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8-27-26 - NFL rules on returning to college/Can't take Carmelo seriously/RIP the NFL Pro Bowl · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is the Appetizer Hour with Brett Cain on demand.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have any players come to you asking if
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  Speaker 2: I'd go back to college?
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  Speaker 3: I have not.
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  Speaker 1: I have not.
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  Speaker 3: What did you think about that when you heard that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I asked.
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  Speaker 3: But I can't move well enough.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not really up to speed on, like, I feel
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  Speaker 5: like I'm in the dark with it all, and I
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  Speaker 5: don't have time to, like, read up on it, but.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly it's unusual, right?
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  Speaker 2: What's this guy's name? Who made this song? Is this Asher?
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  Speaker 5: Asher Roth.
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  Speaker 6: Asher Roth. Did he make any other songs other than
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  Speaker 6: this one?
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL has.
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  Speaker 6: Made a statement on this, and it said it's going
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  Speaker 6: to provide clarity. Here's the memo that's sent to these teams,
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  Speaker 6: and here's the weird part. You know, it says, as
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  Speaker 6: we approach the 53-player roster reduction, remember, that's going to
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  Speaker 6: happen on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a.
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  Speaker 6: Few different details in this. You know, the NFL came
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  Speaker 6: out and did some other things yesterday. They axed the
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  Speaker 6: Pro Bowl, so we'll get to that in a second.
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  Speaker 4: But....
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  Speaker 2: They've said... In a.
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  Speaker 6: Memo, NCAA, I just love this term, defectors can't play
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  Speaker 6: for NFL teams in 2026.
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  Speaker 4: So....
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  Speaker 6: They held a special meeting yesterday and they said this,
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  Speaker 6: any player cut by an NFL team who returns to
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  Speaker 6: college this year will be considered a free agent and
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  Speaker 6: therefore not subject to a future draft. But also reminded
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  Speaker 6: teams of the rule that any player signed to an
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  Speaker 6: NFL contract who is subsequently cut is a free agent.
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  Speaker 6: That player can sign with another NFL club join the
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  Speaker 6: CFL or return to college, but they will never be
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  Speaker 6: in the draft again. So this is now the NFL
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  Speaker 6: putting all of this onto college football saying, not my monkey,
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  Speaker 6: not my circus, right? They're just going out and saying,
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  Speaker 6: whatever you guys want to do with this, however you
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  Speaker 6: want to handle it, go ahead. But Any player that
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  Speaker 6: is cut that goes back to college football is a
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  Speaker 6: free agent.
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  Speaker 2: So let's say they go out and they have a
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  Speaker 2: big year.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if they have a big year, they don't get
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  Speaker 6: first round draft pick money. They don't get guaranteed contract.
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  Speaker 6: They don't get four years with a.
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  Speaker 2: Fifth year option.
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  Speaker 6: They get whatever the free market is going to bring them.
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  Speaker 6: So in the case of Daquan White or Zavian Harris
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  Speaker 6: out of New Orleans, who both parted with their respective
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  Speaker 6: teams to join Lane Kiffin at LSU, I mean, I
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  Speaker 6: still am not sure if Lane Kiffin is doing this,
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  Speaker 6: how do you stop Lane Kiffin if you're the SEC?
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  Speaker 6: They've approved the new rules earlier this week that prevented
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  Speaker 6: these players leaving the NFL from joining college teams. So
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what happens to them. It feels like
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  Speaker 6: everybody is in limbo right now. And in this case,
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  Speaker 6: you know, it's something that correct me. Lindahl brought up yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: And if you guys missed it, they talked about this.
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  Speaker 6: I will get to it in a second. Um, They
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  Speaker 6: were discussing the idea of you're basically the minor leagues
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  Speaker 6: for the NFL anyway. So why not just provide yourself?
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  Speaker 6: the opportunity to be the true minor leagues.
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  Speaker 2: Here you go.
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  Speaker 7: And whether it's crap or not, whether it's some judge
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  Speaker 7: that's just an LSU's pocket or not, again, are you
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  Speaker 7: really hurting anybody with this whole thing? As long as
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  Speaker 7: the kid didn't go full Brendan Swordsby and bet on
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  Speaker 7: his own team or whatever. Like, I understand having an issue.
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  Speaker 7: I had a huge issue with Brendan Swordsby.
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  Speaker 8: Sure.
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  Speaker 7: On this one, dude's looking at it going... I'm not
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  Speaker 7: going to make this NFL team. They just had a
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  Speaker 7: ruling that said I can get a fifth year of eligibility.
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  Speaker 7: I would like to continue to play college football. If
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  Speaker 7: I were the NFL and I were college football, work
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  Speaker 7: it out to where if you decide this kid's not ready,
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  Speaker 7: we're sending you back down for more seasoning the way
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  Speaker 7: baseball and hockey does. You're a professional minor.
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  Speaker 2: So that is the crux of their conversation. And again,
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  Speaker 2: on the surface, I don't disagree with it.
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  Speaker 6: The difference between college, or I'm sorry, between baseball and
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  Speaker 6: hockey is that you're still owned the rights to your
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  Speaker 6: to your contract, you're still owned by the team that
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  Speaker 6: drafted you. But if you get cut, then you aren't
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  Speaker 6: owned by anybody. I think the difficult part's going to
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  Speaker 6: become this. If college football tries to go out and
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  Speaker 6: poach somebody who is still under a contract, but a
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  Speaker 6: cheap one. Like, you know when Chris Harris was an
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  Speaker 6: undrafted free agent? And he played far beyond the undrafted
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  Speaker 6: free agent level. Yet he was still making the money
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  Speaker 6: of that. So you look at early in his career,
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  Speaker 6: it took him a long time to try and catch
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  Speaker 6: back up with what he was missing at the beginning
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  Speaker 6: of his career. He had a base salary in the
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  Speaker 6: league of $ 375, 000 his rookie year.
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  Speaker 2: It was $ 465, 000 his second year.
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  Speaker 6: It was 555 his third year. Before his fourth year,
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  Speaker 6: it jumped to 2.1, and then he started getting in
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  Speaker 6: the millions. Well, if he is an undrafted dude who
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  Speaker 6: got paid $ 377, 000 his first year, let's say that he's
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  Speaker 6: good enough to make the team, obviously, but a college
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  Speaker 6: team then comes up and says, hey, I can throw
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  Speaker 6: you $ 3- 4 million.
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  Speaker 7: $ 3- 4 million.
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  Speaker 6: Can you get bought out of a contract? That's the
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  Speaker 6: weird thing for me. It's not so much the guys
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  Speaker 6: who get cut. I'm not worried about the guys who
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  Speaker 6: get cut. I think the guys who are off an
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  Speaker 6: NFL roster and feel like they have a better opportunity
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  Speaker 6: in college than the NFL and they have an extra
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  Speaker 6: year of eligibility doesn't bother me that those guys want
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  Speaker 6: to go back. I'm just trying to see with... Remember,
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  Speaker 6: I told you guys yesterday, the NCAA as a whole
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  Speaker 6: is a $ 20 billion a year business in just revenue.
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  Speaker 3: $ 20 billion.
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  Speaker 6: If you take everything, every sport, every ticket sold that
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  Speaker 6: is under the umbrella of the NCAA, every ticket, every
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  Speaker 6: TV contract, every piece of merch, everything, $ 20 billion.
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  Speaker 4: $ 20 billion.
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  Speaker 6: If they go up and they try and make a
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  Speaker 6: contract offer to somebody else, does your contract offer stand?
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  Speaker 2: That's my question.
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  Speaker 6: Text says, didn't we just do this with Jonas Valanciunas
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  Speaker 6: and that Greek team, Panathinaikos? Yeah, but it does put
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  Speaker 6: a weird pressure on an NFL team, hypothetically, to.
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  Speaker 2: Up the ante maybe.
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  Speaker 6: Again, we're trying to figure this out on the fly,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm trying to think of what could be coming
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  Speaker 6: down the line that we can't foresee. The questions of
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  Speaker 6: Daquan Wright and, was it Daquan White and Zavian Harris?
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  Speaker 2: Those are the two guys?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, those two, I'm pretty unbothered by. they were free
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  Speaker 6: agents and they used their free in free agency to
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  Speaker 6: return to college. Does it just stop there? And I
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  Speaker 6: think if college football was smart, they would, but here's
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  Speaker 6: the problem. And this is, if there's any concern I have.
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  Speaker 2: With college football right now, people have been, you know,
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  Speaker 2: bringing out the torches and pitchforks for that, that league.
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  Speaker 6: Um, For a few years now. Because of all the
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  Speaker 6: change that has happened. You know, Mojo always says it's
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  Speaker 6: the wild, wild west.
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  Speaker 5: It is.
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  Speaker 6: But I've maintained, I still don't believe from a competitive standpoint,
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  Speaker 6: it's been all that different from what.
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  Speaker 2: It's been in the past.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody who's talking about how college football has changed.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 6: The paying players over the table instead of under the table.
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  Speaker 6: The transfer rules are ones that I think are killing
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  Speaker 6: the sport from just knowing what team has which player's standpoint.
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  Speaker 6: But the actual sport itself, I don't think is that
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  Speaker 6: much different as far as the teams that are competitive.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same thing. It's the same thing we've gotten
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  Speaker 2: for 30 years.
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  Speaker 6: Nelly, off the top of your head, name me the
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  Speaker 6: best teams in college football right now.
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  Speaker 2: Who are the best?
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  Speaker 6: With the exceptions being like Indiana just came out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 6: But take them off the table.
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  Speaker 2: Who is it?
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  Speaker 6: Probably Georgia and Alabama. Georgia and Alabama are pretty good.
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  Speaker 6: So is Michigan and Ohio State. And so is, you know,
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  Speaker 6: Clemson and.
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  Speaker 2: Texas.
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  Speaker 6: And all the same teams that we thought were good
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  Speaker 6: for a long time are still the best teams in
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  Speaker 6: the league. What you've actually gotten is other teams like
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  Speaker 6: Indiana that have been brought into this.
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  Speaker 2: Because those teams.
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  Speaker 6: Got a financial boot and then were able to compete
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  Speaker 6: and then could find the transfer portal and bring in
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  Speaker 6: new players. So college football for me isn't all that different.
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  Speaker 6: But here's what is different. College football operated.
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  Speaker 2: Like an anthill. There's a million.
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  Speaker 6: Different pieces of college athletics that all make it one, right?
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  Speaker 6: So when all the ants get together, they can lift
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  Speaker 6: things that are a million times their body weight because
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  Speaker 6: they're all pulling in the same direction.
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  Speaker 2: They're all working for a common goal. When you strip
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  Speaker 2: that down and you start to get people being very
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  Speaker 2: individualistic about this, like Lane Kiffin is doing at LSU
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  Speaker 2: right now, when you have people that are pulling in
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  Speaker 2: different directions and their conference says, you can't do this,
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  Speaker 2: and Lane Kiffin goes, oh, yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm going to try. What are you going to
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  Speaker 6: do to stop me? That's where things are going to
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  Speaker 6: get a little weird. And I will blame the SEC.
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  Speaker 6: For consistently threatening to break off and do their own thing.
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  Speaker 6: How did we get to a place where everybody just
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  Speaker 6: becomes this one free-for-all of whatever's best for me, I'm
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  Speaker 6: going to do?
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  Speaker 2: Well, when you start talking about we are so much
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  Speaker 2: above this.
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  Speaker 6: That I will go out, break off, and form my
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  Speaker 6: own league if I have to, well, you aren't one anymore.
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  Speaker 6: You've created a hierarchy that everybody knew was there, but
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  Speaker 6: you kind of work together. You know, a good company,
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  Speaker 6: even a small business, a successful small business, has a
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  Speaker 6: CEO who makes more and is probably more important doing
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  Speaker 6: a lot more of the legwork, at least to get
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  Speaker 6: the business started, than somebody who joined a month ago
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  Speaker 6: on an hourly.
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  Speaker 4: Wage.
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  Speaker 6: But you have to work together. And I think college
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  Speaker 6: football knew that. You could have your Wyomings and you
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  Speaker 6: could have your armies, and you could have your Ohio
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  Speaker 6: States and your Alabamas, but you're all kind of on
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  Speaker 6: the same page. You're all working together. But when you
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  Speaker 6: start breaking off and doing your own thing, now that's
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  Speaker 6: where it becomes a free-for-all. When a league says, hey,
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  Speaker 6: I don't think we should allow somebody who's gambled on
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  Speaker 6: their own games in this sport to play, and Texas
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  Speaker 6: Tech goes, well, I found a judge that says he can.
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  Speaker 6: It's not working together. That's everybody looking out for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to it next.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so the NFL released a couple other statements that
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  Speaker 6: we'll get to shortly.
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  Speaker 2: One is that if.
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  Speaker 6: A player commits three different violations of these categories in
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  Speaker 6: any season, much in the same way that the NBA
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  Speaker 6: has this with like the amount of technical fouls you
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  Speaker 6: get or something, it turns into a one game suspension.
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  Speaker 6: The NFL has said if you do a hip drop tackle,
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  Speaker 6: a horse collar, a launch or a hit on a
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  Speaker 6: defenseless player or a blindside block, if you have any
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  Speaker 6: of those three in a single season, you'll be suspended
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  Speaker 6: for a game, which I'm sure will make A lot
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  Speaker 6: of fun for those out there that are like, okay, great.
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  Speaker 6: The things that we used to love to see in
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  Speaker 6: football that are now banned, if somebody does the thing
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  Speaker 6: that we like to see, he could get potentially suspended.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome.
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  Speaker 6: They've also axed the Pro Bowl, and I want to
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  Speaker 6: get to that in a second, too. But Nelly came
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  Speaker 6: in here. I sent him an audio clip. He was
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  Speaker 6: just listening to it. And now because you brought it
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  Speaker 6: to the forefront of my attention, I'm a child. I
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  Speaker 6: need to talk about this now. So when it comes
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  Speaker 6: to Carmelo Anthony, I didn't live through his time here.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't live through his departure here. But in adopting
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  Speaker 6: this city as my town, I develop an affinity for
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  Speaker 6: the way that people treat and talk about this place.
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  Speaker 6: In the same way I do for some other places
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  Speaker 6: that I've lived, certainly my hometown, whenever somebody calls Denver
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  Speaker 6: like a.
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  Speaker 2: Flyover state or flyover city or whatever, I get very
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  Speaker 2: upset about this.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like this thinking you're holier than thou because
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  Speaker 6: of a place you were born, which you have no
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  Speaker 6: control over when it comes to states and places in
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  Speaker 6: this country because I think everywhere in this country is great. But,
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  Speaker 6: My beef with Carmelo has been very simple. If you
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  Speaker 6: just acted contrite and were genuine when you would talk
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  Speaker 6: about the city of Denver and the Nuggets organization, I
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  Speaker 6: don't think it would be that hard to let the
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  Speaker 6: fine people here to let bygones be bygones. I don't
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  Speaker 6: think it'd be difficult for somebody in Denver to be like,
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  Speaker 6: you know what? Couldn't stand Carmelo because of how he
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  Speaker 6: left and he wanted out. He talked trash in this town,
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  Speaker 6: but enough time has passed. Let's mend the fence. But
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  Speaker 6: at each turn, when he's been given an opportunity to
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  Speaker 6: do that, he's always taken the wrong approach, which is
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  Speaker 6: either one, he said the entirely wrong thing, or two,
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  Speaker 6: this is my read on it. He straight up lied
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  Speaker 6: to try and curry favor It seems so disingenuous. And
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  Speaker 6: text in if this is making sense. Even when he
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  Speaker 6: says things like, I really enjoyed my time in Denver.
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  Speaker 6: I grew up there. I love the people. I love
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  Speaker 6: the fans. When we play those audio clips, it just
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  Speaker 6: sounds like he is begging for the city to love
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  Speaker 6: him with him doing nothing on his end to mend
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  Speaker 6: the fence.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not how this works. When you have.
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  Speaker 6: A beef that ends or a relationship that ends, it's
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  Speaker 6: not one-sided. In fact, people here have every right to
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  Speaker 6: be like, you're the problem. I loved you and you left.
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  Speaker 6: You basically said this city wasn't good enough for me.
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  Speaker 6: I have to go to New York.
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  Speaker 4: But it's been.
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  Speaker 6: Basically, my biggest problem with him is anytime he talks
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  Speaker 6: about this place, it's either in a negative connotation or
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  Speaker 6: it's him being totally disingenuous in his part of reaching out.
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  Speaker 6: I'll never forget, Nelly, when we played the clip where
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  Speaker 6: he said, you know, I got a little, what was
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  Speaker 6: the exact quote?
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  Speaker 2: That he got upset when they let Jokic.
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  Speaker 6: Wear $ 15, 000.
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  Speaker 5: To try and erase his legacy, essentially.
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  Speaker 6: They thought that the goofy, gangly, uncoordinated, unathletic Serbian dude
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  Speaker 6: who was a second-round pick was going to be an all-timer.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 6: But he was on a podcast. I don't know what
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  Speaker 6: podcast this is. But they were talking about a subject
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  Speaker 6: that I think is common in NBA practices. And he said,
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  Speaker 6: but it's a misconception, he said. This isn't, we all
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  Speaker 6: think it's one thing and it's not.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually another.
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  Speaker 6: We have this very confused because we aren't part of
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  Speaker 6: the NBA world. And I would love for Carmelo to
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  Speaker 6: crack an egg of knowledge all over us for being
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  Speaker 6: so wrong in this.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't even put it together. I said crack an
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  Speaker 6: egg of knowledge, and Nellie was like, oh, he said
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I genuinely thought when you were like, yeah, crack
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: an egg and all of a sudden, that's the sign!
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Go, go, go!
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Eggs!
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: It actually was not. That was a coincidence. But text
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: eggs in your first and last name to 303-504-0925. That'll
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: get you a chance to get qualified for the Rock, Paper,
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: Scissors tournament. I was talking about how Carmelo Anthony was
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: cracking an egg of knowledge over all of us for
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: something that we have gotten confused forever, I guess.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Listen.
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: The misconception about NBA player is that you're locked down.
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: You got two hours of practice, two, three hours of
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: practice in the morning.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: The rest of your day is free.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: You really on your own. Whatever your responsibility is, that's
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: on you.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's up to you to show up, how
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: I'm going to show up, what I'm going to look like.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: That's all on you. You know what I'm saying?
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: We utilize....
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: And I'm glad that you were able to tell this
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: story about Magic City in a sense. But we utilized
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: those moments to go to places like that. And it
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: was very, at times, it was very respectful, though. It
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: was times where we were going, like, yo, we don't
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: want no girls. Like, there's no girls around us. Like,
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: we coming here, we chilling, we bonding. We got to
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: get our mind right. We're going to come and eat.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: We're going to have a good team outing. No girls.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: No girls. Leave it alone.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: You might lose two or three games in a row.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: All right, we're going to Magic. We're all going to
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: get together. No girls. We're just going to laugh, chill,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: have a drink, eat, whatever.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: Pause for a second. We'll pick this back up. Here's
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: what he's telling you.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Magic City is the very famous strip club that's in Atlanta.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: He's saying they don't go there for the girls. They
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: go there for team hang. That's what they do.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: Now, I am no strip club frequenteur. But I was
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: under the impression that was strictly.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: What that business was about. I thought that that's that's
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: exactly what that is for.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: Now, again, let's allow Carmelo to crack the egg of
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: knowledge all over us that we are uninitiated for.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Have a drink, eat whatever.
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: Everybody thinks that you are going there to get lap dances.
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: You're going there for the boys. No, you're not going
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: there for the bull. You're really going there to clear
• 22:39
  Speaker 9: your mind.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: You're going there to just relax and clear your mind.
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: Might have a drink, might have some food. Most strip
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: clubs got the best food.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: So you prefer to go there. You get everything in one.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: You get music. You get food.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: All right, pause it again and start it back with
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: that clip. You're going to tell me that I've been
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: missing out.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: On what is the Michelin star chefs that are in
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: the kitchen of the strip club. But that Gordon Ramsay
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: has only chosen to open his French bistro because he
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: was actually turned down from working in the kitchen of
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Magic City.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, when Jade Glitterface is dancing on you, over
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: in the corner you can hear.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: It's not rare, it's raw.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Yes. See, this is what I'm talking about.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Just say.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Look, man. You're a millionaire, multi, multi, multi, multi, hundreds
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: of millions, millions of dollars hair that wants to go
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: to the strip club because it's fun.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Most strip clubs got the best food.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: You don't need to tell me it's for the food.
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: Okay?
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: No, Brett, it's just.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: And I'm sure it is.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: Like, you get to hang with your teammates and you
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: guys have a good time and you have a couple drinks.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: It's all of that. It's also.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: The nude women that are there.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Didn't you hear?
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: If you're on a two to three game losing streak,
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: all you do is you go to a strip club
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: with your boys and enjoy some straight male fun of
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: eating chicken wings, watching the sporting event, right? Great place
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: to watch the game. Great place to clear your mind.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: It's not about the women.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Hang on.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: How much longer is in this clip? How much more
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: is he going to educate me on this?
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: It's like 10, 20 seconds.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: All right, cool.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Let's finish it.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Most strip clubs got the best fool. So you prefer
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: to go there. You get everything in one. You get music.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: You get food. You get good vibes.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Let me tell you what.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I have to pause it again before this thing's over. Oh,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: it's done? That was it? What vibes? You mentioned music
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: and food. What's that third thing? It might be the
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: click clacking of heels.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Food.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and Brett, like I said to you in the
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: commercial break, let me ask you something. So they said
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: that they're going to this place because there's good vibes,
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: good food, good music. You can watch the game. Are
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: there any other places you can do that that aren't
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: a strip club?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Any sports bar.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Any sports bar. Can you imagine? Can you imagine if
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: you went home and you.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Went to— Or Nelly, or Steakhouse.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: If you went to your wife tonight and was like, hey,
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: I got my fantasy football draft coming up next Monday. Oh, okay,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: where are you going? Go to strip club. For the vibes?
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I'm going to shotguns.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: Like, what would she say to you?
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I would explain to her exactly... Exactly how Carmelo did.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Most strip clubs got the best food.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: Most have the best food. I can't get over that.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: By the way, I'm no expert in this, but I have.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: Seen police interrogators talk about this, it's why we always
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: play the clip of, he conned me.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: You want to know when you're telling the truth?
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: When your voice takes about this octave right there, about
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: right here, that's when you know you're telling the most truth.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: And listen to that again.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Most strip clubs got the best food.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: They conned me.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Most strip clubs have the best food. I don't know
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: if you guys know that.
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: Hey, you know the Bunny Ranch out there in Vegas?
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: I go there just for the waters. Wonderful bottles of water.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: It's pretty unbelievable, right?
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: And what is it like? So he's on that podcast.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: There's Rudy Gay is on there. Did I hear, is
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: there like Westbrook? Is that Westbrook's voice at the beginning.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Of this, by the way?
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: No, there's no way Westbrook would do this podcast. There
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: is no chance. There's somebody who sounds like Westbrook, though.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: At least to me, it sounded like it. And by
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: the way, the podcast is 7 p.m. in Brooklyn, and
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: it's Mello's podcast. Texture says, I think you guys need
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: to do a remote from the Diamond Cab. You know what?
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Let's have an entire tasting of their menu while we're there.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you want to sample some of the... Put this
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: to the test. You want to sample some of the
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: breasts and thighs?
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just the most unbelievable. Most strip clubs
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: have the best food.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Well, because you need some reason to go. If they
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: didn't have a good menu, I mean, you'd have no
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: reason to be there.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Now, I have heard, like, NBA players, they talk about
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: this all the time. Who was it? Oh, I don't
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: want to get the name wrong.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: Hang on.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: Let me do a quick Google search to make sure
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: I'm not getting the wrong guy.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Most strip clubs got the best fool.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: Okay, I am right.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: It's Lou Williams. Lou Williams.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: Has talked about his deep love for Magic City's chicken wings.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Now, maybe they have the best wings in the world.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Maybe they do.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: But this all stems back in just one stupid clip
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: for a minute about strip clubs. Of just, don't lie
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: to me. You're going there because there's chicks there, okay?
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: He actually says, hey, doofus, he's not lying. If you've
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: ever been to a good club, most of the time,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: there's always a group of guys just in the back chilling.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: It's the frat bros who are all up on stage.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Fine.
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: All I'm telling you is, To say that it has
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: nothing to do with that?
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: Because what you're talking about is basically getting a bottle
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: service booth at a club, right?
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Is that the same thing? So funny to me. It
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: is so funny.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: Props to that texter, by the way. Doofus, I feel like,
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: is a very underused word.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: I think he's the guy. He calls me doofus all
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: the time.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: Hey, doofus. I think we need to use that more.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: He said it once, and I said I respect that
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: he said doofus, and then ever since, I think that's
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: how he refers to me, which I enjoy.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: That's fine. But anyway, there is the tales of Carmelo.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Something else NBA-related, just real quick.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: So all these guys that were RFAs this year, heading
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: into free agency, Peyton Watson, and it was.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: Benedict Matherin. I almost said Benedict Cumberbatch. Benedict Matherin and
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: Jonathan Kaminga. So Matherin signs a two-year, $ 16 million deal
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: with New Orleans with a player option. I don't know
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: if that's on year two, if that's for a third year.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: I think for a third year. Jonathan Kaminga now signs
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: a contract. He signed a two-year deal to go to Minnesota.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Now this is.
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: Minnesota needed bigs. They lost a whole bunch of size
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: this offseason.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Obviously, Julius Randle and Nas Reed, they didn't have guys
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: who were big. This is a big pickup for Minnesota.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: But he signs a two-year, $ 13 million deal.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: Spencer Jones money. And the odd thing about this is
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Jonathan Kaminga, who is, he's like.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: A big....
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: Ceiling guy potential much in the same vein of like
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: how people discuss Peyton Watson right now in his career. Now,
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: Kaminga has had the issue of, he just hasn't been
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: on the floor since like 2023, 24 season. He played
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: 47 games in.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: 2024, 2025.
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: The year after that, he played in 36 games.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: He's been hurt.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: It's hard to get a real judge on his ability and, and,
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: how far his talent can go. But it does strike
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: me as odd that Matherin gets $ 8 million per year
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: in a contract. Kaminga gets six.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: And a half. And Watson gets, what was the final number?
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Was it like 18?
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: No.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: It was four years. Was it 22 a.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Year, right?
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: $ 22 million a year?
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: I don't know how he became worth that much more
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: than guys like Matherin and Kaminga, who were also available
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: as RFAs. But it's kind of, I think that teams
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: saw Peyton Watson in the same way that I kind
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: of did, which is untapped, immense potential. Could you get
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: burned on the contract?
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: You could, you could. But could you also get a
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: steal out of it?
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: But he's worth almost four times more than Kaminga, three
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: times more than Kaminga. That's the part that shocked me.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: You know, it feels like once his domino dropped and
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: everybody else kind of fell in line, but it's, uh,
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: I don't like that Minnesota got him because, again, for
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: a guy that's got, you know, a sort of higher
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: ceiling if he stays healthy, they needed a big.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: They got one on a pretty cheap price.
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: After basically committing in the offseason to going guard heavy,
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: they had to find some size, and they found it.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: So, 303-504-0925. Broadcasting from the Backus and Shanker Studios. Serious
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: lawyers for the seriously injured back after this.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: All right, something else that went down in the NFL yesterday.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: They have axed the Pro Bowl. That is now done.
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: They're shifting to celebrate their focus on the honor of
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: being a Pro Bowl selection. So what that means, the
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: NFL is, and I'm actually shocked by this. I didn't
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: think the Pro Bowl would really ever go away, but.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: I know why it did. It's very difficult. You know,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: in sports, when you change things, when you change the
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: number of games in a year, when you change voting
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: processes and things, when you change a whole bunch of
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: rules within a league, a lot of the pushback comes from, well,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: what do you do with the records that are currently
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: held in these respective leagues? What do you do with
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: the accolades that are currently held in these respective leagues?
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: And here's your problem.
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: Jeff Legwald, who we'll talk to at 9 o'clock this morning,
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: he is somebody who is part of the Hall of
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: Fame committee that argues on behalf of players to get
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: in the Hall of Fame.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying that he uses this model because
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I think that Leggy is wise enough to realize, especially
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: in this era, Pro Bowl selections can be a tricky
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: one to argue for. But back in the day, they mattered.
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: If you were an X-time Pro Bowler, that's a big deal.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: If you made the Pro Bowl nine times in a
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: 12-year career, like, you were a hell of a player.
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: But now, there are so many replacement players that take
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: over spots in the Pro Bowl that has watered down
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: the meaning of that. For example, not to pick on anybody,
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: but this is true. When you look at the Pro
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: Bowl quarterbacks in the game last year Do you remember
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: a very notable name that was a Pro Bowler last year?
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: I'll give you the guy's numbers. He had a 56.6
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: completion percentage, 1,400 passing yards, seven touchdowns, and 10 interceptions.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: A Pro Bowl quarterback, Shador Sanders. If you're getting to
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: the point where guys like Shador, I think Tyler Huntley
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: a few years ago made it, this.
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: This is, it's lost its meaning. And it is now,
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: I mean, I guess it's rude to say it this way,
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: but it's true. It's disrespectful to people who were pro
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: bowlers in the past.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: The pro bowlers in the 80s and 90s.
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: Because that's not the same. That is an accolade that
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: should be earned. And so the NFL said, okay, we're
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: going to make this an honor to be a pro
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: bowler again. Here's why I never thought they'd actually go
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: as far as to canceling the entire game. In fact,
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: I'll look this up right now. Pro Bowl viewership by year.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: So even in.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Last year was bad.
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: But in 2025, the Pro Bowl got 4.7 million viewers.
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: It's probably the most watched thing on TV that day. Still,
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: because it's the NFL. Now, last year, it went to 1.9.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: Most people would kill for 1.9 million viewers. But I
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: think the NFL saw the dip, and to their credit,
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: they decided, you know what, we aren't going to do
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: this anymore. The most watched Pro Bowl of the past
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: 25 years, the 2011 Pro Bowl averaged 13.4.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Million on Fox.
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: I just thought they thought it was an easy way
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: to make money, even though everybody hated it. But to
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: their credit, if nobody's going to care and it's going
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: to water down the meaning of being a Pro Bowler,
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: then you get rid of it. I'm actually a fan of,
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: I think that every sport should get rid of their
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: all-star game with the exception of baseball. I think baseball
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: is the only one that still holds a little bit
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: of cachet when it comes to their actual game because
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: it is an actual game. This last year's was boring
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: because it was just a giant pitcher's duel. But best
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: players play in the game. They seem to have a
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: good time. It resembles the actual sport. And the home
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: run derby, I think, is the best exhibition thing that
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: all-star games have. I don't think there's any use for
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: the NHL to play their all-star game. It used to
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: be something where you didn't have the games on every
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: channel whenever you wanted to at your disposal. It was
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: a place where the world's best would all come together, play.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: You could see them all in the same building. It's
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: just not like that anymore. Now, texters are pointing out
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: when the hockey did the Four Nations thing for their
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: All-Star break, that was really.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Cool, and it was.
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: But I don't know if you can do that every
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: single year. You aren't taking weeks off of your season
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: every year to go and do that.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: And I'm curious how much teams even like it. You know,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: because there was a couple of guys, a couple of
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: big names, and I forget who they were in that
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Four Nations, that got hurt.
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  Speaker 6: Now, super entertaining on our part. I think it helps
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: their sport. I truly do.
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  Speaker 1: But.
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  Speaker 6: I think that would be hard to do every single year.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm like, just for me, you can cut out
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: all of the All-Star games. and it wouldn't bother me
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: at all. The NBA tried to do it with its,
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: you know, USA versus the world thing last year. It just, no,
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: it still doesn't work. And it's for the reason I
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: said when they were trying to implement this, it's teams
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: will fight really hard. For playing for their country. That's
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: why the four nations worked. That's why the Olympics work.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: You're playing for your home country. People take pride in that.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: Playing for something called the world against the USA, I
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: don't think does anything for them. I still wonder if
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: they held the Pro Bowl in Hawaii. Would players feel
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: differently towards it because you get to go to Hawaii
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: instead of, where's it been?
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Orlando? Something like that. Somewhere in Florida.
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: You talk to any of these Pro Bowlers that got
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: to go to Hawaii, they're like, oh, I loved the
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: Pro Bowl.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: It was awesome.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: You go on the beach.
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  Speaker 6: You get off the plane, you're given a lay of flowers.
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: but I'm surprised that they actually kicked it out the door.
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: And maybe the 1.9 million viewers, as opposed to four,
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: what was the, what'd I say?
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: It was 4.7 the year before. Maybe they lost money
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: on it. And they're like, okay, fine.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: That's it. I'm done.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: We tried to hang onto this as long as we could.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: We've reached the end.
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: It's over, but the pro bowl is officially gone. So
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: one other thing here that I saw from yesterday, Bryce
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: Hopkins said, If you guys watched any of Nuggets Summer League,
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: he was a second-round pick for the Nuggets.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Played really well in Summer League. He has signed a
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: two-way contract.
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: So the Nuggets have him on one of their two-way slots,
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: which means I believe there's still a roster spot, a
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: full-time roster spot open. So still curious to see, especially
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: with the Nuggets still in the second apron, how this
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: is handled moving forward.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Because that's another thing. They're still there.
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: And they can be there up until the All-Star break
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: without getting hit with a sort of tax penalty for it.
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: But it's still a matter of you can only bring
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: in minimum contracts right now.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: So 303-504-0925.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Remember, guys, Tuesday night. It's where it's going to be done.
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: If you don't qualify for the Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament,
• 42:04
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• 42:06
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• 42:09
  Speaker 6: least four people in attendance to jump into the tournament
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: as at-large bids. Plus, we'll have tons of other great prizes,
• 42:17
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• 42:20
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• 42:23
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• 42:26
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• 42:31
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• 42:33
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• 42:43
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• 42:47
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• 42:54
  Speaker 6: to Shane.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Got a whole bunch to
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: Discuss today right here on Altitude Sports Radio with Moshe
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: Lombardi and Kane next.