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Gordie Chiesa on the Walker Kessler trade, Darryn Peterson's Summer League debut, Where is LeBron playing next year (?) + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Peace out.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get the latest on the Utah Jazz with former
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  Speaker 2: Jazz assistant coach Gordy Chiasa. He's forgotten more about the
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  Speaker 2: NBA than any of us will ever know.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not get crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Come for the hoops talk. Stay for his list of
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  Speaker 2: the day, My list today. Here's oc with basketball sab
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  Speaker 2: on Gordy Chiasa on the Sean O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome our number two.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome in, Gordy Chiasa. Conversations with our NBA gurgle, brought
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  Speaker 3: to you by a Latin Industries, your Vlux skylights dealer
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  Speaker 3: here in the state of Utah. Gordy, I hope you
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  Speaker 3: had a happy Fourth of July weekend. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing It's fine. Welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to be back.
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  Speaker 3: There's something special about flying back on American soil on
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  Speaker 3: our nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. It was a
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  Speaker 3: wonderful weekend and a lot of stuff to talk about
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  Speaker 3: from when I was gone. The Utah Jazz and Walker
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  Speaker 3: Kessler are no longer in business together. Instead, Kessler will
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  Speaker 3: be a Laker. The Jazz get two first rounders and
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  Speaker 3: two pickswaps for Walker Kessler.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of the trade?
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  Speaker 4: They were small by the Jazz. The Jazz opened them
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  Speaker 4: a very tremendous contract and they had a certain number
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  Speaker 4: which they weren't going to go over and they didn't. Now,
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  Speaker 4: from a Leagas point of view, they need a big man.
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  Speaker 4: They think that he's worth the numbers that they're taking.
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  Speaker 4: And so what the Jets said right away, they pivoted
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  Speaker 4: and they resigned. Use of Nurkage for two years has
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  Speaker 4: almost like a stop gap. So you do like Kesla,
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  Speaker 4: you do like his potential, but again, showing it affects
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  Speaker 4: so much of the economics of other players you want
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  Speaker 4: to get. So that signals basically in Jazz basketball that
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  Speaker 4: they're going to re sign for the extension and Chiante George.
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  Speaker 4: So it's almost like a domino theory. So Legas get
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  Speaker 4: a big guy. The Jazz pivot with us off Nurkage,
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  Speaker 4: and the Jazz really did the right thing as far
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  Speaker 4: as economically with their team.
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  Speaker 3: So we had all these visions of this, you know,
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  Speaker 3: three towers in the front court, Lowry Markinen and Triple
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  Speaker 3: J and Walker Kessler, and now we just have to
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  Speaker 3: place use off Nurkice as the center in that.
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  Speaker 4: Lineup, yes, as far as that, or they could go
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  Speaker 4: Jaron Jackson as a starting five. So it'll be interesting
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  Speaker 4: to say. So the question is that what do they
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  Speaker 4: do with a spelly? That's the question philosophically, which is
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  Speaker 4: a good question to have. So the jazz they saw
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  Speaker 4: Kanty George is a point guard. Darren Peterson tremendous talent,
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  Speaker 4: will go letter on talking about him in Summer League.
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  Speaker 4: But if he's really a god to God, then they
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  Speaker 4: go a spelly at three. I'm saying Larry markin as
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  Speaker 4: a stretch four and then to start the game with
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  Speaker 4: Jaron Jackson as a as almost a stretch five. Then
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  Speaker 4: you can match down put in a game use of
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  Speaker 4: Nurkage and then swing over Jaron Jackson at four and
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  Speaker 4: then put the arrest of the lineup in with other guys.
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  Speaker 4: And so it evolves. With Walker Kessen not being there,
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  Speaker 4: you could start use of Merkage and then suddenly you're
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  Speaker 4: not going to probably not start a spelly probably, and
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  Speaker 4: that's really almost counterproductive as you as a young guy,
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  Speaker 4: you want him to start the game with other whether
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  Speaker 4: tremendous players.
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  Speaker 1: Also, what are what are the Lakers doing?
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  Speaker 3: They have now tied up a massive chunk of their
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  Speaker 3: salary cap in Walker, Kessler and Reeves that you know
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  Speaker 3: they don't have Lebron coming back obviously, do you They
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  Speaker 3: don't have picks in like the next seven years.
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  Speaker 1: What are the Lakers doing?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, First, economically, they have taught in with their three
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  Speaker 4: main guys. Now are total salaries four hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 4: five million dollars the Lakers and those three guys, those
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  Speaker 4: are total satellies that are that are out there right now.
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  Speaker 4: So the Lakers, they're trying to navigate where they moved
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  Speaker 4: on from Lebron. They had a good run eight years.
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  Speaker 4: Lebron played terriffic to them, but now they want to
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  Speaker 4: start a new ear and so that's what they're attempting
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  Speaker 4: to do right now. And they've they edited Walker kets
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  Speaker 4: who again they believe that will help them as far
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  Speaker 4: as being a center of rent protection because Luca Dante's
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  Speaker 4: is a is a non defensive player and Austin Reeves,
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  Speaker 4: who does try doesn't have the foot speed and so
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  Speaker 4: the all messive member. Now they also added some guys
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  Speaker 4: that can score the ball to them consects and off
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  Speaker 4: the bench, Jaydon Harden can score, Clinton God can can score.
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  Speaker 4: That will help them. And it's just young, this young
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  Speaker 4: big guy about twenty six years old kla Velly from
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  Speaker 4: the Raptors. He has a really tremendous all around game,
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  Speaker 4: almost like a playmaker as a big guy. So they
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  Speaker 4: pivoted as far as with Lebron and went with other guys.
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  Speaker 4: But now the pressure is on Walker Kessler. You're in LA.
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  Speaker 4: There's no like waiting period. It's his fifty in the NBA.
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  Speaker 4: He has to produce and that's what rebounding, shot block,
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  Speaker 4: and he's got to score the ball versus only being
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  Speaker 4: recipient scorer.
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  Speaker 3: Gordy Jay is our guest here on the Sean O'Connell Show,
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  Speaker 3: talking all things NBA and Utah Jazz. A very wise
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  Speaker 3: man once told me, Gordy not to overreact to anything
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  Speaker 3: that we see or do not see in the summer
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  Speaker 3: league play. But it's easy to forget that if you're
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  Speaker 3: a Jazz fan and you watched Darren Peterson the other night,
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  Speaker 3: because you saw some really really nice things from a guy.
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  Speaker 3: The game appears to come very naturally to.
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  Speaker 4: Him very much. Yeah, hit cooking and I gave at
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  Speaker 4: the Hunter and Center and his debut quickly twenty eight points,
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  Speaker 4: shooting eleven for twenty three four ver seven from threes
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  Speaker 4: to assist the bare port negative part eight turnovers. Who
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  Speaker 4: told you that he threw too many risk passes in
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  Speaker 4: the game and also sometimes against good defense was speeded up.
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  Speaker 4: That's all part of the learning curved age nineteen years old.
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  Speaker 4: But what he did that was unbelievable was that he's
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  Speaker 4: a rocket driver and a dynamics scorer, and that he
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  Speaker 4: has a smooth, silky release point on his three point shot,
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  Speaker 4: and so he has the it factor. He has a
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  Speaker 4: talent to score the ball, and he has really a
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  Speaker 4: strong body that can defend. And so it's really a
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  Speaker 4: smashing debut. And the Jets won the game, not that
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  Speaker 4: it matters in a big tense, but they did win one,
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  Speaker 4: O three, one or two and actually a hard fourth game.
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  Speaker 4: So he's got it. He's a tremendous young talent and
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  Speaker 4: with normal growth, he'll be an elite player someday down
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  Speaker 4: the road. Corey, it's going to be Cody Williams, also
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  Speaker 4: another young guy. His third year, he should be able
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  Speaker 4: to play well in the Summer League and he did
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  Speaker 4: seventeen points. But one thing about that it was troubling.
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  Speaker 4: Hitdn't get to the foul line showing. So just think
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  Speaker 4: about it. Third year, you've got to be aggressive. You've
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  Speaker 4: got to drive the ball to the basket and transition,
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  Speaker 4: try to create opportunities offensive rebounds. He took no three throws,
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  Speaker 4: so that was counseling him. You got to mix up
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  Speaker 4: your offensive game, which is which is growing, but you've
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  Speaker 4: got to be more aggressive as far as what attacking
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  Speaker 4: the paint first and the rim second.
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  Speaker 3: How much are we going to see if Darren Peterson tonight?
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  Speaker 3: I mean that game is going to be overshadowed a
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  Speaker 3: little bit by US men's national team action with the
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  Speaker 3: Belgium and World Cup game. But they start an hour
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  Speaker 3: earlier in Summer League play Jazz Grizzlies. So you got
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  Speaker 3: DP and you've got Cam Boozer up at the Huntsman Center.
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  Speaker 3: Are we going to see another full game from Darren Peterson?
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  Speaker 4: I would say probably not. He played twenty seven minutes,
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  Speaker 4: but he should play, you know again, the Jazz play
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  Speaker 4: again Tuesday night, and then he played Thursday against the
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  Speaker 4: against Washington Wizards. Against the agent de Boncer. So don't
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  Speaker 4: be so sweet about it as far as everything. Just
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  Speaker 4: played the guy. You know, we just play him. This
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  Speaker 4: is summer league player. I'm not saying playing the whole
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  Speaker 4: forty minutes, but play him to get some more reps
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  Speaker 4: live in the game right now and hopefully we'll go.
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  Speaker 4: And we mentioned more about Cam Boozer, also the third
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  Speaker 4: pick of the draft. Very good, and so it's just
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  Speaker 4: like Darren Peterson, but Boozer does for his team, the Grizzlies.
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  Speaker 4: He's almost like a steady influence already. He knows how
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  Speaker 4: to play the game. I'll call him a point forward
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  Speaker 4: through the way our breaks on perimeter that goes inside
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  Speaker 4: and he moves that ball. He throwes some great assist times.
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  Speaker 4: And let's not thget he's only eighteen years old. He
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  Speaker 4: turns nineteen years old later on in July. And so
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  Speaker 4: this guy's just like Darren Peterson and just like also
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  Speaker 4: age of the bouncer. These three top guys in a draft,
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  Speaker 4: they're going to lead their team with normal aggression. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure they'll play tonight Darren Peterson and I'm looking
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  Speaker 4: forward to her.
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  Speaker 3: Deontay George Get he gets to be a volunteer coach.
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  Speaker 3: They had to go through some jump through some hoops
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  Speaker 3: with the league in order to make sure this was handled,
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  Speaker 3: you know, under collective bargaining agreements and all that kind
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  Speaker 3: of stuff. Keante George expressing interest in and the Jazz
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  Speaker 3: also at least entertaining the idea that he gets to
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  Speaker 3: be for the summer league a little bit of a
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  Speaker 3: player coach situation.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of this?
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  Speaker 4: That's a good idea there. They're trying to help him
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  Speaker 4: see the game from a coaching point of view. So
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  Speaker 4: he's the point guard for the Jazz as they go forward,
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  Speaker 4: and that when you're a point guard, you're an extension
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  Speaker 4: of the coach on the court. And now the winning
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  Speaker 4: teams have a point guard that literally thinks like as
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  Speaker 4: the coaching step on the sideline. So he'll be in
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  Speaker 4: the huddle, he'll be in the meetings as far as
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  Speaker 4: not as a player, but as a coach. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's coaching meetings where you talk about what's going on
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  Speaker 4: about the team, and also there's the players meetings with
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  Speaker 4: the coaches. So he'll be involved with the coaches. And
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  Speaker 4: it's interesting again as coaches think much diffinitely than players.
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  Speaker 4: But the better players have an element of coaching in
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  Speaker 4: them as far as how they think the game. Not
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  Speaker 4: about themselves, Sean, but about how can I get my
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  Speaker 4: teammates better. When you're a point guard in the NBA,
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  Speaker 4: your world changes every twenty four seconds. There's nothing like it.
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  Speaker 4: NFL quarterback. You've got to be able to think with
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  Speaker 4: your feet and with your with your with your head,
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  Speaker 4: but you can. You have to process the game. But
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  Speaker 4: in NBA basketball, it changes so quickly, and that's what
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  Speaker 4: that's why Knty George is going to be a quasi
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  Speaker 4: assistant coach. Will help them as far as the Jazz
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  Speaker 4: when he played in the regular game next to next four,
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  Speaker 4: I'm all for it, Gordy.
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  Speaker 1: Where's Lebron gonna end up?
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  Speaker 4: Cleveland?
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  Speaker 1: Wow?
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  Speaker 4: Makes the most sense. Yeah, I would say Cleveland, and
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  Speaker 4: he'll be drawn out. In other words, it will be
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  Speaker 4: like tomorrow. They're gonna take their time and the Cabs
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  Speaker 4: they have a good team. They're good. They went to
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  Speaker 4: the conference finals, got knocked out by the Knicks. I
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  Speaker 4: know they were. They were not competitive in those games.
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  Speaker 4: But with Lebron, if he does go there, and I
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  Speaker 4: think he will, he'll give them another scoring punch. And
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  Speaker 4: the questions always says, how can he play with James Harden?
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  Speaker 4: Will he play? Will will they perform in lockstep? The
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  Speaker 4: answer is absolutely yes, And Lebron knows that he's going there.
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  Speaker 4: He'll be the second option behind Donvin Mitchell, and they
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  Speaker 4: know that we're going in and that James Harden will
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  Speaker 4: will slightly go to the sideline as far as not
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  Speaker 4: driving the ball as much, and so that will happen,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's actually converse that way or the evolution of
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  Speaker 4: it is going to it's going to play out, play out,
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  Speaker 4: and the Cavaliers I think will benefit from it. So
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  Speaker 4: the Cabtain and Chavs basketball, they'll start James Harden at
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  Speaker 4: point guard, Domn Mitchell at two, at three, Lebron James
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  Speaker 4: at four, Evan Mobley tremendous young talent, and then five
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  Speaker 4: Jarrett Allen and then Dennis Shrewd is still gonna is
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  Speaker 4: still there right now, so Sam Melo, sam Merrill from
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  Speaker 4: uh from Utah, and so is Max shrus So they
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  Speaker 4: have they have a really solid team and Lebron's gonna
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  Speaker 4: help them. I think he's gonna go there and go
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  Speaker 4: back home.
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  Speaker 3: How did you react when you saw the the other
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  Speaker 3: big blockbuster trade that happened. Since the last time we spoke,
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Brown is now a seventy six.
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  Speaker 4: Er, Yeah, very much. Calon Brown is that Let's not
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  Speaker 4: forget he made second team or NBA last year second team,
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  Speaker 4: and that's hard to do. That means that you're in
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  Speaker 4: the top ten players in the NBA and the Celts
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  Speaker 4: are a good organization and there are a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: smart people. Celts win fifty six games last year, they
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  Speaker 4: got knocked out in the playoffs. There's something behind the
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  Speaker 4: scenes that if you're every single day, you could be
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  Speaker 4: exactly what it's saying. I believe, just objectively that he
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  Speaker 4: were as welcome there and the team was willing to
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  Speaker 4: move on from him, and then they pivoted and tried
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  Speaker 4: and they got two first round picks and then two
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  Speaker 4: second round picks, and really, Paul George is only a
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  Speaker 4: stop gap. His contracts up next summer, so Sean it's
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  Speaker 4: a one year deal with Paul George and then they're
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  Speaker 4: going to reassess. But if you're the seventy six ers,
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  Speaker 4: you got Christmas in July, yes you did, because now
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  Speaker 4: they're going to embrace him and that they're going to
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  Speaker 4: help him play as great as he did with the Celtics.
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  Speaker 4: They need him as far as the seventy six ers,
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  Speaker 4: and with Terse Maxi a young star and now Jaalen
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  Speaker 4: Brown being there, and they also added Dean Wade who
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  Speaker 4: was from Cavaliers. He's a knockdown shooter on perimeter that's
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  Speaker 4: going to help them at all. And there's always the
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  Speaker 4: question is Joel l Embiid. If he's healthy, he's tremendous.
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  Speaker 4: If he's not, then it's a concern right now. So
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  Speaker 4: they also edited Anthony Simons, who off the bench will
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  Speaker 4: give them a good scoring lift. So the seventy six
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  Speaker 4: ers they benefited from the Celtics moving on from him.
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  Speaker 4: I like to trade from the seventy sixers point of view,
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  Speaker 4: the true days. The Celtics tablege it by getting the
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  Speaker 4: two first round picks and her second rounds and they're
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  Speaker 4: going to reassess next summer again, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Do you like kawhide back to Toronto?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? I do, Yeah, I do. Again, he's going home.
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  Speaker 4: As far as is the greatest triumphs in twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 4: as far as being world champions and it was two
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  Speaker 4: times MVP in the finals on time with younger guy
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  Speaker 4: with the Spurs back in twenty fourteen. And so he
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  Speaker 4: goes there and the extension as far as on his mind,
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  Speaker 4: he knows Bobby Webster, the general manager, very well and
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  Speaker 4: he thinks that I'm sure, I'm sure they're talking about
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  Speaker 4: it already. Is that by going back there, the chances
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  Speaker 4: of getting the ultimate for an extension was it will
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  Speaker 4: be there right now. It could be a two year,
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty four million dollar extension which will
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  Speaker 4: then put him probably into it his thirty seventh and
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  Speaker 4: thirty eighth year as far as as far as age group,
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  Speaker 4: and it's going to, I guess financially, really help him.
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  Speaker 4: With the Clippers point of view, also, they are still
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  Speaker 4: investigating when they signed them earlier ironically from the Clippers,
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  Speaker 4: and so that is it's on their head right now
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  Speaker 4: what happens as far the NBA stills now, I ruled
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  Speaker 4: on it, Sean, and you know, it's a long time
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  Speaker 4: as far as with the independent of independent agency looking
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  Speaker 4: at who did Rod, who knew about what was going
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  Speaker 4: on and why is it illegal? As far as the
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  Speaker 4: NBA point of view, not as far as society, but
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  Speaker 4: the NBA it hasn't been ruled on yet, so they
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  Speaker 4: move on from him and we'll see all plays out.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what's your list today, Gordon?
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  Speaker 4: All right, we're talking about economics, Sean, so I knew
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  Speaker 4: we were going to talk about it. This is the
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  Speaker 4: top twelve salaries for next season in the NBA. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: exactly right. When I look at this, I said, wait
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  Speaker 4: a second, and also Sean, and but the listeners right
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  Speaker 4: now driving your car. Here's the question I have for you,
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  Speaker 4: Sean and all the listeners. Will these teams get banged
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  Speaker 4: for their buck with their star players of these top
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  Speaker 4: twelve guys, Well, their teams get banged for their buck,
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  Speaker 4: that's the question. There's twelve guys. Five of these guys
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  Speaker 4: that are the twelve their team last season and didn't
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  Speaker 4: make the playoffs. So again that's the backdrop of this.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go, Sean Typer, number eleven, highest salary in
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  Speaker 4: the NBA. Right on point short, Kawhi Leonard and Paul
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  Speaker 4: George both make fifty four point one million dollars this
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  Speaker 4: coming season. Last year, the Clippers won c was on
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  Speaker 4: forty five games and the seventy six, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: on forty two games and sixties won forty five games.
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  Speaker 4: Number ten tenth highest paid salary in the NBA Jimmy
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  Speaker 4: Butler fifty six point eight million. Warriors won last year
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  Speaker 4: thirty seven games and no playoffs. Ty for seventh is
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  Speaker 4: three players Jalen Brown, Devin Brooker and Carl Anthony Towns
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  Speaker 4: Celts won fifty six games. Booker meaning the Suns won
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  Speaker 4: forty five and Anthony Towns Knickabockers won fifty plus being
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  Speaker 4: World Championship. The sixth highest paid player in the NBA
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  Speaker 4: is Joel Embiid at fifty eight point one million with
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  Speaker 4: the seventy six ers I mentioned early second ago sixty
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  Speaker 4: one forty five games. I tied for three. As far
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  Speaker 4: as the highest salaries in the NBA, they are Jason
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  Speaker 4: Tatum of the Celtics, Jannis Now of the Height formerly
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  Speaker 4: of the Bucks, and Anthony Davis of the Wizards who
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  Speaker 4: might be traded Sean will say within three weeks from
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: now so. Tatum fifty six games they won last year playoffs.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Yannis with the Bucks last year won thirty two games,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: no playoffs. Anthony did with the Wizards won seventeen games
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: after that trade won with no playoffs appearances. The second
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: most highest paid player in the NBA this year Nikolai
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Jokic fifty nine million with the Nuggets, is the Rockers
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Gibralto fifty four wins playlayoffs. And the last, but not least,
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: the number one player in the NBA with the highest
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: salary is Steph Curry thirty seven wins last year with
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: the Lawyers, no playoffs. Steph makes this season coming up
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: sixty two point six million dollars. So, Sean, do you
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  Speaker 4: think these teams are getting banks of their bucket?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's it's crazy because that's the same I'm making
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: here at ESPN seven hundred.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: So it's pretty wild to me. And we have the
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: same salary, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I love it. Good for you. An interesting dilemma.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Well again, also that these guys are all thirty something
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: years old, so this is almost the backside of their career.
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  Speaker 4: And that just shows you that can can you justify
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: making this money? It's almost like it's almost like a
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: parachute balloon. Thank you so much for your services and
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: to you your team, but also the NBA. And that's
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: why it's so important. You and I mentioned all the time,
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: especially in July and early August, about the better teams
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: get the salaries correct towards winning. Then let's describe what's winning.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Winning is what overachieving regular season and getting to the
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: playoffs and getting getting you wet a very substantial playoff
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: run to justify the star players salaries, where everybody wins, wins,
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: that defans win, the team wins, and the players win.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Gordy, have you ever been involved in a scenario heading
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: into a big game where you you did not think
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: you would have one of your most important players available,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: and then something happened and suspension is overturned, maybe an
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: injury is not as severe as you thought it was,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: and suddenly that player is available.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Have you ever had that?
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: No, because it happens a lot of times. We had
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: call them Malone, he had got into a fight the
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: day before, and the suddenly he waited for that phone
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: call the next morning by the NBA saying would he
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: be suspended or not. So usually in the NBA, you
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: know by the very next day most times now, most
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: times noontime Eastern time, So in Utah it would be
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: ten o'clock in the morning, whether it was called most times,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: whether a guy would be suspended for, how long we'll
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: be able to play the next game, et cetera, as
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: far as the severity of the outcome. So I know
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: you're talking right now about the World Cup with USA
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: player and with Belgium. Yeah, so it had happened before
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: at all, and it's very interesting how it's going to
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: play out right now. So no, it's not been that way, Gordy.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I assume you're going to be trying to balance both
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: watch a little Summer league basketball at the Huntsman, maybe
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: have the phone on the World Cup game.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Is that is that the plan for now?
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, very much. But also was showing let's talk about England.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: You just left there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, it was an unbelievable trip. Got to see
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: some matches at center court on Wimbledon. Right now, we've
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: got the split screen on the TV and anticipation of
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Portugal and Spain and then you got Wimbledon action on
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: the television. Man, it was it was amazing watching World
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Cup coverage on English television, Gordy. Also really fascinating because
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: obviously they are just shocker mad over there. I wasn't
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I wasn't there long enough to catch an England game
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: while I was there, but man, it was. It was
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: pretty cool to experience that across the pond, you.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Know, very much across the pond. And that is by
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: the World Cup being in North America. Is this shows
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: you the because there's no differential as far as time zones.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: That's really the coverage of being unbelievable as far as viewership. Yeah,
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: and that's the power of a American soil as far
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: as with the dynamics of it as far as but
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: the older TV partners and we see it up close
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: and tonight's game could be like almost like a show.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I imagine like fifty five sixty minutes people watching. It's
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: going to be incredible.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, little mini super Bowl situation potentially.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Yes, CODI much. I remember in Jazz basketball showing let's
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: point about it is that Jazz were involved in the
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: most ever watched game history of a professional basketball game
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: six versus Michael Jordan in nineteen ninety eight on Flag Day,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: which is June fourteenth, where thirty seven million people watched
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: that game. That's the most game ever in history of
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: NBA basketball.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: That's a fun little fact that may or may not
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: be used later to give away some tickets on the show.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Gordie, you're the man, appreciate your time as.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Always, welcome back, Thank you, Peak Out
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  Speaker 1: Gordi Chias our resident NBA Guru