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Speaker 1: Good morning, Swold, and welcome to the No Dunks podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Athletic Network of Fine Network. It's Tuesday, September

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Speaker 1: twenty first. I'm j E. Skeets here in the yard

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Speaker 1: and joining me today to shoot the shit. You may

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Speaker 1: have seen his incredible quotes in the latest Business Insider

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Speaker 1: article It is the international man of mystery taking it

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Speaker 1: to the max.

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Speaker 2: Leels, I think it's only September twenty today.

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Speaker 1: I thought you think you said, oh, yes, great, start

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Speaker 1: here in the yard. This is what happens when JD's

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Speaker 1: not around. I believe he's still in Canada. I think

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Speaker 1: he's getting some passports figured out.

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Speaker 2: If I remember, always has an adventure when he guys

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Speaker 2: to Canada. So will well hear all about it?

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, Yeah, I guess JD returns September twenty first.

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Speaker 1: Today is September twentieth. Thank you for the clarification there,

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Speaker 1: But yes, concrats Lely on the on the Business Insider

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Speaker 1: article it's a fickle industry according to Lee Ellis yes article.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well look, I think I think it is. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to have to have a word to Colin though

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Speaker 2: I thought I had a few more rough fire quotes

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Speaker 2: that he could have thrown in there. So maybe he's

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Speaker 2: got a part two coming.

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Speaker 1: But we'll see that that one a part two just

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Speaker 1: with lee ELS's incredible lengthy rambling quotes. You know, it

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Speaker 1: was coming.

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Speaker 2: That's that's what I'm thinking anyway.

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Speaker 3: But that's it.

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Speaker 2: Colin's just trying to build a little you know, build

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Speaker 2: up the hype a little bit, and then he's going

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Speaker 2: to release the part two banger. You know. The first

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Speaker 2: one's always the first draft of anything is not the best.

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Speaker 2: You know, maybe it's just the follow up is going

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Speaker 2: to be better. We'll see.

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Speaker 1: I saw a lot of people not complaining, but like, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's behind the paywall, you know, how do I how

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Speaker 1: do I read this Business Insider article about my boys

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Speaker 1: about no dunks, you know, making it make it after

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Speaker 1: leaving Turner and all that. There's workarounds there really is.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know about this workaround, but I almost feel

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Speaker 1: bad to share it, you know, Colin put all this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, well, and honestly though, you know, that's the

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Speaker 2: way things are though these days, it's okay to pay

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Speaker 2: the first month. I think it was as well.

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Speaker 2: I think. I think there's multiple options there, you know,

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Speaker 2: that's how it is these days. You never used to

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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna read it in the news agents and

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Speaker 2: walk out or just steal it, so, you know, pay

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Speaker 2: for it. Pay for stuff I do. I have got

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Speaker 1: No Dunks coming very soon, you know, sou as jd

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Speaker 1: gets back from from Canada, basically soon as it turns

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Speaker 1: on Friday here in No Dunk's Land task, we'll have

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Speaker 2: Well, I am surprised that's all he got, considering how

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Speaker 2: He's gone there two point six million in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: But basically, again that tells me it's like, we're getting

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Speaker 1: I love that the Lakers have brought the classic Twitter

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Speaker 1: To answer my own question, yeah, I think I would.

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Speaker 1: As currently constructed. Like where do you even have the

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Speaker 2: And then there's just too many other question marks about

430
00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,360
Speaker 2: the rest of the team for me that no one

431
00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,679
Speaker 2: like the Phoenix Suns and the Mavericks and you know

432
00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,920
Speaker 2: who are the Warriors and Nuggets. They shouldn't fear the

433
00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,119
Speaker 2: Lakers at all. I mean they should know that the

434
00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,960
Speaker 2: Lakers I think are pretty vulnerable, especially if things do

435
00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 2: going crazy there with the point guards. So I don't

436
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,600
Speaker 2: really have them, certainly not in the top four play

437
00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,800
Speaker 2: into the you know, to the sect. The lower part

438
00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:00,760
Speaker 2: of the standings, I think is where they're they're going

439
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,200
Speaker 2: to finish. But not a contender at all for me.

440
00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 1: I might be putting you on the spot here too.

441
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,840
Speaker 1: But with Dennis Shrewder off the board, now, who are

442
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,280
Speaker 1: like the top remaining free agents?

443
00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 2: Uh?

444
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,120
Speaker 1: You know, I guess Mellow is not with a team still.

445
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 1: It's like it's a bunch of old guys for being honest, right,

446
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:22,680
Speaker 1: it's Mellow. So Marcus Aldridge, Blake Griffin, I don't yeh

447
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:27,360
Speaker 1: in contracts, Marcus Cousins, he's not on rosters.

448
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, he might have something left, he looked.

449
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,480
Speaker 1: I saw a video of him in some pickup game

450
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,040
Speaker 1: looking quite selt.

451
00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:35,240
Speaker 3: Yeah.

452
00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,679
Speaker 2: I saw that actually too. He was looking pretty in

453
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:38,680
Speaker 2: pretty good shape there.

454
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:40,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

455
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 2: Blake, Blake and la Marcus of course were there on

456
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,159
Speaker 2: the nets last season, and Blake did like a tweet

457
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,400
Speaker 2: someone said something about going back to the Clippers, So

458
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,800
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's got any traction, but he

459
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,240
Speaker 2: didn't really leave things on good terms there with Steve Balmer,

460
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,800
Speaker 2: so I'm not sure if if there's a return there

461
00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:57,440
Speaker 2: for him. But you know, as we've seen over years,

462
00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,879
Speaker 2: those guys at some point probably do get added to

463
00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:03,159
Speaker 2: a roster spot because they can still be, you know,

464
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 2: an effective veteran. I mean La Marcus Or we talked

465
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,399
Speaker 2: about him on the Hall of Fame podcast. He's the

466
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 2: sort of veteran you'd like to have on your team.

467
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:10,880
Speaker 2: You know. I think he's a good locker room guy.

468
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,119
Speaker 2: You know, he's going to be able to go out

469
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:14,720
Speaker 2: there at least give you a couple of buckets. He's

470
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:18,240
Speaker 2: certainly not the player he was. So those guys, if

471
00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:20,399
Speaker 2: they are interested, I'm sure can still get picked up.

472
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,720
Speaker 2: But there's no one really all that juicy out there

473
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,720
Speaker 2: that's you know, that's still looking for a contract. So, oh,

474
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:30,440
Speaker 2: what about finals MVP one shoe because he's he's free agent?

475
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 2: Is he at the main man?

476
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Speaker 1: He's on the Raptors, that's right? Yeah? Oh Cruise Baby.

477
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's Raps.

478
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about here's one for you? What about sign weight.

479
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 2: Look, hassa'm whiteside. Last season was actually not bad for

480
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 2: the Jazz. I thought again, as a bench player, his

481
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 2: biggest problem has always been his sort of effort levels.

482
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:57,920
Speaker 2: But last season I thought he was actually decent backing

483
00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 2: up Riudy Gobert. So he's somewhat of a rim protector.

484
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 2: He's a rebounder, and he can put back dunks and

485
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 2: things like that. So I'd be surprised. Again, honestly, the

486
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 2: Charlotte Hornets, why wouldn't they add him? They've got nothing

487
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 2: in the middle there. They could use somebody, just anybody

488
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,880
Speaker 2: who can at least be some sort of a deterrent

489
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,400
Speaker 2: at the rim. I think he's earned it. I mean,

490
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 2: you know, he's been a frustrating player throughout his career,

491
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 2: but when he chooses to he can still be effective.

492
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 2: So I thought he was decent, and I think he

493
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:29,880
Speaker 2: will get picked up by somebody.

494
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, the stream team dropping a bunch of names. I

495
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,920
Speaker 1: think MSI is right here, though, what about this guy?

496
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 1: This is like the worst version of what about this guy?

497
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 1: People are saying Dennis Smith Junior. I guess Tyrek Evans

498
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,359
Speaker 1: is trying to make a comeback. I didn't even know

499
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 1: that somebody said Kemba Walker, but I thought Kemba Wiker

500
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 1: was actually on the Pistons technically still, So there's not

501
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 1: a lot out there, is what we're getting about here.

502
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,959
Speaker 1: But I would expect these Hall of famers, Mellow, Aldridge,

503
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,639
Speaker 1: maybe Blake, if they want to continue to play, I'm

504
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: with you, they're going to get added to a roster.

505
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: Cousins is probably the most speaking of all the names.

506
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Mellow. You know, like, if he wants

507
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 2: to get to thirty thousand points, he has to get

508
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 2: on a roster. He was fine shooting for the Lakers,

509
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,679
Speaker 2: but he's just such a sieve defensively that you can't

510
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 2: have him out there for too long. But if a

511
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 2: team just needs a guy to come out and fire

512
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 2: a couple of threes, fine, But I mean, he's never

513
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 2: been a great defender. But we saw that in Portland

514
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 2: when the Blazers picked him up, and with the Lakers,

515
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 2: is he just he just doesn't give you anything defensively.

516
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 2: So if someone saying Dwight Howard's still available, I think

517
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 2: he's washed. I think he's done. Yeah, Dwight, Yeah, Dwight.

518
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 2: Dwight was terrible for the Sixers a couple of years ago,

519
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 2: and nothing for the Lakers last year. So I mean,

520
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 2: but sure someone again the Hornets. He was a former Hornet.

521
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:50,479
Speaker 2: Maybe bring him back there?

522
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 3: Why not?

523
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 1: His answer is just go to the Hornets.

524
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 2: Well, they've got Plumbley and who else they got right now,

525
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 2: Like that was their biggest problem last season. They just

526
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,879
Speaker 2: had nobody and they didn't do anything in the off season.

527
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: So they've done nothing.

528
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 2: That's true.

529
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep it going here. Other piece of

530
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,400
Speaker 1: news I really wanted to slip in. High schoolers could

531
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Speaker 1: return to the NBA Draft as early as twenty twenty four.

532
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,400
Speaker 1: This is the Athletics Sham Sharanya reporting on Monday. As

533
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: the NBA and the NBA Players Association hammer out a

534
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 1: new collective bargaining agreement, both sides lee are in lockstep

535
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,679
Speaker 1: on eliminating the infamous one and done rule. So we

536
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: could see that age requirement to enter the draft go

537
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: from nineteen to eighteen, going back to what was in

538
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: place from what ninety five to two thousand and five.

539
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was always this is something that's been

540
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 2: talked about a lot that look as soon as silver

541
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 2: came in. Yeah, and this is probably the father and

542
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 2: me talking here. That Look, I think players are better

543
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,680
Speaker 2: when they come into the league when they're a little

544
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,880
Speaker 2: bit more mature in their early twenties, are twenty twenty

545
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 2: one rather than eighteen or nineteen, because I think emotionally, physically,

546
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 2: and mentally, you just need a couple of extra years

547
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 2: before you join one of the most intense, globally popular leagues.

548
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 2: I think it's a lot to ask a young person

549
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 2: to be able to handle all that added pressure, money, fame,

550
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 2: all those sorts of things. So that's me as a

551
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 2: dad speaking, but as an eighteen year old as a

552
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 2: bus ball if you're good enough and you get drafted

553
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 2: and you're selected to play, then of course you want

554
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 2: to go and play and start earning that money. And

555
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 2: I think as well the NBA scene in recent times,

556
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,479
Speaker 2: you know, guys like LaMelo Ball go to Australia because

557
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 2: these other leagues are like, hey, if you're not going

558
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 2: to get paid to play in college, come to Australia

559
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 2: or Europe will pay you and then you can actually

560
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 2: get some real experience and then you can still go

561
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 2: to the NBA and play. And so I think the

562
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 2: NBA is realizing Okay, we need to sort of make

563
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 2: sure that you guys don't go off and play in

564
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 2: other leagues. The college one and done rule it was

565
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 2: completely pointless if guys are only turning up for the

566
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 2: sake of turning up for me. So to get rid

567
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 2: of it and to allow now eighteen year olds back

568
00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 2: in the league, it's fine in theory.

569
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: Big players stopped even doing the college route with the right,

570
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: you know, addition of G League and go and play

571
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 1: in Australia and stuff like that. It was like, sort of,

572
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 1: what's the point.

573
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so you know, I'm just not surprised that

574
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 2: this is the thing. Again. The other thing, with time

575
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 2: and experience, you look at things like the draft and

576
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 2: you know, the contracts for players being drafted, and again

577
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 2: they need to also change as well. I think that

578
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,360
Speaker 2: the way the structure is right now, I think it's

579
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 2: great that you are incentivized to sign with you know,

580
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 2: the first team and then you can get more money

581
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 2: of course if you stay with that team. But I

582
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 2: also think that that's a little bit out data that

583
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 2: needs to be reworked as well. Because the NBA has

584
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 2: tried in recent years to make the draft more fair

585
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 2: and to reduce the incentive to tanking, but it hasn't

586
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 2: necessarily worked. We still see teams basically mail in the

587
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 2: season just to still get a chance of getting that

588
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 2: high draft pick, and so I think that's another step

589
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 2: that needs to be you know, needs to be figured out,

590
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,439
Speaker 2: because when you have teams not competitive throughout the season

591
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 2: for a long part of the season, that's a problem.

592
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 2: And that's why we've seen the playing tournament, and now

593
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 2: we're seeing that other you know, sort of soccer style

594
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 2: tournament that's coming in not this season, the following season.

595
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 2: I think the NBA is trying to find ways to

596
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 2: incentivize teams to play the entire season through because they're

597
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 2: not doing that right now, and that is a big problem.

598
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: We see John Michael Weisberg here in the stream team

599
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: between the G League, Nite MBL, and overtime Elite NIL deals,

600
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,360
Speaker 1: players have lots of options. Now, that's very very true,

601
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: and this is and again this is something so Stern

602
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: was talking about this at the end of his tenure.

603
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: Silver was talking about this as soon as you took

604
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: over as commissioner, sort of this idea of like we

605
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: don't need to you don't need to be nineteen to

606
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: come into this league eighteen, and especially with I think

607
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:53,959
Speaker 1: now the established like development systems in place. Yeah, I'm

608
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: not even talking about just growing them as basketball players,

609
00:28:56,080 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: but like you know, you talked about like them being immature,

610
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: because they are, they're like young kids. But yeah, teaching

611
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: them about money and teaching them about the league and

612
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: what comes with it all and fame and stuff like that.

613
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: Like there's that stuff is in place now and I

614
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,959
Speaker 1: think can I mean obviously helps It's at least seemed

615
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: to help a lot of these players, especially with like

616
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: keep ing your finances in check, keeping the outsiders that

617
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: are just vultures, you know, you know, at arm's length,

618
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: and stuff like that.

619
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 2: Just teaching them. Yeah, and you know, guys like Antoine

620
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 2: Walker is a good example of someone who you know,

621
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 2: he talked about when now he obviously got his big

622
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 2: money sort of further into his career there. You know,

623
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 2: during your peak, you're just paying your friends and close

624
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 2: people who want money for this and that, because you

625
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 2: think those wages are going to continue forever, and then

626
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 2: all of a sudden your career ends, the money runs out,

627
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 2: and nobody's around you any more to give back any

628
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 2: of the money they gave you. And that to me

629
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 2: is you know, such a such an important lesson to

630
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 2: learn because I remember seventeen and eighteen years old. You know,

631
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 2: you just you nowhere near mature enough to be able

632
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 2: to make all those decisions by yourself, and you are

633
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 2: vulnerable to outside influences. So those sorts of things are

634
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 2: very very important because if you are a talent, you

635
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 2: want to go and make you know, for ten to

636
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 2: fifteen years, whatever your career is, that's when you make

637
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 2: the most money. You want to be able to make

638
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 2: that and have that to be able to prolong your

639
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 2: life rather than get to thirty two thirty three be

640
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,719
Speaker 2: retired and maybe you don't have any money. So you know,

641
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 2: there's a lot to consider here. But ultimately, if the

642
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 2: players are good enough, they want to be able to

643
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 2: enter the league at eighteen, and that's that's what it's

644
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 2: going to be. That's the decision that's going to be made.

645
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna I mean interior, we're seeing more what

646
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: Kobe's and Garnettes and mcgready's and Lebron, Dwight Howard he

647
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: was a high school I mean yeah, somebody on Twitter,

648
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: I didn't fact check it. But I think I had

649
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: the correct answer, and I think they were rate and

650
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: asking it. You name the last eighteen year old, like

651
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: the last street from high school to NBA player that

652
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: we had.

653
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 2: It was buying them, wasn't it.

654
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it was the last I guessed Amir Johnson.

655
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: I think you're right now I'm checking that. Yeah, I thought.

656
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 2: I think I think it was Amir Johnson. I think

657
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 2: he got drafted.

658
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: You know that last year, Bianer was drafted in all five. Yeah,

659
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: a Mirror was drafted and maybe a mere literally came

660
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: after it was drafted after him checking here. That's pretty funny. Uh,

661
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: first question, is Amir Johnson still in the NBA.

662
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 2: I don't think so.

663
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: Uh, Mirror was also drafted in oh five. There it is, yeah,

664
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: there it is so same draft, but a mir was

665
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: like a second round pick.

666
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing. I mean, like all those you know,

667
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 2: all those guys you mentioned, you know, have been successful,

668
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 2: but there's also been other guys you know, who weren't

669
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 2: able to to make the leap, you know, like I

670
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 2: think Kwami Brown's a good one. Like I know he

671
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 2: sort of hung on for a while there, but he

672
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 2: certainly wasn't able to live up to the number one billings.

673
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 2: So it's it's tough. I mean, you've got to you've.

674
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: Got But the same the same is true with like

675
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: a bunch of one and done. Yeah, of course, I

676
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: mean it's yeah, yeah, Like I mean, some are going

677
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: to be failures.

678
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 2: And you know throughout of course throughout league history, you know,

679
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 2: top three to five draft picks, some of them, even

680
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 2: if they are ready, they just don't make it in

681
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 2: the NBA. So it always happens like that. It's just

682
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 2: like I say, I just you know, when you see

683
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 2: seventeen and eighteen year old kids and you're like, how

684
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 2: do you go from not earning money to all of

685
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 2: a sudden you're earning eight, ten, twelve million dollars a year?

686
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 2: And especially now you know with social media the way

687
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 2: it is, people just like everyone's just a vulture at you,

688
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 2: and if you don't have a strong support cast around it,

689
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 2: that's where you can just run into problems. So anyway,

690
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 2: there's but.

691
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: Now, I mean those kids at that age in the

692
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: in the current system, they can make money too. I

693
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: mean I know, not maybe well seven eight million dollars

694
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: a year, but they can make quite a bit of

695
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: money now if they're that popular, so the same the

696
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: same problem. You've got to have a system in place.

697
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 2: Well, and the NC double A is the most corrupt,

698
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,719
Speaker 2: worst system of sport in the entire world. I mean,

699
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 2: that's just beyond a joke. You know, if you incentivize

700
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 2: or if you pay the players as they should be played,

701
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 2: then maybe some of them do stick around for a

702
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 2: couple of years and work on their game and get

703
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 2: themselves even more prepared for the NBA because they don't

704
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 2: need to jump to the NBA to get the paycheck.

705
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 2: I mean, how the NC double A is still a

706
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 2: thing as John Oliver does that does at Hey, how

707
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 2: is this still a thing like That's that's just beyond

708
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 2: bizarre that they you know, they sign like a ten

709
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 2: billion dollar TV contract and the players don't get a

710
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 2: penny of that. That is just insane to me. So

711
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 2: that's something that should be changed immediately. And then you

712
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,719
Speaker 2: would do then you strengthen the college game, and if

713
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 2: you strengthen the development stages of a player's career, I

714
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 2: just think they're going to be readier for the NBA.

715
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 2: And so but of course it's not going to change.

716
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 2: Why would it. It works for the executives and the

717
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 2: coaches and the schools or get all the money and

718
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 2: then the players they just if they don't make it

719
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 2: to the NBA, then they're out trying to find a

720
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 2: contract in Europe. You can still get paid very very

721
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 2: nicely in Europe and some other leagues around the world.

722
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 2: But you should be paid what you are rowed for,

723
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 2: you know, playing basketball on the biggest stage in college

724
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 2: it's just bonkers to me, crazy.

725
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: We had I believe it's Trey here in the stream.

726
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: Team Monte Ellis, Lou Williams, Andre Blatch and Amir Johnson

727
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: were the last four players NBA players straight from high school.

728
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: They never should have stopped. Look at those four.

729
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 2: The Filippino you legend, Andre Black.

730
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's pretty good. It's a pretty good hit.

731
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,320
Speaker 1: Great area can coming.

732
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:37,800
Speaker 3: What do they do?

733
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: Finally, I don't know how much you watched this. Our

734
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: guy Task was doing a fun job with the YouTube

735
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 1: shorts sort of breaking it all down. But behind the

736
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: Hernan Gomaz Brothers Spain defeat of France and the EuroBasket

737
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two final captured its fourth gold medal and

738
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: first since twenty fifteen. Were you dabbling with any euro

739
00:34:58,400 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: Basketball league?

740
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, you see the highlights come

741
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 2: across social channels and things like that. Fantastic tournament. I mean,

742
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 2: look at how strong this tournament was. That Luca didn't

743
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 2: make the final, Yannas didn't make the final, Nikola Jokic

744
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 2: didn't may find but these guys all played as hard

745
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 2: as they could. It means so much to these guys

746
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 2: to go out there and play in this tournament. And

747
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 2: next year in the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan, we've got

748
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 2: the World Cup. Now the USA will be favored, as

749
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 2: they deserve to be and as they always should be.

750
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 2: But I just think basketball globally is so strong right now,

751
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 2: and it's so good to see those guys playing, and

752
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 2: really it means so much to them when they don't win,

753
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 2: you know. I mean Yannis was devastated. I mean, he

754
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 2: got ejected there, but so was Luca, Luke and Luca.

755
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 2: They got upset by Poland Slovenia there, and that to

756
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 2: me shows that these guys aren't just sort of turning

757
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 2: up ah right, we've got to play for our country.

758
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 2: They're going out there to try to win and.

759
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 3: The next year.

760
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: I sometimes feel like they want to win this more

761
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 1: than any NBA championship. For being honest, I don't think

762
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: that's your.

763
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you're wrong in that. I mean

764
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 2: the NBA Championship means a lot, but playing for their

765
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 2: country and you see the crowds there as well, and

766
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 2: you see this in EuroBasket all the time. Like you know,

767
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 2: remember Luca talked about playing in Europe. How you know

768
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 2: it's harder to score in Europe, he said than in

769
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 2: the NBA. And he should know because he's been playing

770
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 2: in those leagues for nearly a decade now. Well obviously

771
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 2: last couple have been in the NBA here. But you know,

772
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 2: it was a really exciting tournament and to see the

773
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 2: fact that Spain come through and win it again when

774
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 2: I think they were one of the lower favorites too.

775
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 2: They certainly weren't.

776
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody thought with the Gasol brothers not playing, you know,

777
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: a couple other legends moving on, Rudy Fernandez is still there. Right,

778
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 1: It's like people thought, yeah, this would not be their

779
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: year or something like that, and it was still I

780
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: mean again, it was Juancho Abo Cruz Raptors picking them up.

781
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: What a steal. He had twenty seven to five to

782
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: one and two steals. And then his brother Willie he

783
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: had fourteen and eight in the final game. But he

784
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: was named MVP of the entire tournament.

785
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 2: He played that well.

786
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: So those guys were there, they're like, they're basically their

787
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: new Kasol brothers.

788
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think it was Argentina won the South

789
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 2: American Cup too, So that next year's World Cup is

790
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 2: going to be awesome for basketball. It really is, because

791
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 2: you've got so many really deeply talented teams. But you know,

792
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 2: look we saw in the Olympics, you know, the USA,

793
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 2: they lost to France in the first game and then

794
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 2: ran the table from there. So but but the point

795
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 2: I'm trying to make is hopefully the United States looks

796
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 2: out and goes, Okay, these other countries are absolutely taking

797
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 2: it seriously. Now we've got to send our strongest, strongest

798
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 2: team to Asia next year because it's going to be awesome.

799
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: Have you already sent an email to somebody, some higher

800
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 1: up at the athletic asking if they'll send us for

801
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:49,959
Speaker 1: the World Cup?

802
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 3: To sure?

803
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,399
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how to answer that one.

804
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:53,839
Speaker 3: Not sure?

805
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: Yes, the people he's all over it. Oh my goodness,

806
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: all right, Lee, we can call it there. That was

807
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: even longer than I thought we would do here, thirty

808
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: five plus minutes. Thanks again to everybody in the stream

809
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: team chiming in. It's nice to get some of your

810
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: comments up. I believe JD is gonna flip this into

811
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: a podcast, so hopefully that'll be hitting your apples and

812
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: your Spotify's and your pod beans as soon as possible.

813
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: Later this week, we got No Buffs again. That's got

814
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: its own YouTube and podcast feed. If you're a Survivor fan,

815
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: that's dropping on. We'll go live on Thursday morning because

816
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: it premieres on Wednesday night, and then No Bunts at

817
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: the end of the week with Tassie. What else you

818
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: got going on this week? Lely, because I mean, I'm

819
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 1: telling you you better you got you got not a

820
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: lot of time left before we're going to be full on,

821
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 1: like seven eight shows a week here.

822
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 2: I have got a historic event on Thursday night for

823
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 2: the final time ever, Elton John is playing.

824
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: The final time before the final time.

825
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 2: This will be the third time of his Final Tour,

826
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 2: Final Final World Tour that started in twenty eighteen that

827
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 2: I'll be seeing him live in concert. I think it

828
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:13,479
Speaker 2: started as I think it started as the Omni moved

829
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 2: to Phillips Arena now State Farm Arena, from when the

830
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 2: time he started this farewell to it.

831
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: You've seen him in all three.

832
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 2: And the boys will be coming along for their first

833
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 2: concept so bringing them to see Elton as as he

834
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 2: signs off for the final time. I'm sure I've seeing

835
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 2: this again in the next in the next couple of years.

836
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 2: So actually hoping to somehow squeeze a trip into Los

837
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 2: Angeles to see him at Dodger Stadium for his for

838
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 2: his final for his final tour, for his final ever

839
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 2: concert before he starts a tour of Australia where he

840
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 2: does his final, Final, Final, Final tour, and then he

841
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 2: ends in Europe next summer.

842
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: So I swear to God, you or your wife every

843
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: eight d's are attending either a play concert or an

844
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: Elton convinced.

845
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 2: I can't believe. Yeah, yeah, she just rocksan. I just

846
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,479
Speaker 2: saw Coldplane Lima and I got cut out of that trip.

847
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 2: She said she was going down to see her mum.

848
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 2: I said, okay. Coincidental timing, very coincidental timing there. Yeah,

849
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 2: I tell you man, that Coldplay, gig you get a

850
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 2: chance watch go to that show Man. That's the greatest

851
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 2: show on earth right now.

852
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: Even better than Elton, Wow, even better than Do you

853
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: think your kids at the concert on Thursday, will will

854
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: sing a lot? Will they say hold me close, closer

855
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 1: Tony Dancer?

856
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 3: Yeah?

857
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 2: They like they like Tiny Dan Tony Dancer. Yeah. Yeah,

858
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,720
Speaker 2: I don't think they'll quite get that that pop culture reference.

859
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 2: But no, they like Elton. I mean they look they

860
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 2: like Elton independently, but they also get to listen to

861
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 2: a lot of Elton when they're in the car with me.

862
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 2: So it's going on. They're looking forward to it, and

863
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 2: uh and some am I because well, I guess it

864
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 2: was what four years ago? Now I can't remember which

865
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 2: one it was, but Elton was actually really sick and

866
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 2: he just canceled a couple of shows in the nights

867
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 2: leading up. In Tampa he had you know, you know,

868
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 2: throat some sort of virus or something like that, and

869
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 2: you could tell he wasn't on his game. In Atlanta,

870
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 2: he was struggling to get through it. But then I

871
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 2: guess it was three years ago. I suppose it was

872
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 2: he brought he brought out his a game that night,

873
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 2: and he and he lit up the arena.

874
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: So I just hope for your sake, he says, Hello, Atlanta,

875
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: I missed you so much. I love this city. Is

876
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 1: Leels hearing hello, good sir, Well the us up on stairs,

877
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: shakes your hand.

878
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 2: He used to own I mean, the word on the

879
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 2: street around where I live is he owns still a

880
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 2: property just up the road for me, like we drive.

881
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:49,359
Speaker 2: I've heard that, yeah, I mean, and he does say

882
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 2: that when he's in Atlanta. This is my home, you know,

883
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 2: one of my taxes, taxes, this is one of my homes.

884
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 2: I love Atlanta, and I want to say, way, when's

885
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 2: the last time you lived here? For like six I

886
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 2: haven't seen you in Petmont Park walking your dog?

887
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 3: You know, like when when?

888
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: When?

889
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 2: When do you? You know?

890
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 3: When?

891
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 2: Does that count? But anyway, whether it's true or not,

892
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 2: we and Buckhead here love to believe that Elton actually

893
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 2: lives just up the road. And we might we might

894
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 2: bump into publics one day just doing the shopping there

895
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:16,320
Speaker 2: with David.

896
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: So Elton John may Or may not live in Atlanta.

897
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 3: Cool story.

898
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: Yes there it is all right, lely Well, I will

899
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,919
Speaker 1: see you at some point. I'm sure later this week.

900
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: If not later this week, for sure next week. As

901
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: we get closer and closer to the start of the

902
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: NBA season, I'm going to give you like three seconds

903
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: to think of a final quote, because we're gonna say

904
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: hello to the Clipper.

905
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 2: Bro.

906
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 3: You heard it here first, Have a great time, turn up,

907
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 3: Love you guys, awesome Blue Jean, baby La Lady, embrace

908
00:42:55,520 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 3: the name you can stay every day.

909
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: And that you happy every minute.

910
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 3: It's been so long that you're the fun of waiting for.

911
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 3: It's happened already. It's gonna be grippy.