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6-1 H2: Dan Weiss Joins, Reading Your Texts & Cross Talk · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: And joining us now from San Antonio?
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  Speaker 2: Is the Spurs play by play announcer Dan Weis, who
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  Speaker 2: was there courtside in Oklahoma City when the Spurs beat
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  Speaker 2: the Anti Sonics and took down the defending champion thunder Sir,
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  Speaker 2: I know you're a busy man, and I appreciate you
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  Speaker 2: joining us here on ninety three point three KJR.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no problem.
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  Speaker 2: What can you tell us about the spurs arrival here
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  Speaker 2: as they were second seed coming in? Does it seem
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  Speaker 2: a little early? And women Yama is still young? The
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  Speaker 2: supporting cast, they were questions about, okay, women Yama, but
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  Speaker 2: who is Is this taken San Antonio by surprise or
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  Speaker 2: is this season unfolded?
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  Speaker 1: You could see this coming.
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  Speaker 4: No, I definitely didn't see sixty two wins in a
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  Speaker 4: spot in the NBA Finals coming.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be completely honest.
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  Speaker 4: I thought they were maybe being a little bit under
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  Speaker 4: sold at the start of the season, and I think
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  Speaker 4: Victor Wembin Yama, you know, going back to media day
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  Speaker 4: at the end of September, he even kind of set
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  Speaker 4: the tone with his comments and saying that the goal
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  Speaker 4: for this team was to be a playoff team, and
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  Speaker 4: by that definition, in the NBA these days, to be
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  Speaker 4: a playoffs team means you have to be in the
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  Speaker 4: top six because play in is basically in the seven
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  Speaker 4: to ten. So his sites were set on being top
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  Speaker 4: six by getting into the playoffs and not having to
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  Speaker 4: work in through the play in tournament. I felt that
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  Speaker 4: was probably a pretty reasonable expectation. I think in the
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  Speaker 4: last couple of years, the Spurs went back to back
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  Speaker 4: twenty two win seasons and then added, you know, an
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  Speaker 4: additional twelve wins last year, going to thirty four. Victor
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  Speaker 4: missed the final thirty games with a blood cloth that
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  Speaker 4: kept him sidelined. My opinion, I think going into the
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  Speaker 4: start of the season I had them at probably fourteen
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  Speaker 4: more wins in the forty eight to fifty range. Sixty
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  Speaker 4: two in a spot in the NBA Finals was well
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  Speaker 4: beyond my imagination, probably anybody's imagination in this city. And
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  Speaker 4: that's why I think, you know, this trip to the
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  Speaker 4: finals rings maybe a little bit differently than in twenty
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  Speaker 4: fourteen or twenty and thirteen, where you know, you had
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  Speaker 4: veteran ball clubs that I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: expected were gonna be there. This one, I think has
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  Speaker 4: kind of come up as a surprise for the community.
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  Speaker 2: What Dan wise, they play by pay announcer for the
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  Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs, joining us here on the Beacon Plumbing
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  Speaker 2: Hotline at ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 1: Dan, what has surprised you?
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  Speaker 3: Then?
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  Speaker 1: Women Yama has been Women Yama.
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  Speaker 2: But of this supporting it Fox has had a very
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  Speaker 2: strong postseason, which you need to have great point.
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  Speaker 1: Guard play to get this far.
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  Speaker 2: But who among the supporting cast has really stepped up
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  Speaker 2: and really been the second or third guys that have
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  Speaker 2: gotten the Spurs here, Well.
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  Speaker 4: There's multiple second or third guys, And I guess that
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  Speaker 4: probably was the defining moment in Game number seven the
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  Speaker 4: other night in Oklahoma City. I mean, I turned to
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  Speaker 4: our TV play by play guy who was there with me,
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  Speaker 4: and I was just watching Shae gil doess Alexander have
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  Speaker 4: a Game seven performance for the Ages, and I said
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  Speaker 4: to him, I said, they don't have enough. They got Shay,
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  Speaker 4: but they got nobody else going right now. Whereas from
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  Speaker 4: a Spurs perspective, sure, Victor Webbinyamo was having a fine
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  Speaker 4: night and his numbers for the game were great twenty
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  Speaker 4: two points. But you look top to bottom across the line.
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  Speaker 4: If you get twenty points from Julian Champenni off six
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  Speaker 4: three pointers. You get you know, sixteen and six from
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  Speaker 4: Stefan Castle. You get another outstanding performance from Daron Fox
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  Speaker 4: playing essentially on one ankle, is dealing with a high
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  Speaker 4: ankle sprain ever since the Minnesota series. In the Western
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  Speaker 4: Conference semifinals, you get Dylan Harper, who in my opinion,
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  Speaker 4: has been the playoff riser for the Spurs, a twenty
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  Speaker 4: year old who's playing with the poise and confidence of
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  Speaker 4: a ten year veteran out there, not afraid to take
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  Speaker 4: the big shot, draining a three in the face of
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  Speaker 4: the two time MVP there in the fourth quarter, Luke
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  Speaker 4: Cornett maybe making the biggest game seven blocks since Lebron
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  Speaker 4: James and Andrea Gudala in the twenty sixteen finals. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's just top to bottom, and that's really been the
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  Speaker 4: story of the Spur season. They do it as a collective,
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  Speaker 4: they do it as a whole, and their depth is
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  Speaker 4: the reason why they're in the NBA Finals today.
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  Speaker 5: Dan, you routed off different players that stepped up and
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  Speaker 5: made winning plays at exactly the right time. Which role
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  Speaker 5: player performers do you think will be overlooked nationally, but
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  Speaker 5: is also key for them winning the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 3: Devin Basell.
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  Speaker 4: Devin Bassell has been the most consistent performer in these
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  Speaker 4: playoffs outside of Victor Winbin Yama.
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  Speaker 3: And when I.
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  Speaker 4: Say consistent, I'm not saying that he's going to go
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  Speaker 4: out there and put up twenty to ten every night.
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  Speaker 3: But he's automatic.
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  Speaker 4: Fourteen points, fifteen points, five rebounds, a blocker two, is
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  Speaker 4: going to knock down a couple of clutch threes over
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  Speaker 4: the course of the game, and he's going to give
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  Speaker 4: you about as good as on ball defense as there
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  Speaker 4: is in the NBA Finals. So, for my money, the
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  Speaker 4: guy who's gonna get overlooked that probably shouldn't, but I
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  Speaker 4: guarantee you will will be Devin the ceut I wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: That was kind of my thought process. Is either going
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  Speaker 5: to be him or maybe I don't even put my
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  Speaker 5: name put the guys I went out there, but I
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  Speaker 5: like that player specifically doing well going to the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 5: But what stood out to you most about the Spurs
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  Speaker 5: poison one of the I would argue the toughest road
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  Speaker 5: environments in the league.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great question.
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  Speaker 4: It takes guts to go into that building in a
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  Speaker 4: game seven and to thrown the NBA champions the way
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  Speaker 4: that they did, and I just I'm I'm just kind
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  Speaker 4: of floored by how they went out, you know, how
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  Speaker 4: they just treated it like it was any other game.
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  Speaker 4: And when you win sixty two games, when you go
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  Speaker 4: thirty and four since the end of January to close
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  Speaker 4: the regular season, you you kind of get used to
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  Speaker 4: playing a certain brand of basketball. And for that, I
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  Speaker 4: give a lot of credit to Mitch Johnson and the
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  Speaker 4: coaching staff, and that andes Sean Sweety, who was just
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  Speaker 4: named the head coach in Orlando earlier today. Corlis Williamson
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  Speaker 4: joined the staff this year, Mike Noys and Scott King,
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  Speaker 4: who've both been a part of the staff here either
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  Speaker 4: in San Antonio or even in Austin with the G
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  Speaker 4: League for the last couple of years. He's just got
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  Speaker 4: a great group around him that implements a game plan
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  Speaker 4: that has got this team so well prepared for every challenge, obstacle, adversity,
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  Speaker 4: any situation that they're going to face on a given night,
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  Speaker 4: and so by putting the guys in a position to
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  Speaker 4: be successful and then allowing them to utilize their skill
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  Speaker 4: set to be successful to execute the game plan. I
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  Speaker 4: just give a tremendous amount of credit to the coaching staff,
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  Speaker 4: and therefore, you know, that's how you go and you
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  Speaker 4: dethron the champions and they're building in a game seven.
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  Speaker 1: Dan weis to.
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  Speaker 2: Played by play announcer for the San Antonio Spurs, joining
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  Speaker 2: us from Texas on the eve of the Spurs and
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks starting the NBA Finals in San Antonio on
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday night on the Peacon Plumbing isline here in ninety
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  Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM Dan the son of Seattle Mitch Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: your head coach at age thirty nine.
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  Speaker 1: What has he done?
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  Speaker 2: Have you noticed being around that team day to day?
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  Speaker 2: What is Mitch Johnson's influence but personal touch beIN that
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  Speaker 2: has carried this team to the finals. And how much
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  Speaker 2: do you see glimpses of Greg Popovich and the day
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  Speaker 2: to day Mitch Johnson?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's certainly you feel the influence of
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  Speaker 4: coach pop And how can you not. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 4: and he's still very much a part of what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: But Mitch, as you know, just another branch of Pops
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  Speaker 4: coaching tree that is extended far and beyond whether it's
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  Speaker 4: he made Oka in Houston, or whether it's been Mike
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  Speaker 4: Budenholz or Brett Brown or you know, even Mike Brown
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  Speaker 4: was a member of Pop staff way Pop staff way
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  Speaker 4: back in the day too, So it's just another branch.
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  Speaker 4: But Mitch has certainly put his own fingerprints on this
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  Speaker 4: team with his attention to detail, with his intensity, and
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  Speaker 4: with his ability to connect with this group. And I
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  Speaker 4: think as somebody who whose father played in the NBA,
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  Speaker 4: and as somebody who was a point guard himself at Stanford,
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  Speaker 4: those are kind of the leadership qualities that you you
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  Speaker 4: look from a head coach and having been really thrown into,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the fire. I guess last year when when
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  Speaker 4: Pop had to step aside, UH, I think almost maybe
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  Speaker 4: went to the benefit of Mitch, putting him in a
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  Speaker 4: position to be successful, to know what to expect, and
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  Speaker 4: then getting a full off season in a full training camp,
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  Speaker 4: you know, to.
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  Speaker 3: To run the team the way that he wanted to run.
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  Speaker 4: But with the the influence of Coach Pop, and not
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  Speaker 4: only Coach Pop, just the Spurs culture, UH and the
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  Speaker 4: Spurs legacy in the background, I think it's just been
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  Speaker 4: a really winning blueprint. And obviously the success has been
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  Speaker 4: in the results of what the team has gone out
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  Speaker 4: and shown on a nightly basis, But a lot of
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  Speaker 4: credit to Mitch Johnson. He's done a phenomenal job this year.
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  Speaker 2: Mitch Johnson Oday High School class of twenty four to
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, twenty zero zero four, former state champion, two
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  Speaker 2: time state champion here in Washington. He began his coaching
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  Speaker 2: career for the Austin Spurs of the G League, so
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  Speaker 2: he's been in the Spurs organization since twenty sixteen. He's
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  Speaker 2: been on Greg Popovich's staff of the Spurs ins twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: As I understand it, Dan Weiss played by play announcer
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  Speaker 2: for the San Antonio Spurs. As I understand it, Mitch
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  Speaker 2: Johnson has a particularly close relationship with Victor Wembanyama, working
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  Speaker 2: with for years with him on individual drills.
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  Speaker 1: How does a point.
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  Speaker 2: Guard from Seattle get so tight with a seven to
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  Speaker 2: four freak from France?
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  Speaker 1: How is that relationship? Do you? How do you see that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, and it's just not just him.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's especially some of the guys too that
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  Speaker 4: have been in the Spurs program for a while, like
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  Speaker 4: a Devin bissel Er, Kelda Johnson, who are the two
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  Speaker 4: longest tenured members on the team. But yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think I think at Victor's skill set right, like
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  Speaker 4: he just he's a unicorn, He's an alien, and he
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  Speaker 4: just does things that we've never seen somebody seven foot
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  Speaker 4: four do with the basketball. With the handle set that
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  Speaker 4: he has the ability to be a point center and
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  Speaker 4: initiate the offense at the point of attack or to
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  Speaker 4: you know, be able to step back and knock down
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  Speaker 4: a thirty foot three pointer. I mean, Mitchell is certainly
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  Speaker 4: not going to be doesn't need to obviously necessarily, you know,
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  Speaker 4: teach him how to play back to the basket or
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  Speaker 4: play inside the band. He can definitely do that. But
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  Speaker 4: I think, you know, yeah, it's great, like you can
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  Speaker 4: use the skills of a point guard with the way
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  Speaker 4: that Victor wants to play with the ball up top
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  Speaker 4: and wants to work with the ball and set up
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  Speaker 4: the offense. It's such a great skill set to have,
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  Speaker 4: and it makes it just so impossible on the defense
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  Speaker 4: to try to defend that because it's virtually impossible from
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  Speaker 4: a one on one standpoint. And then when you get
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  Speaker 4: the help with a double or even triple team, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you're just it's a pick your poison, right, you're leaving
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  Speaker 4: the shooters open, or you're leaving the other guys in
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  Speaker 4: fox and castle and harder to get downhill and do
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  Speaker 4: what they do. So it's been a great relationship to
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  Speaker 4: watch between mintioned Victor. Frankly it's Mitch and the entire team.
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  Speaker 4: They've really bought into a lot of what he's been preaching.
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  Speaker 5: Staying with Victor here, how has the Spurs culture shaped
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  Speaker 5: his development and how much of this playoff breakthrough reflects
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  Speaker 5: the organization as much as the player.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's been a huge kudos to again, the
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  Speaker 4: coaching staff and the development staff.
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  Speaker 3: You know what a lot of people don't see.
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  Speaker 4: You know, beyond the guys on the front of the
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  Speaker 4: bench as the coaches, is that the NBA teams these
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  Speaker 4: days probably go man almost twenty guys deep when you're
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  Speaker 4: talking about video guys and development guys, and I mean
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  Speaker 4: people who are working with these players on an individual basis.
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  Speaker 4: It used to be, you know, you had three or
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  Speaker 4: four coaches as far as video goes for you know,
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  Speaker 4: scouting reports and whatnot, as far as looking ahead to
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  Speaker 4: your future opponent. Now you have so many individual coaches
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  Speaker 4: that are responsible for individual scouting reports, whether it comes
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  Speaker 4: to players or teams, that these guys behind the scenes
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  Speaker 4: don't get enough credit for the amount of work that
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  Speaker 4: they're putting in when it comes to cutting up video
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  Speaker 4: or cutting up clips and giving you resource and information
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  Speaker 4: as a player, but then on the floor working with
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  Speaker 4: them on a day to day basis.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, most video guys now.
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  Speaker 4: In the NBA are former D two or D one
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  Speaker 4: college players themselves, because they have to be the ones
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  Speaker 4: to go out there and basically simulate what these guys
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  Speaker 4: are going to experience from the opponent on a nightly basis,
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  Speaker 4: and so they need to be up to par to
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  Speaker 4: going out and defending a guy like Victor Webb Binyama,
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  Speaker 4: and you can only get that from having played college
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  Speaker 4: basketball at the highest level or at the second highest level.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a.
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  Speaker 4: Process not just with the Spurs, but I think with
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  Speaker 4: all thirty teams in the NBA right now to be
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  Speaker 4: able to use that development staff to simulate real time
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  Speaker 4: experiences and to get the best out of your team.
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  Speaker 5: Dan, what's the what's the biggest difference between the Victor
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  Speaker 5: you saw when he entered the league and the victor
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  Speaker 5: who just led the Spurs on the road past Oka City,
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  Speaker 5: Okay City, Oklahoma City in Game seven.
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  Speaker 4: He's just a lot more I think he just moves
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  Speaker 4: at the speed of the game right now, a lot
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  Speaker 4: more easily.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he feels rushed. I don't think he
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  Speaker 3: forces things.
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  Speaker 4: I think he He's gotten just so much more smarter
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  Speaker 4: in terms of his understanding of how the NBA game works,
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  Speaker 4: about how the game is going to be called, and
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  Speaker 4: in that case, then it's about not only what he does,
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  Speaker 4: but how he puts himself in the right spots to
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  Speaker 4: make his teammates around him better. And he specifically cited
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  Speaker 4: that after you know, game number five, after the loss
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  Speaker 4: in Oklahoma City, he said, you know, I gotta do
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  Speaker 4: things to.
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  Speaker 3: To make my might, make my teammates. I wasn't after
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  Speaker 3: game five.
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  Speaker 4: It was actually after Game three he said, I got
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  Speaker 4: to do things to make my teammates better, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: not doing enough of that. And so he recognizes that
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  Speaker 4: that it's not just about what he does when he
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  Speaker 4: has the basketball, but about it's about what he does
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  Speaker 4: when he doesn't have the basketball as well too, because
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  Speaker 4: he will then recognize how teams are playing him, and
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  Speaker 4: therefore he's putting himself in positions that he's going to
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  Speaker 4: get the best out of his teammates, and that that
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  Speaker 4: definitely doesn't come when you're a you know, a nineteen
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  Speaker 4: year old rookie in your first year in the NBA.
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  Speaker 4: It takes some season. And I know, you know, the
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  Speaker 4: Spurs obviously have been on this meteoric rise here to
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  Speaker 4: getting to the NBA Finals, but even it took Victor
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  Speaker 4: a couple of years just to understand how the NBA
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  Speaker 4: game is played, how it's called, you know, how how
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  Speaker 4: you have to physically, you know, deal with different different
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  Speaker 4: coverages and different defense and what different coaches.
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  Speaker 3: Are throwing at you.
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  Speaker 4: So it's been an education and if Victor was here,
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  Speaker 4: he'd probably tell you the education continues on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 2: Dan Wise, play by play man for the San Antonio Spurs,
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  Speaker 2: joining us from Texas here on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline
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  Speaker 2: before the Spurs and Knicks begin Game one of the
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  Speaker 2: NBA Finals on Wednesday, I got to ask you, Dan,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of Mitch Johnson fans here in Seattle
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  Speaker 2: O'Day grads that are following his rise to the NBA Finals,
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  Speaker 2: and we saw the T shirt he was wearing in
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  Speaker 2: the locker room holding the Western Conference trophy on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: night in Oklahoma City, Jimmy Hendricks wearing a Sonics jersey
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  Speaker 2: of his dad from the nineteen seventy nine championship team.
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  Speaker 1: Does it come up regularly?
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  Speaker 2: Does Mitch Johnson talk about his Seattle background on the
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  Speaker 2: beat there with the Spurs or do you notice a
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  Speaker 2: Seattle influence and does he how much does he bring
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  Speaker 2: that back?
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  Speaker 3: A lot, A lot? I mean, he does get the
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  Speaker 3: occasional question.
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  Speaker 4: He is as a proponent of Seattle basketball and Washington
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  Speaker 4: Ice School basketball as there is out there on the circuit.
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  Speaker 4: He is a clearly a huge proponent of the NBA
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  Speaker 4: returning to Seattle at some point in the future, which
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  Speaker 4: does look promising here from you know, reading all the
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  Speaker 4: tea leaves of what's going on. But yeah, I can
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  Speaker 4: I can guarantee you that there is nobody out there
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  Speaker 4: that leeds green and gold right now than Mitch Jobbs
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  Speaker 4: on the NBA beat. He is, he's he's got that
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  Speaker 4: Seattle blood pumping through his veins, and I can guarantee
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  Speaker 4: you know he's going to be very excited to make
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  Speaker 4: that first trip back to Seattle when the when the
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  Speaker 4: Sonics do eventually.
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  Speaker 2: Return, Dan, we have a lot of people listening, younger
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  Speaker 2: people who are interested in breaking into radio play by play.
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  Speaker 2: And I noticed you were raised in New England, the
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  Speaker 2: Boston area and of course now in Texas. Can you
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  Speaker 2: tell a little bit about your story and how you
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  Speaker 2: became an NBA play by play guy in the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's you know, I guess no path is
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: linear and everybody kind of goes a different way.
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  Speaker 3: But I actually got started in hockey, believe it or not.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: I was working in minor league hockey for twenty plus
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: years and you know, kind of bouncing around from from
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: different minor leagues and really my you know, my first
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: big break actually was, even though it was still hockey related,
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: I got hired by the Phoenix Suns, who were operating
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: a minor league hockey team back in two thousand and five.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: But being a part of just the Sun's organization, it
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: kind of opened my eyes to, you know, how how
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: different organizations work. And I was fortunate to meet some
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: great people at the Sons organization that when the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: with the American Hockey League team in San Antonio opened
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: up that was run by the Spurs at the time.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: The people in Phoenix were great and you know, getting
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  Speaker 4: me off to San Antonio and you know, accelerating my career.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: And then while the you know, Rampage was a great
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: experience for me at the time. You know, as I
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: think anybody can tell you, in any job, it's about
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: luck and it's about timing. And the opportunity to move
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: over to Spurs Television opened up back in twenty eighteen,
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: to move from you know, my role as to play
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: by play guy for the San Antonio Rampage to go
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: work as the pre and post game host and sideline
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  Speaker 4: reporter for Spurs Television.
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  Speaker 3: And so it was again a fortunate opportunity. I was
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: very lucky, just happened to be right place at the
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: right time.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: And then last year, our longtime radio broadcaster decided to
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: hang it up after a twenty plus year career, and
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: they came to me and said, you we'd be honored
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: if you would take his spot. And you know, I
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: was honored and blessed to have that chance to have
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: that opportunity and here we are, so like I said, no,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: no path is the same everyone kind of goes through
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: different roles and different cities and different places to get there.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, it's more about enjoying the journey than
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  Speaker 3: you know, trying.
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  Speaker 4: To I guess, get yourself to one spot quicker than
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: the next spot. So that's what I would tell your
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: listeners out there, is that just enjoy the journey. It's
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: pretty sweet though, when you do get to the top
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  Speaker 4: of the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations to you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot a lot of years of late nights
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  Speaker 2: and early airport and early wake up calls.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Congratulations that enjoy this ride. You're welcome, sir. Thanks for
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: coming on. Enjoy this ride. We'll be watching and listening.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Dan Weiss, the play by play man for the radio
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs, joining us from San Antonio two days
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: before he calls the game one of the NBA Finals
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: in San Antonio between the Spurs and the Knicks.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: That's an interesting career path. Twenty years in minor league hockey.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: That's a long time with a lot of bus rides,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: as he and I'll tell you it's a long time.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: That's a long.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Time to get to where he is, the pinnacle of
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: his profession and sport the NBA Finals, calling that for
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: the Spurs live on radio. There's a great if you
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: go to his Twitter x handle which is at dan
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Weiss wei SSPBP for play at play Dan Weis's PBP.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: There's a really cool video that The Sun the Spurs
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: shot of him calling the very end of Game seven
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: of the Western Conference Finals in Oklahoma City and his
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: excitement and portraying that to the fans back in San
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Antonio for their Spurs making it to the NBA Finals, coached,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: of course by Mitch Johnson, the two thousand and four
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: graduate of.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Odai High School.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Spencer Hawes was on the Chuck and Bucks Show this
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: morning talking about his buddy Mitch Johnson. He was in
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma City rooting on the Spurs, wearing a cowboy hat.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Spencer Hawes said, and we'll be there, I assume, in
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: San Antonio for the NBA Finals, which begins Wednesday about
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: six o'clock our time. Nick's at Spurs. The Spurs have
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: the home court for that NBA Finals series best of seven.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Big news of the day twofold the Rams are acquiring
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Miles Garrett, the two time Defensive Player of the Year
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: from the Cleveland Browns for Jared Verse, a first round pick,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: and a bunch of other stuff, the Hollywood Sign, the
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: four or five Freeway, the Santa monicappeer, and then ten
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: minutes after that, Emily Kaplin of ESPN breaking that one
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: roof Sports and Entertainment, the Kraken and Samantha Halloway are
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: adding Melinda French Gates as an investor with an eye
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: of course toward the Sonics and their return. That one
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Sports and Entertainment will make a bid for the Sonics.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Samantha Hallway has been very open about that to be
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: playing in her arena, Climate Pledge Arena, and now Melinda
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: French Gates is on board on that team as an
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: investor in one roof Sports and the Kraken and presumably
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: soon here the Sonics four nine, four to five one.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: That Tacomadad's text sign. You've been buzzing about that all morning.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: We'll read back your text next. On ninety three point
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: three KJRFMO, we welcome back to the Greg Belt Show
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: with Christopher Kidd Live on ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Happy June to you. All kinds of stuff happening today.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Haven't even gotten too much talking about the Seahawks getting
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: two third round picks. Because Nolan Teasley is now the
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: new general manager of the Minnesota Vikings. The Rooney Rule
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: minority hiring of executives and head coaches means the Seahawks
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: get a third round pick next year, a third round
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: pick in twenty twenty eight.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Seahawks now have.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Twelve picks in next year's draft, which John Schneider, general manager,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: has said is much stronger and deeper than this year's
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: and they are no doubts stocking up. They get four
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: comp picks for losing free agents and then one for
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: losing Nolan Tinsley four nine, four to five one. It's
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: to come it Out's tech sign. You know what the
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: music means. It's time for you to be a part
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: of the show. And a lots to react to on
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: a Monday.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: From the four two five are rooted for the Spurs
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Saturday night like they were a Seattle team.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: What a game? Yeah? I think he wasn't alone or
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: she wasn't alone enough. Probably not.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: I think ninety eight percent of Seattle lights were cheering
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: on the Spurs if they were indeed watching or listening
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: to said game.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Eric from the four two five asked a really interesting question, Hey, Greg,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: do you think it's possible that the Rams and Browns
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: have known this trade was gonna happen and that's why
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: the Rams took Ty Simpson with their first round pick.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Kind of makes you go hmm. Things that make you
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: go hmm. Remember that song from way back. I do
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: think that's possible. Trade this large doesn't just happen overnight,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: and I don't know if it if they knew back
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: in April that they could get Miles Garrett.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: The flip side of that is, if you know you're
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: gonna lose.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: A first round pick or more in trading for Miles Garrett,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: maybe make that first round pick this year really impactful.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not the layaway quarterback. Yeah you want.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Usually when you draft the guy in the first round,
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: he is playing exactly at playing. I'm not saying he
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: needs to be elite, although depending on where your players drafted,
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: there's discussion that needs to be had. But at the
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: same time, you're expecting this kid to come in and
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: play some football that's not happening.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Two things can be true at once. The Rams are
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: going for it and the Rams screwed up by taking
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Ty Simpson, and they said, you know what, how can
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: we fix the screw up. Let's trade for Miles Garrett.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: That'll shit anybody up this season.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: The two five three.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Says the Seahawks should counter the Garrett trade by improving
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: their offensive line, tight ends, and blocking backs.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: I don't know if the tight ends need much improvement.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: I'll be honest, AJ Barner and what's the other gentleman's name,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Osbert those that's a great duel right there. I don't
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: know who you could bring in that would be better,
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: but that duel right there.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: And don't forget Elijah Royo, who didn't play much much.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: He's gonna get more.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: I think they got arguably a top three, top five
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: unit in the league. Maybe I have to go do
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: and look at some other ross.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Oh Okay, I was wrong, but I think they think
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: that too. Yeah.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: I'm not too sure they should go out and make
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: a trade for any tight ends, but you can definitely
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: get better at another areas.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I'd imagine the.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Two fight threes has also improved their quick passing game,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: and that is part of why Brian Fleury is here.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: To get a quick passing game that the forty nine
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: ers and Rams somewhat do too. Hidden in the success
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: the Ram the Seahawks passing game had last year, all
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: the downfield throws was they wasn't the times they were
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: lacking in the short, quick pass game. And that's something
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: that maybe when they play the Rams they need to
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: do a little more of nothing on the bar.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And click passing. That's going to be huge.
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  Speaker 2: But having said all of that, you know, we talked,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: we alluded to this, you know, Mike McDonald's like, okay,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: so what yeah, bring it on, bring it on.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: We do not care exactly from the four two five
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: I was talking about where you mentioned the Sonics returning
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: and it's going to be a while before the Sonics
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: are in the playoffs and even get an opportunity for
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: a championship. And I said, be looking out for that
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: sixteen seventeen year old, fifteen year old that's hooping doing
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: their thing. And from the four towo five, it's going
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: to be Jamal Crawford's son.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be really cool. He's a eighth grader, freshman, he.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Was a freshman last year, who was a sophomore this year.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Each yeah, and he was he was a State Championship champion.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: He had a really good season the Rams for the
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: two six. The Rams are going to be so bad
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: after this year, maybe, like we'll see how it all
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: plays out, maybe two years.
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  Speaker 2: There are a couple texts asking this question, is it
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: possibly a prelude to not only bid for the Sonics,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: but getting Allen on board as well for a bid
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: for the Seahawks. One roof Sports and Entertainment Samantha Halloway
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Melinda French Gates owning the Crack and Sonics and the Seahawks.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: It's interesting to bring that up.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: The NFL used to have a rule predictable preventing cross
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: ownership of NFL team owners couldn't own other franchises in
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: major sports leagues that operated in NFL markets. That was
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: a cross ownership rule that they had until about six
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: seventy eight years. It is a late twenty ten I
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: think it was on twenty eighteen or so that the
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: NFL scrapped that rule and now owners I mean Dan
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Cronkie of the Rams owner owns the Denver Nuggets, the
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Colorado Avalanche, the MLS team in Colorado. He's even in
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: on the Premier Premier League champion Arsenal that just played
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: in the Champions League Finals.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Stan Cronki's in all of that.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Josh Harris, the Commander, Washington, Commander's owner that just paid
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: six billion dollars to set an NFL record for a
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: sale that the Seahawks sales probably gonna eclipse. Josh Harris
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: is also the owner of the Philadelphia seventy six Ers,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: the New Jersey Devils. He's got a stake in Crystal
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Palace in the Premier League, so that has gone away.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: There's less of a precedent of owners owning multiple sports
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: in the same market. All of what I'm talking about.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Robert Craft doesn't, except Robert Craft technically owns the New
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: England Revolution of MLS that plays in the same stadium
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: that the Patriots do. The Arthur Blank, the owner of
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons, owns the Atlanta women's professional soccer team.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: So there are exceptions to that.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: But to have three sports and ones that would be different,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: that would probably test the NFL's willingness for teams to
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: have owners of multiple sports inside the same market.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: But it's not.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: The rules have loosened on that, is my point. So
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: good questions on that, because that is now in play.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Last two from me. This one is first. One is
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: from Marcus out of the two to six. I hated
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Mitch as a player in high school because they were
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: unbeatable unless you.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Were Seattle Prep.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: But I went to a few parties with them and
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: he was a good guy, so I'm happy for him.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: And this is from Jason now the two o six.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: I'm curious if Mitch Johnson jumped Ship to coach the
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: Sonics when they do return.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Ah maybe some of that Melinda French Gates money can
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: be used to lure Mitch Johnson, NBA champion coach of
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: the Spurs to Seattle MM to be.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: The coach of the Sonics. All interesting, That's an interesting one.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: A few people are put drawing the connecting the dots
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: to having the Seahawks now trade.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: For Jared Verse. That would be a haul.
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  Speaker 2: If you're the Browns and you just gave up Miles
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Garrett and then you're gonna trade Jared Verse. Two, you
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: better get you talk about herschel Walker trade. You better
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: get an entire draft of this. The Seahawks have twelve
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: picks in next year's draft. As I said, it would
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: probably take eight or nine of them at this point,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: now that the Browns have traded Miles Garrett to trade
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: a pass rusher Jared Versu in his prime, I'm not
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: sure the Browns. I'm not sure they would do that.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what the Seahawks would. There's a
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: reason why John Schneider has twelve picks in next year's draft.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Put it that way.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: He's not about to give away half the draft class
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: to get Jared Verse. I would not think, but it's
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: interesting to think about. For sure, forty fives pick a
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: back negatively affects two players, positive impact on the.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Bullpen, as in not having to use them in games
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: to win.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Six man rotation negatively impacts all starters and all relievers.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: The Mariners have stretch now of sixteen games and seventeen days.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Coming up, putting a road trip through three cities on
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the East Coast, and that is when it appears they're
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: going to go to a six man rotation instead of
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: this piggybacking, and that would give Bryce Miller and Castillo
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: actual starts instead of the sharing stuff. But to the
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Texter's point, that now disrupts all the four other starters
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: and their normal routines and instead of pitching on every
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: fifth day, they're going to be pitching on every sixth day.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Sounds like a good problem to have as long as
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: it's working. Huh.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: The ra right now of Bryce Miller and Luis Castillo
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: when they piggyback through three turns of this is one
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: point five to seven. You're gonna win a lot of
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: games when you're starting pitching is one point five to seven.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: And that's why it's working. Yes, it's ticking them off.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Yes the communication was bungled, but the results through three iterations,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: the results speak for themselves. In those three wins, the
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Mariners have not used the bullpen one time.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: They have not used reliever in any of those games.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Twenty seven innings pitch between those three guys. Excuse me,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: it was one inning in the White.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Sox game in one of the piggyback games they went
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: to Ferrara before they brought in Castier, who ended at
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: my air on that. But in over three games, by
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: and large, they have given their bullpen three nights off
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: and they've got three.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Wins to show for it that success.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Mariners are two and a half games up heading into
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: their series opener tonight against the New York Mets six
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: point forty first pitch. Emerson Hancock is on the mound
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: trying to increase the Mariners winning streak to seven games.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: If you missed the biggest news of the day, twofold
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Miles Garrett traded from the Cleveland Browns to the Los
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Angeles Rams, the Seahawks chief impediment to getting back to
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. And Melinda French Gates joining the ownership
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: group of One Sports Roof and Entertainment who also owned
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: the Kraken, who are also going to make a bid
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: on the Sonics. So you can connect those dots pretty easily,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: that Melinda French Gates, one of the richest people in
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: the world, that just threw herself behind the bid for
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: the Sonics to come back to Seattle in a couple
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: of years. The NBA to vote on that later this year.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: And Fornas is lurking outside. He has been in touch
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: with Emily Kaplan. We tried to get in touch with
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Emily Kaplin, the ESPN reporter that broke the news on
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Melinda French Gates joining the Samantha Holloway group. Ian's gonna
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: have Emily Kaplan on the show, beturing the twelve and
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: three o'clock because she couldn't come on with us before twelve,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: so she will be on KJRI air talking about this
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: story of Melinda French Gates owning joining the Samantha Hollis
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Halloway one sports Ruth and whatever one sports roof and
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Entertainment is what I'm trying to say. And Fornessa's outside
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: to joining me talk about that. Next to ninety three
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM. We welcome back to the Greg Mell
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Show with Christopher Kidt live here on ninety three point
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: three KJFM.
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  Speaker 1: My very newsy Monday, June.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: First, Yea, and for Nest joining us, you think he
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: was privy to what the breaking news was Kraken Headquarters
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: today when roof Sports and Entertainment, you talk about a
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: whale adding a whale of an investor in al Linda
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: French Gates, and we immediately drew the dot, connected the
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: dots and drew the line to the sonics coming and
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: she being a primary backer of that effort.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I think you're accurate.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: I think you're accurate, and I think it's I mean,
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: just the optics of it. There's so manuch involved. Gates
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: A Gates name right, which for how long has every
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: time there's been a team for sale in any league?
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  Speaker 6: And you know, deep down, if you're a if you're
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  Speaker 6: a league, you want that name associated with probably with
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: your league, including the Seahawks, including the Seahawks. And yet
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: you know, the closest things we ever had was Paul Allen, right,
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: which is great, and Embalmer right with the Clippers, but
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: never anybody with the name Gates. And so when that
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: name gets mentioned, I think there's probably people in the
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: NFL offices, in the MLB office is gone man, the NHL,
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: and probably the NBA are going to get not Bill,
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: which Bill has never shown any interest in sports, which
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: is fine. Melinda French Gates is looking at it from
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: a standpoint. There's so much involved obviously, and being partnered
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: up with Samantha Halloway. I mean, the optics of this
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: greg are pretty overwhelming, are they not? If you're sitting
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: in the headquarters of the NBA offices right now, and
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: if you're Gary Bettman, how much are you smiling right now?
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  Speaker 2: And curious that this is the first team she's ever
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Melinda French Gates has ever invested in. Yeah, she's never
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: owned no sports team. No, no, she calls herself a
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: sports fan but has never invested in an ownership group.
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: Well, and you know, it just sounds like from everything
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: they needed to have, it needed to be the right
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  Speaker 6: move or the right situation, and I think partnering with
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: Samantha Hallway is exactly that. And what you know, what
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: one roof stands for and what Samantha stands for and
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: all those things, and it just it just makes a
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: ton of sense. And you know you mentioned it earlier.
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: They basically owned the building and the primary tenant and
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: now probably a second a second tenant which will be
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: you know, also a primary tenant coming up in a
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: couple of years. And it's a good day. It offsets
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: the other news, which may not be as good if
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: you're a cl sports fan.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Today, well, people are asking on the text line, how
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: are the Rams able to afford? Everyone's asking cry Miles Garrett. Here,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you how. The next three years, Miles Garrett's
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: base salaries are one point three million dollars, one point
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: nine million dollars, just above veteran and then it jumps
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: to thirty million. So the Rams by twenty twenty eight
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: will renegotiate that deal before the thirty million, and they'll
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: gladly take the one point nine as a base salary
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: the next three seasons because the Browns have to eat
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: the salary cap acceleration for trading him. They also redid
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: their Browns this spring. What made this trade happen was
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: the Browns pushed back bonuses that were supposed to be
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: do in March, moved them to the summer, to the
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: end of training camp, which means that is also now
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: off the table. The Rams didn't have to pay bonuses
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: that would have already come due in March, so now
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: if they wanted to, they could renegotiate those bonuses now
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: that they have him as a Barles Garrett as a
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: player on the round.
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: Do you think this also indicates that they may not
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: be in the market to re sign Pooka. Well, maybe
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: it's just a proven year for Puka, just like hey, like,
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: are you on the straight and narrow now and.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: What have you?
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: Could be because that's a risky signing if he goes
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: sideways again.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Right right now, there are people in LA that cover
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: the Rams that tell me that's still on the table,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: that he's going to get his massive new deal and
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: it might exclipse and it's.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Post jass End.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's a talent you don't want to
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: waste and let go away, right, I mean I get
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: that part of it, But yeah.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm curious.
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: I'm just looking at the Jared Verse, defensive rookie of
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: the Year two years ago, right, pro bowler each of
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: his two seasons, right, Like they He's not Miles Garrett.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: You and I both know that. But he's not thirty
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: one years old either, right, he's.
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: In his third year in the league, right, and he
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: has been a dominant I mean, if you're a Seahawks fan,
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: tell me you haven't noticed this son of a gun
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: every game. He is a dominant problem on the defensive line. So, yeah,
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: they get Miles Garrett significant deletion off their roster as well,
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: Like I like, I know, it was like point, Wow,
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: they've just won the Super Bowl. I know what I've
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: been saying that. Well, a big reason they got as
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: close as did the last two years was Jared Verse. Yes,
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: younger and healthier, A large part part of the Seahawks
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: game plans. Offensive game plans, every Ram Seahawks game is
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: about Jared Verse. Yes, they are the Seahawks coaches don't
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: mind him leaving. We talked about this with on draft
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: day on the first round, you and I did, and
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: and Corbin and everyone were all kind of gathered around
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: and when when they took Ty Simpson and Ruben Bain
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: Junior was sitting there and we all we all said
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: the same thing, My god, they could have paired Rubin
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: Bain Junior with Jared Vers and Fisk and like, oh
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: my god, nope. So, I mean, I'm not quite ready
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: to engrave the Lombardi Trophy with their names just yet.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: The other thing is, will Matthew Stafford play an entire
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: season injury free again at age thirty eight?
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah? That he did last year? That he did last year, Right,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: it's a bad back.
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's I mean, just what it does
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: tell you this. We all knew the NFC West was
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: the best division in football because the forty nine ers
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: are getting healthy again as well, and they may add
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: the other Bosa.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how about the duck juxtaposition within the NFC West.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: The Rams just went out and got the NFL Defensive
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Player of the Year, while the Cardinals are in a
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: fight with Jacoby Brissett over a contract.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that's happening.
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: At the same time, Jacoby Brissette thinks he has some
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: it'll leverage. Wasn't he winless last year as a starter?
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: Has he played forty two teams? I'm pretty sure he
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: was winless or maybe had one win. They've got Gardner
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: Minshew there as a bridge guy. Anyway, Jacoby, I'm gonna
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: hay Tips, you have no leverage whatsoever.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: I would you like to be a Cardinals fan in
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: hearing this news what we we're fighting over, Jacobe Brissette
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: while the Rams are getting Miles Garrett stupid?
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: I mean, come on right and and everyone's getting I
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: mean and I mean I always go back McDuffie and Watson.
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: You added two starting corners, yes to your state head
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: which they had to fix that. So they already fixed that.
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: They add Miles Garrett, you lose Jared Verse. You're right
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: with Stafford? Can he stay healthy? Yes, I'm for Seattle's sake,
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: I'm glad they don't see these guys till the end
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: of the year. In all seriousness, yeah, because like you
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: don't want to see Stafford early when he's healthy, That's right,
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: we'll see him later on and we'll see how Miles
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: Garrett does as well.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: So crazy day, you know Mike mcdonald'say, we do not care,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: We do not care, throw not around, we didn't care.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: What do you got today? Kaplin?
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: We're not sure if we got her yet. We're we're
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: working on that. We're also we're checking in on Chris
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: Daniel to join us. Right at the top of the show,
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: we'll talk NBA because I kind of I think the
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: big thing I want to get with Chris back with
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: Chris Daniels. What's the whole process where we at in
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: the process. Chris done a great job with covering this
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: for Como, so well we'll go through this with the
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: NBA on this the anniversary, Big Anniversary seventy nine.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: We'll do that.
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: We've got a molli wap. We even get to this
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: great the marriage one six and al Hey, hey, now,
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: what is the molliwop going to be when they are
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: winning six in a row. It's going to be it's
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: going to be a big chance turning the brand on
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: its head, very awkward covers. It's not going to be good.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Can you smile?
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: No, they'll find something, well, Chris, maybe not. Nathan will
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: he'll find something to be pissed off about. We'll do
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: that at one o'clock today. So yeah, no, no rest
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: for the weary here on June Nurse.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Let's go man.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: We were rolling already and we'll pick up the baton
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: with Anderson Hrs.
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  Speaker 1: Next.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, Christopher Kid, thanks for listening on other news
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  Speaker 2: we can break tomorrow. We'll work on that on ninety
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