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Gordie Chiesa on NBA season tipping off today, Jazz vs Grizzlies tomorrow, Heavy international influence on the league + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Peace out.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get the latest on the Utah Jazz with former
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  Speaker 2: Jazz assistant coach Gordy Chiesa. He's forgotten more about the
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  Speaker 2: NBA than any of us will ever know.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not get crazy. Come for the Hoops Talk.
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  Speaker 2: Stay for his list of the day.
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  Speaker 1: My list today.
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  Speaker 2: Here's OC with basketball savant Gordy Chiesa on the Sean
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  Speaker 2: O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 3: With your mind and your signing. Triple header to start
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  Speaker 3: off the NBA season, Boston on the road at Detroit,
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  Speaker 3: Philadelphia at the defending champions, New York Knicks. Now you
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  Speaker 3: can get into the Madison square garden low for the low,
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  Speaker 3: low price of $ 2, 163 for the first game of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Oklahoma city at San Antonio in a primetime game tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Joining us to talk some NBA basketball, our good friend
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  Speaker 3: Gordy Chiesa, resident NBA guru, longtime assistant coach in the association.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Gordy. How are you?
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  Speaker 4: Sean, I'm doing well. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So give me a sense of.
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  Speaker 3: The anticipation felt by real basketball people when today rolls around,
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  Speaker 3: when the NBA season finally tips off, because it's wildly different,
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  Speaker 3: of course, than football season where... You get four months
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  Speaker 3: of it and it's one game a week and you
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  Speaker 3: hold your breath the rest of the year. So the players,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they've got this kind of like body calendar
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  Speaker 3: that goes with that and there's a rhythm to it and.
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  Speaker 3: It just feels like it's less of a marathon and
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  Speaker 3: it's more of a sprint when you're talking about football season. Basketball,
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  Speaker 3: very much different. Basketball is absolutely a marathon. So the
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  Speaker 3: first game, how significant does it feel for you and
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  Speaker 3: the other real basketball people?
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  Speaker 4: There's so much anxiety. It's the first real game because
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  Speaker 4: in preseason, most of the key players only played sparingly.
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  Speaker 4: So now it's for real. And so there's a high
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  Speaker 4: level of anxiety, including LeBron James. It sounds crazy that
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  Speaker 4: 24th season for Philadelphia, he's playing tonight in the Garden.
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  Speaker 4: It's the ring ceremony. Mainstays tell me that the 76ers
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  Speaker 4: are going to ruin their party, Knickerbocker ring ceremony. So
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  Speaker 4: there's anxiety. They're waiting for their first dunk, their first
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  Speaker 4: corner three, their first steal. And there's nothing like it
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  Speaker 4: where it's real now. And then as the season goes on,
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  Speaker 4: it's the rhythm and tempo of playing. And it's a grind.
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  Speaker 4: But within the grind, though, there's just so many ups
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  Speaker 4: and downs. And that's why it's so important that you
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  Speaker 4: develop a bench step throughout the season. So we're finally here.
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  Speaker 4: It's the NBA's 81st season in existence tonight. And it's
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  Speaker 4: really going to be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: Utah does not start until tomorrow night. That'll be at
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  Speaker 3: Memphis for the Utah jazz to begin their regular season.
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  Speaker 3: We'll stay focused on today's games. First Boston at Detroit.
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  Speaker 3: You already mentioned Philadelphia at New York ring ceremony for
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  Speaker 3: Knicks and their fans. That's why the, the opening night
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  Speaker 3: tickets are so expensive. Probably Oklahoma city at San Antonio.
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  Speaker 3: So obviously the NBA rolling out some big games with
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  Speaker 3: some star players and and some big teams that expect
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  Speaker 3: big things this year. Let's talk about that San Antonio-Oklahoma
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  Speaker 3: City game. Injuries have changed Oklahoma City, and San Antonio
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  Speaker 3: was also close last year, but what's it going to
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  Speaker 3: take for them to get over the hump and to
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  Speaker 3: be a championship team with that roster?
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  Speaker 4: Well, the Thunder right now won 64 games in 18
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  Speaker 4: last season, and they lost that unbelievable game seven. And
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  Speaker 4: so for the Thunder, they're right there with the Spurs.
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  Speaker 4: You can debate it back and forth. And they'll eventually
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  Speaker 4: probably play in the conference finals, you know, come late
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  Speaker 4: May of 2027. So they're ready to go. You alluded
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  Speaker 4: to Jalen Williams, who's an all-NBA performer, who I heard
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  Speaker 4: during the season last year, and it set them back.
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  Speaker 4: And now the question is always this. What team has
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  Speaker 4: the best defense, is guarding each other, and the bench
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  Speaker 4: play of both teams, which are really solid. Dispose it
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  Speaker 4: of Tobias Harris, who's a 16-year veteran, formerly of Detroit Pistons,
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  Speaker 4: and he'll help them very much. And for the Oklahoma
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  Speaker 4: City Thunder, they're going to try to just hold the
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  Speaker 4: course right now. But they have a really terrific team.
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  Speaker 4: They need good play out of A.J. Mitchell, who came
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  Speaker 4: through for them last year to continue. And there's this
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  Speaker 4: young big guy from UCLA. I'll get some minutes, Sean.
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  Speaker 4: He was the 12th pick of the draft via Michigan,
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  Speaker 4: the NCAA champions, Adai Mara. He's 7'3, Spaniard, and he
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  Speaker 4: will back up Hartenstein. And that will help Chad Holmgren
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  Speaker 4: to play more at a stretch big man. So they
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  Speaker 4: have these three, the two big guys, plus Holmgren, who's
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  Speaker 4: really a primitive player, to try to compensate going against
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  Speaker 4: Wimby Yamba.
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  Speaker 3: For Victor Wimby Yamba, a lot of these preseason predictions
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  Speaker 3: say he'll be a league MVP this year.
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  Speaker 1: He could be a defensive player of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, he's already just at the very, very top superstar
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  Speaker 3: in the league. What areas of his game need to
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  Speaker 3: improve the most in order for him to be a
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  Speaker 3: championship player?
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  Speaker 4: Balance shooting. He takes way too many awkward threes. So,
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  Speaker 4: when beyond that, if I was.
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  Speaker 4: Coaching him is that I would try to get him
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  Speaker 4: more unbalanced. You see, he's gangly. He has those high hips.
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  Speaker 4: So when he gets bumped off balance, I'm not talking
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  Speaker 4: the lay, I'm talking on perimeter where defensive players stay
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  Speaker 4: in his body and he's taking way too many shots
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  Speaker 4: that are contested. So if I was him, I would
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  Speaker 4: try to shoot more on balance, keep working on my
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  Speaker 4: dribbling skills as I get step back three. And then
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  Speaker 4: if I am going to post up, He'll be a
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  Speaker 4: running post up, meaning what, in motion already versus stationary,
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  Speaker 4: trying to slug it out against good defense, better physicality,
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  Speaker 4: where eventually, again, with that angular body, he has a
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  Speaker 4: hard time against tremendous defense to stay balanced. So, again,
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  Speaker 4: what you want to do is stay gravity more and
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  Speaker 4: get a wider base and try to finish over the
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  Speaker 4: top of the really defense trying to stop you.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk about tomorrow. More complete slate of games tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Those three matchups today. And then pretty much everybody else
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  Speaker 3: plays before Thursday, Utah starts the season on the road
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  Speaker 3: at Memphis. And obviously everything is different this time around
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  Speaker 3: for the Utah jazz. You know, last year was sort
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  Speaker 3: of like a formality. Hey, celebrate the basketball season coming back.
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  Speaker 3: let's look and see what these young players do and
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  Speaker 3: how they develop. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: we knew what the results were going to be. Now
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  Speaker 3: it's about chasing something significant. Now it's about seeing how
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  Speaker 3: these young players develop, but in wins, we hope in wins,
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  Speaker 3: they start against a vulnerable Memphis team who is favorites
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  Speaker 3: here in this one. What do you need to see
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  Speaker 3: in game one for this Utah jazz team to make
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  Speaker 3: you feel like this season is going to.
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  Speaker 1: Go the way we want it to go?
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  Speaker 4: Defensively trying to create turnovers. And that's active defense and
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  Speaker 4: being early help position. I always talk about it. If
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  Speaker 4: you're late in help, there's really no help then. You
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  Speaker 4: have to be early and help. So Zach Eadie, the
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  Speaker 4: very huge person that played the starting center for the
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  Speaker 4: Memphis Grizzlies, he only played 11 games last year. So
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  Speaker 4: people forget that he wasn't there. So the Grizzlies, like
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  Speaker 4: the Jazz, they were injury-prone, but also they set guys out.
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  Speaker 4: The Grizzlies didn't. They were actually more injury-related. They won
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  Speaker 4: 25 games. Jazz won 22 last year, but Zach Eadie's back.
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  Speaker 4: Jazz don't play tomorrow night without Yusef Nurkic, who he
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  Speaker 4: knows out for the first– 14 to 16 games, and
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  Speaker 4: he's physical. Nurkic is out with a plantar tear on
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  Speaker 4: his second toe and his right foot, which means now
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  Speaker 4: that Jackson Hayes, who's a lightweight, more bomber, a little
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  Speaker 4: more stronger, and just recently acquired Tony Bradley, formerly drafted
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  Speaker 4: by the Jazz back in 2017, they've got a battle
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  Speaker 4: against Zach Eady. The flip side for the Jazz point
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  Speaker 4: of view is that They can score the ball, so
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  Speaker 4: you've got to be able to defend it. Next part
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  Speaker 4: about it, Cam Boozer. So it's interesting, Sean, in game
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  Speaker 4: one of the NBA season, the second pick of the draft,
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  Speaker 4: Darren Peterson, who we know is a major talent as
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  Speaker 4: a I'll call him a guard. He's not really a
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  Speaker 4: point guard. He's a guard that can score the ball
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  Speaker 4: and can pass off the dribble. Now going against, not
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  Speaker 4: head up though, but going against Cam Boozer, who's his
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  Speaker 4: third pick at a draft. Also adding a palace intrigue
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  Speaker 4: right now, his former jazz alumni, Taylor Hendricks, who the
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  Speaker 4: jazz drafted back in 2023, Sean, ninth pick at a draft.
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  Speaker 4: And they traded with Walter Clayton for a J for, um,
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  Speaker 4: Jaron Jackson Jr. will play now also against the Jazz.
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  Speaker 4: So there's so many different things that are going in
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  Speaker 4: this game. The most important thing, though, is that the
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  Speaker 4: Jazz defense has to improve and be more physical. So
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  Speaker 4: we'll see if game one, if that happens right now.
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  Speaker 3: Gordy Chiesa is our guest talking all things NBA basketball.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of attention is going to be focused on
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  Speaker 3: Darren Peterson as we watch this professional journey begin for him.
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  Speaker 3: How close to the rookie of the year conversation does
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  Speaker 3: he need to be for the Jazz to say, yep,
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  Speaker 3: that was the right guy, that's exactly what.
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  Speaker 1: We want from him?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, the contention, see, again, the Rookie of
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  Speaker 4: the Year, usually speaking, it's someone that right away you're
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  Speaker 4: going to be one of the primary scorers, like from
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  Speaker 4: day one. So I just described A.J. DeBonser, who's hurt
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  Speaker 4: right now, ironically.
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  Speaker 2: A.J.
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  Speaker 4: 's not playing tomorrow against Marky Buck. He has a
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  Speaker 4: left sprained ankle. So his NBA debut will be suddenly
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  Speaker 4: delayed some. So DeBonser, Dallin Peterson, they're all going to
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  Speaker 4: score the ball. But part of that will be, can
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  Speaker 4: I score... to help our team improve dramatically? That should
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  Speaker 4: be the question. If you said to me right now,
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  Speaker 4: rookie of the year who could be would be either
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  Speaker 4: Cam Boosie, but he's going to be one of the
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  Speaker 4: first options offensively, or Caleb Wilson of the Chicago Bulls
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  Speaker 4: should be also right there. So the top four picks
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  Speaker 4: last year, all four of them are going to get
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  Speaker 4: playing time. They're all going to start, and they're all
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  Speaker 4: going to be possibly playing either the second option or
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  Speaker 4: maybe even the first based on how it plays out.
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  Speaker 1: Who else are you watching around the league in this
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  Speaker 1: first week, Gordy? What other teams? Because you can't watch
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  Speaker 1: the whole slate, right?
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, they're rolling out the three tonight because they want
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  Speaker 3: to feature those. Tomorrow, it's a crowded schedule of games.
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  Speaker 3: What teams have intrigued you with what they've done in
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  Speaker 3: the offseason or maybe what they did last year and
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  Speaker 3: you expect a big step forward?
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  Speaker 4: Miami Heat. I'm looking to see with Giannis, who we
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  Speaker 4: know is an absolute MVP candidate again, and what he
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  Speaker 4: does with the Heat. They have a great system. They
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  Speaker 4: used to play slower and defensive-minded. Last year, they were
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  Speaker 4: first in the NBA in pace offensively. So they made
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  Speaker 4: that transaction of doing it. Now they added Giannis, and
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  Speaker 4: he added Klay Thompson as a shooter. So now the
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  Speaker 4: question is, can Davian Mitchell, who's going to be the
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  Speaker 4: starting point guard. Can he hold in there against the
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  Speaker 4: other starting point guards? Can Andrew Wiggins make another step?
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  Speaker 4: Can Tim Hardaway off the bench score the ball for them?
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  Speaker 4: But Giannis is the biggest acquisition, along with Bobby Portis,
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  Speaker 4: a part of that trade. And they left out purposely
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  Speaker 4: the rocker Gibraltar, Bam Adebato. So the Heat could make
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  Speaker 4: the biggest acquisition. underrated movement in the Eastern Conference because
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  Speaker 4: they are talented. They have been one of the best
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  Speaker 4: coaches in the NBA and Eric Spolstrom, and no one's
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  Speaker 4: talking about them. So, again, I'm following the heat, and
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  Speaker 4: especially Giannis. Can he be... mentally focused now with a
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  Speaker 4: new team in South Beach, can it give them a
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  Speaker 4: new energy level? You know, Sean, like any business, when
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  Speaker 4: you change, quote, jobs, change teams, it gives you a
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  Speaker 4: second chance now, almost like a do-over, the things they
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  Speaker 4: didn't like or didn't do well based on you with
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  Speaker 4: the new situation. I told you so I can still play.
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  Speaker 3: Gordy, who's going to be the... League MVP, who's going
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  Speaker 3: to be the defensive player of the year? Who's going
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  Speaker 3: to be the coach of the year?
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  Speaker 4: Let's go first. Defensive player of the year, Victor Wemby-Amber. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: He will be. He changes every game defensively. He can
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  Speaker 4: steal the ball, and he really plays hard, which is
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  Speaker 4: actually commendable. All right, MVP. I'm going to lean towards.
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  Speaker 2: Giannis.
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  Speaker 1: Giannis.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Giannis over Nikolai Jokic, who we all love also,
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  Speaker 4: and Shea Julius Alexander. Again, all those guys are certainly worthy. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just going to lean towards Giannis this year as
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  Speaker 4: far as a rebirth. So it's going to be interesting.
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  Speaker 4: I said coach of the year. Usually speaking, Sean, most
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  Speaker 4: times it's a team that is a turnaround coach, you know,
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  Speaker 4: where the team was struggling and then suddenly they turned
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  Speaker 4: it around based on either injuries now came back, those
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  Speaker 4: players came back, or it's a pop in the air
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  Speaker 4: as far as just really getting better. So with that said,
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  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be Quint Snyder of the
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  Speaker 4: Atlanta Hawks.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Who has a good roster, and they did very well
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  Speaker 4: last year. Sean, I have a question for you, though. Sean,
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  Speaker 4: do you realize that right now the NBA is the
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  Speaker 4: 81st season and that it's been so many people from
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  Speaker 4: different countries. This year, Sean, to start the season right
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  Speaker 4: now today, they are 125 international players in the NBA.
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  Speaker 4: including 41 countries and six continents. So, Sean, here's the
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  Speaker 4: question to you. Name me all the continents that NBA
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  Speaker 4: players are coming from.
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  Speaker 3: Well, every one of them except Antarctica sounds like it's represented, right?
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  Speaker 3: North America, South America, tons from Europe. Africa has a few. Asia, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: is such a massive continent.
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  Speaker 1: It spans.
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  Speaker 3: all of those West Asian countries. And I don't think
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  Speaker 3: there's many from Southeast Asia, but every single one except
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  Speaker 3: Antarctica in Australia, right?
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  Speaker 4: No, the answer is you're correct. Right. The only continent
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  Speaker 4: not represented in the NBA roster is Antarctica. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Australia with all the players. So this year in the NBA,
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  Speaker 4: the leading country as far as with the most players
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  Speaker 4: that are non-American. is France, led by Victor Wambayama. They
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  Speaker 4: have 17 guys on their roster, and Canada is second
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  Speaker 4: international players with 16, and Australia is third with nine players. So, Sean,
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  Speaker 4: I'm impressed by your sixth-grade geography teacher that taught you
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  Speaker 4: very well about Antarctica. I'm very impressed.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. No penguins playing in the NBA, as far as
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  Speaker 1: we know.
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  Speaker 4: But you never know, Sean. The globalization, who knows, Sean,
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  Speaker 4: someday you might own that team someday, you and James Peterson.
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  Speaker 3: I could see putting an NBA franchise down there just
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  Speaker 3: off the coast of Patagonia, Antarctica.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: There we go.
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  Speaker 4: And, Sean, just one quick thing about it before I
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  Speaker 4: get to the list. So now is getting this NBA
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  Speaker 4: season starts, but also the sadness of some guys getting cut.
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  Speaker 4: So locally here, Dylan Jones, a former first-round pick of
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  Speaker 4: the Thunder via Weber State, got cut by the 76ers.
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  Speaker 4: So this Saturday is the G League draft. So probably
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  Speaker 4: Dylan Jones will be in the draft also. And Gabe Mattson,
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  Speaker 4: former Utah standout, was cut recently by the Heat. And
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  Speaker 4: then cut recently... Happened yesterday by the Grizzlies was Walter Clayton,
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  Speaker 4: the 18th pick of the draft. So he'll be dropping
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  Speaker 4: in the G League come draft day on Saturday. And
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  Speaker 4: also cut was Dwight Powell, a 12-year veteran of them.
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  Speaker 4: Dallas Mavericks got cut. And interesting with the Lakers, my
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  Speaker 4: last one is the Lakers. Dalton Kinnick, who once scored
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  Speaker 4: 40 points in an NBA game versus the Jazz, who
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  Speaker 4: was the 17th pick of the 2024 draft, got cut. So, Sean,
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  Speaker 4: NBA basketball is very exhilarating, but also the business of
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  Speaker 4: basketball sometimes is very cruel.
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  Speaker 1: What's your list today, Gordy?
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  Speaker 4: My list today, Sean, is based on playing the game
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  Speaker 4: as far as being available. All-time franchise leaders of the
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  Speaker 4: Utah Jazz team of most games played wearing Utah Jazz uniform.
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  Speaker 4: This is just only playing for the Jazz career games played.
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  Speaker 4: I had to join to coach eight of these players
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  Speaker 4: on this list. I cut it off at 10. The
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  Speaker 4: 10th most games played by a Jazz player in a
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  Speaker 4: Jazz uniform, number 10, Rudy Gobert, he played in 611
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  Speaker 4: Jazz games. Number nine, his nickname was B.
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  Speaker 2: Russ.
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  Speaker 4: Brian Russell played in 628 games. Number eight, nickname was D-Fave,
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  Speaker 4: Derek Favors, played in 644 jazz games. Number seven, the
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  Speaker 4: jazz-owned Russian comet, Andrei Karolinko, he played in a total
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  Speaker 4: of 681 games. Number six, Greg Ostertag, Big O, played
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  Speaker 4: in 700 jazz games. Number five, all-time, Big T, Daryl Bailey,
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  Speaker 4: played in 708 jazz games. Number four all-time, Dr. Duncan Stein.
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  Speaker 4: Dale Griffin played in 765 games. Number three, Mark Eaton
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  Speaker 4: played in 875 contests. Second player of all-time in jazz
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  Speaker 4: history with the most games played is Karl Malone with 1,434 games.
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  Speaker 4: But Sean, let's add to that. He only missed 13
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  Speaker 4: games in 18 jazz career years. But the majority of
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  Speaker 4: the game's absentee was based on being suspended for previous
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: game fighting. So Carl only missed 13 games, mostly because
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: of fighting. And the number one player of all time
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: in Jazz history for the most games played is John Stockton,
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: the Ironman. He played in 1,504 games quickly in his
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: 19-year-old brilliant career. 17 times he played in every game
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: that season. 15 times he played in all 82 games.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: In the lockout year of 1999, John played in all
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: 50 games. So John Stockton only missed 22 games in
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: 19 years. Presently, the Jazz leader right now on the
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: roster is most games played in Jazz uniform is Larry Markkinen.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: He played in 218 games. scrimmage at 2018 skirmishes as
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: a jazz player right now. Thus, that's my list of today.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Gordy, you're the man. Enjoy the opening night of the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: NBA season. Appreciate you, my friend.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Sean. Peace out.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: That's Gordy Chiesa. Great stuff from Gordy.
• 20:26
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