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Chuck & Buck 3-25 Hour 1: Can the NBA handle expansion? Sometimes we lose and who's next at UNC? · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the radio program. We're gonna get our hump on.
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Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan is here, Bucky Jacobson is here. My name
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Speaker 1: is Chuck Powell, and we welcome you to this Wednesday
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Speaker 1: edition of Chuck and Buck in the Mornings. All sorts
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Speaker 1: of things to discuss today. Uh, I think you're gonna
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Speaker 1: like me saying this. I'm just gonna mention it now.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more about it later.
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Speaker 2: One sleep away. We're one sleep away.
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Speaker 5: That means tomorrow. That means tomorrow, no none sleeps.
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Speaker 2: None sleeps, tomorrow none sleeps.
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Speaker 1: Yes, we will wake up knowing that the Mariners will
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Speaker 1: start their season with none sleeps remaining.
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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, it's exciting.
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Speaker 1: How about that there's even a game tonight, by the way,
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Speaker 1: Yeah there is, in case thats knuck up on you.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know that, you know we're excited about
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Speaker 1: the Mariners season. But Major League Baseball season actually starts
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Speaker 1: tonight five o'clock Giants, Yankees.
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Speaker 2: So it is here.
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Speaker 1: Baseball season is upon us, and I'm ready to let
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Speaker 1: it rip. So we certainly will be talking about that
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Speaker 1: a lot during today's radio program. But another thing is
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Speaker 1: going to happen sooner than a baseball game. At least,
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Speaker 1: I would think we're gonna get that vote. Turns out
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Speaker 1: that those NBA owners that gathered yesterday for that Board
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Speaker 1: of Governor's meeting, they decided, yes, we're gonna use this
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Speaker 1: first day to just unpack, you know, need the carpet
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Speaker 1: with our toes after that long grueling you know, first class, no,
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Speaker 1: not first class private jet flight. So we really got
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Speaker 1: to get back to grounding back to earth, and then
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Speaker 1: we'll probably party a little bit, let our hair down,
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Speaker 1: you know. I would imagine that there's an element of
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Speaker 1: probably light as a feather, stiff as a board.
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Speaker 2: They probably played something.
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Speaker 1: That yeah, I know a lot of billionaires play that game. Still,
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Speaker 1: so there. They obviously took that to like, we're in
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Speaker 1: no rush here. I take that as we know exactly
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Speaker 1: what we're going to do tomorrow. So just adam, we'll
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Speaker 1: see it tomorrow. But tomorrow is today, and so I
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Speaker 1: do believe that we're going to get the vote. I
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Speaker 1: do believe that Seattle will be approved. The next stage
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Speaker 1: and the expansion process for the NBA will move forward.
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Speaker 1: As you know, theorized and so that we don't know
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Speaker 1: what it's going to occur, but that is the certainly the.
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Speaker 2: Expectation here today.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean it makes sense that they wanted to,
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Speaker 3: you know, get to know, you know, catch up.
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Speaker 6: I'm sure I find out how Meredith's do you know?
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Speaker 2: They probably did one of them paper things, all of
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Speaker 2: them where they were like, uh, what color do you like?
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Speaker 3: Yeah it's a number and yeah count Yeah what were
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Speaker 3: those were?
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Speaker 2: What they were? I don't know if I ever had
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Speaker 2: one of those names.
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Speaker 3: For it, but I don't know if it had a
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Speaker 3: name in the herm either, just as one of those
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Speaker 3: things to play.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was just a way to not pay attention.
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Speaker 2: And you always played. You always wanted to find out
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Speaker 2: who you were supposed to be dating.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, also did mash when you put it all, if
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Speaker 4: you found out if you lived in a mansion, an
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Speaker 4: apartment of shack or just a house, and then if
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Speaker 4: you were rich, average or poor where you would live.
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Speaker 5: It was always the fun one too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know owners they already know they're rich.
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Speaker 5: So that's true. You played and they knew.
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Speaker 2: Now you're just being silly again, Ashley.
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Speaker 5: I apologize.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it'll do it that'll do it.
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Speaker 4: It'll get outside the yeas really throwing.
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Speaker 2: Their hair, maybe making stiff drinks for each there is.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm actually Tina's pizza.
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Speaker 1: Pizza roles are always good at a nice billionaire sleepover,
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Speaker 1: I would always recommend those.
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Speaker 6: Sure they're microwaving a lot of meals.
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Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, yeah, yeah, and then get around to the vote.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and then get around to just saying, let's
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Speaker 3: not get around to it today. Yeah, you know, let's
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Speaker 3: let's hold each other's hair and then we'll get back
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Speaker 3: to this the business business at hand tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, the expectation is certainly that will get the team,
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Speaker 1: or at least get to the next stage of the
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Speaker 1: process of expansion in the NBA. And so that's one
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Speaker 1: step closer to the Sonics finally returning.
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Speaker 2: I'm with David Maler and the promos that you're hearing.
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Speaker 1: I think it's happening. I think I've always felt it's
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Speaker 1: going to happen. It was just a matter of win,
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Speaker 1: and now it looks like we're getting closer to that.
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Speaker 1: That said, there seems to be quite a bit of
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Speaker 1: conversation right now, and it's amongst unlike the idiots I
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Speaker 1: was listening to this morning talking about baseball.
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Speaker 2: They clearly don't follow baseball.
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Speaker 1: But I'm hearing from a lot of different national people
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Speaker 1: who do cover the NBA, do follow religiously the NBA,
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Speaker 1: and yet they are expressing a lot of concerns about
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Speaker 1: whether or not it even is time for expansion in
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Speaker 1: the NBA. The league's got some issues right now, and
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Speaker 1: how does watering down the talent by two more teams,
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Speaker 1: how does that address some of the issues that you
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Speaker 1: have out there. You've got Steve Kerr talking out loud
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Speaker 1: about how we need fewer games and not just a couple,
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Speaker 1: talking about like chopping it down. Seriously, I don't think
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Speaker 1: he's going to get his way, but he's barking about that.
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Speaker 1: You've got rules that have been put in place to
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Speaker 1: try to keep players from, you know, managing their workload,
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Speaker 1: which is a big controversial, and they still can't figure
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Speaker 1: out exactly how we're going to do that, and so
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Speaker 1: that's caused a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Of a rift in the NBA right now.
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Speaker 1: And then of course you also have the tanking issue,
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Speaker 1: which might be their biggest issue.
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Speaker 2: And so what does that.
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Speaker 1: Mean for two expansion teams who traditionally don't win right away.
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Speaker 1: Have you just added two more tankers to the process
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Speaker 1: when you're trying to get rid of tanking? And then
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Speaker 1: there is another argument out there about just diluting the
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Speaker 1: overall talent, And is that ever a good idea? Something
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Speaker 1: that people complain about every single time that there's expansion,
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Speaker 1: And I don't think that one's warranted. But those are
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Speaker 1: just some of the arguments that people basketball fans, NBA fans,
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Speaker 1: not people, not people who hate baseball but want a
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Speaker 1: way in on baseball. I'm talking about people that love
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Speaker 1: the NBA and are worried. We've already got a lot
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Speaker 1: of issues right now. Does expanding the league by two
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Speaker 1: teams make those issues more pronounced?
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Speaker 3: And I'm not one hundred percent sure how far to
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Speaker 3: go with I mean, they're issues, They're definite talking points.
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Speaker 3: It's something that I'm sure the current owners are talking
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Speaker 3: about when it comes to whether or not they want
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Speaker 3: to allow a couple of new teams in the league.
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Speaker 3: Just is thinking about it. I mean, the tanking issue
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Speaker 3: is a big one that feels like they do not
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Speaker 3: have their hands wrapped around it. The delution of talent
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Speaker 3: part of it, to me, I just think about the numbers.
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Speaker 3: You'd have two new teams. They have thirty teams now, right,
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Speaker 3: so they'd have two new teams. Fifteen players on a team. Essentially,
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Speaker 3: that comes up to one extra NBA player on a team. Now,
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Speaker 3: obviously you're you're gonna have way more. The expansion teams
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Speaker 3: are going to have some of the newer guys and
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Speaker 3: probably the lesser talent for a minute until they can
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Speaker 3: figure out a way to catch up. But that doesn't
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Speaker 3: seem like you couldn't find some guy on on you know,
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Speaker 3: out there that could play in the NBA, be a
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Speaker 3: you know, last guy on the bench in an NBA now,
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Speaker 3: you know. I mean it's just somebody that's in the
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Speaker 3: D League or somebody. I don't feel like that's a
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Speaker 3: drastic I don't think if.
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Speaker 2: That's the one you want to start with.
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Speaker 1: Of thefore I mentioned, that's the one that I'm least
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Speaker 1: worried about. I don't think that's an issue at all.
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Speaker 1: And every time there's been expansion, I mean they were
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Speaker 1: talking about that when we expanded from twelve.
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Speaker 2: Baseball teams in nineteen twelve. You know, I mean they, oh,
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Speaker 2: god right, not our talent to go around.
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Speaker 1: Well, you do have an entire community of black people
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Speaker 1: that you could go to. That's one that's one way
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Speaker 1: to expand the talent if you want to really get
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Speaker 1: down to it. And in the National Basketball Association, you
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Speaker 1: have gone so global in the sport. I mean, it
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Speaker 1: is so popular now everywhere. I mean, what you know,
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Speaker 1: what we're getting out of Eastern Europe and.
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Speaker 2: What we're getting out of Canada.
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Speaker 1: For goodness sake, Canada's exploded with basketball talent here in
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Speaker 1: the last decade. I don't think that that is an issue.
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Speaker 1: And so to me that that one just falls short.
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Speaker 1: I mean short, you're gonna have to spread it out
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Speaker 1: by two more teams. But I think there's plenty of
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Speaker 1: talent to go around, and I think that there are
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Speaker 1: other reservoirs that they're going to tap into.
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Speaker 2: So the popularity globally of.
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Speaker 1: The game is going to produce talent, enough talent to
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Speaker 1: satisfy thirty two rosters in the National Basketball Yeah.
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Speaker 6: That's where I was going.
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Speaker 3: I mean, just to me, I mean thinking about the
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Speaker 3: ones that you keep hearing about. To me, the tanking
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Speaker 3: issue and if you're going to increase the lack of
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Speaker 3: competitiveness at times during the regular season is the biggest one.
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Speaker 3: I mean, the some of the other ones don't. They
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Speaker 3: kind of fall flat to me, But that one's a
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Speaker 3: big one, and I don't know for sure. As matter
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Speaker 3: of fact, you would think that without being able to
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Speaker 3: handle it with thirty teams, that you're just adding you're
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Speaker 3: not going to add. Probably teams that make the playoffs,
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Speaker 3: maybe they have a plan as that coincides with adding
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Speaker 3: into a couple more teams where you maybe do add it.
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Speaker 3: You figure out some way to incentivize people to get
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Speaker 3: into the playoffs versus getting that high draft pick or
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Speaker 3: that lottery pick that they want so badly because how
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Speaker 3: quickly that can turn their fortunes. I would think that
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Speaker 3: you've got to get your hands around that otherwise that's
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Speaker 3: going to be a problem that's going to grow with expandion.
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Speaker 1: I also don't see that as a problem. And here's why,
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Speaker 1: because the only solution to the tanking problem is to
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Speaker 1: think completely outside of the box. And so, like we
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Speaker 1: have discussed in the past, because I do believe that's
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Speaker 1: a big issue, you can't I mean, right now this year,
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Speaker 1: you've got more than a third of.
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Speaker 2: The league that is trying to lose on purpose.
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Speaker 1: That's a problem. But I think that that's independent of
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Speaker 1: whether or not you expand and if you do come
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Speaker 1: up with and I'm not going to call it a solution,
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Speaker 1: but at least an attempt at a solution, it better
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Speaker 1: be well outside the box. It better be one of
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Speaker 1: the things that we've tossed about here on the radio show,
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Speaker 1: where you reach a certain point in the season and
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Speaker 1: you just flat out stop rewarding losing when it comes
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Speaker 1: to draft picks, or maybe there's a tournament, or maybe
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Speaker 1: there's just there's got to be an idea out there
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Speaker 1: that you are not going to incentivize losing. In the
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Speaker 1: National Basketball Association, there's always going to be playoff teams
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Speaker 1: and non playoff teams, but those non playoff teams can't
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Speaker 1: be encouraged to be as bad as they possibly can be,
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Speaker 1: both in the executive room as you're putting together the
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Speaker 1: roster and also on any given night for the last
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Speaker 1: month and a half of the season on what you
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Speaker 1: put on the court. So that tanking issue is going
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Speaker 1: to come up going to be all about Ashley. What
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Speaker 1: they come up with that solves at least the element
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Speaker 1: of a lot of teams tanking at once, and that
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Speaker 1: needs to be an outside the box idea that probably
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Speaker 1: reverses reverse engineers how we're going to reward draft picks
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Speaker 1: more so than how teams are going to build their rosters,
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Speaker 1: and so that should act completely independently of expansion teams,
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Speaker 1: who obviously are going to start below water talent wise
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Speaker 1: roster eyes before they can compete at the highest level.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I do think it's going to take tweaking.
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Speaker 4: I don't think they're going to just find one thing
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Speaker 4: and all of a sudden it's going to work and
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Speaker 4: the tanking issue is going to be fixed. I think
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Speaker 4: it's going to be Okay, we're on the right track,
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Speaker 4: but we're going to have to change this one thing
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Speaker 4: or this thing over here.
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Speaker 2: I disagree with you. I don't think it's a tweak.
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Speaker 1: I think it is a major freaking change.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm saying they'll make a big change, But I
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Speaker 4: don't think doing one thing is necessarily going to be
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Speaker 4: the answer. I'm saying I think after doing that, you're
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Speaker 4: going to have to make tweaks to that in order
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Speaker 4: to achieve.
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Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, not that they're going to do small things
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Speaker 5: to get there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because that's all they're doing now. Tweaking is not
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Speaker 2: even an option to me.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: Yes, but that's how it came out. Oh sorry, Yes,
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Speaker 2: you're right if they.
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Speaker 1: Make one big change and then you remain open to
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Speaker 1: tweak your Okay, we didn't think of that.
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Speaker 2: Just like you're doing with college football tournament.
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Speaker 1: We make the big change to better the sport, which
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Speaker 1: has been phenomenal, but there are still some issues, and
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Speaker 1: every year we're tweaking it a little bit because we
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Speaker 1: didn't see that coming.
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Speaker 2: We didn't see that coming.
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Speaker 1: So but the big change is necessary, and to me,
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Speaker 1: that lies independent of what your expansion ideas are. If
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Speaker 1: you're just going to stick with the same tanking plan,
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Speaker 1: I'd be worried about it. I'd be worried about adding
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Speaker 1: two more bad teams to the NBA and wondering what
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Speaker 1: they're going to do to try to get to the top.
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Speaker 2: I'd be worried about that.
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Speaker 1: But as long as you are all no, don't worry
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Speaker 1: about that's independent of expansion. We're on this. I got
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Speaker 1: this tanking thing and it is going to be It
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Speaker 1: is going to be monumental. What we do next with
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Speaker 1: trying to curb tanking in the NBA, and that should
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Speaker 1: have nothing to.
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Speaker 2: Do with expansion.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you've got a plan, if you've got it
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Speaker 3: figured out, because you're right, it's going to have to be something draft.
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Speaker 3: I mean it might be as far as I mean
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Speaker 3: the complete and total shock to the system that's you
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Speaker 3: you completely take your records out of the equation when
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Speaker 3: it comes to the draft. I mean that which would
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Speaker 3: completely I mean throw up in the air from what
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Speaker 3: everybody's used to doing. But all of a sudden, if
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Speaker 3: you if you divorce the draft from their records, then
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Speaker 3: there's there's no reason to tank at that point in time.
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Speaker 3: So I'm with you. I think that they they have
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Speaker 3: to have been brainstorming over some plans, and yet the
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Speaker 3: tweaks that they've been doing so far aren't doing anything. Well,
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Speaker 3: we're gonna we're gonna make it where you can't just
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Speaker 3: rest players and you can't just be All of the
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Speaker 3: different stuff that they've been trying to do is has
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Speaker 3: not been working. So it's going to be some major overhaul,
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Speaker 3: some sort of throwing a wrench in the plan, so
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Speaker 3: to speak. And you're right, if you can get that done,
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Speaker 3: at least move in that direction where there's a complete
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Speaker 3: and total shock to the system, how you're going to
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Speaker 3: go about the tanking that I don't think it affects, uh,
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Speaker 3: the expansion. And yet until we find out what the
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Speaker 3: heck they're going to do there, I think it is
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Speaker 3: going to be a talking point for some people because
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Speaker 3: I mean, if you think what we were hearing about
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Speaker 3: how the Sonics if they come back, and how they're
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Speaker 3: kind of hamstrung as to what they can spend, and
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Speaker 3: how how it goes at first, where you're going to
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Speaker 3: be kind of playing underplit privileged to some degree, well,
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Speaker 3: then you're going to be almost set up. Vegas and
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Speaker 3: Seattle are going to be set up like we you
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Speaker 3: pretty much have to take for the first few years
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Speaker 3: just to catch up, I mean, And yet if they
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Speaker 3: allow it to be keep going this way, then that's
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Speaker 3: what they're going to do.
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Speaker 2: And that's another thing.
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Speaker 1: I mean, as excited as you already get the Seattle
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Speaker 1: SuperSonics back, the last expansion team twenty years ago, I
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Speaker 1: hope they tweaked the rules a little bit because the
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Speaker 1: Charlotte Bobcats have been so bad they couldn't ever even
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Speaker 1: get out of the whole of being an expansion franchise.
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Speaker 1: They have not won a playoff series since they were birthed.
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Speaker 1: They were so embarrassing they changed their name back to
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Speaker 1: the Hornets. That's how bad that that the last expansion
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Speaker 1: team has fared in.
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Speaker 2: The National Basketball Association.
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Speaker 1: Now, I'm sure most of that had to do with
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Speaker 1: bad ownership, bad hires.
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Speaker 2: Michael Jordan's not good at his job. He was a great.
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Speaker 1: Basketball player, yeah, great businessman, great race card owner, yeah yeah,
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Speaker 1: but maybe wasn't a very good NBA executive. But they
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Speaker 1: just never could get out of the hole. And certainly
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Speaker 1: the NBA doesn't want to expand by two teams and
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Speaker 1: those two teams take two decades before they're relevant, that
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Speaker 1: that would be that's a disaster. H So, but again
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Speaker 1: that's about the league, you know. I think that they
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Speaker 1: will have softer rules without making them soft for the
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Speaker 1: expansion process, and so I think that that has nothing
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Speaker 1: to do. I think the league is perfectly fine with
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Speaker 1: being able to expand. The thing that I would be
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Speaker 1: worried about is whether or not there's enough talent to
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Speaker 1: go around. But there is because of how popular the
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Speaker 1: sport is globally, and so, so that's the So I'm
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Speaker 1: not worried about that. Check that box and everything else.
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Speaker 1: I think takes care of itself as long as you're
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Speaker 1: running the league the way that it needs to be run.
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Speaker 1: So and then Steve Kerr's plan for fewer games, I
17:52
Speaker 1: love that plan.
17:53
Speaker 2: Good luck getting it passed. Yeah, I like that plan,
17:55
Speaker 2: but I think there should be.
17:56
Speaker 1: Fewer games, and that maybe takes care of some of
17:59
Speaker 1: the load management issues. I think there should be fewer
18:03
Speaker 1: playoff teams as well. And yet it's still going to
18:07
Speaker 1: be a money grab, you know that. I think even
18:09
Speaker 1: the expansion process is probably under the umbrella of money grab.
18:14
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, I don't see any of these issues standing.
18:18
Speaker 2: In the way of the NBA wanting.
18:21
Speaker 1: To expand here, and so I don't think it's anything
18:24
Speaker 1: that we have to worry about, and it gives us
18:26
Speaker 1: a lot of talking points going into the future. All right,
18:29
Speaker 1: let's find out what's on tap for the rest of
18:30
Speaker 1: the show.
18:34
Speaker 2: What's on tech? What's ontech?
18:36
Speaker 1: All right, Chris Brusard is going to join us today
18:39
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock to talk about the NBA vote for expansion,
18:42
Speaker 1: which will go down today. So, yeah, I've never talked
18:45
Speaker 1: to Brew, but I do like him. I do like
18:47
Speaker 1: his thoughts, so I've already started calling him by his nickname,
18:51
Speaker 1: So we'll do that at eight o'clock this morning. The
18:53
Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament tips off again tomorrow. It's the Round of
18:57
Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen, and you can catch all of that action
18:59
Speaker 1: right here at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
19:03
Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit more about that coming up.
19:05
Speaker 1: It's good sixteen team field and it starts again tomorrow.
19:09
Speaker 1: Hubert Davis was fired speaking of college basketball by North Carolina.
19:13
Speaker 2: This is a.
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Speaker 1: Topic worthy as well today. There is a chance that
19:18
Speaker 1: the top three most prominent head coaching positions in college
19:22
Speaker 1: basketball are all going to become available. Hubert Davis gives
19:27
Speaker 1: you one in North Carolina. There's a lot of talk
19:30
Speaker 1: that Mark Pope will not survive this offseason in Kentucky,
19:34
Speaker 1: and Bill self has said himself that I got to
19:38
Speaker 1: get my health right first, and so I won't coach
19:41
Speaker 1: if I'm not healthy next year, so he might step
19:44
Speaker 1: away for a little while. So that would bring in Kansas,
19:47
Speaker 1: North Carolina, and Kentucky's head coaching positions all open in
19:52
Speaker 1: the same offseason, so that's worthy of discussing later on
19:55
Speaker 1: in the show. The Kraken Feverish comeback last night against
19:59
Speaker 1: the Florida Panthers to force it to overtime. They looked
20:03
Speaker 1: at in the water so much so that I turned
20:05
Speaker 1: off the television. I turned it to another sporting event.
20:07
Speaker 1: At three to nothing, and they came back feverishly, tied
20:12
Speaker 1: things up at four, sent it into overtime. Wasn't decided
20:15
Speaker 1: and OT went to a shootout and eventually lost. But
20:18
Speaker 1: they stole a point last night even though they lost
20:21
Speaker 1: five to four in a shootout. Al Kiniski will join
20:24
Speaker 1: us at nine point thirty this morning to discuss it.
20:27
Speaker 1: They have lost four straight games. They'll be in Tampa Bay,
20:30
Speaker 1: not an easy match tomorrow to take on the lightning
20:34
Speaker 1: NFL rule change proposals. Almost all of them have to
20:37
Speaker 1: do with the kicking game. That's something they'll never get
20:41
Speaker 1: right for as long as we live.
20:43
Speaker 5: They're just going to keep tweaking it.
20:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, that is something they just keep tweaking. The
20:48
Speaker 2: monumental thing. Would just to be get rid of it completely.
20:52
Speaker 1: JSN also creating buzz throughout the week with his contract extension.
20:56
Speaker 1: We'll talk to Greg Bell about many Sea Hawk things
20:59
Speaker 1: today at seven.
21:00
Speaker 2: Five the TGL.
21:02
Speaker 1: Yes, last night Tiger Woods made his return and dude
21:05
Speaker 1: is jacked.
21:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, my goodness.
21:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it was disappointing.
21:10
Speaker 2: It didn't play well. Yeah, just he looks good.
21:14
Speaker 5: He looks great, but just in general the fact that
21:16
Speaker 5: the mat I mean nine to two.
21:19
Speaker 2: Yeah.
21:19
Speaker 1: And finally in our headlines, Major League Baseball season opener
21:23
Speaker 1: is tonight, Yankees and San Francisco taking on the Giants
21:27
Speaker 1: first pitch.
21:27
Speaker 2: At five o'clock.
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Speaker 1: The Mariners they will debut in twenty twenty six tomorrow
21:32
Speaker 1: against the Cleveland Guardians right here in Seattle, which means
21:36
Speaker 1: we've got.
21:37
Speaker 2: Some work to do.
21:38
Speaker 1: So yesterday we announced that we needed some help with
21:42
Speaker 1: our Mariners Morning After song. We will report the results
21:46
Speaker 1: and start the vote next Sports Radio ninety three point
21:49
Speaker 1: three KJRFM for our six thirty Mariners Morning After segment
21:52
Speaker 1: during the course of the season. So we took some
21:55
Speaker 1: suggestions from you yesterday. We also gave one of our
21:58
Speaker 1: own one each and so we're going to uh pull
22:02
Speaker 1: it up here today. Ashley's already done that at our
22:07
Speaker 1: kJ R Twitter feed there at x So if you
22:11
Speaker 1: want to vote, go ahead and weigh in on that.
22:15
Speaker 1: She didn't put who came up with what? Which is fine?
22:18
Speaker 1: I think that's the better way to go.
22:20
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I wanted to leave that part the mystery, so there
22:22
Speaker 4: was no The only one I quote was the fan vote.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so you do have I the Tiger Damn.
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Speaker 4: I think we should actually scrap the original version and
22:36
Speaker 4: just go of that.
22:37
Speaker 2: Just want me to scat all of the songs.
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Speaker 5: All the people who want us to scat are happy.
22:43
Speaker 1: There's also Princess, So you got that song now, and
22:57
Speaker 1: then you also have this one.
23:02
Speaker 5: That might be your best one right there.
23:04
Speaker 1: And the fan vote was the song you just heard
23:06
Speaker 1: one more time, So the.
23:08
Speaker 2: Poll is up vote on that.
23:10
Speaker 1: Whichever wins the poll is gonna win the day, and
23:13
Speaker 1: that will be our winning song for our Mariners morning
23:16
Speaker 1: after segment this season. Also, feel free to use the
23:20
Speaker 1: response thing on the old Twitter machine, because won't we
23:25
Speaker 1: won't turn down a late runaway winning request.
23:29
Speaker 4: You come up with something that we're all like, oh
23:31
Speaker 4: my god, how did we not think of that?
23:33
Speaker 1: And you get some support from your fellow Twitter users
23:38
Speaker 1: and listeners.
23:38
Speaker 2: Ye that we'll go with that.
23:40
Speaker 1: I mean, there is a wild card element to this
23:43
Speaker 1: as well, So we will be able to announce it
23:45
Speaker 1: tomorrow on opening day what our Mariners morning after song
23:48
Speaker 1: is going to be, and then by Friday, once the
23:50
Speaker 1: Mariners have won the opener, you two can play the
23:54
Speaker 1: song for the very first time. Now there is another
23:56
Speaker 1: side to this, a dark si. We also have to
23:59
Speaker 1: have a song for the losing moments of the season.
24:04
Speaker 1: It is a sport where we're probably gonna win lose ten.
24:08
Speaker 2: Or so games.
24:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, fine that we have to find a song
24:12
Speaker 4: we're gonna listen to about ten or twelve.
24:14
Speaker 1: Right, So maybe this one we don't have to worry
24:16
Speaker 1: about getting sick of as much, right, But nonetheless, it
24:20
Speaker 1: really needs to capture how much we despise talking about
24:24
Speaker 1: a loss. So, Bucky, what are you going to recommend
24:28
Speaker 1: for our Mariners Morning after loser song?
24:30
Speaker 3: Well, there's part of me that wants to play once
24:34
Speaker 3: a song that I don't like, because but then again,
24:37
Speaker 3: it's like I already am getting ready to talk about
24:39
Speaker 3: something I don't like, and that's a Mariner loss. So
24:41
Speaker 3: I went with a song that I really do like,
24:43
Speaker 3: but I think it still hits the emotions and that's
24:47
Speaker 3: a sound of silence.
24:49
Speaker 5: Is right there.
24:50
Speaker 2: It is one of the best covers ever.
24:53
Speaker 1: All right, well, that'll certainly capture our sadness. It will
24:57
Speaker 1: after losses, Ashley, what's your suggestion?
25:00
Speaker 5: I went with, how do I feel after a loss?
25:03
Speaker 4: Well, we all feel a little miserable, right, and but
25:06
Speaker 4: sometimes I kind of I want that misery to I
25:09
Speaker 4: want to also be picked back up, right. I don't
25:11
Speaker 4: want to just wallow in my misery. I want to
25:13
Speaker 4: turn it around. So I won the poppy version of
25:14
Speaker 4: a miserable song.
25:15
Speaker 2: Buggy's covering his face, what is the he hates it?
25:19
Speaker 3: I hate it, really, I hate that song and I
25:22
Speaker 3: just can't. Yeah, it's just part of me. I'm already
25:25
Speaker 3: gonna come whenever it's Marya's morning after and it's a loss,
25:28
Speaker 3: I'm already in a not good mood. And then if
25:30
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, we I gotta hear bars of
25:32
Speaker 3: a horrendous song.
25:34
Speaker 5: Well, considering we're going to have the effect on their.
25:36
Speaker 2: Season, yeah, exactly.
25:38
Speaker 5: They won't want to hear it either, so they'll just win.
25:40
Speaker 2: All their games.
25:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, just to avoid it, because you know, cal and
25:43
Speaker 1: everybody gets up at six thirty to listen to this rega,
25:45
Speaker 1: yeah the game. Yeah, they really, they really do cling
25:49
Speaker 1: to every one of our words.
25:51
Speaker 2: All right, So I'm going to go with this.
25:53
Speaker 1: Okay, if you're going to feel like you're in a
25:56
Speaker 1: just a horrible mood after a loss, then maybe this
25:59
Speaker 1: will capture it. I'm gonna choose. These guys are very nice.
26:03
Speaker 1: I've met them, I've interviewed them. They're very cool dudes,
26:06
Speaker 1: at least they were to me.
26:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe they're.
26:07
Speaker 1: A holes, but you'll remember this tune. Maybe this is
26:12
Speaker 1: what we play after every Mariner's loss.
26:14
Speaker 2: That's good, all right?
26:16
Speaker 1: So those are those are our suggestions, doesn't have to
26:20
Speaker 1: be and of course, like we did yesterday, we will
26:22
Speaker 1: take suggestions from you as well, and then tomorrow we'll
26:27
Speaker 1: put it through the old vote process for the losing
26:30
Speaker 1: song as well. So, yes, think of a song that
26:33
Speaker 1: you know you're already gonna be in a bad mood.
26:35
Speaker 2: We're doing Mariners Morning after after a loss.
26:37
Speaker 1: What's the song that we should attach to it throughout
26:40
Speaker 1: the course of the season, And is really entirely up
26:44
Speaker 1: to you, the listeners, because you're the ones at six
26:46
Speaker 1: thirty that are.
26:47
Speaker 2: Going to have to listen to this song after losses.
26:49
Speaker 4: Yeah so, and I'll play them coming back from the
26:52
Speaker 4: next breaks.
26:53
Speaker 6: Yeah so, our.
26:54
Speaker 5: Listener suggestions so we can see what they're saying.
26:57
Speaker 1: We've already got some good ones, all right, get some
26:59
Speaker 1: suggestions in it five one, and we'll play them throughout
27:03
Speaker 1: the course of the show coming up next. I mentioned
27:06
Speaker 1: this in the headlines. I think it's worthy of discussion.
27:09
Speaker 1: It's certainly one of the bigger headlines in the national
27:12
Speaker 1: sports scene, but arguably the three most prominent coaching basketball
27:17
Speaker 1: positions in America could be open this offseason. We'll discuss
27:21
Speaker 1: it next on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRF.
27:24
Speaker 1: I have voted, by the way on our poll, and
27:27
Speaker 1: I did not vote for my own. Just tell you
27:29
Speaker 1: that much right now. So check out the poll that
27:32
Speaker 1: we put up for the winning song from Maeriner morning after.
27:35
Speaker 1: It's now active on x And then, of course, we
27:38
Speaker 1: want to hear your entries for the losing song this
27:41
Speaker 1: year at four nine four five once we'll repeat the
27:45
Speaker 1: same process and then we'll have both answers for you tomorrow.
27:49
Speaker 1: That's how that's gonna work. At least by Friday, we'll
27:52
Speaker 1: have both answers. You'll know, you'll know when we know,
27:55
Speaker 1: all right, March madness, it will resume tomorrow, and of course,
28:00
Speaker 1: so you can hear it right here at Sports Radio
28:02
Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJRFM. We got you covered, and
28:06
Speaker 1: so we'll get back to the Sweet sixteen. But something's
28:10
Speaker 1: bumped it off the headlines with the firing of Hubert
28:14
Speaker 1: Davis yesterday, the head coach of the North Carolina tar Heels.
28:17
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a national story.
28:18
Speaker 1: We are a local radio show, but whenever a North
28:22
Speaker 1: Carolina basketball position comes open, and there's a possibility that
28:27
Speaker 1: Kentucky's will and Kansas's will because Bill self is doing
28:31
Speaker 1: a little self evaluation of his health right now. I mean,
28:35
Speaker 1: those are arguably the three most prominent jobs in all
28:38
Speaker 1: of college basketball.
28:39
Speaker 2: You want to talk about.
28:40
Speaker 1: Blue bloods, I mean, Duke's obviously in there as well,
28:43
Speaker 1: but these three programs have far richer, deeper, longer traditions
28:48
Speaker 1: than what even Duke has, And so there's a chance
28:52
Speaker 1: that all three of these are going to be available
28:54
Speaker 1: this offseason. That's like the Alabama, Texas and Ohio State
28:59
Speaker 1: football jobs all coming open in the same offseason.
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Speaker 3: This is this is historic right here. Yeah, I'm pretty
29:05
Speaker 3: crazy to think about it, and I get it. If
29:08
Speaker 3: self wants to evaluate himself and be healthy, that's it's
29:11
Speaker 3: a good call to go ahead and do their U
29:13
Speaker 3: n C. Opening up obviously his big stuff. It feels
29:16
Speaker 3: like it would be premature to.
29:19
Speaker 6: End up booting out Mark Pope.
29:23
Speaker 3: That just seems like, I mean, you take off, you
29:25
Speaker 3: take up after a legend, and he did well last year, right,
29:29
Speaker 3: I mean let him to the Sweet sixteen last year
29:31
Speaker 3: and then this year an embarrassing loss after a close
29:35
Speaker 3: victory in the first round and then get absolutely ran
29:38
Speaker 3: off the court in the second round. I can see
29:39
Speaker 3: how people be frustrated, but that seems like it would
29:41
Speaker 3: be quick, quick to pull the trigger.
29:43
Speaker 1: But well, it's because they fired Calipari. Calipari and it's
29:47
Speaker 1: a in they're worse since and that is just not
29:51
Speaker 1: a patient fan base.
29:52
Speaker 2: So I don't know if they're going to pull the
29:55
Speaker 2: trigger on that.
29:56
Speaker 1: But if you're going to fire Hubert Davis at North Carolina,
29:59
Speaker 1: who who's a tar heel, then I would think Mark
30:03
Speaker 1: Pope head could be on the chopping block as well.
30:06
Speaker 1: And the thing about these three programs is, I mean,
30:10
Speaker 1: I realize there's some differences now with college athletics, and
30:13
Speaker 1: maybe some of the best out there don't want to
30:16
Speaker 1: deal with some of the headaches. But when you're North Carolina,
30:19
Speaker 1: there's nobody off limits. You can call anybody you want.
30:23
Speaker 1: I mean, you're probably not going to call a Dukalum.
30:26
Speaker 5: Yes, called Bill Belichick exactly.
30:30
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to follow the trends of
30:32
Speaker 1: North Carolina's hiring practices, they'll probably hire Greg Popovich. I mean,
30:38
Speaker 1: but if you're North Carolina, there's no one that you
30:41
Speaker 1: have to feel like, are we a big enough.
30:43
Speaker 2: Deal to call?
30:44
Speaker 1: No anybody you want, You call Dan Hurley, you call
30:49
Speaker 1: you know, I don't care who it is. If Eric
30:51
Speaker 1: Spolster is the best basketball mine in the world today,
30:55
Speaker 1: you can call Eric. He will take your phone, call you.
30:58
Speaker 1: That's the type of pro that we're talking about. I mean,
31:02
Speaker 1: other than UCLA. I mean, those are the four faces
31:06
Speaker 1: college basketball programs on the Mount Rushmore of college basketball,
31:09
Speaker 1: and three of them could have openings. And I don't know,
31:11
Speaker 1: if I'm UCLA, I run Mick cronin out of town too.
31:14
Speaker 2: What a real.
31:18
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see how they go about this.
31:22
Speaker 2: But the man, there's no limitation.
31:24
Speaker 1: This doesn't happen very often in college basketball, where you
31:27
Speaker 1: can pretty much just call anybody you want.
31:29
Speaker 2: And they're going to take your phone call.
31:31
Speaker 6: Yeah.
31:31
Speaker 2: Now, it's just a matter of the sales job, right exactly.
31:35
Speaker 3: And obviously if the fan base is unhappy after getting
31:38
Speaker 3: booted in the first round the last couple of years,
31:40
Speaker 3: you kind of get to step right in. You know,
31:42
Speaker 3: they spend money, you know that they're going to do
31:44
Speaker 3: everything they possibly can to get back up towards the mountaintop.
31:47
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's something that everybody's going to be interested
31:49
Speaker 3: if you're a basketball coach.
31:50
Speaker 4: I feel like the only person who probably might wouldn't
31:53
Speaker 4: take your call is JJ Reddick because he'd be like, no,
31:57
Speaker 4: he wouldn't go from Duke to North Carolina.
31:59
Speaker 1: No, yeah, I said that, Like, no, you probably couldn't
32:01
Speaker 1: call anybody from Duke, oh yeah yeah, but but.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, basically anybody else, Yeah yeah.
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Speaker 2: Anybody else? All right?
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