Speaker 1: Welcome to this league uncut rule of twenty four hour
Speaker 1: NBA News. This's you, Chris Hans.
Speaker 2: It's time, work's time, It's so time.
Speaker 1: This league uncut is underway and on fire.
Speaker 2: This should be a good one.
Speaker 1: Friends, Welcome in to the long awaited return of this
Speaker 1: league uncut. Yes, we are back, and back just in time.
Speaker 1: After Wednesday. On Wednesday this week, the NBA was hit
Speaker 1: with a legit, no holds barred, true blockbuster trade. Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard shipped from Portland to Milwaukee in a three team
Speaker 1: and then Thursday followed with the next blockbuster. Chris Haynes,
Speaker 1: star of this very podcast, with a very detailed behind
Speaker 1: the scenes inside look at how this trade came together
Speaker 1: how Damian Lillard, with very little chatter about the Milwaukee Bucks,
Speaker 1: ended up being sent to Wisconsin to now partner with
Speaker 1: Jana Santetakumpo and form one of the stariest star duos
Speaker 1: in this league. I think if you've already read Chris's story,
Speaker 1: you understand why we did not do an emergency immediate
Speaker 1: reaction pod Wednesday after the trade. Chris obviously needed to
Speaker 1: report out that story, and if you haven't read the story,
Speaker 1: I urge you to read it, but we're going to
Speaker 1: get into tons of it here, mister Haynes, good evening,
Speaker 1: recording this late Thursday night. And you threw a lot
Speaker 1: at us today, sir.
Speaker 2: Well Stein, there was a lot. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 2: You said, I threw a lot at you. There was
Speaker 2: still a lot of meat left on the bone. Still
Speaker 2: a lot of meat left on the bone.
Speaker 1: Let's well, hopefully we'll get into so, hopefully we will,
Speaker 1: we will, hopefully we will reveal some of that in
Speaker 1: this forthcoming discussion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's that time again. It seems like Stein
Speaker 2: will glad to be back man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question, And look, it was it was. It was,
Speaker 1: you know, a source of curiosity I think around the
Speaker 1: league that how would Portland? Was Portland really treating Media
Speaker 1: Day as a deadline? How motivated were the Blazers to
Speaker 1: get this done and make a Dame trade before Media Day,
Speaker 1: before the season started so they could truly move on.
Speaker 1: And as we've come to learn that after a very
Speaker 1: quiet second half of July and a very quiet August,
Speaker 1: things really did heat up in the back half of September,
Speaker 1: and the Blazers were determined to get this thing done.
Speaker 1: Before the new season started. And one of the many
Speaker 1: very interesting revelations in your piece is that when Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard and Joe Cronin, the Blazers general manager, when they
Speaker 1: met on September fifth, as it was becoming apparent to
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard that a trade to his preferred destination of
Speaker 1: Miami was not going to materialize, Damian Lillard, as you've
Speaker 1: reported tonight, offered to rescind his trade request and go
Speaker 1: back to the Blazers, and Joe Cronan told him no,
Speaker 1: that the Blazers were going ahead with trading him. And
Speaker 1: in your story you talk about how Dame realized at
Speaker 1: that point he wasn't going to Miami. He didn't nowhere
Speaker 1: he was going yet, but he knew he wasn't going
Speaker 1: to Miami. And most of the league twenty eight teams
Speaker 1: media day is Monday. Dallas and Minnesota because they're playing
Speaker 1: exhibition games abroad, they were able to start this week.
Speaker 1: Minnesota's media day was today, Dallas's media day was Friday,
Speaker 1: but everybody else in the league media day is Monday.
Speaker 1: And now Portland has its deal and has its fresh start.
Speaker 1: But just just take us take us from there, I
Speaker 1: guess just I mean that was you have a lot
Speaker 1: of stunning stuff in here. But the fact that Dame
Speaker 1: actually offered to rescind the trade request and stay a
Speaker 1: Blazer for the short term to give them more time
Speaker 1: to make a trade, and the Blazers turn that down.
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, I mean it just got really ugly behind
Speaker 2: the scenes. And you know, a lot there was a
Speaker 2: lot of developments that happened throughout the course of this offseason,
Speaker 2: this journey, I should say, and I just couldn't bring
Speaker 2: it home at the time. But I will say to Dame, like, yes,
Speaker 2: he he made an effort to say, you know, he
Speaker 2: would rather resend his trade and come back if he
Speaker 2: was going to get traded to somewhere other than Miami.
Speaker 2: And he you know, he was shocked to hear that
Speaker 2: that wouldn't be allowed. And so with that being said,
Speaker 2: it's still like there was still we weren't hearing much
Speaker 2: traction from any other teams. You know, we heard, you know,
Speaker 2: we heard about Toronto and Minnesota. You know, there was
Speaker 2: there is some concern Utah could jump in, who else
Speaker 2: who else? South was out there talk Chicago, they were
Speaker 2: doing they were trying to feel around and so Dame
Speaker 2: thought like, look, okay, you know he's saying I might
Speaker 2: not be welcome back, but if they can't get a
Speaker 2: trade done, then I you know, I would rather go
Speaker 2: and do what I've always done this time of year,
Speaker 2: and that show up to the practice facility, you know,
Speaker 2: around this time, because this is the around the time
Speaker 2: where guys gather a few weeks before camp and they
Speaker 2: start during their their pre camp routine schedules of these
Speaker 2: are unofficial practices that take place. And so he went
Speaker 2: like a few days after It was like literally the
Speaker 2: next week, a few days after his meeting with Joe Crone,
Speaker 2: and he went to the facility and he went for
Speaker 2: eight days, and you know, you know, he told me
Speaker 2: that you know, people were excited to see him, and
Speaker 2: you know, he hasn't been at the facity in a while,
Speaker 2: and he had just got had his his new house built.
Speaker 2: It took a few years to build his house from
Speaker 2: from scratch and his house has his home actually has
Speaker 2: a full court, plush basketball gym in there, and so
Speaker 2: he's been working, you know, he spent the majority of
Speaker 2: the off season working at you know basketball while I
Speaker 2: was working in in his gym and his home and
Speaker 2: so he decided to go back to the practice practice City,
Speaker 2: and you know, he said everybody was receptive. Man. You know,
Speaker 2: he went in there for eight days and he said
Speaker 2: he saw Joe each and every day and he didn't
Speaker 2: say not one word to him during that time. So
Speaker 2: you know, he didn't know. And he has a quote
Speaker 2: in there in the story of him not knowing if
Speaker 2: they felt like he was trying to cause a commotion
Speaker 2: or whatever, but you know, he was just doing what
Speaker 2: he's been doing for you know, ten plus years already,
Speaker 2: and just going going into the facility getting ready because
Speaker 2: he didn't know where he was going to be. And
Speaker 2: so it just got to it. It just got to
Speaker 2: an ugly place, man. And it was unsad and fortunate
Speaker 2: to see it all come down to this. But there's
Speaker 2: a lots time. There's a lot in there. I forgot
Speaker 2: a lot of ship that that that's in the story.
Speaker 2: And so it's at the end of the day they
Speaker 2: had to pivot and think of other teams outside of Miami,
Speaker 2: and word trickled trickled out to my excuse me, word
Speaker 2: trickled out to Milwaukee that Dame would be receptive to
Speaker 2: going there if he was moved there and from there
Speaker 2: that's when the Bucks got on the move, and and
Speaker 2: that's what led us to to Dame and Johannest teaming up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just that's going to be a spectacular pairing.
Speaker 1: And you know, you've kind of talked about it a
Speaker 1: little bit that you know, these guys have huge appreciation
Speaker 1: for each other. They have talked about playing together, and
Speaker 1: I think you you reported earlier this week about how
Speaker 1: you know, Dame said well, why why can't we get
Speaker 1: you to Portland? And Giannis is like, well, why can't
Speaker 1: we get you to Milwaukee? And and it ends up
Speaker 1: being Milwaukee. I mean so so, I mean, you know
Speaker 1: I always call you the world's foremost damologist. Do you
Speaker 1: think he you think he's going to be good with
Speaker 1: this that that obviously Milwaukee is not South Beach, but
Speaker 1: he is going to get a chance to play for
Speaker 1: a championship with a guy.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be candid with you. I was on
Speaker 2: the phone with him when he got word he was
Speaker 2: going to Milwaukee, Like I was live on the phone
Speaker 2: with him and he was just really just speechless, you know,
Speaker 2: he he was he was saying, like I gotta wrap
Speaker 2: my mind around this. I gotta wrap my mind around
Speaker 2: That's that's what he kept saying. And he was talking
Speaker 2: about his kids. You know, you know, what is his
Speaker 2: kids going to do? Are they coming? Are they you know?
Speaker 2: You know, that's that was what he was thinking. And slowly,
Speaker 2: over time he started to think about the basketball side
Speaker 2: of it. He was like, yeah, this will be the
Speaker 2: the greatest team I've ever been a part of, you know,
Speaker 2: he was he was like talking himself through it, like
Speaker 2: it was really like he you know how it is
Speaker 2: like when you when you with somebody or are you're
Speaker 2: on the phone with somebody and they're just hit with
Speaker 2: this life's changing news and they're they're just they're just
Speaker 2: speechless for a minute, and you can tell they're just
Speaker 2: taking it all in. And that's what what I kind
Speaker 2: of caught. You know, I didn't I didn't catch them.
Speaker 2: We just happened to be on the phone at the time.
Speaker 2: And slowly, I will say so, I would say probably
Speaker 2: a few hours afterwards, you know, we were we were
Speaker 2: texting throughout and he was like, yeah, I'm still thinking
Speaker 2: I'm just informing a family, informing loved ones what's going on.
Speaker 2: But like as the day went on Star, he got
Speaker 2: more excited and more excited, man like, and I think
Speaker 2: I think what really got him to that point as well, Uh,
Speaker 2: he finally read a text from Jannis that said, let's
Speaker 2: fucking get this championship, you know, and so that like
Speaker 2: really got his juice is flowing right there, and you
Speaker 2: know he's ready, He's all in now. Like when it
Speaker 2: first happened, I didn't know how long that type of
Speaker 2: feeling he had. Initially, I didn't know how long that
Speaker 2: would last. But as he started, you know, he started
Speaker 2: talking about the roster and looking at you know, I
Speaker 2: was going over the roster with him at one point,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, damn, Like they got Brooke Portos. You know,
Speaker 2: they didn't they didn't really gut the team. You know,
Speaker 2: it's the team is intact, and you know, I forgot
Speaker 2: they got Malik Beasley out there. You know, Milik Bezy's
Speaker 2: our first our first player guests on our podcast, and
Speaker 2: so you know, he just started thinking looking at the roster.
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope, I hope Dame is the first
Speaker 1: player to do two interviews on this podcast. Look, I like,
Speaker 1: I love this move for Milwaukee and it is definitely risky.
Speaker 1: I mean, Drew Holliday is a fantastic player who you
Speaker 1: see the frenzy that his availability is now sparking with
Speaker 1: Portland fielding all kinds of interest because everybody knows the
Speaker 1: Blazers want to trade Drew Holliday now, and Milwaukee doesn't
Speaker 1: win a championship without him, and there's definitely going to
Speaker 1: be a hit on the perimeter defensively. But like this is,
Speaker 1: you know, Yannis has been so vocal this summer with
Speaker 1: the two interviews in the New York Times and then
Speaker 1: on the forty eight Minutes podcast, and he, you know,
Speaker 1: so openly kind of you know, put it to the
Speaker 1: Bucks that hey, guys, I need to see something. I
Speaker 1: need to see more. And they turn right around very
Speaker 1: quickly and make a trade for Damian Lillard. I mean,
Speaker 1: can I sit here and guarantee that it's going to work. No,
Speaker 1: But as you said, the Bucks still have a lot
Speaker 1: of defensive minded players on that team. This trade moves
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton to third Star rather than second Star, which
Speaker 1: I think helps him. But most of all, the Bucks
Speaker 1: are going to be able to no matter what happens,
Speaker 1: if this goes well, If if it doesn't if somehow
Speaker 1: Jannis still doesn't want to stay down the road whatever,
Speaker 1: But the Bucks are gonna be able to look their
Speaker 1: fans squarely in the face and say, we try to
Speaker 1: do everything to make Giannis happy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say this, so also take people behind
Speaker 2: the scenes. Jannis called me. So when the trade went down,
Speaker 2: I'm texting with Giannis and you know, we're texting back
Speaker 2: later on in the day, which was yesterday. Yesterday, he
Speaker 2: gives me a gives me a call, and he was like,
Speaker 2: I wish people could I wish I could play the audio.
Speaker 2: But he was really distraught about losing Drew, but very
Speaker 2: very excited about having Dame. So it's like that, it's
Speaker 2: like the emotions, you know, he described as bittersweet, and so, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, he just talked. He just talked really glowingly
Speaker 2: and favorably about the person first and foremost that Drew
Speaker 2: Holliday is, And he talked about the still that he
Speaker 2: had in Game five in the finals that helped them
Speaker 2: win their first championship, and how he's always going to
Speaker 2: be indebted to him. Say, he loves Drew, Drew loves
Speaker 2: his family, He love everything he stands for and so
Speaker 2: he's really caught in a tough place there because yes,
Speaker 2: the honesty, you know, he did have words out. They're
Speaker 2: kind to illustrating the need for the Bucks to continue
Speaker 2: to try to improve the roster if they want to
Speaker 2: keep him, and you know, in doing so, you know
Speaker 2: you're going to you're gonna lose, there's gonna be collateral damage,
Speaker 2: You're gonna lose key pieces. And Drew Holliday is one
Speaker 2: of those guys. And you know then he then he
Speaker 2: goes into Dame and saying like, you know, Dame's going
Speaker 2: to be spread the floor and you know, the pick
Speaker 2: and roll game. So he you know, it was tough
Speaker 2: for you, honest too. It was very tough for honest
Speaker 2: too because you know he had those public comments and
Speaker 2: then this happens, and you know, you lose a great
Speaker 2: player and a greater person two to get Damian Lillard.
Speaker 2: So tough, tough situation all the way around.
Speaker 1: But I have this quote here, I've got your piece open.
Speaker 1: Here's here's what you quote.
Speaker 2: Hold on Stein, Oh no, no, no, no, no, Stein.
Speaker 2: If you're going to read this, read this verbatim. I
Speaker 2: want you to read every single words STI every single
Speaker 2: word love to get me in trouble, man, you could
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: Drew is my fucking brother for life. I love his family,
Speaker 1: I love him, I appreciate him. I wish him nothing
Speaker 1: but the best. He blessed me with a fucking championship.
Speaker 1: Antetokumpo told b R he's the one who made that
Speaker 1: huge steal in Game five of the finals. I went
Speaker 1: to battle with him multiple times. Fuck basketball, Fuck the media. Shit.
Speaker 1: This guy is my brother for life, and it's always
Speaker 1: going to be like that. He's going to thrive wherever
Speaker 1: he ends up and then he continues. Now. At the
Speaker 1: same time, I'm excited to have Dame. He gives us
Speaker 1: a chance to win a championship. I'm excited to play
Speaker 1: with the caliber player that he is. He can score
Speaker 1: the ball in his sleep and shoot the lights out.
Speaker 1: It's a bittersweet day for the city of Milwaukee. You
Speaker 1: get Dame, who is a great player, but you lose
Speaker 1: a great guy. Drew took us to the promised Land.
Speaker 1: I'm ten years in now, I know it's of business.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, Drew will always be
Speaker 1: my brother for life. He's one of the best human
Speaker 1: beings I've ever been around, but we've got to focus
Speaker 1: on the goal to win a championship. Dame wants this,
Speaker 1: he's hungry to win, and he's going to push us.
Speaker 1: I'm very happy to have him on our team. I
Speaker 1: actually want to see if you would expound. You had
Speaker 1: a tweet right after the trade about Giannis in a
Speaker 1: barbershop in Fresno, and I I know more of that story,
Speaker 1: but I don't think the audience knows that story. So
Speaker 1: can you kind of tell that.
Speaker 2: Stun I think no, I told that story here on
Speaker 2: this podcast.
Speaker 1: You don't want to retell that whole story.
Speaker 2: I can, so this would this would be the off
Speaker 2: you know, the off season the Bucks are eliminated and
Speaker 2: every summer, so for full transparency, Gianni's fiance is my cousin.
Speaker 2: That's my blood cousin, Mariah. She's from Fresno like I am.
Speaker 2: You know, they have beautiful kids. You know, those are
Speaker 2: my cousins. So every summer, Jannis takes a trip to
Speaker 2: Fresno and spends time with the family down there. And
Speaker 2: I got a phone call from one of my partners
Speaker 2: who was at Phase two barbershop in Fresno. It's a
Speaker 2: popular barbershop. We have in Fresno. It's been there for years, decades,
Speaker 2: a few decades, and Yannis Yannis went there. Uh, my
Speaker 2: cousin took Giannis up in there, and my partner who
Speaker 2: told me that he was there, was just raving about
Speaker 2: how Giannis was just saying like giving them like great stories,
Speaker 2: like just being free and open and transparent about how
Speaker 2: he feels about what he's looking for, you know, in
Speaker 2: a team and who he wants to play play for
Speaker 2: and play with or like he was being transparent and
Speaker 2: I'm not even going to say some of the stuff
Speaker 2: that he said because it was off the record. You know,
Speaker 2: no cameras were in there, so props to uh to
Speaker 2: the people that were getting haircuts with keeping keeping their
Speaker 2: phones uh in their pockets. But one thing, one thing
Speaker 2: for sure. He was asked like if is there one
Speaker 2: player that he would like to play with that he
Speaker 2: hasn't played with before, and without hesitation, he said, Damien Lilok.
Speaker 2: So you know that that you know? And then look,
Speaker 2: you know they they brought this up on social media.
Speaker 2: I think it was what was this past this past
Speaker 2: draft All Star? Yeah, this All Star game, Joannis made
Speaker 2: Dame the number one pick over his teammates Drew Holliday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which because I'm I can't even remember yesterday, so
Speaker 1: of course I did forget all that and now that
Speaker 1: was that was, that was, it was right there in
Speaker 1: front of us, and we we we didn't realize it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so this has been going on going on
Speaker 2: for a minute. But no he he he. He revealed
Speaker 2: that in a barbershop with about ten people in that shop.
Speaker 1: And so I shouldn't meddle people, I should not meddle
Speaker 1: into your writing life, but I can't resist. Someday I
Speaker 1: would love to read when I want to read Chris
Speaker 1: Haynes and Joannis. I want to read a day in
Speaker 1: the I want to read a story, a day diary
Speaker 1: of you guys in Fresno, because that's the thing I
Speaker 1: think people are like, why is and Fresno?
Speaker 2: I kid you not, so Stein, this was about seven
Speaker 2: years ago, I kid you, not about seven years ago.
Speaker 2: I'm covering the Portland Trailblazer at one point and then
Speaker 2: leave they're in the playoffs. The high school I went
Speaker 2: to is Edison High School, where same high school as
Speaker 2: your good pal Bruce Bowen. Yes, indeed so so Edison State.
Speaker 2: Yes that that Bruce Bowen, So, Edison High School is
Speaker 2: on the west side of Fresno, which is the roughest
Speaker 2: side of town in Fresno. So just for background, So
Speaker 2: my dad, who's not you know, he doesn't keep up
Speaker 2: with things that well with what's going on in the
Speaker 2: news and things, so a lot of times when he
Speaker 2: brings things up, I have to clarify and and tell
Speaker 2: him what's really going on. So I just know I'm
Speaker 2: covering a playoff series and my dad gives me a call.
Speaker 2: I pick up and I'm like, what's up? Dad? He said, Hey,
Speaker 2: the Greek freak is at Edison High School? And I'm like, what, Dad,
Speaker 2: what's wrong with you? Like I'm mad, and like I'm
Speaker 2: almost about to hang up on my dad because I'm
Speaker 2: like I'm busy, Like I got like, why is the
Speaker 2: Greek freak at Edison High School in Fresno? Like what
Speaker 2: is the point? What is he talking about? Like, the
Speaker 2: Greek freak is at Edison? I saw him? Like, Dad,
Speaker 2: you saw some other tall dude. You didn't see no
Speaker 2: Jannis after Coupo and Fresno at Edison High School? Stop it?
Speaker 2: So I hung up. I dismissed it and about a
Speaker 2: month later, I was was it Vegas? I don't know,
Speaker 2: but I saw Mariah. You know, Mariah used to work
Speaker 2: at Mariah used to work for the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
Speaker 2: She used to work in their media relations department. And
Speaker 2: I would get a customer meeting up with her in Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: you know, saying, you know, when I get there on
Speaker 2: the road, we'll catch up or whatever. And then she
Speaker 2: never told me one thing. Last thing. That first thing
Speaker 2: I heard her dad Pat, which is my that's my
Speaker 2: first cousin, her dad. So, yeah, Mariah moved to Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what, her dad's the one that told me.
Speaker 2: So then they just hit I'm like, hold on, she
Speaker 2: really is. She's she's what Yanna Yes sees what Yanna's
Speaker 2: Chris like wow, just wow. So that's how that all.
Speaker 2: That's how all transpired. Man. So uh yeah, I have
Speaker 2: yet to actually, I have yet to be in Fresno
Speaker 2: the same time has been there ever since. They've been
Speaker 2: a good I have yet to be there at the
Speaker 2: scien time.
Speaker 1: The city can't handle that much stardom at once.
Speaker 2: Oh that's that's a lot. That's its bell can handle
Speaker 2: it with just me. That's that's a lot stun.
Speaker 1: So. All right, back to your story here, So, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: the first quote you run is, you know, is a
Speaker 1: headline in itself. I mean, for one, Dame wrote an
Speaker 1: incredible thank you letter to the city of Portland and
Speaker 1: to fans. You gotta you have to read the whole thing.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, it's everybody. It's eight screen
Speaker 1: shots long. And uh, you know, I actually tweeted the
Speaker 1: last line because you know, it was a beautifully written line. Quote.
Speaker 1: I do believe a day will come where I put
Speaker 1: on a Blazer's uniform again, on again, and hopefully by
Speaker 1: then I'll be forgiven, Dame says, for breaking your hearts
Speaker 1: along with my own. So I mean he knows that he's,
Speaker 1: you know, disappointed a lot of Blazers fans by leaving.
Speaker 1: But I mean, look this, this quote in your story again,
Speaker 1: the first quote, this is from Dame again, first quote
Speaker 1: to you. How this summer played out behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: Definitely definitely left a sour taste in my mouth, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't change and doesn't change the amazing experiences I've
Speaker 1: had with the Trailblazers and this city. I'll always cherish,
Speaker 1: cherish this place. This is my home. I'll always live
Speaker 1: here regardless. So I mean, he's he's referring there in
Speaker 1: the beginning to just the way this all went down.
Speaker 1: Your story details over and over about how the Blazers
Speaker 1: they just would not engage Miami. They were not going
Speaker 1: to trade Dame to the team he wanted to be
Speaker 1: traded to. That's and look, that's their right as a
Speaker 1: team that you know Dame was under contract, they can
Speaker 1: do whatever they want to do when that's the scenario.
Speaker 1: Dame did extensions. In the NBA, you can only get
Speaker 1: a no trade clause if you have eight years in
Speaker 1: the league for with the same team. But and this
Speaker 1: is a huge disclaimer, you have to have a new
Speaker 1: contract and negotiate the no trade clause into a new contract.
Speaker 1: Dame always did extensions, so a no trade clause could
Speaker 1: not be added to his contract extensions and thus he
Speaker 1: didn't have one. So he was hoping that after eleven
Speaker 1: years with one team, that the Blazers would send him
Speaker 1: where he wanted to go. It didn't go down like that.
Speaker 1: You obviously have lived in Portland, You've covered the Blazers
Speaker 1: from close range. You know that area. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: how do you think what's the reaction going to be
Speaker 1: there to some of these things that you've revealed in
Speaker 1: this piece.
Speaker 2: Mix you up. I'll look, I don't look on social media,
Speaker 2: well social media talk about Twitter or what is it
Speaker 2: called X. I don't look on X like I used
Speaker 2: to anymore. I used to devote a lot of time
Speaker 2: scrolling through. So I don't really know what the the
Speaker 2: mood is. But there are people that I follow, and
Speaker 2: you know, I get notifications when they respond to a tweet,
Speaker 2: and so I've kind of checked out the vibe and
Speaker 2: the narrative in the field since that story has gotten out,
Speaker 2: And you know, it's a mixed mixed, a mixed bag.
Speaker 2: I guess you know another thing. And you know you
Speaker 2: talked about Dames, Stan, you talk about Dames. Thank you
Speaker 2: letter Man. He thanked everybody, everybody. He named all the
Speaker 2: beat writers in Portland. He the training staff, people behind
Speaker 2: the scenes with the team that people wouldn't even know
Speaker 2: their names like he he this is really thoughtful and
Speaker 2: he worked a long time on it, and I was
Speaker 2: waiting for him to drop that. Even Thank Neil O'sha
Speaker 2: who was the former GM who got fired a few
Speaker 2: years ago. For cause, and you know they didn't have
Speaker 2: the best relationship. You know, towards the end of O'sheat's
Speaker 2: tenure with the Portland Troublazer, he even thanked him. He
Speaker 2: did not think however, Joe Cronin and you know, even
Speaker 2: in my story, you know, he taught to you know,
Speaker 2: again I mentioned Ray, but he was at the facility
Speaker 2: and Joe, Joe wouldn't didn't address him, didn't say anything
Speaker 2: to him. You know. Also in my story, and this
Speaker 2: has gotten some attention. You know, he was he was
Speaker 2: asked to sit out the final ten games of the
Speaker 2: regular season last year to help the team improve their
Speaker 2: draft odds. Dame doesn't like sitting out, that's not him.
Speaker 1: Well, that's going to get a lot of attention. I'm
Speaker 1: real curious to see what the league does with that,
Speaker 1: because that is you know, teams are always you know,
Speaker 1: accused of sitting guys to tank at the end of
Speaker 1: the season. Obviously, we had the situation in Dallas where
Speaker 1: you know, the MAVs were dinged seven hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand for what happened in their last few games of
Speaker 1: the season when you know, basically they held out a
Speaker 1: slew of guys on it from the second to last
Speaker 1: game of the season because they were clearly trying at
Speaker 1: that point to hold on to the number ten pick,
Speaker 1: which they did hold on to and was a huge
Speaker 1: part of their draftne And look, the reality is Portland
Speaker 1: has done this two years in a row, two years
Speaker 1: in a row. After the All Star Break, they've they've
Speaker 1: taken this course to try to play for a pick.
Speaker 1: And but but your story is shining a major spotlight
Speaker 1: on it with that passage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, multiple teams operate like that.
Speaker 1: Yep, no question. It's by no means just Portland, just Dallas.
Speaker 1: But all I'm saying is the league when it's when
Speaker 1: when a spotlight gets on a situation, that's typically when
Speaker 1: the league feels the need to step in. So I
Speaker 1: wonder you know, and I'm trying to scroll here to
Speaker 1: get to this here. This is what you wrote. This
Speaker 1: is this is in Chris's peace. According to sources, Portland
Speaker 1: had asked Lillard to sit out the final ten games
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty two to twenty three regular season
Speaker 1: to help the franchise improve its lottery odds. He was
Speaker 1: told the higher the draft pick, the better chance they
Speaker 1: had using the pick to facilitate a trade for a
Speaker 1: proven veteran player. He reluctantly acquiesced to being shut down,
Speaker 1: citing a quote calf injury end quote. Portland went one
Speaker 1: to nine to finish the season and would go on
Speaker 1: to win the number three pick and select Scoot Henderson,
Speaker 1: a promising young point guard the team planned to keep.
Speaker 1: So again, when it when it is spotlighted in that manner,
Speaker 1: I don't think we've heard the last of this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. But it's just that I
Speaker 2: think covering, you know, covering the Portland Trail Blazers and
Speaker 2: covering Damian Lillard. You know, he's arguably regarded as you know,
Speaker 2: the the best Trailblazer of all time, and not just
Speaker 2: talent wise or even even accomplishment wise, just what he
Speaker 2: meant to that organization. He repped them like no other
Speaker 2: player has repped that city, in that organization, and he
Speaker 2: wanted and the things start. The thing that hurts with
Speaker 2: him is, you know, his his words are genuine, they're real.
Speaker 2: He wanted to win there. He did everything he could
Speaker 2: to try to recruit some of the best players out there.
Speaker 2: He just could not get players to come to Portland
Speaker 2: like he tried. He tried, you know, just think, you know,
Speaker 2: think about Yiannis. Somebody like Giannis Yannis wanted to play.
Speaker 2: Dame was the guy he really wanted to play with.
Speaker 2: You know, had they been in a in another city,
Speaker 2: some other attractive market, they they probably would have connected
Speaker 2: somewhere else. But it was just it was hard, and
Speaker 2: Dame didn't mind it being hard. He wanted to stick
Speaker 2: it through all he All he asked was that the
Speaker 2: organization tries to do what they can to have that
Speaker 2: same level of commitment to reach the promise land that
Speaker 2: he had. And over the last couple of years, he
Speaker 2: you know, he finally realized that they weren't on the
Speaker 2: same page. And so that's what and I brought all
Speaker 2: that stuff up about the you know, him sitting out
Speaker 2: the regular season and you know, with the promise that
Speaker 2: they would use that that pick that high picked to
Speaker 2: go after a veteran guy, which they did, and they
Speaker 2: they kind of told everyone right away that they were
Speaker 2: keeping that pick. So you know, that's why he felt mislayed.
Speaker 2: And that's what, you know, a culmination of those things
Speaker 2: of what led to him asking out in the first place.
Speaker 1: So in my story today, which wasn't even a fraction
Speaker 1: as good as yours, but I did earlier today kind
Speaker 1: of try to break down the trade in terms of
Speaker 1: looking at the five teams that I most closely associated
Speaker 1: with this trade. Obviously, you've got the three that actually
Speaker 1: did the trade, Milwaukee, Portland, and Phoenix. And then the
Speaker 1: two teams who were the most talked about suitors until
Speaker 1: Dame actually landed in Milwaukee, and that would be Miami,
Speaker 1: the team he wanted to go to, and then Toronto,
Speaker 1: which their interest in Dame has it really did generate
Speaker 1: the most media coverage over the past week until the
Speaker 1: actual trade came to fruition. So in that piece, I wrote,
Speaker 1: and I'm certainly I don't think I'm the only one
Speaker 1: saying this, that Portland will be judged on how it
Speaker 1: really did in this trade. I think we have to
Speaker 1: see what happens with Drew Holliday and what they get
Speaker 1: for holiday to fully gauge the package and you know
Speaker 1: how much what kind of you know, we need to
Speaker 1: know the full return before we can we can try
Speaker 1: to grade what they've done here. But look, Dame himself,
Speaker 1: in his in his thank you farewell said you know,
Speaker 1: he acknowledges that he he definitely broke some hearts in
Speaker 1: Rip City by asking to be traded and trying to
Speaker 1: get to Miami. And you know, he asked the question,
Speaker 1: will he will you know, will he be forgiven? He will? Right?
Speaker 1: I mean Blazers fans will, I mean, they will get
Speaker 1: past this, don't you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, time, time, heels, time hills, all wounds, that's part
Speaker 2: of it, you know. I mean it's rare that a
Speaker 2: franchise player stays with that team the duration of his
Speaker 2: career is rare.
Speaker 1: But you know me, I'm a bas I'm a basketball
Speaker 1: romantic who roots, who roots for these things. So I
Speaker 1: mean I did, I really did. I would have loved
Speaker 1: to have seen it worked out and that he could
Speaker 1: have stayed there and you know, tried to try to
Speaker 1: win that championship there. But I mean the situation he's
Speaker 1: going to, I mean, is is is as fascinating as
Speaker 1: it gets it.
Speaker 2: You know, I told him Stein, I was like, man, like, yes,
Speaker 2: I know you won in Miami and for many ways,
Speaker 2: for many, for many reasons, I won in Miami.
Speaker 1: To yeah, you are going to get your You're going
Speaker 1: to get your little new apartment in on South Beach.
Speaker 1: And now are you are you gonna become a part
Speaker 1: Are you becoming a part time Milwaukee resident? Is that
Speaker 1: part of this trade?
Speaker 2: I'll say this. I'll be in Milwaukee this weekend. I'll
Speaker 2: say that.
Speaker 1: So are you? Have you switched to Bucks Media Day?
Speaker 2: Now? Yes?
Speaker 1: Bucks me break news. Chris Haynes is covering Bucks. What
Speaker 1: were you supposed to do initially?
Speaker 2: Lakers?
Speaker 1: Look at that. That's the big that's Thursday's trade, Lakers
Speaker 1: media day for Bucks Media Day, Chris Haynes.
Speaker 2: I gotta be there. I gotta be there. You know,
Speaker 2: we weren't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't blame you before.
Speaker 2: So we had about we had about you know, we
Speaker 2: had about seven reporters all dispersed out to the I
Speaker 2: would say, probably what the juiciest what's going to be
Speaker 2: the juiciest media days? You know, whether that storylines or
Speaker 2: just star players that you have to go cover. We
Speaker 2: didn't have Milwaukee. We were not scheduled to be in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: And so when really, even even after all all of
Speaker 1: Giannis's comments this.
Speaker 2: This summer, no, well, yeah we weren't. Yeah, we were
Speaker 2: not scheduled. We weren't scheduled to be in Milwaukee. So
Speaker 2: I've been reassigned. So I tell you so, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't want to give too much because you know
Speaker 2: that I don't think that would be right. But there's
Speaker 2: a team that's going to get left out this equation,
Speaker 2: and I have a pretty good idea what team that's
Speaker 2: going to be. So I'll say this so before I'll
Speaker 2: probably get myself in trouble. It was so well, I
Speaker 2: I was gonna I didn't give it too much, but uh,
Speaker 2: you know, we were going to be in Memphis, Sacramento, Philly, Lakers, Sons,
Speaker 2: Golden State, Boston. Those are the teams. So out of
Speaker 2: those teams, who do you think is probably getting getting
Speaker 2: yanked now that I'm going from l A to Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: It's Memphis, Memphis, Sack, Philly, Boston Lakers, and who else?
Speaker 2: War Warriors, Sacramento.
Speaker 1: I already had sacriment and and and yeah, the defending champs.
Speaker 1: You probably need to cover Denver Warriors, Memphis, I'm gonna sack, Philly,
Speaker 1: Boston Lakers. I'm gonna say Sack is gonna get bumped off.
Speaker 2: I don't know your.
Speaker 1: Hometown Kings oh Man, Is Mike Brown gonna be upset?
Speaker 1: Mike Brown is not. Mike Brown is going to be
Speaker 1: downloading this pod Friday morning. He is going to be
Speaker 1: calling you.
Speaker 2: I was with Mike yesterday. Last night we went with
Speaker 2: a comedy.
Speaker 1: So last night I'm not liking the King's chances. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. Let's let's talk about the basketball for
Speaker 1: a second. Mhm. Is Milwaukee the favorites in the East?
Speaker 1: Now they are?
Speaker 2: For me? Yeah, favorites in the East? Yeah, for sure?
Speaker 2: For sure. Stein he didn't it didn't lose my much.
Speaker 2: They didn't. They didn't. They didn't. You know, you can
Speaker 2: make the case they didn't lose much at all. You know,
Speaker 2: Like Dame is ready, like Dame is going to be
Speaker 2: And it's crazy, I noticed to be true, but to
Speaker 2: hear Dame tell me, you know, it's in the story,
Speaker 2: you know, to have a He's he's thrilled to have
Speaker 2: the opportunity to play with somebody better than him. And
Speaker 2: I've never heard him say that before. Like, and we know,
Speaker 2: you know, Giannie is a two times or three time
Speaker 2: MVP two time Believe right, two times in.
Speaker 1: Two time regular season, one time in the.
Speaker 2: Final Yeah, and you know, I mean, you know that stuff,
Speaker 2: but it's like it kind of really hits you, like Dame, like, dang,
Speaker 2: this is something different. And so no, they're the favorites, man,
Speaker 2: and Dame is going to spread that floor. They're going
Speaker 2: to have so much room to operate. Yannest is going
Speaker 2: to be able to do his thing, Chris Milton's going
Speaker 2: to get so many open shots. It's going to it's
Speaker 2: going to be chaos. It's going to be chaos. They're
Speaker 2: definitely the favorites in the East and too, I would
Speaker 2: I would say probably even the favorites in the entire league.
Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean, they're losing Holiday is going to
Speaker 1: be a big blow and there's no question that that's
Speaker 1: going to change this team in a dramatic way. But
Speaker 1: I I am a believer that what Dame brings offensively,
Speaker 1: how dynamic he is offensively, is going to offset some
Speaker 1: of what they're losing defensively, because that that's thing. Giannis
Speaker 1: and Dame are going to co carry this team and
Speaker 1: neither one has ever had that opportunity to co carry
Speaker 1: a team, and that should make them incredibly dangerous. And
Speaker 1: when when the Bucks have flamed out in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Offense grind you know, offense in the grindy conditions of
Speaker 1: playoff bastball. That's been the problem.
Speaker 2: Yep, you're right right.
Speaker 1: And Philly, Philly, with Harden still there, crazy uncertain what
Speaker 1: we're gonna see out of the Sixers. Miami, they didn't
Speaker 1: trade for Bradley Beal. They we were told at the
Speaker 1: time they were saving all their best chips for Lillard.
Speaker 1: They didn't get Dame Lillard. Now the Heat will tell
Speaker 1: you they didn't have a chance to get Dame Lillard,
Speaker 1: and Dame's agent Aaron Goodwin has gone on record is
Speaker 1: basically saying the Heat didn't even have a chance to
Speaker 1: properly negotiate. But whatever the circumstances, the Heat have lost
Speaker 1: Gay Vincent, they've lost Max Strus, and they weren't able
Speaker 1: to make a big trade. They've taken a step back.
Speaker 1: And Boston there's a lot of uncertainty, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of They they made a bold move too
Speaker 1: to bring in Porzingis, but moving on from Marcus Smart
Speaker 1: and Grant Williams, you know they're gonna be going through
Speaker 1: a transition too. So the East is there for Milwaukee's
Speaker 1: taking for sure.
Speaker 2: For sure, I'm excited to see it all, excited to
Speaker 2: see that all play. And obviously, you know that's Dame
Speaker 2: is my guy. I'm very happy for him. And that's
Speaker 2: what I was trying to say early on, is you know,
Speaker 2: I know, you know, I told him, I know Miami
Speaker 2: was your your spot, but you probably ended up in
Speaker 2: the best scenario possible. When you're talking about just basketball,
Speaker 2: that team, from top to bottom, they are stacked great
Speaker 2: role players, Jay Crowder, Malik Beasley, Bobby Portis, you know,
Speaker 2: you got the Lopez Twins, like Chris Miller, like this
Speaker 2: is a you know, he teams back up with his
Speaker 2: former teammate pet Conneton you know who started off in Portland.
Speaker 2: They're going to be really good, really really good. And
Speaker 2: so I'm happy that he's going to have the opportunity
Speaker 2: to actually play on the big stage.
Speaker 1: Let's talk before we go, and look, this is just
Speaker 1: podcast one of this is this is a trade with
Speaker 1: so many, such far reaching impact. We're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about this trade for months and in different ways. And look,
Speaker 1: if you're I mean you're going to Milwaukee, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: want to hear all about that trip as soon as
Speaker 1: soon as we can pin you down in a corner
Speaker 1: after that one, because you're going right to you know
Speaker 1: you're going to be there from from day one of
Speaker 1: that thing. Like we said Portland, we got to take
Speaker 1: a step back and it'll be easier to assess how
Speaker 1: the Blazers did in this trade when we know exactly
Speaker 1: what they get for Drew Holiday. So let's look at Phoenix,
Speaker 1: a team that you know very well. How do you
Speaker 1: you know Phoenix's involvement here to ship out Ayton, to
Speaker 1: bring in use of Nurkics, to basically turn aighton into
Speaker 1: three or four contracts to address their depth. What do
Speaker 1: you think about what the Suns did here in participating
Speaker 1: in this?
Speaker 2: And didn't we do a pod? Uh? You know I'm
Speaker 2: getting old. I'm forty two now. We did a part.
Speaker 2: We did a pod on Phoenix's potential involvement last week?
Speaker 2: Did we not? Man? Did we we are click at
Speaker 2: allso of this stuff?
Speaker 1: I don't think I think you are. I think I
Speaker 1: think you imagine this.
Speaker 2: Maybe you saw last episode.
Speaker 1: Producer, Ryan, did we talk at length about Phoenix jumping
Speaker 1: into this? I don't think we did this?
Speaker 2: Ryan, Our producer.
Speaker 1: Last episode, No, last episode was the Tylu interview.
Speaker 2: Prior to that was the last episode Wow.
Speaker 1: Prior to that it was you did a little bit
Speaker 1: on the Yannis reaction, and then before that it was
Speaker 1: Mark Spears. I think, I think, I think, I think
Speaker 1: this was one of your many media appearances away from
Speaker 1: this podcast.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't do many appearances outside.
Speaker 1: I saw a Sacramento radio station got you on the
Speaker 1: air recently.
Speaker 2: Was that? Yeah, I did. I did do that? You
Speaker 2: got me there? Did I say anything about that there? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I did. I did. That's what it was. I talked
Speaker 2: about it there. Okay, so Phoenix was thank you, producer, Ryan.
Speaker 2: You know, when you got two old heads up here,
Speaker 2: sometimes the youngsters have to jump in and remind us
Speaker 2: where we left off.
Speaker 1: At one old head and one senior citizen.
Speaker 2: Oh man, oh speaking of senior citizens, Din, just realize, man,
Speaker 2: you know, I've been playing basketball four days a week.
Speaker 2: I'm in two basketball leagues. My left knee has been
Speaker 2: killing me over the past month, and I'm not good
Speaker 2: with going in getting checked, but it's just it been
Speaker 2: killing me. I mean, it's not like really stopping me
Speaker 2: one hundred percent from doing what I gotta do. But
Speaker 2: it's just pain I gotta go through. I've never had
Speaker 2: a surgery, never had anything like that before. So I
Speaker 2: decided to get checked out this week, get the knee
Speaker 2: X ray. I thought I was gonna need an mri
Speaker 2: X ray. Revealed that I've lost cartilage in my left
Speaker 2: knee and I'm experiencing our for arthritis and it's not
Speaker 2: bone to bone in that left and I have a
Speaker 2: little bit of cartless left. And he said, he said,
Speaker 2: what you can do? He says, really nothing you can
Speaker 2: do to repair it, but you can go get those
Speaker 2: PRP injections or stem cell injections or get steroid injections.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, wow, this is what has come to
Speaker 2: and so I'm actually thinking start. He was like, So
Speaker 2: I called Jared Jefferies, you know who is a works
Speaker 2: in the front office of the different Nuggets. I covered
Speaker 2: him in Portland because I remember he got PRP injection
Speaker 2: when he was in Portland. And so I'm on the
Speaker 2: phone with him and I was like, Hey, what would
Speaker 2: you recommend? He said, no, get the stem cell injection.
Speaker 2: He's like, you make enough money where you can go
Speaker 2: to Europe and go get that and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: so how much does that cost? He said about fifteen
Speaker 2: twenty thousand. I'm like, man, you I'm like, you crazy man,
Speaker 2: And then I start thinking I'm crazy, Like I'm actually
Speaker 2: thinking I'm athlete, Like this is like this procedure is
Speaker 2: necessary for me.
Speaker 1: You need to get you need you need to go
Speaker 1: to Germany and get one of these. Well, don't you
Speaker 1: want to bring don't you want to bring the media
Speaker 1: game back? This summer? You didn't bring the you didn't
Speaker 1: bring the media game back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's that's that's I can. I can tolerate
Speaker 2: in the game once a year, you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 2: I'm actually really contemplating going to Mexico or going to
Speaker 2: Germany to get some type of procedure as if I
Speaker 2: got to play eighty two games.
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna do a pod on that too
Speaker 1: if you do that. But yeah, you before you answer
Speaker 1: this son's question, can you still dunk?
Speaker 2: Yes? I can still dunk. I can still do just.
Speaker 1: Making sure just making sure that half, making sure that
Speaker 1: half of this podcast duo can still throw one down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll prove it to you if you need be.
Speaker 2: But yeah, with the Suns like they were waiting for
Speaker 2: the Portland trail Blazers contacted them a few weeks ago,
Speaker 2: might have been a little bit earlier than that, and
Speaker 2: they threw out different scenarios of of what they might
Speaker 2: be able to give Phoenix in return for DeAndre Ayton,
Speaker 2: and Phoenix was always they were always, i would say,
Speaker 2: looking to n load Ayton, but they were very open
Speaker 2: to moving Ayden, and they just felt like a use
Speaker 2: of Nurkic bringing him on board because he's a guy
Speaker 2: who who can initiate the offense from the top of
Speaker 2: the key, dribble hand off, you know, give you pick,
Speaker 2: could be nice, big screens at the top, one of
Speaker 2: the greatest screener, one of the greatest screeners we have
Speaker 2: in this league. It's very underrated skill that he has
Speaker 2: and nobody really knows about him, and he just works
Speaker 2: well with better players. And eighton is a guy who
Speaker 2: is looking to to continue ascending in his talents in
Speaker 2: the skill set once more of a role, and I
Speaker 2: don't think he's going to get that. And I think
Speaker 2: the Suns felt like they didn't know if Ayton will
Speaker 2: would accept favorably a more diminished role that centered primarily
Speaker 2: on the defensive end. And so but one thing I know, Phoenix,
Speaker 2: they they are they did want a point guard. I
Speaker 2: know Phoenix gave Portland a list of names that would
Speaker 2: suffice because they were they were not going to do
Speaker 2: a Nurkic for Aydon swap. They wanted other pieces in return.
Speaker 2: And so you know, I don't think Phoenix is done,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to find that backup point guard. That's
Speaker 2: that's still something they lack on that squad. But I
Speaker 2: was told that Phoenix was very interested in Kyle Lowry
Speaker 2: and and I think that's why Dame always held out
Speaker 2: hope that Portland at last minute will go back to
Speaker 2: Miami with some potential offer on the table. And that
Speaker 2: is something that was seeing Kyle Lowry to Phoenix, Phoenix
Speaker 2: give Ayton to Portland, Nurkis to whatever, and so it
Speaker 2: just never panned out. But no, I like to move.
Speaker 2: You know, I know Nurk is happy to be. He
Speaker 2: loves the sun, and so I know that guy really good.
Speaker 2: He loves the sun. So you get a lot of
Speaker 2: sun in Phoenix, So I know I know he's ecstatic
Speaker 2: about that opportunity.
Speaker 1: All right, Everyone, like I said this is just our
Speaker 1: first kind of look at this massive, massive trade. That
Speaker 1: because again, because Chris Haynes is the world's foremost damologist,
Speaker 1: this is by no means the last time that we're
Speaker 1: going to put this trade and it's zillions of angles
Speaker 1: under the microscope. We're gonna keep talking about it, keep
Speaker 1: looking at it. And Yeah, if Chris Hanes is going
Speaker 1: to Milwaukee for the first you know, the first, the
Speaker 1: very first words of the Honest and Dame era, I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm already curious about what you will
Speaker 1: learn and hear on that trip.
Speaker 2: He's going to be I'm actually going to go a
Speaker 2: little bit earlier now. So the books announced that they're
Speaker 2: having a welcome rally, right yeah, on Saturday, and so
Speaker 2: you'll be.
Speaker 1: There for that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna be there for that.
Speaker 1: Go to Carsons for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I went. I went the last time I was there.
Speaker 2: And you like phenomenal, phenomenal, steak phenomenal, you know through
Speaker 2: your mouth.
Speaker 1: Go to Carsons. Text me a picture. I will be jealous.
Speaker 1: I love Milwaukee, I really do. It's one of my
Speaker 1: It's one of my sleeper cities. Yes, growing I always
Speaker 1: have a good time when I go to Milwaukee. All right, everyone,
Speaker 1: like I said, that does it for this edition of
Speaker 1: this league uncut. But the season is basically here. All
Speaker 1: thirty teams will be back to work as a Monday day,
Speaker 1: so we will be back to our twice a week
Speaker 1: podcast frequency very very soon, and you will be getting
Speaker 1: all kinds of stories about Chris's travel, Chris's knees, Chris's
Speaker 1: rec league stats, which I'm going to be working to obtain.
Speaker 2: Let's keep it at knee style, knee singular not plural.
Speaker 2: Don't say knees.
Speaker 1: Are you playing well? Are you at least playing well?
Speaker 2: Sty I just finished a league in which I averaged
Speaker 2: twenty three points a game in this league? How many
Speaker 2: say it will man?
Speaker 1: How many assists?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll give my five or six assists, you know
Speaker 2: what the yeah, I'll look for my teammates. I look
Speaker 2: for my teammates. Stein, But it really hit me Steyn,
Speaker 2: like I'm really I'm facing a little bit of depression
Speaker 2: because there's only there's only so much longer that I
Speaker 2: have left to dunk the ball. And I really like that,
Speaker 2: I really hold that dearly to be able to I've
Speaker 2: been doing. I've been dunking the ball since I was fifteen. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can't dunk it like I used to anymore. But
Speaker 2: time is catching up. Starn timeout a time. It captures everybody,
Speaker 2: and right now it has my need.
Speaker 1: Man, you are all over the place, all right. I
Speaker 1: think we did it. This was a good first effort
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