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Gordie Chiesa Hour on the Utah Jazz and the NBA, Tonight at the Mavs, Sensabaugh's career night vs Chicago + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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Speaker 1: He's out.
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Speaker 2: Let's get the latest.
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Speaker 3: I'll make Utah Jazz with former Jazz assistant coach Gordion Chiasa.
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Speaker 2: He's forgotten more about the NBA than any of us
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Speaker 2: will ever know.
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Speaker 1: Let's not get crazy. Come for the.
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Speaker 4: Hoops talk, stay for his list of the day and
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Speaker 4: listen today here's o C with Basketball sob on Gordon
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Speaker 4: Chiasa on the Shan O'Connell Show.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Shan O'Connell Show.
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Speaker 3: Welcome in Gordon Chiasa, our resident NBA guru.
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Speaker 2: By the way, it's a National Bagel day.
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Speaker 3: Head down to NATO's Bagels, six sixty eight East Union
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Speaker 3: Square in Sandy, Utah, the old stopping grounds of yours,
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Speaker 3: truly God's country. I like to call it authentic New
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Speaker 3: York Babel bagels and New York Bagels sandwiches, as the
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Speaker 3: owner likes to say, we would call them sandwiches. You've
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Speaker 3: heard his commercial. He says sandwiches. They are incredibly authentic.
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Speaker 3: Down at NATO's Bagels, six sixty eight East Union Square
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Speaker 3: in Sandy.
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Speaker 2: We were talking about this off air.
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Speaker 3: Gordy, obviously you could tell by his accent, knows the
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Speaker 3: thing or two about a New York bagel.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I do, Hi, Sean very much.
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Speaker 4: You know, bagels are part of the culture back in
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Speaker 4: New York in New Jersey absolutely, and people argue over
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Speaker 4: who is the best bagels. Yes, whether it's the guy
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Speaker 4: from Midtown Manhattan or the guy from Cliffside Park, New
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Speaker 4: Jersey or the guy from Brooklyn. And it's an art form.
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Speaker 4: And yes, I know, I've had many bagels in my life.
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Speaker 4: As a matter of fact. You know, my family relatives
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Speaker 4: sometimes when they're in New York City, they get up
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Speaker 4: at five thirty in the morning to order the bagels.
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Speaker 4: So they walk into the bagel shop on say, fifty
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Speaker 4: seventh Street in Midtown Manhattan. They get to order right
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Speaker 4: away as the owner throws the order at them and
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Speaker 4: they have to catch it in mid air and then
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Speaker 4: go to work that day.
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Speaker 3: So when you talk to people from back East and
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Speaker 3: New Yorker specifically about well, come on, because you got
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Speaker 3: to be skeptical if you're not all the way, if
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Speaker 3: you're not indoctrinated to it, right, Like, Okay, I get it,
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Speaker 3: your bagels are the best, but why should they be better?
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Speaker 3: Are you using different flour? A lot of them will say, no,
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Speaker 3: it's the water. It's the New York water.
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Speaker 2: Whatever.
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Speaker 3: What theory do you prescribe to Gordy that separates New
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Speaker 3: York bagels from the rest of our mortal bagels?
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Speaker 1: Love?
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Speaker 4: Okay, it's the love of the of the baker, the
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Speaker 4: love of it. He's it's a recipe that he's perfected,
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Speaker 4: usually generational, and that's why it's great. And so if
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Speaker 4: you're in New York and New Jersey, iight, the three
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Speaker 4: things that are absolutely cultural bagels, pizza, and New York
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Speaker 4: style cheesecake. Oh those three people have arguments what's better?
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Speaker 4: Who has the best pizza, cheesecake or bagels in the city?
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Speaker 4: And to a metro New Jersey, New York end of
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Speaker 4: a fight, and it's.
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Speaker 3: Got to be a you gotta be able to be
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Speaker 3: ordered by the slice. If we're talking about New York pizza.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, he gets right, and it's a whole pie.
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Speaker 2: Come on, what are we talking about not New York.
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Speaker 4: And a New York style cheesecake? Oh my, that is
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Speaker 4: a whole different thing.
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Speaker 2: Are you a cheesecake guy? Yeah? I try.
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Speaker 4: I tempted my enthusiasm, so I have it. Usually on average,
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Speaker 4: I don't want to exaggerate only three times a year.
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Speaker 4: And that's by design, all right, by design only, otherwise
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Speaker 4: I get the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: I know that portion control problem.
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Speaker 3: You heard what we were talking about, Gordy before we
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Speaker 3: brought you in about the I guess the hierarchy of
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Speaker 3: importance and where and I effectively payroll fits.
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Speaker 2: And you've been.
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Speaker 3: Around pro sports a long time, you've been watching college
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Speaker 3: basketball since before most of us were born, and you've
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Speaker 3: seen all these changes.
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Speaker 2: So where would you put it?
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Speaker 3: Like the NIL the spending, the ability to provide from
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Speaker 3: a financial standpoint for college athletes specific, and then we'll
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Speaker 3: get into how it's different or the same in the
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Speaker 3: NBA and another pro sports. But your payroll from an
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Speaker 3: NIL endorsement perspective, however you get that money, how much
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Speaker 3: should that be contributing to your ability to win? If
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Speaker 3: it can't be the most important thing in my mind,
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Speaker 3: but it's darn near the most important thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, very much so.
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Speaker 4: The way I listened right now would be one by
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Speaker 4: far is coaching absolutely, Because coaching in those close games,
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Speaker 4: whether it's football, whether it's basketball, whether it's baseball, et cetera,
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Speaker 4: is that coaching absolutely. The little things the nuances why
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Speaker 4: players overachieve and why they win close battles. Second, now
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Speaker 4: in this generation, as it will say twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 4: is by far nl money because you need talent, and
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Speaker 4: so now private equity is involved. And it's only the
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Speaker 4: beginning of it. We've only touched the first basis of it,
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Speaker 4: and it's going to get much further and further and
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Speaker 4: further out. Three is culture, and part of culture when
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Speaker 4: you walk in that building and or a practice facility,
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Speaker 4: there is a certain amount of respect and discipline that
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Speaker 4: the winning programs have. And the last one is is
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Speaker 4: player development. Is that so you get so your coaching
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Speaker 4: is good, you have a whole bunch of money, the
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Speaker 4: culture is good, and now those guys that are underdeveloped
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Speaker 4: as far as usually physically and you get them stronger, quicker,
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Speaker 4: and more athletic, and then you work on their skills
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Speaker 4: and you're able to become major contributors or absolute difference makers.
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Speaker 4: And the last point about it is that all the
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Speaker 4: above is that the first four things and the last
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Speaker 4: thing you do need is what a thing called chemistry.
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Speaker 4: So you can have everything going fear, But the star
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Speaker 4: players think they're stars and affects all the group, and
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Speaker 4: so chemistry is this most underrated thing in sports. And
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Speaker 4: when the different makers are team orientated, wow, your team
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Speaker 4: can be champions at every level.
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Speaker 3: The chemistry thing is actually for me one of the
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Speaker 3: most important as we're in this nil era, because I
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Speaker 3: don't know how you maintain elite team chemistry and a
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Speaker 3: college program when there's guys who are making nothing, which
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Speaker 3: is not the case in pro sports, like truly zero
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Speaker 3: beside their scholarship, and I guess for walk Ons they
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Speaker 3: got zero zero. And then you've got guys like Dante
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Speaker 3: Moore is making the seven and a half million bucks,
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Speaker 3: like those dynamics I think would be hard to coach.
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Speaker 4: Yes, all right, so now comes down to individual respect
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Speaker 4: for your teammates and floormates. Basketball is floormates, in football
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Speaker 4: is fieldmates, and other sports and your teammates are there,
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Speaker 4: so that you've got to respect your teammates as equals,
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Speaker 4: even though you're getting paid more money. And that's when
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Speaker 4: you get them involved as far as decision making. You
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Speaker 4: got your way to really talk to them about things
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Speaker 4: on the field and off the field, and generally speaking,
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Speaker 4: you're sincere about their interests even though you're the highest
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Speaker 4: paid performer in the locker room, you really have an
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Speaker 4: interest in everyone else. And that's part of it, because
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Speaker 4: you're a leader. Leadership is not only on the field.
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Speaker 4: It's twenty four to seven, and that's why it changes.
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Speaker 4: And we see in the NFL right now, I'm assuming
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Speaker 4: Sean that most of those quarterbacks and the final eight
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Speaker 4: teams in this weekend, those guys are all leaders, both
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Speaker 4: on the field, in the locker room, above sea level
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Speaker 4: thirty five thousand feet on a charter plane, and also
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Speaker 4: when you're when you're entering the bus before a game.
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Speaker 4: And these are all things that we lived this life,
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Speaker 4: so that we've seen it firsthand how white teams have
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Speaker 4: chemistry and why they don't, or it's slipping because so
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Speaker 4: and so thinks the more important than the group.
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Speaker 3: Dramatically, it's inter I used to work in bars and
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Speaker 3: clubs downtown while I was in college and stuff, and
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Speaker 3: the jazz would come through, right. I got to see
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Speaker 3: some of these guys in their young years when they
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Speaker 3: were out clubing and partying and things like that, and
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Speaker 3: I never I didn't really put much thought into it
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Speaker 3: at the time other than, wow, that's a big bar
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Speaker 3: tab that guy's picking up. But it was customary, it seemed,
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Speaker 3: at least for the biggest star who happened to be
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Speaker 3: at the club that night to pay the tab. That
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Speaker 3: the guy who was the highest compensated or the highest
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Speaker 3: profile player when he and his friends were hanging out
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Speaker 3: and ordering bottle service to the table, that's the guy
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Speaker 3: who we brought the bill to. And when you think
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Speaker 3: about it from this perspective, it's that that wasn't just
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Speaker 3: to flex and say I'm the highest paid guy, I'm
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Speaker 3: the rich guy. I guess if you're the highest paid dude,
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Speaker 3: you want to treat your teammates so that they know
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Speaker 3: that it maintains a respectful atmosphere and it's not something
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Speaker 3: that you're lording over them necessarily, but you're allowing them
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Speaker 3: to benefit from you or contract as well.
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Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, very much.
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Speaker 4: Also, Hey, in the NFL, we've all seen stories about
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Speaker 4: the star quarterback. He pays money to the lineman. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: but he buys them extra, unbelievable gifts. He buys their
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Speaker 4: wives or girlfriends or others gifts as far as that.
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Speaker 4: Because thank you for protecting me, for sure, thank you
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Speaker 4: to backup left tackle, I appreciate it. Thank you that
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Speaker 4: you are diligent about your job. Your footwork is a superior.
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Speaker 4: You're not gonna have it holding penalties. Thank you for
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Speaker 4: my blindside. I appreciate it, so does my loved ones.
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Speaker 2: There was actually I think it was Joe Burrow.
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Speaker 3: There was a great story a couple last week, a
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Speaker 3: week ago, maybe two weeks ago, that Joe Burrow brought
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Speaker 3: his lineman over and he collects fossils, and he said,
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Speaker 3: you guys can each have a fossil, which for me
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Speaker 3: would be one of the coolest gifts I imagine for
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Speaker 3: all them that someone We're like, why would I want that?
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Speaker 3: But kind of neat. We got to take a break.
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Speaker 3: The hot lunch is coming. Gordon's gonna hang out with
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Speaker 3: us for the whole hour. We're gonna have some fun.
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Speaker 3: We haven't even gotten into the Jazz or the NBA
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Speaker 2: We show our.
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Speaker 3: Number two, Gordy Chiasa here brought to you by a
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Speaker 3: to the NBA All Star Game in a changed format,
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Speaker 3: let's talk a little Utah jazz.
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Speaker 2: What'd you make of the performance last night?
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Speaker 4: Legendary masterpiece show was alluding to right now, Bryce Censerball
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Speaker 4: who scored forty three points, including twenty one points in
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Speaker 4: the first quarter, which is a record, and shown the
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Speaker 4: former record that Bryce broke last night was done was
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Speaker 4: done by a guy named Lance Stephenson and Shawn. His
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Speaker 4: nickname was Born Ready. Now of course it was self annointed,
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Speaker 4: of course it was but Born Ready Lance Stevenson. Where
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Speaker 4: Lance scored twenty points in the first quarter on January fifth,
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Speaker 4: twenty twenty two, and when Bryce did. He came into
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Speaker 4: the game and right away Impactville quickly, and his the
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Speaker 4: metrics fifteen for twenty two from the field, five to
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Speaker 4: ten from three, these five rebounds and two assist in
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Speaker 4: thirty four minutes and his forty three points for the
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Speaker 4: game is also, as we speak right now, the most
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Speaker 4: off the bench performance this year by an NBA player. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 4: the Jazz lost in a really hard Ford game one
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Speaker 4: twenty eight to one twenty six, and the Jazz didn't
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Speaker 4: play some of their guys. Again without objectively I'm trying
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Speaker 4: to be objective, is that if usif Knirkerche were to have
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Speaker 4: played Nick Vussevich, we all like he had thirty five
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Speaker 4: points when he got those points in his rebounds, and
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Speaker 4: so they missed use of Nurkriche they missed him badly
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Speaker 4: on the boards.
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Speaker 1: They also didn't play uh. They also didn't play his illness.
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Speaker 4: As far as Larry marketing, he did not perform as
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Speaker 4: far as playing and it set him back some. So
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Speaker 4: tonight the Jazz played tonight in Dallas. Dallas lost last
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Speaker 4: night at home to the unbelievable Denver Nuggets, who are
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Speaker 4: playing shorthanded also and now so the Jazz are going
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Speaker 4: to play tonight in hoop of flag showing last night's
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Speaker 4: sprained ankle during the game, so we'll see if he
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Speaker 4: placed tonight versus the Jazz. Last night Jazz loose. Hopefully
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Speaker 4: they can turn around tonight and get a win tonight.
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Speaker 3: Let it be a lesson to you, Dallas Mavericks, do
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Speaker 3: not do not commit a flagrant foul on Bryce Sensiba
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Speaker 3: early in the game, or he's going to go off
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Speaker 3: for forty three points.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we saw that against the Bulls.
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Speaker 3: All right, go back, they reevaluate, ends up, the foul
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Speaker 3: gets upgraded like who was it ended up pulling on
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Speaker 3: his shoulder a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, could have been a dangerous right.
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Speaker 3: You don't want to create that top heavy angle on
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Speaker 3: guys when they're airborne, so they upgrade it flagrant.
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Speaker 1: Won.
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Speaker 3: Bryce Sensiba goes off after that, So be careful what
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Speaker 3: you wish for with Bryce.
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Speaker 4: Very much, and also be careful you wish for is
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Speaker 4: also County George, who's playing tremendous. So as Bryce had
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Speaker 4: this outrageous first quarter, Chiunty had a masterpiece as far
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Speaker 4: as in the fourth quarter, where he scored fifteen points,
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Speaker 4: including fifteen points, which added to his twenty eight point
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Speaker 4: performance last night. Eight to seventeen from the field, and
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Speaker 4: he had he had seven assists, and so it's a
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Speaker 4: it was really a really good performance. The Jazz shot
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Speaker 4: fifty five percent for the game and loss, so that's troubling. Well,
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Speaker 4: the bull shot fifty one percent and they won. Now
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Speaker 4: the Jazz now tonight's game quickly. As far as a
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Speaker 4: segue to it is that the Jazz beating the Mavericks
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Speaker 4: right now twice, they're ready to share.
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Speaker 1: So the two and zero.
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Speaker 4: The Jazz played tonight in Dallas and also Saturday afternoons
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Speaker 4: shown again in Dallas, So they're going to be in
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Speaker 4: Big D for the next three days. And I don't
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Speaker 4: mean Dallas Cowboys either.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: There were a couple of possessions consecutively where Keyante was
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Speaker 3: just you're kind of playing hero ball early in the game. Now, look,
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Speaker 3: he's been incredible. I'm not trying to pile on a
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Speaker 3: guy who obviously is really having a sort of I
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Speaker 3: don't know if you'd call it a renaissance here, but
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Speaker 3: it's a breakout year at least. How do you coach
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Speaker 3: a guy who's been hot wants to stay hot when
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Speaker 3: he's he's giving you a couple of kind of really
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Speaker 3: bad possessions in a very very winnable game. You don't
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Speaker 3: want to smash his confidence, I imagine, but you also
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Speaker 3: I mean there were three trips down the floor where
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Speaker 3: as soon as the ball touched it touched his hands,
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Speaker 3: he was a ball stopper. He was just like, I'm
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Speaker 3: keeping this and he was giving up. You know, he's
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Speaker 3: putting up these off ballance shots and things like that.
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Speaker 3: It has been uncharacteristic and all of them were missed
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Speaker 3: and they were rebounds for the bulls the other way.
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Speaker 3: It's a little microcosm, but how do you snap somebody
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Speaker 3: out of that or how do you coach him out
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Speaker 3: of that?
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Speaker 4: Well, at the moments I split second where you want
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Speaker 4: to be with ball confidence, but also you want to
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Speaker 4: have shared the ball. So what you do that is
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Speaker 4: that during the time out you would say to him,
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Speaker 4: we want you to be aggressive, but first move the
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Speaker 4: ball first. So instead of coming down and have no
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Speaker 4: one else touching the ball and you're going one on one,
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Speaker 4: we always tell the players, let's go organize one on
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Speaker 4: one where the ball swunk to you in space and
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Speaker 4: that's a great time. The defenses is sliding over the
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Speaker 4: lake getting there as far as in coverage, as far
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Speaker 4: as health defense, and you have a much easier chance
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Speaker 4: to get to the top of the basket. So you try
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Speaker 4: to get to his senses and calm him down. Usually speaking,
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Speaker 4: most young players showing play offense too fast and defense
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Speaker 4: too slow. So at that moment you're alluding to he's
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Speaker 4: playing offense way way too fast. Even though you love
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Speaker 4: his confidence and he did deliver a later run in
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Speaker 4: the game, you want him to play bit more U
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Speaker 4: measured at that time.
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Speaker 3: Talking NBA with Gordy Chiza here on ESPN seven hundred
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Speaker 3: and ninety two one FM, we've got Warriors Nicks on
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Speaker 3: the station. Tonight coverage starts at seven point thirty. Tip
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Speaker 3: off is at eight o'clock right here on ESPN seven
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Speaker 3: hundred and ninety two one FM. Jonathan Kaminga has demanded
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Speaker 3: a trade from the Warriors, so we talked about that
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Speaker 3: all offseason.
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Speaker 2: Gordy, what's gonna happen there?
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Speaker 3: Are they going to find the right I guess agreement
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Speaker 3: and that's gone sour.
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Speaker 4: Yes, it has very much. They try to have it
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Speaker 4: work out and it is not so Johnathan Kaminga, who's
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Speaker 4: really a major young talent. Remember they drafted him, and
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Speaker 4: so usually speaking to draft somebody, you don't want to
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Speaker 4: trade them. This is his fifth season in the NBA
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Speaker 4: and he was picking number seven back in twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 4: and this just shows you that it has not worked out.
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Speaker 4: So between now and the trading deadline, which is Thursday,
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Speaker 4: February fifth, they're going to trade him.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 4: The problem is gonna be they're not gonna get equal
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Speaker 4: value for him, and so the Warriors are gonna make
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Speaker 4: a value judgment where addition by subtraction and his new
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Speaker 4: team will embrace him with open arms as far as
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Speaker 4: this guy that has talent, and usually speaking, we need
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Speaker 4: more scoring for lesser teams and that's what he's gonna
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Speaker 4: provide for them. So it has not worked out. They're
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Speaker 4: gonna try to move him, and I'm sure it's gonna
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Speaker 4: be a process.
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Speaker 3: Right now, who do you think are the biggest players
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Speaker 3: in the Jonathan Kaminga market?
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Speaker 4: Bulls Bulls could go after him as far as trying
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Speaker 4: to get him any the Magic could try to get
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Speaker 4: him also as far as try that. The Bucks also
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Speaker 4: will be a major player as far as the Bucks
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Speaker 4: right out over underachieving right now to seventeen to twenty three,
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Speaker 4: So they're gonna, they're gonna they're going to move players around,
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Speaker 4: and it's very possible that you know, Kyle Kuza could
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Speaker 4: be in play also, so it's possible you can make
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Speaker 4: a narrative with other players involved, also kaminga for Kyle Kuzma. Interesting,
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Speaker 4: you could, it's possible as far as the numbers working
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Speaker 4: out with other players involved.
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Speaker 2: You know, for Kusa, i'd like to see that.
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Speaker 3: I'd like to see him end up in the Bay
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Speaker 3: Area playing with that that Warriors team, if they could
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Speaker 3: make that work.
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Speaker 4: And the trading deadline, remember you need partners to trade,
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Speaker 4: so sometimes it might be a three way trade. Now
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Speaker 4: usually speaking now there's always an outlaw, but everyone's talking
19:01
Speaker 4: all thirty teams, but only basically ten to twelve teams
19:05
Speaker 4: are actively trying to trade in the off season. The
19:09
Speaker 4: week of the NBA Draft, everybody's trying to trade assets
19:13
Speaker 4: to move up in the draft. And so right now
19:17
Speaker 4: some of these teams are really will make trades. And
19:19
Speaker 4: we saw the first trade is ready with the Trey
19:21
Speaker 4: Young being traded from the Lanta Hawks to the Washington
19:25
Speaker 4: Wizards and sees the McCollum and Corey Kesper going from
19:28
Speaker 4: the Wizards to the Alanta Hawks.
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Speaker 1: That's just the beginning. What about Jazz basketball and he trades.
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Speaker 4: I would say it's possible where the Jazz he's not
19:39
Speaker 4: played this year yet, but he's shooting before games that
19:42
Speaker 4: it's possible. George and Nyang, who's a good shooter, has value,
19:46
Speaker 4: could be traded as far as an acid maybe a
19:49
Speaker 4: second round pick to someone else.
19:51
Speaker 1: As far as neath dingan shooter.
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Speaker 3: We just got the minivan back and then we could
19:55
Speaker 3: send him out again.
19:55
Speaker 4: That's I don't like that, but it's possible. These are
19:58
Speaker 4: all different things that teams are gonna try to train
20:02
Speaker 4: for a new model as far as the minivan. But
20:04
Speaker 4: Jeorge ni Yang there's always value. You can never have
20:08
Speaker 4: enough shooting as far as even off the bench because
20:10
Speaker 4: Silma gets injured. So someone like George Niang on a
20:14
Speaker 4: playoff type team, Sean, if he makes back to back
20:17
Speaker 4: three point shots in game two of a playoff, here
20:20
Speaker 4: hearing his whole sally hearing those there's two possessions literally
20:25
Speaker 4: the events in the playoffs.
20:28
Speaker 3: I could see it all right, let's talk about this
20:32
Speaker 3: changed NBA All Star format. We've discussed it when they
20:36
Speaker 3: announced that, Hey, we're gonna try to capture some of
20:39
Speaker 3: this four Nations magic that we saw from the NHL
20:41
Speaker 3: All Star Break last year.
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Speaker 2: Everybody, I mean.
20:44
Speaker 3: People watch that more than they watched the NHL regular season,
20:48
Speaker 3: second only to the Stanley Cup Finals in terms of
20:51
Speaker 3: the ratings there. And I applaud the NBA's flexibility and
20:56
Speaker 3: willingness to keep try and keep there. They're All Star
20:59
Speaker 3: weekend interesting and relevant, and so they've adopted the same format.
21:03
Speaker 3: But it's it's kind of interesting because basketball from a
21:08
Speaker 3: heritage standpoint has been very much an American thing. The
21:11
Speaker 3: NBA especially has been an American sport. That is, gradually
21:15
Speaker 3: we've seen more international influx, and I think that this format, Gordy,
21:19
Speaker 3: might set us up for a situation where we're like
21:21
Speaker 3: man in the NBA specifically, the international talent has now
21:26
Speaker 3: taken over.
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Speaker 1: That's an understatement.
21:29
Speaker 4: So Showan's talking about right now, He's quickly is that
21:33
Speaker 4: today ended the voting by the fans. All right, So
21:36
Speaker 4: the conference start is voted by the fans of fifty
21:39
Speaker 4: percent of the voting twenty five percent by current NBA
21:42
Speaker 4: players and twenty five percent by NBA accredited media to
21:47
Speaker 4: the words, those three groups vote for the starters, and
21:51
Speaker 4: then the seven reserves are voted by the NBA head coaches.
21:57
Speaker 4: This year, it's going to be in the inter With
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Speaker 4: Dome in Englewood, California, home of the LA Clippers, is
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Speaker 4: on Sunday, February fifteenth. The broadcast partners are NBC and
22:07
Speaker 4: Peacock Streaming. So if you're if you if you have
22:10
Speaker 4: stock in NBC, Sean O'Connell is that NBC is doing
22:14
Speaker 4: the All Star Game.
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Speaker 1: They're doing they're doing the.
22:17
Speaker 4: Olympics in Italy, if for as far as Winter Olympics,
22:20
Speaker 4: and most of all they're doing right now also the
22:25
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. So they're having a batter year as far
22:29
Speaker 4: as they're programming.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 4: With that said, here should be the starters. This is
22:37
Speaker 4: me just talking. Should be the starters. We'll just go
22:39
Speaker 4: over the starters quickly, not the reserves, and then we'll
22:42
Speaker 4: talk about the world the World team. The Stars of
22:44
Speaker 4: East should be Kate Cunningham, Terse Maxi, Jalen Brown, Giannis
22:50
Speaker 4: and Jail and Jaalen Brunson and for the first time.
22:53
Speaker 4: It's not based on position, so that's good. So there's
22:56
Speaker 4: not yet to have no centers. It's gonna be the
22:58
Speaker 4: five best players as far as the starters, and then
23:01
Speaker 4: the West starters should be Cha Jos, Alexander, luk At Dantage,
23:09
Speaker 4: Nikolai Jokic, Anthony Edwards and Victor Wenbiyamba. That should be
23:15
Speaker 4: the starters. Now he's gonna be the World for the
23:18
Speaker 4: first time. They're having a round robin tournament where they're
23:22
Speaker 4: gonna be three teams East Team, West Team and the
23:27
Speaker 4: World Team. And so before this there's only twenty four players,
23:32
Speaker 4: twelve in the East, twelve in the West. But Adam
23:35
Speaker 4: Silva recently said that he might add some players to
23:40
Speaker 4: make it twenty five and twenty six as far as
23:42
Speaker 4: total all Stars. So with that said, he could be
23:45
Speaker 4: the World Team All Stars and his round robin tournament,
23:48
Speaker 4: which would be three teams of twelve games twelve minutes,
23:52
Speaker 4: twelve of twelve minutes of each of each format. As
23:57
Speaker 4: far as the NBA game, here we are of Canada schedules.
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Speaker 4: Alexander and Jamal Murray from Canadian from France, Victor Wenbiamba
24:08
Speaker 4: from Slovenia, Luca Dantage from Greece, Giannis from Turkey, Alpha
24:13
Speaker 4: run Chagoon from Serbia, Nikolai Jokic from Israel, Denny Avdya
24:20
Speaker 4: from Finland, Larry Markining and from Cameroon Pascal Siakam. So
24:28
Speaker 4: that is some crewe as far as for the World team.
24:32
Speaker 4: And let's get back for one second about Larry Marketing.
24:36
Speaker 4: He should make it. Should he should be voted by
24:39
Speaker 4: the NBA coaches to be reserved.
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Speaker 1: He shouldn't.
24:42
Speaker 4: If not, then Adam Silva mentioned four has the right
24:45
Speaker 4: to add one or two players. And I'm assuming that
24:48
Speaker 4: it's going to be either. It's gonna be if not
24:50
Speaker 4: both either or Larry Marketing or Denny Avdya, who's having
24:55
Speaker 4: a great year for the Portland Trailblazers.
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Speaker 1: He's been tremendous. As far as him performing this.
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Speaker 3: Year, How far away is Caante George from being an
25:05
Speaker 3: NBA All Star the way he's playing?
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Speaker 1: Soon? Yes, soon, very much.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, within the next two to three years, that would
25:20
Speaker 4: be right there. As far as knocking on, knocking on,
25:22
Speaker 4: as far as him making him making the All Star
25:26
Speaker 4: team because he has enough scoring your ability, and as
25:29
Speaker 4: far as talent. So see Jamal Murray, we all love him.
25:33
Speaker 4: This is his first time. Jamal Murray should make the
25:36
Speaker 4: All Star team as a reserve. So as great as
25:38
Speaker 4: he was, he's never made the All Star team. That's
25:41
Speaker 4: how hard. It's not a question of he's not an
25:43
Speaker 4: All Star type caliber. There's just so many guys that
25:47
Speaker 4: are ultra talented and there's just few spots.
25:50
Speaker 1: So example, C J.
25:51
Speaker 4: McCollums showing his average twenty points a game for the
25:54
Speaker 4: last nine years, never been.
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Speaker 1: An All Star. That's how hard it is to make
25:58
Speaker 1: the team.
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Speaker 3: Kiante George, this is a press release from the Jazz
26:05
Speaker 3: that just came across the desk here. Keyante George is
26:08
Speaker 3: going to be honored by his old high school, Lewisville
26:13
Speaker 3: High School, which I suppose it kind of depends on
26:17
Speaker 3: the relationship you have with your early days and your
26:19
Speaker 3: neighborhood and all that kind of thing.
26:22
Speaker 2: For me, I peaked in high.
26:23
Speaker 3: School where were we Nothing cooler than to have my
26:25
Speaker 3: old high school be like, hey, we're hanging your jersey
26:29
Speaker 3: and the rafters or whatever just honoring you. I don't
26:32
Speaker 3: know how it's gonna affect Kiante George and he's only
26:34
Speaker 3: been out of high school for like, I don't know,
26:37
Speaker 3: six years, so it's a little bit different for him.
26:39
Speaker 3: But that's kind of a cool little honor.
26:41
Speaker 4: Oh very much, absolutely, because that's your neighborhood, that's you
26:45
Speaker 4: grew up and these are the loved ones that helped
26:47
Speaker 4: you become an NBA player, whether it's your coach or
26:49
Speaker 4: whether it's your teammates in high school.
26:52
Speaker 1: And so it's a big thing.
26:53
Speaker 4: And then Sewan even better than that, Sewan, you could
26:55
Speaker 4: wear your lettuce sweater. Yes, yes, you know the lettuce sweater.
26:59
Speaker 4: The young listeners right now, is that a badge of
27:04
Speaker 4: honor is when you are able to go to school
27:07
Speaker 4: and you get a letter sweater and these different stripes
27:10
Speaker 4: on your sweater based on if you're varsity for how
27:13
Speaker 4: many years? And it sounds so trivial, but when you're fifteen, sixteen,
27:17
Speaker 4: seventeen years old and usually you you have pimples in
27:20
Speaker 4: your face, that's a big, big thing as far as
27:23
Speaker 4: having that, it was.
27:24
Speaker 3: The coolest thing, right And I was born in the
27:27
Speaker 3: wrong era because I don't it was probably not even
27:29
Speaker 3: cool to care so much about your letterman jacket. By
27:32
Speaker 3: the time I made it to high school, but man
27:34
Speaker 3: making varsity as a sophomore and be ineligible for that
27:37
Speaker 3: varsity letter when you're a you know, no, there was
27:41
Speaker 3: only one two other guys in the grade that were
27:44
Speaker 3: varsity in football, and so we were the only ones
27:47
Speaker 3: who could get the letterman jackets. I was like, I
27:49
Speaker 3: thought I was the king of the world. And then
27:51
Speaker 3: what happens you graduate? You never get to wear it again.
27:55
Speaker 3: I want a reason to wear it again. Well, I
27:57
Speaker 3: might just wear it into the studio, just.
27:59
Speaker 1: Absolutely sure and bring it in. Bring it in.
28:02
Speaker 4: I want to see you a letterman jacket. I want
28:04
Speaker 4: to see if you could be flexing with it.
28:06
Speaker 3: I mean beautiful if beautiful gray leather sleeves. It's this
28:10
Speaker 3: nice dark maroon for dear old Jordan High. I mean,
28:13
Speaker 3: it's a beautiful piece of wardrobe and it's just been
28:18
Speaker 3: collecting dust for twenty three years now.
28:20
Speaker 4: But also add to that, that's a point of your
28:22
Speaker 4: life in all players life for Kanty George, where again
28:26
Speaker 4: there's so much of your formative years as far as
28:29
Speaker 4: being an athlete, and that you're able to excel at
28:32
Speaker 4: that level and that the people remember you where you
28:36
Speaker 4: were and hopefully that you remember the people and be thankful,
28:40
Speaker 4: and I'm sure he will be thankful of your coaches
28:43
Speaker 4: and the principal and administrators there that helped you and
28:46
Speaker 4: Showan you know right now, the most important person, though, Sean.
28:49
Speaker 4: Usually speaking of a building in high school, you know
28:52
Speaker 4: it is Sewan. It's the janitor, the custodian, because that
28:56
Speaker 4: guy knows everything what goes on in the building more
29:00
Speaker 4: than usually the vice principal and the principal, and then Sewan,
29:03
Speaker 4: especially in its cold weather, that the janitor determines whether
29:07
Speaker 4: in basketball practice you're practicing with heat in the building
29:11
Speaker 4: as far as on the court or no heat. So Sewan,
29:14
Speaker 4: when I was in my younger day showing I was
29:16
Speaker 4: a college coach, I used to give the guy, the janitor,
29:19
Speaker 4: on average, will say, four bottles a year of Cuddy
29:25
Speaker 4: Shark to make sure that on Saturday, on our weekends
29:28
Speaker 4: Satire Sunday, that the heat was on the gym no
29:31
Speaker 4: matter what happens, at least two hours before we started practicing. Sean,
29:35
Speaker 4: on average four times a year Cuddie Shark, gladly love it.
29:40
Speaker 3: Let it be a less of all you folks out there,
29:42
Speaker 3: just to you know, give a shout out maybe a
29:44
Speaker 3: little gift or something to your high school janitor. They
29:47
Speaker 3: keep things running. There's been a conversation this week about
29:52
Speaker 3: the Memphis Grizzlies entertaining trade offers for John Morant, who's
29:58
Speaker 3: obviously like he's the biggest star on that team, and
30:01
Speaker 3: he's been one of the embattled stars recently in the NBA.
30:06
Speaker 3: We facetiously were joking about send a guy like that
30:10
Speaker 3: to a place like Salt Lake City where you can't
30:12
Speaker 3: find the sort of trouble that he's finding himself in.
30:15
Speaker 3: But realistically, what are the teams that might be in
30:18
Speaker 3: the market for a star like John Moran.
30:21
Speaker 4: He's a star, but he's also he's troubled. Here's his contract,
30:24
Speaker 4: So you've got to find a team that's gonna move
30:28
Speaker 4: a lot of assets to try to get him. So
30:31
Speaker 4: here's his contract this year thirty nine point four million,
30:35
Speaker 4: twenty six, twenty seven forty two point one million, and
30:38
Speaker 4: twenty seven, twenty eight forty four point eight million. And
30:42
Speaker 4: so I'm not saying that it's impossible to trade, but
30:45
Speaker 4: it's it's unlikely right now.
30:49
Speaker 1: As far between now and.
30:50
Speaker 4: February fifth, there'll be more people that will be off
30:54
Speaker 4: the books come July first, so he could be it
30:59
Speaker 4: could you could trade him the right before the draft
31:02
Speaker 4: and then announce it after July one of this year.
31:04
Speaker 4: Where you get more, you get more bang for your buck.
31:07
Speaker 4: So it's possible, but it's unlikely because of that because
31:10
Speaker 4: of the numbers right now. It's like Anthony Davis also
31:12
Speaker 4: the exact same thing. Remember a lot of times the
31:15
Speaker 4: agents are talking, but the teams aren't see a lot
31:18
Speaker 4: of it. So example, Rich paulsa recently of Clutch Sports,
31:23
Speaker 4: which represents besides Lebron James, Anthony Davis and many many
31:27
Speaker 4: other star players, he wants to be traded. That sounds
31:30
Speaker 4: great in theory. But if I'm if I'm the Dallas Mavericks,
31:33
Speaker 4: they're gonna do what's best for them because now Cooper
31:36
Speaker 4: Flagg is the the the biggest star for them as
31:39
Speaker 4: far as they're going through, and so they're not gonna
31:42
Speaker 4: get You don't have to trade Anthony Davis right now,
31:45
Speaker 4: you do not, and so they're gonna try to wait
31:47
Speaker 4: and see you get the best deal for them.
31:49
Speaker 3: What's the reaction in the locker room when somebody like
31:52
Speaker 3: Rich Paul colors outside the lines a little bit and says, hey,
31:55
Speaker 3: we should trade Austin Reeves for so and so or whatever.
31:58
Speaker 3: And you a situation where Reeves is looking at Bron
32:03
Speaker 3: and be like your best friend and agent is trying
32:05
Speaker 3: to get me traded out of here, man, Like, how
32:08
Speaker 3: does the locker room handle that?
32:09
Speaker 4: The answer is it's a very very uh trippy about it.
32:13
Speaker 4: As far as Lebron's quota is saying that I don't
32:16
Speaker 4: my agent represents his own interests, not mine, as far
32:19
Speaker 4: as this situation and that Austin Reeves we're teammates right now,
32:24
Speaker 4: and also reads also guess what is a really a
32:26
Speaker 4: talented player? And so how you handle it is that
32:29
Speaker 4: you go to that player and explain to him and
32:31
Speaker 4: hopefully with sincerity and be truthfulness. Is that that's my
32:35
Speaker 4: agent talking, that's not me. And so that's why it's
32:39
Speaker 4: so important to have it with with with each other,
32:41
Speaker 4: an individual relationship that's based on a word called trust.
32:47
Speaker 4: That when you break trust in a team sport, it's
32:50
Speaker 4: hard to bring it back. And trust is everything besides talent,
32:54
Speaker 4: and that's what we call this to be successful, Sean,
32:58
Speaker 4: we called the three t's, trust, talent, and technique, and
33:03
Speaker 4: all three are equal as far as.
33:05
Speaker 1: In a team setting.
33:07
Speaker 2: What's the list today, Gordon?
33:09
Speaker 1: My list today?
33:10
Speaker 4: We can never get enough of Victor Wen beyonda All right,
33:14
Speaker 4: So the Jazz play the Spurs on Monday, Doctor Luther
33:19
Speaker 4: King of Celebration Day in San Antonio. This list today
33:23
Speaker 4: is the all time best retired or present French NBA players.
33:29
Speaker 4: So French NBA players, it's the top ten. But show
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Speaker 4: me before I give you a list right now, I
33:34
Speaker 4: just want to give you. I want to test you
33:35
Speaker 4: knowledge of France. Oh okay, all right, Sean. What is
33:39
Speaker 4: the capital of France?
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Speaker 2: Paris?
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Speaker 1: Correct? What's Paris's name as far as nickname?
33:45
Speaker 2: The city of lights?
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Speaker 1: That is correct, Sean? Name for me?
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Speaker 4: Three out of the four French breads that there French
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Speaker 4: people eat three out of four?
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Speaker 3: Okay, croissant correct, baguette correct, you're.
34:09
Speaker 1: Making us up.
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Speaker 2: Bread with chocolate. It's okay, croissants with the chocolate.
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Speaker 1: We'll give it.
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Speaker 2: I know what were the other two for you? Crepes? Oh, crapes,
34:22
Speaker 2: and then like really really thin pancakes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And then also James's favorite it's not really it's not
34:28
Speaker 4: a bread, but it's also a dish. Right now, is
34:31
Speaker 4: a cache and also so fla.
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Speaker 2: I'm a big guy.
34:35
Speaker 1: I love a goodie and Sean. I'm impressed with Sean.
34:39
Speaker 4: And also add to this, I know my job in
34:41
Speaker 4: society right now, Seans try to help you come more
34:43
Speaker 4: enlightened like that. That's my job in society. I appreciate
34:46
Speaker 4: you get about coaching. Fair about that? Okay, Sean. Remember
34:49
Speaker 4: the French Alps, yes, yes, And remember you love French cooking.
34:54
Speaker 2: Yeah I do. I'm a big fan of most types
34:57
Speaker 2: of cuisine.
34:59
Speaker 1: Okay, So here we go.
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Speaker 4: So Sean has passed our annual test about French pastry
35:05
Speaker 4: and cooking. As our list right now, the ten all
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Speaker 4: time best French players either retired or president. Number ten
35:13
Speaker 4: he played for the Gonzaga Ronnie Tarrioff. He retired in two
35:16
Speaker 4: entyd and fifteen had a ten year NBA Korea. Number
35:19
Speaker 4: nine he plays in the NBA right now for the
35:22
Speaker 4: Washington Wizards. He's a future All Star. He's an ultra talented.
35:26
Speaker 4: His third year Bela Colabali, who's very very good. Number
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Speaker 4: eight nickname was Air France Michael Petrice. He played in
35:36
Speaker 4: the NBA for eleven years. He retired back in twenty
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Speaker 4: thirteen number seven. Boris Diao retired in twenty seventeen. Fourteen
35:45
Speaker 4: year NBA Korea number five Evan Fournier retired back in
35:50
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four. Just recently, he had an outstanding twelve
35:53
Speaker 4: year NBA Korea number five, two time champion for the
35:58
Speaker 4: Florida Gators as an under graduate. He retired back in
36:02
Speaker 4: twenty twenty With a thirteen year NBA creem. He was
36:05
Speaker 4: a two time All Star and in twenty fourteen he
36:08
Speaker 4: was voted Defensive Player of the Year. Yes Your King,
36:11
Speaker 4: Noah number four. He plays for the Clippers. Right now,
36:15
Speaker 4: all time best Frenchman Nick patun Is eighteenth season in
36:19
Speaker 4: the NBA number three, former jazz Man, tremendous player heading
36:24
Speaker 4: to the future Hall of Fame as far as an
36:29
Speaker 4: NBA basketball Rudy Gobert, four time Defensive Player of the
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Speaker 4: Year back in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty one
36:39
Speaker 4: and twenty twenty four. The second greatest NBA Frenchman player.
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Speaker 4: He plays with the San Antonio Spurs right now, fifty Wenbiyama,
36:48
Speaker 4: he's only eight, twenty one again future NBA Hall of Famer,
36:54
Speaker 4: generational talent. Before he retires, he'll be the MVP of
36:58
Speaker 4: the league, he'll be First Team NBA, will be Defensive
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Speaker 4: Player of the Year and also in his world leading
37:04
Speaker 4: the Spurs to many many NBA championships. The number one
37:08
Speaker 4: ever great Frenchman. We all love him. Hall of Fame
37:12
Speaker 4: inductee back in twenty and twenty three, he won four
37:15
Speaker 4: NBA titles, He's an All Star player. He played in
37:19
Speaker 4: one thousand, two and fifty four Korea Games NBA Finals
37:23
Speaker 4: back in twenty seventeen. Yes, we all know and respect him.
37:28
Speaker 4: Tony Parker. Thus that's my list today of the ten
37:32
Speaker 4: greatest ever Frenchmen that have been in the NBA or
37:36
Speaker 4: playing in the NBA as we speak.
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Speaker 3: Fun fact, Tony Parker, big fight fan. Yes, we've done
37:42
Speaker 3: a few events over in France. Tony Parker's been to
37:45
Speaker 3: a couple of them. Always very gracious with his time.
37:49
Speaker 4: And also add to that, Tony Parker was picked number
37:53
Speaker 4: twenty eight in the draft And Sean, did you realize
37:56
Speaker 4: that I walked him out twice before the draft?
37:58
Speaker 2: Really?
37:59
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh, absolute?
38:00
Speaker 4: And he wanted to come state side right away and
38:03
Speaker 4: at that time, unfortunately, there was a decision made by
38:07
Speaker 4: ownership that we didn't want to go over the salary cap,
38:10
Speaker 4: so we didn't draft Tony Parker. I should wait and
38:14
Speaker 4: wedcted Lopez and uh, he was the marginal player, and
38:20
Speaker 4: so I worked him out, showing him and my and
38:22
Speaker 4: hey day with Jazz basketball. I worked out only two
38:25
Speaker 4: players twice before the draft, twice usually twenty one time,
38:29
Speaker 4: and both guys I worked out twice. We didn't draft.
38:33
Speaker 4: We eventually got one. One was Tony Parker and one
38:36
Speaker 4: was Carlos Boozer. Wow, that's it. So every team showing
38:41
Speaker 4: has these stories like this. By the way, Tom Brady
38:44
Speaker 4: was a six round draft pie and brock Party, mister
38:50
Speaker 4: irrelevant brock Party.
38:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's it's it's old.
38:54
Speaker 3: Now we're relying on him to get us past the
38:56
Speaker 3: Seahawks this weekend with nothing in support.
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Speaker 1: Sean's speaking to Seahawks, who do you like?
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm a Niners guy, so I gotta say, even
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Speaker 3: when my head tells me it's an unlikely outcome, I
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Speaker 3: gotta say, Niners Bang bang, Niner gang.
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Speaker 1: All right, how about Bronco gang.
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Speaker 3: You know what, I I'm gonna give a shout out
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Speaker 3: to all my friends who are Bronco fans. I think
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Speaker 3: that they get past this one. You know, they earn
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Speaker 3: their right for the first round by I think that.
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Speaker 3: I think they're gonna pull it off. I think that
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Speaker 3: Bo Nixon company, the fighting Garrett Bowles is And by
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Speaker 3: the way, no NFL roster has more former youths. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: so because of that, I'm gonna say the Broncos get
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Speaker 3: it done.
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Speaker 1: Texans at New England, I still.
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Speaker 3: Don't believe in the Texans. Not it's weird because it's
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Speaker 3: not this group of guys. It is the franchise right
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Speaker 3: in New England and their coach, Mike Rabel, he knows
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Speaker 3: how to get past this.
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Speaker 2: He knows how to win in the playoffs. He knows
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Speaker 2: what he's doing. So I gotta go Patriots.
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Speaker 4: And a quarterback is steady, very good. And the last
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Speaker 4: one La Rams at the Bears, and we know the
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Speaker 4: Bears they're at the skin of their teeth.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's their style.
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Speaker 3: You know, partially because our next guest who's joining us
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Speaker 3: in half an hour, won a Super Bowl with the Rams.
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Speaker 3: But I often defer to guys like our friend Eric
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Speaker 3: Weddle when he's talking about who's ready, who's built for it,
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Speaker 3: and who's not. The Bears feel like a team on
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Speaker 3: the rise that might be another year or two away.
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Speaker 3: The Rams are the opposite end of that spectrum. They've
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Speaker 3: got another year or two before they've got to turn
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Speaker 3: the page for Matt Stafford, and who knows what happens
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Speaker 3: after that. So I think that the Rams get this
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Speaker 3: one done. I don't think it's particularly close, honestly. If so,
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Speaker 3: I think it'll be the weather that factors in pretty aggressively.
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Speaker 2: But I think the Rams have this one all the way, and.
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Speaker 1: The weather is so important.
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Speaker 4: And also so think about showing you're talking about his quarterback.
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Speaker 4: There's no other position in Swart that's more important than
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Speaker 4: the quarterback, nothing in the team sport. So if your
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Speaker 4: quarterback is really good and he's seasoned and he's a
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Speaker 4: great leader, the chances of winning go dramatically, and every
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Speaker 4: team is trying to get the right quarterback. And in
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Speaker 4: basketball it's that Usually it's that it's that not point guard,
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Speaker 4: but it's someone that you could be a big guy
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Speaker 4: but have point guard skills. I just described right now
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Speaker 4: Nikolai Jokic of the Denver Nuggets, who are overachieving, and
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Speaker 4: so there's nothing like there's nothing regular about the playoffs
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Speaker 4: showing whether it's the NBA or whether it's the NFL
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Speaker 4: is so exciting and that's how players make their career
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Speaker 4: by advancing in the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: You could listen to those NFL playoff games right here
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Speaker 3: on ESPN seven hundred and ninety two one FM. Ordy,
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Speaker 3: you're the man. I always appreciate you giving us your
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Speaker 3: time and expertise.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Sean, peaceout