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Oh yes, I know exactly what you owe me. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.119 What you owe me an apology? 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:11.839 What do I owe you an apology? 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.840 Because you thought something was going to fall through the 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.199 texts and I wasn't going to be on time because 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.200 I woke up on our glue time and I made 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.760 it here earlier than half the producers. 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:25.720 Well, in fairness to them there there. I mean it's 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:29.080 I mean it's it's a little earlier out there, but yeah, 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:44.240 you are correct. I had a bit of trepidation. Welcome in. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.480 We are back with a fresh new episode of What's 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.160 Right with Nick? Right after we had a quick little 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.400 well weekend off for the fourth of July. We hope 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:57.640 you had a wonderful Fourth of July weekend. Understandably, kind 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.440 of a tough time at least for me to fully 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.080 celebrate and enjoy the Fourth of July, given everything happening 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.400 in the world and in this country. However, we hope 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.400 you at least got a day off work, maybe add 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.480 some cold beverages, some good barbecue. We were able to 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.960 unwind a bit. But we are back and rolling. I 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.120 am calling our shot on today's show. I think today 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.080 is going to be a top three episode we've ever 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.520 done of the regular shows. Now all of a sudden, 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.919 on our YouTube page, by the way, the fifty greatest 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.480 players of the last fifty years, those episodes are doing outstanding. 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:33.320 We just did Larry Bird and Kobe Bryant coming up 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.840 next are the fifth and fourth ranked players in the series. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.959 And we actually on today's show will be discussing Kobe 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.600 versus one of those guys that's coming up in this 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.919 weekend's episode. We'll discuss that in a few minutes. Also, 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.040 while we are recording, I'm calling that my shot that 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.440 today's show is going to be excellent, despite the fact 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.920 that I'm gonna be a little distracted because off over 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:59.040 there right now while we're recording is Wimbledon. Oh yes, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.919 the air the. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.200 Greatest wimbled was over No, that was okay, that. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.280 Was the French Open already happened. We weren't on the 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.760 air when the Australian Open happened. Wimbledon is ongoing right now, 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.480 and I'm gonna well, we'll talk tennis later because I'm 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.320 gonna get you drawn in. You're gonna watch the Wimbledon 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.959 final with me and then guess what, you're gonna be 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.400 so into it, We're gonna go to the US Open final. However, 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.040 we're gonna save the tennis talk for later, because that 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.400 is what we call in the business, a ratings bonanza. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.120 People will tune in, stay tuned in waiting for the 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.359 tennis talk. Before we get to that, I'm sure we're 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.080 gonna have to do some NBA talk. I'm also, if 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.120 you're watching on YouTube, gonna have to throughout the show 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.120 try to fix my hair because it looks like I 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.600 have this rattail thing going on in the back. However, 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.280 before we do any of that, to what we always do, 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.400 what we are not discussing. What did not make the 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:53.120 cut for today's show is the following chet Holmgren sets 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.440 a Summer League block record. Fun fact, it's not just 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.160 only that it was Summer League, but the Utah Jazz 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.920 played ten players in that game. How many of those 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.600 ten players were undrafted players? Do you think, Demonse? And 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.200 then we'll move on, how many do you think of 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:08.960 the ten we're undrafted players? 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:09.320 Ten? 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.480 Nine very close nine of the ten undrafted players. What's 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.520 also not on today's show the US Open the US 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:22.040 Open Twitter feed burning Drew Lock. Drew Lock clapped back said, 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.360 oh who whatever intern posted this? Hey, folks, it's twenty 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:29.360 twenty two. Interns don't run major at social media accounts. 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.920 They're they're kind of one of the most important people 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.520 at the company. And is Joey Chesnut actually the goat? Oh? 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:37.599 I swayed a lot of people about that one, didn't 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.600 I And you saw him he had a little. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.640 Nut manhandled a guy and went on still in the content. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.680 Yes, little mixed martial arts. Remember I told you about 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.960 chess boxing and you're like, when are you gonna need 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.719 to do that? Like we do three minutes of boxing, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.960 three years chess, Joey Chestnut did a little competitive eating, 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.160 competitive fighting. Okay, now we are ready to go. Let's 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.600 start the show. I assume we're starting in the NBA. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.760 Katie requested to trade a few days ago. Yeah, seems 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.200 that the nets want to work with him, but they 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.920 obviously want to get their money's worth from this. You've 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.680 been saying that he should go to New Orleans and 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.440 some type of megadeal. But did the nets even end 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.000 up trading him? And do they have to? 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:19.120 Okay, so there is all of a sudden, there seems 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:24.680 to be this sentiment amongst NBA insiders and NBA media. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:29.320 Maybe the Nets just keep Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.320 Why do they have to trade them? 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.320 They don't, I feel like. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:39.200 But they do. So Here's the thing in life. It 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:44.960 is important that we don't live by how things should be, 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.520 that we well, maybe it'd be nice if we lived 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.640 by how things should be, but it is important that 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:57.400 we recognize the reality of how things are. And how 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:02.600 things are is very simple. If you are the cream 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:08.600 of the crop, best in the league, caliber, MVP discussion 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:15.480 type of player, your contracts are one way contracts. And 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.440 by that I mean this, the team is obligated to 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:24.159 pay you no matter what. You are obligated to play 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.960 for them as long as you want to. That's a 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.280 one way contract. Back when I did I'm gonna tell 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.000 a quick little anecdote and then I'll get back to 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.200 the Kevin Durant thing. When I did local radio, they 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.440 would always in Kansas City particular, they would try to 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:41.080 sign you to these long contracts, Like I remember once 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.800 they offered me a five year deal and at the 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.680 time it's like five year deal that actually sounds pretty good. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.880 Some security locked in and then you read the contract 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:57.080 and has a little paragraph in there that says termination. 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.760 It's like, well, I have a contract, so what is 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:00.960 this termination clause? 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:01.159 Sake? 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.599 And it says the company may, for any or no reason, 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.880 terminate this agreement. Okay, all right, Well that's fine. They 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:11.520 shouldn't have to have me work for them, don't want 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.360 me to. But since I signed this five year contract, 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.920 if I did, what's that payment do I get? With 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:21.560 a severance payment of thirty days? So what that meant 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.559 was if I that's a one way contract their direction. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.920 If I signed it, I can't go work anywhere else 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:31.000 for five years. They can fire me at any moment 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.280 they want and pay me a month's salary and be 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.960 done with me. That's a one way contract. NBA teams 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.880 when it comes to the best players in the world, 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:44.480 James Harden, I'm a Houston Rocket. I don't I need 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.800 a superstar. Okay, we'll get your Dwight Howard. All right. 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:48.960 I tried that, didn't enjoy it. I did need different one. Okay, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.720 we'll get you. Chris Paul all right, I tried that. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.840 I didn't like that. Okay, we'll trade all our draft 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.160 picks and Chris Paul get you Russell Westburg. Okay, I 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:56.760 tried that. I didn't like it. You have a couple 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.960 years left on your contract. We have paid you the 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.960 maximum allowed at every single turn. Yeah, I know you have. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.679 I don't want to be here anymore. We are going 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:07.600 to hold your feet to the fire. Oh are you? 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.640 How about I just quit on the team. You're still 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.560 gonna pay me, right, Yeah, we're still gonna pay you, 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:15.880 and then we'll trade you exactly where you want to 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.800 go two weeks into the season, all right, the team 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.320 that traded you for you, the Brooklyn Nets. I'm James 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.560 Harden again. I don't think I want to be here 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.960 anymore either. Yeah, I'm going to quit on the court 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.960 against the Sacramento Kings. You're under contract, James. I don't 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.920 want to be here anymore. Okay, we will trade you 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.440 exactly where you want to go to the Philadelphia seventy 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.360 six ers. Ben Simmons. They're like, oh, they help the 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.839 line with Ben Simmons. Well, Ben Simmons not an MVP 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.080 caliber player, and also his situation was unique. So my 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.880 point is this, Folks arguing the Nets have leverage on 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.640 Kevin Durant. That is, in a utopian society, that is 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.480 in the ideal of that these contracts are go both ways. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:03.600 They don't. Nobody has over young Lebron Steph Katie. The 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:08.520 players always hold the cards. So what's my point? My 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.240 point is when the Nets float out there, Mike keep him. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.000 Oh hey, we're comfortable going into the season with him. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:20.480 That is a negotiating tactic. That is, so who whatever 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:24.600 teams they are negotiating with, don't feel like, well, this 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.880 is our best offer, and it's the best offer you have, 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.160 and you're trading them no matter what. It's So once 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.080 the Nets get their very best offer and the team 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.559 whoever made it say it's the Raptors, and the Raptors 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.800 are like, this is the best offer you're gonna get, that, 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.240 the Nets can go back to them and say, okay, well, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.520 if that's the best offer we're gonna get, we are 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.160 not trading him, as opposed to an auction, where it 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.680 is whatever the top dollar bid is. It's like in 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.560 an auction it would be like it did not meet 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.920 the reserve, we are pulling back the item. But the 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.000 Nets are trading, but they're all the Nets are all 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.319 also the Nets. Someone I should say put out there, 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:08.079 hey Lakers, just so you know, we're talking with Philly 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.920 and with Dallas. Now I can't report whether or not 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.760 they were talking with Dallas. The people will cover about Kyrie. 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.120 That is, the people that are cover the MAVs say 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.520 the MAVs are not just in Kyrie. But I can 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.880 tell you and I did report, and I will report. 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:25.560 The Sixers have had no conversations with the Nets. So 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.040 why did it get out that they did. Who benefits 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.120 from that? The Net lists because they want the best 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.040 possible deal. Now, do I think it's going to happen immediately, No, 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.920 because they do have time on their side and that 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.760 the season doesn't start for a few months. But I 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.280 absolutely believe Kevin Durant's going to be in a different uniform. 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.400 I've made the argument the Pelicans that one other thing 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.079 on the Pelicans trade. It's not just that they can 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.640 trade Brandon Ingram, who's a homeless man's Kevin Durant and 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.880 an all star. All those picks, plus they can throw 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.920 in Larry Nance, they can throw in another nice decent 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.480 It's also that Willy Green was an assistant coach in 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.160 Golden State with Durant. Willy Green and Durant have a relationship. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.320 Willy Green is now the head coach of the Pelicans. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.599 Durant likes CJ. McCollums game. They just locked up Zion Williamson. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.280 New Orleans is an amazing city. This absolutely if you 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.400 can get Willy Green and Katie together, I think it 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.160 could happen. The Raptors are obviously in play and the 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.400 sunsers first choice. I won't even entertain the possibility in 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.560 going to the Warriors. I don't even want to think 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.560 about that kill that rumor with fire. All right, what's next? 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.160 Fair points per usual. Nobody knows what the Lakers are doing. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:41.000 Lebron is silently fighting for Kyrie, and Sham said Tuesday 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.000 that a Russ and Kyrie trade is gaining no traction. Yep, 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.920 and Jeanie Bust sent out a weird tweet that seemed 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.440 like yeah, and I couldn't seem to find it. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.280 Honestly, you want to read it? 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.160 Yeah, I kind of want to say, I understand why 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:54.880 it's hard for you to find went. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.720 I went to his Twitter and I strolled down. Yes, 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.400 I saw, I saw the little tweet that they put out. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.679 Uh, you went to the Twitter Genie Bus. Okay, Genie 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.680 Bus the Lakers. 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.120 Yeah, but Genie, here's the problem. Genie Bus is a woman, okay, 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:11.959 and the owner of the Lakers. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.360 Uh soda, I didn't all. 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.520 Right, listen, all uh, just a little assumption. All a 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.040 woman came on an NBA two. But here's the problem. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.560 Whoever's tweet Twitter you went to was not Genie Bus 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.280 because first of all, this is Genie Buss's avatar pretty 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:32.080 clearly a woman, and all right, there's money on the ground. 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.040 My apologies, and it's her most recent tweet. The tweet reads, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.439 I miss KB. He would understand and explain everything that 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:45.600 I'm not allowed to. Honestly, he was the greatest Laker ever. 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.840 He understood team over self, meaning your rewards would come 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.840 if you value team goals over your own, then everything 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.720 would fall into place. All can reply. So that's the tweet. 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.640 Ask the question that I want to deconstruct all of this. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.439 Does Kyrie end up in LA or does Anthony Davis 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:03.320 end up getting traded? 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:04.400 What do you think happens here? 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.120 The only way Anthony Davis is traded is if it's 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.400 for Kevin Durant. I don't think that's gonna happen. It 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.320 would be interesting, but I don't think it's gonna happen. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.480 I do believe Kyrie ends up with the Lakers. I 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.240 think that's all negotiating tactic. They're trying to get more 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.920 picks from the Lakers, and I will discuss the pick 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:28.320 thing in a moment on Genie Buss. Okay, first of all, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.080 there's so much wrong with this tweet. First of all, 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.680 calling Kobe the greatest Laker ever means you have Kobe 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.920 as a greater Laker than Magic Johnson. And as people 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.679 will discover when we continue our top fifty count down 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.920 over the next few weeks, Magic Johnson played twelve years 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:52.920 pre HIV. Seventy five percent of those years they went 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.800 to the finals. Seventy five percent of those years he 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.800 finished first, second, or third in MVP voting. Magic Johnson 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.920 is the greatest Laker. But the other thing is the 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:09.680 and I know it's somewhat poor formed to speak. I 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.840 don't think this is speaking ill of Kobe Bryant. I 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.559 think this is telling an accurate story, and even in passing, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:21.440 it is important we tell accurate stories. Kobe Bryant valued 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:26.160 team over self. Eventually, Kobe Bryant made them pick between 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.400 he and Shaquille O'Neal. Kobe Bryant was one of the 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:33.080 big reasons Phil Jackson left the Lakers and then one 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.400 of the big reasons he came back. That's from Phil's 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:40.840 own book. And Kobe Bryant demanded a trade. So that's 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.960 a little revision's history with Kobe. Now to the Lakers 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.600 and the idea that they might not make the trade 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.320 happen for Kyrie because they want to hold onto their 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:54.000 draft picks. There is this misnomer out there that the 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:58.600 Lakers have no draft picks because of the Anthony Davis trade. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.240 Here is a fact. Yes, I want this to go 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:05.960 on social because I this Lakers draft recap part that 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.440 I'm about to start put it on the internet so 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.120 people can get the true story. Here's a fact about 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:16.080 the Lakers draft picks from this very moment until the 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:20.400 end of time. As of now, the Lakers are minus 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:25.960 one first round pick. They owe either they're twenty twenty 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:30.200 four or twenty twenty five first round pick to New Orleans. 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.360 That is it. This coming year, New Orleans and Lakers 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.120 can swap picks, but the Lakers are minus one pick. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:42.120 There are nineteen teams in the league that are minus 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.760 one or more future first round pick, and the following 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.400 teams are minus more future picks than the Lakers are. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:54.239 Atlanta is minus two future first and a swap. Brooklyn 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:58.600 is minus two future first and two swaps. Denver is 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.720 minus three future first. The Clippers are minus two and 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.280 two swaps, the Bucks are minus two and two swaps. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.080 Philly is minus three future first, and Minnesota, thanks to 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.640 the Gobert and Madness, is minus four future first and 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:19.040 a swamp. What do Brooklyn prior to this thing blowing up? Denver? 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:24.960 The Clippers, Milwaukee, Philadelphia all having common trying to win titles, 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.000 so they're minus picks. The Lakers are minus one pick 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.120 for a trade they made and they did win a title. No, 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.240 the idea that you won't that you're gonna try to 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.120 when you think it Kyrie and a shooter, it would 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.040 be Kyrie and Joe Harris, and you want to hold 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.280 onto the picks. It's just insane mismanagement. I don't think 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.080 it's gonna happen. I think Kyrie's getting in a Blaker, 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:47.920 all right, What's next? 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:52.360 Okay, three mid teams made big moves. The Wolves got 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.280 go Bear, the Hawks got John Say Murray. The Nick's 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.840 got Jalen Brunson and was so obvious that they might 0:16:57.880 --> 0:16:58.840 be fine for tampering. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.680 Yep, these three moves. Do you like the most? And 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.560 which one do you like the least? I feel like 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:04.280 I kind of know. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:05.199 Okay, tell me. 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:09.480 Does the Knicks getting Jalen Brunson did Dallas lose like 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.919 cap space? I mean no, no, not cap space they 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:12.800 give up picks. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:13.280 Or anything like that. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:14.879 No, it was just straight signing. 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.080 I think you like that move the most. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:21.520 I like it for who for Dallas? So I don't 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.160 hate it for Dallas. I think they take a small 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.080 step back. But I wouldn't have paid Jalen Brunson what 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.480 the Knicks paid him. So if the option was pay 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.679 Jalen bruns In twenty seven million a year or let 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.080 him walk, I'm fine with it. But that the one 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.480 I like the most for the team getting the player 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.360 is I like the Hawks getting to Jontey Murray. Okay, 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.160 I know they paid a lot for it, but he's 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:45.679 a perfect compliment to Trey Young. I think it absolutely works. 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.080 They did pay a premium, but they gotta They're fighting 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.879 for their lives in the Eastern Conference. They needed to 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.639 make a big move. Jontay Murray is young. He was 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:56.399 an All Star. He was twenty one to nine and 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.640 eight last year. He is an excellent defender. I like him. 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.200 I'm ambivalent on the Knicks trade, and the Rudy Gobert 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:06.639 trade is the single most egregious overpay in NBA history. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.639 You gave up five players and five first round picks. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:15.560 It's madness. It's utter madness that they did that. I'm 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.600 shocked by it. I don't even know if Gobert and 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.160 Karl Anthony Towns can play together. I'm sure they can 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.960 in the regular season. But I like, I don't love, 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.520 but I like what the Hawks did. I'm fine with 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.840 what the Knicks did. I think what the Timberwolves did 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.679 is an abomination. All right, what's last? 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.320 Okay? People are pissed about you putting Duncan over Kobe. 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.600 Yeah, let me explain this real quick. So Duncan's spot 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:40.879 on the top fifty list hasn't been revealed, But the 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.119 fact that he hasn't been revealed and we put Kobe 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.880 at six means Duncan is somewhere in that top five, 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:46.399 so go ahead. 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.200 Yeah, and I can't lie. I'm kind of confused about 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.080 that as well. Oh okay, a lot of people argue 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.760 that Kobe's better than Lebron. Okay, you don't even have 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.800 him above Tim Duncan. Yeah, so defend yourself here. 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:57.679 Okay. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:03.360 Anyone that argues Kobe is better than loses their right 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.800 to give NBA opinions. Okay, I'm not saying you, but 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:08.480 you're right some of your friends. I used to have 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.960 to argue with those idiots about this. Here's the thing. 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:16.880 Everyone agrees that, you know what, they were both great defenders. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.200 I would argue Lebron was the better defender, but let's 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:23.560 just call the defensive wash. Everyone agrees Lebron's a better 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.600 rebounder and a better passer. Yeah, nobody argues that. So 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.840 it's like, yes, but Kobe's the better shooter, except Lebron' 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.520 is a better shooter. Nick, No, he's not. Just well, 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.200 he is a better far better field goal percentage. Okay, 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.080 that's because Lebron shots come at the rim. What about threes? 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.879 Lebron James is a better in the playoffs and regular 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:46.680 season three point shooter. Than Kobe Bryant. Look it up, Okay, 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:51.080 but Lebron couldn't score like Kobe. Lebron James Averages averages 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.760 more points in the playoffs and in the regular season 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.000 than Kobe Bryant. Oh, nick, but Kobe was more clutch 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:00.439 than Lebron. Kobe Bryant. Who you want to go to 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:04.760 the clutch most clutchiest clutch clutch stuff playoff buzzer beaters 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:09.640 Kobe has won. Lebron has five, which is of course 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.240 the most in NBA history. The Kobe vers Lebron stuff 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:16.200 is nonsense. The Kobe versus Duncan stuff. I will listen 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:21.120 to the argument. However, they and this is the part 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:24.360 where Kobe the Kobe folks frustrate me. They're like, oh, 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:28.639 my god, but Tim Duncan had Greg Popovich and Kobe 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:34.119 Bryant had Phil Jackson. Oh yeah, but Duncan had had 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:38.959 Man Hu and Tony Parker, and Kobe had Kill O'Neal. 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.840 They have the same number of championships. Duncan has one 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:50.000 extra MVP. Duncan has one extra Finals MVP. Kobe, in 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:53.439 the heart of his prime, missed the playoffs and then 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:57.520 had back to back first round exits. Duncan never missed 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:02.080 the playoffs, won fifty games every single year, and in 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:06.160 five and seven didn't have another top seventy five teammate. 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.440 In three, his only top seventy five teammate was David Robinson, 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:12.840 and Robinson was in the last year of his career, 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:16.080 averaging eight point spraan Tim Duncan, also, by the way, 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.159 is as great as the defender Kobe was. Duncan is 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.520 the clear better defender, one of the four greatest defensive 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:28.520 players ever, and the greatest teammate. He and Steph Curri 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:32.600 are the two greatest teammates of the modern era. I'm 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:36.439 not listen. I have Kobe six, I have Duncan, you know, 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:38.840 not far ahead of him. I don't want to spoil 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:42.520 the list. So it's not like it's not arguable, but 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:47.240 it is the arguments for that Kobe folks make, which 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:49.760 is that Duncan had the better coach, the better organization, 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:54.359 and the better teammates. The Spurs were a nothing organization. 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:58.200 Popovich had done nothing in this league, and David Robinson, 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:01.560 as great as he was, had been to an NBA finals. 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:05.320 Munch Let's want a championship. Kobe went to the Los 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:08.639 Angeles Lakers with a six time champion head coach and 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:12.040 Sequille O'Neill. So I'm not taking anything away from Kobe. 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:13.960 I think Duncan is fairly out of them. But I 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:16.640 went too long. I'm taking away our time to talk tennis. 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:17.720 So we'll be right back. 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:26.320 We're so done with New Year, New you. This year, 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:30.440 it's more you on bumbo. More of you shamelessly sending playlists, 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:33.000 especially that one filled with show tunes. More of you 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:36.120 finding geminis because you know you always liked them. More 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:38.399 of you dating with intention because you know what you 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:40.840 want and you know what We love that for you. 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:43.880 Someone else will too, be more you this year and 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:44.920 find them on bumble. 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:53.960 Durant tweeting about chet from last night. 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:55.520 What's he got to say? 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:58.040 I see you cooking seven first day on the job 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:01.399 was success. Love the kick at jeded holmgering because he 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:06.680 was wearing Katie's new shoes. Oh, I'm telling you, Durant 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.280 back to He's not gonna do it, but they could 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:15.520 make it work. They have all the picks in the world. 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:17.560 And the nets need that right. 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:23.320 The nets need the picks. They could they and Durant 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:26.600 listen Durant has done a lot of stuff, and then 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:29.639 we'll get into the B block. But Durant's done a 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:33.360 lot of stuff, intentionally or not that are very similar 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:37.520 to Lebron's career arc. Starting a small market got him 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:41.959 to a finals at age twenty two, looked like, oh, 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:44.720 they're gonna be there every year. Never got back, got 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:48.440 dissolution there? Left Where did he go to a team 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:55.120 that had an MVP caliber player who had already won 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:59.480 a championship without him? For Lebron, that's Miami. For Durant, 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:01.840 it's Golden State. Now, those weren't the same situations, they 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:08.280 were similar stays there for UH wins two championships there, 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:12.520 and somehow it feels like AH probably could have won more. 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:17.800 But when two championships there and left, Lebron goes to 0:24:17.800 --> 0:24:22.879 the Lakers, sets up shop on you know, one coast 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:28.639 business empire and basketball has someone another star come play with. 0:24:29.440 --> 0:24:32.560 Durant goes to Brooklyn, sets up shop. Is in a 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:37.879 star coming? What's the difference? Durant skipped the most important 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:43.920 step for Lebron, the homecoming, going back to well, yes, 0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:46.720 of course, the champion of the Lakers put Lebron between Miami, 0:24:46.720 --> 0:24:50.320 and the Lakers went back to Cleveland wins the title. 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:53.320 When Lebron went back to Cleveland, what did they have 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:57.280 a young All Star caliber point guard who had never 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:03.000 played in a playoff game, irving Shay Gilgess Alexander What 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:06.399 did Cleveland also just got a top two pick that 0:25:06.480 --> 0:25:08.960 they could either keep or trade for an All Star? 0:25:09.560 --> 0:25:14.040 What the thunder just gave Chet Holmgren? It it fixed 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:18.600 man and I it would be the only thing place 0:25:18.680 --> 0:25:22.280 he could go that would be met with universal approval. Yeah, 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:24.719 so I don't I don't think it's gonna happen, but 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:27.679 I do find it interesting. Not nearly as interesting as 0:25:27.680 --> 0:25:30.200 I find Wimbledon, though. Right now, so let's get going 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:33.159 with the second segment of the show, Welcome back in Demons. 0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:33.680 Go ahead. 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:37.080 You got three games in one segment coming up, really. 0:25:37.640 --> 0:25:39.800 And one of them involves talking tennis yep. 0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:41.720 And the first one is, yeah, I think this is 0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:43.840 a new one actually tennis quarter. 0:25:44.040 --> 0:25:45.479 Oh, it's a new one. But it's gonna be here 0:25:45.520 --> 0:25:47.840 to stay, because you know why, Before I even before 0:25:47.880 --> 0:25:50.680 you even answer the ask me the question getting off 0:25:50.680 --> 0:25:54.840 the plane from Chicago Sunday, before I even get to 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:58.520 baggage claim. Guy stops me. He's like, hey, saw you 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:01.840 on the flight. Just want of this you and thank you. 0:26:01.920 --> 0:26:05.400 I'm like, yeah for what for talking tennis? Man? 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:07.840 Yeah? I see that on Twitter a lot too. Yeah. 0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:10.600 You know why because because there is a dearth it's 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:13.000 just me and mad Dog Russo of people that want 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:15.840 to talk tennis on major platforms. All right, go ahead? 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:19.040 Uh yeah. So apparently when Wimbledon is going. 0:26:18.880 --> 0:26:19.879 On, Wimbledon's going on. 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:22.679 Found that out this morning. Yeah, pretty wild. They're changing 0:26:22.680 --> 0:26:24.359 it up now and they're playing on grass. 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:26.960 Okay, Wimbledon's always been on grass, but go ahead. 0:26:26.760 --> 0:26:27.760 Okay, I thought it was new. 0:26:27.880 --> 0:26:30.640 But yes, your show. I can't stop you from talking 0:26:30.640 --> 0:26:32.520 about it. Oh what would you like to talk about? 0:26:32.720 --> 0:26:36.720 First of all this weekend? If you said scene the 0:26:36.840 --> 0:26:40.800 Curios Citypas match, you would have become a tennis fan. 0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:41.320 Okay. 0:26:41.359 --> 0:26:48.360 So Curios is like wildly talented but incredibly emotional. Underachieved 0:26:48.840 --> 0:26:51.439 is the fact of the matter. Cizzy Boss has his 0:26:51.480 --> 0:26:54.840 own issues, Like he takes these long bathroom breaks which 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:57.600 people feel like are really rest breaks. 0:26:57.640 --> 0:26:58.320 But what do you do? 0:26:58.400 --> 0:27:00.400 Like He's like, I got you to the bathroom rests, 0:27:00.840 --> 0:27:04.080 So Curios was talking mad trash to him, and he 0:27:04.160 --> 0:27:07.280 got in Citipas's head and all of a sudden, Citipas 0:27:07.440 --> 0:27:12.320 is like firing balls into the crowd, almost domed in 0:27:12.400 --> 0:27:13.000 old lady. 0:27:13.440 --> 0:27:13.919 Oh wow. 0:27:14.080 --> 0:27:17.600 And then also on a couple points instead of trying 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:19.800 to like cause in tennis you just like try to 0:27:19.800 --> 0:27:22.080 paint the corners, hit it where the guy is. He 0:27:22.200 --> 0:27:26.679 was just hitting it right atos. It was unbelievable, and 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:29.840 Curios won and it was dope as hell, and then 0:27:29.880 --> 0:27:32.000 Averward Citypaz like I think he was a bully in 0:27:32.080 --> 0:27:35.120 high school and all this stuff. But now we are, 0:27:35.720 --> 0:27:39.119 we are on the precipice of what could be an 0:27:39.359 --> 0:27:43.800 amazing semi final and then final. So right now as 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:47.280 we're recording Rafa, Rafa and a doll, we've talked about him. Yeah, 0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:49.480 the fret, you know, the clay court legend also got 0:27:49.600 --> 0:27:53.560 twenty two majors. Uh. He's in a dog fight right 0:27:53.600 --> 0:27:58.680 now in the quarters against Taylor Fritz in America. Curios 0:27:58.800 --> 0:28:01.080 just won as we're recording the first set in a 0:28:01.119 --> 0:28:04.359 match he absolutely should win if they both win, and 0:28:04.400 --> 0:28:08.080 I believe Rafa hopefully can come back. We have Rafa 0:28:08.240 --> 0:28:12.480 versus Curios in the Semis biggest match of Curios' life 0:28:12.480 --> 0:28:15.960 by a mile, by a mile, and Rafa's banged up. 0:28:16.440 --> 0:28:18.640 If he wins and he has a chance to win Wimbledon, 0:28:18.920 --> 0:28:23.119 it changes his career forever. If Rafa wins, and Rafa 0:28:23.480 --> 0:28:26.359 after the year that he has had the idea that 0:28:26.520 --> 0:28:30.760 he might at this point in his career become I 0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:36.200 think it's the first guy since Rod Labor to win 0:28:36.400 --> 0:28:39.480 all four Grand Slams in a calendar year, because he 0:28:39.520 --> 0:28:41.880 won the Australian, he won the French. But on the 0:28:41.920 --> 0:28:46.360 other side of the bracket is Djokovic, and Djokovic has 0:28:46.440 --> 0:28:48.880 been the best player of the last eight years, even 0:28:48.920 --> 0:28:52.440 better than Rafa. And so we could get a Rafa 0:28:52.480 --> 0:28:58.440 Djokovic final or a Curios Djokovic final. Either way, it'll 0:28:58.480 --> 0:29:00.600 be out of this world. And I know you're not 0:29:00.720 --> 0:29:03.440 into the tennis, but because I knew we were going 0:29:03.480 --> 0:29:05.600 to talk about this, I want to just describe to 0:29:05.680 --> 0:29:09.240 you how utterly dominant these guys have been. So I 0:29:09.280 --> 0:29:12.280 did some research this morning, some numbers for you. Okay, 0:29:13.120 --> 0:29:17.280 So since two thousand and four, right, there have been 0:29:17.440 --> 0:29:22.320 seventy five major championships play, Okay, so that's the Australian Open, 0:29:22.360 --> 0:29:24.520 the French Open, Wimbledon, the US Open. Those are four 0:29:24.560 --> 0:29:27.000 tournaments that matter. Since two thousand and four, there have 0:29:27.080 --> 0:29:29.000 been seventy five. This is the seventy six, the one 0:29:29.680 --> 0:29:35.360 right now, Djokovic, Federer and Nadal, the big three. Okay, 0:29:35.400 --> 0:29:37.080 those are the guys I've been telling you about. Federer 0:29:37.120 --> 0:29:41.160 at this point's basically done, and Nadal should be done, 0:29:41.200 --> 0:29:47.280 but he's still somehow killing it. Of those seventy five majors, 0:29:47.840 --> 0:29:50.800 those three guys before I even give you the number, 0:29:50.880 --> 0:29:54.360 leg little context. Prior to those three guys existing, the 0:29:54.360 --> 0:29:59.320 most majors anyone had ever won was fourteen. From four 0:29:59.360 --> 0:30:02.000 to right now, been seventy five majors played. Those three 0:30:02.040 --> 0:30:07.160 guys have won sixty one of them. They've won sixty 0:30:07.640 --> 0:30:10.960 one majors of the last seventy five. Of the last 0:30:10.960 --> 0:30:16.280 seventy five majors played, there have been five where at 0:30:16.400 --> 0:30:19.960 least one of them was not in the final. Seventy 0:30:20.040 --> 0:30:21.880 of the seventy five at least one of them in 0:30:21.920 --> 0:30:23.840 the final, and most of them it's been two of 0:30:23.880 --> 0:30:28.280 them playing each other. So like Djokovic has made thirty 0:30:28.280 --> 0:30:32.360 one major finals, won twenty of them, and six of 0:30:32.400 --> 0:30:35.720 his eleven losses were against Federer and an adult, but 0:30:35.760 --> 0:30:38.240 that's not even as impressive as the other guys. Federer's 0:30:38.360 --> 0:30:43.000 also twenty majors with eleven losses in the final, eleven 0:30:43.000 --> 0:30:46.720 second places, but ten of those losses came to Nadal 0:30:47.040 --> 0:30:51.880 or Joker. And then Nadal has twenty two wins and 0:30:51.960 --> 0:30:57.560 eight losses, and seven of those came to Federer or Djokovic. 0:30:57.880 --> 0:31:00.080 And we might get it again. We might get a 0:31:00.160 --> 0:31:03.200 doll Djokovic again. When the doll's trying to go for 0:31:03.240 --> 0:31:06.800 the first see you know true Grand Slam. I think 0:31:06.840 --> 0:31:09.600 it's a drod labor. I know only one guy's done it. 0:31:09.600 --> 0:31:13.400 It's exciting, man, it's great. High level tennis is great. 0:31:13.880 --> 0:31:16.600 I know you look dump, you look stupefied by what 0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:21.160 I'm saying right now. But the numbers are impossible to understand. 0:31:21.280 --> 0:31:23.760 So like golf, do they get do they get jackets 0:31:23.840 --> 0:31:26.200 or do they get like a like a no, they. 0:31:26.040 --> 0:31:28.480 Get like so like second place. Let me show you 0:31:28.480 --> 0:31:32.720 real quick. It's pretty cool for Wimbledon trophies because the 0:31:33.240 --> 0:31:37.320 winner's trophy is unbelievable and the second place trophy is 0:31:37.520 --> 0:31:40.120 just like a plate. So that's what the winner gets, 0:31:40.120 --> 0:31:43.360 that's what second place gets. It looks it is pretty 0:31:43.360 --> 0:31:44.640 cool you get something. 0:31:44.760 --> 0:31:46.760 I like that a lot more than the green jacket. 0:31:47.040 --> 0:31:52.520 The green jacket is kind of bougie, you know, country clubbing. Yeah, no, no, no, 0:31:52.640 --> 0:31:54.720 it's great. Man. I want to go to Wimbledon so 0:31:54.880 --> 0:31:55.520 bad one day. 0:31:55.720 --> 0:31:56.520 Yeah, do you want to? 0:31:56.560 --> 0:31:59.200 I look it up? Hold on, sorry, I know there's 0:31:59.240 --> 0:32:01.480 like eight minutes on tennis, but I got it. Do 0:32:01.520 --> 0:32:04.040 you want to know what the Wimbledon final tickets are 0:32:04.080 --> 0:32:04.840 going for? Right now? 0:32:05.400 --> 0:32:08.840 People are out here buying Wimbledon tickets instead of buying 0:32:08.840 --> 0:32:10.280 a PS five or something. 0:32:10.800 --> 0:32:12.080 It's ridiculous. 0:32:12.600 --> 0:32:16.960 The Wimbledon Men's final. What do you think the cheapest 0:32:17.000 --> 0:32:21.520 ticket is the cheapest ticket to get in Lisbon? Give 0:32:21.560 --> 0:32:22.000 it a guess? 0:32:22.600 --> 0:32:24.440 Nosebleeds or do they even know? They won't? 0:32:24.520 --> 0:32:25.880 I mean it's not it's not like it's not a 0:32:25.920 --> 0:32:26.520 football stitty. 0:32:27.000 --> 0:32:28.840 Yeah, but I'm gonna say fifteen hundred. 0:32:28.560 --> 0:32:33.880 Bucks eighty two hundred euros, so it's like ten thousand 0:32:33.920 --> 0:32:37.680 dollars the cheapest ticket if you want to sit next 0:32:37.720 --> 0:32:39.560 to oh that you can't even sit next to the 0:32:39.640 --> 0:32:41.520 Royal box anymore. Who do you think sits in. 0:32:41.440 --> 0:32:42.880 The royal box at queen. 0:32:43.120 --> 0:32:47.000 Oh yeah, you bet your ass, Yeah, you bet your ass. 0:32:47.040 --> 0:32:49.800 And if she can't make it, remember the royal family goes. Okay, 0:32:49.880 --> 0:32:53.360 all right, So when people see, see or hear this, 0:32:53.560 --> 0:32:56.080 they'll know if Curios are not all of one. We 0:32:56.160 --> 0:32:58.960 are rooting for Curios and and all to win, and 0:32:59.000 --> 0:33:00.760 we are rooting for the winner of Curios and a 0:33:00.840 --> 0:33:04.360 doll to beat Djokovic. We're not Djokovic fans. We like Federer, 0:33:04.560 --> 0:33:07.320 we love Nadol. Curios is a guy you would enjoy 0:33:07.880 --> 0:33:11.000 rooting for it. Forget Jokovic. Not a big Jokovic fan. Okay, 0:33:11.160 --> 0:33:13.680 that was a solid eight minutes on Wimbledon. 0:33:13.760 --> 0:33:16.080 I didn't think you could do that. 0:33:16.320 --> 0:33:19.480 Well, it's tennis. That's amazing, all right, next next game, 0:33:19.640 --> 0:33:20.880 Sorry about that, guys, let's go. 0:33:21.040 --> 0:33:22.120 Nick makes it right. 0:33:22.480 --> 0:33:25.920 We're gonna talk about tanking in the NBA seasons months away, 0:33:25.920 --> 0:33:28.640 and it seems like half the league is tanking already. 0:33:28.680 --> 0:33:32.160 You know why, because they want vic Victor I pronounced 0:33:32.200 --> 0:33:37.160 Victor when whim ban Yama. Have you seen this guy? 0:33:38.360 --> 0:33:40.400 And guessing is like a seven foot or something. 0:33:42.160 --> 0:33:44.640 He's a seven foot three inch French kid. Let me 0:33:44.680 --> 0:33:46.520 just show you him real quick and then we can 0:33:46.520 --> 0:33:46.720 do it. 0:33:46.760 --> 0:33:47.640 I might have seen a clip. 0:33:47.840 --> 0:33:53.600 Actually, oh, I mean the I mean this guy is Okay, 0:33:53.640 --> 0:33:56.720 you asked the question, and while I am, you're gonna 0:33:56.720 --> 0:33:58.880 watch these highlights of this freak show. All right. 0:33:58.920 --> 0:34:01.440 So the Spurs pacers in jazz or trading, trading their 0:34:01.440 --> 0:34:05.560 starts for picks, rockets and thunders, Rockets, Thunder and Kings 0:34:05.600 --> 0:34:08.759 are basically making no moves. The Blazers and Knicks are 0:34:08.840 --> 0:34:11.160 kind of fake trying right now, but they'll be taking soon. 0:34:11.360 --> 0:34:12.680 How do we stop thanking in the NBA? 0:34:12.800 --> 0:34:15.560 Okay, So here's the thing. While I answer, you, just 0:34:16.000 --> 0:34:17.839 go ahead and watch. You'll be able to tell which 0:34:17.840 --> 0:34:21.080 one is the seven foot three inch French freak that's 0:34:21.120 --> 0:34:23.560 gonna go number one overall next year. Here's the deal. 0:34:25.120 --> 0:34:29.120 I don't mind what the Spurs did. I don't mind 0:34:29.280 --> 0:34:34.640 trading away your best player and then trying what Here's 0:34:34.680 --> 0:34:39.320 what I don't like beinching quality players because you're trying 0:34:39.320 --> 0:34:42.400 to lose that If the guy's on your team and 0:34:42.440 --> 0:34:45.640 he helps you win, you should play it. But if 0:34:45.680 --> 0:34:48.239 you're just saying, we know we can't compete this year. 0:34:48.440 --> 0:34:50.600 So We're gonna try our hardest to win every game. 0:34:50.719 --> 0:34:52.040 We're just not gonna be able to do it because 0:34:52.040 --> 0:34:56.000 our players stink, and they stink intentionally. I'm good with it, 0:34:56.320 --> 0:34:58.640 Like I'm actually okay with that way of going about it. 0:34:58.840 --> 0:35:03.960 The other factor is this, the NBA changed the odds. 0:35:04.200 --> 0:35:06.720 What because you don't know what the how they flatten 0:35:06.800 --> 0:35:08.920 the odds? What if you have the worst record in 0:35:08.960 --> 0:35:11.719 the NBA, what percent chance do you think you have 0:35:11.800 --> 0:35:12.720 of getting the number. 0:35:12.560 --> 0:35:13.319 One overall pick? 0:35:14.280 --> 0:35:16.000 Like give it a guess, Like what because you know 0:35:16.040 --> 0:35:16.640 it's a lottery. 0:35:16.760 --> 0:35:21.280 So they fourteen if you're the worst team, the worst. 0:35:21.040 --> 0:35:24.840 Team, they've flattened it. So the bottom four teams, they 0:35:24.880 --> 0:35:29.120 all have a fourteen percent chance or it's fourteen, fourteen, twelve. 0:35:29.560 --> 0:35:31.359 How do they pick it? 0:35:31.360 --> 0:35:36.040 It's literally ping pong balls. Okay, And so point is this, 0:35:36.680 --> 0:35:40.600 You can try to tank, but you still have fourteen 0:35:40.640 --> 0:35:42.959 percent is one and seven. If you have the worst 0:35:43.000 --> 0:35:44.880 record in basketball, you still have a six out of 0:35:44.880 --> 0:35:46.719 seven chance that you're not going to get the number 0:35:46.760 --> 0:35:49.239 one pick and a fifty percent chance that you're not 0:35:49.280 --> 0:35:51.759 even going to get a top three pick or top 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:55.680 four pick. Now they've changed it so it's risky. What 0:35:55.800 --> 0:36:00.719 I don't like is when you have you could compete, 0:36:01.160 --> 0:36:04.080 and instead you bench your quality players because you're trying 0:36:04.120 --> 0:36:05.960 to lose. But I think the NBA has done what 0:36:06.000 --> 0:36:07.839 they can. I don't think tanking is big as big 0:36:07.880 --> 0:36:10.560 of a deal as other people do. I'm also more 0:36:10.560 --> 0:36:12.520 interested in Wimbledon than I am in tanking, which twy 0:36:12.520 --> 0:36:13.239 I spent more time on it. 0:36:13.280 --> 0:36:15.400 All right, last game though, this this guy's amazing. 0:36:15.600 --> 0:36:17.640 Yeah, you know, he's pretty good. I mean's a nineteen 0:36:17.680 --> 0:36:19.239 year old seven foot three in French kid. 0:36:19.320 --> 0:36:20.799 Yeah, I mean he's pretty good. He's got a little 0:36:20.880 --> 0:36:22.360 little Bois game. Yeah. 0:36:22.360 --> 0:36:25.240 So this or that, Yeah, so much has been happening 0:36:25.239 --> 0:36:25.920 in free agency. 0:36:26.000 --> 0:36:28.080 So we put a bunch of this or that's together. Okay, 0:36:28.120 --> 0:36:30.080 we'll do a Yeah, we'll do as mean as you 0:36:30.080 --> 0:36:30.799 can get to at the time. 0:36:30.840 --> 0:36:35.800 Left, So starting with big extensions, bigger no brainer Booker 0:36:35.880 --> 0:36:36.400 or Jokic. 0:36:37.480 --> 0:36:40.879 Oh, they're equal, no brainers, they're ondred percent. They both 0:36:40.880 --> 0:36:43.040 one hundred percent. Have to get the max, the super max, 0:36:43.080 --> 0:36:45.880 all of it. Yeah, they're both all NBA caliber guys. 0:36:46.000 --> 0:36:49.040 I don't think MVP, but it's clearly all NBA caliber guys, 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:51.440 those are both one hundred percent no brainers. All right, 0:36:51.480 --> 0:36:56.120 go brighter future, Zion or Job. That one's so hard. 0:36:56.640 --> 0:37:01.000 Joh's accomplished more. Josh sneaky Lee, to me, is also 0:37:01.040 --> 0:37:03.719 a health risk because of the way he plays. I 0:37:03.760 --> 0:37:07.759 think Zion's ceiling is higher, but given what Jaw's accomplished, 0:37:08.160 --> 0:37:10.359 You've got to give the nod to Ja. But if 0:37:10.480 --> 0:37:12.560 Zion stays healthy, he will win a league. 0:37:12.680 --> 0:37:14.160 I was about to say, you think the way I 0:37:14.440 --> 0:37:16.960 guess Zion seems like a. 0:37:17.120 --> 0:37:20.880 No of Zion's is the biggest injury risk. My point is, 0:37:21.120 --> 0:37:23.560 I actually think Josh sneakily is a pretty big injury 0:37:23.640 --> 0:37:24.279 risk as well. 0:37:24.440 --> 0:37:25.920 Right, I'm waiting to happen. 0:37:26.040 --> 0:37:27.960 Just because of the style of his play. But I'll 0:37:28.000 --> 0:37:30.000 give it to Joe, even though I adore Zion. 0:37:30.120 --> 0:37:33.719 Next more painful uh Zach Lavine or Bradley Beal. 0:37:33.840 --> 0:37:35.960 Oh, I think the bal extension is a killer, and 0:37:36.000 --> 0:37:38.239 I like Bradley a lot. I know him a little bit. 0:37:38.440 --> 0:37:40.840 But a quarter billion for Bradley Beal when he's probably 0:37:40.880 --> 0:37:43.800 gonna ask out in a year and he has given 0:37:43.800 --> 0:37:46.040 no indications gonna ask out, I just think he probably 0:37:46.120 --> 0:37:48.560 is that and then it becomes a hard contract. The 0:37:48.600 --> 0:37:50.640 more painful one is Bradley Beal next. 0:37:51.080 --> 0:37:53.600 Better Bet Garland or Simmons Simons. 0:37:53.640 --> 0:37:58.400 I think Simons, No, no, no, no, you're fine already. Uh, 0:37:58.520 --> 0:38:02.319 Darius Garland Darry Anthony Simons is a bit of an 0:38:02.360 --> 0:38:04.560 overpay to me. I think Darius Garland's really really good 0:38:04.600 --> 0:38:06.720 and he's gonna look keep it better alongside Lebron. 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:08.040 Lebron goes back in a year. 0:38:08.200 --> 0:38:09.480 Okay, do we still have more? 0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:11.400 Do we do have a few? 0:38:11.560 --> 0:38:15.120 Lets do it next under the radar, under the radar signings, 0:38:15.719 --> 0:38:17.359 bigger impact. 0:38:17.600 --> 0:38:24.640 Sorry, so this one. Dante DiVincenzo de devin Cenzo. Okay, 0:38:24.760 --> 0:38:26.680 Dante DiVincenzo. 0:38:26.160 --> 0:38:29.960 This is where you know I'm Italian Demonse happens not 0:38:30.040 --> 0:38:33.040 to be and it showed there. That's okay, go ahead. 0:38:32.920 --> 0:38:33.800 Or Bruce Brown. 0:38:34.680 --> 0:38:37.920 I liked Dante DiVincenzo, and I think on the Wars 0:38:37.920 --> 0:38:39.960 with a bunch open threes, he's gonna look good. But 0:38:40.040 --> 0:38:42.680 I called around the league because I couldn't believe how 0:38:42.760 --> 0:38:45.040 cheap he was, and a lot of the smart people 0:38:45.040 --> 0:38:48.560 around the league said it doesn't measure out well. Okay, 0:38:48.560 --> 0:38:52.759 and so Bruce Brown also like Bruce Brown as an 0:38:52.880 --> 0:38:55.640 eighth man for Denver. I think that works all right. 0:38:55.680 --> 0:38:57.800 Next okay, more likely to swing title. 0:38:58.000 --> 0:38:58.239 P J. 0:38:58.400 --> 0:38:59.600 Tucker or Joe Ingles. 0:38:59.680 --> 0:39:01.879 Joe and Joe Ingles is gonna hit a big three 0:39:01.880 --> 0:39:05.319 in a big spot for Philly. I'm sorry for Milwaukee. 0:39:05.640 --> 0:39:06.280 At some point. 0:39:06.320 --> 0:39:06.560 PJ. 0:39:06.719 --> 0:39:09.080 Tucker is gonna be too old. He played well in 0:39:09.080 --> 0:39:11.759 these playoffs. But I'll say Joe Ingles for Milwaukee. 0:39:11.760 --> 0:39:16.880 Next okay. Better, uh, worse move Marvin Bagley or Lou Dort. 0:39:16.920 --> 0:39:19.399 All right, Marvin Bagley three for thirty eight or Lou 0:39:19.480 --> 0:39:24.600 Dort's incomprehensible five for eighty eight. I actually think Marvin 0:39:24.640 --> 0:39:27.040 Bagley was the worst move because I thought Marvin Bagley 0:39:27.080 --> 0:39:30.319 was gonna get one year eight million Dort. OKC has 0:39:30.440 --> 0:39:32.839 to spend money. You have to get to salary cap, 0:39:32.840 --> 0:39:35.120 but there's also a minimum spend, and they got all 0:39:35.280 --> 0:39:37.839 guys on rookie contracts. Dort's played hard for him. He's 0:39:37.840 --> 0:39:40.799 an excellent defender, He's turned into a passable shooter. They're 0:39:40.840 --> 0:39:43.080 both overpays Bagley's is worse, all right. 0:39:43.160 --> 0:39:46.560 Last better role player JaVale McGee or Gary Payton. 0:39:48.080 --> 0:39:52.000 Gary Payton's the better player. But what Dallas did was smart, 0:39:52.120 --> 0:39:57.080 which is when you can get like think about the 0:39:57.120 --> 0:40:00.160 money Rudy Gobert commands and the draft picks he can, 0:40:00.640 --> 0:40:04.080 you can get sixty percent of him, which is Javaial 0:40:04.200 --> 0:40:08.359 McGee for ten percent of the cost. So I think 0:40:08.400 --> 0:40:11.200 that's a smart signing by Dallas. But Gary Payton Junior 0:40:11.239 --> 0:40:13.719 is a better player and exactly what Portland needs. All Right, 0:40:13.960 --> 0:40:15.920 that was a long segment, but it was worth it, 0:40:16.120 --> 0:40:19.279 jam packed with info. They won't tell me what we're 0:40:19.320 --> 0:40:22.719 doing in the C block, Demanse says he has a 0:40:22.920 --> 0:40:25.919 tail from my trip to Chicago, which I can only 0:40:25.960 --> 0:40:29.840 imagine involves something I did at the casino, which I 0:40:29.960 --> 0:40:31.920 was at till seven in the morning, my first day 0:40:31.960 --> 0:40:32.440 in Chicago. 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:33.560 Yet a hangover night. 0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:43.200 Well, we'll discuss, we'll do that next. What's right, ohoh, 0:40:44.640 --> 0:40:47.520 Cura is up two sets to nothing, so he's gonna 0:40:47.520 --> 0:40:49.560 you gotta win three sets. He's gonna win even though 0:40:49.600 --> 0:40:53.800 Djokovic was down two sets nothing and came storming back yesterday. 0:40:54.000 --> 0:40:56.520 He also did the long bathroom break thing and then 0:40:56.680 --> 0:40:57.480 it was totally good. 0:40:57.560 --> 0:40:59.279 Are you serious right now? 0:41:00.000 --> 0:41:02.040 You don't get to you can't. It's not like time out. 0:41:02.200 --> 0:41:06.160 You did no coach like and these matches are exhausting, bro. Yeah, 0:41:06.520 --> 0:41:08.680 and at some point you're allowed to go to the bathroom, 0:41:08.800 --> 0:41:10.759 but sometimes they take a little longer and then said, 0:41:10.760 --> 0:41:12.239 what are they doing? They're regrouping? 0:41:12.560 --> 0:41:14.520 Of course, Rafa. 0:41:16.440 --> 0:41:18.160 Raffa's got to win this second, stef. 0:41:18.040 --> 0:41:19.840 Hey man, let's just get to let's get to it. 0:41:19.920 --> 0:41:21.560 Okay, you want to all right, welcome back in. We'll 0:41:21.680 --> 0:41:23.839 right with me. Right story, all right, listen. I went 0:41:23.880 --> 0:41:28.560 to Chicago to see two great sports media personalities and 0:41:28.640 --> 0:41:30.840 two of my best friends in the world, Danny Parkins 0:41:30.920 --> 0:41:33.239 and Mark Carmon. They've both I think, shown up at 0:41:33.280 --> 0:41:35.879 various times on our Top fifty players last fifty years. 0:41:35.960 --> 0:41:37.920 Out down shot those boys. 0:41:37.840 --> 0:41:42.040 And bad moment for me. Danny is my best friend 0:41:42.080 --> 0:41:45.560 of twenty years. He has an infant, a two month 0:41:45.600 --> 0:41:47.440 old and a two and a half year old. Ye 0:41:47.960 --> 0:41:50.120 As soon as I got there, because I surprised Danny, 0:41:50.160 --> 0:41:51.759 I told his wife I was coming. As soon as 0:41:51.800 --> 0:41:54.120 I got there, I saw his two and a half 0:41:54.200 --> 0:41:57.879 year old, Owen, and I said, buddy, so uncle Nick, 0:41:58.000 --> 0:42:01.520 I haven't seen you since you were Eli's age. That's 0:42:01.880 --> 0:42:06.040 Danny's baby. And Danny looked at me and goes, uh. 0:42:06.440 --> 0:42:07.279 You've never met him. 0:42:08.160 --> 0:42:14.200 Oh, boy, job by uncle Nick? H kids almost three? 0:42:14.440 --> 0:42:16.719 Just help me. So not a great job by me. 0:42:16.960 --> 0:42:19.160 We had a great weekend. There's something from the weekend 0:42:19.200 --> 0:42:21.960 you want to mock me about. Baby, My wife's walking 0:42:21.960 --> 0:42:23.160 down the stairs. I'm gonna be able to take you 0:42:23.200 --> 0:42:25.040 to work today, baby, So we'll just wait one second 0:42:25.080 --> 0:42:28.600 while we finished this up. All right, go ahead, go ahead. 0:42:30.080 --> 0:42:31.440 So you went to Chicago. 0:42:31.719 --> 0:42:33.880 Yeah, and now this actually has nothing to do with 0:42:34.040 --> 0:42:36.880 the casino, unfortunately, really well fortunately for me. 0:42:37.719 --> 0:42:40.640 Okay, so I crushed it in this five ten. 0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:43.800 I'm glad you did. That's probably why you thought that 0:42:44.040 --> 0:42:46.399 this was gonna Yeah. So you you ended up going 0:42:46.440 --> 0:42:47.239 to a steakhouse. 0:42:47.280 --> 0:42:50.719 I hear, Oh some of the bitch you went to 0:42:50.800 --> 0:42:55.200 a You went to a five star establishment and or 0:42:55.400 --> 0:42:58.080 was wearing a pink jumpsuit that you might have worn. 0:42:58.080 --> 0:43:00.279 On like one of the podcasts you might have gotten 0:43:00.320 --> 0:43:01.080 for Father's Day. 0:43:01.320 --> 0:43:01.520 Yeah. 0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:05.000 Yeah, and so you went there and what happened today? 0:43:05.200 --> 0:43:06.920 What happened when you when you went in? 0:43:09.000 --> 0:43:12.680 Oh you're would your mom tell you about this? 0:43:13.640 --> 0:43:16.840 Somebody? Yeah? Somebody, Oh oh, and she's walking down the stairs. 0:43:16.880 --> 0:43:19.920 You want to join us for this? You want to 0:43:19.920 --> 0:43:22.520 at least sit alongside so you can be heard on. Okay, 0:43:22.560 --> 0:43:25.879 So here's what I have. First of all, it was yes, 0:43:26.000 --> 0:43:27.879 it was a It was a you guys have seen 0:43:27.920 --> 0:43:30.680 it on the show. Is an all pink sweatsuit from 0:43:30.719 --> 0:43:33.920 Scotch and Soda. It's a very nice outfit. It's what 0:43:34.080 --> 0:43:35.480 I wore on the plane. 0:43:35.800 --> 0:43:36.000 Yep. 0:43:36.760 --> 0:43:39.000 Like one of the things I like to do. I 0:43:39.200 --> 0:43:43.279 like to dress super casual and sit in first class 0:43:43.480 --> 0:43:44.920 and just have people kind of will be like, why 0:43:45.000 --> 0:43:46.680 is he up here? It's like, don't you worry about that. 0:43:46.920 --> 0:43:49.600 That's neither here or there. That's that's just you know. 0:43:49.719 --> 0:43:51.799 All right. So I'm finish. I'm about to tell the guy. 0:43:51.800 --> 0:43:54.160 I'm telling everybody what happened right now. Okay. 0:43:55.000 --> 0:43:58.680 So this guy goes into my Maestros Masstros whatever you 0:43:58.760 --> 0:43:59.879 call it, Steakhouts five star. 0:44:00.360 --> 0:44:02.600 So I was to step in and they're like you dude, 0:44:02.640 --> 0:44:04.239 you can't come in. You got this pink jumpson. What 0:44:04.320 --> 0:44:04.759 are you doing? 0:44:05.080 --> 0:44:07.520 And he's like, yo, thus far the story is accurate. Yeah, 0:44:07.600 --> 0:44:09.600 And then he's like, yo, do you guys, just check 0:44:09.680 --> 0:44:10.040 my history. 0:44:10.080 --> 0:44:10.640 I'm pretty sure. 0:44:10.760 --> 0:44:12.680 I is, wait, check check. 0:44:12.600 --> 0:44:14.799 Check my history, check my credentials. Whatever you told them. 0:44:15.200 --> 0:44:17.920 I thought you check my Instagram, which I definitely check 0:44:18.000 --> 0:44:20.319 my check my Instagram. Yeah, I told him to look 0:44:20.440 --> 0:44:21.760 up my customer profile. 0:44:21.960 --> 0:44:22.840 Yeah I am. 0:44:23.160 --> 0:44:25.080 It's like, I'm sure you guys can let me in, 0:44:25.800 --> 0:44:28.800 and they're like, nobody, sorry, you still can't get in. 0:44:29.480 --> 0:44:30.759 And then how did it go after that? 0:44:30.960 --> 0:44:34.759 Like, well, all right, friends, he's saying is accurate to 0:44:34.880 --> 0:44:37.720 this point. So I walked in and I had a feeling. 0:44:37.760 --> 0:44:41.279 I'm like, man, Mastros has a pretty strict dress code 0:44:41.320 --> 0:44:46.440 and I am wearing a hot pink sweatsuit. However, I am. 0:44:47.400 --> 0:44:49.279 I go to Mastros in New York City a lot. 0:44:50.640 --> 0:44:54.440 I spend a lot of money there. And again, I 0:44:54.480 --> 0:44:57.160 I sound like an asshole here, but there's just the truth. 0:44:57.560 --> 0:45:00.320 They even like on the check like they have a 0:45:00.400 --> 0:45:05.040 little line item that says that literally says Mastro's VIP, 0:45:05.800 --> 0:45:07.600 and they take it. You know, they give me a 0:45:07.640 --> 0:45:10.200 few things off the bill because I'm such a good 0:45:10.280 --> 0:45:14.640 customer and I know that they have that in their system. 0:45:15.520 --> 0:45:18.840 So when the guy's like, we can't seat you, I'm like, 0:45:19.120 --> 0:45:24.800 I bet you can't. He's like, sir, we can't, and 0:45:24.920 --> 0:45:27.120 he like points and like they literally have a sign 0:45:27.200 --> 0:45:30.440 that says dress code strictly enforced. I'm like, can you 0:45:30.560 --> 0:45:33.239 just put my name in there? And he's like, I can, 0:45:33.440 --> 0:45:36.200 but I don't think that's gonna help. I'm like, I 0:45:36.280 --> 0:45:39.520 bet it will, and he puts it in and he's like, sir, 0:45:41.120 --> 0:45:45.399 we really do appreciate your business, but I can't let 0:45:45.480 --> 0:45:48.440 you in. He's like, if it was just the sweat shirt, 0:45:49.080 --> 0:45:52.439 maybe I could. He's like, put your wearing sweat sweatsuit. 0:45:53.719 --> 0:45:57.520 And so I was like, all right, like she'll be it. 0:45:58.160 --> 0:46:00.560 So I went back to the car and I was like, 0:46:01.760 --> 0:46:05.120 and well, the car was still at Valet and I'm like, guys, 0:46:05.160 --> 0:46:08.120 don't park it. And the guys at Valet were like 0:46:08.560 --> 0:46:10.920 they wouldn't let you in. Huh. I'm like no, it's 0:46:11.000 --> 0:46:13.200 like and that one of them says it says like 0:46:13.320 --> 0:46:15.040 most of his friend. He was like, we thought they 0:46:15.120 --> 0:46:17.440 might not. I'm like, we should have get it's. 0:46:17.320 --> 0:46:19.680 Like, could have given the equivalent that you try to 0:46:19.760 --> 0:46:22.360 flame me for of me going to the back to 0:46:22.440 --> 0:46:24.040 the NBA store to return my jersey. 0:46:24.080 --> 0:46:27.759 It's quite like, Hey, I'm clearly a basketball player. Okay, 0:46:27.840 --> 0:46:29.920 I should be able to return this jersey. Don't you 0:46:30.000 --> 0:46:32.719 see my physic it's going to take it back for me. 0:46:32.920 --> 0:46:35.520 It's not quite the same, but I understand. So then 0:46:35.560 --> 0:46:37.319 I had to make a choice because I really wanted 0:46:37.320 --> 0:46:41.840 to get Mestros because it is a great steakhout. Do 0:46:42.040 --> 0:46:45.839 I stand on pride and just go somewhere else? By 0:46:45.880 --> 0:46:47.920 the way, it's Friday night in Chicago. We don't have 0:46:48.000 --> 0:46:51.480 reservations elsewhere, yeah, Or I just come from the airport. 0:46:51.840 --> 0:46:55.400 I literally have clothes in the car. Do I just change? 0:46:56.560 --> 0:46:58.520 And I thought about it. I would have changed, and 0:46:58.640 --> 0:47:02.279 I changed. Yeah, And I went came back in, and 0:47:02.400 --> 0:47:05.440 the guy who denied me entry was no longer your pride. 0:47:05.160 --> 0:47:06.680 Thing was just like, you're not about to make me 0:47:06.800 --> 0:47:08.960 change on my clothes and exactly right. 0:47:09.200 --> 0:47:10.920 But then I did because I wanted to eat there. 0:47:11.400 --> 0:47:14.360 So now this is the part of the story. Your 0:47:14.400 --> 0:47:19.120 mom doesn't know. So we come back in and uh, 0:47:19.520 --> 0:47:21.600 he's not there anymore. And I just walked back and 0:47:21.719 --> 0:47:23.399 act like I hadn't been there before. It's like, hey, 0:47:23.719 --> 0:47:27.840 Nick Wright, eight o'clock reservation, and this lady looks it up, 0:47:27.960 --> 0:47:30.319 But there's this different lady who was standing there who 0:47:30.360 --> 0:47:34.279 saw the whole first. There's two hostesses, so Hostess two 0:47:34.520 --> 0:47:36.040 is the one helping me. She didn't see any of 0:47:36.040 --> 0:47:38.360 the first thing. Hostess one, who's just watching, did see it. 0:47:38.440 --> 0:47:40.040 Post Who's like, oh, yeah, no problem, we have your 0:47:40.080 --> 0:47:42.279 table already. Sweet, I don't want to deal with any 0:47:42.280 --> 0:47:44.680 of this. But now the other hostess is walking us 0:47:44.719 --> 0:47:48.839 to the table. She seats us sit down, and she said, 0:47:49.200 --> 0:47:51.719 for the record, I thought your sweatsuit was pretty fly. 0:47:52.160 --> 0:47:57.360 And my argument is dress codes should be yes, you 0:47:57.400 --> 0:48:00.719 can have a dress code, with the exception being did 0:48:00.800 --> 0:48:04.240 you put is it an outfit? Did you put time 0:48:04.440 --> 0:48:05.480 and thought into it? 0:48:05.960 --> 0:48:08.480 And okay, I don't know about time and thought. It's 0:48:08.520 --> 0:48:10.400 a sweatsuit, but it was. 0:48:10.560 --> 0:48:13.640 It matched, it went together, it was I'm not trying 0:48:13.680 --> 0:48:16.640 to sound like an asshole again, it was expensive, like 0:48:16.840 --> 0:48:20.120 I'm not I'm not there in basketball shorts. But so 0:48:20.400 --> 0:48:26.239 then we sit down all of a sudden, all of 0:48:26.320 --> 0:48:30.440 a sudden, they we ordered our drinks and before you've 0:48:30.440 --> 0:48:33.960 even ordered appetizers, there's like three appetizers you brought to 0:48:34.000 --> 0:48:36.440 the table. And I'm like, I told the person Brianna 0:48:36.600 --> 0:48:38.800 was like, we didn't order these, and he's like, no, 0:48:38.920 --> 0:48:44.040 it's from our manager. Like, oh my guy, it did 0:48:44.120 --> 0:48:47.040 look me up in the system. But then they flamed me. 0:48:48.160 --> 0:48:51.160 They flamed me, buddy. So like they were all nice. 0:48:51.160 --> 0:48:55.640 They gave us some free stuff and they have a 0:48:55.800 --> 0:48:58.400 do you know what a cosmo is? No, cosmo is a. 0:48:58.440 --> 0:48:59.800 Drink, but it's oh yeah, Cosmo. 0:49:00.120 --> 0:49:05.839 It's hot pink. They brought me a Cosmo and said 0:49:05.920 --> 0:49:08.000 that's that you couldn't wear your sweatsuit. 0:49:08.120 --> 0:49:11.040 We thought you might enjoy this amazing. 0:49:11.120 --> 0:49:15.000 But you know what, And I said to the guy 0:49:15.040 --> 0:49:17.520 because when I was leaving. As we were leaving, he 0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:19.839 came over to apologize and I said, you know what, sir, 0:49:20.520 --> 0:49:22.759 that was a little lit. But I was like, you 0:49:22.840 --> 0:49:25.800 know what, sir, I've thought about this. You were correct, 0:49:26.400 --> 0:49:30.239 because I can tell you this much right now. Had 0:49:30.280 --> 0:49:33.920 you let me in and then denied someone else that 0:49:34.000 --> 0:49:36.840 maybe didn't look like me or didn't have my customer profile, 0:49:37.840 --> 0:49:39.680 I would have been well, I would have been angry 0:49:39.680 --> 0:49:42.160 about that. If I saw them let me in and 0:49:42.239 --> 0:49:45.239 then let someone then deny somebody else that looked different 0:49:45.280 --> 0:49:47.879 than me, I would have I said, I thought about it. Man. 0:49:48.080 --> 0:49:49.840 It was like I was wrong, you were right. You 0:49:50.000 --> 0:49:53.000 handled this exactly the way you should have. And I apologize. 0:49:53.080 --> 0:49:55.400 I apologize. You know I'm not a big apology guy. 0:49:55.600 --> 0:49:59.480 I apologize. I made it right, your god dog right. 0:49:59.560 --> 0:50:01.200 I made it alright. Now I gotta go. I gotta 0:50:01.200 --> 0:50:03.040 watch tennis, alright, so you have a good show. Talk 0:50:03.040 --> 0:50:03.880 to you guys this weekend.