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6-24 H2: Tim Reynolds (The AP) Reading Your Texts & Cross Talk · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Is our man, Tim Reynolds. I used to cover the
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  Speaker 1: Associated Press, and I he used to be an AP
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  Speaker 1: colleague of me when he and I were there back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. Well a few days ago, Tim Reynolds
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  Speaker 1: from the NBA writer from the Associated Press joins us
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  Speaker 1: on the Beacon Plumbing hotline. Good morning, sir, good afternoon
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. If you're listening on
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  Speaker 2: the internet. We've got it all covered.
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  Speaker 1: Good thing, Tim. Let me just start by asking you
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  Speaker 1: the context of this. Pat Riley's done this before and
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  Speaker 1: the heat bringing a course Lebron James to South Beach
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  Speaker 1: and then bringing having before that, bring Shaquille O'Neal and
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  Speaker 1: Chris Boston, the Super Team with Dwayne Wade. How does
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  Speaker 1: this Jannis acquisition compare contrast with those? How do you
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  Speaker 1: rate those in significance compared to those previous ones.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's well, first of all, thanks for having me, sir.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just pat them Oh, it's trying to get
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  Speaker 2: a guy who's basically still in still in his prime.
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  Speaker 2: And this goes back to you know they tried and
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  Speaker 2: failed with Juan on Howard. You know, way back in
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  Speaker 2: the day, David Stern had to intervene in that one.
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  Speaker 2: They got Alonso Morning, then Shaquille O'Neal, and then the
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  Speaker 2: Shack one is what led to titles he got. He
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  Speaker 2: came in O four, They won a title in O
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  Speaker 2: six with Dwayne Wade. Without that title, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: Lebron and Chris.
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  Speaker 3: Bosh come to play with Dwayne in twenty ten.
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  Speaker 2: You know, then there was Jimmy Butler, which you know
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  Speaker 2: people here have mixed memories of the Jimmy era, but
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  Speaker 2: there were two finals runs in that time heat fans
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  Speaker 2: didn't enjoy either of them because one they both lost them.
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  Speaker 2: Two the twenty twenty one was in the bubble so
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  Speaker 2: nobody could go. And now this one he really greg
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  Speaker 2: I said, the biggest thing about Giannis coming to Miami
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  Speaker 2: is that Pat needed this one. The fan base here
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  Speaker 2: is spoiled. And I don't say that in a bad way.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not calling them out, I'm not shiding them. It's
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  Speaker 2: they've been to the finals as recently as twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the Knicks hadn't been to a final since
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  Speaker 2: the late nineties before winning this title a couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a while. But Heat fans get their hopes
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  Speaker 2: up every summer, and they they took a swing at
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Durant didn't get them, took a swing at Damian
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  Speaker 2: Lillard didn't get them. Took two previous swings at Yiannis,
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  Speaker 2: never never landed the plane. This time they finally got one.
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  Speaker 2: And I think another summer of Lucy pulling the football
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  Speaker 2: away from Charlie Brown. I think I got that metaphor right.
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  Speaker 2: I think if Heat fans had gone through that again,
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  Speaker 2: it would have been much more grumbling than the Heater
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  Speaker 2: used to. I think it was critical for Pat to
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  Speaker 2: pull this one off. Obviously it helps the team. The
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  Speaker 2: team is right there again, when they get the pieces
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  Speaker 2: around him, they'll be right there. But he needed this
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  Speaker 2: one because this town was getting very very antsy. Rightly
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  Speaker 2: or wrongly, that was the case.
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  Speaker 1: Tim You mentioned the two previous swings that Gianni's from
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee didn't happen. What made it happen? This time? We
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  Speaker 1: see the Hall four players, one of them all start
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  Speaker 1: three first round picks, putting yesterday's thirteenth overall a second
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  Speaker 1: round pick. But why now, as opposed to before? You think?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think, for one, you know there is the
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  Speaker 2: contract that's looming. Milwaukee had a two hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 2: five million dollar decision to make with Jannis me that
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  Speaker 2: was the extension that he would have been eligible for
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  Speaker 2: in October at he stayed in Milwaukee four years, two
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  Speaker 2: seventy five. That means you're basically committing to paying thirty
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  Speaker 2: five thirty six year old, be honest, almost one million
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  Speaker 2: dollars a game, and I'm not sure if that was
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  Speaker 2: tenable for Jimmy Haslam. I don't know if westevens wanted
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  Speaker 2: to go down that road. We all know there's been drama.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he wasn't very happy before Doc Rivers came.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't very happy with Doc Rivers there as it
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  Speaker 2: turned out. I think after thirteen years the relationship had
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  Speaker 2: just run its course. I think he's got nothing but
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  Speaker 2: love for the city, for the fans. But there's a
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  Speaker 2: point as a superstar begins to age, they feel the
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  Speaker 2: pressures of time, and the Bucks know they're not good
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  Speaker 2: enough as currently constructed to contend for a title. So therefore,
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  Speaker 2: why are you going to give him so much of
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  Speaker 2: your resources, so much of your cap if he's.
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  Speaker 3: Not going to be happy because he's not winning enough.
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  Speaker 2: So this is one of those sort of make sense
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  Speaker 2: for both parties, even though it is jarring to think
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  Speaker 2: of Giannis in any other uniform than one that says
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  Speaker 2: bucks across the front. They had to make a decision
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  Speaker 2: on their direction. He knows he's only got a finite
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  Speaker 2: number of years left and he wants more titles. It
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  Speaker 2: had to happen again.
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  Speaker 4: This is the Greg Bill Show, a Christopher Kidd. We
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  Speaker 4: got Tim Reynolds, NBA writer for the Associated Press on
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  Speaker 4: the Beacon pulling hot line. Where Tim, where does Jannis
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  Speaker 4: and Bam pairing rank among the best duels in the NBA?
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  Speaker 4: And do you think that duo alone is is enough
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  Speaker 4: to make Miami a favorite in the Eastern Conference.
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  Speaker 2: I think it depends on what you define as a favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Do I think they're a top four team in the
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  Speaker 2: Eastern Conference even as currently constructed? I think you can
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  Speaker 2: make that argument. Now, they need a lot of shooting
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  Speaker 2: around them. They need shooting, They need another playmaker. Tyler
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  Speaker 2: hero handled the ball a lot for that basketball team.
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  Speaker 2: So you've lost a great shooter in Tyler, a volume
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  Speaker 2: scorer in Tyler, and a ball handler in Tyler. So
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  Speaker 2: you need to address some of that now. Obviously Giannis
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  Speaker 2: is going to pick up the scoring slack, but he's
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  Speaker 2: not a ball handler. He's not exactly a knockdown shooter,
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  Speaker 2: so additions will have to be made. I think if
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  Speaker 2: they make the right additions, yeah, they could compete with
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  Speaker 2: absolutely anybody in the East, including the champion Knicks. As
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  Speaker 2: far as the one two punch, we know it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be very, very good defensively, and even in this
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  Speaker 2: NBA where points are at a premium, everybody's you know,
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  Speaker 2: wild about the three pointer.
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  Speaker 3: That's not a new thing that's gone on for like
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  Speaker 3: a decade.
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  Speaker 2: And even the Heat, you know, pulled the reins off
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  Speaker 2: the offense. I mean they were second in the league
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  Speaker 2: in scoring this year. I mean nobody really thought an
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  Speaker 2: Eric's poster team would ever play.
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  Speaker 3: That fast play at that tempo.
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  Speaker 2: Defense still matters, and the Heat have always done defense
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  Speaker 2: the same way. It is always from the rim out.
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  Speaker 2: Bam is as good a defender in the non Wemby
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  Speaker 2: division as there is in the NBA, and Giannis is
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  Speaker 2: right there with him, so it's an awesome one too
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  Speaker 2: defensive punch. They get along well, they share an agent,
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  Speaker 2: They were in Vegas together last night. Giannis obviously got
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  Speaker 2: the memo that Asia Wilson is in fact part of
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  Speaker 2: the Heat family, so he's there supporting the Aces. Last night,
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  Speaker 2: Bam and Yanna spent time together that marriage is going
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  Speaker 2: to be fine. It's just can they get enough around
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  Speaker 2: them yea to make every to get to ultimately where
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  Speaker 2: they need to go.
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  Speaker 5: Got it?
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  Speaker 4: And we all know that Yanni's left Milwaukee a little
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  Speaker 4: bit because they run out of assets and avenues to
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  Speaker 4: improve around him. And looking at Miami's current situation after
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  Speaker 4: this trade, how much pressure is on pat Riley in
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  Speaker 4: the Heat front office to prove that they can actually
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  Speaker 4: build a better contender around him than you what we
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  Speaker 4: saw with the Bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think Pat's proven a lot. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of pressure from that stamp. I think
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  Speaker 2: the pressure is off the Heat now. Now it's a
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  Speaker 2: question of filling out your roster. When you have Gianni's
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  Speaker 2: and you're spending this kind of money on Giannest, you
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  Speaker 2: know what the goal is? The goal isn't you know?
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  Speaker 2: The Heat aren't going to come out and say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: our goal is be top four in the East, Like, No,
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  Speaker 2: They're they're looking for another banner. You know, pat Riley
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  Speaker 2: has nine rings and evidently the pinky finger, on his
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  Speaker 2: other hand, is getting a little lonely. He wants at ten.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what it's going to be about. I think
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  Speaker 2: the proving was that they could do it one more.
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  Speaker 3: Time, that they could go out and get the absolute star.
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  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, they'll be hardcapped. There will be tough decisions.
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  Speaker 2: They'll have to be very creative. But if there's a
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  Speaker 2: free agent shooter out there that's looking at the culture,
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  Speaker 2: the climate, no tax I can play with Bam, I
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  Speaker 2: can play with Yannis, I can play for Eric Spolstra
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  Speaker 2: in a place that I mean, the heat have been
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  Speaker 2: those seven finals in the last twenty years. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's a proven program. They now have some selling points
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  Speaker 2: Without Yannis. It's hey, come play with Bam and Andrew
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  Speaker 2: Wiggins and Norman Powell and the weather and all those things.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. But with Yannis and all of those things,
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  Speaker 2: now some people who might not have said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'll take a little bit less than I could have
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  Speaker 2: gotten elsewhere and go play in Miami. Those people are
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  Speaker 2: going to shift their thinking again. You would think.
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  Speaker 1: Tim Reynolds is the NBA writer for the Associated Press
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  Speaker 1: romer AP colleague of Mine Cocko's from Miami about the
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  Speaker 1: big Yannis trade. Here on to becon Plumbing Hotline, a
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  Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJFM tim You know you can't
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  Speaker 1: come on a radio show in Seattle without can ask
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  Speaker 1: an expansion question. Where is the expansion process as you
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  Speaker 1: know it? Is there a vote coming by fall? Perhaps?
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  Speaker 1: Will there be any announcement at the Summer League in
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas next month toward expanding the Seattle in Las Vegas?
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  Speaker 1: What's the latest you know or sense about that?
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  Speaker 2: I thought you were going to throw a Mackie Samus
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  Speaker 2: Savitch for question. I didn't know we.
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  Speaker 3: Were going to expansion.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy to me. We're not talking about Mackie.
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  Speaker 1: Acquisition.
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  Speaker 2: We love I do, I would love Mackie, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Adam Silver last night, in his pre draft interview on
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  Speaker 2: ESPN said the quiet part out loud that we've all
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  Speaker 2: been you know that we've all been waiting on it,
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  Speaker 2: and it's been it's been assumed that if it happened,
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  Speaker 2: it's twenty eight to twenty nine, that it's that season
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  Speaker 2: that aligned with the timing that Adam has been saying
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  Speaker 2: now he's been saying this part for a year, that
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  Speaker 2: they're a decision will be made by the end of
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  Speaker 2: this calendar year. It will be discussed at the Board
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  Speaker 2: of Governor's meeting in Vegas in July. I do not
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  Speaker 2: expect any sort of final decision. I'm not even sure
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  Speaker 2: if all the bids will be in yet. Groups now
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  Speaker 2: will start the process, and we saw this with the
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  Speaker 2: Golden Knights ownership a few days ago. Groups now will
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  Speaker 2: start the process of putting out press.
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  Speaker 3: Releases that say.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we're interested in bringing a team here, and we've
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  Speaker 2: got a group together and we're talking to this bank,
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  Speaker 2: and that's wonderful, and it's going to show the interest
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  Speaker 2: and how many people want in on this. But it's
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  Speaker 2: not going to mean anything. There's going to be multiple
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  Speaker 2: legitimate bids from both cities, and we already know that.
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  Speaker 2: We know multiple in this case is going to mean
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  Speaker 2: more than two. I think there's a chance that people
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  Speaker 2: will say that. Groups will say I'd like a team.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care which, I don't care where it is.
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  Speaker 2: I can do this in Seattle, I can do this
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  Speaker 2: in Vega. I think you'll see some of that. That's
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  Speaker 2: like just give me a team and then tell me
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  Speaker 2: where you only to put the arena and we'll get
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  Speaker 2: that done.
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  Speaker 3: Or tell me what I got to do and we'll
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  Speaker 3: get that done.
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  Speaker 2: There's going to be a ton of things for the
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  Speaker 2: league to get through. That's why I think things will
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  Speaker 2: pick up pretty quickly by the fall, because they just
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  Speaker 2: have to go through so many groups. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: have interest in this thing. No decision in July. I
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  Speaker 2: would be shocked if there's any by September that that
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  Speaker 2: border governors meeting in New York in the fall, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't have the date, but it's always in New
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  Speaker 2: York in the fall. That's when we're going to know
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  Speaker 2: more of a timeline of Okay, this is the window,
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  Speaker 2: this is the decision. The one thing that I would
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  Speaker 2: say to that Adam keeps saying it might be no teams,
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  Speaker 2: it might just be one team.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there's any appetite for just one.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be all or nothing. And
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  Speaker 2: I understand why Adams saying it, and he's not lying
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  Speaker 2: when he says it, but I don't think a thirty
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  Speaker 2: one team league is gonna sit well with anybody either.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to stay the way they are, or it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be thirty two with two sixteen team conferences
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  Speaker 2: and you move Minnesota to the east and you make
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  Speaker 2: everything nice and even I think we'll get there. We'll
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  Speaker 2: know a lot more in September. July will be important,
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  Speaker 2: but that's just going to be more talk and I
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  Speaker 2: think starting to thin the herd a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You raise the specter that Adam Spector raised that maybe
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  Speaker 1: there's none and they won't expand at all. How possible
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  Speaker 1: is that still? And is there a grow There was
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  Speaker 1: James Dolan some talk with the Knick's owner was talking
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  Speaker 1: about let's not divide this pie beyond thirty let's keep
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  Speaker 1: all the money for ourselves and the new television rights
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  Speaker 1: media rights deals. Do you think there's still a possibility
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  Speaker 1: that this doesn't happen, They don't expand by any cities.
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  Speaker 2: I do think it's a possibility, but I don't I
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  Speaker 2: don't want that to be alarming, like it's it's and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that because well, anything's possible. That's not
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  Speaker 2: what I mean. I do think there will be some
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  Speaker 2: ownership groups that say, you know what, it's going really
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  Speaker 2: well right now and I'm not particularly interested in selling
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  Speaker 2: this much of the equity that the thirty of us
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  Speaker 2: share to bring in two new groups. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to lose fans in some cases. I mean, look, if
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  Speaker 2: you put a team in Vegas, you put a team
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  Speaker 2: back in Seattle. And I'm not just saying this for
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  Speaker 2: the audience, but where a team belongs, thank you, Seattle
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  Speaker 2: deserves one.
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  Speaker 1: We all know this.
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  Speaker 2: How many teams what would I mean? Portland is going
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  Speaker 2: to inevitably feel like, hey, we're going to lose some
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  Speaker 2: fans out of this deal. Oklahoma City is obviously going
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  Speaker 2: to say, hey, we might lose some fans out of
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  Speaker 2: this deal. There will be some sentiment of you know what,
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  Speaker 2: it's going really good for me. Why do I want
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  Speaker 2: to help out these two places? Why do I want
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  Speaker 2: to give up this much or risk this much? People
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  Speaker 2: are gonna have to make really tough decisions on who
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  Speaker 2: to protected an expansion draft. You're gonna lose players, so
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  Speaker 2: you might lose a little bit of money, you might
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  Speaker 2: lose some fans. You're gonna see other teams selling a
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  Speaker 2: ton of merch, and you're gonna lose player capital. And
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  Speaker 2: this thing too not to mention good coaches might be going.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's a lot there's a lot of reasons why
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  Speaker 2: the existing thirty might not love this very much, and
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  Speaker 2: that's what's going on in the league office. Though. If
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  Speaker 2: the league truly wants expansion, and I believe they do.
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  Speaker 2: I believe Adam Silver wants this, then it's on him
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  Speaker 2: to show why it makes sense for these thirty teams
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  Speaker 2: to say, let's go to two incredible markets. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: back to Seattle where it worked, and let's go to Vegas,
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  Speaker 2: where we know it works because we've had a ten
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  Speaker 2: pole event in Summer league there, they've had NBA Cup.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think NBA Cup Final.
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  Speaker 1: Was going to stay there.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to move around now a bit.
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  Speaker 2: But still Vegas is an epicenter for the NBA in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of ways. We know it can support a
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  Speaker 2: pro franchise. We've seen it now in hockey, in football,
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  Speaker 2: We're going to see it in baseball. It's up to
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  Speaker 2: Adam to sell why this works, and it's a dollars
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  Speaker 2: and cents thing. I do think there's enough owners right now.
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  Speaker 2: If the vote had to be today, guys, just to
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  Speaker 2: underscore how I don't want this to be alarmist. If
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  Speaker 2: a vote had to be today, I think it's Seattle
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  Speaker 2: and Vegas. I think they're both in and I think
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  Speaker 2: they're incomfortable, but there will be owners that are like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tim, I ask, as far as Adam Silver's cell job,
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  Speaker 1: how much does the fact that Melinda Gates has joined
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  Speaker 1: the potential NBA ownership group the one roof sports and entertainment,
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  Speaker 1: Samantha Halloway and the Kraken ownership, who also owned the
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  Speaker 1: building that a new Sonics team would play in. They've
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  Speaker 1: already stated, and I think it was strategic on one
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  Speaker 1: roof sports and entertainment of Samantha Halloway's part, that they're
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  Speaker 1: interested in bidding for the new NBA expansion team in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: To give the NBA owners an Adam Silver, I mean
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  Speaker 1: at Gates name to join the NBA ownership realm. That
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  Speaker 1: should be pretty attractive, shouldn't it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think those Microsoft people tend to do pretty well
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  Speaker 2: when they want to buy a team. I think we
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  Speaker 2: saw that a few years ago a few miles down
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  Speaker 2: the road from you guys. I don't think they needed
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  Speaker 2: to put out something publicly. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: that is right now. I think you need to. I
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  Speaker 2: think putting out the statements that the ownership groups are
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  Speaker 2: doing and will and will continue to do in the
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  Speaker 2: coming weeks and months, I think that's almost to gauge
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  Speaker 2: where's the fan what's the fan interest in this process? Like,
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  Speaker 2: are fans really going to be into this? Do fans
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  Speaker 2: have one more thing that they want to spend money on?
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  Speaker 2: Take it to our expensive guys. We all know this,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: you know, disposable income. Not everybody slush with it. Will
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: fans support it? And I think a lot of these groups,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: maybe not so much in Missus Gates case, but in
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: a lot of cases, I do think a lot of
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: this is dipping a toe in the water. Let's see
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: what happens. Let's see what the interest is. Let's see
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: what the sign up for potential season tickets would be.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Are people willing to send small deposits, Let's really gauge
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: if they're interested. I think it's more about that than
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, anyone with this much money in the bank,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: enough to buy enough to enough to say I own
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: an NBA team, They can get to Adam Silver and
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Mark Tatum and all the decision makers in the league
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: and the other thirty owners and say I want to
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: do this. I mean they're probably at their mahjong games
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: to begin with, you know. I mean they know each
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: other in that world. They know each other. So I
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: don't think they need to put a lot of pressure
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: and say no, I'm involved, let's change things. I think
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: a lot of that is to see what the fan
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: interest really is and what the reaction is in those cities,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Like how committed are fans to saying we're going to
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: be there, We're going to be there for the long haul.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: We've wanted this, thank you for doing this for us.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: We'll do our part and we'll show.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Up for you.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I think it's more that than anything else in a
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: lot of cases.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Tim Renelds, the NBA writer for the Associated Press who's
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: been doing it for a long time at a great
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: elite level. I appreciate you joining us, sir. I'll let
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: you get back to the beach. I'll have to save
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: the Mackie question for you a different time, but it's
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: great to catch up here.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Mack he's really good guys, and when he does the
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Michigan move to score, just all you all lose your mind.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: He can pull that off. And I'm not on the beach,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: by the way, I'm sitting in the parking lot of
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: what used to be called hard Rock Stadium in a
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: ram storm getting ready for Brazil Scotland. The beach. I
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: don't know where the beach is.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Come on falking like a true sports veteran sports writer.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I hear you, sir, Thanks Tim, enjoy the match, appreciate
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: your time, take care. Tim reynelds associated Yeah here and
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I go way back when Dolphins Seahawks in the early
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: two thousand, joining us on the beacon, plumbing high on
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: us that he expects not in July at the Rookie League,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the summer league for rookie players and young players in
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: the NBA, but later at the fall September October time frame,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the fall owners meetings Border governor meetings and the NBA
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: has every year every fall in New York. That's when
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: he expects word on expansion. He said, if a vote
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: had to happen today, it would pass with both Las
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Vegas and Seattle joining it, but that there's a lot
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to get to until then, including some owners who still
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: don't want to divide that pie beyond the thirty teams
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: that already exist don't want to split any more revenues
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: of any more teams. He talks about expansion Draft and
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the teams losing players of the expansion Draft, and prime
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: coaches who may be attracted to come to Seattle. So
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: still's work to do, but he expects it to get done.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: If you missed the Tim Reynolds interview, it just caught
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the end of it. You can hear the whole thing
• 19:49
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• 19:53
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• 19:56
  Speaker 1: later this afternoon at nine three kjar dot com. Fans
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: are walking right past me here at Jimmy's on First Downtown,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: right across the street from Lumenfield, heading into Bosnia, Herzegovina
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: and Cutter. And it's not just fans of those teams.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I see Senegalese jerseys and flags. I see Team Mexico, Spain, Canada,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the United States, a lot of US jerseys down here
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: at Lumenfield for the third of six World Cup matches
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that's about to start in thirty five minutes. In about
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: five minutes, you're gonna hear your part of the show,
• 20:26
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• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Next on ninety three point three KJRFM, Welcome back to
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Greg Real Show Christopher Kidd Live, but Jimmy's on first
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: across the street from Lumenfield where the stadium is filling
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: up for the third of six World Cup matches group
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: stage play between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Cutter. Not quite
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: as many fans outside the stadium as it were for
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the United States in Australia, but still a large crowd expected,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: perhaps in your capacity Winter in that match will play
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the United States in around of thirty two on July
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: first in Santa Clara, California. You know what time it
• 21:07
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• 21:12
  Speaker 5: From the two five three Greg.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: You brought up earlier via Twitter social media that Leonard
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Williams is back in the gym, but he's also deadlifting barefoot,
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: and two five three says, I've been seeing a lot
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: of barefoot lifting in the gym lately.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Apparently it's more efficient and.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's what you're saying about you don't have to
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and dead weight and deadlifting in particular you don't have
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to lift it as far.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: And they follow up with balance and also stability. So yeah,
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: I think I think two five three nails it. Good
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: morning boys from the seven to eight. Any idea where
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: the hell that is?
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Greg? So no, I thought my head, I'll just guess I'll.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Have to double back on that and look it up.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Was wondering if you guys have heard anything new about
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: the Seattle SuperSonics.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Western suburb of Chicago. I just looked it up.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Oh that was quick.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening from Chicago.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: The question about the Sonic sale anything any news? I
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: know you asked Tim about it. We just heard Tim
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Reynolds saying the last segment.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: If you missed it, go to the iHeartRadio app nine
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: through three kjar dot com for the podcast to get it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: But Tim Reynolds, the NBA writer, said that he believes
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: not in the Summer League Board of Governors meetings next
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: month in Las Vegas, but in the September Annual Board
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: of Governors meetings, the fall meetings that the League has
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: every September in New York city is when he believes
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: there will be a decision to announce, the league will
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: announce and Adam Silwell will announce the expansion decision in September.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: He says that if the vote was today, it would
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: be done. Las Vegas and Seattle would both be in
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and the play would begin in a twenty twenty eight
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: twenty nine season, he said. Tim Reynolds, the NBA writer
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: for the Associated Press, also said on our air about
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: ten minutes ago, there is a block still of owners
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: in the NBA who do not want to split the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: pipe on the thirty teams currently in the league with
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the new multi billion dollar media rights deals that the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: league has recently signed, and that there are some owners
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: who don't want to go to thirty two teams for
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: diluting that revenue. Tim Reynolds also said there's the thought
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: of teams don't want to lose players to an expansion
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: draft with two teams coming in at the same time.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: He mentioned Adam silver yesterday in as pre draft press conference,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: mentioning the possibility of one team instead of two, possibility
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: of no teams at all, and the expansion of and
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Tim Reynolds said, I'm not to be an alarmist for that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: He thinks that's the commissioner just covering all his bases.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. Tim Reynolds said for the
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: league to only expand by one team, to have a
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: thirty one team league with uneven numbers of player teams
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and conferences for travel and scheduling and other purposes. And
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: he also thinks, as he again he underlined, he thinks
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: it is going to get done, and he thinks it's
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: going to happen in September at the Board of Governor's
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: meetings in New York, that the league will announce it.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: He said. Adam Silver wants to get it done. Now,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: he's got to convince the owners to do it.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Wow, all right from the two five to three.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Speaking of the Mariners beer garden earlier in the show,
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: I had a little mini rant about the beer garden. AnyWho,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: they've basically done the same thing in the north end
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: zone at the Seahawks games under the Hawks nest. As
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: a season ticket holder that now has to navigate that
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: down to my seats is rather annoying, especially now people
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: watch the game from the rail at fifty percent of
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: the cost that we pay.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: There is a platform there. In fact, Q thirteen Fox
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: thirteen in Seattle has been broadcasting their postgame shows from
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: that perch that's just to the left or right of
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the Hawks nets. There's a gap there in the open
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: side of the downtown side of the stadium. One thing
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: you will notice, and I think if you look closely
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: at the World Cup match coverage, you will see, especially postgame,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: when the fans are no longer sitting in those seats
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: on the north side instead of the Remember the old
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Hawks nests used to be the metal bleachers retained from
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the Kingdome that used to be almost in the exact
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: spot that the north end zone is Womenfield. Remember the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Kingdome was basically a north end zone in the north
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: half of the north parking lot. That north parking lot
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of the current stadium used to be double that size,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and then the Kingdom was right where this current lumenfield is. Well,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: those metal bleachers that came from the Kingdom that was
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the Hawk's nest in Womenfield are now seatbacks. They are chairs,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: just like most of the rest of the stadium, and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: they are painted in such a way that when no
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: one's sitting on there. Here was the Seahawks logo design,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: so there's a completely redifferent look to those seats. And
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I would guess, and I've heard anecdotally from Sea Hawk
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: season ticket holders, the prices for those seats have then
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: gone up because they're no longer metal benches, but they're
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: seatbacks in the north end zone. So we'll see about
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: what the fan experiences with new seats in the north
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: end of the Cock's Nest, the downtown side of the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: King Street Station side of the stadium.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: I think you have to ask the mayor of this
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Greg and this is from the two o six, what
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: is Ian going to be paying more attention to his show?
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Orzel in Canada up in Vancouver.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: The Canadian Ian forness, Yes, former soccer guy. Remember he
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: was a goalkeeper at Oday High School. Chris is school
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the soccer guy, so he's a soccer dude. Yes, Switzerland
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: and Canada are playing in Vancouver at BC Place at
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the same time Cutter and Bosnia Herzgovina kicking off here
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: in Seattle, with Canada needing that win to advance to
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the round of thirty two, which is the point of
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the texture there. I'll have one eye, I'm sure maybe
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: an eye and a half on the Canada's way. Every
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: time he comes into the studio at the end of
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: my show, at the beginning of his, he flips the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: TV on. There's a TV straight in front of me
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: in the studio back at Elliott Bay, and I turn
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: it off every time I come in because it's just distracting.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I'd rather talk to you the listener, and talk to Chris,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: and I don't need a TV in front of me.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: And then as soon as I come in and puts
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: it on to better whether there's a game on or not.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: So he will absolutely have the Canada Switzerland game on
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: his television as he joins us in the next fifteen
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: to twenty minutes.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: The last one for me is that the mayor on
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: de I'm mainly discouraged. I'm mainly discouraged by the NBA
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: because they just do isolation in back end plays. I'd
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: rather watch college where they run offenses and get called
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: for traveling in fouls.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Did I text? That? Was that from me?
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: It doesn't say Greg Bell, you've heard me say that.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: What do you take Chris in terms? I think it's
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: just the game has just it's just different. I'm sure
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: back in the thirties people are like, I don't want
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: to see players dunking, And that's just how the game's
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: gonna grow. People are gonna do things that are they
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: travels like they're using their pivot foot.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: It's it's become crazy.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: You're seeing the Euro expand the game is just gonna
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: continue to evolve. Thirty years from now, I could be
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: like the NBA sucks because I don't know what they're
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: gonna be doing. Thirty years from now, I will be
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: very old and cranky, so I just have to wait
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: and see. But so far, it's just athletic. Athleticism continues
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: to get better and better. You got guys like Wimby
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: pushing the meter in terms of what you can do.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, my goodness, someone would have told you back
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: in nineteen ninety two. Year, Yeah, there's gonna be a
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: seven three guy coming in with a handle, ink and
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: shoot and get to the basket. You'd laugh and say
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: that's an alien.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: They don't exist. Moving on, the eurostep has become the eurostep,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the Asia step, the South America, North America Antarctica step
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: in the NBA. I mean, dude's ticking like nine steps
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: before the year shooter. Get rid of the ball real quick.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Jim on the text line from the four tow five says, Yep,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the Hawk's nest heats went up twelve hundred bucks this year.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Win a Super Bowl, paint the seats, put seatbacks in
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: twelve hundred bucks. Yep. Here you there's a complain of
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: season ticket on rent. Your team just won the Super Bowl.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I guess that's part of the price of winning a
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl too. Yep, thanks for that, Jim, appreciate the update.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I'd heard that anecdotally from a couple other people as well.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Up next, the mayor Maple Valley Ian fornasill join us
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: tell us what he's got cooking beside watching Canada and
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Switzerland with one eye, starting at noon on his show
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: from twelve until three. I'm at Jimmy's on first right
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: across the street from Leominfield, where bosni hears go to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Cutter about the kickoff in the World Cup ninety three
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: point three kJ R of them, welcome back to the show.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Good luck to Brennan sores Be, trying to prove he's
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: subject to a CBA in a league he's not yet
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: a player for doesn't apply to him. Craig Bell, Christopher
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Kidd live from Jimmy's on First I'm right across the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: street from Loomenfield. World Cup is back on today at noon,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: ten minutes away or so from Cutter and Bosne Hersgovina
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: back at the studio at Late Based Studios, Christopher Kidd
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: and I for ness.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: Okay, so it's Cutter. We're going Cutter. I've heard of Cutter, Buddy,
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: I've heard, I've I've never heard a country mispronounced, honestly mispronounced,
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: because it feels like there's multiple pronunciations. Yes, Cutter and
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: Katar right on the two you here most often, and
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: I swear on the last their last game, I heard
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: both during the broadcast.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I think I think I've said both today.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: Yay, So we're gonna go with Cutter.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I walked in with people along First Avenue. Okay, appeared
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: to be rooting for for Cutter, who said Cutter Okay.
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: No, I doesn't mean they're from there, though, I.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Guess that doesn't It could it could be from I
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: By the gondo A day with Chris Kidd, who knows, man,
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: that's your job, that's your job. When you get over
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: there today, find out and text me how do you
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: pronounce the damn name of the country.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: That might be the story I write for the News
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Tribute and get it to the bottom of that.
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: To the bottom of that.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: The text line says, you're gonna have one eye on
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Canada's Switzerland.
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: I've got that on TV.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I knew you already would I the other game.
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: I'll check at two o'clock. We got Andrews and Jackson
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: coming in it too, to do a little uh because
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: by then the game should be close to being over
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: and maybe we'll have a better idea what's going to
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: happen with the US and in the round of thirty two.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: So I'll let those guys tell me that.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, Canada, they're playing in BC again,
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: right in Vancouver. The atmosphere is the only atmosphere better
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: than the World Cup right now than that is in Seattle. Yes, period, Right,
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: So I want to watch that. I want to get
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: into that.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: The winner, as mas Vita Marrera said to us at
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the top of the show, the winner of the Cutter
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Qatar Growth, Cutter Bosnia Herzegovina match will play the United
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: States in the round of thirty two, right, But then
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: if it ends in a draw. Then it could be
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Senegal or a host of others. We want it.
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: We want a win. Yes, I think is what we
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: want because I think that they're the winner of this
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: game coming up at Lumen sorry Seattle whatever, at Luminfield.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: The winner of that game is the lesser of the
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: evils in the round of thirty two, like they would
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: be the lesser opponent than what they could potentially see.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I believe, Yes, I don't like it was dangerous speed, Yes,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: stain the way they play for sure.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's what we want. We want that, so
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: let's get that.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I saw a man. Mike Benton posted some comments from
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Bobby m McMahon Yeah, yeah, and one of them being interesting,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: saying that he talked extensively with Lane Lambert and the
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: GM Jason Boto about the direction of the club and
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: how committed to winning and how soon they're going to
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: be win. How important that was the fact that he resigned,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: said he must have liked what he heard. What'd you
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: take from that in particular, anything you might have heard
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: that McMahon.
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: Said, Yeah, all the above. He's coming on with us
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: at one today, so we'll see. I'll tell you what
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: I like about Bobby is it. First, he's really well spoken.
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  Speaker 6: I knew that we had him on from the thirty
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  Speaker 6: two at the end of the year last year, and
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: really well spoken, good dude, and has a lot to say,
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  Speaker 6: very in depth in terms of how he's looking at
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  Speaker 6: the organization. Is what he said in the media scrum,
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: like he likes what they're doing, the commitment and all
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: these things, and so I'll ask him about all those things. So, yeah,
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: I a little birdie told me he also met with
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: the owner directly, which.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: How unusual is that for the kracking.
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: Well, I think for any organization to be honest with you, Greg,
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: I don't think. I think it's now and there's it,
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: you know. And I'll see if that's true with him
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: and if so. There's that fine line with owners, like
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: you want them to if you're a player, you probably
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: want them to be engaged and you want them to
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: care about, you know, all those things right at the
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: same time, you don't want them meddling, like all right,
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: there's that little fine line between how much is too
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: much with an owner involved with the team itself, players,
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: personnel decisions, all those things. But at the same time,
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: if you're gonna sign a big free agent contract. You
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: probably want them, you know, involved at some point. So
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: we'll see what he says about that at one o'clock.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: I you know, you look around sports and there's owners.
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: Well hell, I mean our former Sonic owner wanted to
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: be buddies with all the players and then he wasn't.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: Then he sold the team right in with Howie Howie Schultz.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: So there's that. Fine lines we'll see I Bobby's, Bobby's
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: that's a big get. Yesterday was an interesting day for
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: the Kraken for sure, with the the with the audit
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: stuff and all that that came out and people mad
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: at the world, and you know that's fine. I mean,
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: people will be mad if they resign McMahon. There's people
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: to be mad if they didn't resign McMahon. There's people
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: I saw one thing, Greg, this is the greatest thing ever.
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: They need to get more score, Like they like, go
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: like draft a guy like someone referenced, like you know,
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: like you got to find a high level guy at
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: badar or or McDavid. It's like, guys, we start talking
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: about that, they're all number one overall, right, Like God,
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: give your head a shake. There are some really stupid
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: people out there there really are, like they're really honestly,
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: they're really a dumb people out there people too, but
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: there's some dump The smart people don't jump on social media.
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: The dumb people do. And then some of them actually
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: have blogs, you know, and and Lockey blogg is fear
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: sound of hockey. You guys are exemple. We love you guys,
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: John Barr and Darren Brown, the rest of you. You
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: got some problems, man, you got some deep seated problems,
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: like if you don't like the sport of the team,
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: don't cover them. I just I'll just say that. Sorry
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: about that. I had to go off on a tangent.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: By the way across the street from me. Right now,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: they're showing on the television broadcast the scene inside Loomenfield
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: looks just like the United States and Australia the sun.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: The stadium is impacked, packed, It's absolutely packed. I don't
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: see any empty seats. So those of you might have thought,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: oh this will be the match.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: That was okay, That's what I was wondering, Greg, Is
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: it is it if today would be the day? Right
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: that it is packed? What about this Friday? What what's
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: Friday going to look like actually a match. Yeah, that's
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: a mass basically a playoff match.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my son and I are going to be there.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: And I just saw about a half hour ago one
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: of the last remaining ticket sites had one hundred and
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: forty one hundred and eighty four dollars to get into
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: this Bosnia Cutter match. Wow. So there may be a
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: lot of local people have been waiting to watch the
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: World Cup match. You might be in there.
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: I'm watching Canada the anthems for Canada and Switzerland right
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: now and in BC place to say it's a sea
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: of red is a massive understatement. And the crazy thing
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: is it's like like Switzerland is like they're they're they're
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: also red, right, Canada is wearing white and the seas
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: are red and the seats are red. That it's just
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: it is insane there. Oh my god, does it look
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: crazy there? So yeah, good day for a good day
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: for soccer. Coming orry Bobby McMahon at one Yeah, Bobby BC. Yeah,
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: Bobby mcman at one o'clock today, two o'clock, Andrews and
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: Jackson furious FIFA felts will be rolling in here. We'll
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: get the latest on I think it's Fox has done
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: a good job really for the most part, but they
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: have done I think a disservice to the casual fan
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: explaining who's in, who's out, what games matter, why they matter,
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: or set you know. I think they've done a really
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: bad job with that. I think there's a little catering
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: too much, especially with all of the people who this
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: is me hang on, be an ugly American warning when
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: you have hosts and so forth, that you know English,
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: it's a second language. It's hard and it's so I
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: want explanations as to who why did you just mentioned
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: it Friday's elimination game. I want to know what these
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: games mean, like what they mean, and I think the
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: casual fan does too, So those guys will explain that,
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: especially as it relates to the US. At two o'clock,
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: we'll get in a little NBA expansion talk in the
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: New Hour. As was I heard that. Yeah, so we'll
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: go a little sound for Adam Silver. We're gonna play
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: so it's new, So we'll get to that coming up
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: in NBA Expansion New stuff.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Alert Saddle's favorite man on your air just in a
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: few minutes.
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: I don't like him, but that's fine.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: You're not alone, No, No, Andes Anderson Hurst, Jessman McIntyre
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: joining you next from twelve until three. I'm heading across
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the street to the stadium to the World Cup in Seattle, Bosnia.
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