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KD Defends the WNBA as Lynx Clinch Top Seed and Giants Lose Jaxson Dart · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: on social at the daily play. Joy Taylor, before we
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  Speaker 1: get to football, I want to talk about KB and
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  Speaker 1: something that he said on Tuesday. It was the Rockets
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  Speaker 1: preseason media day. And he was asked about Enes Kanter's
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  Speaker 1: so-called protest of the WNBA's non-existent trans problem. And KD said,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff is noise. The WNBA is flourishing. Look
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  Speaker 1: what these women are doing. Look at the money that
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  Speaker 1: they're making over the past few years. Look at the
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  Speaker 1: visibility of their league. You've got four or five signature
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  Speaker 1: athletes that are representing major brands. And these women have
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  Speaker 1: brands for themselves. They're businesswomen outside of the game. So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff is politics and they bring
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  Speaker 1: that into the sport nowadays. I understand the messaging behind
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  Speaker 1: what they're trying to do, but a person like me
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  Speaker 1: who strictly cares for the purity of the sport, I
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  Speaker 1: do not give a bleep about any of that. I
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  Speaker 1: care about the flourishing and pushing the league forward. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what's happening right now. There's a lot to say here,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to start out by shouting out KD
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  Speaker 1: for holding on the WNBA and a lot of NBA
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  Speaker 1: guys support and watch and show up to games. And
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  Speaker 1: he is at the top of the list. And it's
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  Speaker 1: very hard to argue with his resume if you are
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  Speaker 1: a keyboard warrior. But I think this is really important
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  Speaker 1: with what he said, because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: if you're watching the WNBA and you have an opinion
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  Speaker 1: about it, great. But it's really hard for me to
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  Speaker 1: imagine that you are watching the WNBA, you have an
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  Speaker 1: opinion about the players, what's actually going on, and you're
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  Speaker 1: also still standing on whatever Enes Kanter is talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Those two things do not coincide very well because the
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  Speaker 1: real true fans of the game and of basketball are
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  Speaker 1: paying attention to what's going on in the court and
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  Speaker 1: are informed. And that is not what's going on with
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  Speaker 1: Enes Kanter or Royce White or this entire crazy conversation
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the trans... And sticking with the
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  Speaker 1: WNBA for a second, the Lynx clinched the number one
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  Speaker 1: overall seed last night, not for lack of trying to
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  Speaker 1: give it up. Minnesota trailed the Fever by 23 at
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  Speaker 1: the half after Olivia Miles was a late scratch and
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  Speaker 1: head coach Cheryl Reeve kept the remaining starters on the
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  Speaker 1: bench in the second half despite the loss. very real
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  Speaker 1: importance of the game. Fortunately for Minnesota, the Portland Fire
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  Speaker 1: knocked off the Golden State Valkyries and the Lynx clinched
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  Speaker 1: the top seed anyway. And Reeve added that she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: care less about playoff seeding, explained the Lynx are a
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  Speaker 1: damn good road team. I still think the number one
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  Speaker 1: seed is very important to get. And the Lynx had
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  Speaker 1: lost three of the previous four games. So I think
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  Speaker 1: this is a great situation to be in. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of good energy. And obviously, Olivia Miles has had an
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable rookie season. So let's talk football. It's not good
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  Speaker 1: news for the Giants. I talked about it yesterday, but
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart's knee injury was worse than initially thought. And
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  Speaker 1: now we know it's worse than that. So the second
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  Speaker 1: year quarterback will have season-ending surgery, leaving Jameis Winston at
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  Speaker 1: the reins in John Harbaugh's first year as the Giants
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  Speaker 1: head coach. It's not ideal. Per reports, Dart will undergo
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  Speaker 1: surgery Surgery to repair his damaged meniscus, MCL, and PCL.
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  Speaker 1: His ACL is intact. And Harbaugh did not rule out
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  Speaker 1: the possibility that he would return if they were to
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  Speaker 1: make the playoffs. But obviously that's kind of a ridiculous notion.
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  Speaker 1: I hate this. Like, I did not think that the
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  Speaker 1: Giants were as far ahead as everyone thought they were
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  Speaker 1: after week one. But obviously I want everyone to be
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  Speaker 1: able to compete. I want everyone to be at their best.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to see the top players, particularly young players,
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  Speaker 1: out there. So this sucks. I am really disappointed that
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  Speaker 1: this is the situation for the Giants. It sucks for
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart. It sucks for Giants fans. It sucks for
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  Speaker 1: the league. And, you know, Jameis Winston is a nice backup,
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  Speaker 1: but he is not reliable. You never really know what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get with him. And there was little
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  Speaker 1: hope that his initial injury was not as serious as
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  Speaker 1: it was initially reported. They said during the game that
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  Speaker 1: he tried to come back out. That kind of gave
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  Speaker 1: everyone a little bit of hope. But the scan was
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  Speaker 1: obviously a lot worse than they thought. And they made
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  Speaker 1: the right decision by keeping him out. It's devastating. And
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  Speaker 1: knee injuries are so hard to come back from. And
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  Speaker 1: it just kills the momentum, the off-season excitement, all of
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  Speaker 1: it for the Giants. And really changes the scope of
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  Speaker 1: what is available for them moving forward. And finally, the
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  Speaker 1: vibes around Pittsburgh are hurting because of how the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: looked on Sunday. I've been frustrated with the Steelers and
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  Speaker 1: the direction of the team. I did not like the
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  Speaker 1: idea of letting go of Mike Tomlin. And if you
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  Speaker 1: were going to let go of Mike Tomlin, go in
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  Speaker 1: a new direction. But they brought in Mike McCarthy, who
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  Speaker 1: I am a fan of, but I don't think was
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  Speaker 1: the right hire for this particular situation. Noah Hiles of
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  Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette put the responsibility on the organization in
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  Speaker 1: a piece titled, All of the Steelers' Biggest Problems Are
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  Speaker 1: of GM Omar Khan's Making. I have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: thoughts of how the Steelers got here and the old
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  Speaker 1: school Steelers way. And I've compared the Steelers many times
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  Speaker 1: to the Chicago Bears. Although I do think the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Bears have completely changed direction with Caleb Williams and Ben
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  Speaker 1: Johnson and have entered what I call the modern NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And the Steelers have resisted that. And I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that that's Mike Tomlin's fault. I think Mike Tomlin is
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  Speaker 1: an incredible culture coach, but They haven't made a concerted
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  Speaker 1: effort to move towards a modern offense. They have a
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  Speaker 1: Steelers way that is incredibly old school. It doesn't fit
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  Speaker 1: what's going on with the current league, and it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: fit what they have as an organization and as a roster.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of the decisions that have been
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  Speaker 1: made are very haphazard and temporary and I can't say
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  Speaker 1: that that's all on coaching. It does feel a lot
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  Speaker 1: like it is a quote unquote culture move. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like the signings. I don't like the direction that they've
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  Speaker 1: been going in for years. I don't like that. They have,
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  Speaker 1: they don't have a backup situation for the quarterback and
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  Speaker 1: incumbent quarterback position. If you know that Aaron Rogers is
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  Speaker 1: eventually leaving, it's crazy that you wouldn't have someone coming in.
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  Speaker 1: And now that you know, it is the end of
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  Speaker 1: his career. There's no one behind him. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a crazy situation because they're going to win enough
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  Speaker 1: games to be just out of the conversation. So I
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  Speaker 1: think the Steelers are in a tough position. And as
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  Speaker 1: a legendary organization, they should be doing a lot better
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  Speaker 1: than they are. So this loss this past weekend was
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  Speaker 1: one that I think kind of shocked everyone and put
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  Speaker 1: it in perspective about where they really are. Thanks so
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