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Jack. The Thunder and Nugget series
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has concluded in rare style. I mean 93 to 125.
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The Thunder literally brought out the storm against Denver.
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Yeah, You know, I got to watch the game kind of informally.
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I saw the beginning of the game at home, the first period.
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The Nuggets are looking good. Then I had to, I had a
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commitment. So I wound up watching it off TV
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without sound in the restaurant from the table I was at.
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And you knew when it was like a 14 point lead at half time, OK,
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She had a spurt. You kind of got the feeling.
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I got the feeling the Nuggets were never going to make a run.
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They were never going to make a run.
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And there was no way back. And there wasn't.
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And it was like the momentum stayed with the Thunder the
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whole way. And in a sense, it was a sad
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thing to watch because even though they're going to run it
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back with the same players next year, Denver, you got the
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feeling the windows closing. I just got to say something, OK?
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And David Adelman, their head coach, I'm.
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I'm looking at all this phrase for him today.
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I don't give him any of this phrase.
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He didn't do a bad job. Why are we phrasing David
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Adelman, the interim Nugget coach?
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What the heck did he do, Sonia? They would have lost in seven
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games with Malone the same way they got blown out in the
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seventh game. I don't want to hear about a
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great coaching job. I didn't know a great coaching
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job. I don't know if they would have
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gotten as far as they had gotten had he still remained the coach.
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I mean, they got further than what I thought they would, Jack
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and. The And I say something they
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maybe would have beaten the Thunder had they stuck with
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Malone. How do you like that?
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How do you like Malone is a championship coach?
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He won the NBA title two years ago.
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And I don't want to hear the Nugget players.
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Oh, we want David Adelman back, how much he helped.
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If you wanted them back, you were the one out and you would
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have beaten OK C and then you would have at least make on to
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the Finals and then you would have gotten the coach.
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Your choice. I can't stand this when these
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players are advocating for coach who they don't come through for.
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I mean, even Joker, they ask him and he says, well, the
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decision's out of my control. He's been diplomatic.
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And then he says, yeah, he created some energy like he
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threw a bone to David Adelman. I thought the Nuggets are under
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0 obligation, OK, in any way, shape or form to bring David
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Adelman back. If they want to do it, fine.
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I mean, that's their choice. But you want to know something,
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Sonia? If I was going to bring them
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back, I'd bring them back on a one year contract because I
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think the fans, the media are spoiled.
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They're brainwashed. Whenever you hire coach, it's as
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if you have to give him a long term deal.
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You have to give him at least three years.
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Otherwise they say, oh, he's a lame duck coach.
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No, he's not a lame duck culture.
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The one year contract, that's all I would give him.
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With David Adelman here, you've given one year.
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If you do a good job, you know, we'll give you a multi year
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contract, that type of thing. You don't make a long term
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commitment to David Adelman, but I think they will because he was
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the Denver Nugget assistant. He's popular in the building,
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but he didn't do anything special in the slightest.
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I mean, I agree with that, Jack, because it's hindsight.
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Now they always say that's 2020. I literally feel the same.
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I feel like this was a championship coach that you guys
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let go of because you were impatient.
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You were in a win now mode and it, even though it looked good
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at first because we saw Denver actually advancing.
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Now the ultimate goal, which is the win now is missed.
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It's a missed opportunity. If I'm him, I don't even come
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back. I mean, the way they did him was
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absolutely horrible. And I honestly don't even think
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David Adelman, I don't think. He wouldn't come back.
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He was. He's salivating at the thought
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of getting the job. Like you said, he's a
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championship coach and they let. Malone.
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No, no. Malone.
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Malone. Mike Malone, who is let go, but
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he's not being offered any job to come back to Denver.
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He might get another head coaching job somewhere in the
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NBA. Because I was trying to make
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sense of that. Like, wait a minute, I didn't, I
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didn't know that part. So when you said it, I was
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trying to follow along, but I was like.
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Right. Well, David Adelman, their
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interim coach. Now they want them to come back,
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I mean. Well, yeah, it seems that way.
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They're going to supposedly evaluate the situation, but the
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way the Nugget ownership is talking, it's in the way some of
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the players are talking. It seems obvious Adelman is is
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the interim tag is going to get removed and he's going to be the
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full time coach. But all this phrase I'm hearing
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about Adelman after the game, oh, what a great job he did.
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He didn't do he didn't do a great job.
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The Nuggets personnel is the set is just as good as OKC's
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personnel. I could argue their personnel is
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better than OKCS. Yet OKC won the series and they
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blew out the Nuggets in the seventh game.
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I can see in seven. Games, it went seven games and
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that's big so. Big for what?
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If it went seven games, the Nuggets should have won it in
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seven games. The Nuggets, in my opinion, are
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better overall personnel in OKC. If you want to look at the
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players that they've got, I mean, you know, they got SGA,
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but Denver has Jokic, who's arguably the best play in the
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game. You know, like Jamal Murray,
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etcetera, etcetera, have players Denver and they got blown on get
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listen, Adelman didn't do a bad job.
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Like I said, if they want to remove the interim tab, make
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them the full time coach do it. But I'm going to tell you that
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was a damaging loss for the Nuggets.
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I don't want to hear. Well, it's OK.
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I'll come back next year. This is a veteran team.
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That's window. It's it's closing.
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It's gently closing. It doesn't mean they can't keep
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it together and make a run at the title next year.
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But they needed that game more than OK C yesterday because OK
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CS hope you're just ahead of them yet.
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OK C, You know, it's a team that's advancing up.
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Play the Minnesota Timberwolves. And if you want a prediction, I
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think the Wolves beat OKC. OKC is going to be favoured, but
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I think the Timberwolves beat OKC and they go to their first
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finals in franchise history. And then what we're going to
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say, they could have been in a position to, you know, they
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could have been in the position to play the Timberwolves in the
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West finals and they're not there.
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So all we're going to hear what a great job David Adelman did
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having his team get their butt kicked in Game 7 and getting
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eliminated. Let me ask you this, Jack.
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So of course, just comparing this Series A little bit to the
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Boston Celtics, New York Knicks game, Aaron Gordon proved that
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he's unbelievably tough by even attempting to play with a grade
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2 hamstring strain during Sunday's game seven.
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We didn't even see Steph come out and try to even suit up.
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I mean, is there a difference in their hamstring injuries or am I
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wrong on? That there's obviously some type
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of difference. I would never question Steph
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Curry. Don't even never question four
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time NBA champion, the Ultimate Team guy.
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I would not question Steph Curry.
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Sometimes you have to make a decision based on your head, not
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on your heart. And Steph Curry understands
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these type of injuries. If he wants to go out there and
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try to please the fans or whatever, but they just say, oh,
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what Steph Curry has and he goes limping out and makes the
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hamstring worse. These hamstring injuries, they
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can stay with you for a while. I mean, I, you know, I've had
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them just as an everyday runner. And even when it heals and you
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can get back and run, you feel it sometimes a little bit.
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You like, you kind of know it's there.
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And the NBA is about fast running, fast explosive
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movements and cutting and to come back too early, just you
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don't do it. But I'll tell you, if the
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Warriors were in the Finals or they won a Game 7 situation, I
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think it would have seen Steph Curry out there.
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But he's not going to go out there to win a game five of the
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series. If they're down three, One, just
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stay, stay alive. Because what does that mean for
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Game 6 and game seven? Chances are he wouldn't be ready
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to play. You know, it would be very, very
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difficult. So what Gordon did was
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courageous. It was great.
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It was done in the Game 7. If the series was 22, you
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wouldn't see him out there. You weren't going to see him
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out. Then he grabbed rebounds.
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He did what he could and you know what?
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It was semi effective or effective off the boards at
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least. Yeah, I don't know.
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I I feel like this team just I don't want to say was Dune, but
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New York, just the pride behind that team.
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I mean, you live in that area, Jack.
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It's just overwhelming to to come in and then to have, you
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know, some of your main starters like Jason Tatum go down as
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well. And he he had to end up having
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surgery. And so that specific series, I
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mentioned him earlier and I meant to mention Jason as well.
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I start talking about Steph, but I mean, did that team and now
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it's come out. Jaylen Brown was actually
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playing through a a slightly torn meniscus Jack.
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Yeah, I mean, that got on the part of Jaylen Brown.
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I don't know how wise it is. Did he consult with the team
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doctors? That would be a concern of mine.
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If he didn't consult with the team doctors and he felt
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something was there and we're still playing, it would have
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been foolish on Jaylen Brown's part.
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It would. I admire his courage stepping
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up, wanting to be a leader with Jalen, with Jason Tatum out.
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And he was the focus, you know, of the team at that point.
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You know, he didn't have his partner, dad, Jason Tatum.
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But the play through an injury like that way, you can make it
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so worse to the point where it could be affected the rest of
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your career. You know, I don't know how wise
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that is. You know, I remember that
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legendary game when the Knicks won the NBA championship in 1970
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where Willis Reed was really hurt.
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He had his injury and no one knew whether he was going to
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play the 7th game or not. And they interviewed the coach,
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his coach, Red Holtzman. And Red Holtzman said if it's
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the type of injury that could potentially be career ending, if
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we have him out there to play, he's not going to play even
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though it's game seven of the NBA championship.
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But as it turn out, Willis Reed hobbled out there.
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He hit two the first two baskets for the next, but was totally
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ineffective, totally ineffective the rest of the game.
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But the emotional boost he gave the team by being out there, you
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know, showing up and how it got the crowd going in the frenzy
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was invaluable. But still walk.
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Clyde Fraser got robbed of being the Finals MVP.
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That. Yeah, but they gave it to Willis
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Reed. I mean, no one talks about the
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injustice of that because Willis Reed's performance and
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leadership, you know, he was so courageous, people thought, oh,
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give him the give him the MVP. Same way Stone you and Joe
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Namath got the MVP is Super Bowl 3.
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Should have gone to Matt Snell, the running back, But we'll talk
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a little. Bit that meat on.
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It was a wrap with that meat that he had on.
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No, I mean, it's I mean the public, the public gets caught
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in these stories like, you know, and and I I don't go, but like I
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was venting about the David Adelman thing, you know, well,
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like with the great coaching job, everyone's saying he did
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and then for lost, they lost. And you're saying, well, they
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maybe wouldn't have gotten to a seventh game if it wasn't him.
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And I counted Sonia saying maybe they would have won the series
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if it wasn't, if they if they retained, you know, Mike Malone.
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So don't tell me Denver won an NBA championship.
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Them getting to a seventh game with OK C, At the very least you
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would have expected that. Yeah, you're right.
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You're right. Good morning, Rick.
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I mean, we got plenty NBA still left.
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It's a long time before the actual championship.
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The the big finale, of course, tomorrow, Tuesday, kicking off
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the Minnesota Timberwolves versus OKCU.
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They got a break off today, Wednesday.
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We'll see the Pacers and the Knicks on the 21st.
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Those games are both the 8:00 and 8:30 PM Eastern Standard
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Time. We'll see them the rest of the
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week. Literally every other day.
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But we'll have basketball every single day.
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One division we'll be playing or or the other.
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Not today, but starting tomorrow.
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Jack, who do you think's going to take this series with OKC and
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the T Wolves? No, I said a little while ago, I
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think the T wolves finally get over the top.
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I mean, I, I just think Rudy Goldberg could cancel out Chet
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Holmgren under the boards. Julius Randall's playing great.
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Anthony Edwards is Anthony Edwards.
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I think this is his time to shine.
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And I know you could say that about SGA, who's, you know, the
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most underrated superstar, you know, a star in the NBAI just
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think it's the it's the Wolves time, you know, and I think they
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can go into OKC and win a 7th game if need be.
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But I just, I kind of like the Wolves, you know, in I like them
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in six games. It doesn't mean I'm going to
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pick them in the Finals to win the NBA championship, but I'd
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like them to beat OKC. Now, are your homers, the Knicks
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going to take care of the Pacers or you think the Pacers are
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going to be on track? I mean, they eliminated number
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one team in the East when they eliminated the Cavaliers.
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I'm going to tell you I'm, I'm trying to, I tried to figure out
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the Final four, what's going to transpire, OK?
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And, and I'm partial towards the Knicks.
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Obviously, you know, being in New York, I want them to win.
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But I got to look at it very emotionally and, you know,
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objectively and the Pacers are playing so well.
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No one thinks that as a team. And we tend to look at the paces
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as being a number four seed. I don't look at them that way.
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I look at how they've been playing not early in the year
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when they were so, so, so you don't look at the overall record
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they've won. You know, they have a very high
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winning percentage since they started putting it together
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around mid season and they've carried it through the playoffs.
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I mean, they beat the Bucks in five games.
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The Cleveland Cavaliers are terrific team.
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And look what the Pacers did against them.
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They beat them in five games. They beat them all three games
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in Cleveland. It bothers me to say this.
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It bothers me to say this, but I'm going to.
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I'm picking the paces to win in seven games.
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OK, You know, winning a 7th game in Madison Square Garden with a
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Knicks or one game from going to the Finals.
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And what's going to hurt a little more?
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I'm picking the paces then to beat the T Wolves in the NBA
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Finals. And as crazy as it's going to
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sound in a year like this, who would have thought the Indiana
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Pacers could be NBA champions? When you think of who's going to
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be the NBA champion, Sonia, we're crowning.
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It's going to kind of be crazy. Think of all four teams, how
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crazy it is. The T Wolves have never gone to
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a Finals, So if they win it, it's their first NBA
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championship. And just getting to the Finals
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is great for the T Wolves because they've never been
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there. But it would be their first NBA
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championship. If OK C wins, wins it, it's
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their first NBA championship. If the Knicks win it, that's off
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the charts. New York, You know, people going
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to go crazy in New York. I mean, that would be bigger
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than if the Knicks win it. It would be bigger than the
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Yankees, Mets, Giants or Jets winning a championship.
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Okay, it would be bigger the next winning it would be bigger.
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I'm telling you that I know difference for the mood of the.
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Oh my gosh. You know the Giants of what?
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The Giants have won Super Bowls, it seems, in the Eli Manning
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era. The Jets, that was so long ago.
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But something about The Jets. They don't have the rabbit fan
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base the Knicks have. They just have a good fan base.
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The Knicks have a phenomenal fan base.
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That's the difference. And the Rangers didn't win one
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in the 90s, but they're not in the mix.
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So let's let's forget about hockey completely.
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And the Mets and the Yankees, you know, it wouldn't quite be
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as big, but so that would be. And if the Pacers win it?
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This is their first NBA. Yeah, if the Pacers haven't won
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an NBA championship either, the three of the fourteen haven't
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won an NBA championship. The only one who has is the next
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and that would be off the charts the Knicks winning it, but and
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for the other three, it's the first NBA championship.
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So it it would be it's it's it's exciting and I don't know if I
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use it's telling you you're probably selling your old school
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yard. I want to see Golden State and
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the Lakers. I.
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Mean, come on. I don't want to see the Lakers.
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I'm tired of them. I'm sick of the Lakers.
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I actually would be pulling for the Knicks if I was pulling for
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anybody left in the series because I I just, I'm kind of
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partial to New York a little bit.
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I have family that's there. My grandfather was from
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Brooklyn. I mean, I know the Nets are
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there, but still, if you got to go to New York team as to go
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with the Knicks and of course for Mac, I mean, we're pulling
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for the Knicks for Mac. But but let's be clear though,
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Jack, the Pacers didn't even. I love Mac, I love Mac, but I'm
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not pulling for the next with the next fan and I love Mac.
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I'm gonna, I'm gonna. That's just adding to I told you
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the first reasons were because I have family there and.
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It's another mad I might pull for the Giants for.
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No, I'm not pulling for the Giants.
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I usually, I usually pull for the East Coast when it comes
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down to the NBA playoffs, unless it's Steph Curry and the
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Warriors. Other than that, I usually pull
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for whatever East Coast team it is.
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But listen, this is the thing. The Pacers didn't even join the
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NBA until 1976. They have championships, but
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they're with the ABA 7072 and 73.
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So they had three championships in the same era before they
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joined the NBA and they're and the best performance that we've
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seen, except the team we see today, was in 2000 when they
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went to the NBA Finals and lost to the Lakers.
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What we're we're talking about, You're talking about.
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Yeah. You're talking about the Pacers,
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That right, Right. Well, the Pacers had great NBA
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teams. They had George McGinnis before
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he joined. Yes, it did.
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Yes, it. Was a a a great, great player
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for the Pacers. They had Mel Daniels, guys like
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that. And you're right, they were a
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strong ABA team in the sense their championships, but not an
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NBA championship. Look, I could say about the city
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of Minneapolis. Well, ages ago with the
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Minneapolis Lakers when they had George Mike and then the old
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days, you know, they probably won a championship of two that
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I'm not aware of. I'd have to look that up.
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And but but what I'm saying, saying it's exciting now because
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it's a new God in the NBA. And in the beginning of the
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year, maybe even the beginning of the playoffs, we didn't think
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the four, these four teams, you know, it would play out the way
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it didn't even know. There were a lot of people
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picking OK C they knew how good they were.
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A lot of people picked up KC to go to the Finals or maybe even
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win the championship. You know, I've kind of changed,
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and that's not good. In the beginning of the year, I
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picked the Celtics. I, well, no, no, no, I didn't
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pick OKC to go to the Finals. I'm too ashamed of who I picked
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to go to the Finals in the West. But I've got to come.
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I. Know who it was?
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I'm not one of these who says I told you so?
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When it plays out, When I look terrible, I got to come clean
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Sonia, and show how little I know.
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I picked the Celtics, which most people did in the Finals to win
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the NBA championship, to beat the Phoenix Suns.
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And Phoenix Suns were dreadful, dreadful.
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They didn't even make the play in tournaments.
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So take it for what it's worth my predicting, but I like to
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also the KC Indiana. It pains me in seven games over
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the next and then the paces to beat the T Wolves in the final.
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Let me ask you this to the four teams left.
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If you're the NBA and you want to get a big jolt, what team is
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it best for the NBA to win the title?
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Who's going to create the most noise, the most charisma, the
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most impact out of these four teams?
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I think the Knicks, just because of the new, the New York
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culture, like literally New Yorkers are like you got so many
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celebrities actually that pull for the Knicks.
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They they, they make a whole presentation of showing
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everybody that's at this game all the time.
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I don't really see that with the other three teams that are in
24:22
there. I mean, you might see a star
24:24
here or two and they might kind of talk about it, but it's just
24:27
literally the slogan goes, I love New York.
24:30
Everybody loves New York. I mean, it's just the staple.
24:34
I've always said I'm surprised New York is not the capital of
24:37
the United States because so many people just love New York.
24:41
And I think when you mix that with the culture and look at how
24:44
they were part of it in the streets, Jack, I've seen some of
24:47
the videos Spike Lee drives up in his big Tesla, whatever.
24:51
He's got this, the cyber truck, I believe, sorry, not Tesla.
24:55
And everybody's in the streets. They're climbing the light
24:59
poles. I mean, they are acting as if
25:01
they've already won the entire title.
25:04
So when I saw that, and this is just, you know, getting into the
25:08
finals, I was like, oh, yeah, this, this is where your spirit
25:11
is. I don't see that unless they're
25:13
just not showing it. I don't see that in the three
25:16
other teams. This is New York.
25:18
I don't see it in the paces. OK, Halliburton, wonderful
25:21
player, but he's not the type of star where all we kind of watch
25:26
the game. Halliburton, you know, is in
25:28
there. Jalen Brunson's been a great
25:31
player, but he's not mocking nation wise nation, you know,
25:37
wide. I mean, you could look at Jalen
25:39
Brunson and make an argument. Well, he's one of the top ten
25:42
players in the NBA. Maybe you can make that
25:44
argument, maybe you can't. That's another debate.
25:47
We'd have to go down the list and you look at, OK, CSGA, you
25:53
know, Sean Giglius, Alexander, it's just for whatever reason,
25:58
his name doesn't come up. You know, when you talk about
26:01
the great superstars and he's arguably one of the top five
26:05
players in the game, you could say I could be one of the top
26:08
three players. I mean, if I said he was the
26:10
best player in the NBA, you couldn't.
26:14
You know what, it's a valid argument even if I went that
26:17
far, you know, but and then you look at Anthony Edwards, he's
26:22
the guy they who creates the quotes, the buzz, the charisma.
26:27
And I think the T Wolves playing the Knicks in the NBA Finals is
26:33
the that's the must watch finals.
26:36
And they have another element too.
26:38
The Knicks traded at the start of the year.
26:40
They made the deal with the Timberwolves, they got Karl
26:44
Anthony Towns, the Tim Wolf's got Julius Randall.
26:47
When they made that deal, who in their right mind would have
26:50
thought you you those two? And the deal is worked out for
26:57
both teams right now. Crazy.
26:59
Now that's that's a fact. Now that's like that's a good
27:02
stat to bring up. No one would have thought
27:04
literally the two teams that made this blockbuster trade are
27:07
now in. This is insane.
27:10
You're right, Jack. Yeah.
27:12
And Dante Di Vincenzo, who played with his three teammates,
27:17
Brunson Hart, you know, so on at Villanova, you know, he got
27:23
traded away from his three, you know, college teammates to go to
27:27
Minnesota, you know, and that had to be a blow.
27:30
You know, the Knicks were called Villanova, Villanova Light or
27:35
something that were jokes about him filling up their roster with
27:38
Villanova players. And.
27:42
To me, I put put in perspective, if the Timberwolves get to the
27:48
Finals, even if they lost to the next paces, the deal has been a
27:54
success, trading Karl Anthony Towns for Randall because they
27:58
would have achieved something they never did in their
28:01
franchise history, and they couldn't have done it without
28:05
Julius Randall. OK.
28:07
And they weren't able to do it with Karl Anthony Towns.
28:11
Yeah. OK.
28:12
Yeah. I mean that that's basically the
28:14
way you know I look at it. Yeah, that's actually a solid
28:19
point, Jack. I mean, it's literally like both
28:22
players are plugged and played right where they need to be to
28:26
make the make the to be the difference makers.
28:28
Let me ask you this. What happens if the Knicks are
28:33
eliminated in this series? What, what?
28:36
How do we go forward after that? It is going to be bad.
28:41
I mean, it's one thing if you're if you're if they met up with
28:45
the Cavaliers, the 64 win Cavalier team in the conference
28:51
finals and the Cavaliers were playing really well.
28:54
Let's say the Cavaliers beat the Pacers in five games.
28:57
Let's say what the Cavaliers would do doing during the
29:00
regular season. They kept rolling along and they
29:03
kept playing great. You know, with Donovan Mitchell,
29:07
Jared Allen, Ivan, Ivan, you know, Mobley, Darius Garland,
29:11
etcetera. Let's say they were playing
29:13
great and you lose to a really good Cavalier team.
29:19
You know you can live with that. Somehow the Pacer team that you
29:23
played last year that they lost in seven games to in the semis
29:28
and they lost the 7th game badly at Madison Square Garden.
29:32
If that should repeat itself, it's like, wow, it's, it's a
29:37
terrible loss. If they don't get by the paces.
29:41
I, I, I hate to say it, it would be a bad, bad loss.
29:45
Yeah, it's it's right now, I know we don't get into betting
29:50
too much, but you know, Vegas and the sports book people have
29:52
already put out the odds of the the Knicks winning the next
29:56
championship. They all they're they're all
29:58
varying. I mean, you got several sources,
30:01
excuse me, that show the Knicks that would range, like would
30:05
range and actually win. Like if you put a put $100 bet
30:08
on them, you'd win between 4:00 and 6460.
30:11
If the Knicks won the championship displaces them as
30:13
having a second best odds according to some sports book,
30:17
right behind the Thunder. So, Jack, a lot of people are
30:19
predicting the Thunder to be the championship of it all.
30:23
Well, the Thunder's the conservative choice.
30:27
OK, I did the conservative choice to win it all.
30:32
Yeah. Well, we'll see.
30:33
I mean, the Thunder, you know, we're the best team during the
30:37
regular season and but the Pacers are playing so well now.
30:42
You know, if the Pacers wind up playing the Thunder in the
30:45
Finals, I might change my prediction and pick the Thunder
30:50
to beat the paces, OK, Or maybe I'll pick the Thunder to beat
30:53
the next. I don't know.
30:55
But that if I have to talk in advance to what I think is going
30:59
to happen, I think the T Wolves are going to beat the Thunder
31:03
and I think the Pacers are going to beat the next.
31:06
And I think, you know, the Pacers then play the T Wolves in
31:10
the, you know, Finals. And I think the Pacers are
31:14
playing so well as a team, you know, and I saw last year, too,
31:18
they looked so good, the T Wolves going into their series
31:22
with the maps in the Western Finals.
31:26
And then somehow the Wolves just lost it last year.
31:30
And Dallas went on to the Finals, but they didn't have
31:33
Julius Randle last year, the T Wolves.
31:36
And I think that makes a big difference.
31:38
Yeah, it does. Rick had a question for you,
31:40
Jack. He said you play against George
31:42
in high school. I played against who?
31:44
George. Yeah.
31:46
George I play against George who?
31:48
I don't know, I don't understand the question.
31:52
Did you play against George? Who?
31:55
George who? George who?
31:59
Wait, wait, wait. Am I missing a George?
32:00
Come on, I. Don't know.
32:03
I don't know. You got to be clear that the
32:04
whole I play against George, George Foreman, I don't.
32:08
Know. So listen.
32:12
So while we wait on Rick to clarify his question, let's move
32:16
on to some MLB news. Jack.
32:18
I mean, this was the weekend of rivalries, the Subway Series,
32:21
right up in your neck of the woods, the Mets versus the
32:24
Yankees. The Yankees absolutely a little
32:27
obliterated the Mets yesterday in the Subway Series finale.
32:31
Cody Bellinger hitting a Grand Slam and driving in six runs in
32:36
the 8/2 victory. And that was after the Mets had
32:39
won earlier games in the series. What were your thoughts on
32:42
those? Well, my thoughts are they
32:45
didn't obliterate the Mets as much as I'd like to say, as much
32:48
as the final score might look that way.
32:52
It was 22 tied up in the last of the 8th and the Yankees scored
32:56
six runs. So the game was in doubt until
32:59
late in the game. And then Cody Bellinger when the
33:02
Yankees won the five two hit the Grand Slam Homer.
33:06
You know, it looked to me at points like the Yankees were
33:08
going to lose in the in the 7th inning.
33:11
They had aces loaded, 2 outs and Anthony Voltes is at the plate
33:17
and then strikes. He takes the pitch, strike one,
33:23
then he's swinging at 2 pitches out of the strike zone.
33:27
What are you doing? And he strikes down.
33:29
There would have been ball four and he would have been ahead.
33:32
And I'm like this and I and I'm. Here.
33:36
I'm a big booster of Anthony Bobe.
33:40
I want the Yankees to sign him as a young player long term,
33:44
much as your Braves do it players.
33:46
They sign him early on the process and the Yankees
33:49
foolishly don't do it. That's the only thing I don't
33:52
like about Brian Cashman. But yesterday I was exasperated
33:56
with Anthony Volpe getting up. That was kind of like brutal to
34:02
watch. And so, though, you know, the
34:06
big talk with this series was Soto's return to New York.
34:10
And one of the things, it wasn't so much yesterday, but in the
34:14
first two games, the Yankees were scared of Soto.
34:18
It's like they didn't want him to hit a home run.
34:20
So they kept walking them. So.
34:22
And oh, George, Mike and yeah, now that George, I was a little
34:26
before George's time, that was a great center.
34:29
But for the Minneapolis Lakers, they were cleared up.
34:33
But they were scared of Juan Soto.
34:36
And yesterday, Max Reed pitched to a more.
34:40
They took the chances with Soto and you know, and so though he
34:47
under swung on one ball, he hit the right field that could have
34:50
gone out. Defensively, we saw the best and
34:54
worst DeSoto this series. He played the carom off the
34:58
wall. Well he got to another ball, you
35:01
know in the gap well hit. But then we saw you know flaws
35:05
in this defensive game to why why he gets mixed reviews as a
35:10
as a fielder and why people are concerned with this 15 year
35:14
contract. Is he it going to be only ADH in
35:18
7-8 years? That's not good.
35:21
There was a fly ball hit with runners tagging up at third
35:24
base, and Soto throws the ball home on three bounces.
35:29
I mean, Roberto Clemente would have gotten it there on the fly.
35:33
And I feel with a really good arm, maybe on one bounce and
35:39
accurate throw. And there was.
35:43
Yeah. And there was another time with
35:44
Soto that could have cost the Mets badly.
35:48
Juan Dominguez is on first base and a ball, you know, balls hit
35:54
a double S hit. Soto picks it up.
35:57
He's supposed to hit the cut off man.
35:59
He doesn't even throw it to the cut off man.
36:02
He throws it to second base. It's like he wasn't thinking.
36:06
He wasn't on, you know, he wasn't strategizing and has had
36:09
the possibilities. What am I supposed to do in this
36:12
spot? That was terrible fundamental
36:15
baseball. But with that said, the Soto is
36:19
going to have some really great years ahead of them.
36:22
Great, great years. I don't doubt them, the impact
36:25
he's going to have for the Mets. But defensively, the Mets are
36:30
lacking a little. It's up, Pete Alonso, a couple
36:33
of miscues yesterday, one of his throws sailed home way over the
36:37
catch his head. It was like, whoa, you know?
36:41
Really. Yeah.
36:44
I mean, you used the term exasperated Jack.
36:47
I don't know if you will you do you have to remember this.
36:50
I remember being a kid watching Hee Haw, and that was one of my
36:54
favorite shows growing up. And I don't know if they showed
36:57
it up north where you all were, but it was a, you know, the show
37:00
Hee Haw, the country show out of Tennessee.
37:03
And there was a young lady on there every show.
37:06
She was so pretty. She'd be sitting in a fan,
37:09
sitting in a swing fan. So it's been such an
37:11
exasperating day. So as soon as you said that, I
37:14
was just immediately taken back to that.
37:16
That's a strong word because that was a game that you're
37:20
right, Clemente would have been a difference maker.
37:22
Do you think that Soto going back to New York, going back to
37:25
well, not New York, but to Yankees?
37:28
You know, we we saw that they turn their backs, they booed all
37:31
that. Do you think that that mentally
37:33
got in his head during his with this performance?
37:37
I don't know did it affect his performance?
37:39
But it was on his mind like all the time.
37:42
You know what it is? It was less hate this Soto
37:45
thing. People are saying, oh, the
37:47
Yankee fans hate Soto. I think it's fashionable to do.
37:52
It's like a big party to boost Soto, get on them.
37:56
It added to the entertainment of the game.
37:59
It was kind of like the thing to do because it was such a build
38:02
up. Oh, the reception that's going
38:04
to breed Soto when he comes back, back to New Year, to
38:07
Yankee Stadium. That's all we heard.
38:11
All went along after he signed with the Mets in the lead up to
38:14
this game. It was an event.
38:16
It was a hot ticket. Why was it a hot ticket?
38:19
Not to see Soto play Yankee fans on play all the last year for
38:25
them, but to see him come back to Boo.
38:28
I mean, I'm against booing athletes a lot of times, but in
38:33
cases like this, it's understandable as long as you
38:36
don't get vulgar. You could Boo them.
38:38
You could turn your back on them and let and let's be honest
38:41
about it. How would you feel if you're a
38:44
fan? Take the fans in right field in
38:46
the bleachers and all Last year, whenever Soda would run out to
38:50
see them, he would lead the charge.
38:52
Like, pump his fists, get them riled, Have this kind of
38:56
friendship with the fans out there.
38:59
And now he went to the arrival across town, but essentially the
39:05
same money basically. Well, they paid him $700
39:09
million. That was a little bit more
39:12
right. No, no, no.
39:13
As it turned out, I think it was an extra year.
39:17
They were offering him something.
39:19
I'm not sure the money and all could have been worked out, the
39:23
remaining difference or whatever.
39:26
It wasn't a question. It wasn't a question of 1 team
39:30
clearly offering a lot more money than another team.
39:34
So then the player could justify, well, I want this
39:38
lifetime security. This extra money does mean a lot
39:41
to me. You know, you laugh about
39:43
players at times when they make a move about the money and they
39:46
say it's not about the money. Usually that's about the money.
39:50
I mean, don't give me that. Yeah.
39:52
I mean, not, not, not always. And reportedly, you know, the
39:58
Mets offered better family accommodation.
40:01
Soto had other people in his ear and I'm not saying he shouldn't
40:05
have listening to family members.
40:08
Obviously when they met Steve Conan, the Mets, they saw the
40:11
family area to this to that. And supposedly Soto wanted his
40:18
family to have seats in a certain suite that are high
40:22
profile suites. And the Yankees.
40:25
Have charged their stars in the past for that because that's an
40:28
expensive thing to them. Even Cheetah and Judge, they
40:33
were paying for those extra seats.
40:36
They're not just good seats, but they're like trying real estate.
40:41
But the Mets were willing. But the Mets were willing to
40:44
give Soto, you know, maybe for those seats for good, get extra
40:51
limo for his family. Extra.
40:53
Oh, extra that. No.
40:56
Wow, the Yankees logic was. But if we haven't done this for
41:00
Judge and Jeter, yeah, we, we can't do it for you, you know,
41:04
and. He just turned into a prima
41:07
Donna, honestly. I mean a prima.
41:08
Donnas all the time Roger Clemens used when he was with
41:13
the Toronto Blue Jays. He enjoyed playing golf, but
41:17
players, even though they're wealthy, they like to be given
41:20
things for free. So Clemens would go to this golf
41:24
course in the beginning and play for free.
41:27
And what he would do was plunk down like 20 tickets to a Blue
41:31
Jays game, figuring, you know, let the staff have that.
41:35
That's my payment. Obviously he didn't have to pay
41:38
for the Blue Jays tickets and they started to want to charge
41:41
Clemens to play at this exclusive club, so he wouldn't
41:45
play it anymore. If I can't play there for free,
41:48
he thought, I'm not going to play there.
41:49
He could easily afford it to play there.
41:53
But they expect things for free. You know, certain place they go
41:58
into restaurants, they expect to eat for free.
42:02
If they're ever charged for. No, they're going to go to the
42:05
next restaurant that lets them eat for free, which is their
42:08
right. Yeah, that.
42:09
Would be their right. They feel like, you know, eating
42:13
at this establishment, if I'm A Celebrity athlete, I'm bringing
42:17
the revenue to you because if people know that I'm there, the
42:21
hype is going to get out that oh, you know, you know, Soto was
42:25
that this restaurant, blah, blah, blah.
42:27
You got to eat there because it's where he eats.
42:29
You know, you always have those fans.
42:30
This gives it to the whole fandom thing and literally I
42:35
don't know. But then you see where some
42:37
athletes go and they they tip really well.
42:39
You know, they'll have, they're actually paying and the waitress
42:42
will come on social media and be like, oh, you know, this person
42:45
was here and they gave me a $600.00 tip or whatever.
42:48
Not if you're Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods.
42:50
They were deadbeats. I heard Tiger Woods didn't tip.
42:55
You know, you know, a guy doesn't care.
42:57
I mean, maybe he's changed his philosophy.
43:00
Michael Jordan was either didn't tip or was a cheap tip.
43:04
I look, athletes did not tip any more than anyone else.
43:10
That's usually, let's say it's a percentage.
43:12
Let's say, for example, it's $100.
43:16
Your bill, $20 is 20%. That's appropriate.
43:21
But if you're an athlete, A wealthy athlete, and you go into
43:24
a diner and let's say the bill's $100 and you leave 120, that's
43:29
appropriate. That's appropriate.
43:32
That's because you're a wealthy athlete.
43:34
They think, oh, he's so cheap, he should have at least at least
43:37
$50. Why?
43:40
I mean, because, OK, let me just tell you from personal
43:43
experience, 2 situations, Jack, you know, because you live in
43:47
Florida part of the year in Florida, at least in Miami,
43:50
because I was there a couple years ago, I was there with one
43:53
of the person and everywhere we went, they tipped on top of a
43:57
tip. Like they, they added gratuity
44:00
because during the pandemic, people weren't tipping and they
44:02
said they actually came. I'm talking about even if you
44:04
got A to go order, it was still gratuity 1820% plus you were
44:11
expecting to tip because people were not tipping at all.
44:16
On the flip side of that, I was a waitress years ago, and this
44:21
wrapper came into the restaurant I was in.
44:24
Now, this is still a celebrity. People know this person.
44:27
He had a bunch of people with him, a bunch of kids.
44:31
It clearly was his family. They were probably like 10
44:34
people in his party. And they ran me like a Kentucky
44:38
Derby horse. OK Jack, their bill was was at
44:44
least close to $200. He gave me a $3 tip.
44:50
He didn't even meet the the minimum I was.
44:54
Looking at. The receipt, Like did he miss a
44:57
zero? Like at least 30, Sir.
44:59
Like are you kidding me? No, he's a rapper.
45:02
Money. It's a $200.00 bill.
45:05
Leave $50. That's 25%. $3 I never forgot
45:12
that $3 and I know who he is. To this day every time I hear
45:17
something about him I it clicks in my mind like he is so
45:20
terrible and his attitude was bad too.
45:23
His attitude was horrible so I wasn't even trying to be a fan I
45:27
was just trying to take care of him as a customer and the the
45:30
female he was with was compliments.
45:32
She like thank you for everything, you were great, blah
45:34
blah, but he was such a snob. Like you should have said, you
45:38
should have said at the end. Thank you for the $3 tip.
45:41
I appreciate. It he he left it so he left it
45:44
after I like went to the back. So he left a whole bunch of
45:48
stuff on the table. Like, you know, some people just
45:50
sign the sign your receipt and they walk out.
45:53
When I came out, you know, I. I would have maybe gone outside
45:56
handing the $3. That's what one of my Co
45:59
workers. Said it was my pleasure to
46:02
serve. It's an honor for me to serve
46:04
you, Sir, for you here. I don't need the $3 tip, you
46:09
know, Really. I don't, I don't feel right
46:11
taking it. He wrote it on the one of my Co
46:17
workers told me I should go out in the parking lot and approach
46:20
him and say the same thing. Like you know what, you clearly
46:22
needed $3 more than me. You go right ahead and you take
46:25
that. But.
46:25
Yeah, but that case is listen to cases when I back the athlete
46:29
not being cheap, Michael Jordan gets a drink in Vegas.
46:32
How much was his drink? And it might cost, let's say it
46:34
was $20.00 for argument's sake, he gave a $5 tip.
46:40
If it's a $20 drink and you give a $5 tip, that's appropriate.
46:46
That's 25%, that's 25. It's appropriate.
46:51
An average person, if I got a $20 drink and I gave $25 for the
46:58
waitress, $5, she brought me back a $20 drink.
47:02
I think that's appropriate that. Is.
47:05
But my if Michael Jordan does it, he's considered cheap.
47:08
And Wayne Gretzky said that's not how we roll in Vegas and
47:12
tells Jordan to give $100 on the 20.
47:15
You know, but that's that. But the point is, I don't want
47:22
to hear athletes getting cheapest that myself.
47:25
And Mac used to have a lot of fun with this.
47:26
I told Mac I once got into Dunkin' Donuts.
47:29
I get one donut. I think could I have a Jelly
47:31
donut and that behind the counter, I'm not sitting eating
47:34
it there. They just hand me the Jelly
47:36
doughnut. What's not leaving a tip because
47:40
the person Mitochonda gives me a Jelly doughnut to cash.
47:44
Order orders are optional. Matt says throw in a buck.
47:48
He would tell me throw down the buck.
47:51
Oh, really? Matt, come on.
47:53
It's fine. It's not for me.
47:56
Yeah. Sometimes I do, like if I'm at
47:58
Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts. I don't.
48:00
I don't always tip if I'm if I have A to go order on like that,
48:05
but it but because I used to be the the person that took to go
48:10
orders and I knew that those tips were appreciated.
48:13
It comes from personal experience that every now and
48:16
then I try to if I have it now, because sometimes I really don't
48:19
have it, I'll throw at least a dollar in.
48:21
But but to for them, like you said, like the the the most me
48:25
is like, OK, if you got something that's already pre
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made and you're just handing it to me, I'll sometimes I'll ask
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them, I'll be like, you guys have a tip chip jar that
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everybody shares or how does that work?
48:36
And those people at Dunkin' Donuts are already paid hourly.
48:38
So it really doesn't matter about the tips.
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But for waitresses, Jack. That absolutely, absolutely.
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And I'm always generous for waitresses.
48:48
Absolutely. That's.
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But even the to go order most of waitresses and some restaurants.
48:55
I went into Atlantic City once. OK.
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All I did was get a bag of nuts. That's, you know, one of those
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convenience stores. It's $7.00, a $10.00 bill.
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I'm asked do I want back any change my $3 for one quick bag
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and nuts like, you know, And I say, yeah, I do.
49:13
You know, I'm not tipping in the instances, but you get.
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Yeah, no, yeah. No, you're not if you're going
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in a store like that's, yeah. But begin with the wrap up.
49:26
But the thing with Tiger Woods, he wouldn't just tip.
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And you're telling me the story with the rapper.
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I mean, that's disgusting. And Michael Jordan was a
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deadbeat tipper to that be times I heard he wouldn't tip.
49:38
And Charles Barkley when he was friends with Jordan and Woods,
49:43
he I remember him on the talk show and Charles Barkley was a
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generous tipper. Charles Barkley would tell Tiger
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Woods and you know, and Michael Jordan that you guys got to
49:56
change your ways. Yeah, they're millionaires.
49:59
Let's let's let's move on to the next series.
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This was a big MLB news. I didn't even realize that the
50:06
the news for MLB that this was rivalry weekend across the
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board. So the Angels and the Dodgers
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also completed a three-game sweep.
50:14
The Angels literally swept the Dodgers, Jack, three games.
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I can't believe it with Travis Diamond, former Brave, hitting a
50:23
go ahead home run in the eighth inning in the latest win.
50:27
I'm so tired of all these former Braves everywhere winning.
50:31
You know, you just, you just said something, Sonia, that's
50:35
thought provoking and I never even thought about it.
50:39
I don't remember coming on the news last year.
50:42
Otani leaves the Los Angeles Angels to go to the Los Angeles
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Dodges. But we didn't.
50:50
We didn't get the one Soto hate. I don't remember anything.
50:55
I think the Angel fans gave him an ovation when he left.
51:01
Them, yeah. I think it's a little, well, I
51:05
think it's different than one since the Angel fans, in all due
51:09
respect to them, on as passionate as the Yankee fans
51:13
they have and the team Zoltani was on weren't winning.
51:18
He wasn't leaving a winner. He just got to the World Series
51:22
and had the potential to go back.
51:25
But though Tommy didn't get that level of discontent that Soto
51:29
got with the Yankees, not even close.
51:31
If anything, he may have been greeted wrongly.
51:34
I I mean, I don't know Jack especially I still just can't
51:38
get over he got his interpreter locked up, so I just.
51:48
And he basically had his interpreter take the rap so he
51:57
could keep it. There's no way, Oh Tawny's bank
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account, there's no way. I have a bank account and I
52:03
never look at it. And when I do look at it, I see
52:06
there's either a decrease or a significant increase, and I
52:10
don't say anything. He had knowledge, and in some
52:13
states, knowledge is culpable. You're culpable enough to go
52:17
down with the person that's committed the offense.
52:19
So even though his interpreter is now incarcerated or is about
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to be incarcerated, Oh Tawny was not 100% vindicated from that
52:26
situation. I don't know whether he had
52:31
knowledge of everything in his bank account.
52:34
I mean, you have a lot of athletes who don't.
52:37
They trust other people with their money, with their this,
52:40
with their that. I don't know.
52:43
There's no evidence that Otani knew anything at all.
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OK. There's no evidence at all.
52:49
And unless I'm shown some evidence, you know, I move on
52:53
from him. I got to believe if Otani was
52:56
involved in any way, it would have come out.
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I can't see his interpretive going to jail, willing to go to
53:05
jail and take a rap. I mean, they would less they
53:09
would lessen a sentence whenever there's a big name, you know,
53:14
prosecutors could get something on a big name athlete.
53:17
They'll they'll go after anyone with a big name.
53:20
Images change very, very quickly.
53:23
Players with the biggest images change.
53:25
It could change on them. They could go from the most
53:28
popular athlete to, you know, one of the least popular of the
53:33
night. That's a society we live in.
53:36
There's no evidence. So, Connie, did anything, you
53:38
know, wrong at all? I just, I'm, I'm just of the
53:42
mindset that I guess I've been watching Sopranos and all these
53:46
mob movies too much because you see where big people get caught
53:50
up and stuff and they get as they call the little fish to
53:53
take the rap and then they'll, they promise to take care of
53:56
them while they're in jail. You know, they'll put money on
53:58
their books so they can get commissary and everything.
54:01
And it never comes out as long as the person is is quiet about
54:04
it. They didn't give him a
54:06
significant amount of time. But if it had been Ohtani, he
54:10
would have been stricken from MLB.
54:12
We see that they do lifetime bands.
54:14
And we may be looking at another situation like the Pete Rose
54:18
situation, where Otani would have never been, you know, not
54:21
to mention he's from, you know, Japan.
54:24
He may have been forced to leave the country.
54:26
We don't know what would have happened with that.
54:27
Situation. But I don't want to speculate.
54:30
You know, nothing came out Otani did anything wrong.
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And, you know, we hope that's the case.
54:37
But now I'm not so sure. There should be a, a lifetime
54:45
ban on an athlete who bets on his own team a bets on another
54:49
game for fun. I wouldn't want to ruin a career
54:53
if the athlete has a habit of betting constantly, you know, if
54:56
they're caught doing it, the league should deal with it.
54:59
This should be a suspension, perhaps a year like Calvin
55:03
Ridley, you know, the wide receiver got suspended, you
55:07
know, Yeah, I believe betting. And then he had.
55:10
Some, you know, other he's in Tennessee now he's.
55:13
In Tennessee and. Then he went, I think to
55:16
Florida. Now he's in Tennessee, back back
55:18
playing. Yeah, and, and if I'm wrong
55:22
about Calvin Ridley, what I said, then I I apologize to him,
55:26
you know, Emery, But yeah, you know, I mean, I I hope he has a
55:32
big year and I hope he has a great career.
55:34
He's, you know, good receiver, you know, too.
55:39
And he's overcome certain, you know, mental issues.
55:42
It's trying to overcome it. And, you know, and someone like
55:45
that I always root for. But, you know, it depends that
55:51
they would talk of Michael Jordan, whatever his gambling in
55:54
the Atlantic City for what you know, how he could be out early
55:59
mornings. He tried to make more out of
56:00
things than they are. Jordan hardly ever slept as it
56:03
is. And what Jordan was betting in
56:06
Atlantic City, that's his business.
56:08
He could afford to. Rick said he's going to check.
56:12
That's not timely. Get that, I will put that on
56:15
there. You Sonia.
56:16
Rick Timely. Rick was Sonia.
56:20
It's not timely. What, Rick now Rick just before.
56:25
Rick wants to know. Rick wants to know.
56:28
Let's move on to the Florida matchup.
56:29
The Marlins picture tools Immaculate.
56:32
Any you know, just turning stone.
56:35
Quantrio of the Miami Marlins pitched the first Immaculate
56:38
inning of the 2025 MLB season against the Tampa Bay Rays,
56:42
striking out three batters on 9 pitches in a single inning.
56:48
That is insane. That was another matchup of the
56:52
rivalries and the Cincinnati Reds completed a sweep with Will
56:56
Benson hitting two home runs and their latest victory and then
56:59
the Minnesota Twins their win streak.
57:01
They had a 13 game-winning streak.
57:03
It has been snapped by the Milwaukee Brewers with a key
57:08
home run robbery by Jackson Torrio preserving the Brewers
57:11
win and the Phillies pitcher Mick Abel had a strong Major
57:17
League debut, striking out nine in a win over the Pirates and
57:20
their star Paul Skeens. So those were all the MLB news.
57:26
However, Jose Alvarado has been the pitcher.
57:30
Philly reliever has been suspended for 80 games after
57:35
testing positive for PEDs. Yeah, W Tax.
57:40
We haven't seen them for a while to talk about the Philadelphia
57:43
team. I we have not seen, we have not
57:49
seen pegs and, and yeah, that's about our time for the day
57:54
though, Jack. We we got to wrap it up, Jack
57:56
and myself. Kudos to the Twins for their 13
58:00
game-winning streak. Tonight on glove 5th, 7:00 PM
58:04
Eastern Time during the show. Franklin Terzo myself during the
58:09
show we're going to have on James Bone Crusher Smith, former
58:13
WBA heavyweight champion, you know, big name in the day when
58:17
he fought. He's going to be joining the
58:19
show tonight as a guest. So TuneIn.
58:21
Absolutely, that's going to be a a good show tonight.
58:24
Can't wait. Make sure you guys join us at
58:26
7:00 PM for that and for shows throughout the day.
58:29
And Jack, I hope you have a great day.
58:32
It's been a great show as always, and we will see you guys
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