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Will the MILWAUKEE BUCKS trade GIANNIS? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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com. We will not have any fish here
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tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, fish has
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been dealing with some doggy situations and hopefully let's
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pray for his dog. His dog is dealing with
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something. I, I would say that dogs aren't
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supposed to eat chocolate. And he told me he called me
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while him and his wife are rushing the dog to the
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veterinarian, the hospital that he ate cookies, ate cookies and
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they had to rush him to the hospital.
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I don't know what they're going to do.
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I don't know if they're pumping the pumping his stomach.
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I don't know how that works with a dog.
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But when you hear something like that, I feel bad because I know
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Fish has told me his dog is like his kid and I, I don't have a
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dog. I don't have any animals here at
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my place. So I I've had that.
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Well, that's an animal I don't want to deal with.
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Oh, OK. No, that's at.
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Least you don't have to walk him and take him to go to the
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bathroom. Right.
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Well, sometimes I, I feel like I have to, you know?
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Hey, you win some, you lose some, right?
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Yeah, definitely win some and lose some.
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They always say blood is thicker than water when it comes to
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family, but some of your family sometimes isn't blood and it
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ends up being thicker. After getting blasted by 45
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points last weekend by A7 in 18 Brooklyn Nets, the Milwaukee
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Bucks fell to 11 and 16 on the season.
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With Giannis on the mend from a calf injury, the Bucks seemingly
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are falling out of contention even in a week Eastern
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Conference as the former MVP recovers.
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Despite yes, the poor performance, head coach Doc
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Rivers said that the Bucks don't need to make serious changes
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despite their struggles. Doc added that the Bucks problem
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simply is a lack of execution, not no effort.
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Despite the effort, the Bucks have gone 2 and 8 without
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Giannis and haven't won a back-to-back game since late
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October. After starting four and one on
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the year they have gone 7 and 15.
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Giannis met with the with his agent on December 3rd on the
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direction of his future and a big decision on what Giannis
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wants for his long term future is expected to come in the next
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few weeks. Rumor about Giannis next
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destination all already in full swing with teams like the
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Knicks, the Spurs, the Heat and most of the rest of the league
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including the 24 and two OK C Thunder who are loaded with
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assets to make what is sure to be the trade of the year in the
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NBA. Giannis is one of the best
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players still in the league. Now I do believe Giannis went
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down the way he did and I don't believe his injury was that big.
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I I don't think his injury was that bad.
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Giannis decide what a what a huge what a huge thing when you
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see what happens you're you're talking about weeks before you
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were talking about Giannis not being happy.
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He didn't like the way the team was moving in the proper
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direction. They have no future.
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They have nothing. And you hear weeks before that
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the new New York Knicks after the Knicks played them that the
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story was not true, that he wanted to be traded to the
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Knicks. And then what was it 48 or 72
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hours? Giannis goes down and then they
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say Giannis is out for three to four weeks.
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And we've seen this before. This isn't the first time an NBA
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team and an NBA player goes down and then weeks after he comes
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back, he's traded. We've seen this and one of the
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main reasons why, and I'm not saying his agent decided to do
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that or his family told him to go and pretend that he was hurt.
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But you also don't want the guy to go down with a major injury
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where you can't trade him. You can't get as many assets as
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you possibly can when he's 100% healthy.
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So I don't know if Milwaukee planned this and told Jonas to
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go down. And I'm not saying this is like,
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you know, a Twilight Zone. And I'm trying to figure out a
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way to observe why this happened.
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What I will say is an organization that needs assets,
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an organization that has no assets, and an organization
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that's made a lot of mistakes. As a matter of fact, if you
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remember a couple of years ago, they had a winning record and
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they decided to fire a coach who had a winning record to bring in
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Doc Rivers because they thought that Doc Rivers would help them
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get over the hump and help them maybe win another championship
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when they never, this should have decided to to part ways
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with Butenholzer. Butenholzer was one of the best
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coaches in the NBA. One of the best defensive minded
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coaches in the NBA are Gregg Popovich, backup assistant coach
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for many, many years. And if you look at the success
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rate of all these Gregg Popovich disciples, every single guy,
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Steve Kerr, Mike Brown, you talk about Butenholzer, every single
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one of these guys were pretty successful after leaving
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Popovich's bench and gone on to be a head coach in the NBA.
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As a matter of fact, another guy, Spoelstra, was another
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Popovich guy. So you sit back and you're
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you're wondering, you look at the the opportunity that the
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Bucks have had over the couple of years to find somebody to
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play with him or find a couple of players that would fit in the
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roster and and work well with Giannis offensively and
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defensively have fallen apart. Dame did not work out.
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Dame tears his Achilles, even if Dame never teared his Achilles,
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do it? Does anybody believe that Dame
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was the missing piece to win a championship?
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Dame never won, I remember. I don't know if you think Dane
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went past the first round of the playoffs.
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Maybe one time. One year they went to the
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Western Conference finals. That was.
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I don't even remember. They but they won a really weird
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ugly for overtime game seven in 2019 against the Nuggets, but
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then they got swept by the Warriors after that and then the
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Warriors ended up getting injured and losing to the
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Toronto Raptors in the NBA Finals.
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It just, to me, it's an organization, it's made a
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tremendous amount of mistakes. They're honestly, well, they're
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not the Miami Dolphins of the NBA, but I.
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Won't go that far yet. No, but there there are team
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that has won a championship, but they should have mown both.
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They should have won multiple championships.
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And when you're #2 guy is Powell or Portis or whoever they have
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on their roster and you're reaching, you have to understand
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that the GM obviously doesn't know what he's doing.
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And maybe Doc Rivers is in another hemisphere.
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He's he's playing, he's playing basketball on planet Uranus or
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Mercury or Mars. Because anybody, including Doc
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Rivers, that has come out and said that they don't need
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anything else to win, that they just need a healthy Giannis and
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they just need to it's a lacks of lack of execution.
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And you watch basketball and you think that Doc Rivers knows
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anything about basketball. After he comes out and says
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that, you wonder if Doc Rivers should be sent to a, you know, a
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nursing home because he's absolutely crazy.
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If there is no way in hell that Doc Rivers actually believes
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that this team with Giannis can make a run for a playoff or even
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make a run for a championship, there's no possible way with the
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roster they have and the way the roster is set up and you can see
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what their record is with him and without him.
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They're not good. When you lose against 45 points
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against the Brooklyn Nets, there's a problem.
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The Brooklyn Nets are a bad organization.
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They're a bad team. They're not very good.
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And to sit here and try to make excuses for an organization that
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has done some things good over the years and has had a fairly
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good ownership there, but the ownership has slowly but surely
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fallen flat on their face. What did they do in the
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offseason? I know what they did.
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They decided to bring in Giannis, two brothers, and maybe
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hired his mother as the equipment manager.
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I mean, honestly, that doesn't make any sense in anybody
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sitting here today. To believe that that was going
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to change the factors of an organization that's falling flat
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on their face is a joke. And I do believe that New York
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Knicks story was absolutely true.
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But the Knicks were not willing to trade Karl Anthony Towns at
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the time. And I don't know if the Knicks
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are going to be willing to trade Karl Anthony Towns the way the
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Knicks are playing under Mike Brown with the talent that they
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have around the players that they have.
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So now you wonder if Giannis is going to go somewhere where he
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doesn't want to go. And everybody keeps talking
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about OKC. Why would OKC decide to trade
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away assets when they're 24 and 2 right now?
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There's still one of the elite teams in the league.
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They're still going to get a top ten pick because you have the
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Clippers draft pick. How many wins do they have?
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6? I mean, they could have a
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lottery pick in the top five this year.
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And by the way, it's not protected, it's unprotected.
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So they can actually win the draft this year with the talent
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that they have right now. So why would an organization
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that just won a championship have one of the best offensive
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players in the league, one of the best defenses in the league,
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one of the best young coaches in the league, and one of the more
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team, one of the best teams when it comes to depth and benches in
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all of the NBA decide, hey, you know what?
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We're just going to trade away assets to bring Giannis in
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because we have a better chance to win.
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They have a good chance to win this year.
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Without Giannis. Why would they make that move?
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There are only two teams besides the Knicks that I could see that
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even happening to, and not even the Spurs.
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I could see the Heat and I could see the Lakers.
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The Lakers don't have the assets, so it might not be the
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Lakers, it would be the Heat. And the Heat makes a lot of
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sense. But if the Heat decides to move
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and make a move for a guy like Giannis, they're going to have
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to trade Tyler Hero, They're going to have to trade Bam out
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of Bio. So there Giannis is going to a
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team that stinks anyways, so it doesn't make any sense why he
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would be moving to the Heat. The only team that makes a lot
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of sense is the Knicks. The Knicks have assets.
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The Knicks have, they have a bench, they have a coach that
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can absolutely move them right in or fit them right into the
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puzzle. And the Knicks automatically are
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still in the elite team in the league if that happens.
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The problem, the problem is, are the Knicks in the driver's seat
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now? Well, the Knicks don't have to
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trade at the assets that Milwaukee's going to be asking
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for because they're the only team in the driver's seat to
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land them. So I, I, just, I, if you're a
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Knick fan, you're sitting back and you have a smile on your
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face. Why?
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Because they're in the driver's seat.
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Milwaukee is not in the driver's seat.
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The organization is reaching and Giannis has already come out and
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said that there's only one team he wants to play for, and that's
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the Knicks. So I mean, what more do the
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Knicks need to do to just sit back and wait until this debacle
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falls flat on their face? And and Doc Rivers is falling,
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falling flat on his face. And he's going to need somebody
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to mop up the the guck that he's going to be spitting on the
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ground or spitting his gum on the ground.
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And he might need to clean up, you know, Well, we can reach out
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to Will from Elf and he could start picking up the gum under
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the, you know, the the subway or whatever you buy.
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I mean, if you watch the movie, I mean it, it's just
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embarrassing. This is an embarrassing
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organization now. They went from one of the elite
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Eastern Conference team automatically to the one of the
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worst Eastern Conference teams. And they might have a lottery
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pick, but if they keep Giannis, they might fall out of the
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lottery. So they need to move Giannis as
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quick as they possibly can because the more games they win
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with Giannis hurts the facts and the factor of them next year
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getting a lottery pick in this coming draft, which is one of
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the best drafts we've seen seen since 2004, 2005 when Le Bron,
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James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade came out of
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that draft class. Yeah, it's one of those things
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where the Bucks have to realize that their team just got old all
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at once. They had to make a desperation
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move after trading Chris Middle and Drew Holiday.
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Obviously they they waved him in the Damian Lillard trade.
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And then all of a sudden now you had to go sign Miles Turner as
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your like big free agent move to give any kind of a supporting
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cast to Giannis. And now you're dealing with a
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case of the Bucks started hot because they over performed with
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a bunch of random rookies that happened to work, but it wasn't
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going to last. These were second round and
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undrafted rookies playing in a system with a lot of veterans.
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It wasn't going to last. And now you look at them playing
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against all these weak opponents that they can't even be losing
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by 45 points to the Brooklyn Nets.
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The Brooklyn Nets were the last NBA team to win a game this year
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and you lost by 45 points to that team A-Team that's been
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rebuilding for the last three years since they traded away
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Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant and the Wizards.
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They've been dysfunctional for seven years now.
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The Hornets, forget it. I mean, the last time they were
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good was probably the late 90s, and even then they weren't.
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They were like a second tier team at best.
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And the Pelicans, like these are all dysfunctional teams now.
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I agree that the Bucks are not becoming that level of
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dysfunctional yet, but at the same time they're on the
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downturn because they can't get young players to develop around
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Yanis. They haven't had a bench for a
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while. Brook Lopez was probably the
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other big man that could be good.
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Now he's gone. It just essentially replaced him
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with Turner, Doc Rivers. And this organization has to
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realize that they waited too long to make that kind of thing
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happen where either they built around Giannis with somebody
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younger or they had to move off of Damian Lillard and Chris
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Middleton and guys like that faster than they did.
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And it just didn't work. And now they're stuck in a very
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weird spot. And I agree with you.
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The Knicks are the only team really right now in strong play
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for Giannis. Because the other team I was
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thinking besides, OK, C was probably the Pistons, but same
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kind of thing. Why would they want to break up
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their young core where they're 21 and six or something like
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that? OK, so he's 24 and 2.
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They're not going to want to do that.
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Yeah, the Spurs are definitely in that mix as well.
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And Miami, they don't have the assets.
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So they have to really wait for like the either the Bucks to
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like screw the Knicks or something with their GM pull off
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a Danny Ainge to just hate the Knicks.
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Why? First of all, Danny Ainge is not
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part of the Bucks organization. No, no their.
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GM is the equivalent. They're part of the Utah
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organization, and the Knicks are in the driver's seat because are
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the Knicks willing to trade off any assets to lane Giannis?
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The Knicks don't need Giannis. Knicks could win without them.
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They're proving it right now. They're in second place.
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They're 2 1/2 games behind Detroit.
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Detroit will eventually get into a something.
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Knicks are going to run away with the Eastern Conference.
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Right now the only team I think is a threat is Jaylen Brown and
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and maybe the Spider if the Cavaliers figure things out
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because they've been up and down really early this season.
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So we don't know what they are and I can't I I still think
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Kenny Atkinson is one of the best coaches in the NBA.
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He's a Long Island native. So I root Kenny Atkinson on all
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the time. I I don't think the Knicks have
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to worry about it. They're in the driver seat.
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All they got to do is keep hitting the gas and accelerate
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and wait until Yannis or wait until the organization in
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Milwaukee. Say what?
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We'll just take whatever you have.
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Give us whatever. What's the best package you can
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give us? We'll take it.
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And and I think the Knicks are going to be in that driver's
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seat because there's nobody else besides OK C that will be
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willing to trade away top notch players to land a guy like
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Giannis who only has one more year left on his contract.
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He's 32 years old and he wants to win now.
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So, and I know everybody keeps saying, well, what about
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Detroit? Detroit.
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Giannis don't want to go to Detroit.
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People get lost in Detroit. He wants to go to a big city.
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It makes the only time it makes sense besides the besides the
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big ones like Texas, maybe Miami, New York, LA and Boston.
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The only way he gets traded to a small city.
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It's OK. C he's not going to want to go
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to these other organizations like Utah.
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You think he wants to go to Utah and play over there for Danny
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Ainge because you know Danny Ainge is going to rob Milwaukee.
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That's not going to happen. And maybe the Clippers.
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What do the Clippers have? They got nothing.
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They traded Alexander for Paul George.
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Congratulations to the Clipper organization.
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Kawhi Leonard doesn't want to be there anymore.
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He's getting paid onto the table.
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There is no nowhere else. This man now Orlando makes
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sense. Orlando is a nice city.
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It's a growing city. They're just a young team.
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And even with Giannis, are they going to have enough?
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And they're going to have to treat pieces, maybe two or three
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of their best players to land a Giannis.
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And you don't even want to play in Orlando.
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It's not a big basketball city. It really isn't.
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I, I understand that they're growing over there and I, I'm
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sorry, Nick, as much as I love you good, Mr. Goodwood, I know
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you'll love your Orlando Magic, but this is a team that has made
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the playoffs what, one time in the last five years?
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They're not an organization that makes the playoffs consistently
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and until they're consistently do that, they're not going to be
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a place where everybody wants to go.
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When Dwight Howard was there and Jameer Nelson was playing at the
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top of his game as a young point guard, maybe then was a time,
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time where everybody wanted to go and play with Dwight Howard
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and Jimmy or Nelson. Not anymore.
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This is not the same Orlando Magic team.
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This is not the Orlando Magic that went to a Finals and made a
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run against Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh and LeBron James and
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the Heat. This is not the same Orlando
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Magic. These are facts, guys.
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And the fact that Doc Rivers came out and said they don't
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need anything. They don't need any maintenance
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on this team. It just tells me you ever go to.
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You ever go to a supermarket and something spills and somebody
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gets on the loudspeaker and says aisle 5 can filter fish, can
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filter fish, is on the floor, can filter fish, people are
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going to slip can filter fish or aisle 5, there's some soda on
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the ground, pick up or whatever mess on aisle 5I.
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I mean, that's where it is right now.
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There's a mess on every single aisle and they're just hoping
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that they go down the right aisle and they can, before they,
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they slip on something, they can get out of the aisle before they
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fall flat on their face. And right now this is an
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organization and I, I'm trying to find an analogy on the fly to
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kind of consider or kind of bring to everybody's attention
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on how I feel about the Milwaukee Bucks.
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And the only thing that I can consider and believe Milwaukee
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is an organization, is an organization that needs to
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understand that if you don't have a superstar that is happy,
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you need to do what's right to the superstar.
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Because if you don't, the superstar is going to hold your
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organization up for ransom and you're not going to get anything
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back for that superstar. We've seen it in the NBA.
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The NBA is the only sport where the players run the league.
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It's a fact, guys. It's a fact.
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Since LeBron James, the players have run the league.
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LeBron does whatever he wants. He says whatever he wants.
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Kyrie Irving has said anti-Semitic things.
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The league made him apologize and then he went to Dallas.
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He was traded to Dallas by the Brooklyn Nets and then went up
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there after the fact and said, you know what?
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I'm taking back my apology. Why am I going to apologize for
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something I believe? Did you say Cuban is a Jewish
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owner? I mean, it's ridiculous.
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It's just ridiculous. And, and the fact here is the
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NBA has always been an organization that has done right
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for the league. Now that you have Adam Silver
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there and David Stern is no longer there, may rest in peace
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is gone. And I know we we, we had Tim
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Donaghy on the show and he said screw, screw him.
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Screw Stern. He was a terrible commissioner.
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But let's be honest, Commissioner Stearns did not
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allow some of this craziness that's happening or happened on
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and off the foot basketball field when a basketball court
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when he was there as the commissioner of the league.
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Ever since Adam Silver has taken over, he's let these players
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take and made optional excuses for the players to do whatever
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they wanted and have pretty much pushed out owners.
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Now I'm not saying the owners were right for what they did.
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The anti-Semitic attacks and some of the things that came out
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of these owners should they should have been, I wouldn't say
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pushed out, put up should have been fined and something should
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have been done with the organization.
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And maybe like George Steinbrenner, he was pushed out
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of ownership for two years with the Yankees.
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Remember that. He was gone from the Yankees for
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two years and he had to bring somebody in to run the
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organization, the with the players and the way the players
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run the league, The players told the commissioner that we are not
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playing unless this guy, you know, you push this guy out of
23:29
ownership. And that's why the Clippers did
23:31
it. And that's why, if I'm not
23:32
mistaken, the Phoenix Suns did the same thing.
23:36
So the players have run the league and have let really the
23:40
league be run by the faces of the organization, the Chris
23:44
Paul's of the world, the Carmelo Anthonys, the Dwyane Wade, the
23:47
LeBron James's. And now we're starting to see
23:50
the transition of why the league and the NBA is so big
23:54
internationally and why it's only going to grow
23:57
internationally because the league is allowing the players
24:00
to do what they want. I've mentioned too that I think
24:02
it's a lot of the LeBron generation that's causing a lot
24:05
of this dramatic behavior. I would say probably besides
24:07
Joel Embiid and maybe Anthony Edwards in this, I guess younger
24:10
generation guys that were drafted in the last 10 years or
24:13
so, you're not seeing it as much with that.
24:15
Luka Doncic, a good example of that was surprised he got
24:18
traded. Obviously the world was
24:19
surprised that Nico Harrison did the dumb ass stuff that he did
24:22
and he traded in the Lakers for practically nothing.
24:25
And if it wasn't for maybe that shy and that that trade with the
24:28
Clippers of the Thunder is the worst trade in NBA history,
24:30
Those are probably the two when you look at it.
24:32
And if you look at somebody like Giannis, Giannis is not directly
24:36
trying to antagonize the box and saying, oh, trade me now or else
24:40
type thing. But there's inadvertent signs
24:44
meeting with his agent already. He mentioned the Knicks.
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If I want to be traded, I was a good servicer there.
24:48
I want to expand my legacy in New York.
24:50
He definitely mentioned that in the offseason for a reason.
24:53
And I think he's doing it in a way where it's still helping
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Milwaukee make that kind of decision.
24:59
The problem is Milwaukee and somebody like Doc Rivers, who's
25:02
old school is reluctant to say, all right, maybe I haven't done
25:05
enough for this organization to compete to this team because
25:07
you're right. Adrian Griffin was 30 and 10,
25:09
the number two seed in the in the Eastern Conference only to
25:12
the Celtics when they fired him back in 2023.
25:14
And you're right, the decision to fire Budenholzer, I wasn't
25:16
wouldn't have done that either. It seemed like Budenholzer and
25:19
Giannis maybe fell off at the end of his tenure there.
25:21
And now you're stuck with Doc Rivers, who doesn't get along
25:25
with Giannis either. And any of these players just
25:27
stuck in an old school mentality for a team that's not very good,
25:31
A-Team that's not very deep and has no sense of direction.
25:34
They're kind of like the Suns in the Eastern Conference, maybe a
25:37
little better, but not by much. And you don't want to be that
25:40
type of directionless team because that only helps the
25:43
Knicks, Thunder, all these other teams that have assets say we're
25:46
going to play hardball on you. And I mentioned this last week
25:48
when we did the weekend Crunch, Leon Rose is waiting patiently
25:52
to not have to trade Karl Anthony Towns to do this.
25:55
The longer this goes on towards the trade deadline, that's all
25:59
the Leon Rose in this New York Knicks organization needs
26:01
because they have the guys to trade on the roster and even the
26:03
young guys that they could definitely make that.
26:05
Trade. The Knicks are in the driver's
26:07
seat right now and they're just waiting to erupt.
26:09
They're waiting. They're waiting to reach out or
26:12
waiting for the organization, the organization to reach out to
26:16
the Knicks and say, listen, we'll take whatever you have.
26:18
What do you, what do you have? What are you giving us?
26:20
What could you give us to get this deal done?
26:23
And the Knicks are going to do whatever is popular for the fan
26:27
and whatever is popular to the organization that makes it work,
26:30
where they can keep the the players that they need to get
26:33
over the hump and and be the favorites of coming out of the
26:35
Eastern Conference this year. Because it's all about winning a
26:37
championship with the Knicks. And no matter what the Knicks
26:41
want to win this championship, they haven't won one since 1973.
26:45
The team has gotten close in 2000.
26:47
They've gotten close last year in an Eastern Conference finals.
26:50
I don't know if the Knicks beat OK CI, don't know if they make
26:54
they give it a challenge like Hal Burton and Indianapolis.
26:57
And maybe if Hal Burton didn't go down in game #7 Indianapolis
27:01
is the NBA championship champions right now.
27:04
The run that Indiana went, what they did last year was pretty
27:07
amazing. And, and to me, OK C is going to
27:12
be the team that everybody is going to be catching up to for
27:15
the next 10 years because of the assets they have and the young
27:19
players that they have right now with the organization.
27:21
And they're only going to get better.
27:23
And the Knicks, they're ready to win now.
27:25
They have Jalen Brunson, who's 30 years old that just signed a
27:28
four year or three-year extension.
27:30
They have Josh Hart has another year left on as a contract.
27:33
You have all these players right now that are ready and under
27:37
contract now to make that run. How many years left do they have
27:42
that they can keep these players in New York at the contracts
27:46
that they have them where they can they can win a championship
27:49
with this this type of roster and it's not many years left.
27:52
I think they have two more years or actually one more year left
27:55
from this year where he came or the Knicks, Leon Rose can keep
27:59
this team together and make that run for NBA championship.
28:02
So, you know, they talk about windows in the NBA windows.
28:06
It's usually A5 year window for the NBA, five years.
28:10
Any more than five years, you're a dynasty.
28:13
And that's why you look at Golden State and what they've
28:15
done. It's pretty amazing.
28:16
I give Golden State a little bit of credit.
28:18
I'm not going to sit here and just beat around the Bush.
28:20
They're a great team and I don't need you giggling, Speedy.
28:22
It's true. I'm not giving, I'm not going to
28:25
attack Steph Curry or an organization that has found ways
28:29
to win. It's not easy to win that NBA
28:31
championships. But when you look at Kevin
28:33
Durant going over there and making a power four and, and
28:36
we've seen other teams like the Chicago Bulls do it with
28:40
drafting players and only bringing in Dennis Rodman and
28:43
doing what Michael joining Scottie Pippen and all the other
28:45
after sore after four players, they brought in Derek, I'm
28:49
sorry, not Derek Harper, Ron Harper, Ron Harper.
28:52
And they had players that they've they, they drafted BJ
28:56
Armstrong was there for a couple of champions.
28:58
Horace Grant was there for a championship or two and then
29:02
they had Tony KU coach. But they built around the draft
29:05
and that's how it worked in the NBA at the time.
29:08
You had to build around 2 superstars.
29:10
Now you need multiple players, great bench and maybe I would
29:15
say multiple superstars or stars and maybe 2 superstars to get
29:20
over the hump. And and again, the Knicks have
29:23
done the right thing with Leon Rose and hopefully no matter
29:26
what they do with Giannis, what they do with Giannis fans, they
29:31
don't make the wrong decision and decide to not make a run at
29:37
Giannis because they think this team in this roster is good
29:39
enough to win. When you have a chance to go
29:41
after a superstar this good, a top five player that can change
29:45
everything for your organization, especially making
29:48
a run for an NBA championship because this this is a player
29:51
that's still one of the elite players in the league.
29:53
So. Before we want to do this today,
29:54
I just want to mention like you look at the models that you try
29:57
to build with the with the championship team.
29:59
Now the Thunder had it. We did it with a lot of trades,
30:01
obviously the stockpiling of the draft picks.
30:03
The Celtics have done a kind of homegrown, they stockpile draft
30:06
picks who obviously the Billy King trade, but they kind of did
30:08
it in a different way where they were drafting some really good
30:11
college players and then they just carried over changing it
30:13
from Brad Stevens coaching scheme now to Missoula.
30:16
And they made that kind of thing work.
30:17
And the Knicks have done it with trades of their young players
30:20
and getting those players still in their prime at a good value
30:23
and really good discount contracts.
30:25
As a result. Leon Rose is great in
30:27
manipulating the cap and it's a big reason why the Knicks, in
30:29
addition to building a team now that has some size and some
30:32
flash, have now of the depth and that's where they have all the
30:35
assets to make it work where Giannis can be.
30:37
There could be like 6 different things you could possibly trade
30:39
for Giannis if you're the Knicks right now.
30:41
It's crazy. I will say this for all the
30:43
fans, my Vertigo is now gone. It's finally gone.
30:47
It's been around really the whole show and I've been here
30:50
and seeing glows in my right eye.
30:52
It is fully gone. So I feel good.
30:55
But ladies and gentlemen, I have my deuce of the day.
30:58
The deuce of the day. You'll log not a log.
31:02
I don't have a log but. I.
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Ladies and gentlemen, my deuce of the day goes to Puka Nakua
31:14
brother who was arrested for allegedly stealing Lakers
31:18
players car. Yes, here it is, ladies and
31:21
gentlemen. Older brother of Los Angeles
31:23
Rams wide receiver Puka Nakua is in the hot, well, in a hot seat
31:27
and has a lot of explaining to do after being arrested over the
31:32
weekend. Samson Nukua was reportedly
31:34
busted after stealing a car that belonged to Lakers rookie Adu
31:40
Sierra, according to NBC 4 Los Angeles News.
31:45
I, I will say this, I, I, Puka Nukua is a superstar.
31:48
He's one of the best players right now at his position in all
31:51
of the NFL. And I know it's a story when you
31:54
hear somebody's brother doing something stupid on and off a
31:57
basketball, football, hockey, ice, whatever, any kind of
32:01
field. But when you hear a story like
32:03
this, you have to laugh. And I, I don't know, Puka Nukua
32:06
is made himself a lot of money, is going to make himself a lot
32:09
of money for his future. But really, does this really
32:12
matter? I, I, does it really matter?
32:14
Puka Nukua's brother means absolutely nothing to Puka
32:18
Nukua's career. But it's a story because the
32:20
NFL, there's really nothing going on except the the Joe
32:23
Burrow situation or, you know, there's three weeks left of the
32:26
NFL season. We're talking about who wins the
32:29
Heisman a couple of weeks ago. So what we we we all know what
32:33
happened with the Moore situation and that.
32:35
So the NFL needs to find a story to kind of wrap your head around
32:39
it. And and you hear Pukanukua's
32:41
brother getting arrested because he's stealing in an an NBA
32:46
players car. And it's not like it's Luka
32:49
Dodgic. It's not like it's LeBron James
32:51
or Reeves. No, it's a guy that I've never
32:53
even heard of a rookie that it really is not even in the lineup
32:57
half the time for the Lakers. So my juice of the day goes to
33:01
just an outrageous story that means absolutely nothing where
33:05
the media is trying to find something that you know, you
33:08
have Nukua playing tonight on Thursday Night Football.
33:10
Do you really want me to talk about Puka Nukua?
33:13
How about Puka Nukua scoring? Did he just score right now?
33:18
Did he have a touchdown? No.
33:19
But I, the Rams just put no. It was something happened.
33:22
It was a but it was a penalty. But Pukanuku is one of the best,
33:26
one of the most elite offensive players in the league.
33:28
I could give a crap about what his brother is doing and how
33:32
many cars this man is stealing. So that, ladies and gentlemen,
33:36
is my deuce of the day. That's it for our show, ladies
33:40
and gentlemen, Thank you to all the Spotify and Apple fans
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Who do we have on on Monday and Thursday?
34:05
Speedy? Well, Thursday is Christmas.
34:06
We're not going to show on. That's right, mega show like we
34:09
did the Monday before Thanksgiving as well.
34:11
Joining us at 8:45. Jabba, you might have watched
34:13
him being a Braves fan, might have started a little bit when
34:16
you were in career as well. Daniel Winkler will be joining
34:18
us. Relief pitcher pitch for the
34:19
Braves from 2015 to 19 and also was with the Cubs for a little
34:22
bit as well. All right, so there you go,
34:24
Daniel Winkler. And so that's it.
34:27
I want to give a shout out to Fish.
34:28
I hope everything is OK with him and his dog, him and his wife.
34:32
My heart go where all our hearts go.
34:34
Out to him and his family. And hopefully his dog is OK.
34:37
And Jarrett, we love you and stay in touch, man.
34:40
We really do. That's it, ladies and gentlemen.
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We'll talk to you on Monday. Have a wonderful weekend it.
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