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Adam Silver Just Ended The LA Clippers… · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: The NBA investigated the Clippers potential salary cap circumvention for
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  Speaker 1: a year. And we finally found out that it was real.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Pablo told us that a year ago, but
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  Speaker 1: the NBA had to do their due diligence and everything. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And we finally, we finally get to see what the
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  Speaker 1: NBA decided to do. And they, they basically put the
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  Speaker 1: hammer down on the Clippers where I, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what's next for Clippers. I tweeted just five first round picks.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it's going to equate to for us as
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  Speaker 1: NBA fans who are thinking about team building and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. And Clipper fan in my mention says, Is
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  Speaker 1: it okay to switch teams at this point? You know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean? If you're a team, matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: let's read through what Shams Arani reported on this random
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon. Breaking, the NBA has ruled on the LA
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  Speaker 1: Clippers and their salary cap circumvention investigations on Kawhi Leonard
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  Speaker 1: after a year-long probe, stripping a franchise of five first-round picks, five,
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  Speaker 1: issuing a $ 30 million fine to Steve Ballmer, which is
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  Speaker 1: a ton of money, but for Steve Ballmer, that's like
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  Speaker 1: a $ 5 bill. And the suspension for Bomber, Lawrence Frank
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  Speaker 1: and Gillian Zucker, who is like the basketball ops guy
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. Kawhi Leonard will have to pay $ 700, 000
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  Speaker 1: restitution for improper benefits by the Clippers for his uncle
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  Speaker 1: and former business rep, Dennis Robertson. Shout out to Uncle Dennis.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe not shout out to Uncle Dennis. Maybe not
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  Speaker 1: shout out to Uncle Dennis. But this is a name
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  Speaker 1: that you've heard for a decade now about Uncle Dennis
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  Speaker 1: asking for crazy stuff. And the Clippers were the team
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  Speaker 1: that said, I will give it to you. And now
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  Speaker 1: it's going to cost them everything. No contract void is
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  Speaker 1: suspended for Kawhi, so that's good. He'll be a Raptor
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  Speaker 1: next season, it seems. And Uncle Dennis, who was fired
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  Speaker 1: by Leonard in June, is being banned by the NBA
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  Speaker 1: for all business dealings, so we won't be hearing Uncle
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  Speaker 1: Dennis' name maybe ever again when it comes to dealings.
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  Speaker 1: This is the way it's going to look like. Per
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, the Clippers shall forfeit five first-round picks, one
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  Speaker 1: in each of 29, 30, 31, 32, and 33. That is... Everything, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I'm letting you know that is everything. Steve Ballmer is
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  Speaker 1: suspended from all league and team activities for one year
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  Speaker 1: for knowingly seeking to help obtain off-court income opportunities. Gillian
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  Speaker 1: Zucker is suspended one year without pay for being primarily
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  Speaker 1: and directly culpable for everything. Lawrence Frank is being suspended
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  Speaker 1: without pay for six months for his involvement within everything.
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  Speaker 1: And the Clippers organization and personnel are subject to a
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  Speaker 1: compliance and monitoring program overseen by the league offices for
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  Speaker 1: a period of five years. They, they got five first
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  Speaker 1: round picks taken away from them. Their owner can't be
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  Speaker 1: in the arena for a whole year. And all the
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  Speaker 1: other guys that work, it got six months of one year.
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  Speaker 1: And then there are house arrests. The NBA is looking
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  Speaker 1: at every piece of money, every dollar that the Clippers
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  Speaker 1: are going to spend for the next five years is
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  Speaker 1: getting monitored by, by the NBA. Lastly, um, not lastly,
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  Speaker 1: oh my God, because one minute before I hit record,
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  Speaker 1: some more happened, but second to last, I guess, Kawhi
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  Speaker 1: Leonard had this statement through his new agent, Harrison Gaines. Harrison, Harrison,
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  Speaker 1: you actually got a pretty solid job. To be the
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  Speaker 1: agent after the agent that did the fucked up stuff,
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  Speaker 1: it's probably an easy job. You probably got a light load. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: integrity and respect for this game are fundamental to who
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  Speaker 1: I am. I accept full responsibility for lapsing judgment by
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  Speaker 1: people within my inner circle and regret the distraction this
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  Speaker 1: situation has caused for the fans and my family. I
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  Speaker 1: entered into my contract with the Clippers. as well as
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  Speaker 1: the agreement and questioning of faith, fully committed to fulfilling
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  Speaker 1: my obligations with no knowledge of any intent on anyone's
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  Speaker 1: part to circumvent the salary cap. For 15 years, my
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  Speaker 1: priority has been giving everything to my family, the game,
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  Speaker 1: and those I share the court with. As I return
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  Speaker 1: to Toronto, I am focused on what I can control,
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  Speaker 1: closing this chapter and moving forward with a clean slate.
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  Speaker 1: So Kawhi Leonard said, hey, I ain't got nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with this, bro. Uncle... Uncle Dennis was wild.
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  Speaker 2: You feel me?
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  Speaker 1: I did my part. I showed up for them two
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  Speaker 1: meetings that they paid me $ 20 million for. Uncle Dennis
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  Speaker 1: was doing some extra. I had nothing to do with that,
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  Speaker 1: so you can't throw nothing at me. And it feels
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  Speaker 1: like the NBA, under investigation, maybe agrees that Kawhi Leonard
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  Speaker 1: did nothing wrong, and it was Uncle Dennis and the Clippers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is new to me. Let's see exactly what Sean
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  Speaker 1: Sorrento is tweeting here. The statement from the Clippers, we
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  Speaker 1: vehemently reject the NBA's findings, which are a result of
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  Speaker 1: a heavily biased investigation seeking to justify a predetermined narrative
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  Speaker 1: rather than the facts and evidence. Ooh, they spitting back.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, we about to have a fight. Just going
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  Speaker 1: to court, baby. When the league told us privately differs
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  Speaker 1: from what it announced today publicly. Okay. And they have
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  Speaker 1: not held themselves close to the standard Commissioner Silver set
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  Speaker 1: at the start of this investigation to ensure its fairness
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  Speaker 1: and accuracy. For the past year, we cooperated fully and
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  Speaker 1: in good faith. And we will now fight just as
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  Speaker 1: hard to demonstrate our innocence. We intend to vigorously challenge
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  Speaker 1: these findings and penalties through every avenue available to us
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  Speaker 1: and look forward to an ethical and impartial arbitration process. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you could have just guessed that the Clippers
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  Speaker 1: are going to say, no, we didn't do this. We
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  Speaker 1: need another investigation, another investigation, another investigation. Because even if
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  Speaker 1: they did do this, they can't just accept the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the NBA is taking five first-round picks away. Dude,
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  Speaker 1: this is actually insane. And, you know, I've been keeping
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  Speaker 1: up with the story just like everybody else in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA fan because it's been a while since we've had
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  Speaker 1: a cheating scandal. And that's what this is. It's a
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  Speaker 1: cheating scandal within the NBA. And, you know, every article
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  Speaker 1: I read that was outside of Pablo because Pablo was
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  Speaker 1: very important to all of this. This goes unnoticed completely
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  Speaker 1: if Pablo Torre doesn't go under the weeds and under
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  Speaker 1: the hood to find this out, which is kind of
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  Speaker 1: a scary thing. And I hope that that is a
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  Speaker 1: wake-up call for the NBA's offices because the Clippers got caught.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows what else the hell is going on before this, right?
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  Speaker 1: So maybe a wake-up call for them. But Pablo was
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  Speaker 1: one that was bringing out the receipts and receipts. But
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  Speaker 1: everybody else that I was reading that was keeping up
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  Speaker 1: with the story was saying, hey, man, based on what
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing, there may not be a smoking gun, which
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  Speaker 1: is like, you know, the big piece of evidence to
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  Speaker 1: confirm that all of this happened. And because the NBA
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  Speaker 1: did put a heavy smackdown on five first-round picks, it
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  Speaker 1: let us believe that there was a smoking gun that
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  Speaker 1: they eventually found. But the Clippers are saying no. And
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  Speaker 1: of course, they're going to go to this arbitration period.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the first... Part of this, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the team building aspect, doesn't hit until 2029, right?
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  Speaker 1: So in theory, we have potentially two and a half
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  Speaker 1: years for the Clippers to fight this in court or
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  Speaker 1: so on. I don't know if the NBA courts are
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  Speaker 1: the same as the normal judicial courts when they say
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  Speaker 1: innocent without... Innocent? No, no, no. Without a reasonable doubt.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they say. I did take one criminal justice
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  Speaker 1: class for about a couple months. Without a reasonable doubt.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that is the same here. The
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  Speaker 1: Clippers are saying we did nothing wrong and we cooperated.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess time will tell. Let's take a step back, though.
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  Speaker 1: I've said it many times before, and I'll say it again.
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  Speaker 1: If I was in the shoes of Steve Ballmer and
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence Frank all those years back, going into the 2019-2020 season,
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  Speaker 1: I would do exactly what they did. Not the caps
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  Speaker 1: are convincing stuff. I'm not a cheater. But as far
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  Speaker 1: as having Kawhi Leonard come off a year where he
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  Speaker 1: was great, obviously, and led a team to a finals
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  Speaker 1: and hit one of the three best shots in the
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  Speaker 1: history of the sport, and he was the best player
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  Speaker 1: in the world to terminate it for two months. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I want to come to the Clippers under circumstances, and
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  Speaker 1: some of the circumstances got them in this situation. And
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  Speaker 1: then Paul George, who was coming off a top three
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  Speaker 1: MVP season, a DPOY season. Both of those guys want
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  Speaker 1: to come to our team in Los Angeles. They want
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  Speaker 1: to come to Los Angeles, and it's not the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to cost us five first round picks. I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing it. It's going to cost us Shea. I'm doing it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: nobody thought, anybody that thought Shea was going to be
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  Speaker 1: a two-time MVP and one of the greatest players ever
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  Speaker 1: after his rookie season, they're probably lying to you. I
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  Speaker 1: was a big Shea fan. You go watch the archives.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in a million years. And I think he
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  Speaker 1: was going to be the best player in the league
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  Speaker 1: one day, you know, but, you know, putting yourself in
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  Speaker 1: a 2019 mask. Again, that is something that I will
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  Speaker 1: be willing to do because of where those players were.
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  Speaker 1: And it was what Shea and Golinari. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'm forgetting another player. That's right. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: disrespect Golinari because he, that's 2019, 20 Golinari when he
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  Speaker 1: got to, okay, see what that was one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite teams ever, by the way, because Chris Paul, you know,
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  Speaker 1: beat me eyes, whatever. Golinari was amazing. Amazing. Anyway. And
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  Speaker 1: that was a, Clippers team that was just going against
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  Speaker 1: the Warriors. They had one of the biggest comebacks in
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  Speaker 1: playoffs history. But that is something you do, I think,
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  Speaker 1: 99 out of 100 times. It's five first-round picks. Shea Gears, Alexander, Golinari.
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  Speaker 1: But now because of this cap circumvention, the Kawhi Leonard,
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  Speaker 1: Paul George era netted them as the Clippers. One conference
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  Speaker 1: finals appearance. And it's going to cost them 10 first-round picks. 10.
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  Speaker 1: You could argue that this is like, Now, with all
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  Speaker 1: of this encompassed, that was the worst trade in the
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  Speaker 1: history of the sport. Maybe the worst trade in the
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  Speaker 1: history of any sport. I'm not huge into football, but
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  Speaker 1: I know that Deshaun Watson's stuff is crazy, especially after
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  Speaker 1: the money they gave him. But 10 years of draft capital,
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  Speaker 1: a decade of draft capital for a conference finals appearance.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we just had one of the craziest trades
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  Speaker 1: of all time just, what, two years ago with the
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  Speaker 1: Luka Doncic, Anthony Davis. Which one is the worst trade?
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  Speaker 1: You give up generational talent and Luka Dantas for an
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  Speaker 1: aging big fella that you trade away a year later?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you give up a decade worth of draft
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  Speaker 1: picks and a future two-time MVP, maybe more than two-time MVP,
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  Speaker 1: for a conference finals appearance? Y'all had a debate in
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  Speaker 1: the conference section. I damn near want to go to
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  Speaker 1: Clippers trade. It's worse, bro. Y'all know how good Shea is?
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  Speaker 1: You do. You've been watching the NBA. It's just insane times.
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  Speaker 1: And again, like I said, I hope this is a
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  Speaker 1: wake-up call for the NBA because... This league is so precious.
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  Speaker 1: It is not without its flaws. Do not get me wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but it is so precious. And having someone be able
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  Speaker 1: to do this under your nose and it happened to
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  Speaker 1: take an independent reporter to find it out is a
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  Speaker 1: scary thing. And I'm hoping that that encourages the NBA
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  Speaker 1: to look under every transaction, to look under every sponsorship
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  Speaker 1: deal from here on out, because we can't afford for
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  Speaker 1: a team to circumvent the cap and it ends up
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  Speaker 1: working out. For the Clippers, it didn't work out. They
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  Speaker 1: got Kawhi. It was fun. But can you imagine if
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  Speaker 1: next year's champion circumvented the cap? That just changed the
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  Speaker 1: whole integrity of the championship. It changed the whole season. Now, again,
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  Speaker 1: because the Clippers weren't that successful, it sucks. But it
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  Speaker 1: ain't the worst thing of all time. The Clippers are
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  Speaker 1: on house arrest. Every team should just be on house arrest.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be honest. Let's look at every single deal. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to come after me. Never mind. Don't look
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  Speaker 1: at every single deal. Don't look at every single deal.
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  Speaker 1: It's just wow. I think that's the only way I
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  Speaker 1: can describe it. It's just wow. And there is no,
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  Speaker 1: let's be honest, there is no silver lining with this, right?
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  Speaker 1: 10 years of no draft picks, basically. But, hey, Keaton
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  Speaker 1: Wadley got a lot on his shoulders, bro. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not his fault, right? It's not his fault. But if
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to tell me the Clippers are going to
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  Speaker 1: miss 10 years, five more years, right, for draft picks,
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  Speaker 1: luckily the Zubats trade worked out for them when they
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  Speaker 1: got number five. And I don't know. I like Keaton
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Shout out to the guy. He's a really
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  Speaker 1: good kid and I'm rooted for him, definitely. But if
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't work out and you're trying to tell me
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  Speaker 1: we don't have draft picks to get younger, we don't
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  Speaker 1: have draft picks to acquire guys that are, the Clippers,
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  Speaker 1: they're not a folding type of team, but this is
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  Speaker 1: the type of thing that would fold an organization normally.
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  Speaker 1: It would fold an organization. And it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: because it's the NBA and it's always going to be
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  Speaker 1: money here in the NBA, but my goodness. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you do next. I don't know. Again,
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  Speaker 1: that fan, after all this, I tweeted five first-round picks.
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  Speaker 1: This is a lot. And I'm not saying it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot in the sense that it's overkill because it's not.
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  Speaker 1: But it is a lot of total picks. And they asked, Kenny,
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  Speaker 1: is switching teams okay? And listen, nobody should have to
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  Speaker 1: ask someone else could they switch teams, should they switch teams.
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  Speaker 1: This is an internal thing. Me personally, I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: switching teams type of guy. But if you were a
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  Speaker 1: Clippers fan for the last decade or whatever and something
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  Speaker 1: like this happened, where genuinely your team is out of
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  Speaker 1: the hunt for at least the next eight years, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's crazy to reconsider things. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: their own. I'm sorry, OKC has a pick swap rights
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  Speaker 1: in 27. So OKC is going to be very good.
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  Speaker 1: They're probably a one seed. So you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: a 29th overall pick. So maybe you want something there.
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  Speaker 1: And 2028, they don't own their first round pick at all.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's 29, 30, 31, 32, 33. The Clippers
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  Speaker 1: are going to have to try to continue to build
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  Speaker 1: from the middle and just try to be a 41
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  Speaker 1: team every single season. That's the only thing they can
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  Speaker 1: do and hope that a Keaton Wagler or they hit
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  Speaker 1: on restricted free agency in 2030 or, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: Darius Garland, Brandon Ingram, Keaton Wagler, it's just not going
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  Speaker 1: to be. I mean, we love us some Jordan Miller.
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  Speaker 1: We love us some. some Kobe Sanders, but it's just
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  Speaker 1: not going to be enough to, to do any, anything
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA. And now we're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: first round draft pick for five years was 29 pitches
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  Speaker 1: means that there's one, there's one kid that's going to
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  Speaker 1: get drafted 30th, but it's going to be in a
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  Speaker 1: second round and that's going to change his money. So
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers are not only hurting themselves, they're hurting some
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  Speaker 1: kid in 2029 as the 30th overall pick in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm, I'm trolling, but it's also true. And not
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  Speaker 1: that it matters. I'm just saying if there's one guy
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  Speaker 1: that should be vindicated, feel vindicated, um, It's Pablo. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you got to give the credit to Pablo if you're
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  Speaker 1: neutral because he put in all the hours. He put
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  Speaker 1: in all the time. And when things kind of died,
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  Speaker 1: because the original report from Pablo was huge, right? He
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  Speaker 1: was all over the place with this. And it went
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  Speaker 1: viral and everybody's looking at it. And then it died
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  Speaker 1: down because the NBA said, we're going to do our
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  Speaker 1: own piece. And then you see all the reports. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA's struggling to find a smoking gun. You see
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  Speaker 1: on our list. And I remember, I'm just seeing Clippers
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  Speaker 1: fans be like, hey, bro, Pablo been lying for a
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  Speaker 1: whole year. He just hate the Clippers. And now the
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  Speaker 1: NBA said, no, Pablo was right. So he's got to
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  Speaker 1: feel vindicated. I think he won an award for his
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  Speaker 1: reporting around all of this. So Mark Cuban came to
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  Speaker 1: the fence of Steve Ballmer. They said, there's no way
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers did this. Steve Ballmer's too smart of a
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  Speaker 1: guy to get caught doing this. Well, his ass got caught.
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  Speaker 1: So losers in the situation. Clippers fans in general, I'm
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  Speaker 1: so sorry. It's not your fault. It's not your fault.
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  Speaker 1: But you just happened to wear the hat. Steve Ballmer, loser.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's so funny?
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  Speaker 2: Winner.
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  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard. They went through all this trouble for Kawhi
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  Speaker 1: for him to say, fuck y'all, deuces. I'm going back
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  Speaker 1: to the six. And he just gets to go to
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  Speaker 1: Toronto and compete for a championship while the Clippers are
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  Speaker 1: going to spend eight more years of doing nothing. Oh, man, man, man.
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  Speaker 1: What a time in the NBA, bro. Y'all recognize how
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous it is that we are in the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: September and a big new piece of news like this?
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  Speaker 1: This is supposed to be the dead, dead of the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, nah, people are getting in trouble left and right, y'all. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: second report just came out. See, that's what I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: about in the video. There is no appeal slash arbitration
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  Speaker 1: process for the Clippers to pursue with the NBA. It
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  Speaker 1: is not a right that the teams have. The NBPA
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  Speaker 1: could have pursued arbitration, but it accepted the fine as
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  Speaker 1: a punishment. So the Clippers said they're going to fight. Nah,
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  Speaker 1: you can't fight back. You're going to take these hands.
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  Speaker 1: You just got to take the loss. You got to
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  Speaker 1: take the loss. And people are already tweeting me that
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  Speaker 1: I got to rebuild the Clippers under this circumstance. Hey,
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing that shit. I'm sorry. Matter of fact,
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: I will. I feel I will.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: I will. I will.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: I will. Yeah, man. Um, People are comparing it to
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Joe Smith. Joe Smith was another salary cap circumvention story.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: The NBA, I think, took four first-round picks from him initially,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: then gave them two back, and that's with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: And for what it's worth, the Minnesota Timberwolves were poorly
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: ran during that time and after that, too. But it
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: took them a very long time to recover from getting
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: two first-round picks taken away from them. It's five. And
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: based on the way this is feeling, I don't know
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: if they're going to get two first-round picks back like
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwolves did. This is truly, truly the death penalty.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Because I remember when I asked Tyrese Halliburton something about,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: you know, do teams remember some of the– do players
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: remember some of the bad things teams have done? So,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: for example, I think I should use the Clippers as
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: an example. The Clippers did this whole presentation for Blake Griffin.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: He signed that extension. They had him up there with
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: fucking Gandhi and Barack Obama, and it's like Blake Griffin, Gandhi,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Barack Obama, and MLK. You could be this next one, right?
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: And then six months later, they traded him to the
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons. And obviously, you remember that moment where Blake
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Griffin runs right past the team and everything. They're trying
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: to shake his hands. He said, fuck that. He's going
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: to go to the locker room. And I asked Tyrese,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: do players remember that? Would that hurt the Clippers because
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: players remember that the team did him dirty? And Tyrese
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: just said, as long as there's money, there's going to
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: be people willing to go. And I think that's pretty interesting.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: But I wonder if that shifts if there's money involved,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: but there's no future involved. You feel me? So in
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: the hypothetical world where the Clippers in 2030, let's say 2029,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: open up two max spots again. They could do Kawhi Leonard,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Paul George, 2.0. Oh my God, this is going to
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: go crazy. Are players still willing to do that knowing
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: that there's no 30 pick, there's no 31 pick, there's
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: no 32 pick, there's no 33 pick, there's no 35?
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Do they still think about signing there knowing that the
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: avenue for the team to get better outside of signing
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: me is almost none? Do players care about that type
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: of thing? I don't know. But this is truly a
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: death sentence where the next time the Clippers are going
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: to be a competitive championship-level team, I.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Might be in my mid-30s. I'm going to be in
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: my mid-30s. I may not have a head of hair. Oh, no, no,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I'm not wishing that on myself. But I wonder what
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: the response to Kawhi Leonard when he comes back.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Obviously, he's going to play one game in L.A. because
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: he's an Eastern Conference player now. I'm sure he's going
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to get booed, but to what extent– This is just
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: super wild. I feel like there's so many angles that
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I can't think of, but obviously these videos are always
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: super reactionary. Just my first, first initial thoughts to everything.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard gets out. Only thing that happens is that
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: his uncle can't work within the league anymore. I'm sure
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: he doesn't care about that. I'm sure he just doesn't
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: care about that. 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 picks. My goodness.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Tough times. Tough times. Hey, let me know what you
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: think about it all. Adam Silver, put that hammer down.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, let me just get out. I'm just saying.