920
Speaker 10: it was short of that effect. And then after the game,

439
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,879
Speaker 10: like no one left, Like she's walking off the court

440
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,359
Speaker 10: and you know, saying goodbye to people and everything. She's

441
00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:46,919
Speaker 10: getting a standing ovation and I got chills in all honesty,

442
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:48,119
Speaker 10: like it was the first I ever been a sporting

443
00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,159
Speaker 10: event and that happened. And so it's you can see it.

444
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,160
Speaker 10: You can see it in the attendance. You know, even

445
00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,919
Speaker 10: after the Clark game, Like it wasn't nineteen thousand, you know,

446
00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,840
Speaker 10: that showed up the very next night when we played Dallas,

447
00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:02,400
Speaker 10: but it was it was over ten thousand plus, right,

448
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,520
Speaker 10: which is near the top of the league in the WNBA.

449
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 10: And so you're certainly seeing the effect from this class

450
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,320
Speaker 10: has been phenomenal in terms of like their following. This

451
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,040
Speaker 10: is a class that's unique because they started in the pandemic,

452
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,719
Speaker 10: and so we had nothing to do with sit at

453
00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:20,800
Speaker 10: home and watch TV. We were watching sports. And so

454
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,399
Speaker 10: I think the world, the country just kind of just

455
00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,840
Speaker 10: followed this classics progression, and they put up fantastic numbers

456
00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:31,119
Speaker 10: and had incredible followings like a Clerk, you know, like

457
00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,879
Speaker 10: a Ree, like a Cardoso, like a Brink, like a

458
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 10: Rakia Jackson whose sparks have as well and have sort

459
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,399
Speaker 10: of followed this group into the w NBA. And so

460
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Speaker 10: I think that's allowed for sort of this popularity increase.

461
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Speaker 2: All right, Let's make something very clear. There are no

462
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Speaker 2: fever fans in La. Clark fans in La. Let's make

463
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,200
Speaker 2: that Claire. You know they don't care about the fever,

464
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 2: but they obviously do care about Caitlin Clark. All right,

465
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Speaker 2: I want to switch scares now, Rashaan. You know that

466
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 2: Monci is a die hard Clippers fan, and you do

467
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,680
Speaker 2: some working with Katla on the Clippers broadcast as well,

468
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,920
Speaker 2: So I want to get your take on where they're going.

469
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 2: They just signed Tyler. We were winning on this contract extension.

470
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 2: He's getting a lot of money and I'll say anything

471
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,240
Speaker 2: you want to say if you're going to pay me

472
00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:20,359
Speaker 2: fourteen million dollars a year, So all of a sudden,

473
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Speaker 2: he's buying in to the future of this franchise. But

474
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,359
Speaker 2: they got to make a decision on Paul George, they

475
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,760
Speaker 2: got to make a decision on James Harden. Where are

476
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 2: they going from here? And do you believe that that

477
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 2: trio can eventually lead the Clippers to the promised Land?

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Speaker 10: I think so, Steve. I was shocked. I was shocked

479
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 10: the way it ended. I was baffling to me the

480
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Speaker 10: way that it ended. But here's the thought. I think

481
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 10: you bring in a Harden, right, just because you know

482
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Speaker 10: the injury history with Kawhi, you know the injury history

483
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Speaker 10: with Peg, Like in case one of those guys go down,

484
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,960
Speaker 10: then you also have another superstar there, right and hard

485
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,439
Speaker 10: and so I think that's why you bring him in.

486
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 10: I think that he wants to be here. It looks

487
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 10: like he's going to be here to stay. I personally thought,

488
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,360
Speaker 10: you know, even without Kawhi, they had enough to get

489
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Speaker 10: past Dallas. But Dallas is on this historical run right now,

490
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 10: which is reminiscent of their last historical run where you know,

491
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 10: they slipped the Lakers out of the playoffs. Andrew Biden

492
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 10: was throwing his jersey into the stands after getting ejected.

493
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Speaker 10: So it seems it seems it seemed like they had enough.

494
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 10: And I say that because we saw it right Like

495
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 10: I was with this team on the first half of

496
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 10: the Grammy trip, and that's when they were, without questioning,

497
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 10: the best team in the league at the time, like

498
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 10: net rating, offensive rate, defensive, you name it. Like they

499
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Speaker 10: were at the top of the charts in that and

500
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Speaker 10: they went into the Boston Garden on the second out

501
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Speaker 10: of a back to back against a Celtics team that,

502
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,920
Speaker 10: granted was without Christats Razingis, but they so lacked them.

503
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 10: I mean like it wasn't even close. I don't even

504
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 10: know if Chriss would have been a help that night.

505
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 10: It was one of the worst losses of the Celtics

506
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 10: that ever had inside the Boston Garden. So I think

507
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 10: the key thing is being able to get PG back.

508
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,879
Speaker 10: And you know, I think you kind of have a

509
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 10: still mat right now, and where's this going to go?

510
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 3: Right?

511
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,200
Speaker 10: It appears that, you know, the contract is there waiting

512
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 10: for him to sign. It looks like he wants from

513
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 10: all the reports, it looks like he wants Max money

514
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 10: and Philly and possibly Orlando may be willing to go there,

515
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Speaker 10: which it looks like the Clippers may not be willing

516
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,199
Speaker 10: to go there right now. So uh, I think that's

517
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 10: that's huge because without without PG, now you're kind of

518
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 10: stuck in a situation where you're down one less superstar, right,

519
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,120
Speaker 10: and you don't have the cat space to go get

520
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 10: another one, right, You don't have the cappace to go

521
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 10: get anybody. Really like, I mean, you're kind of hamstrung.

522
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 10: Two PG too, Kawhi too hard, and in that sense

523
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 10: because the Clippers is don't They don't have the assets,

524
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 10: they don't have the cat space to go out and

525
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 10: do anything. And so I think this whole PG thing,

526
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 10: the way this whole thing plays out, is going to

527
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Speaker 10: be something to watch this summer.

528
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Speaker 1: You know, I really like that you said that you

529
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Speaker 1: think they can make this work, Rashwan, But I.

530
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Speaker 10: Was drinking the kool aid. I'm not gonna lie like

531
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Speaker 10: I was.

532
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Speaker 1: No, Yeah, what are you tell you?

533
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 10: I can't say that about the Clippers.

534
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,160
Speaker 1: I've been drinking the kool aid for years and it's

535
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: the same damn kool aid and nothing changes here. I'm

536
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Speaker 1: just like I feel I feel like Kawhi Leonard being

537
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 1: extended is what is holding us hostage? Like we need

538
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 1: to sign PG now because you're right, but are we

539
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,400
Speaker 1: are we just going through the motions now.

540
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Speaker 10: It's it's interesting because like there's there's this the thought

541
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 10: out there. Right, Like Kawhi, I mean, he played in

542
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 10: most games ever played as a Clipper. He looked like

543
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 10: the old Kawhi, right Like, he looked like Kawhi Leonard,

544
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 10: like a top five player in this league. And it

545
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 10: was a contract here, right, No, he signs a contract man.

546
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:57,640
Speaker 10: Unfortunately he's not available for the postseason. And so it's

547
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Speaker 10: I mean it's tough because when those guys are healthy,

548
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 10: you know what you got, you know what you can get.

549
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,439
Speaker 10: But it's a big ifs and it just hasn't like

550
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 10: Kawhi just hasn't been available for the postseasons or one

551
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,959
Speaker 10: injury or another. You know, PG has had his issues.

552
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 10: You know, Harden got off to a great start, but

553
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 10: he sort of, you know, sort of fizzled towards the

554
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,120
Speaker 10: end of the season, whether it was fatigue or what

555
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 10: have you. And so, I mean, they it's the decisions

556
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 10: that they have to make, are there. They don't they

557
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 10: don't really have a choice like they need Kawhi like

558
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 10: they need PG because they're so they gave up so

559
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 10: many assets for PG, right, like you, it's almost like

560
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 10: you have to retain him and then even if he leaves,

561
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 10: like you can, you can sign him because he's one

562
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 10: of your guys, right, so you can go over the

563
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 10: salary cap, right, you can be in that lecture tax spreshold.

564
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 10: But if he walks out the door, there's no money

565
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 10: there to be able to bring anybody else in. And

566
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 10: so are they hamstrung in in a way, yes, in

567
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 10: a sense because they they're they're sort of married to

568
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 10: this bunch and Balmer I mean, credit him, like he

569
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 10: wants to take this thing through. They're entering a new arena.

570
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 10: They got a whole new branding. I like the red uniform.

571
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 10: It looks good. I mean, hopefully the product, you know,

572
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 10: is the same thing. I'm sure we'll see you in

573
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 10: the wall.

574
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be on the wall. It looks too steep.

575
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: I'll be there, Oh, don't don't get me wrong. I

576
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: want to be there. The wall just looks a little

577
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: steep for me.

578
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm gonna do it well, Rashawn,

579
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 2: I tell you what. It's great to catch up with you.

580
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 2: I I like that sort of full circle. So I

581
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 2: was there to sort of help or Sean get his

582
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 2: career started, and then he was there to help your

583
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 2: career started. And now with Sean Monsie is here to

584
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 2: help keep my career a lot. Okay, So it's like

585
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 2: it's like a full circle here, which is unbelievable. Rashan,

586
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 2: love you man, it's great to catch up with you.

587
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 2: Continue the great work and future success as always.

588
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 10: Love you too, buddy, Thanks for having me.

589
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 2: Take care bye, Rashawan.

590
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: Thank you.

591
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 2: That's uh Rashaan Haylock. There is like a full circle thing.

592
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: It is like a full circleunbelievable.

593
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 2: All right, speaking of full circle, let's find out what

594
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 2: is trending right now. There's another man we love who

595
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 2: I had no idea. He thought, Wow, Harvin, you get

596
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 2: here early. But this is really ridiculous. You're here this early,

597
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 2: and I'm like, no, no, no, four hours with Moncey today,

598
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 2: we're here the whole time you're here.

599
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 11: Well, usually if you have a show in the afternoon,

600
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 11: you're spending the night in the studio.

601
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm usually here to terrorize who's ever sitting

602
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 2: where you're sitting right now, whether it's Ilo, Nick Cope

603
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 2: obviously you I mean, and what we have interesting conversations,

604
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 2: I believe. I do believe too.

605
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 11: But Moncey, as you know, I mean in having conversations

606
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 11: with Steve, I don't know if you'd call them conversations,

607
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 11: I'd call them more like monologues.

608
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're monologues with an occasional one line

609
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: are thrown in and then all.

610
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 2: Of a sudden he just's right back in and then

611
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 2: here he goes for another four or five minutes. I'll

612
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 2: put it this way. You're are one of the best

613
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 2: at feigning interest in what I'm talking about. Some people

614
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 2: are really, you know, pretty clear, like stop talking, but

615
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 2: you at least pretend that what everything coming out of

616
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 2: my mouth because everything I'm saying is very interesting to

617
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 2: me obviously, well for sure. But you know, do your

618
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 2: kids think that though?

619
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: You know they know, yeah, they listen and then they're like,

620
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:23,959
Speaker 1: have money please?

621
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Speaker 11: So yeah, no, that's exactly the case, Monsy, because like

622
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 11: I don't play a psychologist on the radio, but I

623
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 11: feel what you don't get from your kids as far

624
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,959
Speaker 11: as that validation about how cool you are and all

625
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 11: the stats you have is when you come in here

626
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 11: and you get to share that information with me and

627
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 11: Monsey and others. That's where we come in and you're

628
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 11: not getting it from your kids.

629
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you see how that works. Well. I appreciate that,

630
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 2: I really do. At this stage. I would hope that

631
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 2: I have some relevance.

632
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, yes, of course. And your hair hasn't changed

633
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 11: from all these years. That always will be relevant.

634
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: And it doesn't move, it doesn't.

635
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 2: It just right there.

636
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm just wondering. Kind of reminds me of Marv

637
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 11: Albert and what he has.

638
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 2: But that that is, there's a difference between Marv's hair

639
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 2: and my hair. What's that his store bought and mine

640
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 2: is acting mine?

641
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 11: I don't know, likely to see I love to see

642
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 11: well to see about that. But yeah, I mean, obviously

643
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 11: Marv Albert spending many years in the NBA and from

644
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 11: the w NBA as where we go and then click.

645
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 11: Cayden Clark had eleven points, eight rebound, six assists and

646
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 11: a performance where she went to of nine from three

647
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 11: point range. I know Steve was high on her performance.

648
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 2: She's shooting thirty six percent from the field this year

649
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 2: and about thirty percent from the free point line, and

650
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 2: those aren't really impressive numbers.

651
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 11: Now, well from where she's attempting them, they should be

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Speaker 11: four pointers. So Indiana fever, they win their first game

653
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Speaker 11: at home. Their first home win is today and they

654
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Speaker 11: beat the Chicago Sky seventy one to seventy at a

655
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Speaker 11: barn burner of a contest. Major League Baseball, Oh my goodness,

656
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Speaker 11: you got eight different games going on right now, including

657
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Speaker 11: the one that's been on longest, the Toronto Blue Jays.

658
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 11: They have been blanked five to nothing against the Pittsburgh

659
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 11: Pirates into the sixth inning is where they are in Toronto.

660
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Speaker 11: Blue Jays are going to be without Jordan Romano, their closer,

661
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Speaker 11: because he is going to be put on the fifteen

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Speaker 11: day il because of right elbow inflammation. The p Andres

663
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 11: are currently losing on the road at the Kansas City

664
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Speaker 11: Royals two to one in the third, and the Padres

665
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 11: are going to be out You Darvish and Joe Muskrove,

666
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 11: two of their key pitchers, because of left groin strain.

667
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 11: For Darvish and Muscrove with the right elbow inflammation, so

668
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 11: they will both be planted on the fifteen day il

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Speaker 11: other notable Major League Baseball games right now, the Orioles

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Speaker 11: and Rays, they are all squared up at three in

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Speaker 11: the top of the second, Diamondbacks and Mets into the first.

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Speaker 11: And I know Steve's very familiar now with Phoenix and

673
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Speaker 11: the Diamondbacks.

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00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 2: Also the White Socks and.

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Speaker 11: Brewers without a score at all going into the third inning.

676
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Speaker 11: They're one one, Red Sox and tie bottom of the second.

677
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 11: You mentioned the Padres score, the Guardians two Nationals nothing

678
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 11: top of the second. There so a lot of these

679
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Speaker 11: games in their infancy. NHL Rangers and Panthers tonight at

680
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Speaker 11: eight Eastern, it's the Eastern Conference Final, Game six with

681
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Speaker 11: floridahead and the best of seven series three games to two.

682
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 11: Can the Rangers force a game seven and third round

683
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 11: of the RBC Canadian Open Ryan Fox and Robert McIntyre.

684
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Speaker 11: They are currently at the top of the leader board,

685
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Speaker 11: Ryan Fox sole possession of first into that third round.

686
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 2: He is through five holes, he is four under.

687
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Speaker 11: The man is on a tear, and so much could

688
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Speaker 11: be said about Rory McElroy, who finished his day with

689
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Speaker 11: a sixty five in round three that put him to

690
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Speaker 11: seven under for the tournament. Five under on his day today.

691
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 11: And lastly, Real Madrid and Dortmund they are fighting for

692
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 11: that Champions League title and as of right now, we're

693
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Speaker 11: watching things unfold in that mega soccer test in Real Madrid.

694
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 11: In the seventy seventh minute, they have a one nil lead.

695
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Speaker 11: With that, let's kick the soccer ball back over to

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Speaker 11: Steven Monsei Ice the family.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, be Fenn. All right, coming up

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Speaker 2: on the other side, we're gonna begin our conversation about

699
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Speaker 2: the looming NBA Finals matchup between the Boston Celtics and

700
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Speaker 2: the team that Monsey guaranteed four weeks ago would win

701
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 2: the NBA Championship, the Dallas Mavericks. We're gonna talk about

702
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 2: the biggest problem with this matchup. This is Fox Sports Saturday,

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Speaker 2: Steve Harvey, Moncie Belanos Here, Fox Sports Saturday. We are

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Speaker 2: live from the tire Rock dot Com studios. All right,

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Speaker 2: we're all set NBA Finals matchup between the Boston Celtics

706
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 2: and the Dallas Mavericks, and we got a lot to

707
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 2: break down over the course of the show today on

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Speaker 2: what I think is a pretty intriguing NBA Finals matchup.

709
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 2: But there is one major problem with this matchup.

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Speaker 1: When's the problem.

711
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 2: The Celtics wrapped up their four games sweep over the

712
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Speaker 2: Pacers on Monday.

713
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Speaker 1: Which is like a turnadygo, and.

714
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Speaker 2: The MAVs finished off the t Wolves on Thursday. By

715
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Speaker 2: the time we get to Game one of the NBA Finals,

716
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Speaker 2: the MAVs will been off seven days and the Celtics

717
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 2: will have been off ten days.

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00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: If you want to know how to lose an audience,

720
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Speaker 2: first of all, you had two very forgettable conference finals.

721
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Speaker 2: One was a sweep, one was a five game series,

722
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Speaker 2: and the way the t Wolves didn't show up at

723
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 2: home in Game five was embarrassing. So we had some

724
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Speaker 2: competitive series in the first and second rounds, but the

725
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 2: conference championships were duds. And now you've got this extended layoff.

726
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 2: By the time we get to Thursday, most people already

727
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 2: assumed the NBA season is over. Yeah, out of sight,

728
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 2: out of mind. I mean this to me, and either way,

729
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 2: it's not the first time it's happened. There was a

730
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 2: very famous story about the nineteen eighty nine finals when

731
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 2: pat Riley was the coach of the team and he

732
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 2: coined the phrase three peat like he can use if

733
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 2: I just said that I have to pay him or

734
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 2: something like that. Anyway, and the Lakers swept through all

735
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 2: first three rounds. They were eleven first was three out

736
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 2: of five to four out of seven four US, they

737
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 2: were eleven to zero and they're waiting on the winner

738
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 2: of the East. Turns out to be the Pistons rematch

739
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 2: from the year before, and they had like a ten

740
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 2: day layoff, and Riley was so concerned about them getting stale.

741
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 2: According to Michael Thompson, my former partner who was on

742
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 2: that team, he ran like a training camp and guys

743
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 2: got hurt and by the time they showed up for

744
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 2: the finals, half the team was banged up and they

745
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 2: got swept out of the finals. Yeah, so this is

746
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 2: going to be interesting. It's frustrating as a fan, like,

747
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 2: let's get this thing going. I gotta wait till Thursday

748
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 2: for game one. Yeah, but how Celtics management and Mavericks

749
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 2: management handled this extended layoff. You haven't had this all

750
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 2: year long. You don't even have this kind of layoff

751
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 2: during the All Star break. How you handle that layoff

752
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 2: to get ready for this finals will have a big

753
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 2: bearing on how it all plays out.

754
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not wrong about that. I don't know why

755
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: the league selects like a date so far in advance

756
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: as to when the finals are going to start, when

757
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: you have no idea what's going to happen. And this

758
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 1: is a perfect example. I've never understood why they do that.

759
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: Another good point you have is that in basketball more

760
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: than in football, when your team is out, a lot

761
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: of fans check out, like they'll check back in eventually,

762
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 1: maybe like game whatever five in the finals. Can you

763
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: have a week off, But even if your team is

764
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: like out of the playoffs, you're watching that game. When

765
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: it comes to basketball, when your team is out, you're

766
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: kind of checked out, and you'll come back and like

767
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: check a game or two, but you are not invested

768
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,439
Speaker 1: the way it is in football when your team does

769
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: not play in the playoffs. So this is it's gonna

770
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: be interesting how both teams manage and handle the time off. Obviously,

771
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,240
Speaker 1: Boston is probably enjoying it a little bit more because

772
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: Christops Porzingis has a chance to come back and play

773
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: in the finals. They haven't said that, but he's been

774
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: out there working out, so for them, they're probably seeing

775
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: it as a positive. But in the grand scheme of things, yeah,

776
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: you can't replicate a game You can't pretend to have

777
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: five on five during practice and that that's gonna be

778
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 1: the intensity of what the Mavericks are going to bring

779
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: or vice versa. You can't do that. And so hopefully

780
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: the league realizes this that this is too much of

781
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: a gap, Like, what are we doing? What do you

782
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: mean we don't have a game until June fifth? What

783
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: are you talking about?

784
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 2: I know that they sort of set the schedule based

785
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 2: on the potential of a seven game series, but it's

786
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 2: not like you have a destination you know what's going

787
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 2: to happen, No do you. You don't know where these

788
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 2: games are going to be played until each round of

789
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 2: the playoffs is finished, and then they determine where you

790
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 2: know the games are going to be played. Why can't

791
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 2: you change it right?

792
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,280
Speaker 1: Why can't we change it now?

793
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 2: I just do not understand. It's it's like the NBA

794
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 2: shoots themselves in the foot constantly, and they wonder. I

795
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 2: was listening to Mark Medina was on with Dan Bayer earlier,

796
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 2: and then somehow Mark, we'll come back for our show

797
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 2: a little bit later on to give his NBA exa.

798
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 2: But it was interesting because it was it you Chris

799
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:54,800
Speaker 2: or was it talking about which you were asking questions

800
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 2: of Medina and which day of the year now since

801
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 2: the NFL is now running over them. On Christmas Day

802
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:05,240
Speaker 2: mentioned Saint Patrick.

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00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 6: I jokingly said, Saint Patrick's Day, right, maybe like Mother's Day.

804
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 2: I mean, and the right thing. He goes, I got

805
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 2: news to you the NFL. Trump's the NBA three hundred

806
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 2: and sixty five days a year.

807
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not wrong, he's not wrong, but I was.

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Speaker 6: Just I was that's right. But at the same time,

809
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Speaker 6: it's like I at least something to pillar yourself around

810
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Speaker 6: a single day would be a start.

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Speaker 2: Now, I think, for look at it. I know there's

812
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: diehard NBA fans out there that honestly could care the

813
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 2: less about the NFL. Very few, very few. They exist,

814
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 2: they do exist, But for the overwhelming majority, you know,

815
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 2: doing this for a long time, they get frustrated if

816
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 2: we're literally not talking NonStop NFL, right, And that's just

817
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 2: not going to happen because I have interest in other sports.

818
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 2: I've always had one of my frustrations when I worked

819
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 2: for the Raiders organization was is that site tied to

820
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 2: the NFL all year long? And I'm like, no, I

821
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 2: don't want to do that, and then I got into sportstock,

822
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 2: which was perfect. Now I can talk about any sport

823
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 2: or anything, anything and whether you like it or not

824
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 2: so anyway, But we're gonna get into this matchup between

825
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 2: the Celtics and the Mavericks, made even more interesting by

826
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Speaker 2: the fact that yes, and only only one, only one,

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Speaker 2: certainly here at Fox Sports Radio a month ago, a

828
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 2: month ago picking the Mavericks to win the NBA Championship.

829
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Speaker 2: How is that gonna happen against the best team this

830
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Speaker 2: year in the NBA. We're gonna break it all down,

831
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Speaker 2: keep it here. Much more coming up. This is Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Saturday, rolling along here bonus time for us on

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Speaker 2: It would be a lot more exciting today if we

839
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Speaker 2: had Game one of the NBA Finals today curiously, or

840
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 2: tomorrow or Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday. But we're not

841
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 2: going to get the NBA Finals underway till Thursday. Celtics

842
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 2: off for ten days, the Mavericks off for seven days.

843
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because it makes perfect sense.

844
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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable, all right. So, by the way, it's an

845
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 2: interesting matchup. When he considered this, the Boston Celtics had

846
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 2: by far the best record in the NBA regular season

847
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 2: this year, sixty four and eighteen, number one seed in

848
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 2: the East. In the postseason, they are twelve and two.

849
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 2: The Dallas Mavericks this year were fifty and thirty two.

850
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 2: They were the five seed in the West. In the postseason,

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00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,479
Speaker 2: they are twelve and five. So if you just look

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Speaker 2: at the records of these two teams, this one does

853
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 2: not bode well for the Dallas Mavericks. And the Celtics

854
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 2: have been every bit as dominant in the postseason as

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00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:13,280
Speaker 2: they've been in the regular season, complete domination of the East.

856
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 2: And yet I'm sitting here looking at someone that is

857
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Speaker 2: so breaming with confidence that the Dallas Mavericks ultimately are

858
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 2: going to be crown NBA champions. So let's start right there. Ok,

859
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 2: for our listeners, you made this bold prediction after the

860
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 2: Mavericks eliminated your beloved Clippers in the first round of

861
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 2: the playoffs, and you saw something, obviously, because you could

862
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 2: have just said, all right, well, they're going to lose.

863
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 2: In the name, how frustrating for the Clippers to lose

864
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 2: to a team that's not going anywhere. Instead, you want

865
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Speaker 2: all in on the Mavericks. So what did you see

866
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Speaker 2: then that convinced you that they would ultimately be where

867
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Speaker 2: they are now.

868
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: So even actually before the season started, I was talking

869
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: to Carrie Rhodes, who's a big Maps fan, and I

870
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: told him the Clippers of the Maps will come out

871
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 1: of the West, one of them. And so I felt

872
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: that early on, even before the series started. I was

873
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: very disappointed because I like them Maps. So I was

874
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: disappointed we're gonna see them. But I was like, whoever

875
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: wins out of these two teams will come out of

876
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: the West. Now. I after they beat my beloved Clippers,

877
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: I saw a team that won, that won as a

878
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: team without their star being the star. That was a

879
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: big thing. Obviously, Doncic has now he is the star.

880
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: He was always a star. He just didn't play that

881
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: well against the Clippers. They are playing their best basketball

882
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: right now. The Celtics, you're right, dominated all season out

883
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: of the East. They were always in first place. They

884
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 1: pretty much cruised through the playoffs. They didn't have any

885
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: big issues. But the Celtics, to me, I don't see

886
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: them coming out as champions because if it is a

887
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: let's say every single game is a close game and

888
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: it comes down to the final minute and it's a

889
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:06,320
Speaker 1: tie game, to me, the closers are on the Mavericks.

890
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: If it is one minute left in the game and

891
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: it's a tie game, the Mavericks will win every game.

892
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 1: I don't see the Celtics coming out in a close game.

893
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: The closers are on the Dallas Mavericks. This is not

894
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: supposed to say that Jason Tatum is not good and

895
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,840
Speaker 1: that he can't shoot. He's great, and so is Jalen Brown.

896
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: Chris Topsporzing is going to be a big aspect. The

897
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: defense that the Celtics have, Derek White, all of that,

898
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: they're all great. It's just right now, the MAVs as

899
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: a team are playing better basketball than the Celtics. They

900
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: are they take care of home court advantage the Celtics.

901
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: They're like, we're at home, it's all right, we'll lose,

902
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: that's okay.

903
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 2: All right, So let's break this down in terms of

904
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 2: the superstar players for these two teams. Yes, well I

905
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 2: U superstar. Let's just say the biggest stars, biggest two stars.

906
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 2: So Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown going against obviously Luca and

907
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 2: Kyrie right now in this moment. Yeah, if you were

908
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 2: to choose either one of those pairs to start your team,

909
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 2: which pair would you pick?

910
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: Luca and Kyrie? No questions us.

911
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 2: Now. The argument against that is is that Jaylen Brown

912
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 2: and Jason Tatum are better two way players than Luca

913
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 2: and Kyrie, who are offensively dominant players, but they don't

914
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 2: play both in so the court at the same level

915
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 2: that Tatum or Brown do.

916
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: And that is a fact. You were right about that.

917
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to matter for some reason.

918
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: It's just they it is their moment. It is a

919
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: MAVs moment. It's just like when we're talking to Rashan

920
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: Haylock and he was like that Grammary road trip for

921
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:45,800
Speaker 1: the Clippers. They were the best team in the league

922
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: for like twenty five games. Great, why were we not

923
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: the best team in June or you know, like May.

924
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: It didn't make sense to be the best team in

925
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: December January. It does not matter. The Celtics have been

926
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: good all season. That's awesome, that's great. Right now, the

927
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,359
Speaker 1: Mavericks are playing their best basketball. They are in a

928
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: zone you cannot disrupt. Kyrie or Luca. I would take them,

929
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: even though you're right the other two better two way player. Sure, Sure,

930
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 1: I'll still take and Luca.

931
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,359
Speaker 2: I agree with you on this though, and that is

932
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 2: I'm a little torn on those in this whole thing,

933
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 2: because obviously, if you're gonna win a championship, your stars

934
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 2: have to play well. Yes, but ultimately, we've seen this

935
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 2: time and again in any sport that the difference in

936
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 2: winning a World Series or a Super Bowl, or an

937
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 2: NBA Finals or a Stanley Cup comes down to players

938
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 2: that we were not thinking about going into the final round, right,

939
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 2: And you have to get that kind of support. Now

940
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 2: when I look at the Celtics now, I'm a little

941
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 2: close to Drew Holiday.

942
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: He's great.

943
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 2: I interviewed him when he came out of high school

944
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,359
Speaker 2: before he had his one and done at UCLA's hard

945
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 2: to believe fourteen years in the NBA. But one thing

946
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 2: I know about Drew Holliday at this point of his

947
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 2: career's defense. I never thought that Drew Holliday was that

948
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 2: kind of a player. He's gotten better and better. Derek White. Obviously,

949
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 2: he's been one of the premier defensive players in this

950
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 2: league for ten years.

951
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: White should have been well. When Jalen Brown was awarded

952
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 1: the Conference MVP, yeah, I thought it should have been

953
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 1: Derek White. I know that it was more for that

954
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: game he had just had that forty piece, But throughout

955
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: the playoffs, Derek White.

956
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:31,760
Speaker 2: This is where it's at. Think about this. When the

957
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 2: Celtics lost the finals to the Golden State Warriors a

958
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, and obviously all the hooplah was

959
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 2: around Steph and Clay and Draymond. The difference in that

960
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 2: series is Andrew Wiggins. Andrew Wiggins showed up big in

961
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 2: those NBA finals. So that's I'm going to take again

962
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 2: the big four, Brown, Tatum, Luca, and Kyrie out of

963
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 2: the mix, and now I got to step back.

964
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: Okay Washington, PJ Washington, Derek Jones, Yeah, Junior, Yeah, Lively,

965
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: Derek Lively.

966
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, the rookie. I mean, there are a lot of

967
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 2: different players on both these teams that could be the

968
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 2: difference in what I believe is a very even matchup.

969
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 2: I don't think that there's any way. I mean, I'm

970
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 2: not gonna I'm never gonna say defense is overrated. But

971
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 2: when you have great offensive players, when you're when you're

972
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 2: Luka Doncic, every team every night is trying to figure

973
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 2: out a way to neutralize you. That's been true for

974
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 2: five straight years of being first team All NBA, so

975
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 2: that's nothing new when it comes to the postseason. So

976
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 2: he uses people try different looks and everything else to

977
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 2: try to slow him down. But if he's in the

978
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 2: zone like he is now, it doesn't matter what you

979
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 2: throw at him. Nothing. You watch him in this series

980
00:48:58,040 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 2: against the t Wills, think about the t Walls. I

981
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 2: thought it was interesting. Anthony Edwards talked about this after

982
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 2: the embarrassing blowout loss in Game five at home, is

983
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 2: that we were never the same team in this series

984
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 2: that we had been against Denver or in our opening round,

985
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,240
Speaker 2: and they just could not come up with an answer.

986
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 2: And I'm watching Luca play right now, and he is

987
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 2: in such a zone. Everything is very deliberate. I mean,

988
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 2: he doesn't move fast anyway, but it's it's like.

989
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: Well, it's like everything he.

990
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,439
Speaker 2: Does everything, It's like Jokic last year Yes, who got

991
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 2: better and better as the playoffs went on to totally

992
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:42,399
Speaker 2: dominate that postseason run. And I'm seeing that exactly right

993
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 2: now with Dauncis. So Yeah, defense is part of the

994
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 2: equation and evaluating a player's overall talent. But understand this,

995
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 2: if a great offensive player is in the zone, no

996
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 2: defense is going to stop him. None.

997
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Luca, let's be real, He's not the only

998
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 1: one in the zone. Kyrie has been making shots with

999
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: the hand in his face by seven footers all playoffs.

1000
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: He is also in his own little zone. Whether you

1001
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: want to say, it's all a business decision and he

1002
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: hasn't really changed and it's all fake. It doesn't matter.

1003
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 1: He is delivering for the Mavericks, and I agree. I

1004
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to be a blowout. I think

1005
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: they're all going to be close games. And if they're

1006
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: close games, the MAVs have the closers they do.

1007
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 2: They have that and Kyrie did it in the biggest

1008
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 2: game of his career, Game seven on the road against

1009
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 2: the Golden State Wars. It wasn't Lebron that hit the

1010
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:38,720
Speaker 2: game winner, it was Kyrie Irving.

1011
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: And last week didn't we talk about just like experience

1012
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: in general between Minnesota and the MAVs. When you have Kyrie,

1013
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,760
Speaker 1: like you just said, that crazy shot in that finals,

1014
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: then we talk about Luca and how he's been a

1015
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: professional since he was sixteen years old. The spotlight is

1016
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: not too big for him. He's not afraid of it.

1017
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: Jason Kidd also a winning coach. All of that, Well,

1018
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: Minnesota seem to have beat the defending champions and were

1019
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: kind of like we did a guys, like good job

1020
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: instead of like staying focused. And I feel like the

1021
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: MAVs have the focus. The storyline of Kyrie going back

1022
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 1: to Boston, that has to be fueling him. I just

1023
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 1: think it's the momentum is on the MAVs side.

1024
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 2: Well, if the Celtics don't win the championship, this is

1025
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 2: six of the last eight years they've made it at

1026
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 2: least to the Eastern Conference Finals. Only once had they

1027
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 2: actually been to the finals before this year in that run,

1028
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 2: and you look at a guy like Jason Tatum, first

1029
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 2: team All NBA in the last three years. What happened

1030
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 2: last year Game seven, Eastern Conference Finals. He gets hurt

1031
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the game. By the way, first play,

1032
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 2: Remember how Miami was up three to zero. Suddenly looked

1033
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:48,399
Speaker 2: like the Celtics are going to be the first team

1034
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,359
Speaker 2: ever to win for straight after losing the first three.

1035
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 2: They're at home Game seven, and it just didn't happen.

1036
00:51:57,880 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 2: Which is a guy growing up as a Celtic Cata

1037
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 2: wasn't the worst thing for me. I'm going to bring

1038
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 2: up on the other side, something that was shared by

1039
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 2: one of our compatriots here at Fox Sports Radio. I

1040
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 2: wasn't here to question his sentiment, but I'm just gonna

1041
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 2: say he was way off. Who said what? We'll tell you.

1042
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:24,480
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1043
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,560
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1044
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:29,640
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1045
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1051
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1052
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 2: apparently later in the show the return of who's your daddy?

1053
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: Oh of course, Oh it's not going anywhere. Who's your daddy?

1054
00:52:58,640 --> 00:52:59,760
Speaker 1: Who will be back?

1055
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 2: Adam Kaplan Our NFL insider is going to be John

1056
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 2: As And Mark Mendina was on earlier with Dan Byer today.

1057
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 2: Did a great job with Dan. Enjoyed listening to the guys.

1058
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 1: But but you didn't like something.

1059
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 2: I got to call out my man, Dan.

1060
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 1: Did you give a dad joke that wasn't very good?

1061
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 2: Yeah? You know, I'm used all that stuff for Dan

1062
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 2: over the years. I love those Yeah, yeah, and I

1063
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 2: love Dan. I mean Dan is I mean, you talk

1064
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,439
Speaker 2: about the anchor of Fox Sports Radio, it is Dan Bayer.

1065
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 2: Let's let's make that infinitely clear here. But Dan, Dan

1066
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:39,439
Speaker 2: went down a path in an argument today. He went

1067
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 2: down a path that I was like, no, no, So

1068
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 2: he was talking about the relevance. He was asking Mark

1069
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 2: Mendina about just how relevant the Boston Celtics are anymore.

1070
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I heard them.

1071
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 2: And he brought up the point that the Lakers are

1072
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 2: still v team in the NBA, and then after that

1073
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 2: it's the Golden State Warriors. Now. I have been following

1074
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:14,720
Speaker 2: the Lakers since Elgin Baylor was still playing for the Lakers.

1075
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: Don't age yourself.

1076
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 2: Okay. By the way, he was an amazing player. So anyway,

1077
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 2: I'm listening to Dan make this argument about, well, the

1078
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 2: Lakers are still the team of the league, but are

1079
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:36,319
Speaker 2: the Celtics relevant? And I'm like, Okay, the Lakers' relevance

1080
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 2: is based on one person, Lebron James. Here's the reality

1081
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 2: of the Lakers, and then I'll get to the Celtics.

1082
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 2: In the six years that Lebron has been on the Lakers,

1083
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 2: they have completely missed the playoffs twice. They've been eliminated

1084
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 2: in the first round of the playoffs twice, one run

1085
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 2: to the conference finals where they got swept, and then

1086
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 2: a championship in front of nobody in a bubble. That

1087
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:12,800
Speaker 2: is their six years with Lebron. In the five years

1088
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 2: prior to that, they had five straight losing seasons, missing

1089
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 2: the playoffs every year. So in my world, I look

1090
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 2: at the championship they got in the bubble in twenty

1091
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 2: twenty and I say, and this is from someone that

1092
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 2: follows the Lakers asterisk by the way, I say the

1093
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 2: same thing of the Dodgers World Series win in twenty

1094
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 2: twenty as well. When you win a championship where every

1095
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 2: game is played on literally the same court and there

1096
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:50,799
Speaker 2: are no fans. And I look at the Lakers as

1097
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 2: the one team that year in the bubble that actually

1098
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:55,479
Speaker 2: had something to play for out of the tragic death

1099
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 2: of Kobe earlier that year, Like they were motivated. Most

1100
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:01,800
Speaker 2: of the team and players that went to the bubble

1101
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 2: couldn't wait to get out of the bubble. So the

1102
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 2: idea of that championship being the same as it's not.

1103
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: I think that's that's exactly it. It's like somebody had

1104
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: to win and you did win, but it's not the same.

1105
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: Not I agree with saying.

1106
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,279
Speaker 2: There were no parade. There was nothing like that.

1107
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 10: Yep.

1108
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 2: So when we talk about the relevance of the Lakers

1109
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 2: or they're still the most relevant team, well, if you're

1110
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 2: a Laker fan, I guess they are, but no more

1111
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:35,800
Speaker 2: than if you're a Cavaliers fan they are the most relevant.

1112
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 2: I mean in your world, whoever your team is, you

1113
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:42,399
Speaker 2: think the Clippers are the most relevant because they're your team.

1114
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 2: But the idea that the world circulates the NBA world

1115
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 2: around the Lakers, I don't see that at all, and

1116
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 2: certainly not in comparison to the Celtics. Now, the Celtics

1117
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:56,720
Speaker 2: haven't won jack. They haven't won a championship since eight

1118
00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:59,359
Speaker 2: They haven't been in the NBA final. Well, they were

1119
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 2: there a couple of years a guess of the Warriors

1120
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 2: after a long layoff from the finals. But they have

1121
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 2: been in the Eastern Conference finals six of the last

1122
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:10,919
Speaker 2: eight years. So in my world, and I look, I'm

1123
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 2: a lifelong Celtic hater, the Celtics have been far more

1124
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 2: relevant in the current NBA than the Lakers.

1125
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: So I think you are making a different point than

1126
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: what Dan was trying to say. At least I misunderstood

1127
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 1: it in it or I understood it in a different way.

1128
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: And I actually agree with Dan. I think the Lakers'

1129
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 1: name is the most relevant still in the NBA. Just

1130
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 1: the Lakers' name. It doesn't matter. They were the Lakers

1131
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 1: name with Kobe. When how long did they go without

1132
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: making the playoffs with Kobe?

1133
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 2: At the end there his last year, they were seventeen

1134
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 2: and sixty five.

1135
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 1: And yet it didn't matter. The Lakers' name itself still

1136
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 1: has a lot of ways.

1137
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 2: Is that only because we are here in southern I mean,

1138
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 2: he got listeners all over the country, all over the

1139
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 2: world out there and they're like, no, No, When I

1140
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 2: think NBA, I think Boston Celtics.

1141
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: I definitely don't think Boston Celtics. I think there are

1142
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 1: other teams like the Golden State Warriors that obviously are

1143
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: a big part of the NBA with what they've done

1144
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. But I think it's just

1145
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 1: it's bigger than that. It's like the brand and we

1146
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:27,919
Speaker 1: talk Cowboys are a perfect example. Cowboys, despite the fact

1147
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 1: that they haven't won and how long, their name still

1148
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: has a lot of weight when it comes to the NFL,

1149
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: and I think that's the relationship that Dan was trying

1150
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 1: to cant think.

1151
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 2: The Celtics have that. Look, here's here's something I would

1152
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 2: say about relevance in a franchise. You know when we

1153
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 2: talk about history, and you know, like, this is the

1154
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 2: argument with Notre Dame football, right, I mean, when you

1155
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 2: when you define college football, the one school in the

1156
00:58:56,560 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 2: history of college football whose name is dominated more than

1157
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 2: Ohio State, more than Alabama, more than USC is Notre

1158
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 2: Dame football. Notre Dame like put college football on the

1159
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 2: national map a long time ago with New Rockney and

1160
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 2: everything else. But when I think about the Celtics dominance,

1161
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 2: I think Red Auerbach. When I think of the Lakers dominance,

1162
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 2: I think of doctor Jerry Buss. When I think of

1163
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 2: Yankees dominance, I think of George Steinbrenner. And none of

1164
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 2: these franchises have been the same since that person read Auerbach,

1165
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:35,840
Speaker 2: Jerry Bus, and George Steinbrenner have been gone. They're franchise.

1166
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 2: None of those franchises have the same cachet they had

1167
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 2: when those men were in charge.

1168
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 1: So you said last week, you just like dominance, You

1169
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 1: like dominance, right, I.

1170
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 2: Would prefer my team dominant. But I think if dominant

1171
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 2: team or dot individual and an individual sport is good

1172
00:59:57,640 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 2: for a sport, right.

1173
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 1: So what you just listed the people that put those

1174
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 1: teams on the map. I don't disagree that that those

1175
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: teams are at the same level that they were at

1176
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:10,000
Speaker 1: that point, you know, in their in their history. But

1177
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 1: still there may be other teams we are discussing alongside

1178
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: the Lakers, And I'm saying this is a Clippers fan.

1179
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: The Laker name is still probably the most talked about.

1180
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 1: Even does it have to do with Lebron Probably a

1181
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 1: little bit the you know.

1182
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,920
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, if Lebron was playing for another team, Yeah, we.

1183
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 1: Would be talking about that team. But I think I

1184
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 1: still think the Lakers name.

1185
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 2: Okay, we no one was talking about the Lakers between

1186
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 2: the time Kobe retired and they signed Lebron Nobody. Yeah,

1187
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 2: they were a bad team. They weren't making the playoffs.

1188
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 2: Luke Walden was coached. I mean, no one was talking

1189
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 2: about the Lakers.

1190
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: We weren't bodying about them. But it didn't mean that

1191
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 1: the Laker name wasn't what it is.

1192
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 2: But that's based on history, which is the Celtics and

1193
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 2: the look at a lot is going to be made

1194
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 2: of the Celtics. If they win the championship, they will

1195
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 2: break the tie they have with the Lakers and winning

1196
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 2: their eight team championship. We've had two teams dominate the

1197
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 2: history of this league, dominate, the Celtics and the Lakers.

1198
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:12,880
Speaker 2: But if you're going to dismiss the Celtics because will

1199
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 2: they really haven't won anything recently? What did The Lakers

1200
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 2: won their last legitimate championship And I was there Game

1201
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:23,280
Speaker 2: seven out at Staples Center and one of the ugliest

1202
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 2: games I've ever seen in my life. Kobe was six

1203
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 2: of twenty four shooting in that Game seven, he got

1204
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:32,960
Speaker 2: a lot of rebounds. It didn't matter. They won that game.

1205
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 2: That's where it ended to me. I'm sorry, I know that.

1206
01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 2: I mean a Laker fans slay championship's a championship twenty

1207
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 2: twenty is not the same as any other championship they won.

1208
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 2: It's just not.

1209
01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 1: No, it's not, but it's they won. Somebody had to win.

1210
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 6: Yes, Chris, I was gonna say, I do want to

1211
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:57,000
Speaker 6: correct Steve on one thing. He did say that there

1212
01:01:57,040 --> 01:01:58,919
Speaker 6: was a period where they did what were the years

1213
01:01:58,920 --> 01:01:59,920
Speaker 6: you say they didn't.

1214
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 1: Matter between Kobe and Lebron.

1215
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, just disagree on there, and that we did

1216
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 6: get it. Probably a good summer out of LaVar Ball

1217
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 6: going after Luke Walton okay, yeah, the the Lonzo Ball

1218
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 6: when Magic had drafted him over Jason Tatum. Yeah, and

1219
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:17,120
Speaker 6: insisted that his name was going to be up there

1220
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 6: on the wall with all the other Laker legends. How

1221
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 6: that work out so far?

1222
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 2: Not so good. But I mean, the bottom line to

1223
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 2: me is this the Celtics and the Lakers. In my opinion,

1224
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 2: having followed the history of this league, I mean I

1225
01:02:34,080 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 2: almost date to the beginning of this league. But I

1226
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 2: mean they are on equal ground. The Lakers and Celtics

1227
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:44,760
Speaker 2: are have both won seventeen championships. By the way, five

1228
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 2: of the Lakers championships were with the Minneapolis Lakers, not

1229
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 2: the La Lakers. But if you're going to say that

1230
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 2: the Celtics have lost relevance, then you have to say

1231
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 2: the Lakers have lost relevance. To me, the Celtics obviously

1232
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:02,080
Speaker 2: have been a much better team over the last several years.

1233
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:04,840
Speaker 2: They've had deeper runs in the playoffs, and the Lakers

1234
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 2: of adam recent years and the only reason that anyone

1235
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:11,520
Speaker 2: talks about the Lakers is like, how much longer can

1236
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 2: Lebron keep this going? And it's pretty much that's what

1237
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 2: we talk about.

1238
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:17,680
Speaker 1: So I agree with you that maybe they both lost

1239
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 1: relevance because there's been other teams that have been fun

1240
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 1: and exciting other players to watch.

1241
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 2: But we're getting these one.

1242
01:03:25,240 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 7: And done.

1243
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:28,440
Speaker 1: Sure, But you're basing this on the history, right, which

1244
01:03:28,480 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that. I think we're just talking

1245
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 1: in general, like the Laker name is still probably the

1246
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 1: most popular basketball name is right now, is it? I think?

1247
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:40,320
Speaker 10: So?

1248
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:43,040
Speaker 2: All right, let's find out another opinion. By the way,

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1254
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 2: right now, so Bfan, in my opinion, the Celtics and Lakers,

1255
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 2: when you talk about the NBA, are on equal ground.

1256
01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 2: And this comes from a lifelong Laker fan Celtic hater,

1257
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:20,640
Speaker 2: but to me, there's no separating the Celtics and the Lakers.

1258
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 2: You know, you know what you sound like, you sound.

1259
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:25,680
Speaker 11: We talk a lot about East Coast bias, but you

1260
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 11: got the West Coast bias because you are not even

1261
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 11: discussing the New York Knicks MSG. Madison Square Garden. Okay,

1262
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 11: don't get me started on that the Knicks have no relevance.

1263
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.

1264
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 11: They're talked about anytime there's somewhat good. Well, okay, that's

1265
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 11: a big part of it. Yeah, well that's an East

1266
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 11: coast operation.

1267
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1268
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 6: How many how many high fives of Steven a handing

1269
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 6: out before Game seven?

1270
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:50,200
Speaker 2: Yeah that was a little over and look at I

1271
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 2: like Steven A. I've done some work with Steven A.

1272
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:54,920
Speaker 2: I keep telling everybody he's a good guy, all right

1273
01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 2: to be on this network, he was, we co hosted

1274
01:04:57,360 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 2: shows together. He's a good guy.

1275
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 11: Was over the top with you know, Spike Lee and

1276
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 11: everything else and all those We just have to read

1277
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:07,920
Speaker 11: through your West Coast bias.

1278
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 2: But I mean, we're talking about two franchises that have

1279
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 2: each won seventeen championships. And by the way, the Lakers

1280
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 2: include five championships with George Micaen and the Minneapolis Lakers.

1281
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:21,080
Speaker 2: So if you talk about, well the Celtics have lost relevance,

1282
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:23,440
Speaker 2: They've been in the Eastern Conference finals six in the

1283
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 2: last eight years. Is their second trip to the NBA

1284
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:30,200
Speaker 2: Finals in the last three years. I don't understand. How

1285
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:33,000
Speaker 2: have they lost relevance. Well, let me ask you this, Steve.

1286
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:36,240
Speaker 11: Actually it's eighteen titles for the Lakers because you forgot

1287
01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 11: to include the in season tournament titles.

1288
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 1: Stop it, Brian, Okay, now that is that is now.

1289
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:45,760
Speaker 2: It's now you now you know that's now. It doesn't

1290
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:48,160
Speaker 2: and so make sure you get the Lakers did not

1291
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 2: want to put that stupid banner up. The NBA said

1292
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 2: you're going to put that banner up or else or else?

1293
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 5: What?

1294
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 11: Steve, what are they going to do to the Lakers

1295
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 11: because they're so relevant, they're so dominant over every team?

1296
01:05:57,960 --> 01:06:01,280
Speaker 2: What could the NFL? Or is there NBACTU? Now you

1297
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 2: walk the streets of La late at night, I don't

1298
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:09,280
Speaker 2: know why, but anyway, so, how many people do you

1299
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 2: see wearing Lakers in season tournament champions NBA Cup Championship shirt?

1300
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:16,680
Speaker 1: Did they make shirts?

1301
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:20,200
Speaker 2: I'm sure they had to write, well, you've ever seen

1302
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 2: any Laker fan walk around in an NBA Cup champions

1303
01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:28,240
Speaker 2: doesn't mean they're not bragging about it. Most of the people,

1304
01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:31,480
Speaker 2: no one is talking. Everybody's talking. You are about Holy person,

1305
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:33,920
Speaker 2: three body, just about everybody who walks the halls at

1306
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. They basically are Laker apologies, and every

1307
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:40,240
Speaker 2: single one of them. We have a lot of people

1308
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:43,040
Speaker 2: here with a variety of opinions, which is what makes

1309
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:46,680
Speaker 2: us place work. Everyone was in agreement that nobody give

1310
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:50,040
Speaker 2: a rats ass about that tournament, that in season tournament,

1311
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 2: that was a manufacturer. In fact, I think it's one

1312
01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:55,439
Speaker 2: of the worst ideas ever ever.

1313
01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:57,920
Speaker 6: I know why they damn a second, Steve, None of

1314
01:06:57,960 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 6: the Lakers fans around here, which there are a lot

1315
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 6: claimed that in season turn none.

1316
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:05,520
Speaker 1: No, I'm with Brian on this. I think that a

1317
01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:07,280
Speaker 1: lot of them will really when they were winning.

1318
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:10,720
Speaker 2: I remember actually the time if the Clippers, who have

1319
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:14,200
Speaker 2: never won an NBA championship were to have won the cop, Well,

1320
01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 2: would that have mattered to you?

1321
01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: I mean yes, because we've never had any anything once?

1322
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:22,120
Speaker 11: And you know this, I mean we were talking about

1323
01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:25,720
Speaker 11: this a couple hours ago. But the Hulu show Clipped

1324
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:28,920
Speaker 11: is coming out. Yes, it's actually people have a completely

1325
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:33,040
Speaker 11: misrepresented The show is actually going to be documenting this

1326
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 11: upcoming season's Clippers run to win the NBA Championship.

1327
01:07:36,680 --> 01:07:38,520
Speaker 1: That's right, That's exactly what it is.

1328
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 11: So people are reading the wrong stuff about what that

1329
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:44,160
Speaker 11: show is about. Steve, Sorry, but is.

1330
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:46,360
Speaker 1: Donald Sterling gonna still be in it?

1331
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:53,040
Speaker 2: You can't talk Clippers history without Donald Sterle, No, you cannot.

1332
01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 11: Got made a killing off of parking lots. From what

1333
01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:57,720
Speaker 11: I understand, he just charged people, and well that.

1334
01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:01,120
Speaker 2: Was Frank McCourt. He was doesn't Frank McCourt.

1335
01:08:01,240 --> 01:08:03,960
Speaker 1: Still he still owns a part of it, part.

1336
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:06,680
Speaker 2: Of the parking lot at Dodgers Stadium. Money sold off

1337
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:07,240
Speaker 2: the Dodgers.

1338
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, ain't that ridiculous, Williams.

1339
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 2: What a way to make money? Hey, what do you

1340
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:12,160
Speaker 2: do for a lifting? Yeah?

1341
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:13,120
Speaker 1: Own a parking lot.

1342
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:17,560
Speaker 11: Yeah, Caitlin Clark has basically paved a parking lot in

1343
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:18,719
Speaker 11: sports fans minds.

1344
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 2: Let's see how I did that, Indiana fever.

1345
01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 11: I'm taking one out of Monti and Steve's book there,

1346
01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:26,720
Speaker 11: Indiana Fever. She led them to their first home win

1347
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:28,639
Speaker 11: of the season. It was a seventy one to seventy

1348
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:31,479
Speaker 11: triump against the Chicago Sky and Clark went four of

1349
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:34,679
Speaker 11: eleven from the field, two of nine from three point range,

1350
01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:36,760
Speaker 11: and her number, Steve, was all over this. It was

1351
01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:38,920
Speaker 11: a flirting with the triple double. That might be a

1352
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:41,240
Speaker 11: little bit of a stretch, but eleven points, eight rebounds,

1353
01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:45,360
Speaker 11: and six assists in a couple of bricks from long range,

1354
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:46,160
Speaker 11: to say the least.

1355
01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 2: And Major League Baseball, let's go over there.

1356
01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:50,880
Speaker 11: We've got eight games ongoing, and the first one has

1357
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:53,080
Speaker 11: already wrapped up. It was the first game to Start's

1358
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:56,040
Speaker 11: the first one, and it's the Pittsburgh Pirates eight to one.

1359
01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:59,040
Speaker 11: They crunch in Toronto the Blue Jays, and the blue

1360
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:01,000
Speaker 11: Jays are down one one of their key guys, their

1361
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:03,880
Speaker 11: closer Jordan Romano, to the fifteen day IL because of

1362
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:07,559
Speaker 11: right elbow inflammation. How about those San Diego Padres, they've

1363
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:10,280
Speaker 11: scored three on answer. They're batting in casey against the Royals.

1364
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:12,400
Speaker 11: In the sixth inning, Padres are going to be down

1365
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:15,760
Speaker 11: two of their aces, You Darvish left groin strain and

1366
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:19,479
Speaker 11: Joe musgrove right elbow inflammation, So both of them are

1367
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:22,439
Speaker 11: going to be glued to the fifteen day IL for now.

1368
01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:25,719
Speaker 11: Other scorers related to what's happening in Major League Baseball,

1369
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:28,760
Speaker 11: Nationals two, Guardians three. That's the top of the six

1370
01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 11: The Rangers are hounding the hapless and lifeless Marlins four

1371
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 11: to nothing. In the six there Braves eight Athletics. A

1372
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:40,160
Speaker 11: what a barn burner that one is from Atlanta as

1373
01:09:40,280 --> 01:09:42,320
Speaker 11: that one is tight going. That has mentioned the bottom

1374
01:09:42,320 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 11: of the fifth inning, the Astros five to nothing. They

1375
01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:46,920
Speaker 11: are in front of the Twins in the sixth, and

1376
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 11: also in the sixth the Red Sox are trying to

1377
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:52,600
Speaker 11: find a way. They're up three to one against the

1378
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:56,840
Speaker 11: twenty and twenty nine Tigers. In relation to what else

1379
01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:59,320
Speaker 11: is going on NHL, it's a game six out East

1380
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 11: Eastern Conference Finals between the Rangers and the Panthers, and

1381
01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 11: Florida is ahead in the best of seven series three

1382
01:10:05,400 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 11: games to two.

1383
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:07,839
Speaker 2: Huck will drop.

1384
01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:10,880
Speaker 11: At eight Eastern and finally, third round of the RBC

1385
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:11,800
Speaker 11: Canadian Open.

1386
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:13,439
Speaker 2: We're watching this one with intent.

1387
01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:17,599
Speaker 11: It's Ryan Fox and right now Ryan Fox, he teed

1388
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 11: off in the final group with what was Robert McIntyre

1389
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:26,720
Speaker 11: and it's McIntyre and Hughes Mackenzie. Hughes no relation. I

1390
01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:30,439
Speaker 11: believe Robert McIntyre to our own Jason McIntyre. But it's

1391
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:33,679
Speaker 11: twelve under for both Hughes and McIntyre. And Ryan Fox

1392
01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:36,759
Speaker 11: has at thirteen under sole possession of first three hundred

1393
01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:39,960
Speaker 11: for the day, three shot lead through ten holes, and

1394
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:44,560
Speaker 11: Rory McElroy had himself a decent day climbing up the

1395
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 11: leader board. He is currently he finished his round with

1396
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 11: a sixty five today and he is tight for ninth

1397
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 11: at seven under.

1398
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 2: Also, as I get it back to you, Montsey and

1399
01:10:54,920 --> 01:10:56,240
Speaker 2: Steve Real Madrid.

1400
01:10:56,400 --> 01:11:00,439
Speaker 11: They won the Champions League title to nil over a

1401
01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:04,519
Speaker 11: team that I've never heard before. But it's called Dartmun

1402
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:07,640
Speaker 11: or not Dartmouth, that's Doun.

1403
01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:10,680
Speaker 2: Yes, it's much different than than Dartmouth. Wasn't he a

1404
01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:15,760
Speaker 2: character in the Animal House? But I was Doun Yeah, yeah,

1405
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:16,439
Speaker 2: the Dortmund.

1406
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:17,040
Speaker 10: Yeah.

1407
01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 6: When I see that and I picture that, I think

1408
01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:21,599
Speaker 6: of you. Yeah, thank Russia Dortmund.

1409
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:25,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wish I could add more to that story,

1410
01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:28,080
Speaker 2: but I'm sorry. I just well, they're following.

1411
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:30,000
Speaker 11: There were some stories that you shared with me, and

1412
01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 11: I know MONSI heard about this when Steve was in

1413
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:35,800
Speaker 11: college and he showed up to a party with nothing on.

1414
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 1: Well, they took his clothes and then he didn't care.

1415
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:42,360
Speaker 2: That is true. Yeah, no modesty at all.

1416
01:11:42,479 --> 01:11:43,280
Speaker 1: He just didn't care.

1417
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 2: I just don't care. I just don't care. Yeah, if

1418
01:11:46,360 --> 01:11:50,000
Speaker 2: you've never seen the interview, again, it's not really an interview.

1419
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,960
Speaker 2: It's like a mon a lot. Yeah, I'm engaged with

1420
01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:58,519
Speaker 2: I begged, basically begged. Brian Tho reposted he had interviewed

1421
01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:02,639
Speaker 2: everybody on the planet, literally everybody in this building except

1422
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:07,519
Speaker 2: for me, and I beg you. Well, it's gotten good ratings.

1423
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:08,040
Speaker 2: It is.

1424
01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 11: Yeah, a few people watched a few few people. I'm

1425
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:12,800
Speaker 11: pretty sure think Denise watching a few times too.

1426
01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 2: She did. By the way, we have a no hitter

1427
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:17,080
Speaker 2: alert going on right now.

1428
01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:18,599
Speaker 1: Why are you jinxing stuff.

1429
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:22,760
Speaker 2: Valdez as a no hitter through six for the Astros

1430
01:12:22,880 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 2: against the Twins, so we'll keep your eye on that no.

1431
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:28,799
Speaker 2: And again, if he is taken, he's only thrown sixty

1432
01:12:28,840 --> 01:12:29,360
Speaker 2: five pitches.

1433
01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:30,080
Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty good.

1434
01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:32,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty good. He's got a chance.

1435
01:12:32,200 --> 01:12:35,600
Speaker 1: So Sandra, Mikalynn, thank you for listening. She agrees with you,

1436
01:12:35,840 --> 01:12:37,879
Speaker 1: She says, I'm with Steve. I live in the Midwest

1437
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 1: and the Lakers are a snoozefest for us. The Laker

1438
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:43,720
Speaker 1: name great subject. If we're talking about the past.

1439
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:47,720
Speaker 2: Right, the Lakers greatness is in its pasty. So she

1440
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:51,640
Speaker 2: agreed to the past. Think about this. The Lakers and

1441
01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:55,240
Speaker 2: Celtics played the seven game series in the twenty ten

1442
01:12:56,080 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 2: NBA Finals. That's fourteen years ago. That sounds so the

1443
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:04,560
Speaker 2: Lakers have been to the finals once since then in

1444
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 2: a bubble, and the Celtics now have been to the

1445
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:08,120
Speaker 2: finals twice.

1446
01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:09,000
Speaker 4: Now.

1447
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 2: The difference is the Lakers won in the bubble and

1448
01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:14,360
Speaker 2: the Celtics lost, and now they have a chance to win.

1449
01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:19,760
Speaker 2: But if again, I don't know what the statute of

1450
01:13:19,840 --> 01:13:23,280
Speaker 2: limitations is, you know, in terms of how long you

1451
01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:26,280
Speaker 2: still can ride the wave of the past before you

1452
01:13:26,439 --> 01:13:29,439
Speaker 2: have fallen into irrelevance. But if you've only won one

1453
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:34,880
Speaker 2: Bubble championship in fourteen years and in the last eleven years,

1454
01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:42,760
Speaker 2: the last eleven years, the Lakers have completely missed the

1455
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:46,920
Speaker 2: playoffs seven times, have been eliminated in the first round twice.

1456
01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,720
Speaker 2: That's nine of those eleven years, one run to the

1457
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:52,479
Speaker 2: conference finals a year ago where they got swept, and

1458
01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:55,000
Speaker 2: then a championship in the Bubble. So if you're going

1459
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:58,840
Speaker 2: to question the Celtics relevance, I don't know how you

1460
01:13:59,080 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 2: can't question in the Lakers relevance.

1461
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:04,720
Speaker 1: Sure I to answer your question at the start of

1462
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:08,360
Speaker 1: that little monologue as Clippers fans Brian Finley and I,

1463
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's experienced it. The amount of times Laker

1464
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:15,599
Speaker 1: fans just throw the championships in our face, like even

1465
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:17,880
Speaker 1: though we've dominated the last decade.

1466
01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 2: Were even year run?

1467
01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:22,320
Speaker 1: Fun how many championsis.

1468
01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:25,160
Speaker 2: There was an eleven year run that started before this

1469
01:14:25,320 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 2: year in which we had the Clippers beat the Lakers

1470
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:32,479
Speaker 2: thirty six out of forty three games. Yes, thirty six

1471
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:37,480
Speaker 2: and seven. Yes, that is domination. It is domination.

1472
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:40,920
Speaker 11: So you talk about the Lakers and those championships just

1473
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:43,840
Speaker 11: after the turn of the century, right with Kobe and Shack,

1474
01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 11: and from my recollection, a couple of those championships might.

1475
01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:49,920
Speaker 2: Need to be annulled. And let me tell you why,

1476
01:14:50,439 --> 01:14:53,920
Speaker 2: because there happened to be an official that was working

1477
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:57,679
Speaker 2: some of those finals who got himself in trouble with gambling.

1478
01:14:58,160 --> 01:14:58,960
Speaker 2: Tim donaghey.

1479
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:03,120
Speaker 11: Yes, so that is why there to me has to

1480
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:07,640
Speaker 11: be an asterisk there because of those mishandlings from him.

1481
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:09,120
Speaker 2: And nobody's talking about that.

1482
01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:13,439
Speaker 1: Brian Finley right now, breaking news records yourself. Put that

1483
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 1: up because you're so right.

1484
01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 2: Okay, none of that's what's right. You can look who's

1485
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:21,599
Speaker 2: throwing the game for the Xers. I can crap all

1486
01:15:21,680 --> 01:15:23,800
Speaker 2: over the current Lakers because that's what they've been. But

1487
01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:26,519
Speaker 2: those Laker teams know they dominated. They didn't need any

1488
01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:29,040
Speaker 2: help from Tim donneghey. All right, coming up on the others,

1489
01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:31,439
Speaker 2: We've got much more on this matchup between the Celtics

1490
01:15:31,479 --> 01:15:34,759
Speaker 2: and Mavericks. We're in the present. This is Fox Sports Saturday.

1491
01:15:35,479 --> 01:15:38,840
Speaker 2: Steve Harvey montci Blanos here Fox Sports Saturday Live from

1492
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 2: the Tyraq dot Com studios. All right, we interrupt this

1493
01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:48,960
Speaker 2: conversation about the upcoming NBA Finals, which start I believe

1494
01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:50,040
Speaker 2: in three months, right.

1495
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:51,840
Speaker 1: We have plenty of time to talk about it.

1496
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:52,639
Speaker 2: We don't.

1497
01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:54,519
Speaker 1: We don't have to do it right now. We have

1498
01:15:54,600 --> 01:15:55,160
Speaker 1: so much time.

1499
01:15:56,040 --> 01:16:01,120
Speaker 2: Unbelievable. It's a stupid They should have started at least tomorrow.

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01:16:02,479 --> 01:16:06,400
Speaker 2: At least tomorrow the Mavericks. Yeah, Friday, Saturday off for

1501
01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:10,320
Speaker 2: the Mavericks. Plenty of time, head to Boston game one, yep.

1502
01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:16,280
Speaker 2: Not Sunday, not Monday, not Tuesday, not Wednesday, Thursday. I mean,

1503
01:16:16,479 --> 01:16:17,840
Speaker 2: come on, can you remind me?

1504
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:19,280
Speaker 1: Can you send me a text on him?

1505
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 2: I mean seriously, Oh, I completely forgot the NBA Finals round.

1506
01:16:24,200 --> 01:16:26,799
Speaker 2: By the way, the voldas no hitters over.

1507
01:16:27,040 --> 01:16:28,680
Speaker 1: So eu Jing City immediately.

1508
01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:32,000
Speaker 2: Well Imbervald cab Bay hits so the h Yeah, he

1509
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:33,639
Speaker 2: gave up a hit and he's done.

1510
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 1: I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitches. And

1511
01:16:36,280 --> 01:16:40,639
Speaker 1: when you say, oh, there's a no hitter to watch,

1512
01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's it, it's over. We're jigxed it. Just

1513
01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:44,679
Speaker 1: a little stish.

1514
01:16:44,720 --> 01:16:46,080
Speaker 2: I wanted to give you an update, you know, no

1515
01:16:46,240 --> 01:16:50,720
Speaker 2: hitter alert gone. All right, so we interrupt this not

1516
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:53,880
Speaker 2: for the no hitter alert we we interrupt this for

1517
01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:57,120
Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark. We have to bring her back into the

1518
01:16:57,200 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 2: conversation because of something that happened in today's game. By

1519
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:02,920
Speaker 2: the way, the Fever won today.

1520
01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:04,320
Speaker 1: They did their first home win.

1521
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:07,439
Speaker 2: They're now two and eight correct on the season. And

1522
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:10,439
Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark did not have a good shooting day, but

1523
01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:13,719
Speaker 2: she is a contributor to a win. But what happened

1524
01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:15,639
Speaker 2: today that caught your eye.

1525
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:18,439
Speaker 1: There was a do we have sound of the foul

1526
01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:24,280
Speaker 1: Chris Kennity Carter who plays for the Chicago Sky. Yeah, okay,

1527
01:17:24,720 --> 01:17:26,240
Speaker 1: let's just hear it, so you could hear what it

1528
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:27,120
Speaker 1: sounded like.

1529
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 5: Keannity Carter now with twelve points off the bench and

1530
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:36,880
Speaker 5: Dix on contact afterwards, so the knock away there for

1531
01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:40,680
Speaker 5: Clark and then La from Boston as the officials are

1532
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:44,400
Speaker 5: gonna take a look at what's just transpired between.

1533
01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:48,920
Speaker 2: Carter and Clark. Okay, so I watched this video. You

1534
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:54,479
Speaker 2: showed it to me. Carter is yelling at Clark as

1535
01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:57,519
Speaker 2: she approaches her and then gets an obvious flagrant. Did

1536
01:17:57,600 --> 01:17:58,960
Speaker 2: she get tossed out of the game.

1537
01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:00,439
Speaker 1: She did not get tossed out of the game.

1538
01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 2: You should have gotten toss out.

1539
01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:02,759
Speaker 1: It was a very cheap shot.

1540
01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:04,800
Speaker 2: Oh it was. It was over the top cheap shot.

1541
01:18:04,880 --> 01:18:09,200
Speaker 2: But she was yelling at her, meaning that something had

1542
01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:11,439
Speaker 2: to be said by Caitlyn. That's set her off.

1543
01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:15,519
Speaker 1: So that's just because someone's talking smack. You can't go

1544
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:16,920
Speaker 1: and take a teap but cheap shot.

1545
01:18:17,240 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 2: I don't know. Everyone's a little bit more different level

1546
01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:21,240
Speaker 2: of sensitivity.

1547
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:22,960
Speaker 1: Well, Bill, what are we talking about?

1548
01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:25,720
Speaker 6: Kennedy was asked about this afterwards and it kind of

1549
01:18:26,120 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 6: led to this range strange arrangement here here take a listen.

1550
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 6: This was Kennedy Carter after the after the game.

1551
01:18:32,080 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 5: Apparently on the play before bumping in with Caitlyn.

1552
01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:36,360
Speaker 2: It seemed like she she turned to you a little

1553
01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:38,480
Speaker 2: bit after the after the future.

1554
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:40,760
Speaker 7: Kaitlyn Clark questions, did she say anything to you?

1555
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:41,639
Speaker 10: I don't know what she said.

1556
01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:42,640
Speaker 2: What'd you say to her?

1557
01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:43,519
Speaker 10: I didn't say anything.

1558
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 1: I'm not answering Kaitlyn Clark question.

1559
01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:48,200
Speaker 6: You can hear at the end to her coach coming

1560
01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:50,479
Speaker 6: in saying that's enough to not to like try to

1561
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:52,800
Speaker 6: push the the reporters away as well.

1562
01:18:53,240 --> 01:18:57,599
Speaker 2: Okay, well, we've been talking about this really all year long,

1563
01:18:57,680 --> 01:19:01,240
Speaker 2: even as before she started a NBA career. With all

1564
01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 2: the attention that Caitlin Clark's been getting is there's a

1565
01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:06,479
Speaker 2: lot of jealousy involved.

1566
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:08,800
Speaker 1: It seems that way. It really does.

1567
01:19:09,040 --> 01:19:14,040
Speaker 2: But part of Kaitlyn Clark's game that made her, despite

1568
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:20,360
Speaker 2: her greatness, polarizing was the trash talking. Look At every

1569
01:19:20,520 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 2: NBA player that ever played with Larry Bird will tell

1570
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:27,200
Speaker 2: you there was no bigger trash talker ever than Larry Bird.

1571
01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:30,160
Speaker 2: The frustrating part to go against Larry Birder as he'd

1572
01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 2: back it up mm hmmmmm with all the trash, but

1573
01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:37,719
Speaker 2: he was over the top. Even Larry Bird acknowledges trash talker.

1574
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 2: So trash talking is one thing I don't know because

1575
01:19:42,840 --> 01:19:45,840
Speaker 2: there was obvious anger, yes, frustration, yeah.

1576
01:19:45,720 --> 01:19:49,160
Speaker 1: But none of that makes it okay. And I'm not

1577
01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:50,960
Speaker 1: saying like, don't be tough on Caitlin Clark.

1578
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:51,680
Speaker 2: That's not what this is.

1579
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:54,080
Speaker 1: It is a tough league, and you're gonna go and

1580
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:56,960
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to, you know, prove that you can

1581
01:19:57,080 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 1: compete in that whatnot. But that was just a cheap

1582
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:04,120
Speaker 1: shot that just looked like nothing but envy and jealousy.

1583
01:20:04,479 --> 01:20:06,800
Speaker 1: I don't care what Caitlin Clark said to you that

1584
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:09,200
Speaker 1: everybody's talking smack.

1585
01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:11,680
Speaker 2: All right, I'm glad you didn't get seriously hurt. No,

1586
01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:16,160
Speaker 2: but you do understand that all this trash talking and

1587
01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:18,400
Speaker 2: everything else is good.

1588
01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:19,280
Speaker 10: Right.

1589
01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:23,240
Speaker 2: In other words, all those critics of Caitlin Clark that

1590
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:27,679
Speaker 2: keep talking about how overrated she is or why she's famous,

1591
01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:32,240
Speaker 2: it's helping the cause. Sure, yes, it makes her more famous.

1592
01:20:32,280 --> 01:20:32,559
Speaker 5: All right.

1593
01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:34,640
Speaker 2: We got much more on the other side, including some

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Speaker 2: Coming up later in this hour, Adam Kaplan, our NFL insider,

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Speaker 2: is going to be joining us. And as our dear

1603
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:12,840
Speaker 2: from Mark Medina said earlier, the NFL owns the NBA

1604
01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty five days a year. And that's

1605
01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:18,280
Speaker 2: from a guy that has covered the NBA for years.

1606
01:21:18,360 --> 01:21:22,559
Speaker 2: So Bedina says, make no mistake about it. The NFL

1607
01:21:22,760 --> 01:21:25,640
Speaker 2: owns the NBA three hundred and sixty five days a year.

1608
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:28,920
Speaker 2: So Adam Kaplan will join us, and then who's your daddy,

1609
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Speaker 2: that's right, will make its triumphant return. That's right.

1610
01:21:33,800 --> 01:21:34,400
Speaker 1: Oh already.

1611
01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 2: So you surprised me with this segment a week ago, yes,

1612
01:21:39,439 --> 01:21:43,760
Speaker 2: in which you guys manufactured questions that obviously I had

1613
01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:44,959
Speaker 2: not seen in advance.

1614
01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:47,640
Speaker 1: And then I do my best, yeah, because you know,

1615
01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:52,439
Speaker 1: everyone thinks you're a sports encyclopedia. Everyone you know hears

1616
01:21:52,520 --> 01:21:54,479
Speaker 1: you and they're like, oh, he's so great. You think

1617
01:21:54,520 --> 01:21:57,640
Speaker 1: you're everyone's daddy. And so we just you know, we

1618
01:21:57,760 --> 01:22:00,320
Speaker 1: got to bring you back down to earth and work

1619
01:22:00,320 --> 01:22:03,760
Speaker 1: out that well because you still knew the answers. But

1620
01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:06,439
Speaker 1: you know, it's fine, it's fine. We'll try and we'll

1621
01:22:06,479 --> 01:22:07,519
Speaker 1: try and stump you today.

1622
01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:11,599
Speaker 2: I did. I did check our x account. By the way,

1623
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Speaker 2: you can follow us at Monzy bolanos So or at

1624
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Speaker 2: Cannon Hartman. Yes, you were mentioning my hair a little

1625
01:22:18,320 --> 01:22:23,320
Speaker 2: bit earlier, Beef, and I got this, uh from someone said, Hartman,

1626
01:22:23,439 --> 01:22:31,240
Speaker 2: where's the rug even on the radio. That's right, It's

1627
01:22:31,439 --> 01:22:33,680
Speaker 2: just that I sort of like my hair, my hair

1628
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:34,520
Speaker 2: in place.

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01:22:34,439 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: It doesn't move. Yeah, it's and it doesn't look like

1630
01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 1: there's anything in it.

1631
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:39,680
Speaker 2: No, it's draw it does.

1632
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:41,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't look like you have product in it?

1633
01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:42,920
Speaker 1: Do you have product in it?

1634
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:47,479
Speaker 2: I sometimes I use a little spritzel spread some yeah,

1635
01:22:47,600 --> 01:22:50,240
Speaker 2: little just sort of hold in place. Sure, yeah, but

1636
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:53,360
Speaker 2: you can't attest it is my hair.

1637
01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:53,800
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1638
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1639
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:57,639
Speaker 1: Also like my my father has a head of hair

1640
01:22:57,840 --> 01:22:59,639
Speaker 1: just like you, and it's all real and natural.

1641
01:22:59,720 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 2: So well, Steve, where did you get your hair plugs done?

1642
01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:05,200
Speaker 2: It's actually well documented, so.

1643
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:07,600
Speaker 1: I let's know it.

1644
01:23:09,520 --> 01:23:09,960
Speaker 5: I like this.

1645
01:23:10,120 --> 01:23:12,160
Speaker 2: I like this picture you, by the way, if you

1646
01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 2: if you don't follow us on x Twitter, if you

1647
01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:16,920
Speaker 2: like to call it that, Monsey likes to post a

1648
01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:20,720
Speaker 2: shot of us free show I do every week. My

1649
01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 2: expressions sort of speak for themselves. Yes, we did get

1650
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:25,840
Speaker 2: photo bombed here by Medina, so.

1651
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:29,240
Speaker 1: Right, which you'll join us later on. Yeah, double dipping

1652
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 1: very much.

1653
01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:32,800
Speaker 2: All right. I want to talk a little bit about

1654
01:23:32,920 --> 01:23:38,800
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum. Yayson, So, Jason Tatum who the Lakers said, Nah,

1655
01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:44,680
Speaker 2: we'd rather have Lonzo Ball. How different you know, we

1656
01:23:44,760 --> 01:23:49,040
Speaker 2: can talk about how different Clippers history would be if

1657
01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard had not demanded to make the trip for

1658
01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:55,400
Speaker 2: Paul George, and you would have shake Bill Alexander, who,

1659
01:23:55,439 --> 01:23:57,519
Speaker 2: by the way, was second in the MVP voting. I

1660
01:23:57,600 --> 01:24:01,200
Speaker 2: have Luca, by the way, if you had him on

1661
01:24:01,320 --> 01:24:04,040
Speaker 2: the Clippers right now instead of Paul George.

1662
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:05,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, very annoying thought.

1663
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:08,280
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Plus all those first round picks they gave up.

1664
01:24:08,320 --> 01:24:11,519
Speaker 2: On top of all that, imagine how different the Lakers

1665
01:24:11,560 --> 01:24:14,800
Speaker 2: have be right now if they had Jason Tatum.

1666
01:24:15,280 --> 01:24:15,519
Speaker 10: Yeah.

1667
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:19,880
Speaker 2: So Tatum to me is still a little bit of

1668
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:22,880
Speaker 2: an enigma when you think about what we've seen in

1669
01:24:23,040 --> 01:24:27,759
Speaker 2: recent years. You had Giannis win back to back MVP Awards,

1670
01:24:28,360 --> 01:24:30,240
Speaker 2: and then the following year he broke through and won

1671
01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:33,240
Speaker 2: an NBA Championship. And then he had the exact same

1672
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:35,680
Speaker 2: thing happened with the Jokich who won back to back

1673
01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:39,880
Speaker 2: NBA Final MVP Awards and then the following year wins

1674
01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:43,320
Speaker 2: the championship to validate I remember when Dirk Novitzky, you know,

1675
01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:45,720
Speaker 2: all those great years he had had, he had been

1676
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:47,880
Speaker 2: an MVP, it had been an All Star, he was

1677
01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:50,639
Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer, and then he finally was able

1678
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:55,960
Speaker 2: to break through and win that championship, and now you

1679
01:24:56,200 --> 01:25:00,800
Speaker 2: have two perennial First Team All NBA B Luca's been

1680
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:02,960
Speaker 2: there five years in row, Tatum has been there three

1681
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:07,639
Speaker 2: years in a row, and whose ever team wins, it's

1682
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:11,800
Speaker 2: a validation for one of those two players. When I

1683
01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:18,960
Speaker 2: watch Luca versus Tatum right now, I'm all Luca and

1684
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:21,599
Speaker 2: all acknowledge the fact that Jason Tatum is a better

1685
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:26,080
Speaker 2: defender than Luca. Luca is really a ball dominant offensive player.

1686
01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:28,880
Speaker 2: I think defensively he seems to be showing a little

1687
01:25:28,920 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 2: more effort. It's just not his thing. Tatum is a

1688
01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:35,640
Speaker 2: better all around player. But it's going to be so

1689
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:41,320
Speaker 2: interesting with these two stars, who is going to be

1690
01:25:41,439 --> 01:25:45,240
Speaker 2: the one that jumps out and takes this championship Because ultimately,

1691
01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:49,400
Speaker 2: in order to have the Celtics, when Tatum has to

1692
01:25:49,560 --> 01:25:53,840
Speaker 2: play big, he's got to be the better player. It's

1693
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:56,679
Speaker 2: not Jalen Brown. It's got to be Jason Tatum. Same

1694
01:25:56,720 --> 01:26:00,000
Speaker 2: thing with Luca. It's not about Kyrie. Kyrie is accepted

1695
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 2: his role. If the Mavericks are going to win this,

1696
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:05,560
Speaker 2: Luca has got to be the dominant force. I'm just

1697
01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:07,280
Speaker 2: anxious to see how this is going to play out.

1698
01:26:07,400 --> 01:26:09,760
Speaker 1: I am too. I know I've picked the MAVs and

1699
01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:12,080
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a close series, but I

1700
01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:15,479
Speaker 1: would be really happy to be wrong, because that means

1701
01:26:15,560 --> 01:26:19,120
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum, you know, got the chip, you're a fan

1702
01:26:19,160 --> 01:26:21,560
Speaker 1: of Jason. I do like Jason Tatum. I think he

1703
01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:24,240
Speaker 1: is really fun to watch, and to be honest, like

1704
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:27,040
Speaker 1: I like Luca, But Luca is so annoying when he's

1705
01:26:27,080 --> 01:26:30,160
Speaker 1: constantly complaining to the refs. He is you talk about

1706
01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:32,439
Speaker 1: trash Tome, Oh my god, he but it gets to

1707
01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 1: the point where it's like you are I've read people

1708
01:26:35,640 --> 01:26:37,800
Speaker 1: on Twitter and X like people I don't know, just

1709
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:40,400
Speaker 1: fans of basketball that are like, it's getting harder and

1710
01:26:40,479 --> 01:26:43,439
Speaker 1: harder to watch Luca because of how he complains and

1711
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:45,920
Speaker 1: how he just is constantly talking to the rest, which

1712
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 1: we see Lebron do a lot. But obviously Lebron's been

1713
01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:52,000
Speaker 1: in the league for twenty years, and I feel like Luca,

1714
01:26:52,720 --> 01:26:58,280
Speaker 1: despite his annoyingness, you're still so amazed at what he does.

1715
01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:01,519
Speaker 1: And part of it is because he just looks like

1716
01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:04,880
Speaker 1: he shouldn't be that good. You look at Tatum, well.

1717
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:07,920
Speaker 2: I means like Joki, he's the same thing. He's slow,

1718
01:27:08,080 --> 01:27:12,439
Speaker 2: he's very deliberate, Yes, but there's no wasted movement on

1719
01:27:12,520 --> 01:27:14,840
Speaker 2: him at all for either one of those players.

1720
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:19,040
Speaker 1: And obviously, I think Luca's basketball IQ is also top,

1721
01:27:19,320 --> 01:27:22,360
Speaker 1: you know, off the charts. He's looking around, he's trying

1722
01:27:22,400 --> 01:27:25,840
Speaker 1: to make the best play, not necessarily just score Tatum

1723
01:27:25,880 --> 01:27:28,479
Speaker 1: on the better defender, like you said, maybe the better

1724
01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:31,439
Speaker 1: all around player on paper. But I'm with you.

1725
01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:34,200
Speaker 2: I give the edge to Luca in this, but it

1726
01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:38,200
Speaker 2: would all change if, you know, we get to game seven, obviously,

1727
01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:40,599
Speaker 2: but even like you know, game six, you know, where

1728
01:27:41,160 --> 01:27:44,080
Speaker 2: the Celtics maybe have a chance to close out a

1729
01:27:44,240 --> 01:27:49,439
Speaker 2: series and he hits the game winner, then that changes,

1730
01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:51,719
Speaker 2: at least in my eye, it would change the dynamic.

1731
01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:55,200
Speaker 2: Because I'm watching Jason Tatum. I wish he was a Laker,

1732
01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:59,280
Speaker 2: not a Celtic. But it didn't happen. But he's had

1733
01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:03,280
Speaker 2: opportunity and a lot of talk about this return to

1734
01:28:03,400 --> 01:28:06,719
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals after the disappointing loss of the Golden

1735
01:28:06,760 --> 01:28:09,360
Speaker 2: State Warriors. You know, the argument was, well, Golden State

1736
01:28:09,400 --> 01:28:13,400
Speaker 2: had Steph and Clay Clay was coming off out of

1737
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:16,080
Speaker 2: basketball for two years. That was not the same Klay

1738
01:28:16,240 --> 01:28:20,479
Speaker 2: Thompson that had won championships before Draymond was on the downside. Steph.

1739
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:24,080
Speaker 2: The Celtics were the better teams. But in that series,

1740
01:28:24,240 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 2: Andrew Wagan showed up, like I said, and Tatum disappeared. Yeah,

1741
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:32,799
Speaker 2: disappeared in that series.

1742
01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:36,240
Speaker 1: And I think we all remember that. I think we

1743
01:28:36,439 --> 01:28:41,400
Speaker 1: have not seen Tatum take over a crucial game. He

1744
01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:45,360
Speaker 1: has taken over regular season games and that's awesome, but

1745
01:28:45,479 --> 01:28:50,559
Speaker 1: he has not taken over an actual crucial NBA Finals

1746
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:51,160
Speaker 1: playoff game.

1747
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:54,920
Speaker 2: And that's what separates the elite from the other guys.

1748
01:28:55,360 --> 01:28:57,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, in fact, do you think of Luca or you

1749
01:28:57,680 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 1: think of Kyrie. It's like they have had those moments

1750
01:29:00,560 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 1: so that I keep giving the edge to the mops,

1751
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:07,000
Speaker 1: I really do. I Tatum is great, you just have

1752
01:29:07,240 --> 01:29:10,719
Speaker 1: not shown that you are as great.

1753
01:29:11,360 --> 01:29:13,200
Speaker 2: I mentioned the fact that it'd been nice to have

1754
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:17,360
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum as a Laker. You know, they're nice to

1755
01:29:17,439 --> 01:29:22,120
Speaker 2: have Kyrie Irving as a Laker. And I'll blame myself

1756
01:29:22,160 --> 01:29:26,160
Speaker 2: on this. I was I was like most people with

1757
01:29:26,320 --> 01:29:31,360
Speaker 2: all the shenanigans coming from Kyrie, that he just a

1758
01:29:31,479 --> 01:29:35,479
Speaker 2: me guy. Yeah, that he's not gonna He's not going

1759
01:29:35,600 --> 01:29:37,599
Speaker 2: I mean the whole thing with the Nets, I mean

1760
01:29:37,680 --> 01:29:40,560
Speaker 2: that just was a debacle. You know, the idea that

1761
01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:42,400
Speaker 2: he was going to team with Kevin Durant and that,

1762
01:29:42,640 --> 01:29:46,519
Speaker 2: I mean, that just never materialized, the fact that he

1763
01:29:46,680 --> 01:29:50,960
Speaker 2: was unhappy with his role in a supportive role with Lebron,

1764
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:54,800
Speaker 2: and I just thought, okay, look and I'm acknowledging his

1765
01:29:54,960 --> 01:29:57,920
Speaker 2: skill set is second to none in this league. Yeah, offensively,

1766
01:29:58,000 --> 01:30:02,719
Speaker 2: he can do anything on the offensive end. Love his game.

1767
01:30:03,920 --> 01:30:07,880
Speaker 2: It's a team sport and the idea that he has

1768
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:11,280
Speaker 2: bought in. And to watch him and Luca embrace after,

1769
01:30:11,760 --> 01:30:14,160
Speaker 2: you know, defeating the Tea Wolves get into the NBA

1770
01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:19,160
Speaker 2: Finals and even allowing Luca's never been there before, to

1771
01:30:19,880 --> 01:30:24,160
Speaker 2: relish the moment. Although it was weird, Luca, this is advice.

1772
01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:29,960
Speaker 2: No one embraces that conference championship trophy, Okay, nobody. I

1773
01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:32,200
Speaker 2: will never forget one of the first years they gave

1774
01:30:32,280 --> 01:30:35,559
Speaker 2: that thing out to the Lakers, and the Lakers actually

1775
01:30:35,640 --> 01:30:37,400
Speaker 2: walked off the court and left it at the middle

1776
01:30:37,439 --> 01:30:38,840
Speaker 2: of the court. They didn't actually take.

1777
01:30:38,720 --> 01:30:39,200
Speaker 1: It with them.

1778
01:30:40,160 --> 01:30:44,080
Speaker 2: In fact, I've asked people in the Laker organization. I've

1779
01:30:44,120 --> 01:30:48,679
Speaker 2: seen all your Larry O'Brien trophies. Where are those conference trophies?

1780
01:30:48,800 --> 01:30:51,240
Speaker 2: And no one has a colt. We're like, we're not sure,

1781
01:30:51,439 --> 01:30:53,080
Speaker 2: we have no idea where they are.

1782
01:30:53,280 --> 01:30:56,000
Speaker 1: Wasn't it last year when the Heat won the East?

1783
01:30:56,200 --> 01:30:56,400
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1784
01:30:56,520 --> 01:30:58,559
Speaker 1: And then Jimmy Butler was like, no, I'm good. When

1785
01:30:58,560 --> 01:30:59,960
Speaker 1: they were going to hand him the trophy and he's

1786
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:01,439
Speaker 1: He's like, no, I'll hold the real one. Obviously he

1787
01:31:01,479 --> 01:31:03,160
Speaker 1: didn't get to hold the real one, but he also

1788
01:31:03,240 --> 01:31:06,680
Speaker 1: felt the same what is that? What is that?

1789
01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:09,320
Speaker 10: No?

1790
01:31:10,800 --> 01:31:11,280
Speaker 8: But I.

1791
01:31:13,720 --> 01:31:17,559
Speaker 2: Kyrie, And I'll give Jason Kidd credit as well coaching

1792
01:31:17,640 --> 01:31:23,519
Speaker 2: that team, Yes, but to see the genuine camaraderie, now

1793
01:31:23,880 --> 01:31:29,880
Speaker 2: that's good word between Luca and Kyrie. I've never I've

1794
01:31:29,960 --> 01:31:32,680
Speaker 2: never seen Kyrie with any teammate like this.

1795
01:31:33,080 --> 01:31:36,519
Speaker 1: I agree. I'm just as surprised as you are. I

1796
01:31:37,040 --> 01:31:42,400
Speaker 1: thought Kyrie was selfish, a bit narcissistic, a bit MEMI me,

1797
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:44,880
Speaker 1: especially because he had already won. So I think that's

1798
01:31:44,960 --> 01:31:48,040
Speaker 1: more of why you felt that way. And he's completely

1799
01:31:48,240 --> 01:31:53,200
Speaker 1: proven us wrong. I some people think it's just a

1800
01:31:53,360 --> 01:31:57,400
Speaker 1: facade that he hasn't actually changed. It's a business move.

1801
01:31:57,800 --> 01:32:00,599
Speaker 1: But even if that's true, if i I'm an owner

1802
01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:03,160
Speaker 1: of any NBA team, I'd be like, well, no, he

1803
01:32:03,280 --> 01:32:05,640
Speaker 1: can do it, and may he could still be a

1804
01:32:05,720 --> 01:32:08,320
Speaker 1: MEMI me guy, but he proved that he can still

1805
01:32:08,439 --> 01:32:11,240
Speaker 1: do it. And so even if it is just fake

1806
01:32:11,360 --> 01:32:16,720
Speaker 1: and it's a business decision, Kyrie has completely changed the

1807
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:18,320
Speaker 1: minds of not just me, but I think a lot

1808
01:32:18,320 --> 01:32:18,639
Speaker 1: of people.

1809
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:21,080
Speaker 2: Well, Mavericks fans are happy about it, that's for sure.

1810
01:32:21,200 --> 01:32:24,800
Speaker 2: One series away from their second ever NBA championship, third

1811
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Speaker 2: bout raising as a new independent regulator, HAISA that is

1812
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Speaker 2: implementing comprehensive reforms, and the sport is combining hands on care.

1813
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Speaker 2: We're cutting edge technology to help keep its athletes safe.

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Speaker 2: To learn more, visit Safety uns First dot com that

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Speaker 2: Safety runs First dot Com. All right, we're gonna get

1816
01:32:42,760 --> 01:32:46,720
Speaker 2: to NFL news. You know, like what NFL news? There

1817
01:32:46,880 --> 01:32:50,720
Speaker 2: is always NFL news, and our insider Adam Kaplan will

1818
01:32:50,760 --> 01:32:54,519
Speaker 2: join us. This is Fox Sports Saturday. It's obvious Mary

1819
01:32:54,600 --> 01:32:59,679
Speaker 2: Mack has shown up. Have you know this a little

1820
01:32:59,680 --> 01:33:06,679
Speaker 2: different when Chris is here? Steve Hartman, Montsey Belana's Fox

1821
01:33:06,800 --> 01:33:11,760
Speaker 2: Sports Saturday. We're live from the tire Rack dot com studios.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what this is?

1823
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Speaker 2: I have no ca.

1824
01:33:16,640 --> 01:33:20,320
Speaker 1: I mean, this one's a little bit old, like it's

1825
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Speaker 1: not it's not a song. Now it's Chris Brown.

1826
01:33:23,600 --> 01:33:27,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, t I T pain de pain T pain all

1827
01:33:27,800 --> 01:33:30,280
Speaker 2: right you are. I mean I know who Chris Brown is.

1828
01:33:30,479 --> 01:33:33,200
Speaker 2: The names I know. I don't know their music, yes, yes,

1829
01:33:33,520 --> 01:33:36,800
Speaker 2: the names I know. I know this name because he

1830
01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:41,280
Speaker 2: so graciously joins us. Never there's never an off time

1831
01:33:41,520 --> 01:33:44,920
Speaker 2: for the NFL. The NFL is a constant three hundred

1832
01:33:44,920 --> 01:33:47,840
Speaker 2: and sixty five days a year. Our NFL insider Adam

1833
01:33:47,920 --> 01:33:52,479
Speaker 2: Kaplan is joining us right now. Adam, I I was,

1834
01:33:52,720 --> 01:33:57,880
Speaker 2: I was reading a story about Caleb Williams. Yeah, and

1835
01:33:58,280 --> 01:34:01,760
Speaker 2: what a disaster. Yeah, I mean, there were all kinds

1836
01:34:01,800 --> 01:34:05,440
Speaker 2: of exaggerations about, you know, through like six rate interceptions

1837
01:34:05,560 --> 01:34:08,599
Speaker 2: and all this kind of stuff. And we talked about

1838
01:34:08,600 --> 01:34:12,000
Speaker 2: this before the draft that, you know, just three years

1839
01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:14,200
Speaker 2: ago in the twenty twenty one draft, he had five

1840
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:17,120
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the first fifteen picks, four of which no

1841
01:34:17,240 --> 01:34:20,320
Speaker 2: longer play for those teams. Crazy and now this year

1842
01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:25,719
Speaker 2: shattered records, six quarterbacks and the first twelve picks, six

1843
01:34:25,800 --> 01:34:32,640
Speaker 2: in the first twelve. Let's start with Caleb Williams, and

1844
01:34:33,920 --> 01:34:38,400
Speaker 2: is what has been going on so far? Are there

1845
01:34:38,479 --> 01:34:43,120
Speaker 2: any concerns about Caleb Williams And how dramatically do the

1846
01:34:43,200 --> 01:34:47,200
Speaker 2: Bears think their offense is going to change with Caleb

1847
01:34:47,280 --> 01:34:50,519
Speaker 2: Williams replacing Justin Fields.

1848
01:34:50,640 --> 01:34:54,080
Speaker 4: Now, they're not worried. See Williams is learning a completely

1849
01:34:54,160 --> 01:34:56,560
Speaker 4: new scheme. This is a West Coast offense. The terminology

1850
01:34:56,640 --> 01:35:00,439
Speaker 4: is different than the scheme that he played in college,

1851
01:35:00,560 --> 01:35:03,840
Speaker 4: specifically the one under Cliff Kingsbury at USC. It's completely different.

1852
01:35:03,880 --> 01:35:06,640
Speaker 4: So he's got to learn a new terminology. It's got

1853
01:35:06,720 --> 01:35:09,240
Speaker 4: to learn a new scheme. It's just different and it's

1854
01:35:09,280 --> 01:35:11,760
Speaker 4: going to take some time. But you know, not only

1855
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:13,120
Speaker 4: will it take time, you know they don't really have

1856
01:35:13,240 --> 01:35:16,360
Speaker 4: an experienced backup right now. They Taylor Tyson Baigen was

1857
01:35:16,360 --> 01:35:19,320
Speaker 4: an undrafted free agent last year out of Shepherd who

1858
01:35:19,360 --> 01:35:22,719
Speaker 4: made the rosters a third stringer. Brett Rippin the nephew

1859
01:35:22,760 --> 01:35:24,920
Speaker 4: of Mark Rippon. He's kind of a journeyman. He's on

1860
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:26,479
Speaker 4: the roster in Austin read who was an unt directed

1861
01:35:26,479 --> 01:35:28,439
Speaker 4: free agent. So it's not like they sign a veteran

1862
01:35:28,560 --> 01:35:30,160
Speaker 4: just in case he's not ready. He's going to be

1863
01:35:30,200 --> 01:35:32,480
Speaker 4: the quarterback day one. There's no competition.

1864
01:35:32,600 --> 01:35:33,080
Speaker 2: He's the guy.

1865
01:35:33,200 --> 01:35:37,200
Speaker 4: But and look, I get it. He definitely in their

1866
01:35:37,240 --> 01:35:39,559
Speaker 4: ota says not look good. Then they got the mandatory camp.

1867
01:35:39,600 --> 01:35:43,559
Speaker 4: In fact, folks, the mandatory camps around the National Football League,

1868
01:35:43,600 --> 01:35:45,360
Speaker 4: about ten teams have them next week and then the

1869
01:35:45,400 --> 01:35:46,680
Speaker 4: week after the rest of them have it, and then

1870
01:35:46,680 --> 01:35:47,439
Speaker 4: they're off for the summer.

1871
01:35:49,080 --> 01:35:52,800
Speaker 1: Hi, Adam, Hell, let's continue with this quarterback time. What

1872
01:35:53,080 --> 01:35:56,920
Speaker 1: is the latest in Denver with the quarterback competition between

1873
01:35:57,040 --> 01:35:59,960
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson, Bonnicks, Jared's Didham. Is there a competition?

1874
01:36:00,920 --> 01:36:04,800
Speaker 4: I will look, they're saying it is. It's but bow

1875
01:36:04,880 --> 01:36:07,560
Speaker 4: Knicks is going to be the quarterback day one. You know,

1876
01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:10,040
Speaker 4: Jared Stinn's very well like because I understand by Sean Payton,

1877
01:36:10,080 --> 01:36:12,760
Speaker 4: that's why he's there, who's an on director, who was

1878
01:36:12,800 --> 01:36:15,479
Speaker 4: an unrestricted free agent last year signed away from the Raiders,

1879
01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:19,640
Speaker 4: and they think he's got long term potential to be

1880
01:36:19,680 --> 01:36:22,120
Speaker 4: a good backup for them. Zach Wilson, you know, you

1881
01:36:22,200 --> 01:36:24,080
Speaker 4: need to have three quarterbacks a camp. He's the third,

1882
01:36:25,120 --> 01:36:26,599
Speaker 4: But in the end it's going to be bow Knicks

1883
01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:29,360
Speaker 4: who Sean Payton he doesn't technically have personal control, but

1884
01:36:29,400 --> 01:36:31,000
Speaker 4: he's a lot of input. This is his quarterback for

1885
01:36:31,040 --> 01:36:34,479
Speaker 4: this draft, he really wanted him. You know, Bo Knicks,

1886
01:36:34,560 --> 01:36:36,200
Speaker 4: we should mention. I don't know how much we talked

1887
01:36:36,200 --> 01:36:37,840
Speaker 4: about for the draft. You know, he was a transfer

1888
01:36:37,920 --> 01:36:40,760
Speaker 4: out of Auburn, he really struggled at Auburn, revived his

1889
01:36:40,880 --> 01:36:43,640
Speaker 4: career at Oregon, and you know, you look at him now,

1890
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:46,960
Speaker 4: he's going to get a real shot to be there

1891
01:36:47,040 --> 01:36:47,880
Speaker 4: a long, long time.

1892
01:36:47,960 --> 01:36:50,800
Speaker 2: And this is his guy. Remember Sean Payton.

1893
01:36:50,880 --> 01:36:54,040
Speaker 4: This is this is a guy that if you look

1894
01:36:54,080 --> 01:36:56,519
Speaker 4: at his career, he's really not developed a young quarterback.

1895
01:36:56,560 --> 01:36:58,559
Speaker 4: He did a great job at Drew Brees, no question

1896
01:36:58,640 --> 01:37:01,320
Speaker 4: about it, but he's never really he's never really worked

1897
01:37:01,360 --> 01:37:03,040
Speaker 4: with a guy from beginning end who was a first

1898
01:37:03,120 --> 01:37:05,120
Speaker 4: round pick and his guy. So this is going to

1899
01:37:05,160 --> 01:37:07,200
Speaker 4: be an interesting marriage here going forward.

1900
01:37:07,400 --> 01:37:10,920
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson had a big bounce back year and was

1901
01:37:11,000 --> 01:37:14,479
Speaker 2: named the league's most valuable Player. Of course, he'd rather

1902
01:37:14,560 --> 01:37:19,480
Speaker 2: forget that final game. I still don't know what Harbaugh's

1903
01:37:19,600 --> 01:37:23,120
Speaker 2: game plan was for that game. It baffles me to

1904
01:37:23,240 --> 01:37:25,439
Speaker 2: this day. I don't know what the Ravens were doing

1905
01:37:26,200 --> 01:37:30,120
Speaker 2: in trying to have Lamar Jackson outpass Patrick Mahomes, which

1906
01:37:30,160 --> 01:37:32,760
Speaker 2: is never going to happen. But now Lamar Jackson is

1907
01:37:32,800 --> 01:37:36,439
Speaker 2: no showing at the OTAs. What's up with that? So

1908
01:37:36,760 --> 01:37:38,160
Speaker 2: he's been working out on his own.

1909
01:37:38,840 --> 01:37:39,439
Speaker 10: That that was.

1910
01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:41,679
Speaker 4: I mean, they've been talking about it. Players have talked

1911
01:37:41,680 --> 01:37:44,559
Speaker 4: about it. He's kind of reshaped his body. They don't

1912
01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:47,320
Speaker 4: seem to be concerned about it. Yeah, it's it's it's

1913
01:37:47,360 --> 01:37:49,240
Speaker 4: not And by the way, it's not mandatory anyway. The

1914
01:37:49,320 --> 01:37:50,840
Speaker 4: mandatory camp is coming up here.

1915
01:37:51,080 --> 01:37:54,280
Speaker 2: But he's the leader of you, I know, contract. Let

1916
01:37:54,320 --> 01:37:56,439
Speaker 2: me share you a quick story. Let's got his contract,

1917
01:37:56,439 --> 01:37:58,599
Speaker 2: by the way. So I was down in San Diego

1918
01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:02,320
Speaker 2: and your seau obviously was the big star of the

1919
01:38:02,439 --> 01:38:05,800
Speaker 2: Chargers at the time, and Bobby Bether was the Hall

1920
01:38:05,800 --> 01:38:11,000
Speaker 2: of Fame general manager, and Junior didn't show up at OTAs.

1921
01:38:12,360 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 2: And so I'm there with my partner, Philly Billy Warrendell,

1922
01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:21,320
Speaker 2: and we're out of the field and and Bobby Bether

1923
01:38:21,439 --> 01:38:25,600
Speaker 2: invites us onto the field. Onto the field, he's like

1924
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Speaker 2: and we're like, this is interesting, but you know, we

1925
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Speaker 2: had a big time radio show locally, and so he

1926
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Speaker 2: wanted us to you know, really voices frustration. The junior

1927
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Speaker 2: was not there. So we we bought a hook line

1928
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Speaker 2: and sinker, so we come on a radio show like yeah,

1929
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, if you're if you're the leader

1930
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Speaker 2: of a team and your team is trying to get somewhere,

1931
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Speaker 2: you need to be there. And guess what. Junior showed

1932
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Speaker 2: up the next day. And by the way, the next

1933
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Speaker 2: day when we showed up, we thought, hey, we're pretty good.

1934
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Speaker 2: So we started walking on the field or like where

1935
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Speaker 2: are you going? Oh, we were on the field yesterday,

1936
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Speaker 2: and it was it's like, oh, now I get it.

1937
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Speaker 2: We served our purpose. Bethard used us to get the

1938
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Speaker 2: word out that he needed to show up once that

1939
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Speaker 2: was done. So, I mean, I guess that would be

1940
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Speaker 2: the question there, like you're you're the leader of this

1941
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Speaker 2: team and you're frustrated by a disappointing AFC championship game

1942
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Speaker 2: and you want to get to that next level and

1943
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Speaker 2: everyone's there and your quarterback's not. It would be a

1944
01:39:24,600 --> 01:39:25,280
Speaker 2: bigger story.

1945
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Speaker 4: If he was up for a new contract, then it'd

1946
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Speaker 4: be a major story because then you know, you kind

1947
01:39:29,360 --> 01:39:31,120
Speaker 4: of see what he's doing here. But he's got his

1948
01:39:31,240 --> 01:39:34,080
Speaker 4: contract and he's not shure up to voluntary stuff. I

1949
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Speaker 4: always say voluntary for the younger players, you better show

1950
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Speaker 4: up for the veterans like Jackson. Yeah, it would be

1951
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Speaker 4: nice if you showed up, considering it's only your second

1952
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Speaker 4: year in the offense. It's to me, it's it's not

1953
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Speaker 4: a really big deal, But I'm curious when he comes

1954
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Speaker 4: to camp what his explanation will be. And look sometimes,

1955
01:39:51,520 --> 01:39:54,400
Speaker 4: and this has happened talking to coaches the last couple

1956
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Speaker 4: of weeks. A lot of guys take care of personal business.

1957
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Speaker 4: I don't know why they don't do this in January, February, March,

1958
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Speaker 4: whenever the season's over, but a lot of them take

1959
01:40:01,040 --> 01:40:04,000
Speaker 4: care of personal business. Players come in and out. Some

1960
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Speaker 4: guys show up for two days and leave. It's kind

1961
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Speaker 4: of weird.

1962
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Speaker 2: Now, I don't know what.

1963
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Speaker 4: I don't know if he's got a workout bonus because

1964
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Speaker 4: he if he does, he's not getting it now, not

1965
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Speaker 4: that he really needs at this point because of the

1966
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Speaker 4: kind of money he's making.

1967
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Speaker 2: Overall.

1968
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Speaker 4: That's why you see some guys show up to the

1969
01:40:18,000 --> 01:40:20,840
Speaker 4: voluntary because if they they're on a deal where let's say,

1970
01:40:20,960 --> 01:40:23,400
Speaker 4: only make a four million and the workout bonus is

1971
01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:24,960
Speaker 4: seven or fifty thousand, they're showing up.

1972
01:40:25,000 --> 01:40:26,000
Speaker 2: There's no question about it.

1973
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Speaker 1: So let's check in on the Dolphins here, Adam. They

1974
01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:33,040
Speaker 1: just gave Waddle a lot of money.

1975
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Speaker 3: Yea.

1976
01:40:34,520 --> 01:40:37,040
Speaker 1: What is going to happen with Tua on the final

1977
01:40:37,160 --> 01:40:38,439
Speaker 1: year of his rookie contract.

1978
01:40:39,320 --> 01:40:42,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a tough one because this is their guy.

1979
01:40:43,040 --> 01:40:44,640
Speaker 4: You know, they made a decision. They were taking him

1980
01:40:44,680 --> 01:40:47,479
Speaker 4: over justin Herbert of course, Greer, the GM you made

1981
01:40:47,520 --> 01:40:48,880
Speaker 4: the call. And I don't know if you recall this,

1982
01:40:49,000 --> 01:40:51,280
Speaker 4: but Brian Flores was not the former head coach, was

1983
01:40:51,320 --> 01:40:53,599
Speaker 4: not a big to a fan, didn't kind of hide

1984
01:40:53,760 --> 01:40:57,640
Speaker 4: his displeasure. And Flora's obviously long gone. He's doing good

1985
01:40:57,720 --> 01:41:01,920
Speaker 4: jobs defense coordinated for the Vikings, but this one has

1986
01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:04,400
Speaker 4: not gone kind of the way probably too it hoped

1987
01:41:06,080 --> 01:41:08,479
Speaker 4: they have negotiated, as I understand it, they have talked,

1988
01:41:08,560 --> 01:41:11,280
Speaker 4: they've they've kind of gone over ideas what this thing

1989
01:41:11,360 --> 01:41:15,040
Speaker 4: might look like. But it's no longer. You know, he's

1990
01:41:15,080 --> 01:41:16,640
Speaker 4: built his body up by the way, he's done a

1991
01:41:16,680 --> 01:41:19,120
Speaker 4: good job of doing that. But his injury history is.

1992
01:41:19,160 --> 01:41:21,840
Speaker 10: What it is, and this is it.

1993
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Speaker 4: There's no And another thing is with these quarterback deals,

1994
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:26,840
Speaker 4: it's kind of like you got to be in the

1995
01:41:26,880 --> 01:41:29,519
Speaker 4: fifty to fifty two million a year range for that's

1996
01:41:29,560 --> 01:41:32,519
Speaker 4: the bottom of them. Now, your Jalen Hurts and others

1997
01:41:32,560 --> 01:41:34,280
Speaker 4: are the young quarterbacks who got their deals. That's that's

1998
01:41:34,280 --> 01:41:36,960
Speaker 4: around where it's got to be. Dolphins, so far as

1999
01:41:37,000 --> 01:41:40,240
Speaker 4: I understand, aren't there. And now again we're just we

2000
01:41:40,439 --> 01:41:43,000
Speaker 4: just did June, right Treig Camps don't start to till

2001
01:41:43,040 --> 01:41:48,400
Speaker 4: late July, and clubs don't like their star quarterback. We

2002
01:41:48,439 --> 01:41:50,639
Speaker 4: can debate whether he's the start, but their starting quarterback

2003
01:41:50,720 --> 01:41:53,120
Speaker 4: to have to deal with this in season. It would

2004
01:41:53,120 --> 01:41:55,120
Speaker 4: be a minor upset if they don't figure out a

2005
01:41:55,160 --> 01:41:57,800
Speaker 4: resolution to this one way or the other. But he's

2006
01:41:57,840 --> 01:41:59,960
Speaker 4: got to be their guy. They made a significant investment

2007
01:42:00,200 --> 01:42:03,000
Speaker 4: in him, and you just mentioned Jalen Wadham. And by

2008
01:42:03,000 --> 01:42:04,639
Speaker 4: the way, they got to take a look at Tyree

2009
01:42:04,720 --> 01:42:07,759
Speaker 4: Hill's contract. I know this sounds crazy, but is actually

2010
01:42:07,800 --> 01:42:10,840
Speaker 4: outdated now. And that's another one who's going to be

2011
01:42:11,320 --> 01:42:12,960
Speaker 4: certainly a Hall of Famer someday at this pace.

2012
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Speaker 2: All right, one final question your quarterback related the hypothetical

2013
01:42:18,200 --> 01:42:22,240
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers are getting ready for a wild card

2014
01:42:22,400 --> 01:42:26,040
Speaker 2: playoff game. Who is their starting quarterback?

2015
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Speaker 4: Oh, well, it's Russell Wilson's the un questions starting quarterback

2016
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Speaker 4: now if they get in.

2017
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, who is the quarterback at the end

2018
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Speaker 2: of the year.

2019
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Speaker 4: Not I'm gonna say Russell Wilson. So I'm gonna give

2020
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Speaker 4: you I'm gonna bring it inside a conversation, Steve. I

2021
01:42:40,360 --> 01:42:41,439
Speaker 4: didn't know if you're going there, but I'm going to

2022
01:42:41,479 --> 01:42:43,400
Speaker 4: bring up a conversation. So talking to someone in the

2023
01:42:43,479 --> 01:42:45,920
Speaker 4: front office, I don't know, like three weeks ago, I

2024
01:42:46,080 --> 01:42:47,720
Speaker 4: just said, you know, I want another thought process of

2025
01:42:47,760 --> 01:42:51,160
Speaker 4: bringing Wilson, as I was not criticizing the decision.

2026
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Speaker 2: I just want to know what they thought.

2027
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Speaker 4: And they thought he was such a clear upgrade over

2028
01:42:56,439 --> 01:42:59,320
Speaker 4: what they had obviously with Kenny Pickett and Mason Rudolph,

2029
01:42:59,320 --> 01:43:02,320
Speaker 4: and you know, I couldn't disagree with that. But my

2030
01:43:03,120 --> 01:43:05,320
Speaker 4: thought process was, well, I get that he's an upgrade,

2031
01:43:05,360 --> 01:43:08,600
Speaker 4: but shouldn't you aspire for something better, something at the

2032
01:43:08,680 --> 01:43:11,439
Speaker 4: next level, and that that's kind of like where this person.

2033
01:43:11,520 --> 01:43:13,960
Speaker 4: I just didn't agree that they're trying to take the

2034
01:43:14,000 --> 01:43:14,400
Speaker 4: next step.

2035
01:43:14,439 --> 01:43:14,800
Speaker 3: I get that.

2036
01:43:15,680 --> 01:43:17,800
Speaker 4: And we know Mike Tomlin has not had an under

2037
01:43:17,840 --> 01:43:19,240
Speaker 4: five hundred record, but he also has not one of

2038
01:43:19,240 --> 01:43:22,760
Speaker 4: the playoff games. It's twenty seventeen, but you know, justin

2039
01:43:22,800 --> 01:43:26,679
Speaker 4: fields is very gifted, but he's just he's got issues

2040
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:28,519
Speaker 4: with akasheing and processing and so forth.

2041
01:43:28,600 --> 01:43:31,400
Speaker 2: It's you got to get past that stuff.

2042
01:43:31,920 --> 01:43:35,000
Speaker 4: And so to move this forward here and answer your question,

2043
01:43:35,160 --> 01:43:36,720
Speaker 4: it's going to be Russell Wilson as far as they

2044
01:43:36,800 --> 01:43:39,639
Speaker 4: want to go. And this offense does fit him well

2045
01:43:39,720 --> 01:43:42,920
Speaker 4: in that it's super run based. This offense will start

2046
01:43:42,960 --> 01:43:45,679
Speaker 4: and end with a run game. They're not their goals

2047
01:43:45,800 --> 01:43:47,559
Speaker 4: not to put a lot on him, and that's we'll

2048
01:43:47,560 --> 01:43:49,600
Speaker 4: see if that happens. But with that defense and that

2049
01:43:49,760 --> 01:43:51,280
Speaker 4: the run game, that probably will be the case.

2050
01:43:51,439 --> 01:43:54,000
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson Roddiham to the end, at least at the

2051
01:43:54,080 --> 01:43:56,479
Speaker 2: end of this season. All right, Well, Adam, I knew

2052
01:43:56,520 --> 01:43:58,320
Speaker 2: we'd race through a lot of different topics in a

2053
01:43:58,439 --> 01:44:01,160
Speaker 2: very short amount of time and stuff. Thanks so much. Adam,

2054
01:44:01,200 --> 01:44:03,360
Speaker 2: will check in with you next week. Thank you, Adam

2055
01:44:03,439 --> 01:44:07,559
Speaker 2: Kaplan our Fox Sports Radio NFL Insider. All right, let's

2056
01:44:07,600 --> 01:44:10,320
Speaker 2: find out what is trending right now? And well, this

2057
01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:13,320
Speaker 2: man has been here a great portion of the day

2058
01:44:13,360 --> 01:44:15,639
Speaker 2: and I have apparently is not leaving any time soon.

2059
01:44:16,240 --> 01:44:18,920
Speaker 1: No who leaves here? Do any of us leave?

2060
01:44:19,080 --> 01:44:19,120
Speaker 9: No?

2061
01:44:19,280 --> 01:44:21,960
Speaker 2: I mean, Steve, you're here at least five hours before

2062
01:44:22,040 --> 01:44:25,479
Speaker 2: every one of your shows. Well, I like to sort

2063
01:44:25,520 --> 01:44:28,200
Speaker 2: of get into game mode. You know, what does game

2064
01:44:28,439 --> 01:44:32,000
Speaker 2: mode look like for you? Pasting people that are sitting

2065
01:44:32,160 --> 01:44:35,000
Speaker 2: in your seat nice, you know, and just talking and

2066
01:44:35,640 --> 01:44:38,840
Speaker 2: I just got I get warmed up talking, even if

2067
01:44:38,880 --> 01:44:42,040
Speaker 2: it's to myself, and then I get ready for the show.

2068
01:44:42,280 --> 01:44:44,879
Speaker 11: Do you ever talk to yourself all driving by yourself

2069
01:44:45,040 --> 01:44:47,720
Speaker 11: in the car as far as a monologue preparing for

2070
01:44:47,840 --> 01:44:48,200
Speaker 11: a show.

2071
01:44:48,720 --> 01:44:51,439
Speaker 2: Well, as you know, I have been residing in the

2072
01:44:51,520 --> 01:44:53,800
Speaker 2: Phoenix area now Monday through Friday, so now I have

2073
01:44:53,920 --> 01:44:57,360
Speaker 2: six hour drives each way every week. There's nothing that

2074
01:44:57,520 --> 01:44:59,479
Speaker 2: is more glorious in a six hour drive with me

2075
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:01,840
Speaker 2: the sound of your voice, well, the thought of my

2076
01:45:01,960 --> 01:45:05,120
Speaker 2: voice in my head, because again, when I'm by myself,

2077
01:45:05,280 --> 01:45:09,960
Speaker 2: everything I'm thinking about is interesting. There's never anything that

2078
01:45:10,160 --> 01:45:16,120
Speaker 2: I think about in my solitaire state that isn't interesting

2079
01:45:16,200 --> 01:45:18,240
Speaker 2: to me. So I could stats or whatever I've got

2080
01:45:18,360 --> 01:45:20,200
Speaker 2: rolling through my head for those people who.

2081
01:45:20,160 --> 01:45:22,360
Speaker 11: Are maybe driving on the freeway right now in Los

2082
01:45:22,400 --> 01:45:26,280
Speaker 11: Angeles or listening in other markets. What even when you

2083
01:45:26,360 --> 01:45:29,280
Speaker 11: think it's interesting, what could say somebody outside of you

2084
01:45:29,360 --> 01:45:31,880
Speaker 11: think is interesting that which you think is interesting when

2085
01:45:31,880 --> 01:45:32,559
Speaker 11: you're by yourself.

2086
01:45:34,479 --> 01:45:36,080
Speaker 2: M that's a great question.

2087
01:45:38,000 --> 01:45:39,080
Speaker 1: You're stumping him already.

2088
01:45:39,120 --> 01:45:42,200
Speaker 2: Well, going to say, I'm trying to make I trying

2089
01:45:42,240 --> 01:45:46,439
Speaker 2: to say something that's thoughtful here, no words. I don't

2090
01:45:46,479 --> 01:45:48,840
Speaker 2: want to dismiss what other people are saying to me,

2091
01:45:50,520 --> 01:45:53,439
Speaker 2: because people do have some very interesting things to say

2092
01:45:53,520 --> 01:45:56,640
Speaker 2: to me. But none of them are more interesting than

2093
01:45:56,680 --> 01:45:58,880
Speaker 2: what I'm thinking. Yeah, none of them are as good

2094
01:45:58,920 --> 01:46:01,240
Speaker 2: as what you're saying. I'm not saying that. There's people

2095
01:46:01,320 --> 01:46:03,680
Speaker 2: that are way smarter than I am about a lot

2096
01:46:03,720 --> 01:46:05,960
Speaker 2: of different subjects. It's just that it's hard to find

2097
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:10,559
Speaker 2: those stay. I stay with my bread and butter. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

2098
01:46:10,720 --> 01:46:13,519
Speaker 2: for sure. And there's certain things I do know that

2099
01:46:14,000 --> 01:46:16,920
Speaker 2: I feel like I almost stand alone. Well, and I

2100
01:46:17,000 --> 01:46:18,680
Speaker 2: think Monts. I think we're going to find that out

2101
01:46:18,720 --> 01:46:21,719
Speaker 2: next segment exactly. Yeah, who's your dady? Yeah, who's your daddy?

2102
01:46:22,360 --> 01:46:24,120
Speaker 2: Looking forward to that conversation.

2103
01:46:24,680 --> 01:46:27,880
Speaker 11: Kaitlin Clark, by the way, she had her game speak

2104
01:46:27,960 --> 01:46:30,599
Speaker 11: for itself on the floor today, four of eleven from

2105
01:46:30,680 --> 01:46:33,160
Speaker 11: the field, and she lays the Indiana Fever to the

2106
01:46:33,240 --> 01:46:35,080
Speaker 11: first home win of the year. Over this time the

2107
01:46:35,200 --> 01:46:38,720
Speaker 11: Chicago Sky seventy one to seventy eleven points, eight, rebound six,

2108
01:46:38,800 --> 01:46:41,680
Speaker 11: a shit six. It's just and yeah, that was a

2109
01:46:41,720 --> 01:46:45,240
Speaker 11: little bit closer. I was a little closer than they

2110
01:46:45,320 --> 01:46:48,840
Speaker 11: probably wanted to there. So I think you guys, I

2111
01:46:48,920 --> 01:46:51,800
Speaker 11: think we've all had one of those. We've all had

2112
01:46:51,840 --> 01:46:56,160
Speaker 11: one of those anyway, So you know, I go right

2113
01:46:56,320 --> 01:46:57,920
Speaker 11: exactly when you're.

2114
01:46:57,760 --> 01:47:00,880
Speaker 2: In the talking profession. Stuff happened all the time.

2115
01:47:01,120 --> 01:47:05,000
Speaker 11: Maybe, So anyway, Major League Baseball, let's go over there

2116
01:47:05,120 --> 01:47:07,280
Speaker 11: and the San Diego Padres have a six to three

2117
01:47:07,360 --> 01:47:09,400
Speaker 11: lead against the Kansas City Royals. That's in the top

2118
01:47:09,439 --> 01:47:12,960
Speaker 11: of the ninth Padres no U Darvish, no Joe Musgrove.

2119
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:16,639
Speaker 11: They're both on the fifteen day il and Darbish's left

2120
01:47:16,720 --> 01:47:20,880
Speaker 11: groin strain in Musgrove is the right elbow inflammation situation there,

2121
01:47:21,360 --> 01:47:23,960
Speaker 11: so they're not going to be able to be participating

2122
01:47:24,040 --> 01:47:26,599
Speaker 11: in a game anytime soon. Oakland A's have a ten

2123
01:47:26,640 --> 01:47:29,599
Speaker 11: to nine lead into the eighth inning against the Atlanta Braves.

2124
01:47:29,680 --> 01:47:32,600
Speaker 11: The Cleveland Guardians three to two. They're in front of

2125
01:47:32,720 --> 01:47:35,920
Speaker 11: the Washington Nationals. That's in the ninth inning. A six

2126
01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:37,840
Speaker 11: to three win for the Boston Red Sox against the

2127
01:47:38,360 --> 01:47:42,320
Speaker 11: Detroit Tigers. We also saw an earlier win for the

2128
01:47:42,439 --> 01:47:47,000
Speaker 11: Pittsburgh Pirates as they went into Toronto and got a victory.

2129
01:47:47,479 --> 01:47:49,320
Speaker 11: That would be eight to one the final score against

2130
01:47:49,320 --> 01:47:51,960
Speaker 11: the Blue Jays. Also the Astros five to two winners

2131
01:47:52,120 --> 01:47:57,000
Speaker 11: against the Twins. Meantime, the NHL there game six out

2132
01:47:57,200 --> 01:47:59,880
Speaker 11: East is theatern Conference Finals. It's Rangers and Panthers that

2133
01:48:00,160 --> 01:48:02,760
Speaker 11: tonight at eight Eastern and Florida has a head in

2134
01:48:02,880 --> 01:48:05,400
Speaker 11: the best of seven series three games to two. Third

2135
01:48:05,479 --> 01:48:07,960
Speaker 11: round of the RBC Canadian Open as part of the

2136
01:48:08,040 --> 01:48:12,679
Speaker 11: PGA Tour, and it is the Ben Griffin Show as

2137
01:48:12,720 --> 01:48:15,160
Speaker 11: he has sole possession of the lead and he has

2138
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Speaker 11: been shooting up the leader board six hundred today through

2139
01:48:18,320 --> 01:48:21,599
Speaker 11: seventeen hole, so he is on eighteen with eleven under

2140
01:48:21,760 --> 01:48:25,760
Speaker 11: over the three rounds of competition. Mackenzie Hughes, Ryan Fox

2141
01:48:25,880 --> 01:48:29,200
Speaker 11: and Robert McIntyre are all one shot off the pace

2142
01:48:29,360 --> 01:48:33,519
Speaker 11: at ten under. And lastly, Real Madrid wins two nil

2143
01:48:33,600 --> 01:48:38,000
Speaker 11: over dortmun to take the Champions League title. So I

2144
01:48:38,080 --> 01:48:40,439
Speaker 11: know we'll have a lot of a breakdown on that

2145
01:48:40,760 --> 01:48:42,679
Speaker 11: in our number five of the show.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this is a marathon, twenty four hours of us,

2147
01:48:48,760 --> 01:48:49,559
Speaker 2: but that's okay.

2148
01:48:49,400 --> 01:48:52,599
Speaker 1: With anyone could do it. I think we can twenty four.

2149
01:48:52,479 --> 01:48:55,759
Speaker 2: Hours of plenty of that. Don't give the bosses any ideas.

2150
01:48:55,840 --> 01:48:58,519
Speaker 2: So not a bad idea that you and I would

2151
01:48:58,800 --> 01:49:01,960
Speaker 2: for like an hour. Only a beef was doing updates

2152
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:03,000
Speaker 2: for all twenty four years.

2153
01:49:03,080 --> 01:49:03,280
Speaker 10: Yeah.

2154
01:49:03,479 --> 01:49:05,719
Speaker 11: Well, you know when you work with somebody like yourself,

2155
01:49:05,760 --> 01:49:08,639
Speaker 11: who is the human incarnate of the human hamster wheel,

2156
01:49:09,400 --> 01:49:10,639
Speaker 11: then you can do anything.

2157
01:49:10,760 --> 01:49:10,960
Speaker 5: Yeah.

2158
01:49:11,000 --> 01:49:14,040
Speaker 2: Well, that's the way. I believe you caffeinate my day.

2159
01:49:14,720 --> 01:49:17,280
Speaker 1: You caffeinate my day. Put that in a card. I

2160
01:49:17,439 --> 01:49:18,320
Speaker 1: know that's cute.

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01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:20,599
Speaker 2: I'll have to look that aut side. Thank you very much.

2162
01:49:20,680 --> 01:49:23,800
Speaker 2: Be Fa Bryant family right there. What a banger that was.

2163
01:49:24,720 --> 01:49:27,519
Speaker 2: Once again, Steve Hartman Montson Bill on you knows here

2164
01:49:27,640 --> 01:49:29,680
Speaker 2: we have Fox Sports Saturday and we're a live from

2165
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Speaker 2: the tire rack dot Com studios. I wanted to take

2166
01:49:31,840 --> 01:49:35,000
Speaker 2: a moment here to talk about the passing of Bill Walton.

2167
01:49:36,040 --> 01:49:38,960
Speaker 2: Bill Walton, obviously one of the great basketball players of

2168
01:49:39,000 --> 01:49:42,280
Speaker 2: all time, passed away earlier in the week from cancer.

2169
01:49:42,560 --> 01:49:45,559
Speaker 2: He did not want to make it public how sick

2170
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Speaker 2: he had been. He did not participate in the PAC

2171
01:49:49,760 --> 01:49:53,640
Speaker 2: twelve tournament broadcast because of illness, but he had been

2172
01:49:53,680 --> 01:49:57,439
Speaker 2: sick for a while. I got to know Bill really

2173
01:49:57,520 --> 01:50:02,839
Speaker 2: well when he was trying to get his broadcast career starting.

2174
01:50:02,880 --> 01:50:06,440
Speaker 2: He had a stuttering problem while he was at UCLA,

2175
01:50:06,920 --> 01:50:09,320
Speaker 2: while he was playing in the NBA. He had a

2176
01:50:09,360 --> 01:50:11,920
Speaker 2: lot to say, just had a hard time overcoming it,

2177
01:50:12,160 --> 01:50:15,240
Speaker 2: and people worked with him, A lot of very famous

2178
01:50:15,400 --> 01:50:17,760
Speaker 2: people worked with him. But he wanted to get on

2179
01:50:17,880 --> 01:50:19,600
Speaker 2: the air and try to sort of you know, you

2180
01:50:19,720 --> 01:50:21,360
Speaker 2: got to get on the air and try it out.

2181
01:50:22,000 --> 01:50:24,880
Speaker 2: In our very early days of six ninety, the legendary

2182
01:50:24,960 --> 01:50:28,840
Speaker 2: six ninety, the first all sports station on the West Coast,

2183
01:50:30,080 --> 01:50:32,600
Speaker 2: he would I would co host shows with him, and

2184
01:50:32,960 --> 01:50:35,600
Speaker 2: we obviously had the bond of going to UCLA, and

2185
01:50:35,920 --> 01:50:38,439
Speaker 2: in fact, we used to sort of rib each other

2186
01:50:38,520 --> 01:50:43,400
Speaker 2: on who's the bigger honk for UCLA. Bill was. I mean,

2187
01:50:44,040 --> 01:50:49,880
Speaker 2: it's it's an overused term original, but I mean there

2188
01:50:50,120 --> 01:50:52,759
Speaker 2: was only one Bill Walton. There will never be another

2189
01:50:52,840 --> 01:50:55,800
Speaker 2: Bill Walton. The Bill Walton that you saw so many

2190
01:50:55,880 --> 01:50:58,840
Speaker 2: times on television, the goofy guy with the tied I shirts.

2191
01:50:58,880 --> 01:51:03,280
Speaker 2: He was a deadhead, I mean, and that was Bill Walton.

2192
01:51:03,600 --> 01:51:08,639
Speaker 2: He presented himself in a way that was Bill Walton,

2193
01:51:09,240 --> 01:51:11,960
Speaker 2: and that's why he got away with a lot of

2194
01:51:12,040 --> 01:51:15,840
Speaker 2: things that other broadcasters would not. The team that actually

2195
01:51:15,920 --> 01:51:19,439
Speaker 2: gave him the first opportunity to do it was the Clippers. Yeah,

2196
01:51:19,960 --> 01:51:22,920
Speaker 2: and the longtime legendary voice of the Clippers, Ralph Lawler,

2197
01:51:23,640 --> 01:51:26,439
Speaker 2: was the perfect guy to work with a guy like

2198
01:51:26,520 --> 01:51:29,920
Speaker 2: Bill Walton, because you know, the thing I learned early

2199
01:51:29,960 --> 01:51:32,360
Speaker 2: on in my first Loose Cannon partner, Chet forty, was

2200
01:51:32,439 --> 01:51:35,320
Speaker 2: I had no control over him, so I needed to

2201
01:51:35,520 --> 01:51:38,640
Speaker 2: figure out how to work around him. And that was

2202
01:51:38,840 --> 01:51:41,160
Speaker 2: what it was like working with Bill Walton. You're not

2203
01:51:41,240 --> 01:51:45,680
Speaker 2: gonna He's not going to follow any rules, So if

2204
01:51:45,720 --> 01:51:47,920
Speaker 2: you're going to work with him, you've got to sort

2205
01:51:47,960 --> 01:51:50,320
Speaker 2: of let him be him. And Ralph was really the

2206
01:51:50,439 --> 01:51:53,639
Speaker 2: first that had that opportunity and he did it great.

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01:51:53,920 --> 01:51:57,000
Speaker 1: I love Ralph and he just could work with anybody.

2208
01:51:57,360 --> 01:52:00,920
Speaker 1: He had his own quirkiness. But you know, Bill, he

2209
01:52:02,160 --> 01:52:05,080
Speaker 1: I didn't know him as a player. I just sometimes

2210
01:52:05,120 --> 01:52:07,519
Speaker 1: would watch him and Ralph and I would forget that

2211
01:52:07,640 --> 01:52:09,479
Speaker 1: I was actually going to watch a basketball game. It's

2212
01:52:09,520 --> 01:52:11,200
Speaker 1: like I would more tune in because I wanted to

2213
01:52:11,280 --> 01:52:13,400
Speaker 1: see they're back and forth for just a little bit.

2214
01:52:13,439 --> 01:52:16,240
Speaker 1: You forgot, you know, and I always thought that he

2215
01:52:16,439 --> 01:52:19,000
Speaker 1: was so funny, that they were funny together. But the

2216
01:52:19,120 --> 01:52:23,439
Speaker 1: best part really has been that since his passing, everyone

2217
01:52:23,520 --> 01:52:26,640
Speaker 1: has come out and said he was exactly who you

2218
01:52:26,800 --> 01:52:29,680
Speaker 1: thought he was. And I think that's the most beautiful thing,

2219
01:52:29,760 --> 01:52:32,479
Speaker 1: because so many people out there are fake. They're not

2220
01:52:32,720 --> 01:52:35,120
Speaker 1: actually what you see on screen, they're pretending to be that.

2221
01:52:35,720 --> 01:52:39,280
Speaker 1: But everybody has said he was exactly what you thought

2222
01:52:39,360 --> 01:52:39,680
Speaker 1: he was.

2223
01:52:40,680 --> 01:52:44,320
Speaker 2: I always think I also felt it was almost ironic that,

2224
01:52:44,800 --> 01:52:47,719
Speaker 2: you know, when he would do the PAC twelve games

2225
01:52:47,840 --> 01:52:51,240
Speaker 2: nationally for ESPN and even for the network, he was

2226
01:52:51,240 --> 01:52:54,920
Speaker 2: always the you know, the Conference of Champions. He was

2227
01:52:54,960 --> 01:52:58,280
Speaker 2: always you know, talking up the PAC twelve and the

2228
01:52:58,400 --> 01:53:01,479
Speaker 2: fact that he would pass away two days after the

2229
01:53:01,760 --> 01:53:06,600
Speaker 2: final Pack twelve tournament ever, was the baseball tournament Arizona

2230
01:53:06,680 --> 01:53:10,360
Speaker 2: with the walkoff went against USC and two days later

2231
01:53:10,520 --> 01:53:15,479
Speaker 2: Bill Walton passes after essentially the passing of the PAC twelve.

2232
01:53:15,640 --> 01:53:18,240
Speaker 1: Yeah no, that's that makes me want to throw up

2233
01:53:18,280 --> 01:53:20,920
Speaker 1: because that's so crazy, Like that's so weird. It's like

2234
01:53:21,000 --> 01:53:23,240
Speaker 1: when Vin Scoli passed away after the Dodgers and the

2235
01:53:23,479 --> 01:53:26,519
Speaker 1: Giants finished there, yeah series, you know, and then Tommy

2236
01:53:26,560 --> 01:53:29,679
Speaker 1: Lisorda passing away after we won that, you know, Bubble

2237
01:53:29,720 --> 01:53:33,000
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Like it's just crazy when it happens like that,

2238
01:53:33,080 --> 01:53:36,360
Speaker 1: because it's like it was in a weird way, meant.

2239
01:53:36,200 --> 01:53:40,360
Speaker 2: To be exactly that was the case. But a sweetheart

2240
01:53:40,439 --> 01:53:43,560
Speaker 2: of a man, always had enthusiasm. He went through a

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01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:45,360
Speaker 2: lot of physical problems.

2242
01:53:45,880 --> 01:53:46,040
Speaker 7: You know.

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01:53:46,200 --> 01:53:48,680
Speaker 2: The people have questioned a lot, and even I've been

2244
01:53:48,720 --> 01:53:49,160
Speaker 2: one of them.

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01:53:49,200 --> 01:53:49,320
Speaker 10: You know.

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01:53:49,400 --> 01:53:52,040
Speaker 2: He's named to the all time fiftieth Anniversary team in

2247
01:53:52,080 --> 01:53:55,479
Speaker 2: the NBA recently of all time seventy fifth anniversary. He

2248
01:53:55,640 --> 01:53:59,519
Speaker 2: essentially had three years. His first two years in Portland,

2249
01:53:59,560 --> 01:54:02,080
Speaker 2: he was heard than the third year they win the championship.

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01:54:02,240 --> 01:54:04,200
Speaker 2: His fourth year they were off to a fifty in

2251
01:54:04,360 --> 01:54:06,880
Speaker 2: ten start and he got hurt. Still was named the

2252
01:54:06,920 --> 01:54:09,879
Speaker 2: league's MVP that year. And then of course he eventually

2253
01:54:10,080 --> 01:54:13,120
Speaker 2: ended up with the Clippers, where he was just hurt constantly.

2254
01:54:13,720 --> 01:54:15,519
Speaker 2: And then he ends up with the Celtics on a

2255
01:54:15,600 --> 01:54:19,280
Speaker 2: great team with Bird and McHale and Parish and he

2256
01:54:19,400 --> 01:54:21,800
Speaker 2: was six Man of the Year. He only played about

2257
01:54:21,880 --> 01:54:25,280
Speaker 2: nineteen minutes a game. You know, did they need him?

2258
01:54:25,439 --> 01:54:28,519
Speaker 2: You know, but I mean they appreciated the kind of

2259
01:54:28,560 --> 01:54:31,680
Speaker 2: player he was. Everyone did because he was a constantant

2260
01:54:31,680 --> 01:54:35,400
Speaker 2: team player. You talk about basketball IQ, his was literally

2261
01:54:35,480 --> 01:54:39,400
Speaker 2: off the charts. But he just couldn't put that body

2262
01:54:39,480 --> 01:54:42,400
Speaker 2: together and he overcame a lot. He had back problems

2263
01:54:42,440 --> 01:54:44,680
Speaker 2: that were serious for years, and I remember talking to

2264
01:54:44,720 --> 01:54:47,080
Speaker 2: him and it was it was bad. And then he

2265
01:54:47,160 --> 01:54:49,960
Speaker 2: had this huge, amazing surgery done on his back that

2266
01:54:50,160 --> 01:54:52,800
Speaker 2: really allowed him to enjoy the rest of his life.

2267
01:54:52,920 --> 01:54:55,960
Speaker 2: So he didn't get cheated in life. I promise you

2268
01:54:56,080 --> 01:54:59,240
Speaker 2: that it's young seventy one, but he lived every second

2269
01:54:59,320 --> 01:55:02,840
Speaker 2: of it. And that ESPN feature they recently did on him,

2270
01:55:03,120 --> 01:55:04,760
Speaker 2: if you haven't seen it, watch it.

2271
01:55:04,920 --> 01:55:05,680
Speaker 7: It is it.

2272
01:55:05,920 --> 01:55:09,560
Speaker 2: It really captures what Bill Walton was all about. All

2273
01:55:09,880 --> 01:55:14,400
Speaker 2: time legendary person, more than even a basketball player. All right,

2274
01:55:14,440 --> 01:55:16,080
Speaker 2: coming up on the other side, who's your daddy?

2275
01:55:16,160 --> 01:55:17,000
Speaker 1: Who's your daddy?

2276
01:55:17,920 --> 01:55:21,520
Speaker 2: Well find out? This is Fox Sports Saturday.

2277
01:55:25,080 --> 01:55:28,720
Speaker 1: It is Fox Sports Saturday. I am Montyolanos with mister

2278
01:55:28,840 --> 01:55:31,240
Speaker 1: Steve Hartman, and we are coming to you live from

2279
01:55:31,280 --> 01:55:35,400
Speaker 1: the TIREC dot Com studios, and it is time for

2280
01:55:35,640 --> 01:55:39,200
Speaker 1: our new favorite segment where we try to stump this

2281
01:55:39,800 --> 01:55:44,720
Speaker 1: sports encyclopedia. Daddy, what are we playing. What are we doing?

2282
01:55:44,840 --> 01:55:45,560
Speaker 1: Mary mac.

2283
01:55:53,360 --> 01:55:53,800
Speaker 2: That's right.

2284
01:55:53,880 --> 01:55:55,160
Speaker 1: This is a segment.

2285
01:55:57,240 --> 01:56:01,480
Speaker 2: Everybody told your friend you're at it. Yeah, let's go

2286
01:56:02,120 --> 01:56:03,880
Speaker 2: mah's your daddy.

2287
01:56:03,560 --> 01:56:06,000
Speaker 1: And show Yes, this is the segment where we try

2288
01:56:06,080 --> 01:56:10,400
Speaker 1: to stump Steve Hartman because it's very difficult to do that.

2289
01:56:10,560 --> 01:56:13,000
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna start. But also Patrick has a question

2290
01:56:13,120 --> 01:56:16,120
Speaker 1: for you, has a question. But I'm gonna start things off.

2291
01:56:16,040 --> 01:56:17,760
Speaker 2: All right out THEO what was going on?

2292
01:56:18,120 --> 01:56:21,440
Speaker 1: I didn't Mary mad him music questions. So if you

2293
01:56:21,480 --> 01:56:23,640
Speaker 1: can think of a question, but music is gonna stump him,

2294
01:56:23,760 --> 01:56:24,600
Speaker 1: so you can think of a ques.

2295
01:56:24,720 --> 01:56:26,520
Speaker 2: It depends her. Music is gonna you.

2296
01:56:26,520 --> 01:56:29,400
Speaker 1: Know, that's that's the only reason. But if girl feel free,

2297
01:56:29,480 --> 01:56:32,680
Speaker 1: feel free? All right, here we start. Who were the

2298
01:56:32,840 --> 01:56:37,040
Speaker 1: last three guards to win Defensive Player of the Year

2299
01:56:37,160 --> 01:56:37,760
Speaker 1: in the NBA?

2300
01:56:38,080 --> 01:56:43,600
Speaker 2: The last three guards to win Defensive Player of the

2301
01:56:43,680 --> 01:56:44,560
Speaker 2: Year guards?

2302
01:56:44,760 --> 01:56:45,160
Speaker 1: Guards?

2303
01:56:47,080 --> 01:56:52,520
Speaker 2: Mm mmmmmm that's a good one. Let's see here. Let

2304
01:56:52,600 --> 01:56:54,680
Speaker 2: me let me go back a little, go ahead, go ahead,

2305
01:56:54,680 --> 01:57:00,160
Speaker 2: go ahead, dare I say Michael Jordan.

2306
01:57:00,120 --> 01:57:04,000
Speaker 1: Ding ding ding ding Yep, that's right.

2307
01:57:08,240 --> 01:57:11,240
Speaker 2: He was not a guard. He was not a guard. Guard.

2308
01:57:11,560 --> 01:57:14,800
Speaker 2: Guard was Ron Artesta guard?

2309
01:57:15,560 --> 01:57:15,600
Speaker 6: No?

2310
01:57:16,040 --> 01:57:19,640
Speaker 2: No, okay, so no, Ron. Wow, this is this is

2311
01:57:19,720 --> 01:57:23,000
Speaker 2: one that's really it's gonna get me because I'm I'm

2312
01:57:23,160 --> 01:57:26,240
Speaker 2: terrible on more recent stuff. Let's see, who would be

2313
01:57:26,320 --> 01:57:27,800
Speaker 2: a recent guard to win?

2314
01:57:28,800 --> 01:57:33,400
Speaker 1: Uh So the last one was in twenty twenty two.

2315
01:57:33,600 --> 01:57:36,680
Speaker 2: I know that it was two years ago. And why

2316
01:57:36,880 --> 01:57:38,560
Speaker 2: is his name escaping me right now?

2317
01:57:39,520 --> 01:57:39,640
Speaker 10: Uh?

2318
01:57:39,840 --> 01:57:41,920
Speaker 2: See, that's that's where that's where you're gonna always get

2319
01:57:41,960 --> 01:57:46,160
Speaker 2: me when it's recently. Uh, it wasn't Drew Holiday, No,

2320
01:57:46,440 --> 01:57:47,280
Speaker 2: it was uh.

2321
01:57:50,280 --> 01:57:52,280
Speaker 1: He was he was a Celtic at the time.

2322
01:57:52,360 --> 01:57:56,840
Speaker 2: I know he was a Celtic. I know he's thinking it.

2323
01:57:57,160 --> 01:58:01,680
Speaker 2: His name is just literally escaped my head. You're not

2324
01:58:01,880 --> 01:58:05,360
Speaker 2: the It's not Jalen Brown. It's not Jalen Brown. I

2325
01:58:05,440 --> 01:58:06,080
Speaker 2: mean it's uh.

2326
01:58:06,200 --> 01:58:07,480
Speaker 12: I see what you did there, Moncie.

2327
01:58:07,520 --> 01:58:08,480
Speaker 1: I tried. I tried.

2328
01:58:09,560 --> 01:58:13,680
Speaker 2: Why is his name escaping me? Who is it? Brogden?

2329
01:58:14,320 --> 01:58:14,360
Speaker 10: No?

2330
01:58:14,560 --> 01:58:14,880
Speaker 5: It was?

2331
01:58:15,160 --> 01:58:15,280
Speaker 10: Uh?

2332
01:58:15,720 --> 01:58:16,640
Speaker 2: Who am I missing?

2333
01:58:16,760 --> 01:58:18,320
Speaker 1: Why are you not the smartest one right now?

2334
01:58:18,560 --> 01:58:19,240
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm not.

2335
01:58:19,520 --> 01:58:20,240
Speaker 1: I tried twice.

2336
01:58:20,400 --> 01:58:23,520
Speaker 2: That's the twice, all right, I gotta go to the

2337
01:58:23,600 --> 01:58:25,920
Speaker 2: other one. Let's see here, I'm gonna go to the

2338
01:58:26,000 --> 01:58:28,200
Speaker 2: one prior to this is taking way too much time.

2339
01:58:28,560 --> 01:58:29,840
Speaker 2: I'm going to have to give up on this one

2340
01:58:29,880 --> 01:58:31,200
Speaker 2: because I don't want to use too much time.

2341
01:58:31,240 --> 01:58:33,160
Speaker 1: All right, all right, we have to we got to type.

2342
01:58:33,520 --> 01:58:35,280
Speaker 1: The one in the middle was nineteen ninety six.

2343
01:58:35,440 --> 01:58:37,120
Speaker 2: If you wanted to get oh that's Gary Peyton.

2344
01:58:37,240 --> 01:58:37,560
Speaker 5: Correct.

2345
01:58:40,280 --> 01:58:42,560
Speaker 2: Yes, why can't I think of like two years ago?

2346
01:58:43,920 --> 01:58:44,320
Speaker 1: Give up?

2347
01:58:44,560 --> 01:58:44,760
Speaker 2: I do?

2348
01:58:45,040 --> 01:58:45,680
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart?

2349
01:58:45,800 --> 01:58:50,640
Speaker 2: Marcus, Marcus Smart. Let's go why Marcus smartest? Name escaping me?

2350
01:58:51,120 --> 01:58:52,400
Speaker 2: Said the smartest twice?

2351
01:58:52,680 --> 01:58:53,760
Speaker 1: I did. I was like, why are you not the

2352
01:58:53,800 --> 01:58:54,600
Speaker 1: smartest one right now?

2353
01:58:54,680 --> 01:58:57,240
Speaker 2: I have just sometimes the name escapes me?

2354
01:58:57,320 --> 01:58:59,720
Speaker 1: But okay, so good, Patrick, come on in.

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01:59:00,040 --> 01:59:03,240
Speaker 12: Okay, so Steve, we we all know out of the

2356
01:59:03,320 --> 01:59:05,680
Speaker 12: park home runs are a big thing in a rare

2357
01:59:05,760 --> 01:59:09,080
Speaker 12: feat well Dodger Stadium, being we are based in LA

2358
01:59:09,480 --> 01:59:11,560
Speaker 12: I got a couple for you. Yeah, there are five

2359
01:59:11,720 --> 01:59:14,760
Speaker 12: guys that have been to Dodger Stadium that have actually

2360
01:59:15,000 --> 01:59:17,640
Speaker 12: hit an out of the park home run? Can you

2361
01:59:17,880 --> 01:59:19,920
Speaker 12: name five of them? I'll even give you a hint.

2362
01:59:20,080 --> 01:59:22,120
Speaker 12: One of them did it twice in different years.

2363
01:59:22,280 --> 01:59:24,080
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the guy that did it twice in different

2364
01:59:24,120 --> 01:59:27,160
Speaker 2: years is Willy Stargells. So we know that one that

2365
01:59:27,280 --> 01:59:32,080
Speaker 2: is correct. Piazza hit one out of the park.

2366
01:59:33,160 --> 01:59:36,080
Speaker 12: Ye. There's three other guys that have hit it out

2367
01:59:36,120 --> 01:59:39,280
Speaker 12: of the park completely, yes, and during during games. I'm

2368
01:59:39,280 --> 01:59:42,480
Speaker 12: not going to count Ronald Acunya. We're not counting that Derby.

2369
01:59:42,560 --> 01:59:45,520
Speaker 2: No, okay, So Starguar for years was the one guy

2370
01:59:45,600 --> 01:59:46,080
Speaker 2: that did it.

2371
01:59:46,880 --> 01:59:48,440
Speaker 12: That was the that was the guy that you said

2372
01:59:48,480 --> 01:59:50,600
Speaker 12: times too, so you got you got the two for yeah,

2373
01:59:50,760 --> 01:59:52,800
Speaker 12: and Piazza one, so yeah, I know you got them.

2374
01:59:52,800 --> 01:59:55,160
Speaker 2: There are three more guys, three more guys that hit

2375
01:59:55,240 --> 01:59:57,400
Speaker 2: it out in a hint too.

2376
01:59:58,080 --> 01:59:58,200
Speaker 10: Uh.

2377
01:59:58,880 --> 02:00:01,400
Speaker 12: One of these guys was all from the nineties. These

2378
02:00:01,480 --> 02:00:05,800
Speaker 12: other two were in the twenty tens in closer, more recent.

2379
02:00:05,960 --> 02:00:08,920
Speaker 2: And that's clearing the pavilion. Yeah, clearing the pavilion. Wow,

2380
02:00:10,280 --> 02:00:11,160
Speaker 2: let's see here.

2381
02:00:11,600 --> 02:00:12,040
Speaker 11: I'm just.

2382
02:00:13,760 --> 02:00:17,480
Speaker 2: I'm not feeling this one either. The nineteen nineties guy

2383
02:00:17,600 --> 02:00:19,840
Speaker 2: is the one I'm trying to think about here. Ninety nine.

2384
02:00:19,960 --> 02:00:21,320
Speaker 2: By the way, ninety.

2385
02:00:21,280 --> 02:00:25,360
Speaker 1: Nine, we've been have to finish this on the other side, I.

2386
02:00:25,360 --> 02:00:27,720
Speaker 2: Guess we're gonna have We're gonna have to These are

2387
02:00:27,760 --> 02:00:31,240
Speaker 2: really good questions, but times up, We're gonna continue on

2388
02:00:31,320 --> 02:00:36,680
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2396
02:00:55,720 --> 02:00:58,240
Speaker 2: Our NBA in Saturday was on with Dan Bayer today

2397
02:00:58,320 --> 02:01:01,440
Speaker 2: and get his thoughts. I'm gonna ask him the question

2398
02:01:01,680 --> 02:01:07,400
Speaker 2: that about Dan's claim that the Lakers are the most

2399
02:01:07,560 --> 02:01:10,920
Speaker 2: relevant team in the NBA. Would you agreed with that?

2400
02:01:11,200 --> 02:01:11,520
Speaker 5: I did?

2401
02:01:12,000 --> 02:01:16,760
Speaker 2: I just think we I am like sure, all right.

2402
02:01:16,840 --> 02:01:19,000
Speaker 2: So we are in the midst of who's your daddy?

2403
02:01:19,080 --> 02:01:21,000
Speaker 2: So far daddy's not having a good day.

2404
02:01:21,080 --> 02:01:22,840
Speaker 1: Daddy's not having a good day.

2405
02:01:22,960 --> 02:01:25,560
Speaker 2: But it's all right, all right? So the question Patrick,

2406
02:01:25,600 --> 02:01:28,000
Speaker 2: you had a question again about those players that have

2407
02:01:28,080 --> 02:01:30,120
Speaker 2: hit a fair ball at a Dodger stadium.

2408
02:01:30,360 --> 02:01:33,080
Speaker 12: Five players and then one I was saying, was it

2409
02:01:33,200 --> 02:01:35,640
Speaker 12: hit it twice? You got that it was in fact

2410
02:01:35,760 --> 02:01:36,840
Speaker 12: Willie Stargell.

2411
02:01:36,840 --> 02:01:39,600
Speaker 2: Right, And then I had Mike Piazzu my only Dodger

2412
02:01:39,760 --> 02:01:42,440
Speaker 2: over to do it. Yes, So you know, I'm sitting

2413
02:01:42,520 --> 02:01:44,480
Speaker 2: here and I and as soon as you said the

2414
02:01:44,560 --> 02:01:48,040
Speaker 2: year nineteen ninety nine, a name obviously came to mind

2415
02:01:48,080 --> 02:01:51,680
Speaker 2: that I got to think is right as Mark Maguire.

2416
02:01:51,840 --> 02:01:57,000
Speaker 2: That's correcting. So now the other two guys you said

2417
02:01:57,120 --> 02:02:01,040
Speaker 2: are playing now. Yeah, And actually, as we were sitting here,

2418
02:02:01,160 --> 02:02:03,600
Speaker 2: I was thinking, okay, I know one of these because

2419
02:02:03,640 --> 02:02:06,440
Speaker 2: it happened not that long ago. Correct, that is correct,

2420
02:02:06,560 --> 02:02:08,400
Speaker 2: and that is Fernando Tak.

2421
02:02:08,840 --> 02:02:09,040
Speaker 5: Yeah.

2422
02:02:09,840 --> 02:02:12,120
Speaker 1: We didn't even really talk like he didn't want.

2423
02:02:11,960 --> 02:02:12,560
Speaker 5: Me to know.

2424
02:02:15,640 --> 02:02:17,600
Speaker 2: She I mean, she told me it was like recent

2425
02:02:17,680 --> 02:02:19,600
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden that hit me, uh,

2426
02:02:19,680 --> 02:02:22,920
Speaker 2: you know, because suddenly the Podres Dodgers rivalry of whatever

2427
02:02:23,000 --> 02:02:29,400
Speaker 2: it is hit the other guy. Yeah. So I'm thinking,

2428
02:02:29,560 --> 02:02:31,960
Speaker 2: like guys that you know, big time home run hitters,

2429
02:02:32,200 --> 02:02:34,000
Speaker 2: right of course, And I'm sure this guy is that

2430
02:02:34,480 --> 02:02:34,760
Speaker 2: he is.

2431
02:02:36,360 --> 02:02:38,240
Speaker 12: It's not like this random who is this guy?

2432
02:02:39,800 --> 02:02:43,080
Speaker 2: It's a big boy. I seem to think. I seem

2433
02:02:43,120 --> 02:02:45,600
Speaker 2: to think I remember this, but I don't. But I'm

2434
02:02:48,240 --> 02:02:50,400
Speaker 2: because he's on a different team now than he was.

2435
02:02:51,200 --> 02:02:54,800
Speaker 2: You're getting you're getting warmer, you're hitting very warm, if

2436
02:02:54,880 --> 02:02:57,560
Speaker 2: that if that is correct, then I'm gonna guess, go

2437
02:02:57,760 --> 02:03:04,960
Speaker 2: for it. Who is it Jean Carlos Stanton? Oh my god,

2438
02:03:06,600 --> 02:03:12,840
Speaker 2: that he was with the Marlins at the time. Oh man,

2439
02:03:13,120 --> 02:03:16,640
Speaker 2: you wow, he's not winning yet, Mary Mack, he's not

2440
02:03:16,800 --> 02:03:18,480
Speaker 2: winning yet. He's a winner.

2441
02:03:19,040 --> 02:03:20,520
Speaker 1: No, no, we got more.

2442
02:03:20,600 --> 02:03:21,040
Speaker 2: We got.

2443
02:03:22,880 --> 02:03:25,400
Speaker 1: I can't believe you pulled that one. I cannot.

2444
02:03:25,800 --> 02:03:29,640
Speaker 2: Well, I just like that. He was cooking it up

2445
02:03:29,760 --> 02:03:32,240
Speaker 2: right now here. Here's here's the thing. So when you

2446
02:03:32,320 --> 02:03:34,720
Speaker 2: asked me a question, as I try to explain, I

2447
02:03:34,800 --> 02:03:38,200
Speaker 2: have a Rolodex sort of brain, and so I'm in

2448
02:03:38,520 --> 02:03:41,640
Speaker 2: these some of them are just immediately I know the

2449
02:03:41,720 --> 02:03:45,600
Speaker 2: answer to. I mean again, completely forgetting Marcus Smart ever

2450
02:03:45,920 --> 02:03:48,240
Speaker 2: lived des faite. You came to say, Gui, there's a

2451
02:03:48,440 --> 02:03:51,720
Speaker 2: smart answer, Harry, and I'm completely gone Blake. So yeah,

2452
02:03:51,800 --> 02:03:54,880
Speaker 2: all right, the clues helped me on that one.

2453
02:03:54,960 --> 02:03:57,240
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, mister Brian, all right, I got a

2454
02:03:57,280 --> 02:03:58,040
Speaker 1: good one for you here.

2455
02:03:58,160 --> 02:04:06,240
Speaker 11: Steve so Well, who was Randy Moss's high school basketball teammate,

2456
02:04:07,080 --> 02:04:10,600
Speaker 11: said teammate would spend many years in the NBA.

2457
02:04:13,720 --> 02:04:14,280
Speaker 1: That's good.

2458
02:04:17,040 --> 02:04:18,640
Speaker 2: I was hoping you were gonna say, like, who is

2459
02:04:18,680 --> 02:04:21,520
Speaker 2: in cornerback at Marshall and I said, Chad Pennington, But

2460
02:04:21,840 --> 02:04:28,400
Speaker 2: that didn't happen high school because I remember they did

2461
02:04:28,480 --> 02:04:32,640
Speaker 2: that feature piece on him. You remember on ESPN. But

2462
02:04:32,800 --> 02:04:35,840
Speaker 2: who was his high school teammate? Geez? Let me know

2463
02:04:35,880 --> 02:04:39,400
Speaker 2: when you want a little bit of a clue. Yeah,

2464
02:04:39,440 --> 02:04:42,880
Speaker 2: I'm gonna probably need one. Yeah, jogg on my mind.

2465
02:04:42,920 --> 02:04:45,080
Speaker 2: I'm trying because I saw that piece when I'm trying

2466
02:04:45,120 --> 02:04:49,520
Speaker 2: to this player. If you're looking for a clue, I'll

2467
02:04:49,520 --> 02:04:53,560
Speaker 2: give you one, a small clue. Would play some college

2468
02:04:53,640 --> 02:05:03,720
Speaker 2: basketball at Florida some and then went right to the NBA. Well,

2469
02:05:03,760 --> 02:05:08,080
Speaker 2: I think he transferred there, transferred to Florida. So I'm

2470
02:05:08,120 --> 02:05:11,520
Speaker 2: trying to think of a timeline here. So Randy Moss

2471
02:05:11,720 --> 02:05:17,200
Speaker 2: will be ninety eight the late nineties to the Florida.

2472
02:05:21,360 --> 02:05:24,360
Speaker 11: I can tell you who he was drafted by or

2473
02:05:24,720 --> 02:05:28,080
Speaker 11: where he would start his career Sacramento Kings.

2474
02:05:29,880 --> 02:05:33,160
Speaker 2: Now it drops the pen No, No, I'm dropping the

2475
02:05:33,200 --> 02:05:35,840
Speaker 2: pin because I wasn't going to go there, So I

2476
02:05:36,320 --> 02:05:41,520
Speaker 2: don't have this one. Beefen Jason Williams, sh we got him.

2477
02:05:42,080 --> 02:05:42,520
Speaker 2: Let's go.

2478
02:05:44,720 --> 02:05:47,400
Speaker 11: Jason Williams in a Randy Moss were on the same

2479
02:05:47,520 --> 02:05:48,720
Speaker 11: high school basketball team.

2480
02:05:48,800 --> 02:05:50,880
Speaker 2: Why I remembered that.

2481
02:05:51,120 --> 02:05:53,440
Speaker 1: Oh no, you're Ryan's a daddy.

2482
02:05:53,600 --> 02:05:55,480
Speaker 2: You're a daddy. Now, Benley is daddy.

2483
02:05:55,600 --> 02:05:57,920
Speaker 11: I'm about to get married. I better wait until I

2484
02:05:57,960 --> 02:05:59,200
Speaker 11: get married before that happens.

2485
02:05:59,320 --> 02:06:03,360
Speaker 2: Hey you are Yeah, you're a daddy. Now, congratulations, thank you?

2486
02:06:04,120 --> 02:06:05,960
Speaker 2: That is that is a great one. It's been a

2487
02:06:06,000 --> 02:06:07,560
Speaker 2: long time, so I saw that. But how would I

2488
02:06:07,640 --> 02:06:11,160
Speaker 2: not remember? Jason Williams. You go on YouTube, you'll still

2489
02:06:11,200 --> 02:06:15,000
Speaker 2: have highlights of those two throwing up all loops for

2490
02:06:15,160 --> 02:06:21,000
Speaker 2: each other. Pretty pretty cool. Well, congratulations, Beefin. So now

2491
02:06:21,040 --> 02:06:23,120
Speaker 2: you're my daddy? Yeah, my dad.

2492
02:06:23,960 --> 02:06:27,879
Speaker 11: Well, now that you're my daddy, what kind of allowance

2493
02:06:27,960 --> 02:06:32,720
Speaker 11: are you? I'm giving you a buck fifty five. You

2494
02:06:32,760 --> 02:06:34,240
Speaker 11: got to take the trash out or.

2495
02:06:34,240 --> 02:06:35,920
Speaker 2: That my dad gave me. He gave me twenty five

2496
02:06:36,000 --> 02:06:39,240
Speaker 2: cents a week. He also puts cigarettes out on your neck,

2497
02:06:39,280 --> 02:06:43,840
Speaker 2: didn't he whatever is necessary to keep me in line.

2498
02:06:44,560 --> 02:06:47,280
Speaker 2: Mary Max, do you have a question? Do you want

2499
02:06:47,320 --> 02:06:47,960
Speaker 2: to be my daddy?

2500
02:06:48,240 --> 02:06:48,440
Speaker 10: Yeah?

2501
02:06:48,440 --> 02:06:49,160
Speaker 1: You want to get in on this.

2502
02:06:50,000 --> 02:06:51,400
Speaker 13: I think I'm a little bit too young. Give me

2503
02:06:51,520 --> 02:06:52,720
Speaker 13: like a couple of years, give me a couple of

2504
02:06:52,840 --> 02:06:54,160
Speaker 13: give me a couple of five minutes.

2505
02:06:55,200 --> 02:06:56,800
Speaker 1: I got one more, I got one more.

2506
02:06:56,880 --> 02:06:58,400
Speaker 2: Okay, I got one quick one all right?

2507
02:06:58,600 --> 02:07:01,000
Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty nine. Yeah, this player had the most

2508
02:07:01,120 --> 02:07:03,760
Speaker 1: rushing yards to go along with twelve touchdowns.

2509
02:07:03,840 --> 02:07:06,480
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty nine, the most rushing yards in the NFL.

2510
02:07:06,920 --> 02:07:10,680
Speaker 2: And the answer is my dear friend, Christian Nakoye.

2511
02:07:11,840 --> 02:07:16,839
Speaker 1: That is correct. Do you remember his nickname the Nigerian Nightmare?

2512
02:07:17,040 --> 02:07:17,920
Speaker 1: This is all correct.

2513
02:07:19,360 --> 02:07:21,880
Speaker 2: By the way, he barely beat out the rookie Barry

2514
02:07:21,920 --> 02:07:25,200
Speaker 2: Sanders for the rushing title in nineteen eighty nine. Christiannakoy

2515
02:07:25,560 --> 02:07:26,800
Speaker 2: h there we go.

2516
02:07:26,880 --> 02:07:26,920
Speaker 11: Go.

2517
02:07:27,080 --> 02:07:28,960
Speaker 2: But he's a friend of mine, so that's that I'm

2518
02:07:29,000 --> 02:07:30,720
Speaker 2: supposed to know that I was trying to be random.

2519
02:07:31,080 --> 02:07:33,680
Speaker 2: He's one of the most amazing people I've ever met.

2520
02:07:34,040 --> 02:07:36,320
Speaker 2: He had the greatest combine of anyone in the history

2521
02:07:36,320 --> 02:07:40,080
Speaker 2: of the game. He went to a ZUUSA Pacific and

2522
02:07:40,480 --> 02:07:44,000
Speaker 2: became an NFL star. Wow, And if adamins for some injuries,

2523
02:07:44,080 --> 02:07:45,640
Speaker 2: he could have been one of the old time greats.

2524
02:07:45,680 --> 02:07:53,040
Speaker 13: But yes, ooh, okay, twenty sixteen NCAA men's basketball tournament.

2525
02:07:53,040 --> 02:07:55,800
Speaker 2: Who won? Who won in twenty sixteen? Twenty sixteen? Yeah,

2526
02:07:55,800 --> 02:08:01,720
Speaker 2: that would be Villanova, damn it. Yeah, I know because

2527
02:08:01,760 --> 02:08:03,520
Speaker 2: they beat with Carolina on the fine.

2528
02:08:03,360 --> 02:08:04,320
Speaker 1: I tried, no you did.

2529
02:08:04,440 --> 02:08:06,440
Speaker 2: That's also that was my favorite. One was like, no,

2530
02:08:07,040 --> 02:08:09,320
Speaker 2: so really the only one I can hit up full

2531
02:08:09,440 --> 02:08:12,440
Speaker 2: time for any kind of benefits as his son is

2532
02:08:12,920 --> 02:08:16,040
Speaker 2: Brian family. Well we look like we kind of look

2533
02:08:16,200 --> 02:08:20,120
Speaker 2: like each other. Very similar, Yeah, very similar. I wish

2534
02:08:20,200 --> 02:08:23,680
Speaker 2: I have your hair at your age. Your hair is

2535
02:08:23,800 --> 02:08:26,320
Speaker 2: your your hair, You have hair. I mean everyone has

2536
02:08:26,400 --> 02:08:28,440
Speaker 2: hair at my age. Well, you're not my age yet.

2537
02:08:29,080 --> 02:08:34,920
Speaker 2: Not No, I'm laugh your age. The guy that always

2538
02:08:34,960 --> 02:08:37,880
Speaker 2: gives me grief is Ilo. Ilo is like, how is

2539
02:08:37,960 --> 02:08:40,840
Speaker 2: this possible? Yeah, you're like thirty years older. You guys

2540
02:08:40,880 --> 02:08:43,200
Speaker 2: have when I listen to you and Ilo talk, you

2541
02:08:43,360 --> 02:08:46,520
Speaker 2: two have like this. You guys seen the movie step Brothers.

2542
02:08:46,680 --> 02:08:49,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's like you guys have this little step.

2543
02:08:49,560 --> 02:08:54,120
Speaker 2: Brother's vibe going this friction, this sibling friction with one another. Well,

2544
02:08:54,280 --> 02:08:56,120
Speaker 2: first of all, I have to understand this. It was

2545
02:08:56,280 --> 02:08:59,720
Speaker 2: my life's mission. Early on when he came fresh out

2546
02:08:59,760 --> 02:09:04,200
Speaker 2: of you Us, he highly touted Isaac glowing crime to

2547
02:09:05,760 --> 02:09:14,200
Speaker 2: cure his virginity. I mean that was that was That

2548
02:09:14,440 --> 02:09:18,760
Speaker 2: was my life's mission for many years, for many years,

2549
02:09:19,000 --> 02:09:23,040
Speaker 2: many years, because we traveled a lot and so I was.

2550
02:09:23,400 --> 02:09:26,760
Speaker 2: I was doing everything that was humanly possible to cure

2551
02:09:26,800 --> 02:09:27,840
Speaker 2: him of his virginity.

2552
02:09:28,040 --> 02:09:28,680
Speaker 1: He poor.

2553
02:09:29,920 --> 02:09:32,720
Speaker 2: Now he's a proud father of too, so I think

2554
02:09:32,760 --> 02:09:35,880
Speaker 2: that I helped cure him. But I mean, but in

2555
02:09:35,960 --> 02:09:38,800
Speaker 2: those days, yeah, he was. He was a little wet

2556
02:09:38,880 --> 02:09:42,840
Speaker 2: behind the ears. Well for somebody, like if people would

2557
02:09:42,960 --> 02:09:47,000
Speaker 2: know what you do, put in the show what I do. Yeah,

2558
02:09:47,560 --> 02:09:50,720
Speaker 2: I'm like everybody else. They're all seeking love. That's all

2559
02:09:50,800 --> 02:09:53,400
Speaker 2: we're doing. Yeah, love and acceptance. So there you go,

2560
02:09:53,800 --> 02:09:56,240
Speaker 2: all right, Well that was good. I like that. I'm

2561
02:09:56,480 --> 02:09:59,920
Speaker 2: embarrassed by the Marcus smart and uh and honestly, I

2562
02:10:00,080 --> 02:10:02,160
Speaker 2: I should have remembered the Jason Williams went, So there

2563
02:10:02,200 --> 02:10:04,880
Speaker 2: you go, all right? Everything else was okay, Yeah, I

2564
02:10:04,920 --> 02:10:05,240
Speaker 2: know you did.

2565
02:10:05,320 --> 02:10:07,280
Speaker 1: You still did pretty good. You still did pretty not bad,

2566
02:10:07,400 --> 02:10:08,320
Speaker 1: not bad, not bad.

2567
02:10:09,920 --> 02:10:12,760
Speaker 2: Today, we obviously have been trying to figure out why

2568
02:10:12,800 --> 02:10:15,600
Speaker 2: it is that the NBA Finals doesn't start until Thursday.

2569
02:10:16,640 --> 02:10:19,560
Speaker 2: Why is it not starting tomorrow? I don't know, it

2570
02:10:19,800 --> 02:10:22,520
Speaker 2: just seems so logical. And then and again the idea

2571
02:10:22,600 --> 02:10:27,400
Speaker 2: that you have to plan and advance the dates why why,

2572
02:10:27,640 --> 02:10:32,000
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm by the way, this this whole TNT

2573
02:10:32,280 --> 02:10:36,200
Speaker 2: thing did you did you watch after the Mavericks eliminated

2574
02:10:36,280 --> 02:10:39,960
Speaker 2: the Tea Wolves. This was the last TNT you know

2575
02:10:40,120 --> 02:10:44,200
Speaker 2: with Charles and Ernie and Kenny and Shack Show of

2576
02:10:44,320 --> 02:10:49,800
Speaker 2: the year, and according to all accounts, they've only got

2577
02:10:49,840 --> 02:10:50,560
Speaker 2: one more year life.

2578
02:10:50,640 --> 02:10:52,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like that's what's gonna happen.

2579
02:10:52,840 --> 02:10:55,440
Speaker 2: That even if tn T is not caring games, they

2580
02:10:55,560 --> 02:10:58,560
Speaker 2: are going to have their NBA show, which is the draw.

2581
02:11:00,640 --> 02:11:06,720
Speaker 2: I've said this a few times in my years of

2582
02:11:06,920 --> 02:11:18,840
Speaker 2: watching sports, there's only three broadcasters personalities that you would

2583
02:11:19,040 --> 02:11:25,360
Speaker 2: watch regardless of the game. In other words, most guys

2584
02:11:25,680 --> 02:11:28,800
Speaker 2: are you know, you watch, and maybe you appreciate their talent,

2585
02:11:28,960 --> 02:11:31,200
Speaker 2: but that's not the reason you're watching the game. You're

2586
02:11:31,200 --> 02:11:35,360
Speaker 2: watching the game because of the game. Early on in

2587
02:11:35,440 --> 02:11:39,160
Speaker 2: Monday night football, Howard Cosell was must watch. He was

2588
02:11:39,200 --> 02:11:42,640
Speaker 2: the most polarizing person in America. You either loved him

2589
02:11:42,680 --> 02:11:44,880
Speaker 2: or he hated him, so he would be one. The

2590
02:11:45,000 --> 02:11:50,600
Speaker 2: second one was John Madden. You just Madden was so

2591
02:11:50,880 --> 02:11:55,480
Speaker 2: unique in everything he did that you couldn't you wanted

2592
02:11:55,560 --> 02:11:57,800
Speaker 2: to hear John Madden, which is, by the way, why

2593
02:11:57,880 --> 02:12:01,640
Speaker 2: he'd broadcast on all four major networks. The third person

2594
02:12:01,760 --> 02:12:07,080
Speaker 2: is Charles Barkley. I mean, Charles Barkley is bigger than

2595
02:12:07,160 --> 02:12:07,680
Speaker 2: the NBA.

2596
02:12:07,960 --> 02:12:09,400
Speaker 1: He is a national treasure.

2597
02:12:09,640 --> 02:12:12,880
Speaker 2: And you you start a hang on every word he

2598
02:12:12,960 --> 02:12:16,400
Speaker 2: has to say. Some are astute, some are ridiculous. It

2599
02:12:16,440 --> 02:12:16,960
Speaker 2: doesn't matter.

2600
02:12:17,120 --> 02:12:17,800
Speaker 1: He has that.

2601
02:12:19,040 --> 02:12:19,360
Speaker 9: I just.

2602
02:12:20,840 --> 02:12:23,640
Speaker 2: And with the Ernie Johnson, who's a pros pro, and

2603
02:12:23,840 --> 02:12:26,839
Speaker 2: Kenny Smith and Shack, I mean, it just it works.

2604
02:12:28,120 --> 02:12:32,680
Speaker 2: It works so well. It's so hard to put a

2605
02:12:32,960 --> 02:12:38,120
Speaker 2: broadcast team together that really clicks consistently. And I know

2606
02:12:38,240 --> 02:12:40,800
Speaker 2: that I would literally watch them even if I didn't

2607
02:12:40,800 --> 02:12:41,680
Speaker 2: watch the game they were doing.

2608
02:12:43,520 --> 02:12:46,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really unfortunate because you're not going to replicate this. No,

2609
02:12:46,680 --> 02:12:47,720
Speaker 1: you're not even gonna.

2610
02:12:47,480 --> 02:12:49,720
Speaker 2: Get You need to bring them all together. You tell

2611
02:12:49,760 --> 02:12:52,800
Speaker 2: the thing about it is Ernie Johnson since he's not

2612
02:12:52,840 --> 02:12:56,360
Speaker 2: going to leave. Well he's been tied to forever.

2613
02:12:56,560 --> 02:12:56,760
Speaker 7: Yeah.

2614
02:12:57,480 --> 02:13:01,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's in his late sixties, you know, and so

2615
02:13:01,280 --> 02:13:03,320
Speaker 2: he doesn't want to leave. And I don't know if

2616
02:13:03,360 --> 02:13:06,560
Speaker 2: anybody else would feel comfortable stepping in his shoes. I

2617
02:13:06,640 --> 02:13:08,000
Speaker 2: wouldn't exactly.

2618
02:13:08,080 --> 02:13:10,080
Speaker 1: And it's just it's not gonna be the same. It's

2619
02:13:10,120 --> 02:13:13,080
Speaker 1: almost like the conversation of do you keep it going

2620
02:13:13,120 --> 02:13:16,160
Speaker 1: without Ernie, It's like, no, it's not the same thing.

2621
02:13:16,960 --> 02:13:19,280
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get the same effect. You're not going

2622
02:13:19,360 --> 02:13:22,840
Speaker 1: to replicate anything like this, And it's gonna it's gonna

2623
02:13:22,880 --> 02:13:24,560
Speaker 1: be very sad when it comes to an end. And

2624
02:13:24,640 --> 02:13:27,280
Speaker 1: because it looks like it is coming to the end.

2625
02:13:27,760 --> 02:13:30,440
Speaker 2: Enjoy it. I can't. We got one more year with

2626
02:13:30,520 --> 02:13:31,040
Speaker 2: those guys.

2627
02:13:31,320 --> 02:13:33,560
Speaker 1: Uh, watch parties. Everybody watch parties.

2628
02:13:33,600 --> 02:13:36,760
Speaker 2: I don't know, man I whoever takes if NBC takes

2629
02:13:36,800 --> 02:13:40,800
Speaker 2: over all the NBA. Look, I'm by the way. On

2630
02:13:40,880 --> 02:13:43,800
Speaker 2: the other side, speaking of broadcasting the NBA, there is

2631
02:13:44,040 --> 02:13:49,240
Speaker 2: one story that just lingers unanswered in the NBA. We'll

2632
02:13:49,240 --> 02:13:52,040
Speaker 2: tell you what it is. This is Fox Sports Saturday,

2633
02:13:55,920 --> 02:14:01,560
Speaker 2: Steve Hartman, Mancia Bolanos Fox. It's Saturday. We're live from

2634
02:14:01,600 --> 02:14:07,360
Speaker 2: the tairaq dot com studios. Remember this podcast is going

2635
02:14:07,440 --> 02:14:09,720
Speaker 2: up right after the show. If you miss any of

2636
02:14:09,840 --> 02:14:13,320
Speaker 2: today's show, check out the podcast. Just search Fox Sports

2637
02:14:13,400 --> 02:14:16,480
Speaker 2: Radio wherever you get your podcasts, follow rate and review

2638
02:14:16,560 --> 02:14:19,200
Speaker 2: the podcast. Again. Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you

2639
02:14:19,240 --> 02:14:21,560
Speaker 2: get your podcasts. You'll see the show. Post it right

2640
02:14:21,640 --> 02:14:27,280
Speaker 2: after we get off the air. So you are sporting

2641
02:14:27,360 --> 02:14:30,240
Speaker 2: some new I AM shoes right here.

2642
02:14:30,600 --> 02:14:33,120
Speaker 1: Say I'm sporting some new shoes. I've had them for

2643
02:14:33,400 --> 02:14:36,640
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks now and I had not worn them,

2644
02:14:36,680 --> 02:14:39,080
Speaker 1: and then today I decided to wear them, which is

2645
02:14:39,160 --> 02:14:42,720
Speaker 1: so weird because Bobo just walked in and he wanted

2646
02:14:42,760 --> 02:14:45,360
Speaker 1: the same shoes and he complained about it on Twitter.

2647
02:14:45,480 --> 02:14:47,160
Speaker 1: So I had to be like, look at my shoes.

2648
02:14:47,480 --> 02:14:51,120
Speaker 1: I have the the kobegg shoes that just came out

2649
02:14:51,720 --> 02:14:53,760
Speaker 1: not too long ago. I was able to get them

2650
02:14:54,360 --> 02:14:57,000
Speaker 1: out of the Sneakers app, which you know, you live

2651
02:14:57,040 --> 02:14:59,000
Speaker 1: and die by that app. It's the most annoying app.

2652
02:14:59,000 --> 02:15:01,560
Speaker 1: It's like a shoe app that you try and you know,

2653
02:15:01,720 --> 02:15:03,840
Speaker 1: get the shoes without having to overpay for them, just

2654
02:15:04,000 --> 02:15:06,840
Speaker 1: retail price. And I got very lucky. I don't know

2655
02:15:06,960 --> 02:15:09,360
Speaker 1: the shoe gods that day decided to bless me and

2656
02:15:09,440 --> 02:15:13,240
Speaker 1: not Bobo because he not get them and I got

2657
02:15:13,280 --> 02:15:15,160
Speaker 1: them and the details, you know, I just showed them

2658
02:15:15,160 --> 02:15:15,480
Speaker 1: to their.

2659
02:15:15,440 --> 02:15:19,360
Speaker 2: Beautiful shoes are they are? You know? My my memory

2660
02:15:19,520 --> 02:15:23,280
Speaker 2: of Gigi, as you know, I knew her father extremely

2661
02:15:23,360 --> 02:15:25,400
Speaker 2: well because we did the Laker games for years and

2662
02:15:25,520 --> 02:15:28,320
Speaker 2: we had a we had an interesting bond Kobe and I.

2663
02:15:28,560 --> 02:15:32,920
Speaker 2: But it was game four of the playoff series between

2664
02:15:32,960 --> 02:15:35,800
Speaker 2: the Lakers and Sons, and Kobe hits the game winner

2665
02:15:35,920 --> 02:15:37,800
Speaker 2: to give the Lakers a three to one series lead,

2666
02:15:38,560 --> 02:15:43,640
Speaker 2: and later that night his daughter is born, Gigi, and

2667
02:15:44,280 --> 02:15:47,600
Speaker 2: so he didn't fly immediately with the team the next

2668
02:15:47,760 --> 02:15:51,960
Speaker 2: day to Phoenix, and Victor Brick and I we were

2669
02:15:52,360 --> 02:15:56,360
Speaker 2: with the Lakers at the Laker Hotel late on well,

2670
02:15:56,680 --> 02:15:59,480
Speaker 2: it was the first May first, it was the night

2671
02:15:59,560 --> 02:16:06,240
Speaker 2: before the game, and Kobe came in late, and you know,

2672
02:16:06,400 --> 02:16:09,320
Speaker 2: he was all business and he he said, but you know,

2673
02:16:09,400 --> 02:16:12,240
Speaker 2: we're congratulating him on the birth of his new daughter

2674
02:16:12,360 --> 02:16:15,160
Speaker 2: and everything else. And then you know, unfortunately for the

2675
02:16:15,200 --> 02:16:18,040
Speaker 2: Lakers and up lazing three straight games to blow that series.

2676
02:16:18,120 --> 02:16:23,320
Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, that I'm happy to see that. You know,

2677
02:16:23,480 --> 02:16:24,360
Speaker 2: her memory lives.

2678
02:16:24,680 --> 02:16:30,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know it's yeah, it's still like it's still

2679
02:16:30,200 --> 02:16:32,320
Speaker 1: really is. It feels fresh right, like.

2680
02:16:32,520 --> 02:16:35,640
Speaker 2: It never changes in my mind. I just it's still

2681
02:16:35,840 --> 02:16:38,800
Speaker 2: one of those things that have happened. You know, Rich

2682
02:16:38,959 --> 02:16:42,360
Speaker 2: Ornberger and I were literally on the air here at

2683
02:16:42,400 --> 02:16:45,200
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio on that Sunday when it happened, and

2684
02:16:46,959 --> 02:16:48,879
Speaker 2: even to this day, it just seems.

2685
02:16:50,120 --> 02:16:53,480
Speaker 1: Unreal sometimes, like it really like sometimes like I still

2686
02:16:53,520 --> 02:16:55,760
Speaker 1: can't believe like this happened. I remember it.

2687
02:16:56,080 --> 02:16:59,440
Speaker 2: I literally drive on my way to the station that morning,

2688
02:16:59,480 --> 02:16:59,879
Speaker 2: I'm dry.

2689
02:17:00,000 --> 02:17:00,480
Speaker 9: I mean.

2690
02:17:02,000 --> 02:17:05,680
Speaker 2: The freeway right by where the accident would happen. Oh ok.

2691
02:17:06,240 --> 02:17:09,119
Speaker 2: And so it just it's still to the stay.

2692
02:17:09,240 --> 02:17:12,680
Speaker 1: Just it's crazy, still feel unreal, and it still sucks

2693
02:17:13,240 --> 02:17:14,039
Speaker 1: so so much.

2694
02:17:15,040 --> 02:17:18,840
Speaker 2: Speaking of the Lakers on a much lighter note, they

2695
02:17:18,879 --> 02:17:22,480
Speaker 2: still don't have a coach. Yeah, now, well they do.

2696
02:17:22,640 --> 02:17:23,560
Speaker 1: His name is Lebron James.

2697
02:17:24,200 --> 02:17:29,360
Speaker 2: So a couple things about this one. The Clippers, we

2698
02:17:29,440 --> 02:17:31,640
Speaker 2: didn't really get to talk about this in death about

2699
02:17:32,280 --> 02:17:36,480
Speaker 2: Tylou extended his contract. We knew that they were trying

2700
02:17:36,520 --> 02:17:38,720
Speaker 2: to extend his contract. The question is what would get

2701
02:17:38,760 --> 02:17:43,200
Speaker 2: it done. Fourteen million a year. Now, again, when you

2702
02:17:43,320 --> 02:17:49,720
Speaker 2: have an owner that's worth one hundred billion dollars, is

2703
02:17:49,760 --> 02:17:54,240
Speaker 2: one of the ten wealthiest people in the world, fourteen

2704
02:17:54,280 --> 02:17:56,720
Speaker 2: million for your coach is not too much. And I

2705
02:17:56,800 --> 02:18:01,160
Speaker 2: congratulate you because you are retaining one of the elite

2706
02:18:01,200 --> 02:18:04,200
Speaker 2: coaches in this league, no doubt in my man. But

2707
02:18:04,320 --> 02:18:07,320
Speaker 2: I think the Lakers were, you know, maybe hoping that

2708
02:18:07,440 --> 02:18:11,120
Speaker 2: Tylu would not be one hundred percent convinced that he

2709
02:18:11,200 --> 02:18:13,879
Speaker 2: can win a championship with the Clippers. That didn't happen.

2710
02:18:15,360 --> 02:18:18,280
Speaker 2: So now we get back to JJ Reddick. Think about

2711
02:18:18,320 --> 02:18:23,320
Speaker 2: this ESPN for years you have Mike Breen pros pros

2712
02:18:23,400 --> 02:18:27,160
Speaker 2: your play by play guy, and he had Jeff Van

2713
02:18:27,280 --> 02:18:30,080
Speaker 2: Gundy and he had Mark Jackson. I mean that seemed

2714
02:18:30,120 --> 02:18:33,640
Speaker 2: like a pretty solid trio than Gundy and Jackson knew

2715
02:18:33,680 --> 02:18:35,800
Speaker 2: each other. Well, they played it. Then they blow them out.

2716
02:18:36,800 --> 02:18:39,039
Speaker 2: You bring in Doris Burke. I'm a Doris Burke fan.

2717
02:18:39,200 --> 02:18:41,760
Speaker 2: She does a great job. But this year they bring

2718
02:18:41,879 --> 02:18:47,280
Speaker 2: in JJ Reddick, And I'm like, why would you bring

2719
02:18:47,360 --> 02:18:52,560
Speaker 2: in JJ Reddick if he's about to leave to become

2720
02:18:52,600 --> 02:18:56,039
Speaker 2: the Lakers new head coach Because all indications I haven't

2721
02:18:56,080 --> 02:19:03,080
Speaker 2: heard any feasible alternative to JJ Reddick, who gets the

2722
02:19:03,280 --> 02:19:09,040
Speaker 2: job with no coaching experience because he co hosts a

2723
02:19:09,080 --> 02:19:15,480
Speaker 2: podcastle Lebron James And by the way, Rich Paul, who

2724
02:19:15,560 --> 02:19:18,520
Speaker 2: represents obviously Lebron is a longtime friend and now is

2725
02:19:18,600 --> 02:19:23,039
Speaker 2: going to represent Bronnie Bronni's going to be a Laker

2726
02:19:23,120 --> 02:19:23,480
Speaker 2: next year.

2727
02:19:23,520 --> 02:19:26,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, that's absolutely insane. They're going to take

2728
02:19:26,680 --> 02:19:27,600
Speaker 1: him with that seventeenth pick.

2729
02:19:27,840 --> 02:19:29,600
Speaker 2: Well, no, they're not going to take him with a

2730
02:19:29,680 --> 02:19:33,240
Speaker 2: seventeenth pick. But remember what Rich Paul said.

2731
02:19:33,240 --> 02:19:35,000
Speaker 1: Right, He's not going to be a two way, right,

2732
02:19:35,160 --> 02:19:35,760
Speaker 1: he wants.

2733
02:19:35,560 --> 02:19:38,520
Speaker 2: A guaranteed ross. No one is going to give Bronnie

2734
02:19:38,640 --> 02:19:43,560
Speaker 2: James a guaranteed roster spot, Nobody except the Lakers. Well,

2735
02:19:43,600 --> 02:19:45,560
Speaker 2: they won't even have to draft him because no one's

2736
02:19:45,600 --> 02:19:49,040
Speaker 2: going to draft Bronnie James as a second round pick.

2737
02:19:49,440 --> 02:19:52,800
Speaker 2: All second round picks get two way contracts. No team

2738
02:19:53,720 --> 02:19:55,880
Speaker 2: is going to bring in a guy that shot thirty

2739
02:19:55,959 --> 02:19:58,600
Speaker 2: percent from the field twenty percent from three point line,

2740
02:19:58,640 --> 02:20:01,360
Speaker 2: averaging less than five point t the game, who, by

2741
02:20:01,400 --> 02:20:04,280
Speaker 2: the way, had a serious health scare on top of that,

2742
02:20:05,280 --> 02:20:08,240
Speaker 2: and give him a guaranteed roster spot. So basically what

2743
02:20:08,440 --> 02:20:13,160
Speaker 2: he did was he's eliminating him from being drafted. So

2744
02:20:13,360 --> 02:20:15,680
Speaker 2: as soon as the draft is over, he commediately signed

2745
02:20:15,680 --> 02:20:18,959
Speaker 2: a free agent contract with the Lakers. And by the way,

2746
02:20:19,120 --> 02:20:23,200
Speaker 2: that two way contract thing, I'm sure is negotiable once

2747
02:20:23,280 --> 02:20:27,119
Speaker 2: he's with the Lakers. So that's that's what's happening here.

2748
02:20:27,240 --> 02:20:30,480
Speaker 2: But this, I mean, is this the right move? I mean,

2749
02:20:30,600 --> 02:20:35,480
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not dismissing that JJ Reddick can't be

2750
02:20:35,560 --> 02:20:39,680
Speaker 2: a successful coach. But you know what makes a good coach,

2751
02:20:40,040 --> 02:20:41,920
Speaker 2: I mean easy, You got to win more games than

2752
02:20:41,959 --> 02:20:44,520
Speaker 2: you lose. But you've got to figure out a way

2753
02:20:45,240 --> 02:20:48,520
Speaker 2: as Jason Kidd obviously has done with Dallas and figuring

2754
02:20:48,560 --> 02:20:51,840
Speaker 2: out a way to get Doncic and Kyrie on the

2755
02:20:51,920 --> 02:20:55,640
Speaker 2: same page. I don't know. But what is the delay here?

2756
02:20:56,520 --> 02:20:58,440
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I've never seen anything like this.

2757
02:20:58,720 --> 02:21:01,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's weird that there is a especially after the

2758
02:21:01,400 --> 02:21:06,120
Speaker 1: Clippers were able to extend TYLERU. We know it's JJ Reddick,

2759
02:21:06,200 --> 02:21:09,240
Speaker 1: but this whole thing has been very calculated, as Lebron

2760
02:21:09,360 --> 02:21:12,800
Speaker 1: James is. Lebron James is a very calculated man. The

2761
02:21:12,959 --> 02:21:17,080
Speaker 1: idea of like, oh, BRONI has ten invitations from different

2762
02:21:17,160 --> 02:21:18,920
Speaker 1: teams to go work out, but he's only going to

2763
02:21:18,959 --> 02:21:21,280
Speaker 1: go to these And it's like, none of these teams

2764
02:21:21,400 --> 02:21:25,040
Speaker 1: are genuinely thinking, oh, maybe we can get Lebron James.

2765
02:21:25,320 --> 02:21:27,440
Speaker 1: None of them are thinking that because Lebron is a

2766
02:21:27,560 --> 02:21:30,920
Speaker 1: very calculated guy. How am I not supposed to believe

2767
02:21:31,200 --> 02:21:34,800
Speaker 1: that this whole podcast was the beginning of him becoming

2768
02:21:34,959 --> 02:21:37,680
Speaker 1: the head coach of the Lakers. This all seems like

2769
02:21:37,720 --> 02:21:42,359
Speaker 1: it was the plan from the beginning. Why JJ Reddick. Obviously,

2770
02:21:42,480 --> 02:21:47,680
Speaker 1: the Lakers think that JJ Reddick can in away not control,

2771
02:21:47,800 --> 02:21:49,840
Speaker 1: but you get what I'm saying, control a little bit

2772
02:21:49,879 --> 02:21:53,200
Speaker 1: of Lebron James. I think they think Lebron respects him

2773
02:21:53,320 --> 02:21:55,039
Speaker 1: and thus he can't coach.

2774
02:21:55,360 --> 02:21:57,560
Speaker 2: Why does he respect JJ Reddick.

2775
02:21:57,720 --> 02:21:58,840
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I'm just telling you what

2776
02:21:58,920 --> 02:22:01,320
Speaker 1: I think they think. They probably and Lebron has probably

2777
02:22:01,400 --> 02:22:04,240
Speaker 1: told them, no, I respect him he for whatever reason.

2778
02:22:04,080 --> 02:22:08,320
Speaker 2: As a coach. Yeah, I'm a difference between doing a

2779
02:22:08,440 --> 02:22:11,080
Speaker 2: podcast with somebody and somebody. By the way, he's not

2780
02:22:11,240 --> 02:22:13,440
Speaker 2: just coaching Lebron James. He would have to coach the

2781
02:22:13,640 --> 02:22:14,320
Speaker 2: entire team.

2782
02:22:14,640 --> 02:22:16,240
Speaker 1: But why even do a podcast with him in the

2783
02:22:16,280 --> 02:22:17,960
Speaker 1: first place? I thought that was weird.

2784
02:22:18,360 --> 02:22:20,320
Speaker 2: I don't I mean, I guess he's a broadcaster.

2785
02:22:20,520 --> 02:22:23,280
Speaker 1: I mean, but Lebron could pick literally anyone to do

2786
02:22:23,360 --> 02:22:25,760
Speaker 1: a podcast with, and then he picked JJ Reddick. But

2787
02:22:26,000 --> 02:22:28,760
Speaker 1: I have nothing against JJ, but I thought that was weird,

2788
02:22:28,840 --> 02:22:31,480
Speaker 1: and so here I am now months later, I'm like, Oh,

2789
02:22:31,680 --> 02:22:35,000
Speaker 1: this was your plan all along. This was just the

2790
02:22:35,120 --> 02:22:36,080
Speaker 1: beginning of the plan.

2791
02:22:37,080 --> 02:22:38,879
Speaker 2: I like where some of these teams have been going

2792
02:22:38,920 --> 02:22:41,600
Speaker 2: with these young assistants that have actually panned out. Pretty

2793
02:22:41,640 --> 02:22:46,400
Speaker 2: well for these teams. I don't know. Again, you know,

2794
02:22:46,560 --> 02:22:48,680
Speaker 2: And we're going to talk with Mark Medina coming up

2795
02:22:48,720 --> 02:22:51,680
Speaker 2: on the other side about something he was discussing earlier

2796
02:22:51,720 --> 02:22:56,359
Speaker 2: with Dan Buyer about the relevance of the Lakers.

2797
02:22:57,120 --> 02:22:58,080
Speaker 1: You're so offended by that.

2798
02:23:00,080 --> 02:23:06,800
Speaker 2: What anything. They've been either missed the playoffs or been

2799
02:23:06,920 --> 02:23:09,400
Speaker 2: eliminated in the first round of the playoffs nine of

2800
02:23:09,480 --> 02:23:16,880
Speaker 2: the last eleven years. That's a fact. Okay. I don't

2801
02:23:16,920 --> 02:23:19,600
Speaker 2: know how relevant you are over an eleven year period

2802
02:23:19,840 --> 02:23:22,760
Speaker 2: if you've either missed the playoffs entirely or been eliminated

2803
02:23:22,800 --> 02:23:24,520
Speaker 2: in the first round nine of eleven years.

2804
02:23:25,879 --> 02:23:28,240
Speaker 11: But you could say that the Knicks are relevant, and

2805
02:23:28,320 --> 02:23:30,039
Speaker 11: I think it's just because you get a pass if

2806
02:23:30,040 --> 02:23:31,080
Speaker 11: you're a big market team.

2807
02:23:31,800 --> 02:23:35,280
Speaker 2: The Knicks have won two championships in their history, none

2808
02:23:35,360 --> 02:23:40,400
Speaker 2: since nineteen seventy three. But they're a big market team,

2809
02:23:40,400 --> 02:23:42,360
Speaker 2: and I think they they're a big market team. I've

2810
02:23:42,440 --> 02:23:47,360
Speaker 2: said this. It helps the NBA if the Knicks are good.

2811
02:23:47,600 --> 02:23:50,879
Speaker 2: And the Knicks are good right now. They're not championship level,

2812
02:23:51,200 --> 02:23:53,720
Speaker 2: but they're good. All right, Let's find out what's trending

2813
02:23:53,840 --> 02:23:54,120
Speaker 2: right now.

2814
02:23:54,920 --> 02:23:57,000
Speaker 11: By the way, want to shout out somebody who's been

2815
02:23:57,000 --> 02:24:02,280
Speaker 11: listening to the show. Yes, David Singer Radio, he said,

2816
02:24:02,320 --> 02:24:04,320
Speaker 11: and he's now at NFL network. He texted me and

2817
02:24:04,400 --> 02:24:07,000
Speaker 11: he said, tell Steve that he got all of the

2818
02:24:07,120 --> 02:24:10,080
Speaker 11: right answers for the Dodgers. That when we're doing Who's

2819
02:24:10,120 --> 02:24:12,760
Speaker 11: Your Daddy segment, all of the right answers as far

2820
02:24:12,840 --> 02:24:16,080
Speaker 11: as batters who have hit off and out of Dodgers

2821
02:24:16,160 --> 02:24:18,480
Speaker 11: datium with home runs. It's scept frnado tatis. And we

2822
02:24:18,600 --> 02:24:20,480
Speaker 11: know David is a devouted Dodger fan, so of course

2823
02:24:20,480 --> 02:24:21,440
Speaker 11: he's gonna forget about him.

2824
02:24:21,840 --> 02:24:22,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2825
02:24:22,080 --> 02:24:24,360
Speaker 1: No, there's a little asterix. Now we know why he

2826
02:24:24,440 --> 02:24:25,400
Speaker 1: hit it over that.

2827
02:24:25,520 --> 02:24:26,959
Speaker 2: That is true. That is true.

2828
02:24:27,080 --> 02:24:29,600
Speaker 11: What you can say about Mark maguire though, too sure sure?

2829
02:24:29,720 --> 02:24:31,080
Speaker 11: Which is he was another one?

2830
02:24:31,240 --> 02:24:33,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right, you're right. When you're right, you're right.

2831
02:24:33,400 --> 02:24:35,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like that. That's a good line.

2832
02:24:35,800 --> 02:24:36,039
Speaker 5: Yeah.

2833
02:24:37,440 --> 02:24:38,800
Speaker 2: Hey, what's going on right now?

2834
02:24:39,040 --> 02:24:39,560
Speaker 1: I'm not sure?

2835
02:24:39,800 --> 02:24:41,600
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you something. What is going on?

2836
02:24:42,000 --> 02:24:46,080
Speaker 11: And it's going on on Clay Novak Djokovic right now

2837
02:24:46,879 --> 02:24:50,200
Speaker 11: is down. Well, it's one set of piece. He's, of

2838
02:24:50,280 --> 02:24:52,440
Speaker 11: course the number one ranked tennis player in the world.

2839
02:24:52,520 --> 02:24:54,440
Speaker 11: It's the third round of the Friends Open right now,

2840
02:24:54,840 --> 02:24:59,080
Speaker 11: taking on Lorenzo Mussetti. Nice, and they split the first

2841
02:24:59,120 --> 02:25:03,320
Speaker 11: two sets. This second set, Mussetti is in front four

2842
02:25:03,400 --> 02:25:06,800
Speaker 11: games to one. Djokovic is serving and that one four

2843
02:25:06,879 --> 02:25:08,400
Speaker 11: game and he does have a game point coming up

2844
02:25:08,400 --> 02:25:08,960
Speaker 11: at forty third.

2845
02:25:09,000 --> 02:25:11,280
Speaker 2: All right, I asked you early. You wouldn't answer my question.

2846
02:25:11,400 --> 02:25:15,080
Speaker 2: You were defiant because it is not Djokovic who's gonna

2847
02:25:15,080 --> 02:25:15,880
Speaker 2: win the French Open.

2848
02:25:16,440 --> 02:25:20,160
Speaker 11: Look, I was in Saint Louis for a college tennis tournament,

2849
02:25:20,240 --> 02:25:22,280
Speaker 11: broadcasting that. You don't even want to get me started

2850
02:25:22,320 --> 02:25:24,680
Speaker 11: about the airlines. How long it took me to get back.

2851
02:25:24,760 --> 02:25:28,040
Speaker 2: You know, the entire one and twenty eight men's and

2852
02:25:28,240 --> 02:25:30,039
Speaker 2: women's field for the French Open.

2853
02:25:30,160 --> 02:25:30,320
Speaker 12: You know.

2854
02:25:31,040 --> 02:25:33,120
Speaker 2: So it's not like you were out of town. You

2855
02:25:33,200 --> 02:25:37,160
Speaker 2: know who's competing, who's gonna win? Who do I want

2856
02:25:37,200 --> 02:25:41,160
Speaker 2: to win? I want Djokovic to win. Okay, but that

2857
02:25:41,320 --> 02:25:44,160
Speaker 2: wasn't I asked you earlier Djokovic versus the field, and

2858
02:25:44,240 --> 02:25:45,320
Speaker 2: he said, I'll take the field.

2859
02:25:47,000 --> 02:25:51,520
Speaker 11: We don't have that on on a documented we do, okay,

2860
02:25:52,440 --> 02:25:55,680
Speaker 11: So we do have that Djokovic match going on. We

2861
02:25:56,040 --> 02:25:59,879
Speaker 11: also have Caitlin Clark with her eleven points, eight rebounds

2862
02:26:00,240 --> 02:26:03,280
Speaker 11: assist and I think Steve's a big fan and the

2863
02:26:03,400 --> 02:26:06,680
Speaker 11: Indiana Fever coming up with the big home win there.

2864
02:26:06,840 --> 02:26:09,280
Speaker 11: They are now two and eight in the year. Let's

2865
02:26:09,360 --> 02:26:12,959
Speaker 11: go two and eight. Yeah, after they beat the Chicago

2866
02:26:13,120 --> 02:26:16,000
Speaker 11: Sky seventy one to seventy. Clark four of eleven from

2867
02:26:16,080 --> 02:26:18,800
Speaker 11: the floor and two of nine from long range, so

2868
02:26:18,920 --> 02:26:21,960
Speaker 11: she did knock in two triples, but I had a

2869
02:26:22,000 --> 02:26:26,000
Speaker 11: couple of bricks there as well. Major League Baseball is

2870
02:26:26,000 --> 02:26:28,720
Speaker 11: where we now venture and a ton of games are

2871
02:26:28,920 --> 02:26:31,360
Speaker 11: up and running. Some games are already finished. The Guardians

2872
02:26:31,400 --> 02:26:34,480
Speaker 11: three to two winners against the Nationals, Rangers seven and

2873
02:26:34,560 --> 02:26:37,960
Speaker 11: nothing all over the Marlins. We saw the Padres pick

2874
02:26:38,040 --> 02:26:41,680
Speaker 11: up a seven to three victory over the Royals. Braves

2875
02:26:41,840 --> 02:26:45,520
Speaker 11: they stutter and hiccup at home eleven to nine, Athletics

2876
02:26:45,879 --> 02:26:48,520
Speaker 11: getting the job done there. Astros over the Twins five

2877
02:26:48,560 --> 02:26:50,400
Speaker 11: to two. Yard On Alvarez had two home runs for

2878
02:26:51,120 --> 02:26:53,880
Speaker 11: the Twins or Red Sox. They are victoria six to

2879
02:26:53,959 --> 02:26:56,720
Speaker 11: three against the Tigers and a victory for the Brewers

2880
02:26:57,200 --> 02:27:00,880
Speaker 11: along with the Diamondbacks and the Orioles Pirates as well.

2881
02:27:01,240 --> 02:27:05,000
Speaker 11: Pirates eight to one over the Blue Jays. The Champions

2882
02:27:05,080 --> 02:27:10,039
Speaker 11: League title went to Real Madrid to nil over Dortmund.

2883
02:27:10,160 --> 02:27:14,480
Speaker 11: That one was earlier Today NHL, we got the Rangers

2884
02:27:14,600 --> 02:27:18,400
Speaker 11: and the Panthers in a Game six Eastern Conference Final

2885
02:27:18,879 --> 02:27:20,840
Speaker 11: that's going to start up in about half an hour

2886
02:27:20,959 --> 02:27:22,840
Speaker 11: or so, when the puck will be dropping for that one.

2887
02:27:22,920 --> 02:27:25,400
Speaker 11: Florida is ahead in the best of seven series three

2888
02:27:25,440 --> 02:27:28,200
Speaker 11: games to two, so the Rangers have their sights set

2889
02:27:28,360 --> 02:27:31,000
Speaker 11: on trying to force a game seven. Third round of

2890
02:27:31,160 --> 02:27:35,960
Speaker 11: the RBC Canadian Open just coming to a close, and

2891
02:27:36,200 --> 02:27:38,440
Speaker 11: as it stands right now, this is the PGA Tour

2892
02:27:38,520 --> 02:27:42,280
Speaker 11: with one round to go on Sunday, it's Robert McIntyre,

2893
02:27:42,520 --> 02:27:46,840
Speaker 11: no relation to our very own Jason McIntyre fourteen under

2894
02:27:46,959 --> 02:27:50,400
Speaker 11: for the tournament, four under today and that puts some

2895
02:27:50,840 --> 02:27:54,720
Speaker 11: four shots ahead of what is a three way tie

2896
02:27:54,800 --> 02:27:59,560
Speaker 11: per second, Ben Griffin, mackenzie, hughes, Ryan Fox, and don't

2897
02:27:59,560 --> 02:28:03,440
Speaker 11: forget about Rory McElroy, who is seven shots off the

2898
02:28:03,520 --> 02:28:07,760
Speaker 11: pace after a sixty five today, five hundred and a

2899
02:28:08,320 --> 02:28:11,880
Speaker 11: seven underscore through three rounds. So we've got all of

2900
02:28:12,000 --> 02:28:14,920
Speaker 11: that going on, and with that we get it back

2901
02:28:14,959 --> 02:28:19,880
Speaker 11: to Montsi and Steve who got stumped on that. You know,

2902
02:28:19,959 --> 02:28:23,160
Speaker 11: we were playing the game last last hour and I

2903
02:28:23,280 --> 02:28:25,640
Speaker 11: finally stumped you and apparently I'm your father.

2904
02:28:25,800 --> 02:28:28,720
Speaker 2: Now you are my daddy. Yes, not the father, You're

2905
02:28:28,760 --> 02:28:31,240
Speaker 2: my daddy. What's the difference with a big difference is

2906
02:28:31,280 --> 02:28:34,040
Speaker 2: a difference, a difference being a daddy and a father.

2907
02:28:35,400 --> 02:28:39,959
Speaker 2: M's fip. Once you get that daddy brand as I've

2908
02:28:40,080 --> 02:28:43,800
Speaker 2: been living with for many years, You've you've Everyone comes

2909
02:28:43,840 --> 02:28:48,280
Speaker 2: after daddy. Hey, everyone needs something from daddy. That's what happens.

2910
02:28:48,320 --> 02:28:51,000
Speaker 2: All right, once again, we are here at the tirag

2911
02:28:51,040 --> 02:28:53,440
Speaker 2: dot com studios. Join us right now.

2912
02:28:53,600 --> 02:28:53,760
Speaker 13: Man.

2913
02:28:53,840 --> 02:28:57,080
Speaker 2: That has many, many, many many appearances here on the

2914
02:28:57,120 --> 02:29:00,560
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radar Network. But what extra today would Dambayer

2915
02:29:01,560 --> 02:29:04,879
Speaker 2: as co hosting a show earlier today? Our friend Mark

2916
02:29:04,959 --> 02:29:08,000
Speaker 2: Medina is back. How was that with Dan today? Mark?

2917
02:29:08,640 --> 02:29:10,760
Speaker 3: All was fun? We you know, we Dan and I

2918
02:29:10,920 --> 02:29:13,200
Speaker 3: were just trying to do the intro act for the

2919
02:29:13,280 --> 02:29:18,040
Speaker 3: main event with you and Montre so hopefully hopefully job

2920
02:29:18,120 --> 02:29:19,840
Speaker 3: well done for the main show.

2921
02:29:20,720 --> 02:29:23,480
Speaker 2: Well, you guys did a tremendous job. And I was

2922
02:29:23,640 --> 02:29:26,959
Speaker 2: listening and both of us were listening, and Dan brought

2923
02:29:27,040 --> 02:29:33,040
Speaker 2: up something about the relevance of the Celtics and he

2924
02:29:33,240 --> 02:29:35,720
Speaker 2: sided the fact that the Lakers are still the biggest

2925
02:29:35,840 --> 02:29:38,800
Speaker 2: brand in the NBA, and I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

2926
02:29:38,840 --> 02:29:41,400
Speaker 2: whoa whoa, And Mark, you know, I'm I've covered a

2927
02:29:41,440 --> 02:29:43,560
Speaker 2: lot of Laker basketball and back in the past we

2928
02:29:43,720 --> 02:29:47,640
Speaker 2: ran into many Laker games together. And I've been following

2929
02:29:47,640 --> 02:29:50,280
Speaker 2: the Lakers since Elgem Baylor was still playing. So, I mean,

2930
02:29:50,360 --> 02:29:53,560
Speaker 2: you know, this is a long time, but how relevant

2931
02:29:53,600 --> 02:29:56,160
Speaker 2: is a franchise? Over the last eleven years it has

2932
02:29:56,240 --> 02:29:59,280
Speaker 2: either missed the playoffs entirely or been eliminated in the

2933
02:29:59,320 --> 02:30:02,360
Speaker 2: first round nine of those eleven years, and then as

2934
02:30:02,440 --> 02:30:05,440
Speaker 2: one Conference final appearance in which they got blown out

2935
02:30:05,480 --> 02:30:09,000
Speaker 2: in four straight games, and then a Bubble championship where

2936
02:30:09,200 --> 02:30:12,680
Speaker 2: no one was in attendance. So I mean, how is

2937
02:30:12,800 --> 02:30:15,600
Speaker 2: it that the Lakers are still I mean, we asked

2938
02:30:15,640 --> 02:30:18,600
Speaker 2: this about the Dallas Cowboys, but how do you believe

2939
02:30:18,640 --> 02:30:22,880
Speaker 2: the Lakers have maintained their status of being relevant when

2940
02:30:23,320 --> 02:30:24,360
Speaker 2: in reality they're not?

2941
02:30:25,720 --> 02:30:28,680
Speaker 3: But they are relevant, I mean, they're a global brand.

2942
02:30:28,800 --> 02:30:30,520
Speaker 3: They don't they make a lot of money?

2943
02:30:31,280 --> 02:30:33,440
Speaker 2: Is that all because of Lebron Jeans. I know, he's

2944
02:30:33,480 --> 02:30:36,280
Speaker 2: still the biggest brand name in this league. Is it

2945
02:30:36,440 --> 02:30:38,160
Speaker 2: all because of Lebron No.

2946
02:30:38,360 --> 02:30:41,400
Speaker 3: I think it's a few things here. When the Lakers

2947
02:30:41,520 --> 02:30:44,960
Speaker 3: missed the playoffs for six consecutive seasons, which was a

2948
02:30:45,080 --> 02:30:49,600
Speaker 3: franchise record, still coincided. Part of that was Kobe Bryant's

2949
02:30:49,720 --> 02:30:53,800
Speaker 3: final years. You have the Lakers equity. You know, they

2950
02:30:53,920 --> 02:30:57,240
Speaker 3: take a hit, but when you build decades worth of equity,

2951
02:30:57,280 --> 02:31:02,440
Speaker 3: of championship, excellence and our power, you know, that helped sustain.

2952
02:31:02,959 --> 02:31:06,680
Speaker 3: And then Lebron James came and then helped everything else here.

2953
02:31:06,879 --> 02:31:09,440
Speaker 3: And so I'm with you. Like the Lakers, they haven't

2954
02:31:09,440 --> 02:31:12,760
Speaker 3: always been consistent, They've had some down years, but I

2955
02:31:12,840 --> 02:31:16,440
Speaker 3: will say the championship in the bubble, there weren't fans,

2956
02:31:17,200 --> 02:31:20,039
Speaker 3: but it was real. It was very challenging to be there.

2957
02:31:20,640 --> 02:31:24,040
Speaker 3: And I think that the advantages that teams had of

2958
02:31:24,360 --> 02:31:28,840
Speaker 3: not having to travel and having that you know, rest

2959
02:31:29,080 --> 02:31:32,920
Speaker 3: from when the season stopped to when it resumed very

2960
02:31:33,040 --> 02:31:36,040
Speaker 3: much pailed to all the other challenges they faced of

2961
02:31:36,200 --> 02:31:39,600
Speaker 3: not having the fans as a source of energy, the

2962
02:31:39,760 --> 02:31:42,200
Speaker 3: challenges of being away from friends, friends and family, just

2963
02:31:42,360 --> 02:31:44,920
Speaker 3: the pandemic and the state of the world as is.

2964
02:31:45,520 --> 02:31:48,680
Speaker 3: And there's a reason why other teams you know, really

2965
02:31:48,800 --> 02:31:51,600
Speaker 3: did not play well and underachieve, where the Lakers they

2966
02:31:51,640 --> 02:31:52,800
Speaker 3: were able to survive at all.

2967
02:31:52,879 --> 02:31:53,760
Speaker 5: But to your.

2968
02:31:53,879 --> 02:31:58,640
Speaker 3: Original point about relevance, relevance doesn't necessarily mean excellence here.

2969
02:31:59,360 --> 02:32:02,040
Speaker 3: So you know, the Lakers, they've had that brand that

2970
02:32:02,160 --> 02:32:05,440
Speaker 3: has helped them stay that way through both the highs

2971
02:32:05,480 --> 02:32:05,960
Speaker 3: and lows.

2972
02:32:07,120 --> 02:32:12,280
Speaker 1: I agree with you, mister Medina. I said, Okay, with

2973
02:32:12,480 --> 02:32:16,600
Speaker 1: the Lakers, this whole thing with like Bronnie, is anybody

2974
02:32:16,720 --> 02:32:19,520
Speaker 1: talking about what's going to happen with Bryce? Like if

2975
02:32:19,640 --> 02:32:23,680
Speaker 1: this is the conversation already with Brownie James, is anybody

2976
02:32:23,680 --> 02:32:25,800
Speaker 1: out there being like, all right, so like when Bryce comes,

2977
02:32:25,840 --> 02:32:27,920
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Are we just whatever Lebron and

2978
02:32:28,000 --> 02:32:28,920
Speaker 1: Bryce want they get?

2979
02:32:29,360 --> 02:32:31,760
Speaker 3: That is a very good question because I believe that

2980
02:32:31,840 --> 02:32:36,080
Speaker 3: he already transferred once and look like father like son.

2981
02:32:36,240 --> 02:32:40,360
Speaker 3: I mean, Lebron's changed teams multiple times. But if Lebron

2982
02:32:40,560 --> 02:32:44,520
Speaker 3: were to leave LA and go to another team, I

2983
02:32:44,600 --> 02:32:46,760
Speaker 3: would think that that would mean Bryce would have to

2984
02:32:46,879 --> 02:32:50,840
Speaker 3: change schools. Now, I guess there's some loopholes here. Hypothetically,

2985
02:32:51,040 --> 02:32:54,640
Speaker 3: if Lebron and Browny were with the Phoenix Sons, maybe

2986
02:32:54,680 --> 02:32:58,119
Speaker 3: in Lebron's mind Okay, I'm a short flight away from home.

2987
02:32:58,200 --> 02:33:01,480
Speaker 3: We're not going to uproot the family. Bryce can still

2988
02:33:01,560 --> 02:33:04,280
Speaker 3: stay put. But I think the bottom line is, with

2989
02:33:04,400 --> 02:33:07,280
Speaker 3: all the maneuvering and the signals, I think it's going

2990
02:33:07,360 --> 02:33:10,840
Speaker 3: to come down to this. We Lebron James is going

2991
02:33:10,920 --> 02:33:12,760
Speaker 3: to opt out of his contract. He's just going to

2992
02:33:12,800 --> 02:33:14,920
Speaker 3: sign a new deal with the Lakers. I think Browny

2993
02:33:15,040 --> 02:33:18,240
Speaker 3: will get selected by the Lakers, but it's not because

2994
02:33:18,480 --> 02:33:20,320
Speaker 3: they trade it up to get him. It's because he

2995
02:33:20,480 --> 02:33:23,800
Speaker 3: was available at the number fifty fifth pick, So why

2996
02:33:23,879 --> 02:33:27,000
Speaker 3: not keep him. He might, you know, be at the

2997
02:33:27,080 --> 02:33:28,800
Speaker 3: end of the bench or play some games in the

2998
02:33:28,879 --> 02:33:31,040
Speaker 3: G League and that's the end of that.

2999
02:33:31,760 --> 02:33:34,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, no one's going to draft him. When Rich

3000
02:33:34,200 --> 02:33:36,120
Speaker 2: Paul comes out and says he won't sign a two

3001
02:33:36,200 --> 02:33:38,720
Speaker 2: way deal, there's not a second round pick in the

3002
02:33:38,840 --> 02:33:41,080
Speaker 2: NBA that doesn't have a two way deal. So basically

3003
02:33:41,160 --> 02:33:43,520
Speaker 2: he's making it clear to everyone, don't draft this guy.

3004
02:33:43,560 --> 02:33:44,840
Speaker 2: He's going to be a Laker. He's going to be

3005
02:33:44,920 --> 02:33:46,920
Speaker 2: with his dad. So and I get it. I'm not

3006
02:33:47,320 --> 02:33:49,880
Speaker 2: arguing it. It just it is what it is. All Right,

3007
02:33:50,360 --> 02:33:53,120
Speaker 2: this is going to be our six straight year mark

3008
02:33:53,200 --> 02:33:56,320
Speaker 2: with a different NBA champion. When you look at this

3009
02:33:56,440 --> 02:33:59,480
Speaker 2: matchup between the Celtics and the Mavericks, and I certainly

3010
02:33:59,600 --> 02:34:01,200
Speaker 2: was one of the those that thought the Nuggets had

3011
02:34:01,200 --> 02:34:04,640
Speaker 2: a golden opportunity to win back to back championships. It

3012
02:34:04,800 --> 02:34:08,560
Speaker 2: didn't happen. Can you see either one of these teams

3013
02:34:08,680 --> 02:34:11,879
Speaker 2: win a championship this year and then do it again

3014
02:34:11,959 --> 02:34:12,360
Speaker 2: next year.

3015
02:34:13,840 --> 02:34:19,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a tough hault because, you know, we've seen

3016
02:34:19,160 --> 02:34:23,440
Speaker 3: these past few years that teams don't have the same

3017
02:34:23,560 --> 02:34:27,320
Speaker 3: kind of fortitude to get everyone's best shot. And part

3018
02:34:27,360 --> 02:34:30,880
Speaker 3: of that is not just the normal challenges of the

3019
02:34:30,959 --> 02:34:34,680
Speaker 3: wear and tear and having to repeat the challenge of

3020
02:34:35,200 --> 02:34:38,160
Speaker 3: playing till June, but it's really hard because of the

3021
02:34:38,240 --> 02:34:41,680
Speaker 3: new CBA for teams to even retain, you know, some

3022
02:34:41,800 --> 02:34:44,760
Speaker 3: of their bench players. And so the time that any

3023
02:34:44,840 --> 02:34:49,359
Speaker 3: of guys' contracts come up, I think that they decide,

3024
02:34:49,400 --> 02:34:52,000
Speaker 3: you know what, we're going to try to get younger,

3025
02:34:52,840 --> 02:34:55,800
Speaker 3: have less of a payroll, not to necessarily just save money,

3026
02:34:55,879 --> 02:34:59,000
Speaker 3: but because it's harder to build a roster because of

3027
02:34:59,040 --> 02:35:01,560
Speaker 3: all these restrictions. If you're above the second aper. Now

3028
02:35:02,200 --> 02:35:05,080
Speaker 3: with the Mavericks and the Celtics, I don't believe that

3029
02:35:05,520 --> 02:35:10,040
Speaker 3: they have expiring contracts to any key player, so I

3030
02:35:10,080 --> 02:35:12,800
Speaker 3: think that there is an avenue that they can both

3031
02:35:12,920 --> 02:35:16,080
Speaker 3: run it back. But I don't think that they either

3032
02:35:16,200 --> 02:35:20,480
Speaker 3: team were the prohibitive favorite necessarily to win this season.

3033
02:35:20,600 --> 02:35:23,240
Speaker 3: They were a handful of many good teams that had

3034
02:35:23,240 --> 02:35:26,600
Speaker 3: a chance, and so I sense that next season they

3035
02:35:27,000 --> 02:35:29,080
Speaker 3: could have a chance, but it would be the same thing.

3036
02:35:29,160 --> 02:35:32,879
Speaker 3: They're just part of a wide open field in both conferences.

3037
02:35:32,959 --> 02:35:35,160
Speaker 2: All right, Mark, good news, your day is not over.

3038
02:35:36,040 --> 02:35:38,640
Speaker 2: Many more appearances coming here on Fox Sports. Right we're

3039
02:35:38,720 --> 02:35:41,560
Speaker 2: up against the clock. Mark did a great job today

3040
02:35:41,600 --> 02:35:44,320
Speaker 2: with Dan. Thanks for joining us. We always appreciate the time.

3041
02:35:44,760 --> 02:35:47,760
Speaker 3: I appreciate you just trying to follow your lead. A monsters.

3042
02:35:48,080 --> 02:35:50,320
Speaker 2: There you go, the great Martin Medina. JOHNI is right.

3043
02:35:50,360 --> 02:35:53,400
Speaker 2: There are Fox Sports Radio NBA Insider. So when these

3044
02:35:53,520 --> 02:35:58,480
Speaker 2: NBA finals start, how long will it take before they're finished?

3045
02:35:58,760 --> 02:36:00,680
Speaker 2: We'll tell you. On the other side, this is Fox

3046
02:36:00,879 --> 02:36:02,680
Speaker 2: Sports Saturday.

3047
02:36:04,400 --> 02:36:10,160
Speaker 1: Gold Digger. That's right, everybody want something from Daddy.

3048
02:36:10,440 --> 02:36:16,800
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that's a perfect Daddy thing. Sugar Daddy,

3049
02:36:16,959 --> 02:36:23,280
Speaker 2: Sugar Daddy, Sugar Daddy out of labels once again. This

3050
02:36:23,520 --> 02:36:26,800
Speaker 2: is Fox Sports Saturday, Steve Harvey, Montsey Bolanos. We are

3051
02:36:26,840 --> 02:36:29,080
Speaker 2: here in the tire rack dot Com studios. I want

3052
02:36:29,120 --> 02:36:33,120
Speaker 2: to thank the crew to day be fan Brian Family,

3053
02:36:33,240 --> 02:36:36,400
Speaker 2: Brian Finley, the daddy of the week. He is my daddy.

3054
02:36:37,480 --> 02:36:40,600
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be hitting up big time. Yeah, that's my daddy. Yeah.

3055
02:36:42,040 --> 02:36:44,520
Speaker 2: Mary Mac, she gave it a shot.

3056
02:36:44,680 --> 02:36:45,840
Speaker 1: She did, she did.

3057
02:36:46,120 --> 02:36:46,880
Speaker 2: I barely tried.

3058
02:36:46,879 --> 02:36:48,920
Speaker 1: I didn't even put any I didn't put no effort.

3059
02:36:49,360 --> 02:36:51,920
Speaker 1: I knew you were gonna know that the freaking twenty sixteen,

3060
02:36:52,280 --> 02:36:54,280
Speaker 1: like I already do it. I just wanted to be

3061
02:36:54,360 --> 02:36:55,960
Speaker 1: included and we appreciate that.

3062
02:36:56,200 --> 02:37:01,000
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you very much. And then of course Patrick, Hello,

3063
02:37:01,360 --> 02:37:04,800
Speaker 2: that was a phenomenal question and my brain needed the

3064
02:37:04,840 --> 02:37:05,440
Speaker 2: extra time.

3065
02:37:05,879 --> 02:37:07,480
Speaker 12: Well, you know, I'm not going to take credit for

3066
02:37:07,520 --> 02:37:08,680
Speaker 12: that one. I'm going to give a shout out to

3067
02:37:08,879 --> 02:37:09,920
Speaker 12: to my pops on that one.

3068
02:37:10,080 --> 02:37:12,640
Speaker 2: Oh really, all right? Well, I love your dad. That

3069
02:37:12,800 --> 02:37:15,200
Speaker 2: has been a big supporter of mine for many years,

3070
02:37:15,400 --> 02:37:21,160
Speaker 2: and I appreciate you very much. Is all right? Monci? Again,

3071
02:37:21,280 --> 02:37:26,480
Speaker 2: I am here with someone that proclaimed four weeks ago,

3072
02:37:26,600 --> 02:37:32,120
Speaker 2: now two weeks, four weeks ago that the Dallas Mavericks

3073
02:37:32,160 --> 02:37:36,920
Speaker 2: would win the NBA Championship. There is nobody that made

3074
02:37:36,959 --> 02:37:41,880
Speaker 2: that prediction four weeks ago. Nobody. So now that it

3075
02:37:42,080 --> 02:37:45,119
Speaker 2: is here, the NBA Finals sort of this it won't

3076
02:37:45,120 --> 02:37:48,320
Speaker 2: start till Thursday. Where they playing one game a week

3077
02:37:48,640 --> 02:37:51,920
Speaker 2: or how are they going to do that? I hopefully

3078
02:37:51,920 --> 02:37:54,240
Speaker 2: if we don't have to wait too long for our final.

3079
02:37:54,680 --> 02:37:56,600
Speaker 1: Text me on Thursday and remind me that it's game one.

3080
02:37:57,040 --> 02:37:59,320
Speaker 2: I forgot all right, So Thursday it's game one. But

3081
02:38:00,000 --> 02:38:03,040
Speaker 2: all right, So obviously you're picking the Mavericks to win

3082
02:38:04,600 --> 02:38:08,920
Speaker 2: first two games in Boston, next too in Dallas, then Boston, Dallas, Boston.

3083
02:38:08,959 --> 02:38:11,320
Speaker 2: If there's a game five to six, seven, So how

3084
02:38:11,400 --> 02:38:15,560
Speaker 2: many games for the Mavericks to win the NBA Championship, Well.

3085
02:38:15,480 --> 02:38:17,920
Speaker 1: The Dallas Mavericks are going to win game one in Boston,

3086
02:38:19,320 --> 02:38:20,200
Speaker 1: give me that right now?

3087
02:38:20,400 --> 02:38:22,680
Speaker 2: All right, So the Celtics will have been off for

3088
02:38:23,040 --> 02:38:26,800
Speaker 2: ten days, yes, Mavericks will be off seven days.

3089
02:38:26,840 --> 02:38:26,960
Speaker 8: Yes.

3090
02:38:27,640 --> 02:38:30,520
Speaker 2: And you're saying that that staleness is going to show

3091
02:38:30,560 --> 02:38:31,320
Speaker 2: on the court for the self.

3092
02:38:31,440 --> 02:38:33,000
Speaker 1: And it's not just stalin us, it's just we know

3093
02:38:33,160 --> 02:38:34,520
Speaker 1: that the Celtics lose at home.

3094
02:38:34,800 --> 02:38:37,320
Speaker 2: Well, they only lost two playoff games this year. And

3095
02:38:37,400 --> 02:38:38,080
Speaker 2: both were at home.

3096
02:38:38,200 --> 02:38:40,800
Speaker 1: Right, they don't protect home court like other teams do.

3097
02:38:40,920 --> 02:38:42,440
Speaker 2: But they're also undefeated on the road.

3098
02:38:42,560 --> 02:38:46,840
Speaker 1: Great, that's lovely. They will the Mavericks will win for

3099
02:38:47,040 --> 02:38:48,920
Speaker 1: the first game, and the Mavericks will win the series

3100
02:38:48,959 --> 02:38:49,600
Speaker 1: in six games.

3101
02:38:50,480 --> 02:38:53,400
Speaker 2: So the Mavericks after that will be home games the

3102
02:38:53,480 --> 02:38:55,959
Speaker 2: rest of the week. Yeah, think about that. So then

3103
02:38:56,040 --> 02:39:00,959
Speaker 2: the Celtics win Game two at home. Yeah, then Dallas

3104
02:39:01,040 --> 02:39:04,160
Speaker 2: wins two at home, and then Celtics win Game five

3105
02:39:04,240 --> 02:39:06,480
Speaker 2: at home, and then Dallas wraps it up at home.

3106
02:39:06,520 --> 02:39:07,640
Speaker 1: That's exactly what's gonna happen.

3107
02:39:07,760 --> 02:39:10,480
Speaker 2: Interesting, not that's not going to happen. All right, I'm

3108
02:39:10,520 --> 02:39:11,400
Speaker 2: gonna give you Are.

3109
02:39:11,320 --> 02:39:13,240
Speaker 1: You actually going to give a prediction here or are

3110
02:39:13,280 --> 02:39:13,760
Speaker 1: we gonna run?

3111
02:39:14,879 --> 02:39:18,840
Speaker 2: No, I'm going to give it right now because I'm

3112
02:39:18,840 --> 02:39:20,840
Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna go with logic in this thing. Okay,

3113
02:39:21,640 --> 02:39:23,280
Speaker 2: Boston Celtics should win this series.

3114
02:39:23,400 --> 02:39:24,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we're talking about.

3115
02:39:25,080 --> 02:39:28,680
Speaker 2: Should And so I'm going to picked Boston in this series,

3116
02:39:29,560 --> 02:39:31,920
Speaker 2: and I think it goes to full seven. I think

3117
02:39:32,000 --> 02:39:34,120
Speaker 2: this is gonna come down and gave seven. We were

3118
02:39:34,160 --> 02:39:37,440
Speaker 2: talking earlier about Jason Tatum and you know, and and

3119
02:39:37,520 --> 02:39:40,200
Speaker 2: I agree with you guys. A lot of close games,

3120
02:39:40,360 --> 02:39:44,120
Speaker 2: I would take the duo of Luca and Kyrie over

3121
02:39:44,200 --> 02:39:46,800
Speaker 2: Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum and hitting big shots. But

3122
02:39:47,120 --> 02:39:51,760
Speaker 2: in this case, I think by the series end, we'll

3123
02:39:51,800 --> 02:39:55,640
Speaker 2: be talking about Jason Tatum and not about Luka Doncic.

3124
02:39:56,480 --> 02:39:59,720
Speaker 2: The Tatum, after all these years of frustration in the

3125
02:39:59,800 --> 02:40:03,199
Speaker 2: post season, gets it done. Is finally gonna get it done.

3126
02:40:03,280 --> 02:40:07,040
Speaker 2: And the Boston Celtics and I hate the Celtics, believe me,

3127
02:40:07,120 --> 02:40:09,600
Speaker 2: I'm not rooting for the Celtics. And of course me

3128
02:40:09,800 --> 02:40:12,400
Speaker 2: picking the Celtics is my way of saying, there's no

3129
02:40:12,480 --> 02:40:15,480
Speaker 2: way the Celtics will win, So I'm gonna give it

3130
02:40:15,600 --> 02:40:19,120
Speaker 2: the lock right now, locket, there we go, that the

3131
02:40:19,320 --> 02:40:23,240
Speaker 2: Celtics will win in seven. You say Dallas in six?

3132
02:40:23,360 --> 02:40:23,680
Speaker 1: Correct?

3133
02:40:23,760 --> 02:40:25,680
Speaker 2: All right? Much more coming up, geting here. This is

3134
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.