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Hour 2 - Did He Know? · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom, Shaka Laca. It's our bird two hour two ready
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Speaker 1: to go, and we have a MEGAMEGAMEGA trade and more
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Speaker 1: reaction NBA media lap dogs claiming that Lebron James had
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Speaker 1: no idea that the Luca Anthony Davis trade was coming
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Speaker 1: down the pike and he found out while at dinner
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Speaker 1: in New York, believe it or not. Also, how does
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Speaker 1: the dust settle with the Lakers now that Luca is
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Speaker 1: joining the team, And what's the oddest part of the
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Speaker 1: Luka Doncic trade from Dallas to la We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: all of that and more. It's another hour of power
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Speaker 1: and big NBA trade reaction here it is our number two.
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Speaker 1: Did he know or did he not know? Welcome in
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Speaker 1: be so our lead this out. We continue the conversation
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Speaker 1: all night long here. It's what all the cool people
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Speaker 1: are talking about here. Massive trade, so much more to discuss,
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Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball and the trade heard around the association.
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Speaker 1: A big weekend story, big weekend story here, and we've
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Speaker 1: got you covered in depth team coverage which is really
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Speaker 1: just me because I'm awake here. Everyone else is partying
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Speaker 1: in New Orleans, but we're here. Luka Luka. Doncik putting
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Speaker 1: himself into the transfer portal. Well, he didn't actually put himself.
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Speaker 1: The Mavericks put him in the transfer portal. Luca sent
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Speaker 1: packing as the Mavericks said bye bye and get out
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Speaker 1: of here. You're no longer needed to their franchise player,
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Speaker 1: the player that got them to the NBA Finals where
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Speaker 1: they lost to Jason Tatum and the Celtics in the
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Speaker 1: summer of twenty twenty four. And here we are in
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Speaker 1: February of twenty twenty five, and it's asta la vista
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Speaker 1: of even that Jay to Luca, He's gone mega mega
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Speaker 1: mega tred happened after the Knicks Lakers game on Saturday. Now,
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Speaker 1: the part of the story that I want to focus
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Speaker 1: in on right now with you and have a little
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Speaker 1: chat me and you okay, involves Lebron James because Luca
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Speaker 1: was put in the trade machine on Saturday. And did
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Speaker 1: you hear the Lebron part of the story? Maybe not so.
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Speaker 1: The reporting over the weekend claims that Lebron James learned
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Speaker 1: of this massive transaction in our little sporting world. Lebron
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Speaker 1: learned of this trade following the win over the next
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Speaker 1: when it broke on social media and he was out
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Speaker 1: to dinner with his family in Manhattan and he found
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Speaker 1: out about the trade. That's the reporting. We're told that
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Speaker 1: James was surprised by the news. Here no idea that
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Speaker 1: this trade was in the works whatsoever. So this was
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Speaker 1: seemingly reported with the straight face. We don't really know why,
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Speaker 1: but it apparently was. So let us discuss the question
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Speaker 1: the NBA media lap dogs claiming that Lebron James no
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Speaker 1: no idea that Luka Doncic would be traded to the Lakers,
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Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis would go back the other direction to Texas,
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Speaker 1: and that he found out while he was having a
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Speaker 1: nice meal. Believe it or not, that's the question. So
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Speaker 1: to make. We'll make the chicken sharma. So number all right,
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Speaker 1: So you gotta look through the lens of this unfolding
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Speaker 1: drama that's still playing out here as we head into
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Speaker 1: the early hours on a Monday. But Lebron, the way
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Speaker 1: I look at this, Lebron already had his alibi all
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Speaker 1: laid out. The thing that Lebron worries about more than
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Speaker 1: anything is optics. It's like when he's talked about watching
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Speaker 1: movies or reading books and asked about it, he has
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Speaker 1: no clue because he doesn't actually watch those movies or
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Speaker 1: read those books, and it's awkward for him, but he
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Speaker 1: wants the perception, the optics of being that guy, right,
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Speaker 1: the guy that loves the Godfather movies and reads the
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Speaker 1: Malcolm X book and all that, even though he doesn't
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Speaker 1: really know much about it. Because he's not actually doing
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Speaker 1: those things. But that's Lebron. That's what we know Lebron
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Speaker 1: to be. It's all about the appearance, which is perfect
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Speaker 1: for LA. That's what Hollywood's all about, right, It's about
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Speaker 1: the appearance, the illusion that you know what you're doing.
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Speaker 1: So the guy we're supposed to believe here in order
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Speaker 1: for us to believe that Lebron James had no clue
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Speaker 1: about what happened here, we're supposed to be the same
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Speaker 1: player that bullied the Lakers to draft his kid who
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Speaker 1: can't play, Bronnie James, and then make sure that Bronni
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Speaker 1: was on the roster to play right away and a
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Speaker 1: father son duet when his kid sucks. That we're sup
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Speaker 1: to believe that that same player had nothing nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with this, that this is completely foreign to him
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Speaker 1: and came out of nowhere, mister GM by proxy, going
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Speaker 1: back to his days in Cleveland and couldn't really do
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Speaker 1: that in Miami, although he did form the team with
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Speaker 1: Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh and then was at Loggerheads
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Speaker 1: with pat Riley and then went back to Cleveland to
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Speaker 1: run things and then went out to LA. But that
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Speaker 1: same guy Lebron James was out eating linguinie and he
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Speaker 1: was having an appetizer, maybe was eating like one of
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Speaker 1: those little piece of bread, and then the trade happened.
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Speaker 1: He had no idea. I just eating linguini with a
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Speaker 1: little piece of bread, maybe some red wine. In the
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Speaker 1: trade out what in the wall? I mean? Come on,
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Speaker 1: if you believe this, I want you to call me
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Speaker 1: up because I have a pink polka dotted unicorn. I
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Speaker 1: would like to sell you. It's the most beautiful pink
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Speaker 1: polka dotted unicorn you could possibly have, and it's yours.
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Speaker 1: I'll sell it to you for a nominal fee. If
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Speaker 1: you think Lebron had no knowledge of the trade prior
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Speaker 1: to the trade going down, I would like to have
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Speaker 1: you purchase this. I'll give you a sweetheart deal. It's
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Speaker 1: a pink polka dotted unicorn and it can be yours
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Speaker 1: and it's only going to cost you about eighty thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: That's a deal. That's a deal. You can have it right.
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Speaker 1: Tell me your gullible without telling me your Google. What
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Speaker 1: was Lebron James' role in LA dealing? Anthony Davis? Well,
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Speaker 1: the way this works, and I can't imagine it's much
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Speaker 1: different here at that level of player talking about Luka
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Speaker 1: Doncik here and then Anthony Davis also, it's going to
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Speaker 1: fundamentally change both the Lakers and the Mavericks the direction.
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Speaker 1: Some are convinced it's for the better, some are convinced
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Speaker 1: it's for the worst. But in order for this to happen,
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Speaker 1: in order this to happen, you need ownership the rubber stamp.
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Speaker 1: But also Lebron has to give his blessing. You know,
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Speaker 1: I want to upset Lebron James face of the NBA
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. You do want upset Lebron. And
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Speaker 1: as far as the reporting that he was just at
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Speaker 1: dinner and he had no idea, you know, it's against
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Speaker 1: the optic thing. Lebron has these NBA writers eating out
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Speaker 1: of the palm of his hand. He really does. Right,
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Speaker 1: It's like the side of a mirror when you're driving around, right,
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Speaker 1: the objects in the mirror are closer than they appear. Yikes,
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Speaker 1: they're in the tank. They are in the tank. Tank,
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Speaker 1: tank tank, and really just aggregating, repackaging Lebron James content.
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Speaker 1: At this point, Lebron's people send a narrative over and
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Speaker 1: then that's his version of the truth and they just
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Speaker 1: repeat it and that's that all right, now, Patrew, So
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Speaker 1: how does the dust settle with Luke who did touch
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Speaker 1: down and private plane? Because you know, the one percenter
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Speaker 1: is when you're a pro basketball player, you travel in
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Speaker 1: private planes. So Luca's in La. Now, explain how this
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Speaker 1: all goes down. Now the dust settles, we'll look at
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Speaker 1: the micro, not the macro in the near future. Now,
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Speaker 1: Luca's hurt right now, he's not playing. He's supposed to
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Speaker 1: come back. The Maverick said he was going to come
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Speaker 1: back before the All Star break. The All Star breaks
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Speaker 1: right around the corner here. It's in the middle of February,
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Speaker 1: and if you look at the calendar, today's February third,
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Speaker 1: So we're not that far away from this this taking place.
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Speaker 1: So it's not a one size fit all situation. It's not. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is the old trope in basketball, which is true
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Speaker 1: because it happens all the time. There's only one basketball,
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Speaker 1: there's only one ball, and situations like this rarely work,
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Speaker 1: rarely work. Because Luca, while he is an absolute offensive
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Speaker 1: dynamo and the beginning of his career, there's no question
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Speaker 1: he's one of the top players this far into his career.
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Speaker 1: He's historical. He's a top five player offensively all time
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Speaker 1: in NBA history. However, you look at this, he's the
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Speaker 1: big Poppy of the NBA. He is a designated hitter
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Speaker 1: like David Ortiz was to the Red Sox and his heyday.
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Speaker 1: He's all bat, no glove. That's what he brings you
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Speaker 1: and sounds like at this point similar to Lebron James,
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Speaker 1: a Doppo ganger, if you will, of Lebron James and
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Speaker 1: two ball dominant players that are weak defenders. Essentially, the
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Speaker 1: opposition against the Lakers will be on the power play
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Speaker 1: on offense, He'll be playing five on three. Now, Lebron
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Speaker 1: occasionally a couple times a game will make a good
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Speaker 1: defensive play, so he gets in the highlights. But the
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Speaker 1: rest of the time he's saving his energy to work
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Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the the situation. Now, the
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Speaker 1: other part of this, the heel a monster in the room,
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Speaker 1: the Komodo dragon in the room, if you will, is
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Speaker 1: the poor work habits that Luca supposedly has. It's been
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Speaker 1: an open secret. Luca does not believe in things like
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Speaker 1: the gym. He does not believe in doing cardio and
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Speaker 1: things like that. I believe the reporting that's out there,
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Speaker 1: and he's got bad work ethic, he's lazy, he just
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Speaker 1: has an I don't give an f He's so talented
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Speaker 1: he can get away with it right now. And the
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Speaker 1: argument is that it's not gonna work that long term
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Speaker 1: is he's been playing basketball since he was a kid,
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Speaker 1: at a high level in Europe and it's just not
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Speaker 1: gonna that's what the Mavericks. If you believe the Mavericks
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Speaker 1: are not doing this intentionally just so they can move
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Speaker 1: the team to Vegas, and that this was actually some
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Speaker 1: kind of planned, out formulated effort to improve the team,
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Speaker 1: which I don't. But if you believe that, if you're
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Speaker 1: someone that wants to believe that, that's fine. I don't
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Speaker 1: agree with you. We can agree to dis agree. But
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Speaker 1: if that's your mindset, if that's the case here, and
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Speaker 1: then like the MAVs are betting that he will age
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Speaker 1: like milk and we know that doesn't go well. That
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Speaker 1: just does not end up very well all right now,
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Speaker 1: final point, So, what was the oddest part of this
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Speaker 1: big trade between the Mavericks and the Lakers that sends
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Speaker 1: Luca to skid Row. That's who the Lakers play right
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Speaker 1: there on skid Row in La. All homeless people can
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Speaker 1: sit right there the arena. Now, when they built it,
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Speaker 1: skid Row was not there, but the good people of
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Speaker 1: California make sure skid Row moves over to that area,
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Speaker 1: so it's all there. So what is the oddest part
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Speaker 1: of the Luka Doncik trade? So it would be the
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Speaker 1: unorthodox tactics of the Mavericks and it's not even close. Right,
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Speaker 1: Normally a star player gets put on the auctioning block.
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Speaker 1: Now we saw the Aaron Fox who was also traded.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to that later. It's on my big board.
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Speaker 1: Dearon Fox traded from Sacramentos and Antonio. That had been
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Speaker 1: talked about for about two weeks. He's traded. That's how
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Speaker 1: it goes. Jimmy Butler has not been traded at this
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Speaker 1: hour from Miami, but Jimmy Butler's name has been floated
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Speaker 1: out there. It's been talked about on gas bag shows
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Speaker 1: like this and Blowhards on TV have talked about where
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler's gonna end up. And it's social media fodder
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Speaker 1: for the bots on social media, the fake accounts they
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Speaker 1: get to talk about that, go back and forth, and
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Speaker 1: so all of that, all of that going on, and
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Speaker 1: yet here you have none of it. In Dallas, this
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Speaker 1: is accurate, and the mavers are all saying the same thing.
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Speaker 1: It was early on it was just reports, and now
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Speaker 1: it's like, this is what we did, and maybe they're lying.
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Speaker 1: I don't know it. Channeling Rod Serling from the Twilight Zone.
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Speaker 1: Picture if you will, a world where you have a
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Speaker 1: beach front palazzo in Italy, a palatial home with millions
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Speaker 1: of dollars, and you decide not to list the home.
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Speaker 1: You call one person up and say, hey, would you
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Speaker 1: like this home, and just offer whatever you want. We'll
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Speaker 1: take whatever you send us. That's it. Here you go.
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Speaker 1: It's like they went to that we buy uglyhomes dot
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Speaker 1: com or houses or whatever dot com and they reached
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Speaker 1: out to the some company like that. There's a bunch
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Speaker 1: of them out there that just they'll take your home
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Speaker 1: and maybe they give you a good deal, maybe they don't,
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Speaker 1: and that's what they got. They just all right, that's it.
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Speaker 1: You know. It's like going on eBay and just paying
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Speaker 1: the price and there's no bidding. You just like buying
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Speaker 1: out price and that was it the buying out price.
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Speaker 1: You skip the hassles of having to do the prep
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Speaker 1: work for the house no showings. You took an all
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Speaker 1: cash offer, but it was really pennies on the dollar.
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Speaker 1: And again, if this is the way it went down
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Speaker 1: and you own the team, would you would say, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we are done. We're done with Nico Harrison. I'm firing him.
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Speaker 1: If I am someone that cares about the Dallas Mavericks,
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Speaker 1: if I'm the owner, I fire Nico Harrison. But they
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Speaker 1: had the ownership had to sign off on this. So
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Speaker 1: now the other part of it. Night somebody text me
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Speaker 1: over the weekend they said, well, there's some scandal coming
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Speaker 1: down with Luca and you don't know about it yet,
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Speaker 1: but they traded him and there's something's gonna come out
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Speaker 1: about Luca in the coming days. And well, what is that?
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Speaker 1: You know? Who knows? I wouldn't. I wouldn't put past
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Speaker 1: the world we live in today. But at this point
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Speaker 1: we don't know. It is scandal right around the corner.
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Speaker 1: So based on what we do know, Dallas did not
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Speaker 1: do their due diligence. The front office of the Mavericks.
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Speaker 1: They didn't even send a group text to a bunch
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Speaker 1: of gms. They just went and had a cup of coffee.
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Speaker 1: Nico Harrison and the Lakers executive, well, I really the
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Speaker 1: assistant GM skinny jeans under lebron and they took an
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Speaker 1: all cash offer and that was it. And it's malfeasance.
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Speaker 1: It is malpractice, is what it is to trade this,
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Speaker 1: to make this trade. And it's also nepotism because the
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Speaker 1: rest of the story. See, Nico Harrison and Rob Polenka
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Speaker 1: are besties. They're besties, ah, and they go way back.
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Speaker 1: Laker GM and the Maverick GM have been buddies since
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Speaker 1: Harrison was Kobe Bryant's marketing manager. We understand at Nike
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Speaker 1: and Rob Polenka was Kobe's agent, So Kobe Bryant is
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Speaker 1: responsible for this trade. Yeah, here is the GM Nico Harrison,
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Speaker 1: and listen to him. Lick the toes of Rob Polenka.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen. This is illegal in the Bible Belt.
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Speaker 2: I thought Rob and I were able to have, you know,
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Speaker 2: really intense conversations over the course of three or four
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Speaker 2: weeks that started out as a coffee that you know,
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Speaker 2: was more Hey, would you ever, I don't know, would
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Speaker 2: I let me think of it, you know, and then
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Speaker 2: it built upon.
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Speaker 1: That, you know, out of context, doesn't it sound like
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Speaker 1: they're talking about a hookup like a booty call? Right?
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Speaker 1: Can we how about this? Let's try something. Let's play
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Speaker 1: this again and just say this is like they're there,
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Speaker 1: They're talking about on a dating show how they started
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Speaker 1: dating and how one thing led to another. And just
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Speaker 1: imagine Nico Harrison and Rob Polinka are in a relationship
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Speaker 1: and they're onlike the what the Huntingmooners is? What's the
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Speaker 1: what it was that show called? Is that what I'm
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Speaker 1: thinking of? Anyway?
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Speaker 2: Tell you listen, Rob and I were able to have,
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Speaker 2: you know, really intense conversations over the course of three
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Speaker 2: or four weeks. It started out as a coffee that,
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Speaker 2: you know, it was more, hey, would you ever.
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Speaker 1: Let me think of?
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Speaker 2: You know? And then it built upon that.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's perfect. That is like a day.
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Speaker 1: How'd your relationship start? How do you guys start hooking up? Like?
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Speaker 1: What you got? Man? Yes? Look, god, I want to
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Speaker 1: play it again. Play it again? All right, So again
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Speaker 1: for this little exercise, imagine, if you will, Nico Harrison
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Speaker 1: and Rob Polinker on some dating TV show and Nico
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Speaker 1: Nico Can you tell us how you and Rob started
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Speaker 1: it begin?
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Speaker 2: Let me now, plet me now, Rob and I were
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Speaker 2: able to have, you know, really intense conversations over the
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Speaker 2: course of three or four weeks. It started out as
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Speaker 2: a coffee that you know is more Hey, would you
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Speaker 2: ever I don't know? Would I let me think of?
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 2: And then it built upon that.
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Speaker 2: Rob and I were able to have, you know, really
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Speaker 2: intense conversations over the course of three or four weeks.
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21:39
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22:18
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22:21
Speaker 1: this big trade. Luca, my name is Luca and I'm
22:26
Speaker 1: on the move took a private plane out to La
22:29
Speaker 1: La Land and he is now going to join the
22:31
Speaker 1: Lakers whenever he is actually able to play. Good luck
22:35
Speaker 1: on that big rig. Rob says the GM dating game
22:39
Speaker 1: take is an absolute gem. You never cease to amaze me.
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Speaker 1: Ben hands down. He says, that is the take of
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Speaker 1: the year so far, phenomenal job, take of the So
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Speaker 1: is it over now? I can I don't have to
22:51
Speaker 1: do any more tanks because that was the take of
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Speaker 1: the year. And now we know why Luca was traded.
22:57
Speaker 1: There was romance between Nico Harrison and Rob Polinka. Take
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Speaker 1: a listen again, this is romance here.
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Speaker 2: Rob and I were able to have, you know, really
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Speaker 2: intense conversations over the course of three or four weeks.
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Speaker 2: They started out as a coffee that, you know, was
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Speaker 2: more hey, would you ever? I don't know, you know,
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Speaker 2: and then it built upon that.
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Speaker 1: Oh god, so perfect, that is so perfect. Thank you,
23:23
Speaker 1: thank you for that. Nico Harrison, I appreciate that. Cowboy
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Speaker 1: Killer says the Dallas Lakers trade was so egregious that
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Speaker 1: NBA two K five would would not even let me
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Speaker 1: approve the trade in the game. It's okay. Instead of
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Speaker 1: being with the Clippers the future of LA he is
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Speaker 1: going to run a rundown, washed up franchise. It's hipped
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Speaker 1: the clips as the Cowboy Killer. Bozo, the District attorney says,
23:46
Speaker 1: you know who's really happy about the Luca trade? Justin
23:49
Speaker 1: Tucker yeah, he got bumped Tucker. Well apparently he got
23:54
Speaker 1: bumped a lot. But Justin Tucker facing more allegations over
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Speaker 1: the weekend that this is always We mentioned this the
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Speaker 1: other day when we did the Tucker monologue. It's not
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Speaker 1: the initial wave, it's what happens after that. It's like
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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson came out, denied everything, and then there was
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Speaker 1: a conga line of women wrapped around the buildings. So, oh,
24:16
Speaker 1: you do this to me too. Well, here's another one.
24:18
Speaker 1: Here's another massage therapist has come forward sharing allegations that
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Speaker 1: Justin Tucker was inappropriate during a massage, and she gave
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Speaker 1: us salacious details. This is a different report in the
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Speaker 1: Baltimore Sun, which is a different publication, joining several other
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Speaker 1: women who told a different outfit the Baltimore Banner. Whatever
24:42
Speaker 1: that is about this, and so there you go. Is
24:48
Speaker 1: that seven women? Now, let me do this. See not one,
24:51
Speaker 1: not two, not three, not four. I think we're at six.
24:56
Speaker 1: I think we're at six. Is it seven? I think
24:58
Speaker 1: we're at six. My Matt Malamass says six. So yeah, impressive.
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Speaker 1: Do they all have the same attorney or there's no lawsuits?
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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any lawsuits. They're just saying he
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Speaker 1: was creepy. They're saying, is it illegal to be creepy?
25:15
Speaker 1: Just like it's not illegal to be a freak. We
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Speaker 1: really got to have some hard evidence here, man, you
25:20
Speaker 1: think all right evidence a woman's perspective. Women, you think
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Speaker 1: you're a massage therapist, you kind of expect guys to
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Speaker 1: be a little creepy. I expect it. I would definitely
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Speaker 1: expect it. Yeah, it wouldn't wouldn't it be a little
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Speaker 1: odd if they weren't creepy. You don't even have to
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Speaker 1: be a massage therapist to expect that type of reac
25:38
Speaker 1: Are you saying men are just creepy? Is that what
25:39
Speaker 1: you're saying? Okay, get a little horned up. You know,
25:42
Speaker 1: things happen. What are you gonna do? All right, let's
25:45
Speaker 1: go to the phones. Let's go to Ryan in San Diego. Hello, Ryan, welcome.
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Speaker 4: I can't even say his dand last name. And you're
25:57
Speaker 4: blind Date. I think you're talking about blind Date or
25:59
Speaker 4: we'll stating TV.
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Speaker 1: Oh you are all right, So, Nico Harrison, you're on
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Speaker 1: Blind Date. This old TV show is not anymore. Nico
26:08
Speaker 1: tell us how the relationship started.
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Speaker 2: Nico, Rob and I were able to have, you know,
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Speaker 2: really intense conversations over the course of three or four weeks.
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Speaker 2: It started out as a coffee that, you know, it
26:19
Speaker 2: was more, Hey, would you ever I don't know, I mean,
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Speaker 2: you know, and then it built upon.
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Speaker 1: That you'll have kids? Probably not. I don't think that's
26:27
Speaker 1: the math on that. I don't think it's possible.
26:30
Speaker 4: Hey, but nepotism exists. I mean, it's an existing for
26:34
Speaker 4: years in the NBA. Who who was on tellum or
26:37
Speaker 4: Jerry West best friend allegedly on Tell Them Aren't.
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Speaker 1: Tell It's everywhere. It's all over sports, not just the NBA.
26:45
Speaker 1: It's everywhere.
26:46
Speaker 4: I mean Bob, Bob Myers worked for ARN, Jerry goes
26:50
Speaker 4: to Golden State, Bob Myers comes in. I mean yeah,
26:53
Speaker 4: Actually going on forever and real quick. On your theory
26:56
Speaker 4: of Dallas possibly moving.
26:58
Speaker 5: To Vegas, could you ever imagine an NFL team creating
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Speaker 5: probably one of the five best running backs ever in
27:09
Speaker 5: the NFL, and Dan you hire a has been coached
27:13
Speaker 5: who has once foot in the grave, and then you
27:16
Speaker 5: moved to the team of Damn Saint Louis.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I can't think. Yeah, I remember that.
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Speaker 1: I lived that. Actually, yeah, I live that back and
27:24
Speaker 1: yeah we lived that. Yeah. I was a big RAM
27:26
Speaker 1: fan growing up. That sucked.
27:27
Speaker 4: Man, I don't want you know what. I don't watch
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Speaker 4: football when they left. I mean it hurts.
27:33
Speaker 1: Well as far as the people say, well, it's just
27:35
Speaker 1: you know, just making stuff, I mean, not making it up.
27:37
Speaker 1: I mean people have talked. It's I'm not the one
27:39
Speaker 1: that made it up first of all. Other people, I
27:40
Speaker 1: guess made it up. But the other thing is, like
27:42
Speaker 1: people said, well, Dallas is a much bigger market than
27:44
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. That's true. Well, the Bay area where the
27:48
Speaker 1: Raiders and the A's played and the Wars, I mean,
27:51
Speaker 1: the Warriors stayed there, they just moved across the Bay Bridge.
27:53
Speaker 1: But the the A's are moving to Vegas, and the
27:57
Speaker 1: Raiders moved to Vegas, and that's a smaller market.
27:59
Speaker 4: So doesn't and her and I didn't even know who
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Speaker 4: she was until today, And I guess she was very
28:05
Speaker 4: too casino logo. I told Coop Coop, I didn't even
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Speaker 4: know Mark Cuban was not fully in charge.
28:13
Speaker 5: And then and since twenty.
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Speaker 4: Twenty three, then I think, hey, there was a lot
28:18
Speaker 4: of shenanigans going on there with the med too movement.
28:21
Speaker 4: I wonder if the NBA kind of came in didn't
28:25
Speaker 4: force him to give up the team completely, but well
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Speaker 4: he did, but still well he.
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Speaker 1: Still owns part of that. Man. The thing is with
28:32
Speaker 1: that is I think Cuban was betting that the value
28:35
Speaker 1: would go down. The value hasn't gone down. The value
28:37
Speaker 1: has gone up.
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Speaker 4: There has a lot of crap, and I think they
28:40
Speaker 4: maybe wanted to get him off the TV, away from
28:43
Speaker 4: the sideline because of all the company.
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Speaker 1: He's still there. Though he's still that's so many people
28:48
Speaker 1: didn't even know that he sold He sold out Cuban.
28:52
Speaker 1: They thought he was still the guy. People were giving
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Speaker 1: him death threats online idiots spots or whatever, and just.
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Speaker 4: What I'm gonna tell you. And I haven't watched the
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Speaker 4: NDIA per year, but when I did watch the NBA,
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Speaker 4: I saw Luca several And remember I coached Borisky at
29:05
Speaker 4: the high I mean, man, I take basketball home every
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Speaker 4: day and eat you for twelve months and I'm not
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Speaker 4: making what they made. But you look, I saw Luca
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Speaker 4: wave off Jim Carrey, Rick Carlisle several times a couple
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Speaker 4: of years ago on a play. I know you're saying
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Speaker 4: it's all over the NBA.
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Speaker 1: But I'm telling you it is. Ahh wait, no, that
29:27
Speaker 1: is it. But Ryan, if you're a coach and you
29:33
Speaker 1: are willing to, you know, pull your hair out because
29:35
Speaker 1: a star player doesn't listen, You're not gonna have any
29:38
Speaker 1: hair left. You'll be done. That's it's over. And they
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Speaker 1: don't think a lot of these guys do not listen.
29:42
Speaker 1: They're not coachable.
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Speaker 4: But why was it so quick that that's the only thing?
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Speaker 4: Why was it so quick? They didn't He's just gonna
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Speaker 4: look at it. They wanted this ship, his ask pray
29:54
Speaker 4: out of town.
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Speaker 1: But and then the centementa Lakers and what do you
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Speaker 1: do you could have you could have done so much
29:59
Speaker 1: bet better than that.
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Speaker 4: Well, and then Jason Kidd was insistent for a d Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I mean they maybe three three away. I gotta be
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Speaker 4: careful I say that with Jimmy Butler. I'm telling you, Jim.
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Speaker 1: Or you called me Jim, How dare you Jim?
30:14
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to hear this sound ba.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: No, I mean, just hey, you gotta keep an open
30:19
Speaker 4: mind on this. That that's all I'm saying. I seriously
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Speaker 4: think there were some issues between Jason Kidd and Luca
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Speaker 4: and now we're going to get a seat.
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Speaker 1: Well, what tm is going to have the school?
30:32
Speaker 4: We're going to see TMZ catching Luca and and Blotdy
30:37
Speaker 4: having to smoke out off for Dale drive Lucas smoke
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Speaker 4: more cigarettes.
30:41
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, take care of it. All right, thank you,
30:44
Speaker 1: there you go. I don't burst your bubble. Ryan. If
30:49
Speaker 1: you saw the body language of Jason Kidd, it did
30:53
Speaker 1: not appear that he was on board with this trade.
30:56
Speaker 1: They had a news conference. The SoundBite we got from
30:58
Speaker 1: Nico Harrison, but uh, the expression Jason Kitty looked absolutely
31:05
Speaker 1: thunderstruck as he was He was sitting there like this
31:08
Speaker 1: is you gotta be joking. He was completely baffled by
31:13
Speaker 1: what he was hearing from Nico Harrison as he was
31:15
Speaker 1: explaining the trade, like he had no idea.
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Speaker 6: See what's gonna happen. Lebron's got a couple more years
31:22
Speaker 6: in the NBA. That's enough time for him to teach
31:26
Speaker 6: Luca his whole training regimen and and like body preservation methods.
31:33
Speaker 6: And we're gonna see Luca unlock the next step of
31:37
Speaker 6: his game. And it's gonna be He's gonna be the
31:40
Speaker 6: when it's all said and done, He's gonna be the goat.
31:44
Speaker 1: Either that or he'll be holding up that giant donut
31:46
Speaker 1: over at Randy's Donuts in Englewood. That'll be be holding
31:50
Speaker 1: it above his head eating it. Yeah, well, I like
31:54
Speaker 1: the joke. So this does you know? He's he's a
31:57
Speaker 1: double double guy in and out, you know, animal style,
31:59
Speaker 1: you know, got that going for him. So my god,
32:03
Speaker 1: what a what a move. But that Nico Harrison. Do
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Speaker 1: we not all agree he's a low level batman villain?
32:09
Speaker 1: That Nico Harrison in Dallas, Like, he's got to be
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Speaker 1: one of the great sports villains in Dallas. I'm not
32:14
Speaker 1: a historian of the Dallas sports scene, but I gotta
32:18
Speaker 1: believe that Nico Harrison is at the very top of
32:22
Speaker 1: the villain list in Dallas sports.
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Speaker 6: Have you seen some of the videos of the reactions
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Speaker 6: of Dallas fans.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's it's it's next level people.
32:31
Speaker 6: That brought the coffin to the.
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Speaker 1: All right, yeah, all right, anyway, it is the Ben
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Speaker 1: Who else do you have? Page Dan can't read that?
35:54
Speaker 1: Nature Boy said, would it be the be creepy to
35:57
Speaker 1: Lorena if Justin liked to end his sessions with a spanking?
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Speaker 1: Says Nature Boy? Okay, who else do you I have?
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36:08
Speaker 1: wants to know about the Grammys. No comment on that?
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Speaker 1: All right, Larina, do you have an answer? Here's the
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Speaker 1: insta trivia. Blank has the most consecutive appearances in the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl with five.
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Speaker 6: Well, it's obviously has to be Kellogg's Kellogg.
36:24
Speaker 1: Oh you get it is a theme is a cereal? Yeah?
36:28
Speaker 1: Looking down milk? All right, it's incorrect. You correct answer
36:33
Speaker 1: is Gail Gilbert, who went four times with the Bills
36:37
Speaker 1: and then was on the old San Diego Chargers when
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Speaker 1: they got pollaxed by the forty nine ers. Here week
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Speaker 1: a maller. How about that?
36:46
Speaker 3: To the third degree, This is one big gets graill.
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Speaker 1: That was my first year in San Diego radio. The
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Speaker 1: Chargers played the forty nine Ers in the Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: and lost by a gazillion points. All right, Cooper, look
36:59
Speaker 1: what do we have here? Cooper.
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Speaker 6: In a recent interview, Bill's GM Brandon Bean said he
37:03
Speaker 6: does not regret the trade for a Marii Cooper Flyer.
37:05
Speaker 6: He then revealed that Cooper's wrist injury was more serious
37:08
Speaker 6: than anyone outside the buildings. Double liar, and he also
37:11
Speaker 6: noted that the team averaged seven more points in games
37:13
Speaker 6: Cooper played than in games that he didn't.
37:15
Speaker 1: Those things aren't related, triple liar. Ben, do you think
37:18
Speaker 1: Cooper stays with Buffalo? No, because who wants to stay
37:21
Speaker 1: in Buffalo? Come on, let's be honest. Here, Andy the
37:23
Speaker 1: comic book guy, he left Buffalo Flexus is there he
37:26
Speaker 1: tried Felexis, try to leave to go to Lexington, Kentucky.
37:29
Speaker 4: Know.
37:29
Speaker 1: I think ultimately Amari Cooper goes somewhere else. He's at
37:33
Speaker 1: that weird crossroads in his career where he's near the
37:37
Speaker 1: end of his prime and make up excuses for him
37:41
Speaker 1: being hurt. But he's a twenty million dollar receiver. He
37:43
Speaker 1: didn't play like a twenty million dollar receiver. I think
37:45
Speaker 1: he's gone next.
37:47
Speaker 6: Kevin Garnett took a profane shot at Jimmy Butler over
37:49
Speaker 6: the weekend, saying, this is how non guarantees are going
37:52
Speaker 6: to come into our league. Ride here for s like this.
37:54
Speaker 6: We efing fought our asses off through five or six
37:58
Speaker 6: damn lockouts where we protect the integrity of the talent.
38:01
Speaker 5: Ben.
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Speaker 6: Do you think this Butler situation could have ramifications for
38:04
Speaker 6: the rest.
38:04
Speaker 1: Of the league? I actually do, because the NBA owners
38:08
Speaker 1: are gonna look at this and say, well, why are
38:10
Speaker 1: we giving out Why does everyone get a guaranteed contract,
38:13
Speaker 1: Because then a guy like Jimmy Butler can just be
38:16
Speaker 1: a And I like Jimmy Butler, but he's been a
38:17
Speaker 1: complete a hole from what I've read, So I think
38:20
Speaker 1: this is absolutely something that will be brought up by
38:23
Speaker 1: a certain click of owners who are annoyed that they
38:27
Speaker 1: have to give out only guaranteed. They're jealous of the
38:29
Speaker 1: in the NFL because most NFL countries are not guaranteed.
38:31
Speaker 6: Next Over the weekend, Many Machado expressed disappointment that the
38:35
Speaker 6: Padres haven't made any moves this offseason. Now, Ben, the
38:38
Speaker 6: Padres won ninety three games last year. Do you think
38:41
Speaker 6: they can replicate that success or are they going to
38:43
Speaker 6: take a step back?
38:44
Speaker 1: Well, no chance. They will win fewer games. Although the
38:47
Speaker 1: nationally West, the Giants blow and the Rockies are bad.
38:51
Speaker 1: Arizona is decent, but it's the Padres. They're still unloading
38:55
Speaker 1: players like the team is in a holding pattern right
38:59
Speaker 1: now because the owner died a couple of years ago,
39:01
Speaker 1: and the family, the widow and the brothers of the
39:05
Speaker 1: guy are sewing for control of the team. It's a
39:09
Speaker 1: hot mess, all right. So the Potters are going to
39:11
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