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NBA All Star Weekend Is Back... · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: The twenty twenty sixth in they All Star Weekend was
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Speaker 1: kind of a win. I can't believe I'm saying that now.
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Speaker 1: I'm a little bit late talking to it. I was busy,
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Speaker 1: I had to come back from La YadA, YadA, YadA,
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Speaker 1: but we finally here to talk about it. It was
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Speaker 1: a win, and of course there were some misses in
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Speaker 1: there or whatever, but for the most part, I'm hoping
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Speaker 1: that this is a stepping stone for what's to come.
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Speaker 1: Adam Silver is under a ton of pressure with a
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Speaker 1: lot of different things, from tanking to expansion to the
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Speaker 1: gambling ads to a lot of different things. But the
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Speaker 1: one point that he might have cooked throw was this
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Speaker 1: All Star weekend because it felt like we were reaching
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Speaker 1: a breaking point. The All Star Weekend hadn't been necessarily
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Speaker 1: good collectively, or the game itself had been collected collectively
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Speaker 1: good and so long. But he might have brought it
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Speaker 1: back with just a couple of small tweaks and players
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Speaker 1: that care. That was how we really really asked for,
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Speaker 1: for the players to dive in a little bit, play
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Speaker 1: a little bit defense, get some blocks it they'll take
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Speaker 1: a charge or two, and I don't think we had
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Speaker 1: any charges but we definitely got blocks, we definitely got stops.
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Speaker 1: So I want to talk about NBA All Star Weekend
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Speaker 1: from the perspective of somebody that was boots on the
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Speaker 1: festivities happened, I was there and I had the luxury
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Speaker 1: to talk to a ton of different NBA players, some
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Speaker 1: of them being players that were in the game for
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Speaker 1: Sunday Night and some of them being role players that
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Speaker 1: were there for activations or there for sponsorship deals, YadA YadA, YadA,
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Speaker 1: players that probably would never make an All Star game.
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Speaker 1: And I asked them about two major points and they
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Speaker 1: had an opportunity to the first one was about tanking,
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Speaker 1: and maybe we'll make a video about tanking and what
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Speaker 1: the players think about it down the line. But the
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Speaker 1: second thing I asked him was about this All Star weekend.
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Speaker 1: Just simply put, how can we make the All Star
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Speaker 1: Weekend good again? And I got a couple really interesting responses.
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Speaker 1: For a lot of the role players that are just
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Speaker 1: there for activations and stuff. Is like, it's not really
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Speaker 1: my problem. I'm not really here for All Star Weekend. Sure,
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Speaker 1: I understand that. But Frevin Vliet pose a question to me, right.
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Speaker 1: He asked me who was the interviewer. He turned me
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Speaker 1: to an interview and said, what do the fans even want?
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Speaker 1: And it took me back. It took me a second.
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Speaker 1: I said, I can't speak for all of the fans,
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Speaker 1: but what I want as a guy that cares about
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Speaker 1: the All Star Weekend is some level of resistance defensively
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Speaker 1: and players that lock in and care. I don't need
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Speaker 1: them to go balls to the wall for forty eight minutes.
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Speaker 1: I don't need, you know, injury scares or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: But if we had times where the guys decided, hey,
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Speaker 1: you can't score me, I'm gonna get this stop, then
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Speaker 1: I think we all as NBA fans win. The one
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Speaker 1: point I gave him is in twenty twenty, which was
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Speaker 1: different than any other year because that was a month
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Speaker 1: after Kobe passed, so the emotions were really high. It
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Speaker 1: was the first year of the elam ending. When we
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Speaker 1: got down to the last let's say, four or five
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Speaker 1: minutes of twenty twenty, you saw players really getting their stands.
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Speaker 1: Kyle Larry do three charges in the All Star Game,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So that's what we what
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Speaker 1: we want. We still want the highlight players, we still
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Speaker 1: want the al you've done to the logo threes, the
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Speaker 1: half court threes. But when it gave down to the
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Speaker 1: nitty gritty, can we lock it in a little bit?
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Speaker 1: And I think we actually saw that. I think we
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Speaker 1: saw that. We saw Kay Cunningham get hell of blox
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Speaker 1: and steels, we saw Jay when during out there competer,
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Speaker 1: we saw women ya'ma set the tone and it was
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Speaker 1: just overall a win. I also got a response from
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Speaker 1: a player, and I can't remember who it was, that
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Speaker 1: basically asked me, is the NBA All Star Weekend broken?
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Speaker 1: Or are you just nostalgic? I'm like, oh, that's a
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Speaker 1: pretty interesting question. I think it is broken, by the way,
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Speaker 1: but I also feel like there can be nostalgier in there.
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Speaker 1: Right As a kid fifteen, oh my god, fifteen to
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Speaker 1: twenty years ago, when All Star weekend came around, I
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Speaker 1: was hyped to see, you know, Kobe and Bron and
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Speaker 1: Alan Irison and Kevin Garnet, just some of the players
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Speaker 1: I love growing up, Jessic and Pete. I don't really
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Speaker 1: remember much about the two thousand and six NBA All
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Speaker 1: Star Game. Was it competitive, was it not? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I was truly nostalgic from the talent more than
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Speaker 1: the actual game. Either way, Sunday comes around and Adam
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Speaker 1: Silver is under a ton of pressure as a commissioner.
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Speaker 1: Right now, you know, we're seeing people, I think that
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Speaker 1: early in Adam Silver's career, people who loved him and
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Speaker 1: you know, was really interested in his contrast to David Stern,
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Speaker 1: who was like, you can't do this. Here's the hammer,
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Speaker 1: here's a band, here, here's a suspension, here's this, here's that.
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Speaker 1: I am the the force of it all to Adam
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Speaker 1: Silver being more laid back and trying to be slightly
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Speaker 1: more progressive, and you're thinking about, you know, playing over
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Speaker 1: seas and growing the game that way. And he was
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Speaker 1: really good in that. But recently he's been under a
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Speaker 1: lot of fire from the tanking issues, from the gambling issues,
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Speaker 1: from All Star Weekend from expansion. The list goes on
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Speaker 1: and on and on, and All Star Weekend had got
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Speaker 1: to the point, at least in my mind, where he
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Speaker 1: needed a huge win, and I think he might have
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Speaker 1: got that now. It wasn't without his missus, right, I
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Speaker 1: couldn't tell you a single thing about All Star Weekend
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Speaker 1: Friday Night Rising Stars Celebrity game. I wasn't fair. I
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Speaker 1: out of see a highlight. I didn't see that. I
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Speaker 1: didn't see anything other than somebody saying that Taco Fall
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Speaker 1: got robbed. So I look at the stats, and Taco
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Speaker 1: Fall did have a twenty twenty game. But why the
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Speaker 1: hell is Taco Fall in the game in the first place?
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Taco Fall anyway, So here's
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Speaker 1: here's a tweet. And there were wins within the game
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Speaker 1: and within they All Star Weekend, but one of the
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Speaker 1: losses comes from actually in the arena. This is the
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Speaker 1: tip off of Rise of Stars, the Rising Stars game.
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Speaker 1: How many how many people are in here? Seven? Not
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Speaker 1: count media? Six? Like this is pretty bad. And I
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Speaker 1: made a tweet about these being the arena being quiet
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Speaker 1: and being empty, and Clippers fans took it as a
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Speaker 1: direct hit and I'm just like, bro, this is not
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Speaker 1: about you. It might be in your arena, but it's
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Speaker 1: not about you. It's about the NBA price and now
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Speaker 1: the average consumer. As somebody that was there at All
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Speaker 1: Star Weekend, it felt different to be in the big
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Speaker 1: city because we haven't really been in a bigger city
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Speaker 1: for San Francisco. Is that considered a big city. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. But when we were in Indianapolis, or we
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Speaker 1: were in Utah, we were in Cleveland, all of those
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Speaker 1: somewhat small markets, the city felt like it was revolving
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Speaker 1: around All Star Weekend. I told the story before, but
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Speaker 1: we drove from here in Illinois to Indianapolis for All
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Speaker 1: Star Weekend. What was that twenty twenty three and the
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Speaker 1: media time. When you cross the border from Illinois to Indiana,
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Speaker 1: there was a huge ass sign that says welcome to
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Speaker 1: All Star Weekend. The entire state, the entire city. This
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Speaker 1: what it was about. Everything revolved about All Star Weekend.
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Speaker 1: And I get to cal Point this weekend, I got
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Speaker 1: their Wednesday. I got that very early. I get there.
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Speaker 1: Ain'tsy a poster. I saw a couple of Luca billboards.
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Speaker 1: Was kind of cool. I forget that Luca plays for
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Speaker 1: the Lakers. That's my first time in LA since Luca
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Speaker 1: got traded, by the way, so Luca billboards. But like
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, when I was in Indianapolis, I did
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Speaker 1: a bunch of different shoots and a bunch of different hotels.
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Speaker 1: Every hotel I went into there was a big ass
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Speaker 1: poster or a pole with an NBA player name that
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Speaker 1: said All Star Weekend. Whatever year I was in LA,
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Speaker 1: and I promise you and to feel like All Star Weekend.
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Speaker 1: And that goes to the point that it's just such
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Speaker 1: a big city. There's so many things going on that
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Speaker 1: the average Los Angelin lost. The average person that lives
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, probably Los Angeles probably doesn't give a
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Speaker 1: damn about NBA All Star Weekend. Yo. I was on
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Speaker 1: my way to a meeting during the three point shootout.
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Speaker 1: I'm in an uber watching Damian Little We're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: about Dame win the three point Shootout in on my
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Speaker 1: phone and the meeting was on or right off of
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Speaker 1: Rodeo Drive. If you've been in California, Los Angeles, you
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Speaker 1: know Roadalo Drive is like rich Gucci store. Yeah, yea, yeah.
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Speaker 1: My meeting was right over there, and I looked out.
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Speaker 1: I remember looking out the window doing during the commercial
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Speaker 1: was like, none of these people give a damn about
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Speaker 1: what's going on in the NBA right now. Well, if
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Speaker 1: we were in Indianapolis and Cleveland, everybody cared. So it
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Speaker 1: was just a different feel and the NBA priced out
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Speaker 1: as consumer. I saw another tweet and I'll show this
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Speaker 1: picture again. I saw another tweet that's just to get
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Speaker 1: into the door, don't matter where the nosebleas was six
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Speaker 1: hundred dollars for this game. They didn't sell no tickets
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Speaker 1: and like Kenny, that's just the rising stars. Nobody cares
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Speaker 1: about that. Okay, okay, okay. This is from the same
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Speaker 1: reporter or creator on the actual All Star game. This
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Speaker 1: is three minutes until tip off. By the way, there's
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Speaker 1: nobody there. The wall is still big. Shout out. Shout
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Speaker 1: out to the Clippers fans. I wonder if they had
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Speaker 1: to pay or Steve Vombers just gave them tickets. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. But the rest this is NBA All Star Weekend.
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Speaker 1: You got bron you got chat Holme, Grant, the greatest
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Speaker 1: players in the world are going against each other and
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Speaker 1: nobody is there to see it. And going leading up
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Speaker 1: to the All Star Weekend. They talked about how there
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Speaker 1: were so many influencers the NBA is diving into letting
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Speaker 1: influencers be the direction of the league. We'll see how
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Speaker 1: it ends up going when they look at the numbers
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Speaker 1: and everything. But I'm thinking to myself, because I know
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Speaker 1: some influencers that were there, how many these people actually
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Speaker 1: pay for the tickets versus being influencers that the NBA
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Speaker 1: invited to be there. So a win in the overall
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Speaker 1: game a loss for the consumer in the city, right,
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Speaker 1: And the NBA shifted things where after the Indianapolis All
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Speaker 1: Star Game, Adam Silver said, hell no, we're not doing
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Speaker 1: this again. In order to get NBA All Star Weekend,
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Speaker 1: you gotta have this, you gotta have that, you gotta
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Speaker 1: have international airport, you got to do this. So basically
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Speaker 1: limiting All Star Weekend to I don't know half of
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Speaker 1: the cities, but those smaller markets. Even though the weather
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Speaker 1: was so assd in Indianapolis, Oh my god, the weather
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Speaker 1: was so bad and they only had six ubers for
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Speaker 1: the entire for the entire city least, the city breathed
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Speaker 1: the NBA All Star Game, while some of the bigger
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Speaker 1: cities may not be able to replicate that or simply
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Speaker 1: put the NBA, she's just Lord and tickets, just Lord
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Speaker 1: and ticket prices. I don't know. Anyway, let's go back
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Speaker 1: to the game and we'll work backwards. The game ended
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Speaker 1: up being great, and Stars versus Stripes versus World is
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Speaker 1: pretty interesting. It was really confusing leading up to it.
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Speaker 1: And you want to know the reason why it was
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Speaker 1: confusing for me at least, because they didn't even have
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Speaker 1: the rules right when they announced this three team thing
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Speaker 1: and it was going to be a somewhat of attorney
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Speaker 1: and everything. There were so many question marks about team
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Speaker 1: how many people in Team World gonna be on there,
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Speaker 1: how many American players, what happens if an American player
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Speaker 1: goes down with an injury, and then dude, they replaced
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Speaker 1: with this guy. And even once we got to it,
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Speaker 1: Diannon Fox was announced being home so with two games
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Speaker 1: two to three days before the game, and he was
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Speaker 1: replacing with Yannis who was a World guy. And then
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Speaker 1: Norman Pale got switched from a Stripes team to the
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Speaker 1: World team because his dad it his mom's from the Bahamas.
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Speaker 1: It just became so confused and that even me, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: what the hell is going on, and then we got
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Speaker 1: to the actual game and it was pretty straightforward, so
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Speaker 1: we just kind of overblew that a little bit. But
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Speaker 1: it all starts with Victor Women. Y'allma, this is insane
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Speaker 1: because leading up to the All Star Game, you know,
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Speaker 1: he was asked by somebody and I hate to not
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Speaker 1: give credit, asked about potentially being the face of the league,
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Speaker 1: and he said, supply and demand. He's ready for whatever.
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Speaker 1: And I love that because you know, some of the
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Speaker 1: other potential phase of the league have shied away from
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Speaker 1: Anthony Ever said he didn't want to do it, and
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Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards has all the charisma in the world to
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Speaker 1: potentially be the face of the league one day when
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Speaker 1: min Yama said, I can do that, and he put
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Speaker 1: it on display in this first game. I wonder how
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Speaker 1: different the All Star Game would have been if, instead
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Speaker 1: of it being World versus Whoever, it was the two
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Speaker 1: American teams going against each other. Would it have started
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Speaker 1: off and had that level of competitive competitiveness if Wimby
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Speaker 1: didn't play in that first game, Because Anthony Ever said
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Speaker 1: after the first game where they ended up winning against
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Speaker 1: Team World, that tone was set by Victor weibin Yama, right,
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Speaker 1: So now we got people defending we're going to an overtime,
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Speaker 1: where they also confused. I didn't know what overtime wold
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Speaker 1: looked like. It was just like first person to score
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Speaker 1: five points, you get a mid range jump shot from
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Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards and then a blown coverage by I think
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Speaker 1: Denny Abdia that left Scotty Barnes over and Scotty hit
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Speaker 1: the shot and didn't even know what the hell was at.
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Speaker 1: He didn't even know the rules. He said, we don't
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Speaker 1: need the five points? Was that for game? All? That
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Speaker 1: was the game? So that was Scottie Barnes and then
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Speaker 1: the next three point he took a game later, literally
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Speaker 1: hit all backboard. Shoutout, Scotty Barnes, you get, you get
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Speaker 1: the ying and the yang. You know. So shout out
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Speaker 1: to Victor waven Yam for setting the tone. Even when
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Speaker 1: that blow coverage happened and they end up losing that
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Speaker 1: first game. You saw his emotion and how how upset
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Speaker 1: he was about losing that game and they went onwing
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Speaker 1: to Yoketoni played a little bit of time, so maybe
12:23
Speaker 1: that was one of the reasons they went onwing to
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Speaker 1: No Yanna's but it was it was really really fun.
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Speaker 1: Every game was down to the last possession. Dearne Fox
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Speaker 1: literally hit a game winner and until we got to
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Speaker 1: the last game where the old Man team just ran
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Speaker 1: out of gas. Shout out to Kawhi Leonard. He was
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Speaker 1: absurd and I'm so happy he finally got into the
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Speaker 1: All Star Game. I thought that one of the biggest
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Speaker 1: snubs when they originally came out of the reserves was
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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard. He had been amazing for two and a
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Speaker 1: half months, and yes, the Clippers started off six and
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Speaker 1: twenty one or something crazy like that, but for it
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Speaker 1: to be in his city, and I'm sorry, maybe it's
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Speaker 1: not his city and his arena at the very least,
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Speaker 1: and for him to be absent twenty seven points per
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Speaker 1: game and not make an All Star Game would have
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Speaker 1: been crazy. So I'm so happy he got in as
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Speaker 1: an injury replacement and then showed the city and showed
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Speaker 1: his clip or wall that yeah, he is one of
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Speaker 1: them guys still, so shout out to Kawaii. I think
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Speaker 1: it was like a fifteen straight point streak at one
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Speaker 1: point for Kawhi Leonard, just really really killing the game.
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Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards also just came to play. It was cool
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Speaker 1: to see k Cunningham locke in defensively, and we got steals.
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Speaker 1: We got everything you could have imagined from an All
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Speaker 1: Star game. It just so happened that last game wasn't
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Speaker 1: very competitive. But the three games leading up to a banger, banger, banger,
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Speaker 1: so will win. And I think one of the reasons
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Speaker 1: why those three games or the ended up being bangers
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Speaker 1: is because we had the oh, here's a word, or
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Speaker 1: maybe not finality hmm, I'm gonna say that finality of
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Speaker 1: it being quarter based right the way I think about it,
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Speaker 1: if it continued to be one long, forty eight minute game,
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Speaker 1: we probably let's say we probably at the end of
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Speaker 1: it only get four minutes. That's really competitive, right, minute
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Speaker 1: forty four to forty eight if the game, if the
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Speaker 1: game's closed, that's where you might see some competitive nature.
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Speaker 1: But since every single quarter is its own game, instead
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Speaker 1: of it being just four minutes at the end of
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Speaker 1: the game, hell, it's four minutes at the end of
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Speaker 1: the quarter. So now we got four, we got eight,
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Speaker 1: We got twelve minutes minimum of what feels like a
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Speaker 1: crunch tied basketball. I think that is a win. So
14:21
Speaker 1: I don't know if Stars Versus Strides Versus World was
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Speaker 1: really the things, but instead it being those mini games,
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Speaker 1: and I think that it was. It was great. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: we might be back. Oh man, we might be back.
14:33
Speaker 1: So let's work a little bit backwards. Let's go to
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Speaker 1: Sunday night where we got again working backwards to dunk contests.
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Speaker 1: I was not looking forward to the dunk contest whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: And I had some people in there that I really
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Speaker 1: rock with. Shout our Cardi Briant, shout out to Jays Richardson,
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Speaker 1: who almost died on that court. But I just I
14:49
Speaker 1: wasn't really feeling it before it happened. I did give
14:51
Speaker 1: it a run, right again, I didn't go into the
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Speaker 1: arena Ford. I'm watching on my phone and then Jackson
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Speaker 1: Hayes did that dunk and I made the tweet like,
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Speaker 1: all right, let's postpone this for the next three, for
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Speaker 1: the next three. I can't understand why the dunk contest
15:02
Speaker 1: isn't great anymore? What how many dunks is there new
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Speaker 1: to be done, especially from NBA players. I just I
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Speaker 1: don't I don't know, I don't know. I mean, Cardi
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Speaker 1: Bryant gave us a couple of fire ones like Keishaw
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Speaker 1: Johnson gave us some fire ones, So it wasn't like
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Speaker 1: without entertainment, but it wasn't great either. It wasn't the
15:22
Speaker 1: worst dunk cut test we've seen in recent history, but
15:24
Speaker 1: it also was very, very far from the best. So like,
15:27
Speaker 1: if I had to grate, the dunk contest is probably
15:28
Speaker 1: like a D plus C minus. So it's not they passed,
15:32
Speaker 1: didn't they? They passed, didn't they? It does suck that
15:35
Speaker 1: we got to the final round and it basically didn't
15:36
Speaker 1: matter because you got miss dunks and the time and YadA,
15:39
Speaker 1: YadA YadA. But overall dunk contest was kind of trash.
15:42
Speaker 1: I still don't know what happened with Jalen during in it,
15:44
Speaker 1: because I remember at one point Jalen Durham was supposed
15:46
Speaker 1: to be in it, and then we got to the
15:48
Speaker 1: game and then he wasn't, and I'm like, oh, is
15:50
Speaker 1: he injured? And then he played in the actual also game.
15:52
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I think that if
15:54
Speaker 1: jas Ridson doesn't die on that court and instead makes
15:56
Speaker 1: that dunk, then maybe we having a different conversation, cause
15:58
Speaker 1: that dunk he showed the video afterwards of his practice
16:01
Speaker 1: of the Dark Elite Elite. Uh but yeah, that was
16:06
Speaker 1: kind of bad. Shooting Stars was back new format was weird,
16:10
Speaker 1: I would say, And the only reason it was weird
16:13
Speaker 1: to me because when leading up to it, I read
16:14
Speaker 1: through all the NBA PR so I can like really
16:16
Speaker 1: lock into knowing what the hell I was seeing. And
16:18
Speaker 1: nowhere in that the PR pressers that it said that
16:21
Speaker 1: we were gonna have Drew Ski and other celebrities come
16:24
Speaker 1: out to be a part of it. And they not
16:25
Speaker 1: only were they a part of it like some he
16:27
Speaker 1: he ha ha, they were actually really important to it
16:29
Speaker 1: because if Drewsy's gonna throw some ridiculous passes or someone's
16:32
Speaker 1: gonna make throw some ridiculous passes, that changes the amount
16:35
Speaker 1: of time that you have to hit the shots. So
16:38
Speaker 1: I just I don't know. They were not just he
16:40
Speaker 1: he ha ha. They're for fun. They were literally a
16:42
Speaker 1: part of the team and maybe they could go a
16:44
Speaker 1: good way. I don't know if it did this time round.
16:46
Speaker 1: The real Saturday banger, though, is, of course, the three
16:49
Speaker 1: Point Shootout. The three Point Shootout has always been my
16:52
Speaker 1: favorite All Star weekend festivity. It is so great to
16:55
Speaker 1: see the best shooters in the world compete, and I thought,
16:58
Speaker 1: we gotta get a great group of guys. Obviously know
17:00
Speaker 1: Steph currycus the injury stuff, but other than that, a
17:02
Speaker 1: great group of guys. And it was so important that
17:05
Speaker 1: Damian Liller came back. The man. It's just straight up
17:07
Speaker 1: a warrior. And he's a great ballplayer obviously and objectively
17:11
Speaker 1: one of the maybe not objectively subjectively one of the
17:15
Speaker 1: in my opinion, one of the three greatest shooters to
17:17
Speaker 1: ever exist. So he comes into this game off in Achilles,
17:21
Speaker 1: where he has not played and I think he said
17:23
Speaker 1: ten months is when he tours Achilles, so he has
17:25
Speaker 1: not played basketball in ten months. He comes in and
17:28
Speaker 1: not only does he win it, he like, I'm gonna
17:30
Speaker 1: use the word dominate because Devin Booker had two shots
17:32
Speaker 1: to tire or win, but he looked like the normal
17:35
Speaker 1: version of Damian Lillard, which in most cases is a
17:36
Speaker 1: dominant player. And I just admire that so much. He
17:39
Speaker 1: said he went into the league offs and said, if
17:41
Speaker 1: you need me, I'm here. They said we don't get
17:43
Speaker 1: Steph Curry, so we definitely need you. And he said,
17:45
Speaker 1: bet it's all me. It's up. And it was all
17:48
Speaker 1: him and it was up. Then nothing changed about Damian
17:50
Speaker 1: Liller's jumper, the lift, the every like goosebumps, like no
17:56
Speaker 1: Joe goosebumps, because the man has not played basketball in
17:59
Speaker 1: almost a year competitively, and he said, Hey, I'm going
18:02
Speaker 1: to be one of the three people ever to win
18:03
Speaker 1: three NBA All Star three point shootout competitions. Just really
18:08
Speaker 1: a one of one type of guy. So shout out
18:10
Speaker 1: to dang Dalla. I also want to give a shout
18:12
Speaker 1: out to Devin Booker, who was again one shot away
18:14
Speaker 1: from ty in and two shots away from winning. He
18:16
Speaker 1: just didn't He couldn't hit those last shots. And there's
18:20
Speaker 1: a lot of conversation about Devin Booker the shooter on
18:22
Speaker 1: Twitter because he already has a three point Shootout championship
18:26
Speaker 1: under his belt and he has one of the prettiest
18:29
Speaker 1: jumpers in the history of this sport, not just active
18:32
Speaker 1: in the history of this sport, but you look at
18:34
Speaker 1: the numbers and be like, yeah, you shoots thirty one
18:35
Speaker 1: percent and three, and it just kind of shows you
18:38
Speaker 1: how difficult his shots are in real time when he
18:40
Speaker 1: plays for the Phoenix Suns. And then you go back
18:42
Speaker 1: to some of his best three point shooting years. Hold on,
18:44
Speaker 1: so two years ago. So he's thirty one percent this year,
18:47
Speaker 1: thirty three percent last year, year before that thirty six percent,
18:50
Speaker 1: which you take. But his best three point shooting year
18:53
Speaker 1: seven attempts per game, twenty seven points per game. I
18:57
Speaker 1: don't think it is any surprise that some of the
19:01
Speaker 1: best three point shooting years of Devin Booker's career is
19:04
Speaker 1: when he had a point guard. I'm not even trying
19:07
Speaker 1: to blow smoke up my boy, Chris Paul. May he
19:10
Speaker 1: enjoy retirement, but to have off ball reps where you
19:14
Speaker 1: can literally just catch and shoot goes a very long way.
19:17
Speaker 1: And Devin Booker. I want you to go watch the
19:19
Speaker 1: Devin Booker three pointers that he's taking this season, and
19:21
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, he still should be better than thirty
19:23
Speaker 1: one percent because even like Donovan Mitchell, right, Donvid Mitchell
19:26
Speaker 1: is off the bounce three point shooter, he's shooting. What
19:28
Speaker 1: if I had to guess don Mitchell shooting thirty six
19:30
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent, let me check real quick. He is
19:33
Speaker 1: shooting thirty seven point six percent, so I'm very close
19:36
Speaker 1: and his are off the bounds, So yes, Books should
19:38
Speaker 1: still be better at three point shooting, but I also
19:41
Speaker 1: can understand while he has not been because the level
19:43
Speaker 1: of difpulity of the shots. He's a career thirty five,
19:47
Speaker 1: but he's a career below average three point shooter. Is
19:51
Speaker 1: that nuts to anybody else? I guess thirty five is
19:54
Speaker 1: most as closer to average than below average. But it's
19:57
Speaker 1: really on the mark there. But shout out the book.
19:59
Speaker 1: Literally one of my favorite pla to watch. So when
20:00
Speaker 1: he is an All Star Weekend, I'm up and I'm
20:02
Speaker 1: happy for it. So he missed a layup in the
20:04
Speaker 1: actual game, though, so I can't give him credit there
20:07
Speaker 1: Bee All Star Weekend, in my mind was a dub.
20:10
Speaker 1: I do think there is a couple of wrinkles that
20:12
Speaker 1: we can figure out. Right Dunk contest stuff? How about this?
20:15
Speaker 1: How about this NBA Last thing I'll say before we
20:17
Speaker 1: get that here. If an NBA player tweets a year
20:20
Speaker 1: before about being in the Dunk Contest, find them. If
20:23
Speaker 1: they don't, John Moran, Tom bounce them, y'all, I'll be
20:26
Speaker 1: in the Mac McClung brought it back. He didn't, he
20:28
Speaker 1: wasn't in it. Find him. John's quotes that tweet is said,
20:32
Speaker 1: if he in it. I'm in it. Find him too.
20:35
Speaker 1: Both of those guys are injured right now, by the way,
20:36
Speaker 1: Find both of them, because what are you getting out
20:39
Speaker 1: of hope so far? Find Mac McClung to. How you
20:42
Speaker 1: gonna drop a video of what the dunks you would
20:44
Speaker 1: have done? And they all be bankers, you know what
20:47
Speaker 1: I'm saying. He even came out of quote. People were
20:49
Speaker 1: saying that if I was in it, they weren't gonna
20:50
Speaker 1: do it. But nobody was in it even when you
20:51
Speaker 1: didn't do it. So just get in the damn game.
20:54
Speaker 1: Find everybody. Find Jason Ridge. I'm joking.