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Should Steve Kerr STOP complaining about pace of play in the NBA? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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You're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not holding in one of the top three offensive players in
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the league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron judging, saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see the fuck doing that, A?
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Game where you got to go before? I told you, giant feet Saquon
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Barkley, this quarterback in the NFL?
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Really. I can come through my mind
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behind the same array and the list is going from my eyes.
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It's been crazy in this really besides basketball and, and, and
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really what are, what are we going on?
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Week 12, Week 11, Week 12, Week 12?
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And it's crazy. The NFL season goes so fast.
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We're, we're almost done with the NFL season.
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We're we're, we're going to be speaking about the playoffs in
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about a month. It's crazy.
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I remember when the the first game came around in September,
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at the end of September, October, and we were talking
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about, wow, the season's here. How fast did it come?
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And now how fast is it going to go?
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And if you're a New York fan, there's nothing to be excited
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about as the the New York Giants are now out completely out of
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the playoff and we all know The Jets were out in Week 1, so.
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Don't worry, we get to watch Daniel Jones and Sauce Gardner
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in the playoffs. And how about Saquon Barkley?
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We might, we might see Saquon versus Daniel in.
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That would be your dream, I know.
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I know about Dream. It's definitely something that I
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would like to see. I would like to stick it to all
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the Giant fans out there that just absolutely hated on Daniel
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Jones and then everybody booing Saquon Barkley and he goes over
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there to MetLife. Meanwhile, he wanted to be a
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Giant for life, but the Giants. And so Shane decided, oh, wait,
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we don't need him, we will part ways.
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And he almost breaks Eric Dickerson's record last year and
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he wins the Super Bowl finally after leaving the New York
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Giants and going to their arch nemesis.
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Yes, my Philadelphia Bulls. Yes, it's it's a wonderful thing
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Java. I've always wondered, I've
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always hold on. I always wondered what it was
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like. I would love to get somebody
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next time we get an athlete, like if they've ever gone like
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at the trade deadline from a team out of it to a team that's
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impotent. Like I wonder what that feels
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like cuz I never did it. So I don't know that feeling.
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But what it's like to go maybe from one extreme to the other,
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like yeah, we're in it. I get traded because they're
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yard sailing well. We had, we haven't had him on
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with you, Jabba, but our friend Kenyon Barner won back-to-back
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Super Bowls with two different teams and then he won three
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total and he told Errol he's going to say he would send of
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his Patriots championship ring. He he was going, no, he was
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actually going to send me his Patriots jersey sign by him,
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which I didn't want. And I told him you can keep it.
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I don't want anything with the new New England Patriots logo on
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anything. But I, Kenyon Barner is a great
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guy. And by the way, me and him have
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kind of like the same dressing style.
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So we we have the same, you know, get UPS the way we shop in
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the same. Places and you're both Tauruses
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and we're both. Tauruses, I think.
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I think I was. Born, I think was that was a
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Taurus. Zodiac side, Zodiac side, we're
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both. Taurus.
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I think I think Kenyon was April 21st and Errol's April 29th.
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I think it was. We're both Tauruses and.
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So what's my SO? My son would be a Taurus.
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What was his birthday? What's his birthday?
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He's. The 25th.
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Yes, he's a Taurus. He's a Taurus.
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Yeah, absolutely. Me and him.
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Me and him would get along. Me and your son.
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I always get along with Tauruses if they're.
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I don't even get along with my son.
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You won't get. Along.
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I get along, I'm serious and a lot of people say.
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Just kidding. I've been around, I've been
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around a lot of different athletes and even just people
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that were Tauruses for some reason.
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It's like some kind of connection.
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It's Tauruses have this like people have this perception that
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Tauruses are mean and they don't have good personalities.
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That's completely. You guys believe in all that?
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100 percent, 100%. I don't believe in the moons and
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if the moon turns one way or the colors of the moon, I don't
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believe in any of that. But I do believe in some essence
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of the the understanding of the Zodiac signs and connecting
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those Zodiac. Signs we're completely
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different, like moons and new moons and stuff is like very
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important in our culture. Yeah.
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So like, and I, I get some of it, like, but if you look it up
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enough, like everybody messes with somebody and like, some of
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it's crazy how accurate it can be though.
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So there's got to be, I guess, some legitimacy, right?
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There has to be and there's people that study it.
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I I've actually. Over the years.
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Went to I, I've met guys that I've worked with that actually
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went to school to learn astronomy and I'm like, you
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actually went to school for astronomy, he says.
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It's unbelievable, some of the stuff that you learn when you
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take. Those one one of the most fun
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classes I took in college. It was like a pretty wreck.
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It was like a it was a night class that all the athletes took
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and it was awesome. I'm sure, and the teachers are
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probably damn cool. I didn't, I didn't know shit
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from Shinola, but it was cool to look at like all this stuff and
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what it meant. I like that cut.
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Speedy Shinola. Shinola.
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Shinola you talk about names and, you know, making up words.
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There's another one for the old jobster.
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Shinola that's. That's a saying here.
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I don't. I don't think it's a word, but
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it's a saying for sure. Who the hell uses Shinola if you
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use that here in new? York, you come to Nebraska,
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you'll hear it plenty of time. Shinola, I'm going to Shinola
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you. I'm going to lick it and stick
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it and Shinola you anyways. Yeah, you don't know shit from
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Shinola. You don't know shit from
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Shinola, you don't know Speedy, but you know Shinola.
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Yeah, I knew. I knew it was around.
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The population of. Nebraska's.
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Higher than the amount of people.
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So how do you improve? You know, how does she use her
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shinola? Hey, you're not wrong.
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There's probably more population of Nebraska than people that
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know me by a landslide. That's true.
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I think. I think that's saying it could
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be. Accurate.
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Thickness is a judgement of size and correlation with population.
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Mario. And I think Nebraska is one of
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the more obese states. Either, as far as I know, well,
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I will say this, and anybody that hasn't or doesn't make up
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words, well then you're not having fun.
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I mean, you have to have some kind of words that you've
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made-up in the past and you want to add it to your dictionary.
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And there's quite a few on this show over the years that I've
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made-up. And Speedy would be like, I've
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never heard of that word before in my entire life, but I'll use
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it. So hey, listen, you got to talk
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Jabba and the mouth language. And if you listen to this show,
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you'll learn what Shinola is. Or moist or moisty if.
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If you like it moist, you definitely like it moisty, by
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the way. I will say that's the first time
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that I've heard the context of moisty.
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I've definitely heard like moist.
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That's a that's, that's, that's a New York thing.
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That's a New York thing because I've, I've heard moisty many,
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many times. So it's not just me that's ever
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used the word moisty, but nevertheless, it is it, it
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definitely is a terminology that I've heard people use over here
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in Long Island and New York. But Speaking of, of all that, I
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will say this before we get into our content because we got we
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got we got some things. And like I said, we might not
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have a guest tonight. So we're going to add some
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content on the way. And I'm think I'm going to
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surprise you with some of my basketball content because I've
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been arguing with people on social media and friends today
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on, you know, protecting players that I stick up for all the time
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that I grew up rooting for and guys that I wasn't growing up
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rooting for, but I don't disrespect their games.
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But I, I will say this, when, when you sit back and you argue
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sports and everybody has their own opinion and you go on social
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media and, and some of the takes I, the MMAUFC take over the last
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24 hours has been hilarious. And the fact that these guys
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actually come out and tell me that Islam is a stand up fighter
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and he's a good stand up fighter.
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He's a all around combination fighter.
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That's absolutely wrong. And, and, and I don't care what
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you argue with and you can say whatever you want.
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I'm not going to argue with a bunch of idiots that have no
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argument behind it and the stupidity what I've been reading
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and and the challenging attacks on my direct messenger is
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hilarious. So thank you to all the fans out
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there that give me a reason to go back and forth with you on
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social media. I am not a social media guy.
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I have guys running my social medias because I don't even want
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to waste my time arguing with you idiots.
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But I love it. It's it's definitely something
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when you call me a demon or I demonize certain things when it
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comes to sports, it makes me laugh.
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So that's all I'm going to say. Speaking of a demon, I've always
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thought he was. Warriors head coach Steve Kerr
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told ESP NS Anthony Slater that he believes the faster pace of
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play and lack of time off between games has led to more
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soft tissue injuries. Yanis wemby and now castle from
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the San Antonio Spurs. John Moran, Anthony Davis, Drew
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Holiday are all injuries that have happened already.
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Kerr argues that teams have pushed the pace to shoot more
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threes dull like the Warriors did for years when they were
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winning titles and and leading to more wear and tear on
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players. Kerr says he has had to change
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his own tech tactics sometimes with the Golden State Warriors
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as they have had three players over 35 years of age and are
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trying to manage a long 82 game regular season.
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ESP NS Tony Kornheiser said that the NBA should get rid of the
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three-point shot to slow the pace down while ESP NS Michael
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Wilbon Wilbon says they should reduce the regular season to 70
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games. Kornheiser knows it is extreme,
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but said getting rid of of the three Wood Forest teams to get
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better shots closer to the basket and play at a slower
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pace. Wilbon said on said the NBA
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could remove 12 games from the schedule and add more rest days
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for teams, but believes neither the players or the owners would
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go for giving up any kind of money.
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They would lose by giving up games.
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Now, I don't care what Kornheiser says at Wilbon.
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And these guys are older guys, older journalists then.
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And by the way, here and there I watch their show.
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It's it's pretty funny how they go back and forth, one from the,
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I guess you could say the West or central West and and one from
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the East. And they could go back and forth
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and argue their points. And they're very good at that.
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And, and some of the stuff I couldn't understand and I
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wouldn't understand them, but this Steve Kerr thing and, and
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of course Steve Kerr wants to go out there and open his mouth
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because of the injuries that he has seen.
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He he actually comes from the San Antonio, I guess the
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Popovich tree and he's been there and he started as a a
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coach and assistant coach under Popovich and the fact that he is
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sticking up for Giannis and Wembe and Castle.
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Obviously there's a back end reason behind it and Popovich is
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no longer coaching in the NBA is retired.
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But the the injury situation is definitely something that stands
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out. Now.
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Do I think it's because of the games that are played?
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This has been going on forever, 82 game seasons all the way from
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the 50s and the 60s. I don't even know when it was
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last changed up to 82 games. What I do know that there's
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enough players on a bench. There's thirteen players and all
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of them are getting paid millions and millions of
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dollars. It doesn't matter if it's the
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13th guy, the 14th guy or how many guys are on the bench.
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They're making millions of dollars.
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There is no excuse on why there has to be single out games or
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games that need to be split up because these guys need a rest
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or they're getting too much tissue injuries.
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Everybody gets injured. This is not a full contact
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sport. It's not.
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And now that LeBron James is in the league and when you lay a
14:43
pinky on him, you're going to a free throw line or you have
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James Harden double dribbling every single time he goes to the
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hole and he's holding the ball 5 or 5 or 6 steps.
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There is no excuse to the change of the NBA and why they want to
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reduce games or even bring in more reduced time for players to
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get better or safer. Safe time that they can sit the
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bench and ride the bench. LeBron James plays 6766 games in
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a season. And this guy, he was doing it at
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the top of his game when he was in Miami.
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He would play 68 games and then sit out the rest of the games
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because he he's getting ready for the playoffs.
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And for years Greg Popovich said, hey, you know what?
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I don't have to play my some of my star players back-to-back
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days. I have enough players that and I
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I run a a completely different offense and defense where I can
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play enough players and win most of those games are some of those
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games even without starting my stars.
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And we've seen this before, but Michael Jordan never did that.
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Scottie Pippen never did that. Patrick Ewing, Charles Oakley,
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John Starks, they never did it. Hakeem Olajuwon never did it.
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Charles Barkley, as long as he was healthy, never did it.
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Clyde Drexler. I could go on and on and on.
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As a matter of fact, Magic Johnson said over the last
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couple of years when a lot of different coaches were coming
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out and saying, well, maybe we should cut the the time out or
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cut, cut the games out. It would be better for
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basketball and better for better basketball and and more
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competitive basketball. Basketball.
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How do you assume it's going to be more competitive basketball
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if you're cutting down games? That's what I want to know.
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And here's another thing that doesn't make any sense to my
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thoughts on Steve Kerr's perception of the way the league
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is transitioning it. If you care so much that players
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are getting hurt shooting the three, why did you even push it
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and bring it more to the league when you did?
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When Mark Jackson, Mark Jackson was coaching the Golden State
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Warriors, he preached defense, he preached defense.
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That's what he was. Mark Jackson was all about get
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back, play defense. Now, did it work for the Golden
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State Warriors at the time with a young Steph Curry and a Klay
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Thompson, maybe Draymond Green, but this was a young team trying
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to figure out what their identity was.
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When Mark Jackson eventually parted ways, or they parted ways
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with Mark Jackson and brought Steve Curry in and brought in a
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triangle offense and a different style of offense, the chucking
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up threes started to really become more apparent to the way
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they wanted to run their offense.
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And that doesn't mean that Steph Curry isn't the greatest 3 point
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shooter we've ever seen or Klay Thompson.
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It doesn't have the fastest release I've ever seen because
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both guys were special shooters. Both guys are Hall of Farmers as
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they call themselves the Splash Brothers.
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But what bothers me more than anything is when you have a
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coach that's won multiple championships, who believed in
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the way the NBA process was when he took over this team and the
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pace of the game and how he ran this team really at that speed,
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that speed pace, that shooting pace, where they were chucking
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up 35 to 43 pointers. And he didn't have a problem
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with it. Why now that the players are 35
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years old and they're at the tail ends of their career where
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he's trying to make excuses or trying to find ways where they
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could cut out games or spread out some of the games where his
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players could be ready game in and game out.
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And then when you think about it, the NBA has really become a
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playoff game. Nobody cares about the regular
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season, including these players, including these players.
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And we've seen this over and over and over again.
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We've heard players and even analyst Charles Barkley came out
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last year on TNT, and he said these players don't really start
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playing until three weeks before the season is over.
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When they're playing or fighting for a playoff spot or they're
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getting ready for the playoffs and they want to make sure that
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they're 100% healthy or the team is working In Sync with one
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another. Charles Barkley came out and
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said it. He says this is ruined the game
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and the and really the transition of the game where
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Charles Barkley, the some of the great players from the dream
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team of 92. When we talk about, I would
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believe the best assembled team I've ever seen with John
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Stockton and Karl Malone and Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and
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Robinson. And I'm not going to mention
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Christian Lehner because you know my opinion.
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That's that Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and all those
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guys. I, when I, when I look at that
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team, those guys and the way they played, they played at a
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high pace. Bodies would be beaten up,
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beaten up year in and year out because those guys would play 82
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games. They wouldn't be sitting out 10
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or 15 games getting ready for the playoffs.
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No, they wanted to make sure that they were In Sync with each
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other. They were ready to get and make
19:29
that run all the way for an NBA championship, knowing that
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Michael Jordan was the most dominant player in the early 90s
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all the way into when he retired in 98.
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I honestly believe when you think of guys like Steve Kerr,
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Gregg Popovich, and even over the years, Pat Riley complaining
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about the way the games are really brought, really put
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together before the season started and how they schedule
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these teams and and schedule games.
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I think a lot of these guys are the play the the coaches that
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really have pushed the game to that next level.
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Here's another guy. Jeff Van Gundy, who's become a
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coach again, He's an assistant coach.
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Jeff Van Gundy is a guy who lost all his hair, by the way,
20:15
probably coaching basketball. The one thing that I couldn't
20:19
stand more than anything was the the pace that Jeff Van Gundy
20:23
liked to run his defenses with the New York Knicks.
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And it looked like he was wearing out some of those
20:30
players, the Chris Childs of the world, which we'll get on the
20:32
show again, and the Charlie Wards and the Patrick Ewings and
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Charles Oakley's and Xavier McDaniels, all those guys,
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Anthony Mason. And I just thought that the the
20:42
Knicks were really run out all the way going into the playoffs.
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The the Knicks were so tired. It was amazing the way they play
20:51
defense at a high pace. And that was a Pat Riley
20:54
defense. How they can go as far as they
20:57
did in the 90s, especially 94 when they went all the way to
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the Finals, when Jeff Van Gundy was one of those guys that ran
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that defense, defense like a drill Sergeant.
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It's not like that anymore. Defense is not played like that
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in the NBA. It's all fast-paced shoot 3.
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And now I blame that on the Golden State Warriors.
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I blame that on Steve Kerr. Because Steve Kerr, when he has
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to make an an excuse or has to find something to point his
21:23
finger at, he's finding a way where he can benefit and his
21:27
team could benefit because his team is old, worn out, not the
21:31
same players, not players that can go in week in and week out
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and play a double header or play back-to-back days.
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And to me that's an excuse. Because I look at the schedule
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in the NBA and most teams play 3, maybe four games a week at
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best. There are sometimes that teams
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only play 2 games a week and they spread it out the way they
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do. There's no excuse there.
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There really is nothing. The NBA is not a full contact
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sport. The NBA, yes, it's back and
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forth, running up and down the court, but you don't use enough
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players on your bench. Why do you have 13 players on
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your bench? Why do you have 14 players on
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your bench if you're not going to use them?
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You have these players, you're paying them three $4 million.
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What is the lowest paid guy right now in the NBA making?
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He's got to be making over $1,000,000.
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It's not like you have to pay 54 guys or 56 guys on a a football
22:26
team. I mean honestly, think about it
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and there's an excuse for everything.
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All these coaches, all these players are going to make some
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kind of excuse. How about this?
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Why are NBA players making as much as they're making in an 82
22:41
game season? Think about it.
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Steph Curry's making what he's making about 50 million a year.
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More than that now, he just got an extension last year.
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Joel Embiid, who barely ever plays, who doesn't want to play
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a double header, who's making 50 million a year.
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They have guys that are playing well, was playing for the the
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Brooklyn Nets that barely stuffed on the clues, making 40
23:02
million a year. How is that fair?
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Think about it, you're going to complain.
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If you think about it right now, there's 82 games in a season and
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Joel Embiid is making 52 and he's playing, let's say in the
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last What is the average amount of games Joellen Beat has
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played? No more than. 5050 games, so
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he's making. A million, just say 50.
23:25
He's making $1,000,000 a game, $1,000,000 a game.
23:30
Think about it and he's not even sometimes in some games because
23:34
of his knees problems, he might not even be playing more than 15
23:37
minutes. Could you imagine make
23:39
$1,000,000 for 15 minutes of playing schoolyard ball.
23:43
Think about it. And this guy Steve Kerr bitching
23:46
and moaning after winning multiple championships over
23:49
there. He was handed Mark Jackson's
23:51
team and this guy's bitching and moaning about well, his players
23:55
are getting up there in age and and shooting up threes, wears
23:59
and tears. They're, they're, they're, what
24:02
do they call it? What was he saying?
24:03
All this crap that he's saying, tearing wear and tear on their
24:07
bodies and, and all this crap that they're having and dealing
24:10
with over the last couple of years.
24:12
There's no excuse for NBA players, hockey players.
24:15
I could see the excuse, the wear and tear of their bodies.
24:18
Think about it. They're playing 82 games in the
24:20
season, a full contact sport, going up and down the ice,
24:23
beating the hell out of each other.
24:25
They're not making nearly as much.
24:27
The highest paid NHL player is making, what, 22 million?
24:31
Yeah, I think Mcdavid's new ext 20 million. $20 million and he's
24:36
playing. And by the way, Connor McDavid
24:38
is probably playing about 78 games, 79 games.
24:43
I mean, these bitches, and I'm going to say bitches because
24:47
these NBA players are poor, sopping babies.
24:52
That's what they are. They're babies.
24:55
They're going to cry about my hamstring turning me.
24:59
I'm going to sit down. I'm still going to get paid.
25:01
Give me a break. And these football players,
25:04
they're they're getting their heads beaten in.
25:06
You saw Cam Scataboo, Cam Scataboo's leg bent one way and
25:11
his body went the other. He's making what rookie
25:14
contract? He's making what, 250,000?
25:17
Fourth round pick, rookie money. I mean, come on, these guys beat
25:21
their bodies. He's bashing his head in.
25:23
He's bashing his freaking head in and he's not making anywhere
25:27
close to the guy who's not never stepping on an NBA court making
25:31
1.5 million doing nothing what handing a ball to the coach when
25:37
the ball goes out of bounds there it is scout a Boo is 4
25:42
years 5.27 million great I that's that's great like we're
25:46
we're bringing up a rookie 5 point.
25:48
What is that just? This isn't a reasonable scout a
25:50
ball on the screen. Was that a contract?
25:52
Was that a new contract? Because out as a rookie who is a
25:55
fourth round pick get 5.2 million.
25:58
I mean, come on, Joe Shane, that's, that's the idiot.
26:02
Joe Shane was the brightest either.
26:03
Joe Shane's giving a rookie who's a fourth round pick 5.2
26:06
million for four years. Great job, you know, great job.
26:09
What an idiot. Because usually an average
26:12
running back that's a fourth round pick isn't making anywhere
26:15
close to that. They're making, I mean, cream
26:18
hunt. I remember when he was a rookie
26:20
with the Chiefs, it wasn't the Chiefs, it was the Chiefs.
26:23
He was making like $250,000. He.
26:26
Was very don't they? Don't they slot their money?
26:29
Well, they changed the rule a little bit to do a based on
26:31
performance. I think it's starting after the
26:33
2022 class, so they can get a little more now.
26:35
But again, it still really doesn't justify as much as where
26:38
you see the spikes coming in versus, you would say, a value
26:41
pick. And I think Jeff was explaining
26:43
it to us years ago, There's like even a particular range within
26:45
the first round to like the number one pick.
26:47
There's a drop off between #1 and then it's like 2 through 10
26:49
after that. So a second round day three pick
26:52
gets even less. And then like Errol saying,
26:54
normally base the performance base to the fourth round on.
26:57
Unless you're an idiot GM like Joe Shane giving a guy a four
27:01
year, he's a fourth round pick for 4.65 point.
27:04
Whatever he's getting, it's ridiculous.
27:06
Should Doreen know he's a quarterback?
27:08
They're going to pay a quarterback that kind of money,
27:10
especially with his, I guess, his his aura as as Mr. yes, Mr.
27:17
Prime Blind. That's his new nickname.
27:19
I got a whole story up right now on the worldwide Sports Radio
27:23
Network. I wrote a beautiful story about
27:25
Mr. Prime Blind. That's his new nickname.
27:28
I gave in it. I've given Mr. Shudor Sanders
27:31
his nickname, the Gremlin and Mr. Prime Blind.
27:35
OK, And there's a reason why. And if you read the story,
27:38
you'll, you'll see why I gave him that, that wonderful
27:41
nickname. But the fact is, is a lot of
27:45
coaches are finding ways to make excuses.
27:48
I'll give Tom Thibodeau a little bit more credit that he a lot of
27:50
people probably don't give him. He didn't care.
27:55
He didn't care how many players were on his bench.
27:58
He made sure that if he had superstar players and he wanted
28:02
to push his superstar players, it doesn't matter if there was a
28:05
double header back-to-back games.
28:07
It didn't matter if they had to play three games in in that
28:10
week. He is playing his guys 44 to 48
28:13
minutes. Did it help the Knicks in the
28:14
playoffs? No, but he was all about pushing
28:17
his players to that next level. You wanted to make sure that he
28:19
kept these guys in physical great condition.
28:23
Now you have guys like Steve of care who, you know, he doesn't
28:26
care that he has three. Well, yeah, he cares that he has
28:29
2 or 335 year old players, but he doesn't care the fact that
28:34
the way the league and the way the league has transitioned in
28:37
the way the NBA has transitioned, the way the Golden
28:41
State Warriors has transitioned the game.
28:43
Now that they're old and they can't do the things they used to
28:46
could do, or they couldn't really keep up the way they
28:49
played in those days, They're now all of a sudden backlashing
28:52
on the way. The NBA should change the rules
28:55
of the NBA because it doesn't work out for them.
28:57
Yeah, and they also, they look at the hypocrisy of it too.
29:00
Like you said, Steve Kerr is the one that really accelerated the
29:02
three-point process. Obviously it was already going
29:04
up anyway because in the 2000s, even in the early 2000s, there
29:07
was very skilled guards that were coming into the league too.
29:09
But the three-point revolution really started because of him
29:12
and because of the Splash Brothers with the Golden State
29:15
Warriors. So him coming out and saying,
29:16
oh, now all of a sudden it's a big problem at the pace of play,
29:19
there's too much transition game.
29:20
Well, you were the one that accelerated.
29:22
Gregg Popovich was the one that kind of started the transition
29:24
game, the makeshift transition game, but he wasn't like bullish
29:27
on like the volume of threes that were being made.
29:29
You accelerated to another level.
29:31
So it's a copycat league. Like we say with other sports,
29:34
teams are going to duplicate that.
29:36
And now you're seeing these teams build on a different level
29:39
of it. Big men that can shoot, big men
29:41
that can ball handle, which UPS your way of thinking with the
29:45
Splash Brothers, granted, they still want another championship
29:47
in 2022, but still they've expected it to another level
29:50
where these bigs or ball handlers like Luka Doncic and
29:54
Jason Tatum, guys like that are the ones taking the ball up and
29:56
moving the ball, spacing the floor very well.
29:59
And that's all going to come because of the faster style of
30:01
game that you transition. Speedy, do you believe the balls
30:04
of this guy complaining about teams, you know, pacing
30:07
themselves and shooting threes when he he has pushed his team
30:11
to that level all these years? And now all of a sudden now
30:14
teams are copycatting them and they're tearing and a wear and
30:17
tear of their bodies because they're going up, up and down
30:19
the court trying to Chuck up threes.
30:21
And he was the one that really, I wouldn't say brought it to the
30:24
league, but he's really revolutionized that style of
30:27
game Now he's the one that's complaining about.
30:29
Yeah, he's the one that accelerated it to the level that
30:32
it's gotten to and as quickly as it got to because obviously the
30:35
three-point shots existed in the NBA since the 80s, but it wasn't
30:38
really like the predominant thing probably up until maybe
30:41
the mid 2000s like more. There were good, more good 3
30:43
point shooters when guys like Jamal Crawford and guys like
30:45
that game in the league, little shooting specialist Kyle Korver.
30:48
But it wasn't accelerated where everybody had to shoot.
30:51
Like pretty much you have to shoot now if you want to get
30:53
drafted into the NBA or sign even a 10 day contract to get
30:56
into the NBA. Now, if you're a big man that
30:58
can't shoot, look at all these big men that get released or
31:00
they get signed to minimum base contracts like the Nets, signed
31:03
like Andre Drummond and DeAndre Jordan to 1. $1,000,000 deal.
31:06
Who's the kid that Portland drafted a couple of years ago?
31:09
Oh, Scoot. Scoot.
31:11
He couldn't shoot. Yeah.
31:12
And look, Scoot was the second pick, right behind Web and Yama.
31:16
I think it was second and and he's not even in the NBA
31:19
anymore. I don't even think he's on the
31:20
team. I think he's playing in AG
31:22
League. In the G League, can't shoot.
31:23
He's been up and down even last year.
31:25
Oh, he is in the NBA. All right, OK.
31:28
Yeah, but but Jared, last year he was.
31:30
Just shows you how much I watched the Portland Trail
31:32
Blazers and nobody. Cares not only that.
31:34
Scoot is not very good, not only.
31:35
That he was up and down, up and down last year.
31:38
So they had they really never trusted his development because
31:41
he can't shoot. Yeah, he's fast, yeah, he's
31:43
athletic. But if you can't shoot,
31:44
especially as a point guard, it's very hard for you to make
31:46
her now. Going to the other comments or
31:48
the other guys were saying you're not going to get rid of
31:50
the three at this point like Tony Connor Heiser wants to do,
31:52
because the players are developed now to be that way.
31:54
So that's not going to happen. As far as reducing the regular
31:56
season, I've always been fine with that I think.
31:59
You want to reduce. This season, well, I think
32:01
because you already see a lot of guys low manage anyway, we
32:04
talked. About it why would you bring the
32:05
tournament into the NBA season? That's.
32:07
Stupid too, I'm with you on that, but.
32:09
OK, so why would you reduce the game if how could you reduce the
32:12
game when all the other players in the 80s and the 90s were OK
32:15
with it and they were doing just fine with it.
32:17
Now all of a sudden, because these are these guys are prima
32:19
donnas, they're making double the amount of money, triple the
32:22
amount of money then the other players are making in the 80s
32:24
and the 90s. You're going to say, oh, you
32:26
know what? It's OK, let's reduce the game.
32:28
Let's get it over with. That's.
32:29
Ridiculous speedy. Well, I'm absolutely I'm judging
32:31
it also more from the what we always talk about, Oh, the NBA
32:34
doesn't matter the regular season.
32:35
Anymore, if you're going to make that kind of money, cut the
32:38
money out of the way. I agree with that too.
32:39
Like the NBA, luxury tax is kind of a phantom thing.
32:43
We've always seen teams try to work around it too.
32:45
Obviously we talk about the Clippers try to work around it
32:47
in illegal ways. But nonetheless, like I always
32:50
also said too, like because the NBA regular season doesn't
32:52
matter. It's even more so when they
32:54
expanded the playoffs a lot more too.
32:56
I always say it was saying reduce the playoffs.
32:58
And you know what job is going to go with because he's a former
33:00
player and he doesn't want to cut anything out when it comes
33:03
to money player. He wants the players to make
33:05
more money. And and I, I would say that a
33:07
lot of athletes would say that make as much money as you
33:09
possibly can. But here's the problem.
33:12
If you're willing and able to do something like that, and I don't
33:15
think the NBA is ever going to do that because ownership is not
33:19
going to allow unless LeBron James, the LJA, gets involved
33:22
with it. And he steps in and says, well,
33:25
you know, my ankle's hurting me. I I don't want to play three
33:27
more years. Don't.
33:29
Worry LeBron will be a fighter, reducing this, reducing the
33:32
salary cap now that he's getting all his betting money from all
33:34
those coaches. I got another postage story for
33:36
that one too, by the way, Ladies and gentlemen, you're going to
33:38
love that one too. But the other thing I was.
33:41
Going to mention too, before you go Jabba and I think there's a
33:43
difference with the NBA and some of the other sports with the
33:45
with the payroll discrepancy too.
33:47
Like obviously baseball players have made the like overall total
33:50
amount like with the biggest contracts, like Soto's deal, but
33:53
their lowest contracts are still a lot lower.
33:55
Like Errol was saying within these NBA contracts and you see
33:58
all these one year deals with veteran players, football and
34:00
hockey, forget about it. The salary cap is really stingy
34:02
in football where players only if your premier position get
34:05
paid high amount. And hockey?
34:07
Like we said, Connor McDavid is the best talent in the world.
34:10
Another tow job. $20 million a year, that would be like a third
34:13
or fourth option on an NBA team. Yeah, it's weird.
34:15
I mean, you see NBA is, is weird to me because like you brought
34:19
up here, it's like these dudes don't have to have as deep
34:22
benches. So you, I mean, Wally's Irbeck
34:23
for the last like 5 or 6 years is making like 13 to 19,000,000
34:27
and he maybe played like 5 minutes like these, some of
34:29
these astronomical numbers that they're making in basketball,
34:33
like I just shake my head at sometimes.
34:35
But yeah, I think from the season perspective, I think it's
34:39
a little like from the playoffs, how every, you know, every
34:43
series is 7 games. I mean, I, there's probably ways
34:46
to break, but I think the game has changed as we've seen a lot
34:50
of these games change and where the old school guys would be
34:52
like if we can do it, you can do it.
34:54
Obviously we're not adding games which the NFL has obviously, but
34:58
where they're they have that number set in stone of what
35:02
they're going to do, right? Like that they're taking the
35:04
load management games off anyways.
35:06
Hey, I want to play, you know, 60 to 64 games.
35:10
So do we incentivize the guys to actually like is, is there a
35:14
tier where if you play 6570, like is there a bonus like you
35:19
can you structurally do that in your contract or how do you, I
35:23
guess, make that work to incentivize certain things?
35:27
Or is pace of play really like you guys brought up and touched
35:31
on pretty much everything that needs to be said.
35:33
Like you, you were part of the problem, which I mean, I, I
35:37
don't think it, it was a problem kind of turned into it the way
35:40
it is. But that was kind of the reason
35:44
that we talked about last year with all these, you know, calves
35:49
and Achilles and all the other stuff isn't like the pace of
35:53
play. Yeah, they're shooting more
35:54
threes. But the pace of play is wasn't
35:57
that kind of the reason of load management was trying to try and
36:00
like get these injuries down? And we haven't really seen that.
36:04
So it's like this really hasn't done much as far as what they
36:08
thought it would do. I I just is, is he just trying
36:12
to find an out of where blame this on And like, now somebody's
36:17
going to come up with shoes. Like we kind of touched on it
36:20
when in the playoffs, like it was, is it Nike shoes, is it
36:24
Adidas, is it whatever. And now the pace of play, like
36:28
the pace of play hasn't changed. Like there's been nothing that
36:31
has that has changed. Like it's not like the shot
36:33
clock changed, right? It's not like they added
36:36
something. Changed.
36:36
You know you. Also, yeah, you Also, it's not
36:39
like the court changed. You also I.
36:41
Does now with the NBA Cup. You also brought up shoes and
36:44
it's so funny. You brought up the shoe thing
36:46
because there's a story that came out recently.
36:49
Now people are, you know, writers and journalists are
36:53
starting to bring up shoes and thinking that that's the point
36:56
of the reasons why the the players tearing their Achilles
37:00
in the NBA and and the playoffs. It's so funny because I brought
37:03
it up and that's what I was saying.
37:05
And there was a story recently, I forget what writer wrote it.
37:08
And he believes that the sneakers need to be looked at
37:11
that all these science stuff that they put together with
37:15
figuring out the soles and, and, and fabricating the shoes on
37:19
how, you know, how light they are could be the reason why
37:22
they're tearing their Achilles as fast as they are and why they
37:25
were, what, 3 Achilles injuries in the playoffs last year?
37:29
Three big ones. I mean, Halliburton, Tatum.
37:33
And then, you know, Dame Dash, I call him Mr. Dame.
37:36
He's out. So yeah.
37:38
So I call him Dame Dash or Dame or whatever the hell you want to
37:42
call him. Dame time, yeah.
37:44
Dame Time so. So guys, why don't they just do
37:47
the obvious thing, Just add rest days to the season to extend the
37:52
season like a week and 1/2 on the front end, another week and
37:55
1/2 on the back end with just rest days.
37:57
So now that teams don't have to play more than one or two back
38:01
to backs, I mean, they're playing four games in five days,
38:03
Errol, you know? This you know why though, they
38:06
that's like first of all, fish, you're 100% right.
38:09
But you know the reason they won't this thing they call TV
38:13
deals, TV deals and they, they have it struck like you're 100%.
38:18
It's an easy fix. Really, it is an easy fix.
38:20
But with all these stupid TV deals and and everything that
38:24
goes into, which is something I'll cover later with the
38:28
regarding the game of baseball. But yeah, it just sucks because
38:31
it's it's a really easy fix. And then now it's just they
38:35
they're just trying to find something else to blame it on
38:37
when you you really could fix it with one simple task.
38:41
And you're 100% right. Java.
38:43
The NBATV deals are the one sense of Java or one sense of
38:46
James Dolan's Voice of Reason. You know, I, I've been saying
38:50
the same thing about the NFL though, like why, if you're
38:53
going to extend the season, which they just did, and you
38:56
know, they're talking about going to 18 games already and a
38:59
second bye week, why not? What, what's the, what's the
39:03
harm to the financial model where you can keep players
39:08
healthier? And now we we don't have like a
39:11
bunch of games with third string quarterbacks the last few weeks
39:13
of the season and 5th string running backs and things like
39:17
this because you know, that's how the season ends.
39:19
Every year someone wins the fantasy football championship
39:22
with some running back that wasn't on a roster at the
39:24
beginning of the season. That's how it always.
39:26
Happens I think there's too much crying by certain coaches and
39:31
because they're big they're big names and they're big voices for
39:35
the NBA and and again Steve Kerr just got an extension.
39:38
He just got his big contract and and I he could have retired.
39:41
He could have walked away and just been an analyst or done a
39:44
podcast, which he was doing for Sirius radio.
39:47
No, but he decided his they with the Golden State Warriors.
39:49
Why? Because he wants to win more
39:50
titles. Why?
39:51
Because he believes the league is going to listen to him.
39:54
I I'm sorry, I am not I have no pity for the Golden State
39:58
Warriors. I have no pity for Steph Curry
40:01
or Draymond Green or any of those guys, Jimmy, Jimmy
40:05
buckets. I have no pity for them.
40:07
Why? Because they have been doing it
40:10
forever and really controlling the league and the dominating,
40:14
dominating the league, the way they pace, they pace their game
40:17
and they're. Offensive side of the ball and
40:19
shooting up the three. So cry me a river.
40:22
If Steve Kerr is going to come out and cry about it, I don't
40:25
want to hear it from Steve. If it was anybody else doing it,
40:28
maybe it was, let's say, I don't know, the Charlotte Hornets the
40:32
the coach of the Charlotte Hornets or one of these bad
40:34
teams, these bad. Organizations, do you think if
40:36
it was a player it would it would be different?
40:39
No, because if Steph Curry did it, I'd be like, cry me a river,
40:43
cry me a river. You've been doing it forever.
40:45
But Klay, Klay Thompson. No, instead Klay Thompson is, is
40:48
attacking, you know, Patrick Beverly about his girl Megan the
40:53
Stallions. I mean, because, because Patrick
40:55
Beverly said something so funny. And by the way, I got to give a
40:59
shout out to Pat Bev. I thought it was really, really
41:02
funny what he did on his podcast, taking a shot at him
41:06
and Meg, Meg the Stallions. I I thought it was so funny and,
41:11
and the fact that Klay Thompson went out of his way to say
41:15
something because I'm sure Meg probably said you better say
41:18
something. You're my man, you know, and he
41:20
went out there and he said what he felt, but I thought it was
41:24
funny. By the way, nobody knows the
41:25
story. Go check it out.
41:26
It's, it's a really, really funny story.
41:28
I got it. And I'll tell you, I don't
41:30
listen to other people's podcasts really anymore because
41:33
I, I, I'm so embedded in what we're doing.
41:35
But I got to say Pat Bev is one of those guys.
41:38
He doesn't give a crap. He will say what he feels and
41:43
not even back off on what he says.
41:46
And even though I disagree with a lot of things he says, it's
41:50
funny. So if anybody hasn't checked out
41:53
Pat, Pat Bev's his podcast, it is funny and he knows he knows a
41:58
little bit about sports thing. He knows a little bit more about
42:02
sports, even more than you would think offset from basketball.
42:06
He knows a lot. So I he had his own take about
42:10
the World Series and the Dodgers and stuff like that.
42:13
So I, I got to give Pat a little bit, a little, a little bit of
42:16
love, a little bit of credit for the work that he is doing right
42:19
now on his podcast and, and whoever is his producers and,
42:23
and his production and sensational.
42:25
So good. Good for you, Pat Definitely
42:28
going to get picked up by one of the big networks.
42:29
I think. I think he's really, really
42:31
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there to tuning in and letting us entertain you over over and
43:33
over again. So that's it.
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Speedy do we have on next? Week.
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I believe Jabba has the guest for Monday.
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Yes, go ahead, Jabba. B Hope beat Rider from MLB.com
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for the Jankies, the New York Jankies, AKA New York Yankees to
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talk a little winter meetings, GM meetings, what he's heard.
43:52
He had to drive from New York to Tampa with three kids and his
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wife, so that should be a fun story, I'm sure.
43:59
It's definitely. Something he's like, I'm not
44:00
flying, so he drove. I want to say something.
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Brittany wants to go to Toronto. We're going to go to Toronto in
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January and she was telling me we were trying to get, we're
44:10
looking at seats and tickets and she's like, this is ridiculous.
44:13
Do you know that both ways of getting Canadian tickets to
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Toronto is like $700.00? It's ridiculous right now to go
44:23
to Canada. It's ridiculous.
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And she's like, oh, we're still going.
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I said you're going to pay for that.
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I'm not going, I'm not going. You're paying for it, Miss
44:32
Moneybags. But she wants to go to Canada,
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so that's where we're going. We're going to go to Toronto for
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a couple of. Days Toronto's nice.
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Yeah, it's beautiful. We.
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Love it, we love it, we love it, absolutely love it and we enjoy
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we enjoy it every single year. Stay away from Niagara because I
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don't need my rent a car being bashed in and robbed.
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Have you gone on both the US side and the Canadian side?
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Yes, Yes, Sir. Yes, Sir.
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Canadian sides are way better but yes.
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Yes, when I played hockey, I've been all over the place,
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Vancouver, Edmonton, there, it's all beautiful.
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More if you go to Edmonton and Calgary.
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It's all woods, man. It is like there's nothing.
45:08
It's just and, and by the way, each town is like 40 miles away
45:12
from each other. So if you live in Calgary, good
45:15
luck. I love, I love Montreal.
45:18
Montreal's oh dude, it's a party place.
45:21
If you're if you're having a bachelor party, that's the place
45:23
to go guys. That's the place to go.
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Jarrett, you're a young guy. Go check out Montreal.
45:29
You'll love it. I just tell him I know PK Subban
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because he's a black French Canadian.
45:33
Off they melt they. They love you.
45:35
Russell Martin, when he would talk, it'd make my nipples hard
45:38
because I'm like, I'll know what you're saying, but that is a
45:40
cool language, bro. That's.
45:42
A takes B, you better cut that out.
45:43
Makes my nipples. When you're going wrong.
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Really. Three of them.
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All right. All right, guys, he tastes
45:49
himself all. Right.
45:50
And one more for for the road, because I have to do this for
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the old myth. I love Lisa Ann as he always.
45:56
Loves Lisa Ann or. Suck my indo OH.
45:58
Wait, his Indo is definitely. If he actually ever gets Lisa
46:02
Ann on the show, I'm not saying anything.
46:04
I just want to like, I just want to focus on him the entire time.
46:07
Dude, his mouth will water. That man has.
46:11
This he will drool, Yeah. How's this infatuation with this
46:14
woman? I don't get it, but it's funny.
46:18
The first time I saw her, I saw her at a convention and she was
46:22
walking around at. Every What convention were you
46:24
at? So it was, it was in Manhattan,
46:27
it was a sports convention and she was doing something for the
46:30
company she was working with and she was taking interviews and
46:33
everybody was. Like nice covered up, real slick
46:36
I'm. Being serious, I'm being
46:37
serious. She does sports, man.
46:40
It was at the sport. I know she does.
46:44
Every guy was running at her trying to get an interview with
46:47
her. Wink, wink.
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Pass Liquor. I didn't do this.
46:50
Yet Droba here. It.
46:52
Is Droba pass liquor? I didn't do that all show, so I
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had to do that. Anyways, that's it for a show.
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We'll see you next week. By the way, January 13th, we
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will be doing Carmine's and stay tuned.
47:04
We'll give you all the list of guys and people that we're going
47:06
to have interview with Q&A and maybe we'll get Goody to come
47:09
down. That would be fun.
47:11
It'd be crazy. Anyways, good night, it's the
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worldwide sports radio network. Radio Network.