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Speaker 2: week is out. And look, the season is here, the

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Speaker 2: NBA's seventy eighth season. It is basically upon us. By Monday,

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Speaker 2: to our usual cadence of two doses of This League

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Speaker 2: Uncut every week. But I wanted to share something with

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Speaker 2: you in the interim. I do a Saturday radio show

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Speaker 2: in Dallas on Iheart's ninety seven to one the Freak

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Speaker 2: FM in Dallas. This past weekend, I had Mavericks coach

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Speaker 2: about his plans on a lot of different levels on

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Speaker 2: the season ahead for the Dallas Mavericks. The Mavericks actually

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Speaker 2: as one of two teams in the league with exhibition

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Speaker 2: games abroad. The Mavericks they open their season Wednesday with

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Speaker 2: two A days. They've got two A day's Wednesday, two

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Speaker 2: A day's Thursday to today's Saturday. They've got Media Day

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Speaker 2: on Friday, so the MAVs and the Minnesota Timberwolves getting

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Speaker 2: a head start on the rest of the league. Take

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Speaker 2: a listen now to my chat with Jason Kidd, where

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Speaker 2: we get into not only Luka don Kyrie Irving his

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Speaker 2: his rookies, Derek Lively, the second Olivier, maxents prosper what

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Speaker 2: he's going to do with his center rotation. A lot

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Speaker 2: of candor on the season ahead from Mavericks coach Jason Kidd.

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Speaker 2: The Saturday Steinline dribbles forth. Now, thanks for being with

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Speaker 2: us on a pretty momentous Saturday special, because this is

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Speaker 2: the last time for a long time we're going to

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Speaker 2: do a show without having new MAVs basketball to discuss.

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Speaker 2: That's why we had to line up a truly marquee

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Speaker 2: guest for this one, which happens now joining us for

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Speaker 2: the first time on the Saturday Steinline presented by Panini

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Speaker 2: Trading Cards and Collectibles. It's Works. Coach Jason Kidd. Coach Kidd,

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Speaker 2: welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you signs, thank you for having me. I'm excited

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Speaker 3: to be on the show. Now.

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Speaker 2: This is going to be a training camp really unlike

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Speaker 2: any other that I can remember for the Mavericks, because

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Speaker 2: you've got six or seven practices, then a long stretch

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Speaker 2: out of the country, three exhibition games in two different countries.

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Speaker 2: What kind of challenges does this schedule present for you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this is a little different. I don't

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Speaker 3: think anyone's has done this yet where you brought up.

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Speaker 3: We're going to be in two different countries in twelve days,

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Speaker 3: playing Minnesota and Abu Dhabi, and then in Madrid playing

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Speaker 3: it's it can be challenging, but I think it's more

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Speaker 3: we're going to look at it as a great time

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Speaker 3: But I think also, you know, putting in the defensive

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Speaker 3: I think it's it's exciting. Yes, it could be challenging,

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Speaker 2: I know you went to Slovenia in the summer to

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Speaker 2: the World Cup, leading scorer in the tournament, got his

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Speaker 3: Well, I think one you brought up we went to

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Speaker 3: you know, sometimes in our career we're not one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: Mavericks coach Jason Kidd here with us on ninety seven

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Speaker 2: You know, some of us here are old enough to

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Speaker 2: remember you in your playing days. December twenty sixth, nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety six. I will not forget the date. The first

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Speaker 2: that was a February trade. So you yourself know what it's

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Speaker 2: like to be traded mid season for Kyrie Irving now resign.

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Speaker 2: What do you think it's going to be like to

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Speaker 2: And you know, again you've been in the player position,

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Speaker 3: I think it's huge. I think, you know, sometimes we

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Speaker 2: When MAVs fans hit me up, they almost always want

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Speaker 2: Max sents prosper from your seat having watched them in

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Speaker 3: They've done everything we've asked them to do. Uh. Each

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Speaker 3: They're going to be a part of our fabric. There

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Speaker 2: Well, because you know, the other topic that gets thrown

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Speaker 2: what's your approach to the center position going into camp?

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Speaker 2: Is the job? Is the starting job up for grabs?

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Speaker 2: How are you looking at that?

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Speaker 3: It's up for grabs, you know, just understanding that. But

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Speaker 3: I will I will start Lively with the big group

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Speaker 2: Huge accusation, huge acquisition for this team. What do you

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Speaker 3: And then I tell him, just be ready to make

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Speaker 3: And so that's what that's my message to him is

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Speaker 2: Mavericks coach Jason Kidd with us here on ninety seven

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Speaker 2: to one The Freak. I mean, this was this the

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Speaker 2: longest offseason of your life. I mean it's like you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this might be the only second time

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Speaker 3: capable of doing that. But you look at Josh and Maxie.

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Speaker 2: But this team two practices Wednesday to practices Thursday, then

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Speaker 2: I am not ready for two a days. Luckily though,

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Speaker 2: I don't think I have to do any running. I'm

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're excited. This is again a little different with

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Speaker 2: I will see you soon after that first practice on Wednesday, Coach,

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Speaker 2: thanks to mil for joining us and helping us get

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Speaker 2: ready for the season, because I know and the listen

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Speaker 2: it was a long five months for the listeners. They're ready,

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Speaker 2: they're they're the most ready.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate Stanzie for having me on the show. I

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Speaker 3: know the Maths fans are ready and we will be

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Speaker 3: ready to.

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Speaker 1: And that'll do it for us. See you next time.

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Speaker 1: This League on Cuttage and iHeartRadio production. A lockup Christine

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Speaker 1: and Mark Stein