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Speaker 3: Should I do it an hour later.
Speaker 4: Should you do what I owe you?
Speaker 3: Something I owe you?
Speaker 4: Oh? Oh yes, I know exactly what you owe me.
Speaker 4: What you owe me an apology?
Speaker 3: What do I owe you an apology?
Speaker 5: Because you thought something was going to fall through the
Speaker 5: texts and I wasn't going to be on time because
Speaker 5: I woke up on our glue time and I made
Speaker 5: it here earlier than half the producers.
Speaker 3: Well, in fairness to them there there. I mean it's
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's a little earlier out there, but yeah,
Speaker 3: you are correct. I had a bit of trepidation. Welcome in.
Speaker 3: We are back with a fresh new episode of What's
Speaker 3: Right with Nick? Right after we had a quick little
Speaker 3: well weekend off for the fourth of July. We hope
Speaker 3: you had a wonderful Fourth of July weekend. Understandably, kind
Speaker 3: of a tough time at least for me to fully
Speaker 3: celebrate and enjoy the Fourth of July, given everything happening
Speaker 3: in the world and in this country. However, we hope
Speaker 3: you at least got a day off work, maybe add
Speaker 3: some cold beverages, some good barbecue. We were able to
Speaker 3: unwind a bit. But we are back and rolling. I
Speaker 3: am calling our shot on today's show. I think today
Speaker 3: is going to be a top three episode we've ever
Speaker 3: done of the regular shows. Now all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: on our YouTube page, by the way, the fifty greatest
Speaker 3: players of the last fifty years, those episodes are doing outstanding.
Speaker 3: We just did Larry Bird and Kobe Bryant coming up
Speaker 3: next are the fifth and fourth ranked players in the series.
Speaker 3: And we actually on today's show will be discussing Kobe
Speaker 3: versus one of those guys that's coming up in this
Speaker 3: weekend's episode. We'll discuss that in a few minutes. Also,
Speaker 3: while we are recording, I'm calling that my shot that
Speaker 3: today's show is going to be excellent, despite the fact
Speaker 3: that I'm gonna be a little distracted because off over
Speaker 3: there right now while we're recording is Wimbledon. Oh yes,
Speaker 3: the air the.
Speaker 4: Greatest wimbled was over No, that was okay, that.
Speaker 3: Was the French Open already happened. We weren't on the
Speaker 3: air when the Australian Open happened. Wimbledon is ongoing right now,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna well, we'll talk tennis later because I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get you drawn in. You're gonna watch the Wimbledon
Speaker 3: final with me and then guess what, you're gonna be
Speaker 3: so into it, We're gonna go to the US Open final. However,
Speaker 3: we're gonna save the tennis talk for later, because that
Speaker 3: is what we call in the business, a ratings bonanza.
Speaker 3: People will tune in, stay tuned in waiting for the
Speaker 3: tennis talk. Before we get to that, I'm sure we're
Speaker 3: gonna have to do some NBA talk. I'm also, if
Speaker 3: you're watching on YouTube, gonna have to throughout the show
Speaker 3: try to fix my hair because it looks like I
Speaker 3: have this rattail thing going on in the back. However,
Speaker 3: before we do any of that, to what we always do,
Speaker 3: what we are not discussing. What did not make the
Speaker 3: cut for today's show is the following chet Holmgren sets
Speaker 3: a Summer League block record. Fun fact, it's not just
Speaker 3: only that it was Summer League, but the Utah Jazz
Speaker 3: played ten players in that game. How many of those
Speaker 3: ten players were undrafted players? Do you think, Demonse? And
Speaker 3: then we'll move on, how many do you think of
Speaker 3: the ten we're undrafted players?
Speaker 4: Ten?
Speaker 3: Nine very close nine of the ten undrafted players. What's
Speaker 3: also not on today's show the US Open the US
Speaker 3: Open Twitter feed burning Drew Lock. Drew Lock clapped back said,
Speaker 3: oh who whatever intern posted this? Hey, folks, it's twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. Interns don't run major at social media accounts.
Speaker 3: They're they're kind of one of the most important people
Speaker 3: at the company. And is Joey Chesnut actually the goat? Oh?
Speaker 3: I swayed a lot of people about that one, didn't
Speaker 3: I And you saw him he had a little.
Speaker 4: Nut manhandled a guy and went on still in the content.
Speaker 3: Yes, little mixed martial arts. Remember I told you about
Speaker 3: chess boxing and you're like, when are you gonna need
Speaker 3: to do that? Like we do three minutes of boxing,
Speaker 3: three years chess, Joey Chestnut did a little competitive eating,
Speaker 3: competitive fighting. Okay, now we are ready to go. Let's
Speaker 3: start the show. I assume we're starting in the NBA.
Speaker 5: Katie requested to trade a few days ago. Yeah, seems
Speaker 5: that the nets want to work with him, but they
Speaker 5: obviously want to get their money's worth from this. You've
Speaker 5: been saying that he should go to New Orleans and
Speaker 5: some type of megadeal. But did the nets even end
Speaker 5: up trading him? And do they have to?
Speaker 3: Okay, so there is all of a sudden, there seems
Speaker 3: to be this sentiment amongst NBA insiders and NBA media.
Speaker 3: Maybe the Nets just keep Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 3: Why do they have to trade them?
Speaker 4: They don't, I feel like.
Speaker 3: But they do. So Here's the thing in life. It
Speaker 3: is important that we don't live by how things should be,
Speaker 3: that we well, maybe it'd be nice if we lived
Speaker 3: by how things should be, but it is important that
Speaker 3: we recognize the reality of how things are. And how
Speaker 3: things are is very simple. If you are the cream
Speaker 3: of the crop, best in the league, caliber, MVP discussion
Speaker 3: type of player, your contracts are one way contracts. And
Speaker 3: by that I mean this, the team is obligated to
Speaker 3: pay you no matter what. You are obligated to play
Speaker 3: for them as long as you want to. That's a
Speaker 3: one way contract. Back when I did I'm gonna tell
Speaker 3: a quick little anecdote and then I'll get back to
Speaker 3: the Kevin Durant thing. When I did local radio, they
Speaker 3: would always in Kansas City particular, they would try to
Speaker 3: sign you to these long contracts, Like I remember once
Speaker 3: they offered me a five year deal and at the
Speaker 3: time it's like five year deal that actually sounds pretty good.
Speaker 3: Some security locked in and then you read the contract
Speaker 3: and has a little paragraph in there that says termination.
Speaker 3: It's like, well, I have a contract, so what is
Speaker 3: this termination clause?
Speaker 4: Sake?
Speaker 3: And it says the company may, for any or no reason,
Speaker 3: terminate this agreement. Okay, all right, Well that's fine. They
Speaker 3: shouldn't have to have me work for them, don't want
Speaker 3: me to. But since I signed this five year contract,
Speaker 3: if I did, what's that payment do I get? With
Speaker 3: a severance payment of thirty days? So what that meant
Speaker 3: was if I that's a one way contract their direction.
Speaker 3: If I signed it, I can't go work anywhere else
Speaker 3: for five years. They can fire me at any moment
Speaker 3: they want and pay me a month's salary and be
Speaker 3: done with me. That's a one way contract. NBA teams
Speaker 3: when it comes to the best players in the world,
Speaker 3: James Harden, I'm a Houston Rocket. I don't I need
Speaker 3: a superstar. Okay, we'll get your Dwight Howard. All right.
Speaker 3: I tried that, didn't enjoy it. I did need different one. Okay,
Speaker 3: we'll get you. Chris Paul all right, I tried that.
Speaker 3: I didn't like that. Okay, we'll trade all our draft
Speaker 3: picks and Chris Paul get you Russell Westburg. Okay, I
Speaker 3: tried that. I didn't like it. You have a couple
Speaker 3: years left on your contract. We have paid you the
Speaker 3: maximum allowed at every single turn. Yeah, I know you have.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be here anymore. We are going
Speaker 3: to hold your feet to the fire. Oh are you?
Speaker 3: How about I just quit on the team. You're still
Speaker 3: gonna pay me, right, Yeah, we're still gonna pay you,
Speaker 3: and then we'll trade you exactly where you want to
Speaker 3: go two weeks into the season, all right, the team
Speaker 3: that traded you for you, the Brooklyn Nets. I'm James
Speaker 3: Harden again. I don't think I want to be here
Speaker 3: anymore either. Yeah, I'm going to quit on the court
Speaker 3: against the Sacramento Kings. You're under contract, James. I don't
Speaker 3: want to be here anymore. Okay, we will trade you
Speaker 3: exactly where you want to go to the Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 3: six ers. Ben Simmons. They're like, oh, they help the
Speaker 3: line with Ben Simmons. Well, Ben Simmons not an MVP
Speaker 3: caliber player, and also his situation was unique. So my
Speaker 3: point is this, Folks arguing the Nets have leverage on
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant. That is, in a utopian society, that is
Speaker 3: in the ideal of that these contracts are go both ways.
Speaker 3: They don't. Nobody has over young Lebron Steph Katie. The
Speaker 3: players always hold the cards. So what's my point? My
Speaker 3: point is when the Nets float out there, Mike keep him.
Speaker 3: Oh hey, we're comfortable going into the season with him.
Speaker 3: That is a negotiating tactic. That is, so who whatever
Speaker 3: teams they are negotiating with, don't feel like, well, this
Speaker 3: is our best offer, and it's the best offer you have,
Speaker 3: and you're trading them no matter what. It's So once
Speaker 3: the Nets get their very best offer and the team
Speaker 3: whoever made it say it's the Raptors, and the Raptors
Speaker 3: are like, this is the best offer you're gonna get, that,
Speaker 3: the Nets can go back to them and say, okay, well,
Speaker 3: if that's the best offer we're gonna get, we are
Speaker 3: not trading him, as opposed to an auction, where it
Speaker 3: is whatever the top dollar bid is. It's like in
Speaker 3: an auction it would be like it did not meet
Speaker 3: the reserve, we are pulling back the item. But the
Speaker 3: Nets are trading, but they're all the Nets are all
Speaker 3: also the Nets. Someone I should say put out there,
Speaker 3: hey Lakers, just so you know, we're talking with Philly
Speaker 3: and with Dallas. Now I can't report whether or not
Speaker 3: they were talking with Dallas. The people will cover about Kyrie.
Speaker 3: That is, the people that are cover the MAVs say
Speaker 3: the MAVs are not just in Kyrie. But I can
Speaker 3: tell you and I did report, and I will report.
Speaker 3: The Sixers have had no conversations with the Nets. So
Speaker 3: why did it get out that they did. Who benefits
Speaker 3: from that? The Net lists because they want the best
Speaker 3: possible deal. Now, do I think it's going to happen immediately, No,
Speaker 3: because they do have time on their side and that
Speaker 3: the season doesn't start for a few months. But I
Speaker 3: absolutely believe Kevin Durant's going to be in a different uniform.
Speaker 3: I've made the argument the Pelicans that one other thing
Speaker 3: on the Pelicans trade. It's not just that they can
Speaker 3: trade Brandon Ingram, who's a homeless man's Kevin Durant and
Speaker 3: an all star. All those picks, plus they can throw
Speaker 3: in Larry Nance, they can throw in another nice decent
Speaker 3: It's also that Willy Green was an assistant coach in
Speaker 3: Golden State with Durant. Willy Green and Durant have a relationship.
Speaker 3: Willy Green is now the head coach of the Pelicans.
Speaker 3: Durant likes CJ. McCollums game. They just locked up Zion Williamson.
Speaker 3: New Orleans is an amazing city. This absolutely if you
Speaker 3: can get Willy Green and Katie together, I think it
Speaker 3: could happen. The Raptors are obviously in play and the
Speaker 3: sunsers first choice. I won't even entertain the possibility in
Speaker 3: going to the Warriors. I don't even want to think
Speaker 3: about that kill that rumor with fire. All right, what's next?
Speaker 5: Fair points per usual. Nobody knows what the Lakers are doing.
Speaker 5: Lebron is silently fighting for Kyrie, and Sham said Tuesday
Speaker 5: that a Russ and Kyrie trade is gaining no traction. Yep,
Speaker 5: and Jeanie Bust sent out a weird tweet that seemed
Speaker 5: like yeah, and I couldn't seem to find it.
Speaker 4: Honestly, you want to read it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of want to say, I understand why
Speaker 3: it's hard for you to find went.
Speaker 5: I went to his Twitter and I strolled down. Yes,
Speaker 5: I saw, I saw the little tweet that they put out.
Speaker 4: Uh, you went to the Twitter Genie Bus. Okay, Genie
Speaker 4: Bus the Lakers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Genie, here's the problem. Genie Bus is a woman, okay,
Speaker 3: and the owner of the Lakers.
Speaker 4: Uh soda, I didn't all.
Speaker 3: Right, listen, all uh, just a little assumption. All a
Speaker 3: woman came on an NBA two. But here's the problem.
Speaker 3: Whoever's tweet Twitter you went to was not Genie Bus
Speaker 3: because first of all, this is Genie Buss's avatar pretty
Speaker 3: clearly a woman, and all right, there's money on the ground.
Speaker 3: My apologies, and it's her most recent tweet. The tweet reads,
Speaker 3: I miss KB. He would understand and explain everything that
Speaker 3: I'm not allowed to. Honestly, he was the greatest Laker ever.
Speaker 3: He understood team over self, meaning your rewards would come
Speaker 3: if you value team goals over your own, then everything
Speaker 3: would fall into place. All can reply. So that's the tweet.
Speaker 3: Ask the question that I want to deconstruct all of this.
Speaker 5: Does Kyrie end up in LA or does Anthony Davis
Speaker 5: end up getting traded?
Speaker 4: What do you think happens here?
Speaker 3: The only way Anthony Davis is traded is if it's
Speaker 3: for Kevin Durant. I don't think that's gonna happen. It
Speaker 3: would be interesting, but I don't think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: I do believe Kyrie ends up with the Lakers. I
Speaker 3: think that's all negotiating tactic. They're trying to get more
Speaker 3: picks from the Lakers, and I will discuss the pick
Speaker 3: thing in a moment on Genie Buss. Okay, first of all,
Speaker 3: there's so much wrong with this tweet. First of all,
Speaker 3: calling Kobe the greatest Laker ever means you have Kobe
Speaker 3: as a greater Laker than Magic Johnson. And as people
Speaker 3: will discover when we continue our top fifty count down
Speaker 3: over the next few weeks, Magic Johnson played twelve years
Speaker 3: pre HIV. Seventy five percent of those years they went
Speaker 3: to the finals. Seventy five percent of those years he
Speaker 3: finished first, second, or third in MVP voting. Magic Johnson
Speaker 3: is the greatest Laker. But the other thing is the
Speaker 3: and I know it's somewhat poor formed to speak. I
Speaker 3: don't think this is speaking ill of Kobe Bryant. I
Speaker 3: think this is telling an accurate story, and even in passing,
Speaker 3: it is important we tell accurate stories. Kobe Bryant valued
Speaker 3: team over self. Eventually, Kobe Bryant made them pick between
Speaker 3: he and Shaquille O'Neal. Kobe Bryant was one of the
Speaker 3: big reasons Phil Jackson left the Lakers and then one
Speaker 3: of the big reasons he came back. That's from Phil's
Speaker 3: own book. And Kobe Bryant demanded a trade. So that's
Speaker 3: a little revision's history with Kobe. Now to the Lakers
Speaker 3: and the idea that they might not make the trade
Speaker 3: happen for Kyrie because they want to hold onto their
Speaker 3: draft picks. There is this misnomer out there that the
Speaker 3: Lakers have no draft picks because of the Anthony Davis trade.
Speaker 3: Here is a fact. Yes, I want this to go
Speaker 3: on social because I this Lakers draft recap part that
Speaker 3: I'm about to start put it on the internet so
Speaker 3: people can get the true story. Here's a fact about
Speaker 3: the Lakers draft picks from this very moment until the
Speaker 3: end of time. As of now, the Lakers are minus
Speaker 3: one first round pick. They owe either they're twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four or twenty twenty five first round pick to New Orleans.
Speaker 3: That is it. This coming year, New Orleans and Lakers
Speaker 3: can swap picks, but the Lakers are minus one pick.
Speaker 3: There are nineteen teams in the league that are minus
Speaker 3: one or more future first round pick, and the following
Speaker 3: teams are minus more future picks than the Lakers are.
Speaker 3: Atlanta is minus two future first and a swap. Brooklyn
Speaker 3: is minus two future first and two swaps. Denver is
Speaker 3: minus three future first. The Clippers are minus two and
Speaker 3: two swaps, the Bucks are minus two and two swaps.
Speaker 3: Philly is minus three future first, and Minnesota, thanks to
Speaker 3: the Gobert and Madness, is minus four future first and
Speaker 3: a swamp. What do Brooklyn prior to this thing blowing up? Denver?
Speaker 3: The Clippers, Milwaukee, Philadelphia all having common trying to win titles,
Speaker 3: so they're minus picks. The Lakers are minus one pick
Speaker 3: for a trade they made and they did win a title. No,
Speaker 3: the idea that you won't that you're gonna try to
Speaker 3: when you think it Kyrie and a shooter, it would
Speaker 3: be Kyrie and Joe Harris, and you want to hold
Speaker 3: onto the picks. It's just insane mismanagement. I don't think
Speaker 3: it's gonna happen. I think Kyrie's getting in a Blaker,
Speaker 3: all right, What's next?
Speaker 5: Okay, three mid teams made big moves. The Wolves got
Speaker 5: go Bear, the Hawks got John Say Murray. The Nick's
Speaker 5: got Jalen Brunson and was so obvious that they might
Speaker 5: be fine for tampering.
Speaker 4: Yep, these three moves. Do you like the most? And
Speaker 4: which one do you like the least? I feel like
Speaker 4: I kind of know.
Speaker 3: Okay, tell me.
Speaker 5: Does the Knicks getting Jalen Brunson did Dallas lose like
Speaker 5: cap space? I mean no, no, not cap space they
Speaker 5: give up picks.
Speaker 4: Or anything like that.
Speaker 3: No, it was just straight signing.
Speaker 4: I think you like that move the most.
Speaker 3: I like it for who for Dallas? So I don't
Speaker 3: hate it for Dallas. I think they take a small
Speaker 3: step back. But I wouldn't have paid Jalen Brunson what
Speaker 3: the Knicks paid him. So if the option was pay
Speaker 3: Jalen bruns In twenty seven million a year or let
Speaker 3: him walk, I'm fine with it. But that the one
Speaker 3: I like the most for the team getting the player
Speaker 3: is I like the Hawks getting to Jontey Murray. Okay,
Speaker 3: I know they paid a lot for it, but he's
Speaker 3: a perfect compliment to Trey Young. I think it absolutely works.
Speaker 3: They did pay a premium, but they gotta They're fighting
Speaker 3: for their lives in the Eastern Conference. They needed to
Speaker 3: make a big move. Jontay Murray is young. He was
Speaker 3: an All Star. He was twenty one to nine and
Speaker 3: eight last year. He is an excellent defender. I like him.
Speaker 3: I'm ambivalent on the Knicks trade, and the Rudy Gobert
Speaker 3: trade is the single most egregious overpay in NBA history.
Speaker 3: You gave up five players and five first round picks.
Speaker 3: It's madness. It's utter madness that they did that. I'm
Speaker 3: shocked by it. I don't even know if Gobert and
Speaker 3: Karl Anthony Towns can play together. I'm sure they can
Speaker 3: in the regular season. But I like, I don't love,
Speaker 3: but I like what the Hawks did. I'm fine with
Speaker 3: what the Knicks did. I think what the Timberwolves did
Speaker 3: is an abomination. All right, what's last?
Speaker 4: Okay? People are pissed about you putting Duncan over Kobe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me explain this real quick. So Duncan's spot
Speaker 3: on the top fifty list hasn't been revealed, But the
Speaker 3: fact that he hasn't been revealed and we put Kobe
Speaker 3: at six means Duncan is somewhere in that top five,
Speaker 3: so go ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I can't lie. I'm kind of confused about
Speaker 5: that as well. Oh okay, a lot of people argue
Speaker 5: that Kobe's better than Lebron. Okay, you don't even have
Speaker 5: him above Tim Duncan. Yeah, so defend yourself here.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: Anyone that argues Kobe is better than loses their right
Speaker 3: to give NBA opinions. Okay, I'm not saying you, but
Speaker 3: you're right some of your friends. I used to have
Speaker 3: to argue with those idiots about this. Here's the thing.
Speaker 3: Everyone agrees that, you know what, they were both great defenders.
Speaker 3: I would argue Lebron was the better defender, but let's
Speaker 3: just call the defensive wash. Everyone agrees Lebron's a better
Speaker 3: rebounder and a better passer. Yeah, nobody argues that. So
Speaker 3: it's like, yes, but Kobe's the better shooter, except Lebron'
Speaker 3: is a better shooter. Nick, No, he's not. Just well,
Speaker 3: he is a better far better field goal percentage. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's because Lebron shots come at the rim. What about threes?
Speaker 3: Lebron James is a better in the playoffs and regular
Speaker 3: season three point shooter. Than Kobe Bryant. Look it up, Okay,
Speaker 3: but Lebron couldn't score like Kobe. Lebron James Averages averages
Speaker 3: more points in the playoffs and in the regular season
Speaker 3: than Kobe Bryant. Oh, nick, but Kobe was more clutch
Speaker 3: than Lebron. Kobe Bryant. Who you want to go to
Speaker 3: the clutch most clutchiest clutch clutch stuff playoff buzzer beaters
Speaker 3: Kobe has won. Lebron has five, which is of course
Speaker 3: the most in NBA history. The Kobe vers Lebron stuff
Speaker 3: is nonsense. The Kobe versus Duncan stuff. I will listen
Speaker 3: to the argument. However, they and this is the part
Speaker 3: where Kobe the Kobe folks frustrate me. They're like, oh,
Speaker 3: my god, but Tim Duncan had Greg Popovich and Kobe
Speaker 3: Bryant had Phil Jackson. Oh yeah, but Duncan had had
Speaker 3: Man Hu and Tony Parker, and Kobe had Kill O'Neal.
Speaker 3: They have the same number of championships. Duncan has one
Speaker 3: extra MVP. Duncan has one extra Finals MVP. Kobe, in
Speaker 3: the heart of his prime, missed the playoffs and then
Speaker 3: had back to back first round exits. Duncan never missed
Speaker 3: the playoffs, won fifty games every single year, and in
Speaker 3: five and seven didn't have another top seventy five teammate.
Speaker 3: In three, his only top seventy five teammate was David Robinson,
Speaker 3: and Robinson was in the last year of his career,
Speaker 3: averaging eight point spraan Tim Duncan, also, by the way,
Speaker 3: is as great as the defender Kobe was. Duncan is
Speaker 3: the clear better defender, one of the four greatest defensive
Speaker 3: players ever, and the greatest teammate. He and Steph Curri
Speaker 3: are the two greatest teammates of the modern era. I'm
Speaker 3: not listen. I have Kobe six, I have Duncan, you know,
Speaker 3: not far ahead of him. I don't want to spoil
Speaker 3: the list. So it's not like it's not arguable, but
Speaker 3: it is the arguments for that Kobe folks make, which
Speaker 3: is that Duncan had the better coach, the better organization,
Speaker 3: and the better teammates. The Spurs were a nothing organization.
Speaker 3: Popovich had done nothing in this league, and David Robinson,
Speaker 3: as great as he was, had been to an NBA finals.
Speaker 3: Munch Let's want a championship. Kobe went to the Los
Speaker 3: Angeles Lakers with a six time champion head coach and
Speaker 3: Sequille O'Neill. So I'm not taking anything away from Kobe.
Speaker 3: I think Duncan is fairly out of them. But I
Speaker 3: went too long. I'm taking away our time to talk tennis.
Speaker 3: So we'll be right back.
Speaker 6: We're so done with New Year, New you. This year,
Speaker 6: it's more you on bumbo. More of you shamelessly sending playlists,
Speaker 6: especially that one filled with show tunes. More of you
Speaker 6: finding geminis because you know you always liked them. More
Speaker 6: of you dating with intention because you know what you
Speaker 6: want and you know what We love that for you.
Speaker 6: Someone else will too, be more you this year and
Speaker 6: find them on bumble.
Speaker 3: Durant tweeting about chet from last night.
Speaker 4: What's he got to say?
Speaker 3: I see you cooking seven first day on the job
Speaker 3: was success. Love the kick at jeded holmgering because he
Speaker 3: was wearing Katie's new shoes. Oh, I'm telling you, Durant
Speaker 3: back to He's not gonna do it, but they could
Speaker 3: make it work. They have all the picks in the world.
Speaker 4: And the nets need that right.
Speaker 3: The nets need the picks. They could they and Durant
Speaker 3: listen Durant has done a lot of stuff, and then
Speaker 3: we'll get into the B block. But Durant's done a
Speaker 3: lot of stuff, intentionally or not that are very similar
Speaker 3: to Lebron's career arc. Starting a small market got him
Speaker 3: to a finals at age twenty two, looked like, oh,
Speaker 3: they're gonna be there every year. Never got back, got
Speaker 3: dissolution there? Left Where did he go to a team
Speaker 3: that had an MVP caliber player who had already won
Speaker 3: a championship without him? For Lebron, that's Miami. For Durant,
Speaker 3: it's Golden State. Now, those weren't the same situations, they
Speaker 3: were similar stays there for UH wins two championships there,
Speaker 3: and somehow it feels like AH probably could have won more.
Speaker 3: But when two championships there and left, Lebron goes to
Speaker 3: the Lakers, sets up shop on you know, one coast
Speaker 3: business empire and basketball has someone another star come play with.
Speaker 3: Durant goes to Brooklyn, sets up shop. Is in a
Speaker 3: star coming? What's the difference? Durant skipped the most important
Speaker 3: step for Lebron, the homecoming, going back to well, yes,
Speaker 3: of course, the champion of the Lakers put Lebron between Miami,
Speaker 3: and the Lakers went back to Cleveland wins the title.
Speaker 3: When Lebron went back to Cleveland, what did they have
Speaker 3: a young All Star caliber point guard who had never
Speaker 3: played in a playoff game, irving Shay Gilgess Alexander What
Speaker 3: did Cleveland also just got a top two pick that
Speaker 3: they could either keep or trade for an All Star?
Speaker 3: What the thunder just gave Chet Holmgren? It it fixed
Speaker 3: man and I it would be the only thing place
Speaker 3: he could go that would be met with universal approval. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I don't I don't think it's gonna happen, but
Speaker 3: I do find it interesting. Not nearly as interesting as
Speaker 3: I find Wimbledon, though. Right now, so let's get going
Speaker 3: with the second segment of the show, Welcome back in Demons.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: You got three games in one segment coming up, really.
Speaker 3: And one of them involves talking tennis yep.
Speaker 5: And the first one is, yeah, I think this is
Speaker 5: a new one actually tennis quarter.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a new one. But it's gonna be here
Speaker 3: to stay, because you know why, Before I even before
Speaker 3: you even answer the ask me the question getting off
Speaker 3: the plane from Chicago Sunday, before I even get to
Speaker 3: baggage claim. Guy stops me. He's like, hey, saw you
Speaker 3: on the flight. Just want of this you and thank you.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah for what for talking tennis? Man?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I see that on Twitter a lot too. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know why because because there is a dearth it's
Speaker 3: just me and mad Dog Russo of people that want
Speaker 3: to talk tennis on major platforms. All right, go ahead?
Speaker 4: Uh yeah. So apparently when Wimbledon is going.
Speaker 3: On, Wimbledon's going on.
Speaker 4: Found that out this morning. Yeah, pretty wild. They're changing
Speaker 4: it up now and they're playing on grass.
Speaker 3: Okay, Wimbledon's always been on grass, but go ahead.
Speaker 4: Okay, I thought it was new.
Speaker 5: But yes, your show. I can't stop you from talking
Speaker 5: about it. Oh what would you like to talk about?
Speaker 3: First of all this weekend? If you said scene the
Speaker 3: Curios Citypas match, you would have become a tennis fan.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: So Curios is like wildly talented but incredibly emotional. Underachieved
Speaker 3: is the fact of the matter. Cizzy Boss has his
Speaker 3: own issues, Like he takes these long bathroom breaks which
Speaker 3: people feel like are really rest breaks.
Speaker 4: But what do you do?
Speaker 3: Like He's like, I got you to the bathroom rests,
Speaker 3: So Curios was talking mad trash to him, and he
Speaker 3: got in Citipas's head and all of a sudden, Citipas
Speaker 3: is like firing balls into the crowd, almost domed in
Speaker 3: old lady.
Speaker 4: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: And then also on a couple points instead of trying
Speaker 3: to like cause in tennis you just like try to
Speaker 3: paint the corners, hit it where the guy is. He
Speaker 3: was just hitting it right atos. It was unbelievable, and
Speaker 3: Curios won and it was dope as hell, and then
Speaker 3: Averward Citypaz like I think he was a bully in
Speaker 3: high school and all this stuff. But now we are,
Speaker 3: we are on the precipice of what could be an
Speaker 3: amazing semi final and then final. So right now as
Speaker 3: we're recording Rafa, Rafa and a doll, we've talked about him. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the fret, you know, the clay court legend also got
Speaker 3: twenty two majors. Uh. He's in a dog fight right
Speaker 3: now in the quarters against Taylor Fritz in America. Curios
Speaker 3: just won as we're recording the first set in a
Speaker 3: match he absolutely should win if they both win, and
Speaker 3: I believe Rafa hopefully can come back. We have Rafa
Speaker 3: versus Curios in the Semis biggest match of Curios' life
Speaker 3: by a mile, by a mile, and Rafa's banged up.
Speaker 3: If he wins and he has a chance to win Wimbledon,
Speaker 3: it changes his career forever. If Rafa wins, and Rafa
Speaker 3: after the year that he has had the idea that
Speaker 3: he might at this point in his career become I
Speaker 3: think it's the first guy since Rod Labor to win
Speaker 3: all four Grand Slams in a calendar year, because he
Speaker 3: won the Australian, he won the French. But on the
Speaker 3: other side of the bracket is Djokovic, and Djokovic has
Speaker 3: been the best player of the last eight years, even
Speaker 3: better than Rafa. And so we could get a Rafa
Speaker 3: Djokovic final or a Curios Djokovic final. Either way, it'll
Speaker 3: be out of this world. And I know you're not
Speaker 3: into the tennis, but because I knew we were going
Speaker 3: to talk about this, I want to just describe to
Speaker 3: you how utterly dominant these guys have been. So I
Speaker 3: did some research this morning, some numbers for you. Okay,
Speaker 3: So since two thousand and four, right, there have been
Speaker 3: seventy five major championships play, Okay, so that's the Australian Open,
Speaker 3: the French Open, Wimbledon, the US Open. Those are four
Speaker 3: tournaments that matter. Since two thousand and four, there have
Speaker 3: been seventy five. This is the seventy six, the one
Speaker 3: right now, Djokovic, Federer and Nadal, the big three. Okay,
Speaker 3: those are the guys I've been telling you about. Federer
Speaker 3: at this point's basically done, and Nadal should be done,
Speaker 3: but he's still somehow killing it. Of those seventy five majors,
Speaker 3: those three guys before I even give you the number,
Speaker 3: leg little context. Prior to those three guys existing, the
Speaker 3: most majors anyone had ever won was fourteen. From four
Speaker 3: to right now, been seventy five majors played. Those three
Speaker 3: guys have won sixty one of them. They've won sixty
Speaker 3: one majors of the last seventy five. Of the last
Speaker 3: seventy five majors played, there have been five where at
Speaker 3: least one of them was not in the final. Seventy
Speaker 3: of the seventy five at least one of them in
Speaker 3: the final, and most of them it's been two of
Speaker 3: them playing each other. So like Djokovic has made thirty
Speaker 3: one major finals, won twenty of them, and six of
Speaker 3: his eleven losses were against Federer and an adult, but
Speaker 3: that's not even as impressive as the other guys. Federer's
Speaker 3: also twenty majors with eleven losses in the final, eleven
Speaker 3: second places, but ten of those losses came to Nadal
Speaker 3: or Joker. And then Nadal has twenty two wins and
Speaker 3: eight losses, and seven of those came to Federer or Djokovic.
Speaker 3: And we might get it again. We might get a
Speaker 3: doll Djokovic again. When the doll's trying to go for
Speaker 3: the first see you know true Grand Slam. I think
Speaker 3: it's a drod labor. I know only one guy's done it.
Speaker 3: It's exciting, man, it's great. High level tennis is great.
Speaker 3: I know you look dump, you look stupefied by what
Speaker 3: I'm saying right now. But the numbers are impossible to understand.
Speaker 5: So like golf, do they get do they get jackets
Speaker 5: or do they get like a like a no, they.
Speaker 3: Get like so like second place. Let me show you
Speaker 3: real quick. It's pretty cool for Wimbledon trophies because the
Speaker 3: winner's trophy is unbelievable and the second place trophy is
Speaker 3: just like a plate. So that's what the winner gets,
Speaker 3: that's what second place gets. It looks it is pretty
Speaker 3: cool you get something.
Speaker 4: I like that a lot more than the green jacket.
Speaker 3: The green jacket is kind of bougie, you know, country clubbing. Yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: it's great. Man. I want to go to Wimbledon so
Speaker 3: bad one day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, do you want to?
Speaker 3: I look it up? Hold on, sorry, I know there's
Speaker 3: like eight minutes on tennis, but I got it. Do
Speaker 3: you want to know what the Wimbledon final tickets are
Speaker 3: going for? Right now?
Speaker 5: People are out here buying Wimbledon tickets instead of buying
Speaker 5: a PS five or something.
Speaker 4: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: The Wimbledon Men's final. What do you think the cheapest
Speaker 3: ticket is the cheapest ticket to get in Lisbon? Give
Speaker 3: it a guess?
Speaker 4: Nosebleeds or do they even know? They won't?
Speaker 3: I mean it's not it's not like it's not a
Speaker 3: football stitty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm gonna say fifteen hundred.
Speaker 3: Bucks eighty two hundred euros, so it's like ten thousand
Speaker 3: dollars the cheapest ticket if you want to sit next
Speaker 3: to oh that you can't even sit next to the
Speaker 3: Royal box anymore. Who do you think sits in.
Speaker 4: The royal box at queen.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you bet your ass, Yeah, you bet your ass.
Speaker 3: And if she can't make it, remember the royal family goes. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, So when people see, see or hear this,
Speaker 3: they'll know if Curios are not all of one. We
Speaker 3: are rooting for Curios and and all to win, and
Speaker 3: we are rooting for the winner of Curios and a
Speaker 3: doll to beat Djokovic. We're not Djokovic fans. We like Federer,
Speaker 3: we love Nadol. Curios is a guy you would enjoy
Speaker 3: rooting for it. Forget Jokovic. Not a big Jokovic fan. Okay,
Speaker 3: that was a solid eight minutes on Wimbledon.
Speaker 4: I didn't think you could do that.
Speaker 3: Well, it's tennis. That's amazing, all right, next next game,
Speaker 3: Sorry about that, guys, let's go.
Speaker 4: Nick makes it right.
Speaker 5: We're gonna talk about tanking in the NBA seasons months away,
Speaker 5: and it seems like half the league is tanking already.
Speaker 3: You know why, because they want vic Victor I pronounced
Speaker 3: Victor when whim ban Yama. Have you seen this guy?
Speaker 4: And guessing is like a seven foot or something.
Speaker 3: He's a seven foot three inch French kid. Let me
Speaker 3: just show you him real quick and then we can
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 4: I might have seen a clip.
Speaker 3: Actually, oh, I mean the I mean this guy is Okay,
Speaker 3: you asked the question, and while I am, you're gonna
Speaker 3: watch these highlights of this freak show. All right.
Speaker 5: So the Spurs pacers in jazz or trading, trading their
Speaker 5: starts for picks, rockets and thunders, Rockets, Thunder and Kings
Speaker 5: are basically making no moves. The Blazers and Knicks are
Speaker 5: kind of fake trying right now, but they'll be taking soon.
Speaker 4: How do we stop thanking in the NBA?
Speaker 3: Okay, So here's the thing. While I answer, you, just
Speaker 3: go ahead and watch. You'll be able to tell which
Speaker 3: one is the seven foot three inch French freak that's
Speaker 3: gonna go number one overall next year. Here's the deal.
Speaker 3: I don't mind what the Spurs did. I don't mind
Speaker 3: trading away your best player and then trying what Here's
Speaker 3: what I don't like beinching quality players because you're trying
Speaker 3: to lose that If the guy's on your team and
Speaker 3: he helps you win, you should play it. But if
Speaker 3: you're just saying, we know we can't compete this year.
Speaker 3: So We're gonna try our hardest to win every game.
Speaker 3: We're just not gonna be able to do it because
Speaker 3: our players stink, and they stink intentionally. I'm good with it,
Speaker 3: Like I'm actually okay with that way of going about it.
Speaker 3: The other factor is this, the NBA changed the odds.
Speaker 3: What because you don't know what the how they flatten
Speaker 3: the odds? What if you have the worst record in
Speaker 3: the NBA, what percent chance do you think you have
Speaker 3: of getting the number.
Speaker 4: One overall pick?
Speaker 3: Like give it a guess, Like what because you know
Speaker 3: it's a lottery.
Speaker 4: So they fourteen if you're the worst team, the worst.
Speaker 3: Team, they've flattened it. So the bottom four teams, they
Speaker 3: all have a fourteen percent chance or it's fourteen, fourteen, twelve.
Speaker 4: How do they pick it?
Speaker 3: It's literally ping pong balls. Okay, And so point is this,
Speaker 3: You can try to tank, but you still have fourteen
Speaker 3: percent is one and seven. If you have the worst
Speaker 3: record in basketball, you still have a six out of
Speaker 3: seven chance that you're not going to get the number
Speaker 3: one pick and a fifty percent chance that you're not
Speaker 3: even going to get a top three pick or top
Speaker 3: four pick. Now they've changed it so it's risky. What
Speaker 3: I don't like is when you have you could compete,
Speaker 3: and instead you bench your quality players because you're trying
Speaker 3: to lose. But I think the NBA has done what
Speaker 3: they can. I don't think tanking is big as big
Speaker 3: of a deal as other people do. I'm also more
Speaker 3: interested in Wimbledon than I am in tanking, which twy
Speaker 3: I spent more time on it.
Speaker 4: All right, last game though, this this guy's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, he's pretty good. I mean's a nineteen
Speaker 3: year old seven foot three in French kid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's pretty good. He's got a little
Speaker 4: little Bois game. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So this or that, Yeah, so much has been happening
Speaker 5: in free agency.
Speaker 4: So we put a bunch of this or that's together. Okay,
Speaker 4: we'll do a Yeah, we'll do as mean as you
Speaker 4: can get to at the time.
Speaker 5: Left, So starting with big extensions, bigger no brainer Booker
Speaker 5: or Jokic.
Speaker 3: Oh, they're equal, no brainers, they're ondred percent. They both
Speaker 3: one hundred percent. Have to get the max, the super max,
Speaker 3: all of it. Yeah, they're both all NBA caliber guys.
Speaker 3: I don't think MVP, but it's clearly all NBA caliber guys,
Speaker 3: those are both one hundred percent no brainers. All right,
Speaker 3: go brighter future, Zion or Job. That one's so hard.
Speaker 3: Joh's accomplished more. Josh sneaky Lee, to me, is also
Speaker 3: a health risk because of the way he plays. I
Speaker 3: think Zion's ceiling is higher, but given what Jaw's accomplished,
Speaker 3: You've got to give the nod to Ja. But if
Speaker 3: Zion stays healthy, he will win a league.
Speaker 4: I was about to say, you think the way I
Speaker 4: guess Zion seems like a.
Speaker 3: No of Zion's is the biggest injury risk. My point is,
Speaker 3: I actually think Josh sneakily is a pretty big injury
Speaker 3: risk as well.
Speaker 4: Right, I'm waiting to happen.
Speaker 3: Just because of the style of his play. But I'll
Speaker 3: give it to Joe, even though I adore Zion.
Speaker 4: Next more painful uh Zach Lavine or Bradley Beal.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think the bal extension is a killer, and
Speaker 3: I like Bradley a lot. I know him a little bit.
Speaker 3: But a quarter billion for Bradley Beal when he's probably
Speaker 3: gonna ask out in a year and he has given
Speaker 3: no indications gonna ask out, I just think he probably
Speaker 3: is that and then it becomes a hard contract. The
Speaker 3: more painful one is Bradley Beal next.
Speaker 4: Better Bet Garland or Simmons Simons.
Speaker 3: I think Simons, No, no, no, no, you're fine already. Uh,
Speaker 3: Darius Garland Darry Anthony Simons is a bit of an
Speaker 3: overpay to me. I think Darius Garland's really really good
Speaker 3: and he's gonna look keep it better alongside Lebron.
Speaker 4: Lebron goes back in a year.
Speaker 3: Okay, do we still have more?
Speaker 4: Do we do have a few?
Speaker 5: Lets do it next under the radar, under the radar signings,
Speaker 5: bigger impact.
Speaker 4: Sorry, so this one. Dante DiVincenzo de devin Cenzo. Okay,
Speaker 4: Dante DiVincenzo.
Speaker 3: This is where you know I'm Italian Demonse happens not
Speaker 3: to be and it showed there. That's okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Or Bruce Brown.
Speaker 3: I liked Dante DiVincenzo, and I think on the Wars
Speaker 3: with a bunch open threes, he's gonna look good. But
Speaker 3: I called around the league because I couldn't believe how
Speaker 3: cheap he was, and a lot of the smart people
Speaker 3: around the league said it doesn't measure out well. Okay,
Speaker 3: and so Bruce Brown also like Bruce Brown as an
Speaker 3: eighth man for Denver. I think that works all right.
Speaker 4: Next okay, more likely to swing title.
Speaker 3: P J.
Speaker 4: Tucker or Joe Ingles.
Speaker 3: Joe and Joe Ingles is gonna hit a big three
Speaker 3: in a big spot for Philly. I'm sorry for Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: At some point.
Speaker 4: PJ.
Speaker 3: Tucker is gonna be too old. He played well in
Speaker 3: these playoffs. But I'll say Joe Ingles for Milwaukee.
Speaker 4: Next okay. Better, uh, worse move Marvin Bagley or Lou Dort.
Speaker 3: All right, Marvin Bagley three for thirty eight or Lou
Speaker 3: Dort's incomprehensible five for eighty eight. I actually think Marvin
Speaker 3: Bagley was the worst move because I thought Marvin Bagley
Speaker 3: was gonna get one year eight million Dort. OKC has
Speaker 3: to spend money. You have to get to salary cap,
Speaker 3: but there's also a minimum spend, and they got all
Speaker 3: guys on rookie contracts. Dort's played hard for him. He's
Speaker 3: an excellent defender, He's turned into a passable shooter. They're
Speaker 3: both overpays Bagley's is worse, all right.
Speaker 5: Last better role player JaVale McGee or Gary Payton.
Speaker 3: Gary Payton's the better player. But what Dallas did was smart,
Speaker 3: which is when you can get like think about the
Speaker 3: money Rudy Gobert commands and the draft picks he can,
Speaker 3: you can get sixty percent of him, which is Javaial
Speaker 3: McGee for ten percent of the cost. So I think
Speaker 3: that's a smart signing by Dallas. But Gary Payton Junior
Speaker 3: is a better player and exactly what Portland needs. All Right,
Speaker 3: that was a long segment, but it was worth it,
Speaker 3: jam packed with info. They won't tell me what we're
Speaker 3: doing in the C block, Demanse says he has a
Speaker 3: tail from my trip to Chicago, which I can only
Speaker 3: imagine involves something I did at the casino, which I
Speaker 3: was at till seven in the morning, my first day
Speaker 3: in Chicago.
Speaker 4: Yet a hangover night.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll discuss, we'll do that next. What's right, ohoh,
Speaker 3: Cura is up two sets to nothing, so he's gonna
Speaker 3: you gotta win three sets. He's gonna win even though
Speaker 3: Djokovic was down two sets nothing and came storming back yesterday.
Speaker 3: He also did the long bathroom break thing and then
Speaker 3: it was totally good.
Speaker 4: Are you serious right now?
Speaker 3: You don't get to you can't. It's not like time out.
Speaker 3: You did no coach like and these matches are exhausting, bro. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and at some point you're allowed to go to the bathroom,
Speaker 3: but sometimes they take a little longer and then said,
Speaker 3: what are they doing? They're regrouping?
Speaker 4: Of course, Rafa.
Speaker 3: Raffa's got to win this second, stef.
Speaker 4: Hey man, let's just get to let's get to it.
Speaker 3: Okay, you want to all right, welcome back in. We'll
Speaker 3: right with me. Right story, all right, listen. I went
Speaker 3: to Chicago to see two great sports media personalities and
Speaker 3: two of my best friends in the world, Danny Parkins
Speaker 3: and Mark Carmon. They've both I think, shown up at
Speaker 3: various times on our Top fifty players last fifty years.
Speaker 4: Out down shot those boys.
Speaker 3: And bad moment for me. Danny is my best friend
Speaker 3: of twenty years. He has an infant, a two month
Speaker 3: old and a two and a half year old. Ye
Speaker 3: As soon as I got there, because I surprised Danny,
Speaker 3: I told his wife I was coming. As soon as
Speaker 3: I got there, I saw his two and a half
Speaker 3: year old, Owen, and I said, buddy, so uncle Nick,
Speaker 3: I haven't seen you since you were Eli's age. That's
Speaker 3: Danny's baby. And Danny looked at me and goes, uh.
Speaker 4: You've never met him.
Speaker 3: Oh, boy, job by uncle Nick? H kids almost three?
Speaker 3: Just help me. So not a great job by me.
Speaker 3: We had a great weekend. There's something from the weekend
Speaker 3: you want to mock me about. Baby, My wife's walking
Speaker 3: down the stairs. I'm gonna be able to take you
Speaker 3: to work today, baby, So we'll just wait one second
Speaker 3: while we finished this up. All right, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 4: So you went to Chicago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and now this actually has nothing to do with
Speaker 5: the casino, unfortunately, really well fortunately for me.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I crushed it in this five ten.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you did. That's probably why you thought that
Speaker 4: this was gonna Yeah. So you you ended up going
Speaker 4: to a steakhouse.
Speaker 5: I hear, Oh some of the bitch you went to
Speaker 5: a You went to a five star establishment and or
Speaker 5: was wearing a pink jumpsuit that you might have worn.
Speaker 4: On like one of the podcasts you might have gotten
Speaker 4: for Father's Day.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so you went there and what happened today?
Speaker 4: What happened when you when you went in?
Speaker 3: Oh you're would your mom tell you about this?
Speaker 4: Somebody? Yeah? Somebody, Oh oh, and she's walking down the stairs.
Speaker 3: You want to join us for this? You want to
Speaker 3: at least sit alongside so you can be heard on. Okay,
Speaker 3: So here's what I have. First of all, it was yes,
Speaker 3: it was a It was a you guys have seen
Speaker 3: it on the show. Is an all pink sweatsuit from
Speaker 3: Scotch and Soda. It's a very nice outfit. It's what
Speaker 3: I wore on the plane.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: Like one of the things I like to do. I
Speaker 3: like to dress super casual and sit in first class
Speaker 3: and just have people kind of will be like, why
Speaker 3: is he up here? It's like, don't you worry about that.
Speaker 3: That's neither here or there. That's that's just you know.
Speaker 4: All right. So I'm finish. I'm about to tell the guy.
Speaker 4: I'm telling everybody what happened right now. Okay.
Speaker 5: So this guy goes into my Maestros Masstros whatever you
Speaker 5: call it, Steakhouts five star.
Speaker 4: So I was to step in and they're like you dude,
Speaker 4: you can't come in. You got this pink jumpson. What
Speaker 4: are you doing?
Speaker 5: And he's like, yo, thus far the story is accurate. Yeah,
Speaker 5: And then he's like, yo, do you guys, just check
Speaker 5: my history.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3: I is, wait, check check.
Speaker 4: Check my history, check my credentials. Whatever you told them.
Speaker 3: I thought you check my Instagram, which I definitely check
Speaker 3: my check my Instagram. Yeah, I told him to look
Speaker 3: up my customer profile.
Speaker 4: Yeah I am.
Speaker 5: It's like, I'm sure you guys can let me in,
Speaker 5: and they're like, nobody, sorry, you still can't get in.
Speaker 4: And then how did it go after that?
Speaker 3: Like, well, all right, friends, he's saying is accurate to
Speaker 3: this point. So I walked in and I had a feeling.
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, Mastros has a pretty strict dress code
Speaker 3: and I am wearing a hot pink sweatsuit. However, I am.
Speaker 3: I go to Mastros in New York City a lot.
Speaker 3: I spend a lot of money there. And again, I
Speaker 3: I sound like an asshole here, but there's just the truth.
Speaker 3: They even like on the check like they have a
Speaker 3: little line item that says that literally says Mastro's VIP,
Speaker 3: and they take it. You know, they give me a
Speaker 3: few things off the bill because I'm such a good
Speaker 3: customer and I know that they have that in their system.
Speaker 3: So when the guy's like, we can't seat you, I'm like,
Speaker 3: I bet you can't. He's like, sir, we can't, and
Speaker 3: he like points and like they literally have a sign
Speaker 3: that says dress code strictly enforced. I'm like, can you
Speaker 3: just put my name in there? And he's like, I can,
Speaker 3: but I don't think that's gonna help. I'm like, I
Speaker 3: bet it will, and he puts it in and he's like, sir,
Speaker 3: we really do appreciate your business, but I can't let
Speaker 3: you in. He's like, if it was just the sweat shirt,
Speaker 3: maybe I could. He's like, put your wearing sweat sweatsuit.
Speaker 3: And so I was like, all right, like she'll be it.
Speaker 3: So I went back to the car and I was like,
Speaker 3: and well, the car was still at Valet and I'm like, guys,
Speaker 3: don't park it. And the guys at Valet were like
Speaker 3: they wouldn't let you in. Huh. I'm like no, it's
Speaker 3: like and that one of them says it says like
Speaker 3: most of his friend. He was like, we thought they
Speaker 3: might not. I'm like, we should have get it's.
Speaker 5: Like, could have given the equivalent that you try to
Speaker 5: flame me for of me going to the back to
Speaker 5: the NBA store to return my jersey.
Speaker 4: It's quite like, Hey, I'm clearly a basketball player. Okay,
Speaker 4: I should be able to return this jersey. Don't you
Speaker 4: see my physic it's going to take it back for me.
Speaker 3: It's not quite the same, but I understand. So then
Speaker 3: I had to make a choice because I really wanted
Speaker 3: to get Mestros because it is a great steakhout. Do
Speaker 3: I stand on pride and just go somewhere else? By
Speaker 3: the way, it's Friday night in Chicago. We don't have
Speaker 3: reservations elsewhere, yeah, Or I just come from the airport.
Speaker 3: I literally have clothes in the car. Do I just change?
Speaker 3: And I thought about it. I would have changed, and
Speaker 3: I changed. Yeah, And I went came back in, and
Speaker 3: the guy who denied me entry was no longer your pride.
Speaker 4: Thing was just like, you're not about to make me
Speaker 4: change on my clothes and exactly right.
Speaker 3: But then I did because I wanted to eat there.
Speaker 3: So now this is the part of the story. Your
Speaker 3: mom doesn't know. So we come back in and uh,
Speaker 3: he's not there anymore. And I just walked back and
Speaker 3: act like I hadn't been there before. It's like, hey,
Speaker 3: Nick Wright, eight o'clock reservation, and this lady looks it up,
Speaker 3: But there's this different lady who was standing there who
Speaker 3: saw the whole first. There's two hostesses, so Hostess two
Speaker 3: is the one helping me. She didn't see any of
Speaker 3: the first thing. Hostess one, who's just watching, did see it.
Speaker 3: Post Who's like, oh, yeah, no problem, we have your
Speaker 3: table already. Sweet, I don't want to deal with any
Speaker 3: of this. But now the other hostess is walking us
Speaker 3: to the table. She seats us sit down, and she said,
Speaker 3: for the record, I thought your sweatsuit was pretty fly.
Speaker 3: And my argument is dress codes should be yes, you
Speaker 3: can have a dress code, with the exception being did
Speaker 3: you put is it an outfit? Did you put time
Speaker 3: and thought into it?
Speaker 4: And okay, I don't know about time and thought. It's
Speaker 4: a sweatsuit, but it was.
Speaker 3: It matched, it went together, it was I'm not trying
Speaker 3: to sound like an asshole again, it was expensive, like
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not there in basketball shorts. But so
Speaker 3: then we sit down all of a sudden, all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, they we ordered our drinks and before you've
Speaker 3: even ordered appetizers, there's like three appetizers you brought to
Speaker 3: the table. And I'm like, I told the person Brianna
Speaker 3: was like, we didn't order these, and he's like, no,
Speaker 3: it's from our manager. Like, oh my guy, it did
Speaker 3: look me up in the system. But then they flamed me.
Speaker 3: They flamed me, buddy. So like they were all nice.
Speaker 3: They gave us some free stuff and they have a
Speaker 3: do you know what a cosmo is? No, cosmo is a.
Speaker 4: Drink, but it's oh yeah, Cosmo.
Speaker 3: It's hot pink. They brought me a Cosmo and said
Speaker 3: that's that you couldn't wear your sweatsuit.
Speaker 4: We thought you might enjoy this amazing.
Speaker 3: But you know what, And I said to the guy
Speaker 3: because when I was leaving. As we were leaving, he
Speaker 3: came over to apologize and I said, you know what, sir,
Speaker 3: that was a little lit. But I was like, you
Speaker 3: know what, sir, I've thought about this. You were correct,
Speaker 3: because I can tell you this much right now. Had
Speaker 3: you let me in and then denied someone else that
Speaker 3: maybe didn't look like me or didn't have my customer profile,
Speaker 3: I would have been well, I would have been angry
Speaker 3: about that. If I saw them let me in and
Speaker 3: then let someone then deny somebody else that looked different
Speaker 3: than me, I would have I said, I thought about it. Man.
Speaker 3: It was like I was wrong, you were right. You
Speaker 3: handled this exactly the way you should have. And I apologize.
Speaker 3: I apologize. You know I'm not a big apology guy.
Speaker 3: I apologize. I made it right, your god dog right.
Speaker 3: I made it alright. Now I gotta go. I gotta
Speaker 3: watch tennis, alright, so you have a good show. Talk
Speaker 3: to you guys this weekend.