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Hour 2 - Rocket Launch · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Knock, knock, Who's there? Boom SHACKA Laca is at the door.
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Speaker 1: for listening to this podcast. Pro Bouncy Ball Hour. How
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Speaker 1: do you evaluate the scuttle butt that the Rockets and
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Speaker 1: Kevin Duran are having mutual interest in joining forces? We'll
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Speaker 1: discuss that. Did Joe Dumars take a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a poke at Zion Williamson in his Pelicans opening statement?
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Speaker 1: And does Nico Harrison being forced to meet with the
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Speaker 1: Dallas media change the storyline around the Luca trade. We'll
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Speaker 1: take a look at the latest revelations. We'll get to
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Speaker 1: all of that and more right now here. It is
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Speaker 1: our number two. You can call it a rocket launch
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Speaker 1: turn went in doubt, throw the Boogeyman out or in
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Speaker 1: this case, the slim Reaper. If you have not heard
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Speaker 1: the body is not yet cold in the Valley of
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Speaker 1: the Sun. Maybe missed it. The Sons, who were supposed
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Speaker 1: to be a heavyweight contender, were a total pretender, and
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Speaker 1: now they are expected to open up the bidding. If
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Speaker 1: you would like, Kevin Durant come on down. Yes, several
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Speaker 1: teams already have emerged as early front runners were not
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Speaker 1: even at the quarter pole, but they're leading contenders, including
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Speaker 1: a team that was prominently mentioned in the last twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours. You know what team that is named? That team?
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Speaker 1: All right? You don't know the Houston Rockets. The Houston Rockets.
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Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question for the esteemed panel,
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Speaker 1: how do you evaluate the Rockets? And Kevin Durant said
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Speaker 1: to have mutual interest in joining forces. So I've got boombox,
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Speaker 1: freight train, and paperless and we will combine all of
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Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to empty the bench,
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Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. We're gonna empty our
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Speaker 1: bench out right now, and we are going to say
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Speaker 1: numb I said numb burn all right, We'll try not
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Speaker 1: to hit an iceberg here. So here's the deal. I
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Speaker 1: don't think I'm wrong on this, but I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I just do the Overnight Show. I believe the Rockets
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Speaker 1: have not played a postseason game. Is that correct? Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm told that is correct. So the Rockets have not
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Speaker 1: played a season game. Houston is the number two, number
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Speaker 1: two seeds in the Western Conference. They have a playdate
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Speaker 1: with Jimmy Buckets, Stephen Curry and Golden State this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Despite Houston having home court, the Warriors are the public's
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Speaker 1: picked to click in that series. So until that matchup
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Speaker 1: is decided, Until that matchup is the side and the
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Speaker 1: NBA LIKECTSU to drag these things out. So until that happens,
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Speaker 1: it is the word is the premature. Is the word
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Speaker 1: premature with a capitol pee. That's the word premature. To
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Speaker 1: properly speculate about the next step for Kevin Durant in
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Speaker 1: association with Houston. Now, if the Rockets go on a
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Speaker 1: magic carpet ride and get through Golden State and then
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Speaker 1: get through the next round and advance to the Western
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Speaker 1: Conference Finals, it would not make sense. It would not
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Speaker 1: make sense to bring in an aging Kevin Durant who
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Speaker 1: is a team killer, a team killer. So either way, though,
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Speaker 1: you don't need me to tell you, you don't need
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Speaker 1: me to tell you that you need to get your
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Speaker 1: boombox out and crank up the Sandals the theme from
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Speaker 1: Endless Summer, because it is going to be the summer
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Speaker 1: of Kevin Durant. Expect seven thousand, eight hundred and ninety
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Speaker 1: four different reports from league sources, Kevin Durant had a
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Speaker 1: great Pastrami Sandwich in Manhattan. He'd like to play for
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Speaker 1: the Knicks. Kevin Durant. One time he was in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: The greatest burger he ever had was a Juicy Lucy
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Speaker 1: at the Nook in Saint Paul. So he wants to
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Speaker 1: play for the Timberwolves. Yeah, I'm telling you yeah. In fact,
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Speaker 1: they'll even make stuff up, Like Durant. One time he
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Speaker 1: stopped over in Kansas City and he went to the
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Speaker 1: landing and he had the Ben Maller chicken fingers. So
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Speaker 1: he wants a franchise to relocate to Kansas City and
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Speaker 1: then he can have those all the time. You know,
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Speaker 1: every angle, every single angle, not the usual suspects. And
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Speaker 1: and forget the usual suspect not just the NBA teams.
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Speaker 1: Who knows the Beijing Ducks. Kevin Durant would like to
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Speaker 1: expand his brand in China, So he wants to play
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Speaker 1: for the Beijing Ducks. Or how about this one. Durant.
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Speaker 1: When he was a kid, he growing up in UH
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Speaker 1: in the Baltimore area, I believe he had the uh
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Speaker 1: he had the the the Ant thing, you know that,
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Speaker 1: the the Ant collection. So he wants to play in
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Speaker 1: the G League for the Indiana mad ants. Whatever, whatever works,
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Speaker 1: whatever works, just go with it all right now, Pas
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Speaker 1: two developing story from the Bayou. We go to No Orleans.
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Speaker 1: We go to New Orleans where Joe Dumars. You're old.
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Speaker 1: You remember Joe Dumars as a dominating, quiet assassin for
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Speaker 1: some great Pistons teams back in the the old days,
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Speaker 1: when the players had hair on their chest and actually
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Speaker 1: played in most games. It's a different era now. The
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Speaker 1: players missed as many games as possible. But Joe Dumars,
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Speaker 1: who was hired as the head of basketball ops for
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Speaker 1: the Pelicans, and he has released an opening statement and
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Speaker 1: the Pistons legend from another era. His opening statement about
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Speaker 1: the current state of the Pells roster and what many
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Speaker 1: are pulling out the magnifying glass and examining that may
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Speaker 1: or may not have been a jab at Zion Williamson.
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Speaker 1: Let me give you the quote and then we will
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Speaker 1: parse the words together. I'm gonna give you the quote.
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Speaker 1: I am not Joe Dumars. I want the record to
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Speaker 1: show I am not Joe Dumars. However, I will pretend
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Speaker 1: for the purposes of talk radio to bet Joe Dumars.
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Speaker 1: This is only a drill. This is only a drill quote.
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Speaker 1: There is a lot of talent on the roster. My vision,
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Speaker 1: Dumars stated, is to build a discipline team that is
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Speaker 1: built on toughness, smart decision making and a no excuses mindset.
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Speaker 1: I am proud to have grown up in Louisiana and
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Speaker 1: know how passionate, resilient, and tough we are as a community.
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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. Close quote. So did Joe
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Speaker 1: Dumars in the previous quote take a shot at Zion Williamson?
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Speaker 1: Did he poke Zion Williamson in his Pelicans opening statement?
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Speaker 1: That is the question? What is the answer? So I
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Speaker 1: spent about sixty seconds on a Mallard deliberation and this
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Speaker 1: is as subtle as a freight train. It is as
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Speaker 1: subtle as a French trader. Zion Williamson. What is Zion
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Speaker 1: Williamson known for? What is he known for as an
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Speaker 1: NBA player? He's under discipline, He's not tough, he doesn't
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Speaker 1: make good decisions, and he makes a lot of excuses.
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Speaker 1: He is the opposite of a Joe Dumars type player.
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Speaker 1: Did I get any of that wrong? Did I get
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Speaker 1: any of that wrong? He has been under siege Zion
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Speaker 1: Williamson for a total lack of good judgment when it
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Speaker 1: comes to decisions you make on and off the court,
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Speaker 1: the no excuses, mindset, toughness, all of that. He is
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Speaker 1: the perfect modern ballplayer. And from the sound of it,
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Speaker 1: Joe Dumars is not going to have anyone on his
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Speaker 1: roster because the entire NBA is opposite of what Joe
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Speaker 1: Dumars wants. Zion has missed two hundred and fifty eight
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Speaker 1: games in his New Orleans career. He's played in two
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Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen. We're talking about six seasons. He's missed
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty eight work as side I means
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Speaker 1: in six seasons you talk about meandering. Now, that means
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Speaker 1: using Malormath, that he has missed approximately fifty four percent,
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Speaker 1: little over fifty four percent of his possible work assignments.
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Speaker 1: So rather than just say I'm gonna trade Zion Willimson,
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Speaker 1: you don't have to say that. When Joe Dumars comes
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Speaker 1: out and says I want a team that is built
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Speaker 1: on discipline, toughness, good decision making, no excuses, and you
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Speaker 1: have a guy, Zion Williamson, who is the opposite of
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Speaker 1: all that. Bye Bye no no, Nana no no naa
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Speaker 1: Hey go bye y. Final point follow up follow up
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Speaker 1: Nico no no, Nico no no dateline Dallas, the embattled
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Speaker 1: GM of the mav Recks who did win the playing
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Speaker 1: game on Wednesday night. The Mavericks will play again to
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Speaker 1: try to get in the playoffs ball GM. Nico Harrison. Remember,
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Speaker 1: he held that news conference's second news conference with the
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Speaker 1: media after his decision or the team's decision to say
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Speaker 1: goodbye to Luca Donzig, and the story was he did
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Speaker 1: not want any record of that to get out. Initially,
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Speaker 1: initially there were no cameras and no microphones, and then
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Speaker 1: eventually they allowed some recording, but you couldn't publish it.
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Speaker 1: No cameras allowed, and he was surrounded by hand picked
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Speaker 1: media elites, the Dallas Mavericks protecting the Nico Harrison only
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Speaker 1: bringing in the reporters that will lick his toes. Well,
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Speaker 1: now we are hearing what the old broadcaster Paul Harvey
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Speaker 1: back in the day would say. Is the rest of
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Speaker 1: the story the rest of the story. Is it true
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Speaker 1: that if it was up to Nico Harrison, he would
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Speaker 1: not would not have done that at all? Is it
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Speaker 1: also true that Nik Harrison fought for several weeks and
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Speaker 1: at the behest of his owner, and only because the
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Speaker 1: owner said, you've got to do it that Nico Harrison
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Speaker 1: did the closed door round table, round table conversation, something
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Speaker 1: that was demanded by the owner. Now he was able
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Speaker 1: to push back for several weeks, push it back, push
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Speaker 1: it back now, but eventually he had to do it.
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Speaker 1: So question, does Nico Harrison being forced to meet with
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Speaker 1: the Dallas media elites? Does that change the storyline? So
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Speaker 1: it moves it ever so slightly. You can't see my fingers,
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Speaker 1: but ever so slightly like that a little bit like
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Speaker 1: why would the owner care if Nico Harrison meets with
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Speaker 1: the media. Could it be just spitballing here? Could it
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Speaker 1: be because the owner is getting absolutely charboiled for dealing
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Speaker 1: away Luka Donzik and the owner, this guy, Patrick Dumott,
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Speaker 1: has no basketball knowledge and just allowed Nico Harrison to
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Speaker 1: do whatever he wanted and this is what happened. And
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Speaker 1: therefore therefore the owner's like, dude, you got to get
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Speaker 1: out there. You're my pinata and it's a kid's birthday party.
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Speaker 1: Everyone gets a swing. You're the pinata. Get out there
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Speaker 1: and be the Pinata and hopefully Candy will fall out
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Speaker 1: take some of those hits. So Nico agreed to it.
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Speaker 1: He agreed to it on one condition. It had to
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Speaker 1: be paperless, paperless, no paper trail, no video surveillance. The
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Speaker 1: popular opinion that I keep hearing from people that claim
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Speaker 1: to have insider information is that the reason that Nico
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Speaker 1: Harrison wanted no recording on video of this event is
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Speaker 1: because he knows that the internet is forever, and he
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Speaker 1: was concerned that by him coming out and saying what
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Speaker 1: I praised him for this the other day, you don't apologize,
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Speaker 1: he said. He has no regrets because if it doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter whether Nico Harrison comes out and says, boy, I
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Speaker 1: have that one up, well, that really escalated. It's not
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Speaker 1: going to change any People will think he's a douche
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Speaker 1: and the village idiot. So nothing is going to change that.
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Speaker 1: So you certainly don't walk back on it. However, he
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Speaker 1: did not want the video because it would have lasted forever.
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Speaker 1: And the assumption is Luca's going to play another ten
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Speaker 1: years at least in the NBA and have many all
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Speaker 1: star appearances and good individual moments and all that stuff,
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Speaker 1: and so what are we doing. So there's two possibilities.
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Speaker 1: Either the owner really had nothing to do with it
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Speaker 1: and he just allowed Nico Harrison to destroy the business
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Speaker 1: and he wants Nico to go out there as a pinata.
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Speaker 1: Or the alternative reality is the owner absolutely absolutely pulled
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Speaker 1: this strings or did it via pressure by the NBA
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Speaker 1: Newbie Night, let's say hello to see Jay. Who's up next? Hello, CJ? Welcome?
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Speaker 1: Are you in southern California? Is that correct? CJ?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, that's wright. I man, I'm up up late,
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Speaker 3: leg you know tonight, So I.
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Speaker 4: Look at that.
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Speaker 1: You're up late. Unbelievable on a Newbie Nights. It's great
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Speaker 1: to talk to you, CJ. Now years ago. I've told
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Speaker 1: the story before, but you're in the High Desert and
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Speaker 1: league baseball team, and we went to the that's correct. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was great. They had a nice ballpark. Whatever happened?
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Speaker 1: What's that ballpark? Is it still a baseball stadium or
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Speaker 1: did they tear it down?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 3: I'm still a baseball taum is I think a soccer
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Speaker 3: team is occupying it right now?
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Speaker 4: Oh? Is that right?
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Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah, I raced the mascot Kaboom. I raced the
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Speaker 1: mascot kaboom in a minor league game there years ago.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, what's on your mind? CJ?
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Speaker 3: What's on my mind? I just want to say, God
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Speaker 3: bless you know you and everybody the staff. Excuse me.
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Speaker 3: I'm kind of sick of the whether the whole maul
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Speaker 1: A different Garcia. But but yeah, no, I I I
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Speaker 1: hear you on that. CJ. Absolutely, man, Well, thank you
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Speaker 5: what you're doing and at the best time in the
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Speaker 5: sports calendar. We all know that with the draft coming up,
22:07
Speaker 5: playoffs start, and Mark Madden has just wrapped up, baseball
22:09
Speaker 5: just started.
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Speaker 2: It's beautiful.
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Speaker 5: I just wanted to call it a challenge a little bit.
22:14
Speaker 5: The no story or there's nothing sexy about these playing
22:18
Speaker 5: basketball games. And I'll use just the case. An example
22:22
Speaker 5: as who also've been talking about is Phoenix being in Arizona.
22:26
Speaker 5: They should be called Arizona sink. Arizona Sun's whole state
22:30
Speaker 5: sticks up for them. But ultimately they kind of they
22:33
Speaker 5: kind of lost their momentum with that Bradley Beial trade
22:37
Speaker 5: playing the same position as the book and and that
22:40
Speaker 5: was where that momentum really lost in what we were
22:43
Speaker 5: were going for.
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Speaker 4: So I hope to see what.
22:46
Speaker 5: We can pull together. But what's funny thing about these
22:48
Speaker 5: situations that these players have to go through with these teams.
22:50
Speaker 5: Is these players get these bad reputations for jumping around
22:54
Speaker 5: KD Lebron James Harden, who have you do you know
22:57
Speaker 5: he's never missed the playoffs. I can't believe that that's
22:59
Speaker 5: a who comes to work. So I could say more,
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Speaker 5: but I'll turn it out.
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Speaker 1: All right, Jeff. First of all, I disagree as I've said,
23:10
Speaker 1: the play in is just terrible that people for years
23:15
Speaker 1: complained there were too many teams the gout in the
23:17
Speaker 1: playoffs in the NBA when they just allowed the top
23:19
Speaker 1: eight teams. They already have a play in tournament. The
23:23
Speaker 1: playing tournament's the regular season. That's the playing tournament. They
23:27
Speaker 1: play eighty two games to make the postseason, so you
23:32
Speaker 1: don't need it. It's overkilled and the only reason they're
23:35
Speaker 1: doing it, there's two reasons. They're doing it for television
23:37
Speaker 1: because they need programming and they were able to add this.
23:41
Speaker 1: It's an add on for television, so that's why they
23:44
Speaker 1: have it. And then they also do it just in
23:46
Speaker 1: case one of the sexy teams has a major injury
23:50
Speaker 1: and they want to make sure they can still get
23:52
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and give them a second chance to
23:54
Speaker 1: get in the playoffs because they want to have that
23:56
Speaker 1: team in and so that's why they do it. And
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Speaker 1: there's those those two things. But thank you, thank you
24:04
Speaker 1: Jeff for checking in. And the NBA added this rule
24:09
Speaker 1: that you have to play a certain number of games.
24:11
Speaker 1: I was gonna mention this last night. I think we
24:13
Speaker 1: got distracted by something. So we're gonna do a little
24:17
Speaker 1: malard math here. We're gonna do a round robin and
24:19
Speaker 1: I want you to play as well, and you can
24:21
Speaker 1: call up at eight seven, seven ninety nine on fosketo Bactiel'
24:24
Speaker 1: not very good at math ben. I understand, I understand
24:27
Speaker 1: the ring, but just it's a fun game. So there
24:30
Speaker 1: are thirty teams in the NBA. There are roughly fifteen
24:35
Speaker 1: players on every roster, so that means there are four
24:39
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty players. Thirty teams times fifteen four hundred
24:42
Speaker 1: and fifty. So out of the four hundred and fifty
24:46
Speaker 1: players in the NBA, how many of those players are
24:51
Speaker 1: eligible for post season awards? Now makes fine. They changed
24:59
Speaker 1: this because the the players were so lazy in pro
25:02
Speaker 1: bouncy ball, they care so little about the regular season
25:05
Speaker 1: that they put this sixty five game rule in. And
25:09
Speaker 1: it's the sixty five game rule. To be eligible for
25:13
Speaker 1: postseason awards sixty five, you have to play sixty five
25:18
Speaker 1: out of eighty two, which means you can miss seventeen games.
25:23
Speaker 1: And there's a little wiggle room there. You know, some
25:25
Speaker 1: of you play part of the game. There's a little
25:27
Speaker 1: little bit of a wiggle room there on that. So question,
25:33
Speaker 1: out of the four hundred and fifty how many closest
25:37
Speaker 1: without showcase showdown rules, showcase showdown rules, closest without going
25:42
Speaker 1: over will win? How many NBA players are eligible for
25:48
Speaker 1: the awards meeting the criteria for the sixty five game rule.
25:51
Speaker 1: Let's start out with an NBA insider. She replaced woj
25:55
Speaker 1: when he left, and that would be our friend Lorraina. Well, Ben,
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Speaker 1: I think probably fourteen, Ben, fourteen out of four out
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Speaker 1: of four hundred and fifty fourteen players. Yes, that is
26:15
Speaker 1: a bold. That is a bold. Take Cotton, Okay, what
26:18
Speaker 1: about you, h Cooperloop? What's your guess? He's got a
26:25
Speaker 1: lot of newbies on the line. Oh is that right?
26:28
Speaker 1: Is he not playing our games?
26:29
Speaker 6: He just said, I'm not sure what I'm guessing, but
26:32
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say ten.
26:36
Speaker 1: All right. Wow, Okay, So just for the record if
26:40
Speaker 1: you're just tuning in. The question was, out of four
26:42
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty NBA players, how many meat met the
26:45
Speaker 1: criteria of playing a minimum sixty five games for the
26:51
Speaker 1: first season. So one of my producers said fourteen. The
26:54
Speaker 1: other one said ten. Okay, wow, that's outstanding. Well, it
27:04
Speaker 1: turns out you're both wrong, but you're not actually that
27:08
Speaker 1: far off. Believe it or not, Only eighty four players
27:13
Speaker 1: in the entire NBA played enough games to qualify for
27:17
Speaker 1: the awards, or eighty four out of four hundred and
27:21
Speaker 1: fifty fifteen percent, just fifteen percent of the NBA is
27:25
Speaker 1: eligible for awards like MVP, All NBA All Defensive Player
27:31
Speaker 1: of the Year, the most improved player that is. Is
27:36
Speaker 1: that not a stunning number? That's a stunning number to me,
27:39
Speaker 1: Like I don't usually get stunned by anything. I'm pretty
27:42
Speaker 1: numb to everything, but I'm like, wow, that's what eighty
27:46
Speaker 1: that's eighty four. That's it. Eighty that's the total number,
27:51
Speaker 1: eighty four. And Scottie Barnes is on there. But the
27:55
Speaker 1: the others that are not. Luka Donsik's not eligible, Anthony
27:59
Speaker 1: David Is, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant Kawhi, Leonard Always, Bradley Beal,
28:03
Speaker 1: not that he'd win anything, Jama Rantz and his fake guns,
28:07
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid, Paul George, Jalen Brown. So would that be
28:11
Speaker 1: one fifth of them? Ben? It's eighty four out of
28:15
Speaker 1: four and fifty right, Yeah, so five point three five
28:20
Speaker 1: fifteen percent is.
28:22
Speaker 6: What I had on my one fifth that would be right.
28:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's that's the math on that. So there
28:29
Speaker 1: you go. I'm guessing.
28:33
Speaker 6: Going, I'm guessing that, I'm guessing that that would be
28:36
Speaker 6: that would be twenty percent.
28:41
Speaker 1: She said she wasn't good at math, so that's that's fine.
28:45
Speaker 1: Let's yeah, that's all right, whatever, it's all good. All right.
28:48
Speaker 1: We'll get to the demonic toys story. We'll get to
28:50
Speaker 1: that coming up here in a little bit. But it
28:52
Speaker 1: is a newbie night, all new callers, all the time.
28:55
Speaker 1: And who is next. Let's say hello to the cat catle.
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Speaker 1: She's in Colorado.
29:02
Speaker 5: Hello cat lady, Hello there.
29:08
Speaker 4: For a couple of months and you're pretty funny.
29:10
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you, Kat. And how many cats does
29:13
Speaker 1: the cat lady have? Can we guess how many cats
29:15
Speaker 1: the cat lady has? Can you guess?
29:16
Speaker 4: Yes? Let's get how many every day? Set every day?
29:20
Speaker 1: All right, how many?
29:21
Speaker 6: How many do you feed every day? So we're counting
29:24
Speaker 6: like neighborhood cats that you feed.
29:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot. Okay, there's gonna be a big number.
29:29
Speaker 1: This is going to be a big number. I'm gonna
29:32
Speaker 1: go twelve. I'm gonna go twelve. Lorena, Well my guest
29:41
Speaker 1: was fourteen, so I'm going to go with fourteen. Oh
29:45
Speaker 1: you're boxing the in coople, little go ahead.
29:47
Speaker 6: I think I think you both went over. I'm gonna
29:49
Speaker 6: go ten. That's nothing, So now you really box me in.
29:53
Speaker 6: Now you've completely I have no chance of winning. I
29:55
Speaker 6: have no chance of winning the cat lady game. All right,
29:58
Speaker 6: lock your answers in and here we go. Let's get
30:01
Speaker 6: the big reveal. Here we go, now to the cat
30:02
Speaker 6: lady in Colorado on a newbie night. How many cats
30:06
Speaker 6: does the cat lady fee?
30:07
Speaker 1: Let's cry it out right now? Yeah, over, we all love.
30:17
Speaker 1: I'm still close as though. Yeah, but you went over.
30:19
Speaker 1: You lost. You don't win. You went over.
30:21
Speaker 4: I have a Chilean door cats, and I've seed feral cats,
30:25
Speaker 4: straight cats, and I've had as many as sometimes I've
30:27
Speaker 4: had eleven and I call it the cat Cafe and
30:30
Speaker 4: they come every day for lunch.
30:32
Speaker 1: Okay, have a little cat pacinos, not too fancy.
30:37
Speaker 4: I don't have that much money. They just have a can.
30:41
Speaker 1: This cat that's catty. Well listen, okay, you're giving back.
30:45
Speaker 1: The cats love you. You're the hero for the cat
30:47
Speaker 1: community over there. They can't get it there.
30:49
Speaker 4: And I have a question. All right, Okay, Well I've
30:53
Speaker 4: been wondering this for quite a while and nobody ever
30:55
Speaker 4: mentioned it, so I'm going to bring it up. And
30:58
Speaker 4: that is that Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift went out
31:03
Speaker 4: with Patrick Colemes and his wife Brittany to dinner the
31:06
Speaker 4: night before the Super Bowl. Is there a possibility that
31:10
Speaker 4: the guys drank too much and that's why they lost
31:13
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl?
31:16
Speaker 1: Yes, they got completely schnockered and they were past that
31:20
Speaker 1: has happened that terrible. Yeah, they played like they were sick.
31:29
Speaker 1: Cat lady, But it was like there was a guy,
31:32
Speaker 1: I forget the guy's name, but on the Robins Robins
31:35
Speaker 1: who went to Tijuana and got him. But the guy
31:38
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers. The first Super Bowl, there was
31:40
Speaker 1: a guy I think his name was like McGee or
31:42
Speaker 1: something like that and he he got hammered in l
31:45
Speaker 1: a and was like hungover. It was a big mess.
31:48
Speaker 1: And it does happen, cat lady, But that if it
31:51
Speaker 1: did happen, that's Max McGee. Nice, nice call. Look at that,
31:55
Speaker 1: Max McGhee. Nobody investigated nobody that stop years. Nobody investigates
32:02
Speaker 1: anything anymore. What are you talking about? That doesn't happen? Right,
32:06
Speaker 1: I love you call me more often, cat lady, don't
32:08
Speaker 1: have to wait for newby Night? All right, be good, right,
32:12
Speaker 1: feed those kiddies. All right, there's a cat lady checking out. Unbelievable.
32:18
Speaker 1: We'll push back the demonic doll story because if I
32:21
Speaker 1: do it now, we're going to completely butcher the clock.
32:23
Speaker 1: And I am all about the clock four o'clock, plausably
32:25
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32:28
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32:43
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32:48
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37:15
Speaker 2: This is one big event gets grilled because.
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Speaker 1: Randy Johnson played fifteen plus years Coopolo Ravens GM.
37:23
Speaker 6: Eric DaCosta said that an extension for Derrick Henry was
37:26
Speaker 6: definitely in the off season conversation, but declined to give
37:29
Speaker 6: a timeline for getting the deal done, saying, we have
37:31
Speaker 6: a lot of different balls in the air right now. Ben,
37:35
Speaker 6: do you think the Ravens are hesitant to extend Henry.
37:38
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I've gotten that line when I
37:40
Speaker 1: try to get my contract from this company. We've got
37:43
Speaker 1: a lot going on. That is a way of not
37:45
Speaker 1: answering the question and downshifting, slowing down is what that is. Right,
37:50
Speaker 1: We were not really in a rush to pay this person.
37:53
Speaker 1: It makes sense if you're the Ravens. Derrick Henry was
37:55
Speaker 1: much better than I thought he would be last year.
37:58
Speaker 1: But he is at that point where he's doing a
38:01
Speaker 1: little tap dance right on the rubicon, and so I'd
38:04
Speaker 1: give him more money, but I wouldn't go more than
38:06
Speaker 1: a year or two at most. And I think that's
38:09
Speaker 1: the play here for the Ravens.
38:11
Speaker 6: Next, Jason Tatum has joined Larry Bird is the only
38:15
Speaker 6: Celtics to lead the team in force statistical categories multiple
38:18
Speaker 6: times now. This stat has led many to debate that
38:22
Speaker 6: Tatum is the third best Celtic of all time, behind
38:25
Speaker 6: Bird and Russell.
38:26
Speaker 1: Do you agree with that? I don't. But my problem
38:29
Speaker 1: is I have an issue with players that I've watched now.
38:33
Speaker 1: I always think the players when I was a kid
38:35
Speaker 1: are better and the people now are not pushovers, but
38:39
Speaker 1: they're just not as good because I saw those players
38:42
Speaker 1: through the eyes of a child. So Tatum statistically is
38:46
Speaker 1: right in that conversation, But for me, I can't. I'm
38:50
Speaker 1: not gonna put him there. I can't because I don't
38:52
Speaker 1: think he's that good.
38:53
Speaker 6: Next, Lou Williams was blasted for his prediction on Tuesday that,
38:56
Speaker 6: despite not having Damian Lillard that the Bucks would still
38:58
Speaker 6: beat the Pacers in their opening seat or he's ben
39:00
Speaker 6: Is it that crazy?
39:02
Speaker 1: Well, listen, lose. What Lou's doing is he's got the
39:05
Speaker 1: knee pads on for Doc Rivers. He likes Doc Rivers,
39:08
Speaker 1: and so he's looking out for Doc. That's what that is. Okay, No,
39:12
Speaker 1: the Bucks are going they're losing. Here we go, Pacers,
39:15
Speaker 1: Here we go. Here that Buck seems been contaminated by
39:19
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers. They're done. How did we do pass this edition?
39:22
Speaker 4: I won?
39:23
Speaker 1: Put her on the board.
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Speaker 6: I won.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Gunner, I won, Gunner,