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Charles Barkley on Coco Gauff, NBA Finals Predictions & His Top 10 NBA Players of All Time · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Well, there's one man, and you know, I got to
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  Speaker 1: start with this because he's our main man, and of
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  Speaker 1: course you know him. Well, mister Charles Barkley, who's joining us,
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  Speaker 1: and he actually picked the Cleveland Cavaliers. John, don't you
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  Speaker 1: do this to make it to the championships before this year,
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  Speaker 1: before this, before the before the playoffs started? So Charles,
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  Speaker 1: what what does Charles have.
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  Speaker 2: To say to that?
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  Speaker 3: I was one wrong?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Just?
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  Speaker 2: We we appreciate you joining us.
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  Speaker 4: Man, Hey man, there's an honor you know, Patrick said
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  Speaker 4: this before.
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  Speaker 3: Man, any time I get to be around your brother
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  Speaker 3: as an.
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  Speaker 4: Honor and privilege, you know, because I tell people they said,
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  Speaker 4: why do you like John macro so much? I says,
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  Speaker 4: because I want people to know sports matter to me.
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  Speaker 3: And did I cross the line time? Did John? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Of course we did.
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  Speaker 4: But there's never watching John play and hopefully my set.
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  Speaker 4: I told George Kettle this year because I was on
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  Speaker 4: Josh Kittle's podcast, I said, dude, you one of my
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  Speaker 4: favorite players.
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  Speaker 3: He said, why do you say that?
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  Speaker 4: I said, you care about winning and that's all fans can.
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  Speaker 3: Ask you to do. We all want to win.
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  Speaker 4: But I wanted people to say I didn't win all
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  Speaker 4: the time, but I wanted to know, like, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 4: I'm honored to play a professional because it's a honor
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  Speaker 4: to play the sport.
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  Speaker 3: So go ahead, finish up, keep going.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted people to know that I cared Patrick, I
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  Speaker 4: really did. And to me, that's the ultimate compliment you
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  Speaker 4: can give any player, Like, yo, you gave me your best.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I could ask.
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  Speaker 5: Can you say the same about the Cavaliers and the
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  Speaker 5: last game and a half the way they played. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I'm static obviously wearing this jersey Mellows Old jersey, among others.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me about that.
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  Speaker 3: That was disappointing because one stat.
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  Speaker 4: That I'm really proud of John I never got swept
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  Speaker 4: in a seven game series, because that's humiliating and embarrassing.
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  Speaker 4: And when you when you come out in game three,
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  Speaker 4: let's go back to Game three, you give up thirty
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  Speaker 4: seven points in a must win game at home, you like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you unpacked it in then to back it up to
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  Speaker 4: go get swept.
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  Speaker 3: Last night, they gave up a whole thirty eight. So
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  Speaker 3: that tells me.
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  Speaker 4: And I showed several plays where you're like, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 4: they're just.
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  Speaker 3: Going through the motions. They're ready, they're ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: We got some tennis just on Charles as well as
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  Speaker 1: we go through this, and we're so happy you're with us.
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  Speaker 1: We got mister Bublick out. There's quite the character he's serving.
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  Speaker 2: At four or five.
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  Speaker 1: We just saw Coco Golf get a win over Taylor Townsend. Charles,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you caught any of that. Coco,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the defending champ here. She's one of the
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  Speaker 1: great competitors, won a couple of majors.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about her and her chances here
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  Speaker 2: this year?
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  Speaker 3: You know, first of all, she is terrific.
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  Speaker 4: I was actually going back and forth on both masters
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  Speaker 4: because I was looking because then we were talking about
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  Speaker 4: getting ready for this interview.
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  Speaker 3: They were gonna do it as soon as name Homi got.
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  Speaker 4: Done, and she was down like four to one or
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  Speaker 4: five to two in the second set. I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna be here a minute. Then she had to
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  Speaker 4: have miraculous, miraculous comeback and winning the said in the
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  Speaker 4: time breaker, which was awesome. But I was going back
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  Speaker 4: and forth on that. Coco matt Man, I love her story.
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  Speaker 4: I started following her obviously a few years Ago. I
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  Speaker 4: love the support she gets from her mom and dad,
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  Speaker 4: And it's just because you know, man, being into the
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  Speaker 4: limelight in tennis is probably the worst sport. What I
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  Speaker 4: mean by that is y'all are probably more famous as
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  Speaker 4: teenagers than any other sport in the world.
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  Speaker 3: And you guys both.
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  Speaker 4: Know, man fame is a lot man fame and attention.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody only looks at the positive. But you know, John,
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  Speaker 4: you've been around a long time. Say with you, Patrick Man,
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  Speaker 4: We've seen a lot of crash and burns and coaches,
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  Speaker 4: got tremendous.
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  Speaker 3: Parents and you it's hard man.
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  Speaker 4: And then it seems it's always said you people think
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  Speaker 4: you're whining. It really sucks to be famous, I said,
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  Speaker 4: because you don't understand what it's like, the everyday thing
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  Speaker 4: depressure these kids are under. And like I say, tennis
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  Speaker 4: is properly the worst because you guys are great as teenagers.
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  Speaker 4: It don't matter if you're great in other sports a teenagers,
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  Speaker 4: you don't get the limelight like you do in tennis.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you got teenagers and these majors, Man, they're
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  Speaker 4: in a tremendous stress and you just got to have
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  Speaker 4: a good support system because.
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  Speaker 3: When you're famous and rich.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's kissing your ass because they're on the payroll. And
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  Speaker 4: that's why people are said, man, these child actors and
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  Speaker 4: some of these athletes, they always in trouble. I said, well,
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  Speaker 4: they don't have a good support system because the people
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  Speaker 4: around you. There's so many yes men because they don't
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  Speaker 4: want to mess up the paycheck. But it's really difficult,
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  Speaker 4: especially now with social media, uh and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: These kids are there so much pressure. So I love
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  Speaker 4: Cocoa's story, but I love the way her mom and
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  Speaker 4: dad have always supported her. Seems like she's on the
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  Speaker 4: right path and she's got to get that serve things
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  Speaker 4: straight now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that sure.
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  Speaker 5: The college I've been espousing players going to college so
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  Speaker 5: they can mature a little bit so they can handle this.
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  Speaker 5: And now with the nil stuff, it seems like, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: obviously it's more so in football and basketball that allows
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  Speaker 5: them to potentially get paid and sort of understand what
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  Speaker 5: it takes. What do you think about that. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure you're a proponent of.
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  Speaker 3: That as well.
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  Speaker 4: It's one hundred percent correct, because hey, listen, to make
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  Speaker 4: kids adults right away, they're not ready mentally or physically
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  Speaker 4: because you might be a great tennis player in high
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  Speaker 4: school and even in college, that means little and nothing
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  Speaker 4: in the pros.
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  Speaker 3: We don't give a damn about you in the pros.
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  Speaker 4: And you're like you people are just walking with my
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  Speaker 4: son's the best player in Georgia. I says, yeah, they
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  Speaker 4: got forty nine other of those too.
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  Speaker 3: You know. You know, I said you just one to fifty.
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  Speaker 4: And I says, so, don't tell me your son is
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  Speaker 4: mister Georgia or mister Florida.
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  Speaker 3: That means absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing, But I judge you one hundred percent correct. Going
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  Speaker 4: to college number one, learn how to live life a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, but also get competitively strong, get your confidence
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  Speaker 4: because a lot of times if you go out there
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  Speaker 4: too young, you're gonna start getting your brains be there
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  Speaker 4: right away, and that's gonna stunt your growth. Also, people
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  Speaker 4: don't even think about that aspect of it, because you
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  Speaker 4: go from being the man or the woman, and then
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  Speaker 4: you're like, you go out there and you can play
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  Speaker 4: against the Sabolenko or golf You're like, WHOA, this is
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  Speaker 4: a whole of a level.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think going to college, getting.
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  Speaker 4: Physically stronger, getting mentally stronger, and getting your comfortens up.
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  Speaker 4: I think that going to really help a lot of
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  Speaker 4: players going forward.
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  Speaker 3: You know that.
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  Speaker 5: It's so how do you differentiate to me? Because this
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  Speaker 5: is the trick. You got a guy like this Joe
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  Speaker 5: Carlos Alcarez, who can handle it all at a very
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  Speaker 5: young age.
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  Speaker 3: And when byam.
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  Speaker 5: I'll throw out a basketball player who's come out, seems
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  Speaker 5: like he said, figured it all out already.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the key.
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  Speaker 5: How do you figure out which when the time is right.
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  Speaker 3: For a young guy or girl.
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  Speaker 4: You know that that is a great question because all
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  Speaker 4: these all these things, all these quote unquote guys, they're
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  Speaker 4: not all created equal. Because I let me give you
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  Speaker 4: an example of the NBA. Remember when Kobe Bryant sucked
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  Speaker 4: at the beginning of his career. People get it because
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  Speaker 4: became like one of the five to ten best basketball players.
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  Speaker 4: Remember they booed him early. The only player in my
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  Speaker 4: forty years out the only player who was good out
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  Speaker 4: of high school, The only one I've ever seen was
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  Speaker 4: Lebron's name.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Garnett's struggled will turned into an all.
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  Speaker 4: Time great, chased him a grady struggle turned into a
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  Speaker 4: great player.
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  Speaker 3: All these like so yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They threw them out there, but there's there was growing pain.
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  Speaker 4: They were playing against grown men. But you're right, Carlos
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  Speaker 4: came out. But it's so rare.
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  Speaker 3: Well, these guys come out and they're able. We number one,
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  Speaker 3: they're so.
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  Speaker 4: Gifted they can handle it fromt the beginning. But we're
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  Speaker 4: talking except one of the reasons I hate.
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  Speaker 3: The whole nil team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we probably was screwing less than one percent of
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  Speaker 4: the players who probably should.
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  Speaker 3: Have been making money.
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  Speaker 4: But this model we got now where we're going to
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  Speaker 4: bankrupt college sports and have to have and have nots
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  Speaker 4: we threw. We screwed up the entire college program. Well
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  Speaker 4: ninety nine point Now these kids I actually have to
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  Speaker 4: get an education going out into.
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  Speaker 3: The real world. We screwed up the whole.
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  Speaker 4: College system to placate one percent of the people asked
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  Speaker 4: to gonna go pro and make money.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing. It's amazing, like society and Jenny.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing how college sports Charles used to have
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  Speaker 1: basically way too many rules and now there's just no
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  Speaker 1: rules at all.
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  Speaker 2: So all hell's broken loose.
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  Speaker 1: But do you realize that, Johnny Mack, you may not
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  Speaker 1: know this, Charles, And well we made the semi finals
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  Speaker 1: of Wimbledon right after he graduated from high school, and
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  Speaker 1: then later that year he was already ranked.
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  Speaker 2: You were like top thirty twenty one. He was ranked
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  Speaker 2: in the world. He was still a quote unquote amateur.
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  Speaker 1: But our parents, who had always stressed education, said, especially
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  Speaker 1: our mom, said Johnny, you need to go to Stanford
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  Speaker 1: for at least a year. And he went, as you said,
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  Speaker 1: went for a year, loved it, had a great time,
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  Speaker 1: and then went out out.
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  Speaker 2: Into the tour. And know Kobe, by the way, only
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  Speaker 2: average bed.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was seven and a half points a
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  Speaker 1: game that first year that you mentioned in the league.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking about the top of the line, right, We'll
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  Speaker 4: talk about two of the best to ever do it.
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  Speaker 4: And the problem is your family and your friends trying
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  Speaker 4: to get to your money as quick as possible. They're like, well,
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  Speaker 4: maybe you're not ready to turn pro. Nah, you're ready
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  Speaker 4: because we want that money. If we want that money
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  Speaker 4: as soon as we can get it. They never think
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  Speaker 4: the big picture. Then you got the agents, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the lot of the agents of scumbags too. They're trying
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  Speaker 4: to get you to your second contract when you make
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  Speaker 4: the crazy money.
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  Speaker 3: So it is that goes back to what I was
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  Speaker 3: saying earlier.
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  Speaker 4: Man, fame is really I've been so honored and blessed,
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  Speaker 4: how a great life. But man, I've seen so many
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  Speaker 4: tried to stories with guys like no, man, go to college.
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  Speaker 4: Go to college for a year or two. Uh, it
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  Speaker 4: ain't gonna hurt you.
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  Speaker 5: But you how many years did you go to college?
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  Speaker 4: I went?
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  Speaker 3: I went three years.
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  Speaker 4: But you look at somebody think about all the all
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  Speaker 4: time great players like Kobe and Lebron, they're probably the
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  Speaker 4: two high guys who are probably in the top tens
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  Speaker 4: and wherever.
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  Speaker 3: You want to put them.
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  Speaker 4: But if you look at Michael Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Kareem,
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  Speaker 4: Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry Wes, Matthew Johnson, Larryberg, those are and
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  Speaker 4: those are like the top ten in my guys, in
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  Speaker 4: my opinion, I got Cope Lebron like six and seven,
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  Speaker 4: I said, But every other calendar list went to cars
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  Speaker 4: for at least three or four years. It didn't stunt
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  Speaker 4: their growth. The greatest players ever all with Tim Duncan,
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  Speaker 4: all time the best power for it ever, all these guys,
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  Speaker 4: Cope and Lebron are the only two player in my
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  Speaker 4: top ten.
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  Speaker 5: Did you say that Lebron with seven? Did he put
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  Speaker 5: Lebron seven?
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  Speaker 3: I put Lebron, I got Kobe six.
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  Speaker 4: This is just my opinion, John, I got so, I
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  Speaker 4: got Michael Oscar, Will, Kareem and Bill Russell.
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  Speaker 3: That's my top five. I got Kobe six, I got
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  Speaker 3: Ron seven.
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  Speaker 4: I got Magic and Bird and Tim Duncan and Jerry West.
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  Speaker 4: Those are like my top ten players. And uh, that's
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  Speaker 4: like I said, It's off. Everybody had their own opinion.
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  Speaker 4: I said, And you know that's the one thing about
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  Speaker 4: the Lebron group. If you don't say he's the greatest ever,
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  Speaker 4: it's like you committed treason.
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  Speaker 3: I said. I said, he's one of the ten greatest.
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  Speaker 4: And I said, I would take Michael and Kobe before
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  Speaker 4: I take Lebron. Those are the three best basketball players
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  Speaker 4: I've ever seen in my life.
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  Speaker 3: But for some reason, when.
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  Speaker 4: You don't sell Lebron as the best, his minions go
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  Speaker 4: ballistic and crazy. I'm like, hey, he's the third best
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  Speaker 4: basketball player I've ever seen. Get over it.
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  Speaker 5: What about your cohort, Shaquille?
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  Speaker 2: Where do you put him on the line?
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  Speaker 4: He's right there behind Tim Duncan and keep right there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he likes that when you tell him that.
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  Speaker 3: On our you know, that's the good that's the good
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  Speaker 3: thing about it.
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  Speaker 4: He probably won't be paying attention to the French Open,
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  Speaker 4: so he probably won't be.
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  Speaker 3: Watching the mag Zolls. He probably Yeah, yeah, one of
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  Speaker 3: my friends, Charles.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, we're trying to up our game here. I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to get Johnny Mack to hit the social media. I
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  Speaker 1: know that's been a little.
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  Speaker 2: Tricky for you.
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  Speaker 3: I want to ask.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, King Charles is in the house, they.
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  Speaker 1: Said, And Charles Barkley looks so good.
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  Speaker 2: Our man Lucas is here.
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  Speaker 1: He's following all this stuff for us, Chuck on social media,
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  Speaker 1: so I think he might have a question for you.
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  Speaker 4: I well, let me just say it before. Yeah, let
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  Speaker 4: me ask you a question social media. We got tornadoes,
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  Speaker 4: hurricane these are some of the worst thing that happen
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  Speaker 4: to the world. Social media has owned that list, like hurricanes, tornadoes.
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  Speaker 5: Uh so, go ahead, la no, no, before you ask
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  Speaker 5: this question, because that's I want you to answer this
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  Speaker 5: one before. Lucas hands I've never been on social media
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  Speaker 5: in my life, Charles. I'm sixty seven years old. I
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  Speaker 5: was trying to start. I am trying to start it.
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  Speaker 3: To kill it.
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  Speaker 5: Thing. People saying that I still, you know, in order
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  Speaker 5: to be quote unquote relevant, that I need to go
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  Speaker 5: on social media. And I said, Charles Barkley's never been
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  Speaker 5: on it.
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  Speaker 2: The guy's the man.
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  Speaker 3: And then I hear you are on it.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me what do you think I should do?
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  Speaker 3: You know what's really about that, John? I bought a
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  Speaker 3: distillery in Alabama.
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  Speaker 4: I got a vodka and a gin, and they're like,
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  Speaker 4: I've never I just started social media. The only reason
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  Speaker 4: I went on social media is because I started an
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  Speaker 4: I bought a distillery in Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only reason. But the one thing.
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  Speaker 4: I do, John, I never read comments. I only post positive.
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  Speaker 4: I only post positive stuff. But the one thing, and
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  Speaker 4: the girl who runs my life on social media, I said,
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  Speaker 4: don't you ever read a damn comment because you realized, man,
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  Speaker 4: it's just some evil people out there. I only post
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  Speaker 4: positive stuff about my vodkas in I only post inspirational
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  Speaker 4: stories and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: But I never read comments. So if you're going to.
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  Speaker 4: Do a tequila, I'm gonna want to need to make
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  Speaker 4: sure I get something too, absolutely, but don't ever read
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  Speaker 4: the comments. And I tell the girl who runs my life,
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  Speaker 4: don't you ever read the damn comment? I know people
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  Speaker 4: people don't like me.
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's gotten the paint on everything, but don't read the comments.
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  Speaker 4: We're trying to do something positive. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Charles, I want to just tell you that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for John and I to be working with
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  Speaker 1: your guys from TNT, you know, it's been.
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  Speaker 2: It's been awesome for us. And I told them.
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  Speaker 1: Specifically last year and we started the Mac Zone. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we we put up a couple of comments that were
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  Speaker 1: a little negative. I said, you know, I think we
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  Speaker 1: better take what you just said. And you know, because
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  Speaker 1: we want to keep Johnny Mac happy over here. We
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  Speaker 1: don't need the negativity. We want to bring the positivity.
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  Speaker 1: So Lucas bring us some positivity one hundred percent from
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  Speaker 1: social media.
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  Speaker 6: I know Charles doesn't read the comments, but I'm here
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  Speaker 6: reading all of the comments so he doesn't have to.
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  Speaker 6: And they are loving you, so it's not of course
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: on social but they're also very happily surprised with his
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: excellent tennis analysis. They're wondering, for all three of you,
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  Speaker 6: if you could watch any two players from any era,
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: play at any venue. What would that matchup look.
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  Speaker 5: Like you're talking about in ten ten tennis?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I like that one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, if you could write, I would like to see, uh,
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  Speaker 5: let's see at his peak. I would like to see
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: Roger Fetter play Carlos al Carez on at Wimbledon.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I would like.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: To see you from eighty four, when you still have
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: the best single season in history on the men's side,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: play Roger Fetter in his prime.
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  Speaker 3: That's what that would be my dream.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: What about you, Charles.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: John, what service would you want to play?
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Roger Ome I'd love to play in Wimbledon or are
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: the US Open? Either one of those. You know, I
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: might get my butt kicked, but it would be you know,
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  Speaker 5: that's that's.
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  Speaker 3: What you want.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: You want to play the absolute best to see what
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: you got.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Love all sports. I watched all the majors in tennis.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: That that's pretty much I'm always I'm gonna watch the
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: majors pretty much an Inny sport like I only like
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: I watched the Kentucky Derby. I mean I watched horse
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: racing four times a year, the Trip of Crowns and
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: the Breeders Cup. I've never I never watched horse racing
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: except those four times a year because like, yeah, I
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: want to watch the major thing.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: And so it's trading.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Open the French women to the New York. But the
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: answer your question, and I hate saying this because I
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: know John is gonna go crazy. Don't sell god, no,
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: no no.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: And I said this last night.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: I had not been to New York to a big
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: game because we don't travel except normally to the conference finals.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: And last year I had not been in Madson Square
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Garden for a big game in probably thirty years. And
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: then being there last year for the conference finals. Man,
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: it was giving me goosebumps every game. I cannot And
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: so this year the cool thing about this whole ESPN
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: we actually we've never done the finals before. And I
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: said last night, man, I'm in heaven right now, our
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: first finals. We're gonna get to go back to Madison
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Square and Gardens. I cannot wait to get there. It's
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: gonna be it's because it's something different about it. I
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: hate to say it. But the answer that question to
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: see John or Roger or Novak or somebody at the
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: US Open in New York.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Man, And like I said. The reason I hated because first.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Of all, these New Yorkers, Man, they're the best.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: They're the best and the worst. I told this, I
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: told his story Patrick on television. This is two weeks ago.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Okay, So obviously we do our show in Atlanta, right,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: so we all stay at the same hotel that's the
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: New York Knicks. So after Game three, you bump into
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: the fans in the hotel. Man, why do we get
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: rid of the TIBs. We gotta get rid of Mike Brown.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: We got to do everything in our power. This team sucks.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: We got to do everything in our power to get Youngnest.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: This is a mere two weeks ago, Patrick, and.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Now and now look what happened eleven in a row.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Now, hey, no, two days later, after they win Game four,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: even before even before.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: The Cleveland series, we're going to the finals. I said, yep, man,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: it's too two. No, we're going to the finals.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I mean the move swing, the move swings of these
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: New York fans. It's one of the most fast and things.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: And Michael Bridge lendid Sherman. We had them on the
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: show last night and I said, can you explain to
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: a regular person what it's like to be winning in
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: New York right now, He says, Man, I'm.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Not gonna lie, Chuck. It is. I can't even explain.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: I don't even know if there's a word, what's happening
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: in New York right now? And for them to And
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: even though I picked Cleveland before the playoffs started, I
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: said a couple of weeks ago, I think it could
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: be one of the greatest things for our fort if
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: the Knicks make it to the finals.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: And now they're there. And let me tell you something.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: We were out, so we were out watching hockey last
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: night because it was an overtime after our game.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Shout out to the Hurricanes won a second straight overtime game.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: They showed the odds they're gonna be a three to
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: one underdog to both teams who ever come out of
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: the West.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Uh. They was showing that. I was watching Espen last night.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I think, if Okac comes out there minus three hundred
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: and if it's the Spurs's minas like minus two seventy five.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: And I was saying, yo, man, I think the Knicks
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: might win.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: And the next witness, whatever you do, Charles, please don't
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: pick the next win.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: You know I'm probably not going to because okay, see
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: or the Spurs are gonna be heavily papered, like if
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: you picked up the Knicks to win, you just trying
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: to act like you're smart just in case they won.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Right, We know, guys, like we got a question though
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: for it Chuck. This is a good, pretty good one
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: from from our social media from Abby Stoltz, who wants
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: to know how many sets.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Would Chuck versus Shack go on clay.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: First of all, I think I think my conditioning would
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: take over number one.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Hey, you know what's really wanting to repeat back me?
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: While I like tennis so much, I never played basketball
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: during the summer until like a month.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Before training came started.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: I played tennis pretty much every day just to kind
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: of stay on my conditioning. And I had one of
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: those stupid games I'm gonna serve hard and come to
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: the net, or I'm gonna try to get your return
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: back and I'm coming to the net, Like, Yeah, I
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: had one pressure game because random, and I'm not.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Playing against really good tennis player.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: I'm playing against other jocks to have pitpoint accuracy, because
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: at that time I had some serious quickness. To have
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: guys try to pass you over and over, Like I say,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: that's the only way I was going to play. I'm
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: gonna serve it hard and hope I get an age.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: But I'm coming to the net one hundred.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Percent of the time and put I'm put pressure on,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: You're gonna have to pass me. Man. And people think
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: that's easy.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: It's not easy because you better get it down the
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: line because if you get it anywhere in my range,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna get it back across the neck.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: But I'm coming to the net of the time.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Is that how you lost all that weight? You know,
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: train here on the tennis court or what's going on?
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, dropped a ton of weight?
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Man? Yeah, you know, shout out to road dot Co.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: I'm doing.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I'm doing a drug. I'm doing a Johnny I'm doing
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I'm doing a drug called zep Bound. You know.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: I gained one hundred pounds because in my heyday. In
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: my heyday, I played at three fifty. I got up
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: about three seventy three seventy because let me say seventy
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: oh yeah, and now I'm down to two seventy. I
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: want because when I started doing this drug, I wanted
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: to get down to two sixty five to seventy I've
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: been on the drug.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I take a shot once a week. I love it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: It's been great. I will I will tell you something's funny.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: It's the only endorsement while I actually lost money because
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: I got about twenty five of my friends on the
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: drug that I'm paying for it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: It's the only it's the only commercial. Well, I'm I'm
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: at a fire.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: That's your deficits. I got about twenty five of my
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: fat friends. I give all my fat for I give
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: all my fat friends three three months of the medication.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: So at least that's a that's a good simple size,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: so I know if they're seriously about losing weight. So
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: but I got dude, hey, dude, I'm serious. I'm at
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: a fin nasal deficit. I didn't realize I had that
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: many fat ass friends.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: When when you play tennis, by the way, because I
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: played way back when in some charity events, and one
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: time I played with doctor j uh and you know
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: he they lobbed over his head and he wouldn't jump.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: I said, this guy is a Michael Jordan, for God's sakes,
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: in the seventies and in the early eighties, and he
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: wouldn't jump. For an overhead, you know, and I'm thinking,
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: what the hell's going on here? This guy's got hops
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: in you galore?
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: He really had used all his hops up all right?
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: Before you go.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: I picked I picked up a tennis rack the first time.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: About a year ago.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: We were out drinking and smoking cigars in my backyard
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: and one of my friends, Brenna, started talking trash to me,
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: and I guess he played back in high school.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: And I didn't know it because I didn't know I
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: made him when I got.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Traded to Phoenix and we got drunk and started talking trash,
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: and he told me he could beat me in tennis.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: He's a little nerdy dude, and he beat me like
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: six' one. I was so damn pissed. I'm not gonna lie.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I want to rematch too, now that I'm skinny again,
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: I want to rematch, all right.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Charles, before we let you go, and we appreciate you
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: giving us all this time.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Were so pumped to talk to you. Give us who
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: our knicks will be playing in the final. Number one
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: your prediction there and number.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Two your prediction for who's gonna win this tournament, the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: men's and the women's.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: It's that I'd like to say, go ahead.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Well, first of all, it's it's two things gonna happen
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: in the West. We either gonna watch the beginning of
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: a dynasty with okay see, or are we gonna watch
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: the beginning of a dynasty with Victor women yama Whoever
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: comes out of the West okay c is gonna be
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: going for the back to back championships, or we're gonna
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: be starting the beginning of the Victor women Yama era.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: I thought, okay see. I think unless they get Jayalen.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Williams back, I think the Spurs are gonna win the series.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: I truly believe that they need Jalen Williams to beat
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: to beat the Spurs. He might play tonight. I can't
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: wait to watch that game. Because this is a big
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: boy game. You're gonna have to bring it tonight. Now
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: it's tennis. I think it's gonna come down to Sablenka
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: and golf and the women. What's fascinating. Can Joker get
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: to I can Joker get to the finals without no accoraz.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: You know, he had a tough first match. The young
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: kid gave him all he could handle. He can't have
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: that wear and tearing last two weeks in his age,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: He's gonna have to have a couple of easy matches
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: because once he gets to the quarters and things like that,
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: those guys are good enough to beat him because he's
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: obviously past his prime. But he need a couple of
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: easy matches. That was a tough opening match. Obviously centers
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: to heavy favorite in his histate. I was surprised Fritz
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: got out that early. Our root for Ben Shelton. I
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: would like to see Shelton because I always want to
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: see the American men do well.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, a great deal.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: It's center. Let's face it, it's you know, the next week.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Let's be real, Yeah, come on, ye hundred percent. But
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: we need another great American player.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: We need we we agree, We appreciate it.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Charles, thank you something.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: How about this picture of you?
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: Can I come visit the inside the NBA next week
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: in the garden, come say hello.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Hey, we're gonna have you on the showy and I
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: know you're gonna be happy to be back for Game three.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: You're damn right a him.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll be right there.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Hopefully he'll be in the front row.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: We'll get to pick a chuck a little baguette, little
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: glass of wine.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: You're living large, baby,