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

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. A big night in basketball, whether it

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Speaker 1: was the Women's Final Four, the night in the NBA,

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Speaker 1: nobody'd better to break it all down with right now

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Speaker 1: than longtime NBA insider friend of the show Mark Stein.

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Speaker 1: Check him out on substack. He is on Twitter at

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Speaker 1: the Steinline. He's had great stuff today on the Luka

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Speaker 1: Doncic injury and the Yannest situation that now makes me

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Speaker 1: think that he's absolutely gone in the offseason. We did

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Speaker 1: this story a few minutes ago. Mark Stein joins us. Now, Mark,

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Speaker 1: what's happening? Happy Friday?

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Speaker 3: Gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: How are we dominating? IML? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing as well as Cooper Flagg, But then again,

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Speaker 1: I don't know the many of us who were.

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Speaker 3: Doing that fair You certainly weren't at nineteen.

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Speaker 4: No, this is true, it is there's a walk up

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Speaker 4: hine that was Mark Stein.

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Speaker 1: Everybody trying to think back to nineteen uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you know I was thinking about you today when

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Speaker 1: I saw ESPN had the straw poll of where the

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Speaker 1: votes seem to lie right now for Rookie of the

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Speaker 1: Year and NBA MVP right and Shake Gildess Alexander seems

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Speaker 1: like he has a pretty big lead, and the con

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Speaker 1: Kanneppel lead is just baffling to me because you know,

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Speaker 1: with this story that's been being debated the last few

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Speaker 1: weeks with Kanneppel and Flag and Kannepel and Flagg, I

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Speaker 1: just keep going back to the conversation we had a

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Speaker 1: few weeks ago where you said, listen, nobody has the

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Speaker 1: response ability on their plate that Cooper Flagg does. Kan

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Speaker 1: Kanepple's great, he's having a terrific year. The threes are great,

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Speaker 1: but he's not doing nearly what Cooper Flagg has been

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Speaker 1: asked to do with Dallas. And it really shocks me

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Speaker 1: that this is the type of straw pole lead that

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Speaker 1: Kannepple has right now over Cooper Flag.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't shock me because he's got a great story

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Speaker 3: and look, this is zero percent Cooper Flag's fault. But

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Speaker 3: unfortunately for him, since the moment he's been drafted. You know,

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Speaker 3: he was drafted three months in change after the worst

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Speaker 3: trade in NBA history, And throughout his rookie season, even

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Speaker 3: though zero of it is of Cooper Flagg's making, he's

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Speaker 3: had to watch his team, the team that drafted him,

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Speaker 3: has just been engulfed in chaos. The season started with

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Speaker 3: fire Nico Chance eleven games into his NBA career, he

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Speaker 3: had three GMS because they fired Nico Harrison and replaced

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Speaker 3: him with two interim gms. It's just been one thing

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Speaker 3: after another. What I love about Cooper Flag most of

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Speaker 3: all this season, he just keeps playing.

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Speaker 5: He just plays and plays and plays. He's not worried

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Speaker 5: about the straw pole. He's not worried about ton Kinnipple's

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Speaker 5: apparent lead in the Rookie of the Year voting. I

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Speaker 5: love that this guy just puts his head down, keeps playing. Tonight,

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Speaker 5: we were headed for another you know, unsightly blowout, and.

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Speaker 3: He got hot. The crowd was going crazy, and you know,

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Speaker 3: he produced a fifty one point game and then after

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Speaker 3: excited about this because we lost. I can't sit here

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Speaker 3: and celebrate that much. He wants to win. This has

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Speaker 3: been more losing than he's dealt with in his whole life.

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Speaker 3: But he is just a tremendous pro already and a

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Speaker 3: very good player already. But look, Charlotte has the longest

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Speaker 3: playoff drought in the league, and Continipple has been a

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Speaker 3: huge part of their turnaround. So Conkinipple has his own

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Speaker 3: great statistical resume and a good story, and that's clearly

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Speaker 3: swaying a lot of voters.

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Speaker 4: Well, they can always find consolation to each other that

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Speaker 4: they couldn't get John Schier over last year. But all

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Speaker 4: of that said, we're talking Cooper Flagg. Let's talk about

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Speaker 4: the guy he replaced in Dallas having a hell of

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Speaker 2: Okay, see Suns the Lakers.

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Speaker 4: But now Luca may be done for the year, and

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Speaker 4: a lot of those conversations we were having got resurrected

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Speaker 3: Mark, Now it's awful, It's absolutely awful. He was the

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Speaker 3: I mean he just literally this injury happened hours after

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Speaker 3: he was named Player of the Month for March. Go

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Speaker 3: look at his March numbers. They're spectacular. The Lakers were

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Speaker 3: fifteen in two. I mean, he is carrying this team

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Speaker 3: I mean, the Lakers were looking like they were going

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Speaker 3: And now I'm sure the Minnesota Timberwolves, who have dropped

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Speaker 3: the Lakers to hang on to the third seed if

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Speaker 1: And the flip side of this mark just to think

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Speaker 1: about this for a second. You know, not that Nico

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Speaker 1: Harrison has a lot to stand up and say, hey,

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Speaker 2: Oh you can about what I'm saying, you can.

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Speaker 1: Concern but listen, I'm not saying it was a great idea,

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Speaker 2: Long term contract.

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Speaker 1: His long term health is something that was a concern,

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Speaker 2: Right Luca was having an m v P type run.

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Speaker 1: It was awesome, but his long term health is is

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Speaker 3: I that's strong disagree for me. Look, we don't we

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Speaker 3: don't know what all went into this injury. He has

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I'm still taking my chances with

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Speaker 3: Luka Doncic. And you know, again I wondered was this

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Speaker 3: preventable because there were signals early in the second half,

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Speaker 3: But you know, he's gotten himself in tremendous shape this

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Speaker 4: Speaking of which, a long time NBA insider our guy

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Speaker 4: Mark Stein with us at the Steinline, where you find

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Speaker 4: him in the Twitter verse. Mark Stein dot substack dot com.

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Speaker 4: Subscribe and read his work there, joins us on the program.

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Speaker 4: We appreciate stopping by late here on a Friday as

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Speaker 4: we rep a big Friday in the NBA, but we're

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Speaker 4: talking about Luca the MVP conversation. Now there's some trying

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Speaker 4: to figure out what the potential would be to appeal

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Speaker 4: for a couple of the games back to count towards

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Speaker 4: his eligibility. We'd seen the same with Kate Cunningham. But

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Speaker 4: barring something really strange over the these next five games,

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Speaker 4: it's shake gilgisal Alexander's award.

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Speaker 3: Right, I mean, it sure looks like it, especially if

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Speaker 3: you follow that straw pole, and you know Jokic is

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Speaker 3: Wemby and Luca all have a case. There are four

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Speaker 3: worthy MVP contenders. And I would have had Kate in

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Speaker 3: the argument as well if he didn't have this terrible

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Speaker 3: luck with a collapse Lung. You know, Dancic, their camp

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Speaker 3: will appeal it, and I've been told they've got probably

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Speaker 3: a puncher's chance at succeeding because he did miss two

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Speaker 3: games to fly all the way to Europe in the

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Speaker 3: middle of the season for the birth of his second

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Speaker 3: and I think it was in Philly. If I'm not mistaken,

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Speaker 3: you know, on a really tight turnaround. But I think

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Speaker 3: there's probably also some concern on the league's part that

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Speaker 3: if you grant this exception, will it encourage numerous protests

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Speaker 3: of the sixty five game rule. But look, there's a

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Speaker 3: Luca basically we lost all of them from the MVP

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Speaker 3: and all NBA races. But beyond that, like I wrote

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Speaker 3: about this today, six of the ten highest paid players

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Speaker 3: guys are short of sixty five games. I'm gonna try

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Speaker 3: to remember them all. I'm driving in the rain. Let's

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Speaker 3: see if I can remember them all. Embiid be honest,

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Speaker 3: Butler and Curry and Golden State and who are my

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Speaker 3: other two? I'm missing.

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Speaker 3: I can't remember it now.

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Speaker 2: You're just gonna have to vote for Jalen Brunson.

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Speaker 5: Don't do that.

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Speaker 3: What are you doing that list? That list stretches to

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Speaker 3: seven if Jokic misses one more game. Yeah, Evan, Like

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Speaker 3: I said, I can't recite the whole list you because

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Speaker 3: I'm driving and I don't have it memorized, but six

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Speaker 3: highest paid players in the league this season have all

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Speaker 3: fallen short of sixty five games. And that does not

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Speaker 3: include Kate and Luca. They're not in the top ten

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Speaker 1: Now, I goch why might not make it? Booker might

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Speaker 1: not make it? Like there's a couple the whole thing marked.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's I mean, this is this is gonna

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Speaker 3: be you know, Adam Silver said last week at the

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Speaker 3: Board of Governor's meetings, the league thinks it is working.

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Speaker 3: But you know, we have not heard the last of this.

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Speaker 3: This is gonna come up somehow again in the summer.

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Speaker 3: But let's also say the union, this was collectively bargained.

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Speaker 3: It's a three year old rule and the union agreed

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Speaker 3: to it. So I don't know how successful they're going

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Speaker 3: to be at changing it. But when you when you

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Speaker 3: take note of all all the names that are not

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Speaker 3: gonna be of it, not gonna be able to compete

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Speaker 3: know some of the All NBA and these high profile awards.

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Speaker 3: I don't think the conversation's over. Now.

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Speaker 1: My whole thing with it, and my whole issue is

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Speaker 3: happened in sixty eight sixty nine when Elvin Hayes scored

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Speaker 3: and west Unseld was MVP and Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 3: And then in seventy five seventy six from my Buffalo Braves,

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Speaker 3: that's what's going to happen for Luca Dacis unless this

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Speaker 2: Mark.

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Speaker 4: Let's turn to one other heavyweight, Giannis and Tennecompo and

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Speaker 4: I think that'd be fascinating to have all the agents,

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Speaker 3: On c SPAN or NBA team wherever you want it.

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Speaker 2: If you want it on your substack, well we'll go

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Speaker 3: it's like they they have not been tanking, and if

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Speaker 3: they're pretty much close to the teams that are in

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Speaker 3: keep him, they need him to get past this string

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Speaker 2: Oh, I hear you on that.

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Speaker 1: I just look at at something when Lucas says, I

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Speaker 1: just keep saying, there's no way he's still a Buck

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Speaker 1: next Sea. It's not gonna suddenly get better. This relationship

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Speaker 1: it didn't work. I feel like we are just moving

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Speaker 3: Well, I think there will be a lot of people

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Speaker 3: If you are, for once, they will not be sad.

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Speaker 3: Jason Smith is correct.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna I got eight hundred words coming

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Speaker 1: up on Karl Anthony Towns for Giannis.

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Speaker 2: The money works. I'll have it ready, Mark, don't worry.

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Speaker 2: It'll be fine. It He'll be fine. Uh, he's on it.

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Speaker 3: We'll see if, we'll see if the editors let it go.

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Speaker 2: He is on.

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Speaker 1: Twitter at the Steinline, that is, at the Steinline substack

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Speaker 2: Mark, thanks a bunch, buddy. Be good. We'll talk to

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Speaker 3: Week, all right, Jen talk have a good week.

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Speaker 1: Ads there saying it was Mark Steinine, Hey, I'm not

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Speaker 1: No on coming up next. Hey, great drama in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: It kind of pales in comparison to what we saw

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Speaker 1: tonight in college basketball.

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Speaker 2: Friend Mike Harmon. I hate that song where the gino.

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Speaker 1: Ori Emma Dawn Staley rivalry is something you didn't know

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Speaker 2: That's really, I mean, really all of it.

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Speaker 2: There were six founds called that quarter, all of them

435
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,119
Speaker 2: against us, and they've been beating it out of our

436
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 2: guys down there the entire game. I'm not making excuses

437
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:26,640
Speaker 2: because we.

438
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 3: Haven't been able to make a shot, but this is ridiculous.

439
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,440
Speaker 5: Their coach Ransom raves on the sideline and calls the

440
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,640
Speaker 5: referee some names you don't want to hear.

441
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 4: And now when we get six to zero and I

442
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 4: got a kid with a ripped jersey, and they go,

443
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:39,919
Speaker 4: I didn't see it.

444
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 2: Come on, man, it's for the national Championship. Okay, let's

445
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:44,920
Speaker 2: work backwards. Number one.

446
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,679
Speaker 1: Sarah Strong ripped her own jersey, So I hope that

447
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 1: gino Oriema is at least understands a boy. I sound

448
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,919
Speaker 1: like an idiot because she ripped her own jersey in frustration.

449
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 2: Gin knows, Oh, but you got a jersey, right? You

450
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 2: know what there's video of it. I'm telling you.

451
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 1: That's the thing that that people forget is that all

452
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: of these games are televised and you can see these things.

453
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,159
Speaker 1: This is not like Wilt Chamberlain's under point game that

454
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: there's no video of. No, these games are television. Those

455
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: couple of guys were in a booth in their home

456
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 1: and they recorded themselves given them a hundred points. So

457
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 1: you go backwards from okay, she ripped her own jersey

458
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 1: and frustration and the whole team was frustrated, right, And

459
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 1: then you go back to say, oh, and and Dawn

460
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 1: Staley's yelling things at the officials that you.

461
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 2: Don't want to repeat.

462
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: Why do you care what the other coach is yelling

463
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,919
Speaker 1: at the officials? Why do you care about that?

464
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 2: To me, why is that something?

465
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: And again you you you never yell at the officials

466
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,199
Speaker 1: trying to get a call to go your way. I

467
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 1: think if it was a really bad if it was

468
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: really bad stuff that down Staley was yelling at the officials,

469
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 1: there would have been there have been a whistle for.

470
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 2: It's funny because it's first bad? Is it profanity? Is

471
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 2: it something worse?

472
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 7: Like?

473
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 2: Okay? But what But again, that's irrelevant. Why are you worried?

474
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:56,680
Speaker 2: Why are you.

475
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 1: Spending time in an interview saying, look at what she's

476
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 1: yelling at the officials?

477
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 2: Why what? I have to think that most coaches, ninety

478
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 2: nine percent of the coaches have no idea what the

479
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,360
Speaker 2: other coach is yelling at the officials during the course

480
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,639
Speaker 2: of a game. But yet Gino was preoccupied with it

481
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 2: enough to make it part of his interview in between

482
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 2: the third and fourth quarterly, what's going on? Man?

483
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 1: But he continued in the post because he came in saying, well,

484
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,959
Speaker 1: if I said some of that stuff, I'd be thrown out, Like, okay,

485
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:24,919
Speaker 1: you gotta let it go.

486
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 2: The game's over, man.

487
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,919
Speaker 1: Even if she got at guess what, that's not fourteen points.

488
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 1: He's the guy that's getting her thrown out. Why'd you

489
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: pull me over on the for speeding?

490
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 5: Look?

491
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,679
Speaker 2: All these other people are going faster than I am.

492
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 2: Why you standing there with a raider gun? See eighty five,

493
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,680
Speaker 2: I'm eighty eight. I pulled you over. That's why.

494
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, you average eighty nine points. Again, didn't get to

495
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: that tonight. So like I see the unhinged Gino that

496
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: if you want to say, well, Jason, you don't know

497
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 1: what was what was being said on the sideline and

498
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: how the team was being coached.

499
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:57,199
Speaker 2: Okay, but I.

500
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 1: Go from that being Gino Oriema between the third and

501
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 1: fourth quarter to following the game where they almost have

502
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: a fight at half court because Gino Orima is yelling

503
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 1: stuff at down Stanley Donsdale is I'll beat Gino's ass.

504
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: So I feel pretty safe and saying I don't know

505
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter was coach the way it needed to

506
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: be if you're Yukon. And that's why I say this

507
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: is it's such a fail for Gino Orima and Yukon

508
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 1: for this season to end this way, because if you're

509
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 1: you're a coach of Gino Orima's stature, certain things happen.

510
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: You have to have redundancy plans and being able to

511
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 1: this is what happens. If this happens, this is how

512
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: we're gonna get by this. But I didn't see any

513
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 1: sort of of of being composed under pressure.

514
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 2: I saw frustrated.

515
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: I saw him being frustrated and you're not gonna win

516
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 1: games that way.

517
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 2: Other coaches laughing to you.

518
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 1: You see he's still yelling over there at the other

519
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 1: and and South Carolina just pulls away in the fourth quarter.

520
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: Even though South Carolina is a good team, not nearly

521
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: as talented as Yukon is. There's a difference in the

522
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,199
Speaker 1: number one seeds this year, but South Carolina found a

523
00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 1: way to win probably the sweetest win that that Dawn

524
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: Staley's gonna have in her entire career. Not best win,

525
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: not national championship, but the sweetest win. With what happened

526
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 1: here and Gino Oriam losing his mind in between the

527
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 1: games at the end of the games. Yeah, we're not right,

528
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: this's no relationship and you beat him and sent him

529
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: home again. I mean, this has got to be the

530
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: sweetest win for her. That and to see this happen

531
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: to Yukon and Gina Orim.

532
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the beauty of it, it is the sweetest

533
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 4: and most important win because now you've got him unhinged,

534
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 4: which means you go back into the recruiting trail.

535
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 2: Hey, may I watched that Game's like, what the hell's

536
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 2: wrong with coach? Oh?

537
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, coach can't handle close games. Close needs. Coach

538
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: is a front runner. Well, his bad because he's lost

539
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 1: games before.

540
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 4: Right, We've talked about it since we were talking to

541
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 4: Brianna Stewart all those years ago.

542
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 2: They've not really gotten over until last year.

543
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: And here, oh we're going on to another dynastic run,

544
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: and a funny thing happened on the way to that.

545
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 1: I'm kind of I'm trying to choose betwe I mean

546
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: South Carolina and you cut I'm not too well.

547
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 2: Let me show you this video. Is it gonna help

548
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 2: you choose? Right here?

549
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 1: I mean really, it's it's such a it's such a

550
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,959
Speaker 1: fail by Yukon. It's probably the worst loss of his career,

551
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,679
Speaker 1: just because of how it went down, the lack of

552
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 1: coaching that he probably didn't do the aftermath after, how

553
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: embarrassing it is. And I mean it like, I want

554
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: to know, and I think it's it's I don't think

555
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: it's out of the realm to want to know, Gino,

556
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: was this really? Did you really get mad at down

557
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,160
Speaker 1: Staley about her not shaking your hand before the game?

558
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: Because if that's what it was, because that's what it looks.

559
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: You're trying to lip breath in that's what Don Staley

560
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: said at the end of the game, and shake my hand.

561
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: I was mad at and shake my hand. There's video

562
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: they showed video of Dawn Staley walking over to Gino

563
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: Oriema shaking his hand and the other coaches hands in

564
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 1: the pregame. So I want to stop back and go

565
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: this is again why I go, was Gina Oriema in

566
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: the right frame of mind coaching that game? Because I'm like, Okay,

567
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: she shook your hand before the game. If this is

568
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: really what you said and what you lost your mind

569
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: about after the game, boy, I got some questions. I

570
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: got some questions about Gino and and and and where

571
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: you're at as far as being a coach when you

572
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: say that's what it is when she she clearly show

573
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: again this stuff is televised.

574
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 2: There's video evidence of this.

575
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 4: Here's another piece from Gino in his post quote. The

576
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 4: protocol is before the game, you meet at half court.

577
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 4: Everybody see that. Before two coaches meet at half court

578
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 4: and they shake hands. They announced it on the loudspeaker.

579
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 4: I waited there for like three minutes, and it took

580
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 4: you out of your game for the next two and

581
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 4: a half hours.

582
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: Yes, because he was He was still steamed about it

583
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: two hours later. I mean, really, that's what I mean.

584
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: That's why it's she missed her Q so I was mad. Well,

585
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: if I'm doing Stealey, I go, why haven't I done

586
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:48,479
Speaker 1: that before?

587
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 2: How she's How easy was this?

588
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: I would like to say, hey, she'd win more games,

589
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: but I mean she's undefeated every year, so it's.

590
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 2: Like, how soft? How soft is that? Yeah?

591
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: That that that that That's what has preoccupied for the

592
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: next two hours.

593
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 2: That's just unbelievable to me.

594
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 4: And then going to the fourth corner, go back and

595
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 4: watch the way they played yu gone with the number

596
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 4: of miss bunnies, the missed layups or a couple of

597
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 4: times open drives to the lane. I mean you had

598
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 4: one of the point guard explode into tears after missing

599
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 4: after a layup, knowing that that was the vinyl nail

600
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 4: in the coffin, and all the teammates coming over and

601
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 4: like doing the aa chin up slap slap to the

602
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 4: chin of like, hey, we had a good run. But

603
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 4: in that moment, like that embodied everything that went on

604
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 4: with what Gino Oriama was doing.

605
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: Gino, Gino, Gina lesser Gino than Geno Smith today time

606
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: out to find out what's trending in the wide role

607
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 1: of sports. For a man who nearly got a very

608
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 1: late night phone call last week from me, it's Steve

609
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: de Sager. Oh, yeah, the story last week in New

610
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: York on vacation. I told the story last night. I said,

611
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: three big celebrity sightings on vacation. Jeffrey Owens, who was

612
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: Elvin from The Cosby Show, and Mets okay for a while.

613
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: Ben Affleck in the New York Public Library standing right

614
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: behind me. Was very, very exciting. Ben Affleck was right

615
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: there with his kid, and everybody was agog about it

616
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: and was Zoe's first big star.

617
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 5: SiGe.

618
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 7: Soon as she said Ben, I thought, wait a minute,

619
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 7: New York Public do they have statues?

620
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 2: Did they come alive at night? Sorry? Yeah, saw dad,

621
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 2: it's my first star.

622
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 7: So I go.

623
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 2: We just saw Jeffrey Owens from the Cosby Show. A

624
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 2: half hour he's on the pit. Dad, I don't know

625
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 2: what you're talking about. You're right, you're right, you're right.

626
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,959
Speaker 1: But the third sighting, I almost called you because we

627
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: were going to see a Broadway show. And John because no,

628
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: not John Stamos, because you mentioned this person's show all

629
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: the time walking by outside signing on.

630
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 2: There's a line. He wasn't appearing in a show or anything.

631
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 2: He's just on Broadway.

632
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: And people were lined up to take pictures with him

633
00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: and get his autograph. Ian armitage from Young Sheldon. So

634
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: the star Young Sheldon himself starve Young Sheldon was I

635
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: walked right by him, and if the line wasn't so long,

636
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: I would have gotten in line. Say yes, I'm a

637
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: fifty five year old man, I want to take a

638
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: picture with you, because I would take it and go Hey,

639
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: because a guy work with brings up your show all

640
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: the time when he wants to talk about how little

641
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: people were watching this sporting events, Hey, Ian, can.

642
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 3: You do it?

643
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 2: How much you charged for cameo? Could you do this

644
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 2: for a friend of mine?

645
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 7: Context I never watched the show, though the context is

646
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 7: past tense.

647
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 2: When that network show.

648
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 7: Was on, yeah, it used to get great ratings, unlike

649
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 7: most things in television, including sports.

650
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 2: Yeah. So when we would bring up sports, TV.

651
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: Always say, hey, eight hundred thousand people watch the NHL

652
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: All Star Game compared to nine point three million who

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Speaker 1: watched a rerun of Young Sheldon opposite the NHL All

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Speaker 1: Star is dealing with the facts.

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Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, wait a minute, but he was just he

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Speaker 4: was just lending.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he was going to go inside

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Speaker 1: into a showy he goes on Broadway. Just people were

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Speaker 1: just lined up and he was being a great dude,

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Speaker 1: like he was just taking pictures, signing autographs. And I

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Speaker 1: was like, if the line wasn't so bleeping long, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I would have done it.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, other things to do, so so curious.

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Speaker 2: I was there.

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Speaker 7: That's a quote like you know the old show. Hey,

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Speaker 7: I was there and this was Hey, Steve, guess I'm

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Speaker 7: here at young Sheldon Sheldon at the women's final four. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: number one, Yukon is out. South Carolina beat him sixty

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Speaker 7: two forty eight. South Carolina is the first team ever

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Speaker 7: men's or women's to beat an undefeated team in the

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Speaker 7: Final four while holding them under fifty points. Yukon, a

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Speaker 7: great shooting team, shot thirty one percent from the floor tonight,

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Speaker 7: including player of the Year Sarah Strong four of sixteen shooting.

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Speaker 7: The final is Sunday. Can I was it just me

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Speaker 7: or in this tournament? Wasn't I had to get ahead

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Speaker 7: of Syracuse seventy to fourteen?

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Speaker 2: Yes, in a game game it was unfair.

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Speaker 1: It was it was fifty three to nine the same tournament,

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Speaker 1: sixty five to twelve.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a fraud. Perpetrated against Syracuse. Didn't you

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Speaker 4: hear that postgame?

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, we would have lost to South Carolina,

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Speaker 1: been like one hundred and five to three.

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Speaker 7: And Yukon, which had won fifty four in a row,

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Speaker 7: loses by double digits tonight. So it'll be South Carolina

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Speaker 7: against UCLA and the finale Sunday Bruins beat Texas eight

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Speaker 7: to seven.

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Speaker 2: Just it felt like that.

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Speaker 7: Fifty one forty four Madison Booker, Texas star missed seventeen

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Speaker 7: straight shots at one point three of twenty three from

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Speaker 7: the field. So ap gleefully points out this is the

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Speaker 7: first time that both teams that lost in a women's

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Speaker 7: semifinals failed to score fifty and in fact, the Texas

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Speaker 7: forty four points in that defeat fewest in a women's

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Speaker 7: semi in almost twenty years. Meanwhile, UCLA was aheaded half

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Speaker 7: tonight and go on to win when leading at the half.

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Speaker 7: UCLA women have won seventy three straight games over the

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Speaker 7: past couple of years. Men's Final four is Saturday. Arizona

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Speaker 7: gave coach Tommy Lloyd a new five year contract. The

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Speaker 7: Jacksonville Jaguars gave defensive end Trayvon Walker a four year extension.

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Speaker 7: The Lakers Luka Doncic with the hamstring injury out at

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Speaker 7: least the last five games of the regular season. Orlando

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Speaker 7: won at Dallas display fifty one points from Cooper Flag

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Speaker 7: Baseball the late game to the Mets winning ten to

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Speaker 7: three at San Francisco, but won. Soto did leave with

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Speaker 7: calf tightness. Atlanta homer twice in the ninth to win

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Speaker 7: two nothing at Arizona A's and Pittsburgh each one. Seattle

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Speaker 7: in ten beat the Angels back to you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we end with a flourish We'll tell

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Speaker 1: you who's gonna win tomorrow and we'll be playing for

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Speaker 1: the right to cut down the nets Monday night in

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Speaker 1: the National Championship and college hoops.

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Speaker 2: That's next, Jason to Mike, Fox Sports Radio,