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Mac & Bone Hour 1: HORNETS ENGAGED IN LAMELO BALL TRADE TALKS · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: When come on sty Oh.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are the most entertaining sports program in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Bone job it no, no stop talking. You and I
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  Speaker 3: great name.
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  Speaker 4: On the bad.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Charlotte, Welcome aboard.
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  Speaker 5: Uh do we have a absolute hum dinger, A blockbuster
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  Speaker 5: of a report involving LaMelo ball trade talks to discuss
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  Speaker 5: today throughout the day and try to come to terms
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  Speaker 5: with We will talk about it. Will tell you if
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  Speaker 5: you hear it late last night what the details are.
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  Speaker 5: We will let you know here in a matter of minutes.
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  Speaker 5: I just wanted to hold a damn USA Soccer pep
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  Speaker 5: rally today. That's all I wanted to do. Pallistics says
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  Speaker 5: he's one hundred percent. That's all I wanted to do
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  Speaker 5: today is the boys play Turkey eight to nine at
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  Speaker 5: ten o'clock, trying to become the first US men's national
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  Speaker 5: team to win all group stage games. Wanted to maybe
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  Speaker 5: talk a little bit, unfortunately about the fact that Braves
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  Speaker 5: lost again. I mean this team's just a flat out
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  Speaker 5: bad baseball team for about three weeks. There's no way
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  Speaker 5: around it. We will mention that as well, and much
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  Speaker 5: much more. We'll let you hear a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: our conversation with hornetstdraft picked Christian Anderson from yesterday's show,
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  Speaker 5: and we'll let you hear what the national media is
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  Speaker 5: saying about the Hornets draft, including a man that Bone
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  Speaker 5: calls Hornets Bill Bill Simmons Baby. Seems like he's already
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  Speaker 5: on board the Honess train. So we'll let you hear
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  Speaker 5: some of that coming up on the show as well.
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  Speaker 5: But how can you talk about much of anything when
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  Speaker 5: you've got.
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  Speaker 2: These brown at about that?
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  Speaker 5: When you got to leave? That'll come up to Duke
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  Speaker 5: and you and c players. Where'd they go last night?
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  Speaker 5: There you go? We've that's kind of like as well,
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  Speaker 5: this hour got bigger also, so stay tuned for that
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  Speaker 5: Bones here, fitties here as well on the Mac and
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  Speaker 5: Bone Show, UH Bone. Before you texted me, I was
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  Speaker 5: I was so close to falling asleep.
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  Speaker 3: I was asleep, and our guy Eric, our friend from
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  Speaker 3: uh CNN sent me uh Tory works as a producer,
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  Speaker 3: sent me a text with the link I I had
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  Speaker 3: already been on a little snooze cruise and I woke
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  Speaker 3: up and uh, just two apps. I thought we were
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  Speaker 3: I thought we were safe.
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  Speaker 2: For the night I was.
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  Speaker 3: I watched uh, just an amazing game South Africa qualifying.
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  Speaker 3: They upset South Korea last night and they qualified for
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  Speaker 3: the knockout round first time ever.
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  Speaker 5: It was just it was it was cool stuff, and
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  Speaker 5: it's eleven o'clock and I'm like, okay, I gotta go
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  Speaker 5: to bed here. And I heard the text go off.
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  Speaker 5: And often I'll just ignore text if I'm like that
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  Speaker 5: close to sleeping, but for some reason I checked it
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  Speaker 5: out and it was this Sham's report the end of
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  Speaker 5: the draft last night, the Sham Sharani comes on with
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  Speaker 5: a report. We'll let you hear it in a second
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  Speaker 5: about LaMelo and the trade talks that are going on.
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  Speaker 5: Then Brian Winhorse drew something again that made it like
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  Speaker 5: even scarier to me as a Hornets fan. And then
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  Speaker 5: so you texted me it must have been what eleven o'clock. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't fall asleep till after twelve forty. I was
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  Speaker 5: first fall. There was about an hour straight where all
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  Speaker 5: I did is every thought I had about this. Just
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  Speaker 5: typed it in just I like, just typing in what
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  Speaker 5: I every thought I have as I try to make
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  Speaker 5: sense of this whole thing. It's fire off a couple
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  Speaker 5: tweets about it, send a snarky quote tweet about Kevin O'Connor.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, I just it completely rocked my world's Consequently,
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  Speaker 5: I did not wake up on time today. But this
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  Speaker 5: is this is crazy, man, I was crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't really looking at social media for a little
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  Speaker 3: while because in my head I was trying to do
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  Speaker 3: process of elimination to try to figure out what because
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  Speaker 3: all I saw was that teams were engaging with the Hornets.
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  Speaker 3: So I did not see Minnesota and Toronto attached. But
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  Speaker 3: in my I did not see that on social media
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  Speaker 3: because I was trying to go back to sleep. But
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  Speaker 3: in my head, I'm laying there trying to think, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: this team know this. I was going to try to
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  Speaker 3: figure out what teams they may be, because certain teams
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  Speaker 3: make sense, certain teams don't. Obviously, Well, it turns out
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  Speaker 3: that Minnesota Toronto were already named. I guess, and I
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  Speaker 3: didn't see that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, those are the two teams that have been mentioned
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  Speaker 5: by name Toronto reportedly tried to get Lameelo last summer,
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  Speaker 5: so they're circling back Minnesota. According to Kevin O'Connor, who
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  Speaker 5: I did snarkily close tweet last night. He said that
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  Speaker 5: Minnesota is this ain't the only star of Minnesota is
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  Speaker 5: trying to you know what I mean, par with Anthony Edwards.
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  Speaker 5: I saw some hornet says staked, well, you get Anthony Edwards.
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  Speaker 5: Now it's not working that way. They are trying to.
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  Speaker 5: They're trying to pair LaMelo ball with Anthony Edwards.
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota won't even part with Jaden McDaniels for anybody right now.
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  Speaker 2: So I was the phone, Now, can we hang up
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  Speaker 2: the phone, Jeff?
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  Speaker 3: So if they're not willing to trade McDaniels, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: even think about Anthony Edwards because I just know that's
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  Speaker 3: not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff.
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  Speaker 5: Is there a hang up button on your phone? Let
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  Speaker 5: me tell you where it's at right now? All right,
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  Speaker 5: So let's let you hear what the what was said
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  Speaker 5: last night when this broke because Schamp started it and
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  Speaker 5: then you got all these other guys that Jake Fischer's,
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  Speaker 5: the mark Stein's, everybody else filing in with their information,
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  Speaker 5: but this was Sham's right. And the final few minutes
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  Speaker 5: of the NBA draft coverage last night on ESPN.
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  Speaker 4: Malika, we started the night talking about Boston's Jalen Brown
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  Speaker 4: and another star whose name is picking up steam in
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  Speaker 4: the NBA trade market here during draft weeks as we
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  Speaker 4: get closer to the free agency is Charlotte's LaMelo Ball.
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  Speaker 4: Multiple teams are strongly pursuing LaMelo Ball right now. The
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  Speaker 4: Hornets are engaged, i'm told, and Ball had a strong
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  Speaker 4: finish to the season that mirrord the Hornets rise. Over
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  Speaker 4: the course of the last calendar year, both sides have
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  Speaker 4: been in a good place.
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  Speaker 2: Balk does want.
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  Speaker 4: To be in Charlotte, I'm told, but this is an
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  Speaker 4: organization fielding some aggressive offers, so the price is met,
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  Speaker 4: he could very well be on the move. This is
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  Speaker 4: a developing story potentially over the next twenty four to
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  Speaker 4: forty eight hours.
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  Speaker 5: Potentially over the next twenty four or forty eight hours.
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  Speaker 3: And the last time Seans gave us a timeline was
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  Speaker 3: Jannis a couple of days ago, where he said Yannis
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  Speaker 3: might be dealt in a very similar timeline, and he
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  Speaker 3: got that one exactly right. So when Sean's God a
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  Speaker 3: timeline here recently nailed it.
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  Speaker 5: And as if that's not scary enough as a Hornets fan,
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  Speaker 5: then they go back to the panel and they start
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  Speaker 5: talking about it, and listen to what Brian Windhorse says.
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  Speaker 2: They're pivoting.
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  Speaker 6: The Hornets are looking an opportunity to pivot. They had
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  Speaker 6: been about LaMelo Ball, Miles Bridges. They want their future
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  Speaker 6: to be a about khon Ka Nipple and Brandon Miller,
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  Speaker 6: and so whether Ball and Bridges can find a new
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  Speaker 6: home to clear out stuff to get those supporting casts
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  Speaker 6: is what we're going to find out.
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  Speaker 5: Who tries to go get him.
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  Speaker 6: There's a couple of teams that only a couple of
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  Speaker 6: teams in the point guards. I'm gonna I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 6: get caught speculating at this point. I just played this.
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  Speaker 6: LaMelo Ball is an incredibly popular player, So.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Thank you for that. Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't know that.
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  Speaker 3: It's all about the weird timing. To me of the pivot,
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  Speaker 3: I thought we were mac pivoting towards being one of
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  Speaker 3: the better teams in the East, with Mellow trying to
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  Speaker 3: figure out who to add to this group. What makes
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  Speaker 3: sense to go get to add here, not really in
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  Speaker 3: this moment take away from that strong young core. In
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  Speaker 3: the first thought you mentioned all your notes there, and
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  Speaker 3: I know you probably have a page after page with
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  Speaker 3: the first thing back in my notes in my head
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  Speaker 3: was now we kind of understand more why the Hornets
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  Speaker 3: got linked to seven last week to move up with
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  Speaker 3: the Kings. We thought, oh, maybe they want Mara because
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  Speaker 3: that's the run of point guards that make a whole
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  Speaker 3: lot of sense. It's one thing to get someone that
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  Speaker 3: can compliment Mellow, but those guys there are going to
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  Speaker 3: be what we think are starting a one point guards
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  Speaker 3: in this league. Why would they be in the mix
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  Speaker 3: in that group? It's gotta be Mara. Well, now we
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  Speaker 3: look out and think, okay, they they love starts, they
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  Speaker 3: drafted Christian Anderson, they had they had eyes on seven.
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  Speaker 3: They were they wanted I think one of those guards
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  Speaker 3: in the five point guard group.
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  Speaker 5: It's very possible, very possible, no doubt about it. I
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  Speaker 5: just LaMelo Ball had made such strides, and I don't
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  Speaker 5: know if the thinking is that deep down inside this
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  Speaker 5: new regime bone like doesn't trust LaMelo stay healthy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if that's it, or
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  Speaker 2: if they still like.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, because he had he had made so
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  Speaker 5: much strides, he stayed healthy. Finally, he had improved his
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  Speaker 5: game under Charles Lee and the coaching staff to where
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  Speaker 5: it wasn't It's still at times got a little yolo
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  Speaker 5: Lee with the shot selection. We've got a little what
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  Speaker 5: the hell, I'll throw it up there, whatever, But that's him.
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  Speaker 5: It had gotten better and he was playing winning basketball
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  Speaker 5: and his effect statistically on the team's offense continue to
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  Speaker 5: be absurd.
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  Speaker 2: It did.
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  Speaker 5: He started playing defense way better. Again, is the first
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  Speaker 5: team all defense? No, but that improved. So I just
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand if it's just a sell high. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: it sounds like I guess it sounds like they're engaged.
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  Speaker 5: I think Jake Fisher had worded a report one way
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  Speaker 5: of saying, the Hornets are only listening at this point.
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  Speaker 5: So I mean, I guess it's these teams Toronto and
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  Speaker 5: Minnesota reportedly, or they're coming after him and maybe we're
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  Speaker 5: not actively shopping him and we're just listening right now
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  Speaker 5: to see if Jeff Peterson to see, hey, you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: give us the King's ransom. But like, what would a
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  Speaker 5: King's ransom be Like multiple reports mentioned, Rudy Gobert is
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  Speaker 5: the key part in the Minnesota trade. I know, Rudy Gobert,
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  Speaker 5: what do we like? What do we I mean? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he'll give you some rim protection. But I've watched games
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  Speaker 5: where Rudy Gobert has been taken off the floor because
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  Speaker 5: he's so big and lumber and thirty four years old,
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  Speaker 5: and we're trying to build something young core.
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  Speaker 3: So I just thirty six million dollars a year, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, at thirty four years old.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I saw a report of somebody suggesting they would throw
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  Speaker 5: Dante DiVincenzo into even the salaries big.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that. Hey, that's all you had to say.
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  Speaker 3: I know you see this two Mac, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: it's probably a problem you have with with Kevin O'Connor.
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  Speaker 3: None of the ideas with the trades ever benefit the Hornets.
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  Speaker 3: It's always, oh, we can send Mellow here and then
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  Speaker 3: Rudy Gobert or nas Reeve can come back here to Toronto. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: they won't get Scottie Barnes back, but it'll be r J.
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  Speaker 2: Barrett.
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  Speaker 3: And none of the trades ever benefit the ideas the
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  Speaker 3: Hornet's trying to improve their team. It's always oh, mellow
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  Speaker 3: can go there and play with these guys or these guys,
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  Speaker 3: Well what about here? From for example, I have not
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  Speaker 3: seen one person suggest, oh what about Melo for Jaylen Brown?
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  Speaker 3: That to me is a star that is on a
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  Speaker 3: different level than a lot of the guys that Minnesota
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  Speaker 3: in Toronto will be offering there. Well, no one's ever
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  Speaker 3: gonna say that out there.
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  Speaker 5: I think if you were trading for Jalen Brown, I
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  Speaker 5: think you'd probably Miller will probably be a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's the problem because then you'd end up
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  Speaker 2: with three wings.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah you know, yeah, so, but yes, to your point,
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  Speaker 5: I agree with your point of shouldn't we be making
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  Speaker 5: moves where we build off last season and the way
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  Speaker 5: we played in the second half and try to get
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  Speaker 5: better and is there going to be a trade here
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  Speaker 5: that makes you better? But I was even thinking like
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  Speaker 5: is this a precursor to another deal? Like there's so
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  Speaker 5: many questions of Jeff Peterson, why would you be listening
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  Speaker 5: intently to this stuff. What I did get mad at
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  Speaker 5: Kevin O'Connor about Bony was he was doing the thing
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  Speaker 5: where he was like, oh, man, I love Lamello's fit
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  Speaker 5: with Scottie Barnes in Toronto. That'd be fun. And it's
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  Speaker 5: just like, and I said, the national media. Anytime there's
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  Speaker 5: a Lamello rumor, the national media is like tripping over
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  Speaker 5: each other trying to be the first one to talk
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  Speaker 5: about how awesome LaMelo be on the other team. And
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  Speaker 5: it's like we were the number one net efficiency team.
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  Speaker 5: There should be a banner that's hung up soon. But
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  Speaker 5: number one net efficiency team in large part because of
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  Speaker 5: LaMelo ball with Brandon Miller and Konkinipple and this team.
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  Speaker 5: How about the excitement of seeing him with his hornets core.
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  Speaker 5: He fits pretty good with his hornets core. But the
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  Speaker 5: national media, hell, they'll even take him across the border
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  Speaker 5: in Toronten and get anybody gave a crap about Toronto.
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  Speaker 5: But there's Kevin O'Connor, national NBA writer, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 5: LaMelo and Scotty Barnes together, He's playing with Brandon Miller Concinipple.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's to my point too, kind of what
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  Speaker 3: you're saying there. Kevin O'Connor doesn't look at it as
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  Speaker 3: oh how it's just for example, he doesn't look at
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  Speaker 3: it as all, how'd Scotty Barnes fit here? It's automatically mellow,
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  Speaker 3: going there to play with their stars, and here we
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: would end up with, you know, the remains of Yakup
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  Speaker 3: Pearl and Grady Dick. We would get Grady Dick in
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  Speaker 3: this deal, wouldn't we. You'll get Grady Dick and like it?
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  Speaker 3: All right, that's what they're going to get. So this
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  Speaker 3: one is crazy, man, it is crazy. And then you
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  Speaker 3: think about the fan reaction and we're probably I think
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  Speaker 3: we got to open up the phone to some point
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  Speaker 3: on this one. This one feels like an emergency pulse
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  Speaker 3: of Hornets Nation at some point today as well. We
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  Speaker 3: certainly want your text on it. But I feel like
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  Speaker 3: the fan base finally came around LaMelo, like last year
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  Speaker 3: at this time, I think you would have a different conversation.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm curious to see now if the reaction from
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  Speaker 3: Hornets fans is oh my god, what are we doing here?
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  Speaker 2: And that sort of reaction.
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  Speaker 5: I guess also Bone you were talking about trying to
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  Speaker 5: connect the draft dots of where they trying to get
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: up and get one of those top ten point guards.
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  Speaker 5: I guess they assume they're resigning Kobe White, I guess they.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, do they think they have seen enough from
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  Speaker 5: Kobe White? I've mentioned his the offensive efficiency humbers with
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  Speaker 5: him on the floor. Yeah, they were actually better than
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  Speaker 5: LaMelo's and that never happened to this team. Do they
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: feel like Kobe White can run the show? And they
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: drafted Christian Anderson to be the backup? Valid questions. But
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  Speaker 5: but then, like you said, what are we getting for
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  Speaker 5: LaMelo back? Or are you getting things back for LaMelo
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  Speaker 5: that you then parlay into another deal.
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  Speaker 3: You handed to move before the move? It's hard to tell. Also,
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  Speaker 3: last night, I was already worried about something going on
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: because the Pistons traded Beef Stew last night, and people
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  Speaker 3: automatically thought they're trying to get some money off the
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: book to get Kobe White in there, because they're already
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  Speaker 3: worried about that.
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  Speaker 5: Last night because that trade was just a clear caproom,
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  Speaker 5: like they got like three second round picks.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, you started to wander when with the earlier
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: Kobe White rumors. But clearly the Hornets I would think,
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  Speaker 5: aren't re signing LaMelo and losing Kobe White? No, or
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: aren't trading LaMelo and losing Kobe White.
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  Speaker 3: No, it feels like if they're trying to trade Mellow,
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  Speaker 3: they are valuing Kobe White more than than LaMelo on
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  Speaker 3: this roster. Yeah, so and again, and then there's the
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  Speaker 3: trust in Jeff Peterson angle here. We don't sound very
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  Speaker 3: trusting of Jeff Peterson right now. It's like, is there
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  Speaker 3: is there a method to his madness here?
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  Speaker 2: You know? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I mean that's.
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  Speaker 3: Like's not he's not done what's wrong in these moments before?
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  Speaker 2: But it's a rich shoe.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is a definitely a shock to the system,
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  Speaker 3: not only of what the report is, but when it happened.
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  Speaker 3: There wasn't a lot to lead up to that. The
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  Speaker 3: draft was over. Here comes Schams and all of a sudden,
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: you know, we have an explosion here. It was out
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  Speaker 3: of nowhere, really.
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  Speaker 5: And then and then Shams drops in It could happen
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  Speaker 5: in the next twenty four to forty eight hours, and
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  Speaker 5: you're like.
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  Speaker 2: Holy crap, what that? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: It really is like shocking freaking news that we're all
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  Speaker 5: trying to come to terms with.
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  Speaker 3: It'll it'll happen when our show's off the air, No
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  Speaker 3: doubt it'll happen.
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  Speaker 2: At nine to fifty seven. One of these days, I.
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  Speaker 5: Think it'll happen at two am, Bone, and someone will
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  Speaker 5: text you and wake you up, and you'll text me
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: and wake me up.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: I say, what's gonna end up happening again?
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: So because of this and Bone, because I ended up
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: being awake till twelve forty or so at night, I
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: was able to see the end of the Braves game.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: There's a there's although do I want to see the
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: end of these Braves games?
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: They lost five to two to the Padres. They have
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: now lost four in a row. They were swept by
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: the Padres. Bone, and if I do the math on down,
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: they have lost six of eight. They have lost nine
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: of twelve right now.
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a it's been a rough June for them,
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: and the fact that their their lead, which we thought
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: was gonna be on cruise control all summer. The Phillies
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: last night are down four to three with down to
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: their last strike, and they beat watching it in five
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: to four on a home run. So the Phillies have
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: closed that gap, not a four and a half uh
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: over the behind the Braves.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's that seemed insurmountable.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: For a while, but right now, like it, I still
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: feel good about the Brave's long term but this month
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: of June has been a nightmare for that.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I mean right now.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: It's almost like if you're a Braves fan, I mean,
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: are you even worried about the division or are you right now?
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Like because like I said, you've lost nine of twelve,
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: three series out of four, Like they have played legitimate
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: bad baseball for I don't know, almost three weeks now,
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: two weeks, two weeks plus. So if you're from a
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Brave standpoint, to me, it's just kind of like, can
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: they like get good again, you know, like or.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Are they gonna keep playing like this forever?
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: They lose five to two, and Martin Perez had been
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: their best starting pitcher of late, and he ends up
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: bony taking the loss in this one last only four innings,
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: four hits, three runs, and he walked for so he
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: had been a guy that you had been able to
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: count on lately if you haven't been able to count
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: on the others. They lose five to two last night
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: to the Padres. We're a good team, mind you, but
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: it's just it's what's happening just over the last couple
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: of weeks. In general, also did want to mention Bone
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: US men's national team playing tonight against Turkey. A In
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: the words of Willie p In many soccer analysts, this
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: game is a dead rubber. That is a term that
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: is not from familiar to those that don't follow soccer,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: meaning meaning that the US could lose Bone ten to
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: nothing and it doesn't change anything. Yesterday we found out
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: there's a ninety nine percent chance that they were playing
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Bosnia in the knockout rounds next Wednesday. But tonight it
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: would be nice Bone to finish this thing off in
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: style and to become the first US team to win
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: three straight. Polistics says he wants to play, told Jenny taffyeah,
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: I'm basically one hundred percent, so you know. He also said,
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: I'm sure I'm not playing ninety minutes, but can they
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: get him a little bit of time to get him
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: back in rhythm so he's not going, you know, almost
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: three weeks without playing, you know, a game. I think
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: the four dudes with yellow cards, who are four of
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: our most valuable players, that if they get another yellow
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: card tonight they have to sit out the knockout round game.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: I would think you put them in bubble wrap. Tyler
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: Adams flow ball again, Anthony Robinson and Chris Richards. I
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: would hope Patchettino doesn't play them one minute, but I
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: would like to see polistic tonight a little bit. But
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: those are the interesting questions of what will Pach do.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was talking about him rotating those guys in
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: a little bit just to get their legs going.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: So we'll see if he actually sticks with that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Well. I would not play one second of any of
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: the yellow card I am. Tyler Adams said, Hey, I
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: can play. I want to play. I'm smart enough to
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: do it, but I just think every one of those
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: four guys are too important personally.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: You know that.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Bostia what was pretty good yesterday, But I can't tell
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: if they are actually good or they played a horrible
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: team yesterday.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they played a team Canada beat six to nothing,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, So I think I would look at it
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: that way right there. So anyway, that game's coming up
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: ten o'clock tonight, so that would go. It'll be up
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: late tonight too.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Bone.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: I've overslept two straight days. I'll probably oversleep again tomorrow.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Can you want me know in case I fall asleep,
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: you're on Shalm's watch tonight. All right, Okay, okay, apparently chums.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: We'll get to it later. But apparently Shams you were
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: saying bone. He came back for more, came back from
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: more LaMelo talk on Sports Center.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Back to the d the Sports Center after the draft.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Let to dig into that comment too when we come back.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: The national media reacts to the Hornets draft, including excitement
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: from Hornets Bill Simmons. And you're gonna hear what Christian
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Anderson had to say yesterday about being a Hornets mack.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: We we thought back up point guard when this whole
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: thing broke. But yeah, well we'll hear from Christian Anderson
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: as well on Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Sports Radio ninety two seven WFNZ mckin bone with you here.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Chaos behind the scenes, chaos on Hornet Twitter.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: That's my bad, mac audience. That's all right.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: We'll work through this, baby, We'll work through this. We
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: work best under Actually, no, we work under chaoss. I
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: was gonna say bast but we work underbatable. We work
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: under chaos, all right, that is debatable.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: So anyway, yes, we'll talk more a couple of people,
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: including coach Pauli, speculating like, does Lamello not want to
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: be here? Well, there were multiple reports that are saying, oh,
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: LaMelo Ball doesn't want to leave here, wants to be here.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: How did Jake Fisher phrase it? Excited to work this
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: offseason with the guys to build off of last season.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Search So this is.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Not any like because I originally had a thought to bone.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: I know, we got to move on to other you know,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: the Hornet's draft stuff from the national media guys and
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: the Christian Anderson conversation we had yesterday. But I was
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: trying to think like, okay, Hornets could very well be
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: trading Myles Bridges, that's Lamello's guy. Has Lamello kind of
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: protested that and then they you know what I'm trying
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: to think through, like what's going on?
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: So you're thinking, if they're gonna move on from Bridges,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Mellow might be unhappy in that way.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, But every report out there says LaMelo doesn't
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: want this, So it's that's that's another part of this
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: as well. This feels like this is just the Hornets,
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: I guess taking calls. But when Scham says something could
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: happen here in the next twenty four to forty eight hours.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: I know that one of the reports said they're just listening,
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: But like Schams thinks, the listening could go to the
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: next level if he's willing to say something like that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: If he's got a time, if he's got a timeline
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: on it, that means to these these are not oh,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: let me call and see what's going on. This means
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: the discussions are ongoing to the point where the finish
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: line is not far. Two other things forgot in the
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: first segment. We didn't mention Minnesota Toronto, and it's happening
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: so fast. I forget which reporter had this one in there.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: But the Bucks also have interest in Mellow, but I
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: just don't know right now. They traded their their one
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: A they got a lot back, but again, there's not
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: really a star in that mix that would make a
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: lot of sense. Jake Weinbach covers the league for what
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Everett's warn up. We're just gonna read what some of
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: these analysts and these insiders are saying as they come
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: up throughout the day. He speculates that the compensation, if
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: it was Toronto, would be a Menuell quickly in first
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: round conversation. Oh yeah, I did see that, Like, what
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: are we doing Manuel quickly? He's a nice player, he's
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: not a mellow ball.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: This is like a move you make. I mean, I
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: know we still have Millering and Commander Malik says, I
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: know I'm more than likely alone. But I could see
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: the Hornets being successful without LaMelo. But it's like it
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: just it feels like the move you make bone, like
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: when you're trying to let me owe it up, Like
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: are we trying to accumulate more draft picks again?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: We already have a bunch of them, like we again
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: is not as good as this one coming up?
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: We were exactly We were one of the best teams
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: in the NBA over the last you know, since January first. Anyway,
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: We're gonna keep trying to process this thing. But yesterday,
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: before these LaMelo you know, trade talk reports started getting
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: out there late last night, there were people around the
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: national media reacting to the Hornets draft. Bill Simmons, what
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: does our celeb fan think bone about the Hornets? It
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: seems like he likes him some honess Steinbach.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I'll give you a positive winner. We could we can
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: end on, Charlotte gets Steinbach at fourteen and they take
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Anderson at eighteen. They take two German guys. They just
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: said we're double German inn down. So other than con
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: having to learn German, I think both those guys are playoff,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: rotation guys. I like Anderson. I just he was one
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: of another one of those guys I was hoping would
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: miraculously fall to the Celtics, where he's just I know
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: what he is like, He's going to be able to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: create offense. I don't think he's one of your three
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: or four best guys on a championship team or a
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: high playoff team, but I think he could be the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: third guard on a really good team, and which is
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: what he would be on this Charlotte team.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: So I like that.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: And then Steinbach House you would like Steinbach. Now, I'm
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: not sure whoever be able to play defense successfully ever,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: but he is a mother rebounder.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: I really he was.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: One of the guys I probably spent the most time
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: on because he's definitely an NBA player, and he's definitely
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: a rotation guy, and he might be a little flawed
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: but has a couple above average skills. Kyle like seems
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: like pretty high. IQ played you know, with adults overseas
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: when he was like fifteen, sixteen seventeen, just got the
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: kicked out of him. And he is an awesome rebounder,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: like awesome, So I don't know. I kind of like
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the pick for them at fourteen, even though I'm not
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: sure if he's ever the fourth best guy on a
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: really good team.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: So I like it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Antil Hornet's Bill is with Doug Branton and Walker Mayo
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: and walking.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: But what will Hornets Bill say about the LaMelo stuff?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: The sur rise? He didn't do an emergency pod last
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: night at one in the morning.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: We're gonna check the hornets are Reddit feed here and
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: see if he who knows he may have. I mean,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: that was one of the first things I looked for,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: was I need Hornets Bill's reaction.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, Texter says Mac, can't we keep could
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: we keep Kobe? If we're in trade LaMelo like we
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: said in the first segment, I can't imagine a whirl
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: where they trade LaMelo and aren't re signing Kobe. Hell no,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: if they let both of those guys, well both of
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: the guys bone that had the ridiculous effect efficiency wise
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: on this team offensively, well they go do hand the
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: case of Christian and like what then you really you
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: talk about a step back that would be.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: That would be elevating Christian Anderson within a couple of
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: days to be the starting boy guard. Look like Bill
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: said there what Bill said? Anderson can be a rotational
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: piece and who knows what the future holds there for him.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: But I don't think this team that's moving in a
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: certain direction wants a rookie point guard pigged right outside
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: the lottery to be leading the team. That makes no sense.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: And that goes into what you're saying trading mellow. Depending
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: what the move may be, it feels almost like a
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: little bit of a backwards move at an odd time
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: where we're thinking forward. But why are trying to fit
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: the games in our mind? And why are they not
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: thinking forward? It doesn't make a lot I want to say,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: I mean they're thinking forward, But again, is it just
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: are they trying to sell high on LaMelo? Like do
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: they not say he's gonna stay healthy, stay healthy?
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Just like yeah, you know what I mean?
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: Like again, they're not This isn't the group that drafted them.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: Are they fully not sold I don't know, man, I
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: don't know. Texter says his rich Joe actually back in
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: that building. That again, like I said earlier, Bone, that's
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: the crazy thing we had, this GM.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: We have if they changed his key car forever. The GM.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Bone is a guy who we have all professed so
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: much trust in, and now we're yelling at him. So
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: we're trying to come to turns with Chef Jeff. You
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: usually cook, So what's the meal you're trying to make here?
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Anyway, let's James plow Wright sent me a DM that
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: he's availble to come on the show soon if you want.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: He's willing to trade mellow. Oh, look at a flower.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: He's like, I know how I get some airtime with
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: those boys. I'm gonna tell him I've flat out ready
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: to deal baby oh man. Anyway, all right, so let's yeah.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, at some point we have to have that
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: conversation of like does it make sense? How can we
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: make it make sense? But the initial reaction is why
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: we got such a better version, LaMelo, why aren't we
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: trying to build off that? All right, Let's go to
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: uh the man that I thought yesterday Bone would be
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: the third string point guard or I was hoping he was.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: I was hoping we resigned Kobe and Christian Anderson be
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: the third string point guard. Now we're really worried about
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: is he the media backup? Christian Anderson, eighteen pick in
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: the NBA draft, joined us yesterday to chat after three
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: hours sleep, he said, to chat about being picked by
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: the Hornets.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: No, I had the feeling throughout the process, like you said.
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: I met with them in the combine in Chicago, and
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: when I worked out for them, we had, you know,
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: dinner together and all that stuff. So I knew, I
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: knew they liked me, and I knew it was a
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: real possibility. And you know, I was super excited to
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: hear my name called to this organization.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: How excited are you to play with the trio of
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: shooters already here in con in mellow in Miller, How
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: how excited are you to be a part of that?
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: And what can you most add to that group?
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: Super exciting. You know, it's a lot easier to play
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: when you got guys who can knock down shots and
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: a lot of shooters around, like you said, So you
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: know it's gonna make it hard for teams to help
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: off and I think I can just bring elite, elite
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: shot making two in that aspect, his shots off the vehicle,
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: cat and shoot whatever. So yeah, I think it's gonna
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: be hard for teams to help because we got a
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: bunch of deadly shooters on the court.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: We're talking with Christian Anderson, brand new Charlotte hornty eighteen
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: pick in the draft last night. All Right, I'm gonna
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: ask you a question. I think I know the answer,
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: but I want to hear it. All right, I think
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: fans want to hear you say this, Who is the
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: best shooter in the twenty twenty six NBA draft?
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Me? I love it.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: And here's the thing though, Like it's one thing like
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: that would be like me. But if I tell you
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: I'm the best radio host in the world, no one
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: else goning agree with ye. Right, But Christian, if you
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: read the scouting reports, I mean, there's a bunch of
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: scouts that agree with you on that. And the thing
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: about your shoot footing, it appears there is no scenario
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: you can't shoot. Like I'm reading through the metrics, catch
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: and shoot amazing off the dribble. Seems like you might
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: like that more twenty six feet or more you shot.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Like forty plus percent? Is that that?
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: That's clearly something you worked on, right, is to be
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: able to hit every type of shot?
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: How important is that? Yeah?
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, how I've worked on every cinele type of shot
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: growing up and being able to hit in a variety
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: of ways, especially from long distance. So now I just
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: worked on it growing up and paid off. And nah,
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: I don't feel uncomfortable with any shot.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Christian, you're you're from Atlanta? Are you ready to make
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: that jump now to Charlotte and then cross the rivalry
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: lines there to be a Charlotte guy?
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: Of course, I mean, you know it's not too far obviously,
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: but you know, early I played au year and also
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: went to school in North Carolina, so I'm super familiar
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: with displays, so not super excited.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: Nice, Well, hey, we play We play the Hawks for
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: a for a pig trophy, all right, the winner gets
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: a pig, and so you better.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Know you know about it. You better help us win
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: that dang pig. Man. It's personal.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: And Charlotte your pick and roll game is something else
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: that Jeff Peterson mentioned the GM of the Hornets last night.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: In addition to your shooting the Scouts rave about your
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: pick and roll game, and I'm watching all these clips
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: and it's like it just feels like you're pacing it
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: like what.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: I'm an amateur trying to analyze it. What are your
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: keys to running that pick and roll?
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: So well, yeah, I'm just reading the defense all the times, uh,
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: looking at what options and reens I got depend on
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: the coversion. Uh, I'm looking to you know, just read
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: the rim DIY and just make the best play, whether
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: it's you know, shoot the ball, hit the roller, or
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: you know, like I said, if the rim dies at
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: the rim, then you know, make that skip pass. So
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: I'm reading a bunch of different things. But no, I think, yeah,
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: it just comes from work on it growing up and
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: just comes easy to me at this point.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Christian, I'm a big Duke fan. Now, I'm not
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: looking for an apology about what you did last year,
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: but I want you to know that your performance are outstanding.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: But it did make me cry a little bit. And
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I'm not looking for you to say I'm sorry I
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: had to mean to hurt you, but I just want
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: you to know that you you you heard me last
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: year during that game.
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah, No, it's that was easily one of my favorite
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: games to play, and especially you know, Duke and everything
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: like that. But yeah, we we had to get them
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: one time.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: You were a stone cold killer. Now, sorry, you won't
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: bring that up to con or see on it any point.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: You say, I'm right, that is definitely true. All right.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: I want to let's talk about hannas we asked him
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: about you. I want to know, you know, what's it
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: like playing with him? Like, what are Hornets fans going
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: to love about Hannes Steinbach.
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: And just a super great guy. You know. Obviously everybody
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: knows about about the redound and everything like that, because
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: you know, one of the best rebounders in college basketball.
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: But I think just to feel and he knows where
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: to be, especially on pigg and rolls, and I think
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: he knows how to play the game really well. So
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: I think offensive and defenses were getting a guy who's
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: you know, super smart and obviously we already have that chemistry.
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: It's gonna be fun to play with them.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: That's pretty cool. We hope to see you guys teaming
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: up in Summer league. Man, we had a summer league
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: title to defend. All right, I want you guys out there, well, Okay,
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: before let you go, I got to do full disclosure here.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: There were some Hornets fans that got upset at me
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: earlier because I was bringing up something that I'm sure
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: that you can't do anything about, really, and I'm sure
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: that you hear about it all the time. I was
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: bringing up the size and like my concerns, our team's
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: gonna target you in the NBA. Let's fund let's go
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: after a Christian because you know, let's get him on
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: our six five wing or whatever like that. How do
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: you I'm sure you hear this all the time. What
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: would you say to those of us that are like, man,
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: is he big enough to hold up defensively?
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: What would you say?
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say, you know, well, I'm really like
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: measurements were a little off really like six two three fours,
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: so like really six three, so people really think I'm
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: six to one. But you know, wishues on like six
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: three and you know, wingspan six seven. So I think
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: I got the physicals to team, know, make an impact
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: in this league. But you know, it's all about you know,
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: learn how to how to do all the little things
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: that get you and help you succeed on the defensive end.
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: And I think most importantly, I want to you know,
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: I have competitive spirit on that end, and you know
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: I fight on that end. So I mean, obviously it's
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: gonna take a little bit of adjustment period, but I
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: don't think I'll have any problem with that in the future.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I love it, man, I'm pulling for you.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: I hope you do it, and I hope you can
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: come on a couple of years and be like, dude,
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: I told you didn't have to worry about my defense.
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: I would love that and I can't wait to see
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: you shoot the rock. The most important question as we
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: say goodbye to you play on the German national team
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: is Schnitzel.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Good? Do you like Schnitzel? Yeah? I love it. I
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: love it?
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, Sinzel's highly recommend Alright, I mean front me, baby,
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: Oh you got to get the right one. Okay, all right,
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: all right, brother, Hey, welcome to Charlotte. Congratulations on fulfilling
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: your dream man, keep going, keep improving, and we appreciate.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: You coming on.
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah, of course, appreciate jo.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Thanks christ thank you, Christian. There you go.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: That is Christian Anderson. All Right, I'll say it again,
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: that's Christian Andrews. I don't know what's going on there.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: Fit Daddy. That's Christian Anderson of your Charlotte Hornets.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Welcome to Charlotte.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Now give us twenty four, seven and seven.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Yes, the Texters are all over at Bone. Not only
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: is he a small player for the position in the
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: sport the position he plays, he also uses super an
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: awful lot. He was super excited to be a member
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: of the Hornets. I am now calling him Basketball Bryce.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: We got another super guy here in Charlotte.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: I love it. That is awesome.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: When we come back here on the Back and Bone Show,
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: we're gonna focus on non Hornet stuff for at least
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: a few minutes.
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: Here.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Where did the Duke and UNC guys go on Night
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: two of the draft? The NC double A changed a
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: big role on Tuesday, and there was already a wallsuit
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: filed by Wednesday. That's almost record pace or not for
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: the NC Double A. Sports Radio ninety two seven, wfn Z.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: Sports Radio ninety two seven, WFNZ macken Bone with you
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: for just waking up Sham Sharania and a boatload of
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: other insiders reporting that the Hornets are engaging in trade
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: talks with multiple teams about trading LaMelo Ball, Minnesota, Toronto, Milwaukee,
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: all mentioned in different reports. We are trying to make sensitives.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: We're also venting a little bit, and that is going
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: to be our day all right throughout this show. But
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: I do want to get to a couple of other things.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: So at seven o'clock we'll get back into this whole
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: thing real quick. To what were you saying, Doug Branson
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: from Walker's Better Half on Locked on Hornets, Because again
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: we're all trying to theorize, like, why with all the
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: momentum we have in LaMelo has, why would they listen
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: on these trade offers.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Well, I was just Doug. I was thinking the same
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: thing before I saw him tweet it. He said, well,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: if Kobe White was wont to star, this is one
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: way of accomplish in that. So yeah, I don't know.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: I mean that not necessarily what I would do, But
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: if Kobe White was saying, yeah, I'll be back there,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: but I'm a starting point guard and I'm gonna be
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: paid like one. Who knows, maybe maybe they thought, well
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: we want him back. I don't know. It's hard to
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: read this. We're all we're all kind of on that
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: speculation trading together right now.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you this, he ain't starting in Detroit like
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: people think Detroit's the place he could go.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Pretty sure, kay, unless.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: You try to play him and k cunning him together
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: off the rip, I guess it's possible. But no, he
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: will not be a starter here. But do you so,
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: do you say to hell with LaMelo? We got to
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: make sure we have so Kobe's more important than LaMelo.
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: I mean, I know he costs less and you'd save
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: yourself money that you can use elsewhere on the roster,
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: and you would get you know, a bunch of stuff back.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: But like you were saying earlier, it doesn't really seem
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: like we're getting Like if this was a Star for
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: Star trade, I guess I could understand it.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: It doesn't sound like that's the case.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: No, you know, And it's also you know, you have
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: to match. You have to match the contracts also, and
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Mellow's got a pretty hefty deal. But a lot of
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: these moves are it's not matching not only monetary value.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: A lot of these things that are not there are
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: matching value. That makes sense for the Hornets. A lot
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: of these ideas, whether it's Toronto Minnesota, Milwaukee, Toronto would
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: benefit greatly from Melow with Scottie Barnes and Mellow with
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards. But where are the Hornets benefits in these deals?
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm trying to just adding a bunch of
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: pieces to the puzzle. And I thought our puzzle was
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: almost pretty much set, and we're trying to find a
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: bigger piece of the puzzle. Yeah, it's not more pieces.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: We're trying to find a bigger piece. It's crazy. I
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: don't get I don't get it. All right, I've got.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Hartboard and headache. We will circ.
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: We will circle back at seven o'clock. And I want
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: to open up the phones too. Is in the seven
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: o'clock hour as well, and just I want to see
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: if you're venting or because we're starting to get now
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: Bone where some people are starting to try to make
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: the case for it. So I definitely want to open
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: up the phone to some point in the seven o'clock hour.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: A couple of things I want to mention here Bone
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: NBA draft last night, So you get three Duke Slash
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: UNC players that are taken last night. Speaking of Minnesota,
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: maybe Isaiah Evans gets play with Lamello Isaiah Evans Bone
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: ends up with Minnesota last night, so very good spot
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: for him. They traded for the pick with Brooklyn. I
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: mean basically every pick last night out of outside like three,
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: we're picks that were traded for whatever. But so you've
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: got that one you mentioned it earlier. It's the nets
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: for Malik Brown. Yes, right, that's what I think. It's
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: the nets for week Brown. That's what was on my
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: screen when I saw it. Oh my god, were you
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: watching it all during the ASAR part of this of
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: the draft.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Yes? Did you see how confused they got? It was unbelievable.
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: They they Vassart was picked by Atlanta. Atlanta traded with
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: the Clippers, but the Clippers were doing the selecting because
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: again the NBA is a bunch of ignoramuses and can't
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: figure out just to do it like the NFL and
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: just make the trades. And then the team that traded
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: for the pick is the one making the pick. So
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: they Bobby Marks does a whole breakdown of how he
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: fits with the Hawks, Henry Vassar, and then Malika says,
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: hold on, I'm getting more information here. There might be
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: more trades here, and I think he's on the Clippers,
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: and then Bobby Mark says, oh, let's hit the rewind button.
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: No Belika, y'all had it right all along. He's on
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: the Hawks. God, that's gotta be a hard thing to broadcast.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: How do you agree?
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: You?
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how do you do live television in that way?
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: There's gotta be a better way to do this there, guys,
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: there has to be a better way.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: So the vas Art thing, it's almost like the NFL
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: has the better way, Boe.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: It's almost like.
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: The better way if someone else is doing and you
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: can watch it and just steal the way they do
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: it instead of having Antonin Jamison and Vince Carter have
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: to swap hats. So bad anyway, So Vasar, like listen,
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: I said it yesterday.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: It's just.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: I just wish I wish he, I wish Isaia Evans.
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: I wish these guys would have went back to school.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: You know, they don't get guaranteed contracts now being second
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: round picks, and they both would have made mint when
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: it comes to niled. All the reports after the fact
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: now are saying Vasar could have made five million, maybe
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: even more than five million. Now there's a report out
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: there boning about his camp kind of trying to manipulate
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: the draft last night. He didn't want to be and
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: they were talking about this during the broadcast. Guys that
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: try to tell teams I don't want to be on
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: a two way contract. I want to be on a
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: standard contract. So I guess he found the team. But
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: that's why he kept dropping, because he he dropped pretty
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: damn late into even the second round last night.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: Feels like there was some agent work that did Henry
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: or rye here throughout this entire process. Whether it's the
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: advice going in, I'll know exactly what transpired there, but
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: that's a pretty steep drop for a guy we thought
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: might be a first rounder at least early thirties in
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: the second round. So yeah, there was something going on there,
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: and the agent did no favors apparently. I think God
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Wasserman I think was the agent here. They did no
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: favors for Henry during this whole process. Yeah, I mean,
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: I guess he was looking at six million plus at
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: UNC apparently, or college in general if he came back.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, I just I with the NIO money being
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: what it is, I just I don't get the hurry
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: by some guys to come out if they don't know,
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: maybe they're just getting bad like you're saying bad intel. Hey,
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: you're gonna be because all the mock drafts thought Isaiah
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: Evans and Henry were first round picks too. Jeremy Wu
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: had Vassar the first pick of his second round mock draft. Yeah,
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: and it sounds like he would have gone higher if
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: he would have agreed to go on a two way. Yes,
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: it seems like teams are like, you ain't gonna go
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: on a two way, well, then we won't pick you.
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: It looks like they found a team in Atlanta that
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: will give us enter contract, it'll be on the roster
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: and does feel like a guy that can help in
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: the NBA. His size, the shooting ability he showed at UNC.
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: But anyway, so that was notable. Also notable, but not
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: surprising bone is the fact that we didn't really talk
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: about this much yesterday because we're talking all about the draft.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: But on Tuesday, the NCAA did approve the new eligibility rules,
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: which includes you've got five years of eligibility, but you've
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: got to do it in five years. Anything else you
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: know you're not going. There's no more waivers. There's no
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: more sticking around. You have five years, but you can
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: play five different seasons.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Bone.
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: It took one day for a lawsuit to be filed
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: on behalf of fifteen athletes who finished their four years
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: of eligibility last spring but are saying, why do we
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: not get our fifth year of eligibility? The rule states
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: that folks that did their fourth year last year will
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: not get a fifth year. This starts moving forward as
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: we all expected. There will be lawyers and there will
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: be lawsuits. So in Ohio State Court they're looking for
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: like an injunction on this. There'll be a hearing next
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: Wednesday to try to get an injunction. Athletes want an
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: extra year of eligibility, and I had Redbone. I don't
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: know if you followed Darren Heidner on Twitter.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: I do not.
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: He is like one of the top lawyers when it
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: comes to nil for players and all this stuffs to
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: be must follow now he and yeah, I think business
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: is good for him. But he and another attorney apparently
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: have talked to fifty plus athletes and are getting ready
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: to file a lawsuit on behalf of even more athletes.
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: So NCUBA makes a rule change. Bone it literally takes
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: one day for fifteen athletes to file us a lawsuit.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Well, this is great news for our injunction junction segment.
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: Here.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: It's back, baby, we're back. It's back.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: Well, what's the amount of times that if you said it,
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: I apologize. What is the amount of times in five
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: years they can transfer? Do we know that part of this?
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: Do we know like what the limit is for that?
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: I don't think this. I don't.
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: I don't think this has the one year transferred because
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: I was wondering the one time.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: I don't think that.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: I thought they were trying to cut down all these
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: guys having three or four schools. But that's in the
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: you know me, in the bill in Congress. You're trying
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: to get through this one. I can't keep this one
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: is straight.
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: This one has the age limit also too, where like
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: you have to you know what I mean, it's going
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: to cut down on twenty seven year old guys playing
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: college sports.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: By the way, Bill Wilmer.
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: All right, I guess humor we're stressed out about is
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: Lamello going to be traded based on these reports.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: I'm not stressed at all. I'm good, I'm fine.
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: You're stressed Bill Wilmer trying to use comedy bone to
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: help us through this, and says UH auto insurance rates
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: in Charlotte will drop ten percent if we ship Lamello
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: out of state.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, great, yes, yeah, we got an email
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: from the DMV, also excited Mellow could be gone.
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: A lot of paperwork that they won't have to do now.
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: Bone if if Lamello's out of here, dang it.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: When we come back on the Mack and Bone Show.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: The Hornets reportedly engaged in trade talks with multiple teams
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: about Mellow. We React Sports Radio ninety two seven