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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. Hello, Welcome in

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Speaker 1: Side Hour too, the Jason Smith Show with my bes

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Take that for data. We got Mark

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Speaker 1: Medina coming up live from the All Star Game in

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Speaker 1: about twenty minutes. Celebrity game going as celebrity games like

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Speaker 1: Are we gonna get a great All Star Game? I

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Speaker 1: think we are. But big breaking news earlier today, and

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Speaker 1: it's not I can't really say it's that surprising because

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Speaker 1: you knew it was gonna be the end. He had

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Speaker 1: talked about that this was gonna be his final year.

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Speaker 1: You know, Chris Paul was hoping to spend it with

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Speaker 1: the Clippers and things are gonna go Nope, Nope, nope, nope.

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Speaker 1: They decided, hey, yees, sixteen out of nineteen, now we

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Speaker 1: don't need you. We're just gonna blow it up, so

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Speaker 1: we're gonna let you go early. Chris Paul, who was

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Speaker 1: traded away to Toronto, Toronto releasing him. He has announced

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Speaker 1: his retirement from the NBA today after twenty one years

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Speaker 1: in the league. And you know, just knowing the the

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Speaker 1: the flowers that he got all day today, every trending

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Speaker 1: topic on Twitter was CP three that it was Paul

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Speaker 1: and point God and you know, all the way down

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Speaker 1: the road and Clippers and Doc Rivers was treading ahead.

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Speaker 2: Hey, that's all over the finalist Doc Rivers.

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Speaker 3: Do you can do it?

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Speaker 1: Man couldn't do it. But it was just great to

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Speaker 1: see that, you know, going out to Chris Paul today,

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Speaker 1: considering that for his career, as talented as he was,

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Speaker 1: he is a guy that well, okay, he had some

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Speaker 1: issues with a bunch of different teams that he was on.

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Speaker 1: He was always very us very opinionated and strong willed,

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Speaker 1: which made him a great leader in the in the

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Speaker 1: NBA PA, and he's someone that a lot of players

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Speaker 1: looked up to. Didn't always play well with teams he

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Speaker 1: was on, because look, that's a really unenviable position to

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Speaker 1: be in when you're you know, you're helping to run

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Speaker 1: things and it's your job to get what you can

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Speaker 1: from the old own. So, like, you know, that's a

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Speaker 1: big responsibility to take on for your career because you

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Speaker 1: know you're going to get dinged a little bit. How

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Speaker 1: much is management always going to like you if that's

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Speaker 1: the case, So really, you know, a great career for him,

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Speaker 1: but dotted with lots of different moments of controversy with

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Speaker 1: Chris Paul. But before you get to the big one,

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Speaker 1: just you know, to look back at his career. I mean,

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Speaker 1: clearly this guy, you know, headed right to the Hall

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Speaker 1: of fame, maybe the last of the great true point guards.

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Speaker 1: Like we have seen out with positionless NBA and players

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Speaker 1: playing all over and point guards really having different responsibilities

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Speaker 1: now than they did. He was. He was maybe the

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Speaker 1: last of his kind.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you look at what he was to that position.

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Speaker 4: He was the standard for many years, and then it's mutated,

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Speaker 4: as you say, to the positionless NBA.

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Speaker 2: So who's a point guard on a given possession? Right?

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Speaker 4: We can call Victor weman Yama the point guard at times, right,

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Speaker 4: So it's just a different world that we're living in.

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Speaker 4: But you look at over the course of his career,

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Speaker 4: the stats that he put up seven different teams, many

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Speaker 4: many a stop had the last with the Clippers and

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Speaker 4: everything else before he did not report, So I'm not

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Speaker 4: even including that because maybe him plenty games in this

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Speaker 4: and he was the standard. So you got all these

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Speaker 4: kids that are now playing in the NBA, and that's

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Speaker 4: how long he's been in You got all these guys.

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Speaker 2: Who was the first point guard? You remember that guy?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the guy that's now in my now former teammate,

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Speaker 4: as much as we talk about Lebron and all his

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Speaker 4: that's a hell of a run. And being in the

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Speaker 4: Union certainly had to take hard stances. And as we

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Speaker 4: talk about and we did with the NFL and the

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Speaker 4: report card and the PA and fighting with the owners

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Speaker 4: and everything there, same thing here, as I alluded to

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Speaker 4: you with the Cam Jordan thing, you'd have be a

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Speaker 4: third of people vote on stuff on a roster. Now,

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Speaker 4: maybe in the NBA because it's fewer guys that you'd

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Speaker 4: here's what we're voting on and here's what we need.

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Speaker 4: But that's still a thankless job from a team rep

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Speaker 4: all the way through the board because everybody's at such

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Speaker 4: a different place in their career. That's so that's so taxing.

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Speaker 4: And I would imagine in each locker room, whoever that

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Speaker 4: that is not your fault and might affect the way

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Speaker 4: an open look like him. He cursed me out for

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Speaker 4: this vote that's going down, so I'm passing that way.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it affects a.

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Speaker 4: Lot of the inner workings of the game, even if

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Speaker 4: you'd like to think that you'd be above it. So

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Speaker 4: for Chris Ball and all those guys would let you know,

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Speaker 4: the leadership roles. Let's get them to the podcast now

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Speaker 4: they can give the dirt.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. For his career there, You've heard lots of different

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Speaker 1: people talk about his career today and get it, a

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Speaker 1: different perspectives of him and the different teams he was with.

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Speaker 1: But when you hear Chris Paul's career, at least when

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Speaker 1: I do, and I know I'm not the only one,

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Speaker 1: you think back to what could have been. And I

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Speaker 1: don't mean the fact that boy he had five two

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Speaker 1: to zero leads in different conference, in different playoff series

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Speaker 1: and couldn't win any of that. You leave Doc Rivers alone,

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Speaker 1: not me. I mean, look, his crowning achievement was going

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Speaker 1: to be against the Bucks. They're up to nothing. They're

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Speaker 1: up to nothing in the NBA Finals. You win the

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals and now here comes Giannis and he scores

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Speaker 1: fifty in the final game, and that's it. Like wow.

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Speaker 1: But but Chris Paul's team gave away a lot of leads.

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Speaker 1: But it goes back to twenty eleven when Chris Paul

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Speaker 1: was going to be a Laker, And I know, I

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Speaker 1: gotta explain the millennials about the Chris Paul trade. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the best way to talk about this now, to talk

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Speaker 1: is to talk about it in the order in which

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Speaker 1: we arrived at it, because when I'm talking to you

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Speaker 1: about it, you're gonna say, wow, this sounds like if

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Speaker 1: the NBA stepped in and said, no, we're not allowing

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Speaker 1: Luka Doncic to get traded to the Lakers, because that's

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Speaker 1: really what this was. Okay, So going back to twenty eleven,

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Speaker 1: we had a lockout, right and Chris Paul at this point,

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Speaker 1: you know, Chris Paul twenty eleven, one of the best,

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Speaker 1: Going back to you know, he's he's in his early

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Speaker 1: are issues. The NBA was coming off a lockout and

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Speaker 1: the league was running the Hornets because they had to

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Speaker 1: get rid of the owner, George Shin, who ran the

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Speaker 1: So the league was running the Hornets. Now, everything else

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Speaker 1: Dell Demps was the GM, and but the league was

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Speaker 1: running the Hornets. Chris Paul wasn't going to re sign

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Speaker 1: just coming off a lockout, right, We're going on and

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Speaker 1: here's and here's a big trade that's announced because the

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Speaker 1: Hornets knew we have to trade Chris Paul because he said,

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Speaker 1: this happens, you got to make a trade. So there

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Speaker 1: was a three team trade that would have sent Chris

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Speaker 1: backcourt with Kobe Bryant. Think about that backcourt in the NBA. Right,

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Speaker 1: So you got Chris Paul and Kobe in the backcourt.

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Speaker 1: Pal Gasol, who had won two NBA titles with Kobe,

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Speaker 1: was a big part of the Lakers machine. But now

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Speaker 1: they're looking to move on. Chris Paul would have went

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Speaker 1: to the Rockets and New Orleans would have gotten Kevin Martin,

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Speaker 1: They also would have got Goran Dragics, who was really

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Speaker 1: good in the playoffs. You know, he had some big

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Speaker 1: playoffs back in the late aughts early teams, and they

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Speaker 1: would have gotten a first round pick. Okay, so this

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Speaker 1: the year, and the Rockets would have gotten Kevin Martin,

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Speaker 1: who was who was who was pretty good, Louis Skull,

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Speaker 1: Like that's like getting getting Kevin Martin was kind of

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Speaker 1: Dennis Shrewder. I would say, right, like that, that's kind

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Speaker 1: of get it right. Uh, you get Louis Skola, who

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Speaker 1: was pretty good for the uh for the Rockets for

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Speaker 1: was he was like a thirteen and eight guy for

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Speaker 1: also get Goran Dragic, who was a pretty good playoff performer,

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Speaker 1: the end of the year. However, the NBA really mad

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Speaker 1: now the Lakers are on the downtick. Now we all

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Speaker 1: re rebumps the team up with Chris Paul and Kobe

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Speaker 1: the NBA, whatever pressure they exerted on then commissioner David Stern.

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Speaker 1: David Stern killed the deal for what he then called

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Speaker 1: basketball reasons. And while the NBA said no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: there was no pressure. There was no pressure. Well, you

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Speaker 1: got quotes from Dan Gilbert who said, hey, this trade

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Speaker 1: is a travesty and put the deal to a vote

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Speaker 1: of the twenty nine owners of the Hornets, meaning the

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Speaker 1: rest of the league is. When the league own own

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Speaker 1: owns the Hornets, the other owners do so they all

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Speaker 1: put pressure on him. What do you do? And you

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Speaker 1: can't allow Chris Paul to go to the Lakers, And

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Speaker 1: David Stern stepped in and he killed the trade. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is how it went from beginning to end. I

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Speaker 1: lay it out like that, and you think back to it,

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Speaker 1: about it for the first time and you go, that

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Speaker 1: doesn't sound right. That really sounds like the NBA is

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Speaker 1: picking on the Lakers, saying no, we're not gonna let

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Speaker 1: you potentially restart your dynasty with a trade. Who's doing this, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe you're doing this, Like, yeah, I can't.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe you're stepping in. It's not like it

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Speaker 1: was an awful trade. And again Chris Paul wasn't going

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Speaker 1: to re sign. That was the whole big thing. And

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Speaker 1: when after this trade got canceled, well then they had

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Speaker 1: to trade him to the Clippers, and he goes because

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Speaker 4: It's just stupidity. Now, Dallas is a whole other conversation.

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Speaker 1: and the players have to know the last week has

432
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Speaker 1: been a bad week optic wise for the NBA with

433
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Speaker 1: all the tanking stories and the fines and hey boy,

434
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Speaker 1: the NBA All Star Game is terrible. I got a

435
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Speaker 1: feeling we're gonna get this the best All Star game

436
00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 1: we've got in a few years, and they're going to

437
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Speaker 1: put on the right kind of show on Sunday for us,

438
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Speaker 1: not just hey, we're going to put up all kinds

439
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,920
Speaker 1: of points, no defense. But I think they know, all right,

440
00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,720
Speaker 1: we got to stop this backsliding and change the conversation

441
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Speaker 1: a little bit.

442
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Speaker 6: You in all serious. I think you're right, and I'm

443
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 6: staying that's not as any show for the NBA because

444
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,720
Speaker 6: I just stay with put my mind here. I do

445
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,679
Speaker 6: think the game is going to be good because of

446
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Speaker 6: what you said. Yes, the All Star Game is what

447
00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,399
Speaker 6: it is. There are some notable injuries with Nasant to

448
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,520
Speaker 6: the Kumbo sche Godess, Alexander and Steph Curry. But I

449
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,800
Speaker 6: think the format that he mentioned us versus the world,

450
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,400
Speaker 6: it's going to get competitive juices going. Luka Dacic, he's

451
00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 6: likely going to be playing after he's missed the last

452
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Speaker 6: two games because of the hamstring injury, and I think

453
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 6: he wants to put on a show. Same thing with

454
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Speaker 6: Victor One Binnamo, with the Spurs and the Americans. I

455
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,160
Speaker 6: think that you know, guys like Lebron, James, Kevin Durant,

456
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:42,600
Speaker 6: they've gotten criticism rightfully so well, Katie's always come up

457
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,960
Speaker 6: to come to work for All Star Games. So Lebron

458
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 6: had a last minute announcement, literally at his pregame All

459
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Speaker 6: Star Press commerce that he wasn't going to play it

460
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Speaker 6: because of injuries. So I think for at least one year,

461
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Speaker 6: the competitive juices will be there where fans will be entertaining.

462
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Speaker 6: I think the challenge is how do they stain this

463
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Speaker 6: because guys, every time the NBA has put a new

464
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 6: tweak or a gimmick in the All Star Game, they

465
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Speaker 6: buy in for one year and one year only, and

466
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Speaker 6: then the next year it goes back to the same Shenanigan.

467
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Speaker 6: So I think it's gonna work this year. I just

468
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Speaker 6: don't know. You know, once either side proves themselves the

469
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Speaker 6: superior basketball team, if that kind of enthusiasm will carry

470
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Speaker 6: through next season.

471
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Speaker 2: Old rule of thumb.

472
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Speaker 4: As soon as they get back on the court, you know,

473
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Speaker 4: after a week and a half break, everything will be

474
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Speaker 4: just fine. Get in price two hundred and fifty four

475
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Speaker 4: dollars if you want to go to the All Star

476
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Speaker 4: Game on Sunday here in Los Angeles. Much lower than

477
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Speaker 4: you would have anticipated. But you mentioned the key name there,

478
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Speaker 4: Lebron James. What'd you take away from the timeout and

479
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,400
Speaker 4: cursing out Austin Reeves for stealing his rebounds last night?

480
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, Lebron, as much as he's about oh, making

481
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 6: the right play, he also cared about his dats as dominant.

482
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Speaker 6: I'm not surprised. Even though he is a team guy,

483
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Speaker 6: he's sacrifice, you know, his role. I think, without much

484
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 6: complaint with Luka, Doncis and Austin Reeves in the mix,

485
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 6: he still wants to be seen as a dominant player.

486
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Speaker 6: And you know, he did set history with gaining that

487
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Speaker 6: triple double, being the oldest player to do it. I

488
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 6: think it's fascinating as impressive as that is, and I'm

489
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Speaker 6: not taking away anything from Lebron because it is impressive

490
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Speaker 6: for someone at his age to have a triple double,

491
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Speaker 6: but it really encapsulates what makes this season really complex

492
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 6: for him because you see the flashes of his greatness

493
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:35,160
Speaker 6: and signs that hey, like, he's not a broken down

494
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 6: role player yet, but he's not the same player as

495
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Speaker 6: he was in his prime. He he doesn't play much defense.

496
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 6: He's lost a step or two. But because he has

497
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Speaker 6: those games where he's still All Star calberish enough, it

498
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Speaker 6: still gives them some confidence about you know what, I

499
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Speaker 6: don't know when to hang it up. This may or

500
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 6: may not be my last year. How do I put

501
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,359
Speaker 6: this on a bow? How do I time it so

502
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 6: I get a farewell tour? It's yield a lot of

503
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,679
Speaker 6: first world complex problems on how he tries to end

504
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Speaker 6: his career here, you know.

505
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Speaker 1: Now speaking of ending career before you more in the

506
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Speaker 1: All Star weekend, you know, we talked about Chris Paul

507
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,120
Speaker 1: a few minutes ago, you know, retiring after twenty one

508
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Speaker 1: years in the league. And look, I know, you know,

509
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Speaker 1: you remember the big trade that wasn't the trade to

510
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 1: the Lakers, and you know, you think about it now

511
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 1: and it's it's almost like if the league had stepped

512
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Speaker 1: in last year and said, oh no, we're not allowing

513
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Speaker 1: the Mavericks to trade Luca to the Lakers. Like, with

514
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 1: fifteen years of retrospect to look back at, it seems

515
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: even more crazy and irresponsible that that was Chris Paul's

516
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,920
Speaker 1: career was changed forever by who knows what you'll be

517
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Speaker 1: able to accomplish playing in the same backcourt with Kobe Bryant.

518
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I mean the butterfly fector there is insane because,

519
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,719
Speaker 6: as you may recall, Jason, they had a you know,

520
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 6: take back to Pyle Gasol Lamar Odom trade. Lamar wanted

521
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 6: out the Miss Dallas pal as a professional, but he

522
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 6: wasn't the same player. I do wonder if they got

523
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Speaker 6: Chris Paul, maybe that would have craved about him to

524
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Speaker 6: get to White House year earlier instead of him opting

525
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 6: into Orlando, and that there would have been a better

526
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 6: dynamic with those three players as opposed to just Kobe

527
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Speaker 6: and Dwight. But it's as ultimate, you know, choose your

528
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 6: own adventure type stories with Chris Paul. But I think

529
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Speaker 6: when you look at the totality of his career. There

530
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,679
Speaker 6: have been so many what ifs, because this player, I

531
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Speaker 6: think is one of the best point guards of all time,

532
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 6: and there's a lot of external things I explain why

533
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,120
Speaker 6: he never won a championship. There were always ill timed

534
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 6: injuries that came up either to himself or a key

535
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 6: teammate at the worst opportune moment. He also navigated just,

536
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 6: you know, very dysfunctional organization. So I'm not saying Chris

537
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 6: Paul is blameless. He did have a very Domeanian leadership

538
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 6: style that elevated teammates, but also alienated teammates. Same thing

539
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 6: with the organization, hence why he and the Clippers started

540
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 6: ways earlier this year. But the good outweighs the bad,

541
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Speaker 6: and I look at how he just was such a good,

542
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 6: great dominant player as a passer, score and his competitiveness,

543
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 6: and I think those are the things that should be

544
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 6: remembered as opposed to he didn't win a title and

545
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 6: all these crazy choose your own adventure scenarios that explain

546
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 6: the turbulence of his career.

547
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Speaker 4: He had a hell of a run twenty one years.

548
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 4: Talk a longevity, and you know, if it's so long

549
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,160
Speaker 4: as these guys keep playing, I don't feel so old, Mark.

550
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Speaker 2: But there's another one goes to the wayside.

551
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Speaker 6: Mike, Mike, you're young, You're like, so he just turned

552
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 6: like twenty six last week.

553
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Speaker 4: No, that's good. I appreciate you. See there you go

554
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 4: that way to butter me up. I appreciate that. From

555
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,360
Speaker 4: the bowels of the into it done. As we look

556
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 4: at Adam Silver and the sanctity that he cited with

557
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 4: a five hundred thousand dollars fine and one hundred thousand

558
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 4: dollars fine for the tankathon.

559
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 2: That we've got going on. I mean, the owners just

560
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 2: laugh at that.

561
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,679
Speaker 4: You literally had you and they put up the tweet

562
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 4: mocking it. Hey, we won that game, So I mean,

563
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 4: what can Adam Silver do? And is that the prevailing

564
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 4: talk there around the All Star Game?

565
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's the prevailing talk as well as a

566
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 6: where do things staying with the Clippers investigation with aspiration right,

567
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 6: but there's a lot of things thumppack. But as a

568
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 6: pertains to tanking, I think it has been the talk

569
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 6: because of the recent finds. I think there's been eye

570
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 6: rolls on the find themselves because teams view them as

571
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 6: luxury taxes. I talked with one team official with another

572
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 6: team just a few meant moments ago, uh, and they

573
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 6: were they were rolling their eyes on the the statement

574
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 6: that Adam Silver released with that where he was trying

575
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 6: to talk tough about the jazz of Shenanigans, and the

576
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 6: key word that we all laughed about was Adam talking

577
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 6: about them making overt actions, you know, in regards to

578
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,199
Speaker 6: their tanking. So it's almost like the messaging from the

579
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 6: NBA is We're fine if you tank, just don't be

580
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 6: so obvious about it. Be a little bit more subtle,

581
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 6: and you know what, it's true, Like I think that

582
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Speaker 6: it's hit a different way because it's well before the

583
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 6: All Star break or you know, just happened before the

584
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Speaker 6: All Star break. Usually tanking moves happen middle of March

585
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 6: early April. I think the other thing is they sat

586
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 6: Jared Jackson Junior or Laurie Marketing for an entire quarter. Usually,

587
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 6: you know, you extend rotations out a little bit more,

588
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,880
Speaker 6: just sit them out entirely because of an injury, real

589
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 6: or exaggerated. I think that's what the thing is. But

590
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Speaker 6: to your point, what really will cut to the heart

591
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 6: of the matter, is this they got to penalize with

592
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 6: draft picks. We see the second aprin penalties. If you

593
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 6: cross that threshold, you can't find guys at the mid

594
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 6: level or do sign and trades that will help, I

595
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 6: think reduce this. And it's very ironic, guys, because the

596
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 6: plays tournament has reduced like some tanking for the middle

597
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 6: geer teams, and that's been really competitive. But what it's

598
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 6: set up is what we see now for the teams

599
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 6: that aren't good and have no shot, they've just leaned

600
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 6: on being really really really really bad. And that's not

601
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 6: good when that represents a third of the NBA. So

602
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 6: it can't be a third of the NBA title contenders,

603
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 6: second chair of the NBA Play and type teams, in

604
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 6: the third of the NBA lottery teams. There has to

605
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 6: be a better blend of parody there or else the

606
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 6: fans are just gonna give it, you know what.

607
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: All right, So lastly, let me ask you this, all

608
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Speaker 1: your years covering the NBA, where you sit right now,

609
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Speaker 1: If I said, what does the NBA have a better

610
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: chance of fixing the tanking situation or the All Star game?

611
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Speaker 1: What are you gonna tell me?

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00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 2: They have been a chance of those.

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00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,239
Speaker 6: Are two uh, those are two rubrics tubes that are

614
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Speaker 6: very complicated secret options see Naked.

615
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Speaker 2: Span the Game.

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Speaker 6: I think that they could. I think that they could

617
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Speaker 6: fix the All Star Game only because we saw with

618
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Speaker 6: the Playing Tournament they all of a sudden give five

619
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Speaker 6: hundred thousand dollars million dollar bonuses, five hundred thousand dollars

620
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Speaker 6: for teams that win the NBA Cup. Maybe that's what

621
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Speaker 6: it'll take for players to give a damn about the

622
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 6: All Star Games. And guys like it's so ridiculous that

623
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 6: that has to be the thing. They already have guarantee contracts.

624
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 6: And I'm talking about this from someone that thinks, hey,

625
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 6: when a player signed to a contract, they deserve that

626
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 6: because of how much revenue they drive over the league

627
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 6: and those teams. But this should be about to do

628
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 6: good gesture for just putting on a show for fans

629
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Speaker 6: and giving thanks and putting on an entertaining, you know, performance,

630
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 6: not playoff type performance, but at least a performance that

631
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Speaker 6: shows that you care about the fans. So I think

632
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 6: that's more solvable because money always talks. But it's sad

633
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 6: it has to get to that point.

634
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Speaker 1: He's at the All Star game. It's Mark Medina, essentially

635
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: sports insider with us here at NBA Fox Sports Radio.

636
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:44,719
Speaker 1: Mark enjoyed the games this weekend and the performance his performance.

637
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Speaker 1: Uh take it easy to say hi to Jalen Brunson

638
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: for me.

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Speaker 6: Appreciate you and Jason Mike. You guys should play your

640
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 6: hat in the ring for the Celebrity Game next year.

641
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say just as well as he does.

642
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, I might be. But if Steven A. Smith can

643
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: run for president, I might bube up on my hat

644
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: and the ring for that, So I might jump up

645
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: a little bit.

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00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 6: I'm like he could be president.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, Yeah, Mark, there goes Mark Medina. Uh great stuf.

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Speaker 1: Yeah boy, there's a Rubik's Cube of trying to fix

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Speaker 1: taking the All Star Game. See man Uh time now

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Speaker 1: to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.

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Speaker 1: Someone who's been called the Utah Jazz of Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: But by the time you get to the end of

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Speaker 1: his night, he is taking his final updates. It's Steve Desager.

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Speaker 2: That was a pretty good one.

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Speaker 7: Actually, NBA All Star Weekend is underway in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: We had the.

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Speaker 7: Celebrity Game not named MVP was centered Taco Fall, although

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Speaker 7: he had twenty points twenty one rebounds, and then Team

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Speaker 7: Vince Carter won the Rising Stars Games MVP VGA Edgekimb

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Speaker 7: of Philadelphia. Among the Saturday events three point contests, which

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Speaker 7: will include Damian Lillard, who's injured for Portland, but sure

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Speaker 7: he's fine. Tomorrow NBA All Star.

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Speaker 1: Game voice up shots. You know, you get you have.

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Speaker 7: To move from one station to the other.

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Speaker 1: They're going to bring the balls to him. It's fine.

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Speaker 7: Well, then I'm watching All Star Game itself is Sunday

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Speaker 7: at the La Clippers Arena. Former Clippers guard Chris Paul

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Speaker 7: retired from the NBA after twenty one seasons. He was

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Speaker 7: a twelve time All Star Rookie of the Year in

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Speaker 7: two thousand and six. He played for six teams in

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Speaker 7: his final eight years college basketball. Staying undefeated was Miami

672
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Speaker 7: Ohio twenty five and oh ranked twenty third in the country.

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Speaker 7: two to seventy one. Eighteenth ranks. Saint Louis won easily

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Speaker 7: at Loyal Chicago eighty six fifty nine. The NHL is

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Speaker 7: off for the Olympic Break. Canada one today five to

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Speaker 7: one over Switzerland. The NHL resumes its schedule on Wednesday,

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Speaker 7: the twenty fifth. The US man had opened with a

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Speaker 7: win on Thursday. Saturday, the Americans faced Denmark. Than Sunday,

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Speaker 7: USA against Germany. US women's hockey continues to dominate, advancing

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Speaker 7: to the semi finals, beating host Statealy six nothing. American

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Speaker 7: Ilia mellen And finished eighth in men's figure skating after

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Speaker 7: falling twice in the free skate finale to golf at

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Speaker 7: Pebble Beach. Ax Sha Patia is tied for the lead

686
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Speaker 7: after a second round sixty four. Ricky Fowler is one

687
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Speaker 7: shot back. The Big Ten will propose a twenty four

688
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Speaker 7: team football playoff, which would eliminate the conference title games.

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Speaker 7: It's still a twelve team playoff this coming year. The

690
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Speaker 7: Big Ten wants a twenty fourteen playoff to start no

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Speaker 7: later than twenty twenty nine. The Diamondbacks are re signing

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Speaker 7: pitchers at Gallon to a one year deal. NASCAR's Daytona

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Speaker 7: five hundred this Sunday on Fox TV.

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Speaker 1: Back to You Thgas, Steve O, The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with My Best friend Mike carbon Steves now two updates

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Speaker 1: into the night, He's got two left. I expect a

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Speaker 1: good one at nine thirty. But that last one, Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: it's go scores are gonna be wrong. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a short update. That's that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: You mean he's gonna be healthy and he's just gonna

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Speaker 4: sit there while the yeah music rules.

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Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying? Yeah, say Steve, don't you

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Speaker 1: want to talk say anything? Nah?

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Speaker 7: Nah no, No, no, management, dude, I told you.

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Speaker 1: H coming up next evidence that. Hey, you know, I

706
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Speaker 1: don't think we're making the right argument. Wait, the NCAA

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Speaker 1: Basketball tournament expanding? No, no, no, how long until the

708
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: NCAA Football Playoff is as big as the NCAA Tournament.

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Speaker 1: We got a big story about that next Jason and

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Speaker 1: Mike Fox.

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my bes

716
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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon, where I think we might be asking

717
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Speaker 1: the wrong question when it comes to expanding the NCAA

718
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 1: tournament Ellison, Yes, seventy two, seventy six teams. Whatever, Take

719
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Speaker 1: a look what's gonna be happening in football? Because even

720
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: though this story came out today and it sounds outlandish,

721
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Speaker 1: guess what it's gonna happen. At some point the Big

722
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Speaker 1: Ten had been the well the actually, the difference of

723
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Speaker 1: opinion between the Big Ten and the SEC is what

724
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Speaker 1: stopped the expansion of the college football tournament for next year.

725
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: SEC wanted to go to sixteen teams. The Big Ten

726
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Speaker 1: wanted to go to twenty four teams.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, go big, Well they are.

728
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Speaker 1: According to Pete Themill, a college football insider for ESPN,

729
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Speaker 1: the Big Ten is circulating an internal document that lays

730
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Speaker 1: out what a twenty four team college football playoff will

731
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Speaker 1: look like. Now to talk about teams that are gonna

732
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Speaker 1: get automatic burst, here's the nuts and bolts of it.

733
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Speaker 1: It would eliminate conference championship games and there would be

734
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Speaker 1: an additional weekend of on campus college foot ball home games. Right, So, now,

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00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: I remember we're a twelve now, and here's a wait

736
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Speaker 1: a minute, wait a minute, twelve. It took forever to

737
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Speaker 1: get to twelve, and it was pulling teeth to get there.

738
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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly in one year, the Big Ten is saying we

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Speaker 1: want twenty four. Guess what we're gonna get twenty four,

741
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Speaker 1: And we'll get twenty four as soon as the SEC

742
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Speaker 1: and the Big Ten agree on whatever model they're going

743
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Speaker 1: to put forward. Because these are the movers and shakers

744
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: of college football. Right, you think we're not gonna of

745
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: course we're going to get expanded playoff. Why all the

746
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: money that's being spent on nil and players that you

747
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: need to have more return to say, hey, we were

748
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: in the playoff last year. We still need money. We

749
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Speaker 1: had a great year. We made the playoff is awesome year.

750
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: Hey you got five million dollars for us. We got

751
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Speaker 1: to get a quarterback in a wide receiver. You know

752
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 1: what do you have? What can you help us with?

753
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 1: You need to teams need to be able to show

754
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:53,720
Speaker 1: more positivity, more achievement because the players are just getting

755
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: more and more expensive. Right, That's what it is. Because

756
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: this is who hires and fires coaches. Now, this is

757
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: not about oh well this was their record, This was

758
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 1: this No, no, no, coaches get hired and fired. Now

759
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: when the offseason comes and a coach is coming off

760
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: a six and six year and an nil booster who

761
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: gave ten million dollars last year says, yeah, I'm not

762
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 1: a big fan of this coach. So yeah, you know it,

763
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: hit me up if you get a new coach. Wait

764
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Speaker 1: what so no money? Yeah? No money? Oh well, okay,

765
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: a couple of those visits gets what you're getting a

766
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,720
Speaker 1: new coach, right, That's just how it goes. So schools

767
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: know now they have to show more growth, more positivity,

768
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: more appearances in the playoff. And when you can basically

769
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Speaker 1: maybe a top twenty five team and make the playoff,

770
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: that's great. Right. So you think we're not gonna get there,

771
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: We're gonna get there. We're gonna get there fast. Because

772
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: that's the one part about college football, the one good

773
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 1: part about no rules is when there's no rules, I mean, Juniet,

774
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: anything you want within a year or two, right, doesn't matter. Right,

775
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: I say, it's the wild West of sports man everything.

776
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,240
Speaker 1: It's the canteena scene from Star Wars. Is college football?

777
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 1: Oh the best, biggest scum and villainy galaxy. That's what

778
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 1: this is. So you know what, Yeah, we're gonna get that.

779
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a twenty fourteen playoff when when when

780
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 1: the Big Ten and the SEC aligned, it's thrown out there. Now,

781
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 1: this is not not going to happen sometime the next

782
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Speaker 1: couple of years.

783
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Speaker 2: So did I hear that right?

784
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Speaker 4: You said the Big Ten is renaming divisions and reinstituting them.

785
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Speaker 4: Instead of legends and leaders, it's scum and villainy.

786
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Speaker 1: It's scum and villainy. Yes, right, I'm in the scum division.

787
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 1: Oh we're in the villainy division. Oh okay, who would

788
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: who would be in the village? That would be that'd

789
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Speaker 1: be Michigan, Ohio State. They'd be in the villainy division.

790
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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Well, depending on your perspective, yeah, you might

791
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Speaker 4: put them on the other side of the ledger. All

792
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Speaker 4: of that to say, yeah, it's all comes down to

793
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Speaker 4: dollars and cents. I was just looking up the six

794
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 4: year veteran minimum in the NFL is one point one

795
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Speaker 4: million dollars, and with more and more college players applying

796
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 4: for that fifth, sixth, ninth year of eligibility, that money's

797
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 4: got to come from somewhere. So now it's just a

798
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Speaker 4: matter of can you get to an agreement of what

799
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 4: your automatic bids are, how many host games are there

800
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Speaker 4: going to be. Is it only in that first round

801
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 4: do you continue that? I know one of the pieces

802
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 4: of the Big ten proposal was also, hey, in the

803
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,479
Speaker 4: first round, we got to guarantee that they're not they're

804
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 4: no rematches of games we saw during the regular season.

805
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 4: So it's the old Hey, it's new, it's all new.

806
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 4: Get in on the playoffs. Here we go, and then

807
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 4: you let the chips fall where they may from there.

808
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 4: But and certainly in conference interconference games in that first round,

809
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 4: trying to excize those as you can. So it'll be

810
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 4: curious to see how quickly it goes. But what's the

811
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 4: over under two and a half years that we just

812
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 4: jump from?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the under on that, I'll completely take the underrund.

814
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: How many teams are going to go bankrupt next year? Going,

815
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Speaker 1: we just spent all this money and we finished eighteenth, right,

816
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: we were ranked eighteenth, didn't make the play.

817
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 4: Well, the schools coming out and telling you how much

818
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 4: they lost. What was Rutgers? Was that a half a

819
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 4: billion dollars?

820
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: Right?

821
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Speaker 4: I don't know what the hell they spent it on.

822
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Speaker 4: But that's fuzzy math, if ever there was. But I'd

823
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Speaker 4: love to see the breakdown of how they got to

824
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Speaker 4: that number. But certainly that's a headline grabber, and so

825
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Speaker 4: many other schools have done the same thing. I enjoyed

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Speaker 4: our guy, Jeff Schwartz, We'll be part of Countdown to

827
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Speaker 4: Kickoff Saturday and Sunday this weekend.

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Speaker 2: He goes, Oh, good, USC can get into the playoff.

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Speaker 1: Maybe. Hey, if they had the twenty fourteen playoff a

830
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Speaker 1: year ago, Syracuse would have been in it.

831
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Speaker 2: How about that.

832
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Speaker 1: That's all I needed to say. Yeah, that's right, man,

833
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: come on, let's go. Yeah, let's get that twenty fourteen.

834
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Speaker 1: But look, more is better, right, and eventually maybe we

835
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Speaker 1: get to thirty two. Right, once you get to thirty two,

836
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Speaker 1: we chop to sixty four. Yeah, well go again. We

837
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Speaker 1: just like the tournament. Man, it's gonna be fantastic. Oh

838
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 1: we got left out. You were five and six, were right,

839
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 1: we were four and eight and we got that last spot.

840
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 1: We are really happy right now.

841
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 2: Showed really well in November.

842
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Exit up out a Fresca exit

843
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Speaker 1: Swalling Dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox

844
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, a different look at

845
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Speaker 1: the absolute biggest stories of the day in the Olympics.

846
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Speaker 1: They all have one thing in common. What is it?

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Speaker 1: Find out next right here, Jason I, Mike Fox,