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Inside the NBA Signs Off for the Final Time on TNT 🥲 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: The New Yorker was of the T shirt that jet has.
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  Speaker 2: Can why I go, Joe, little little steamboat back then
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  Speaker 2: talk about about jolly, there you go, there you go,
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  Speaker 2: so a boat.
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  Speaker 3: Jolly what at you?
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  Speaker 1: As you know, we come to the end of the
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  Speaker 1: end of the road here with the NBA on TMT
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  Speaker 1: and let's let's just go down the line here and
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  Speaker 1: everybody's got thoughts about the end of this chapter, and
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  Speaker 1: uh Shack can start with you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the youngest here. It's been a great run. It's
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  Speaker 3: been an honor, Chuck. I love you like the older
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  Speaker 3: brother that I never had. And if you say something,
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  Speaker 3: I will whoop your ass one last time on this
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  Speaker 3: show right now. Ernie, you came to my house in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen eighty nine, nineteen ninety one. Big honor signor for
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  Speaker 3: me to be sitting up here with you. Kenny will
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  Speaker 3: y'all embarrassed us in ninety four to ninety five of
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  Speaker 3: you and m keen. You taught me what it was
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  Speaker 3: to be a champion. And we're a family. I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: we're sticking together. And like I said, even though the
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  Speaker 3: name changes, the engine is still the same. And to
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  Speaker 3: the new network, we're coming to We're not coming to
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  Speaker 3: f around, and since it's the list show, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: say it, we're not coming to look around. You kicking
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  Speaker 3: ass were taking names and were taking over. Okay, I
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  Speaker 3: love you guys, I appreciate you guys. But hey, all right, let.
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  Speaker 2: Me see that number one time for the number one
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  Speaker 2: show on TV, and we come over to.
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  Speaker 1: Take over that next network too, Kenny.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tough act of fallow.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead, tough actice up follow But it's been a
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  Speaker 4: sweet obviously, you know, not just because us for a
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  Speaker 4: moving but you know, it's been a history that has
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  Speaker 4: been set by all of the people that have laid
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  Speaker 4: the groundwork behind the scenes, before the scenes, the game crew,
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  Speaker 4: the toss Back crew, Kevin Holland, who rejuvenated the name
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  Speaker 4: the Jet. No one ever called me the Jet until
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  Speaker 4: I got back to TNT. You know Craig Sager, who
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  Speaker 4: I shared an office with, who sat down there with
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  Speaker 4: me one day and said, you know, this could be
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  Speaker 4: a career for you if you take this seriously. First
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  Speaker 4: person ever told me I was good at it. So
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  Speaker 4: I miss him, his family and you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna be We're going to see each other. But
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  Speaker 4: the faces that you're going to miss, that you forget
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  Speaker 4: that they're they're every day of your life. This has
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  Speaker 4: just been a magnificent ride. And as Shaq said, we
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  Speaker 4: ain't coming around.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, listen. Obviously I got lucky and made
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  Speaker 2: one of the best decisions ever. I was obviously going
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  Speaker 2: to go to NBC and a friend of mine, Michael Jackson, says,
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  Speaker 2: come to have done at Turner to make me look good.
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  Speaker 2: And these guys took me out to dinner, and after
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  Speaker 2: five hours I had to call the Great Dick Eversault
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  Speaker 2: and say, hey, man, I'm gonna change my mind. I
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  Speaker 2: want to thank Dick Eversaw for making me think about
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  Speaker 2: doing television, but I want to thank Mark Lazareth who
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  Speaker 2: hired me, David Leaving, my old boss, and Tara August,
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  Speaker 2: my best friend. She's been there for me the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to thank every single person who's been
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  Speaker 2: at Turner with me the last twenty five years. Twenty
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  Speaker 2: five years. Some of these people, some of these people
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  Speaker 2: have had kids. They come see us one day for
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  Speaker 2: they prom they come back when they graduate college, and
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  Speaker 2: now they're bringing newborns in. So if you with people
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  Speaker 2: that long.
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  Speaker 3: They are your family.
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  Speaker 2: And I just want to thank everybody turning for the
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  Speaker 2: last twenty five our years. It's been an honor and
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful and thankful. And also to ESPN, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be an honor and a privilege to work for
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  Speaker 2: you guys. You guys are the number one sports network
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  Speaker 2: in history, and I'm excited for it. You guys got
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  Speaker 2: some tremendous talents over there. I'm looking forward to co
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  Speaker 2: working with those guys. But like I say, man, I
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  Speaker 2: just want to say thank you to the NBA, every
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  Speaker 2: coach I've had, every player I've played with, for giving
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  Speaker 2: me this magnificent life that I've had. I am so
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  Speaker 2: lucky and blessed. I'm lucky and blessed, and I want
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  Speaker 2: to thank T and T. And even though we'll never
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  Speaker 2: say T and T sports again, I want to thank
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  Speaker 2: T and T for giving me a magnificent life.
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  Speaker 4: All of you.
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  Speaker 1: I'll try to keep this brief, take it time. Several
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  Speaker 1: years ago, I wrote a book called Unscripted, and I
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  Speaker 1: asked people to embrace the unscripted, not fear the unscripted.
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  Speaker 1: If I had written the script, the NBA and TNT
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  Speaker 1: would be together forever. It's not going to happen. But
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  Speaker 1: while I was disappointed and I was sad, I was
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  Speaker 1: I was not bitter. We know how business works. Gratitude
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  Speaker 1: is the operative word for me. Grateful that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty nine, I've been with this company. No
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  Speaker 1: matter what you call the company, I'll always be Turner.
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  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful that I've worked with you guys. I'm grateful
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  Speaker 1: for all of the relationships we've built professionally and personally
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  Speaker 1: through the years. You just don't realize that until you
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  Speaker 1: see people here on the road and say, hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is probably going to be it, and you think back
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  Speaker 1: to all the good times you had. So I'm grateful
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  Speaker 1: for that, and also grateful that we have members of
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  Speaker 1: our crew who are going to go work at NBC
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  Speaker 1: or work at Amazon, and you know how they got
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  Speaker 1: those jobs because their resume says NBA on TNT. So
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  Speaker 1: thank you. We have been honored to do this.
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  Speaker 3: We look, we look forward.
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  Speaker 1: Look the four of us, as you've already heard, the
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  Speaker 1: four of us are going to be together.
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  Speaker 3: Our production crew.
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  Speaker 1: Is going to be together. It's going to be that
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  Speaker 1: same bunch. We're still going to be shooting that show
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta. It is just going to air somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: And so the craziness that you've seen, the nonsense and
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  Speaker 1: the foolishness and the top notch basketball analysis, all of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff is going to be on It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be on ESPN or ABC next year, not on TMT.
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  Speaker 1: For that, it's, uh, We're sad, but I'm proud to say,
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  Speaker 1: for the last time, thanks for watching us. It's the
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  Speaker 1: NBA on TMT.
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  Speaker 3: Before we go, guys, it's gonna mind job