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So 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.920 we all know that big eat small, right, They're just 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.960 in business big eat small. Like at some point Fox 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.280 is like, we can't build the scale to compete with 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.520 Disney and Netflix. We're going to sell a big chunk 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.280 of our business off. By the way, they took Disney 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.080 for a ride. They got about eighty billion dollars for 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.919 a movie business that wasn't worth anything, and the twenty 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.519 billion dollars for the regional sports network that was worth 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:11.320 a nickel about a. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:12.440 Year later, but. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:19.760 The NFL has now scheduled another Christmas Day game. So 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.840 there was always sort of a gentleman's agreement in sports. 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.680 You know, you get Opening Day in baseball and the 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.000 NBA gets Christmas Day, and then you know the NFL 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.120 is going to dominate certain things in the fall. Now, 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.640 I for the record, I've always believed, and I've thought 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.200 this forever, that the NBA would be much better served 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:42.840 starting two days after the Monday after Thanksgiving, the Wednesday 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.080 after Thanksgiving. Monday Tuesday is football talk from the weekend. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.800 Then Wednesday's a dead day, and that sports calendar NBA 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:54.000 starts a month later plays into early July because those 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.720 it's wide open and then so I've always thought the 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.760 NBA's got their schedule, they should just move it a 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:04.080 month later on both ends beginning and end. But it 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:09.240 is interesting now kind of the pitbull attack mantra of 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.480 the NFL. I think they see weakness, see I think 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.959 they see Steph and Lebron getting older. And I think 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.640 that marketing Day on Christmas was a real thing. It 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.960 was an introduction, as we're all home to the NBA. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.320 They put the biggest games, the biggest Stars and it 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.839 was sort of their free marketing day and I think 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.799 the NFL had not that they were getting huge ratings, 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.640 but they were the biggest regular season game, and I 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:37.559 think the NFL sees weakness. I think they watched the 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:43.360 NBA during BLM and COVID, you know, lose some viewers 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:49.040 for you know, maybe positioning marketing on that stumble a little. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.880 Perhaps you can see some ratings erosion there. And then 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.800 Lebron and Steph are getting older, the game's getting more 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.680 a little bit more European, and it's it's interest like 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.120 the gloves are off. It feels like to me, the 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.720 NFL said we're going to squeeze you, and. 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.280 I I think, go ahead. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.880 And I do believe that's a tipping point. That Christmas 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.040 Day mattered a lot to the NBA, and those NFL 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.160 games put a blanket over it. 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.280 So there's there's two angles of this. One is what 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.719 it means for the NBA, and it's terrible for the NBA. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:27.200 The opening day in the NBA is fine, but it 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:32.320 used to then have it used to have Christmas Day 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.960 is a big day that's going away. The All Star 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.200 Game Now it's like a nobody gives a shit about 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:43.200 that joke. And then and now the NBA, both professional 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.159 and collegiate basketball, at this point in this country, seemed 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:50.920 to be moving towards we really love your postseason and 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.680 the rest of it, take it or leave it. Yep. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.840 So I think it is bad for the NBA in 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.920 that regard. I also think, and this is where we 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:05.279 might disagree long term, I think this is a massive 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:11.520 strategic error by the NFL. And here's why. I think 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:18.720 one of the secrets to the NFL's success it is 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.960 all of us, and I don't mean media just we 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.240 are in a different spot because it's literally our job. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:31.960 But everyone that loves football has convinced all of their 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:38.840 loved ones, spouses, children, whatever, who don't love football that 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.880 the games are unmissible like it is. I don't know 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:44.839 about you. I think most of your listeners at this 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.200 point they don't even get shipped from their significant others. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:53.560 When my team is playing a NFL game, they know 0:05:54.040 --> 0:06:00.720 I am out of commission. I am watching. It is mandatory. 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.760 I'm not going to a weddit correct? We will. We 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.520 won't schedule our own events. We won't, you know what 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.640 I mean? No one's gonna ask me to take my 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.640 kid to the birthday party. That no the okay. So 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.800 here's why I think it's a mistake. It's the same 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:20.719 reason I thought that putting on Christmas Eve that Bill's 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.680 Chargers game on an app was a mistake, because it's 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.600 Christmas Eve and it's on an app, and people are 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:32.800 just gonna miss it, and the moment it starts being 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.080 and Christmas Day, they put a Raiders game at one 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.240 pm Christmas. Those fans are on the West Coast. That's 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.520 ten am, that's Christmas morning. So there were a lot 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.960 of Raider fans who just missed the game. Here's why 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.919 it matters. Now your significant other or your kid, or 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:56.760 whomever says you can miss you missed the other. It 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.960 was fine, you watched it later, you caught up. As 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.359 soon as it becomes the if the inventory becomes so 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.800 ubiquitous and that you put it on days where people 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.720 are going to miss, and Christmas people are gonna miss 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.680 some Thursday, right, then all of a sudden, it's like, oh, 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.760 you don't have to watch every game. You thought you did, 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.000 but you don't. And even if you still think you do, 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.560 your wife or your significant other, it's like you do 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.160 not have to watch every game. I know it because 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.440 we were at Aunt Margaret's house on Christmas. Even you 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.160 didn't watch it and you were fine. So I think 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.520 long term, I think it's a mistake. I'm the only 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.680 person that thinks this. I understand the ratings are going 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.640 to be massive, but I think there has been a 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.440 I think all of us, especially as they've added a 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.880 seventeenth game, like I whisper, I don't want my kids 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.480 to hear it, so I don't I have to hear it. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.680 Like I cover the sport. I could probably miss a 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.720 game or two and be okay. But they don't think that. 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.560 They're like, no, it's daddy's watching football. Don't bother them. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.680 I'm like, yes, it's worked. But all of a sudden, 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:09.480 you put games on Christmas, they're gonna be missed. Like now, 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.320 I watched the Chiefs. It was my team played at 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.560 one BM on Christmas. And that's the other thing that 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.760 was also the worst dude, that was the Raiders game. 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.520 Just a disaster. I mean, we haven't didn't lose sense, 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.760 by the way, super Bowl champions, but uh, I didn't 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:26.160 like I didn't love it because here's the difference. NBA 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.640 is watched passively. Yes, even on Christmas, Like even the 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.839 Christmas Day games, it's in the background, it's on and 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.080 then oh it's close with five minutes of them sit 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.599 down and watch. I don't know how to watch football passively. 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.840 I can't come in and out of the room and 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.880 be like, that's just not how my brain works with football. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.000 So I just don't. I don't. And it's on a Wednesday. 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.000 I don't know. I don't love the Christmas Day thing. 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.480 I like the rule changes the NFL did I'm not 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.600 just trying to bang on the league. I think the 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.400 Christmas Day thing's a little greedy. I don't love it, 0:08:58.440 --> 0:08:59.600 and I think it's short sighted. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:07.280 Yeah no, I don't disagree. I you know, it's I 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:11.560 tend to I don't know if this is selfish or not. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.840 I tend to look at the sports calendar and I 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:17.920 see everything through the eyes of what does it do 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.200 for the production of my show and my staff. So 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.439 when they talked about eighteen games and that's gonna happen, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.920 they'll add a second bye week, Well, the season will end, 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.320 the staff will go dark for a week, everybody gets vacation. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.680 We'll come back, we'll be right into free agency in 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.240 the final twenty games of the NBA season. So for me, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.560 I'm like, oh, I get rid of two dead weeks 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:44.000 of sports talk. But you know, one of the things, like, 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.880 for instance, college basketball is a prime example. I can 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:51.120 absolutely be fascinated with something for three weeks and nothing more. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.960 And I think it's it's the sports brain. Like college basketball. 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.440 This next weekend, Gonzaga Perdue will not miss it. These 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.480 big games this weekend will not miss it. I don't 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.719 think the of college basketball is great, but I like 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.920 the Mardi Gras field, that the annual party. 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:10.000 Listen every It's cliche and it's the only time anyone 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.520 ever uses this specific word is with college sports. But 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.280 it's the right word. The pageantry of it is something, yes, 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.920 like the students and the band and all of it. 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.920 It is it. It overcomes the fact that I'm like, 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.719 I'm pretty sure this team shoots thirty six percent on 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.439 open shots. Like I'm like, I am pretty like this 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.120 is not good. No, but it is entertaining. But you're right, 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:41.679 I feel totally fine parachuting in Yes, like the I 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.760 don't pretend to act like I'm a college basketball expert. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.760 I'm not and I came into the tournament, I'm like, eh, 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.760 I used to live in Houston. I like the coach, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.319 I'll root for them, and other than that, I'll root 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.160 for underdogs because it's fun. I'll root against Yukon because 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.079 it'll cause Wild's pain, and then that'll just be it, 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:00.800 like you know, and then I'm into it. And the 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.520 women's game has stars that I that I'm into. But 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.160 I don't need to have a year long investment, That's right, 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:07.199 I just don't well. 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.320 And the other thing is I had a four team 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.199 parlay in college basketball last week, my first one of 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.680 the year, and people are like, you don't you don't 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.599 really follow the sport, and I'm like, it's math. Just 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.559 look at certain numbers in the bat like I just 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:26.160 made another four team. Or today Billy Bean didn't watch 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.719 the A's play. Jerry West would not watch all the 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.480 Lakers play. You start watching too much of anything, you 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.480 get so viscerally emotionally distraught and connected, you make bad bets. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.880 I've said this about the NFL. The red zone is perfect. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.680 The red zone gives me the great moments. I don't 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.760 overthink football. Then I can go look at stuff when 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:46.880 I make my blazing five picks. I can just look 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.120 at numbers that are important, third down numbers that I 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:50.720 worry about. How do you close, how do you start? 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.800 How much do you run the weather, And it's like, 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:57.040 I don't need to me. There is no proof that 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.440 watching every Oregon game make me a better Oregon better. 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.199 It's like saying, Oh, it's like saying, you know, the 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.800 more you drive, the better driver you are. I could argue, 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:08.719 the more I drive, the more fatigued I am, the 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.200 more numb I am, and the less alert I am. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.079 So I think that's so. The I think that is 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:21.880 on a general gambling perspective. I think that if you 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:27.599 had a team the generic you, if anyone had a 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:32.439 team that they watched and followed like it were their 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:36.120 favorite team. Yeah, but that they did not give a 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:41.480 damn about. Yes, that I actually think would okay, give 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:42.719 them real insight on it. 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.120 So this is interesting. So Lem Banker, the late Lem Banker, 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.680 was a gambler in Las Vegas, and I started gambling 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.719 on sports in Las Vegas, and Lem Banker said, it's 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:56.040 not a volume game. He goes find a team or 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.920 a college conference, and within that conference, frying three or 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.400 four teams and just watch them and bet them. 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.280 So that so that, so that's my So that's what 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:11.240 I was getting to, like, I think, I No, I 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.080 do not think it is gonna sound arrogant. I don't 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.439 mean it too. I do not think Brett Veach, the 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.640 GM of the Chiefs, knows more about the Chiefs roster 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.840 than I do. I did, and that is only because 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.199 I think I am maximum I know. I don't think 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:31.199 it's possible to know more. I think I've reached maximum 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:36.199 knowledge level of that roster. But I am not a 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:41.280 good Chiefs gambler because I'm so emotionally invested in it, 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.240 and it leads to high high's low low. Like it's 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.360 not it's not that you always overrate your favorite team. 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.000 Sometimes as you underrate them, they're like they suck. What 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.960 the hell? You know what I mean? But I I've 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.800 watched everything and I consume everything. So if you did 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:03.559 that with a team you don't care about just you 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.880 know what I mean. From a pure knowledge perspective, I 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:10.439 do think you would be like, oh, nobody's talking about it, 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.480 but our left guard, who wasn't that good, you know, 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.400 is at fifty percent and his backup's terrible, and we 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.040 got Jeffrey Simmons coming up that in and of itself 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:22.600 is worth a point and half, you know what I mean, 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.320 I do think you would have that. So I think 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:30.440 that there is in theory, the more you watch, the 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:34.200 more knowledgeable you are. In practice, the thing you watch 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.520 the most is the thing that you are going to 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.920 care about the most, and then the emotion is going 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.960 to pervert your logic on it. 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.560 Yeah, I mean, I really don't want to know about 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.080 all my wife's relationship. 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.560 I don't want to add an interesting therapy. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.880 I don't want to know about what my kids are doing. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:59.920 It doesn't make me a better parent or a husband 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.440 all that knowledge. So my take has always been I 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.760 like to watch things like a judge watches a case 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.560 without emotion. I can go look up the data give me. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.000 My wife always says this. She says, you know, I'm 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.240 always watching a game for an angle. I'm like, when 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.360 I went to the Bulls Celtics, the first thing I 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.960 noticed the first four minutes of the game. The Celtics 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:25.560 didn't start Jalen Brown, Poor Zingis or Drew Holliday, and 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.280 the first thing that was obvious is Billy Donovan told 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.480 his team, clearly, they're not as athletic. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:32.200 Push the ball. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:33.960 Horford's on the floor, old guy. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.040 So Chicago came out going a thousand miles an hour, 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:41.520 getting some easy buckets. And then later in the game, 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:46.000 you could watch Boston, they've played together, older players, did 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.520 a much better job. You could tell that Boston's coach 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.360 had told them, don't io, We've only got Tatum. They're 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.960 taking him out, and some say pass move the ball. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.280 We're we're a smarter team than they are. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:56.880 Move the ball. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:58.600 Boston at the end of the game was like it 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.600 was a symphonic it was beautiful ball movement. So it's 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.000 like that I was watching the game for angles, and 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.280 I think you do the same thing. I don't need 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.440 to watch entire games. I can go like I watch 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.800 Yukon twice this year and I'm like, oh, nobody's gonna 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.280 beat this team in college basketball, defense, scoring, coaching. 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:17.120 They're just too good. 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.960 They're too long, they're too And then I watched Carolina 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.560 three games and I'm like, that's the only team that 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.960 could give you con trouble and I don't. And I 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.840 probably watched twelve college games this year. I watched Gonzaga, 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:30.680 and I said they're good, they're not good enough to 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.360 win the title. I watched, you know, I watched the 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.120 series of teams. So and again it's not like I 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.160 do chalk mostly on the college tournament. And I'm not 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.000 I'm not Alan Boston, one of these legendary gamblers in 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.640 college basketball. But the truth of the matter is the 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.280 more you do anything, the more emotional you get. And 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.320 that's not always make you a better husband, a better parent, 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.040 a better better a better boss. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:59.880 In theory, if you could acquire the expertise without any 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.920 of the like it's I'll use an analogy. Then I 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.879 have a basketball take for you. You made me think 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.600 of it when you're talking the NBA. If you're running 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:13.560 a business and you are there every single day, and yeah, 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.399 I mean you have employees, yes, so you actually so 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:21.560 this is you are the expert act. But it is 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.960 also very human to then develop relationships, yes, and so 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.840 the what is best for the business versus I really 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.520 like this person? All this, you know, those things all 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.680 intermix in your brain if you could, if you were, 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.800 I think it's probably why. And I'm totally talking out 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:45.800 of my ass here because I know nothing about running 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.159 a business. And I just thought of this in the second, 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.800 but I think, I think I'm right. It's probably why 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:55.320 people bring in outside consultants. They're like, Hey, you don't 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.359 know any You don't know this guy went through a divorce. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.960 You don't know this is my godparent. You don't know anything. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.560 Come look at this place and tell me what works 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.560 and want. Doesn't give me a cold calculated reading of it, 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.399 because I am as the saying goes too close to 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.760 it right like that is that is how human beings work, 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:15.720 in that they can get too close to things they 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.439 can know so much. I guess that's where the phrase 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:20.560 can't see the forest for the trees, you know what 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.440 I meaning comes from. So I do think there's something 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:35.800 to it. Can I throw a pretty ridiculous sure, But 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.680 I believe it's correct. NBA take aut absolutely. 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:39.439 I love these. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.480 Okay, so right now, if you had to pick a 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.520 team to win the West, you would pick who. 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:50.000 I think the Lakers match up with Denver physically, now 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.760 that Karl Anthony Towns is hurt, they don't. Okayse's too young, 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:57.240 Phoenix to mid range too. They duplicate too many of 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.800 their skills. I think Denver will eventually healthy win. I 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:06.400 think Boston's deeper but will lose out west Yahn. 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:13.320 Denver is the heavy favorite by everyone. Right. I agree 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:17.680 with you, even though they're the nine seed. The Lakers 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:23.520 appear to me to have the most upside. Every everyone's healthy, 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.560 everything clicks, all of it. But they can't beat Denver. 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.119 They got swept by him last year, they got swepting 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:33.600 in the regular season, games are closed, but they just 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:38.400 can't beat them. Okay, So here is the gallic. Here 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.679 is the take that's gonna sound ridiculous, but I truly 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:49.040 believe the Lakers should want Denver and round one. And 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:53.080 here's why. If you have to beat them, no matter what. 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.520 If the assumption is no one's gonna beat them for you, okay, 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:02.159 you're gonna have to beat them. You want them in 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:06.639 round two when you just went six or seven with 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:10.119 Minnesota or OKC and they swept whoever they were playing. 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.080 You want them in round three when the games are 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.840 every other day, or you want them in round one 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:21.720 when there's two or three days between games. At times, yep, 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:26.399 Lebron and ad can both play forty four minutes. You 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:28.800 are as fresh as you're going to be at any 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:32.840 point and try to knock them off when they you 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.159 know what I mean, right before they have really hit 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.440 their stride. So again, I think the Lakers in a 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.760 series against Denver are like fifteen percent. And it's not 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:43.840 like if they got them in round one they'd be fifty. 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.080 But I think that fifteen percent might go up to 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:49.800 a round two. I truly believe, Listen. I don't think 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.200 they could beat them in the guy every other day 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.720 because you need Lebron to play too much, Adida play 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:59.119 too much. But round one would be an intriguing spot 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:01.960 where you could just play Lebron and ad like the 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:04.040 whole game, like you have two days off. 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.600 This has been my theory on the Lakers. If it 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:10.160 was March Madness style like the in season title, Di'd 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.040 win the title. And if I was Adam Silver and 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:18.200 I wanted to extend KD Lebron in Steph's efficiency and greatness, 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.320 I would make the first round, three, the second two rounds, 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:25.840 five games in the final seven. If Steph loses in 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:29.720 the finals Lebron or KD, that's fine, I won. But 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:34.440 asking older players, even if you're a dominant favorite, you 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:39.520 lose games in a series because nobody sweeps anybody, I 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.880 mean outside of Lebron in the first round. Nobody sweeps anybody. 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.280 So what's happening is you're making revenue, but you really 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:49.560 lessen the chances of the Warriors. Instead, Steph is carrying 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:51.760 the Warriors. Now he has to go six games in 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:55.919 the first two playoffs. If it was three and they 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:01.440 steal what Steph takes two. So I always said, forget 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:05.159 the greed. Shorten the playoff series until the finals, and 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:10.200 it allows older players to remain viable in those last 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:13.639 two to three years of their contract or career, like KD, 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:16.480 Lebron and Steph right now, Well, so that's and the 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:17.640 age thing. 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:22.600 This is what everybody, what nobody realizes is how old 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:28.440 these guys are in NBA years. Kobe Bryant won the 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:33.240 final playoff game. Kobe Bryant ever won he was thirty three. 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:36.720 The final playoff game Michael Jordan ever won he was 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:41.840 thirty five. Steph is thirty six. KD is either thirty 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.639 six right nor about to be. I'm gonna check. Lebron 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:50.159 obviously is thirty seven. We are already on KD is 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:52.520 thirty five, turns thirty six in a few months. We're 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:55.359 on borrowed time with these guys. Historic we've been on 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:58.800 borrow time with Lebron, but we are on borrowed time 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:03.960