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Popovich Secret Weapon for Spurs Finals Run; Aaron Judge Avoids Catastrophic Injury; Russell Wilson Eyeing CBS Role · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to The Daily Play with Joey Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me. To make sure you
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  Speaker 1: Play Joy Taylor. So the Spurs are back in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals for the first time in twelve years. Mitch
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  Speaker 1: Johnson is the head coach, but Greg Pabovich is all
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  Speaker 1: over that facility. He is seventy seven years old, a
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  Speaker 1: legend that they call el Hafe, and he transitioned to
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  Speaker 1: front office president after a stroke ended his coaching career
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  Speaker 1: last season. But he is at practices, he's in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room, and he is waiting at the airport to
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  Speaker 1: talk to Wemby after their Western Conference Finals win, and
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  Speaker 1: Devin Vessel had this to say about the wisdom of
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  Speaker 1: bel Hafe said, you talk about the greatest coach pretty
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  Speaker 1: much of all time. To be able to sit there
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  Speaker 1: and tell you the experiences that they went through, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's second to nine. Honestly, he helps me out, helps
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  Speaker 1: me out a lot. He just has so much wisdom
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  Speaker 1: and stuff that you can't take for granted. I think
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  Speaker 1: this is such an advantage for the Spurs, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just one of those people that believes that well run
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  Speaker 1: organizations have success more often, and the Spurs are an
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  Speaker 1: organization if you're familiar with the NBA that has a
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  Speaker 1: tree there known for if you've been in the building,
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs system, the Spurs way. There are an organization
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  Speaker 1: that shares their practices with other organizations in other leagues,
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  Speaker 1: and pop has been the center point of all that.
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  Speaker 1: Dearon Fox even pointed out that it's not just five
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  Speaker 1: time champion.
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  Speaker 2: Coach Greg Popovich around.
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  Speaker 1: You've got RC Buford, the team's former general manager.
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  Speaker 2: Two time NBA executive the year.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Tim Duncan, who's doing rehab with Pop, manager Noble,
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  Speaker 1: David Robinson, Sean Elliott, Bruce Bowen. Like a well run
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  Speaker 1: organization that takes care of its former players, has a
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  Speaker 1: former player locker room or gyms they can come in
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  Speaker 1: and work out. I just think that that is the
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  Speaker 1: type of winning culture that has allowed them to be
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  Speaker 1: not just a legendary franchise, but continue to have success
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  Speaker 1: even after Popovich has stepped out.
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  Speaker 2: It's really so impressive.
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  Speaker 1: So New York Yankee superstar Aaron Judge avoided a catastrophic
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  Speaker 1: injury scare. They're still going to be holding their breath,
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  Speaker 1: but following tests, the team announced that Judge is considered
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  Speaker 1: day to day after being diagnosed with a bone bruise
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  Speaker 1: near his shoulder. It means that he dodged major structural
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  Speaker 1: or ligament damage, but it will keep him out of
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  Speaker 1: the lineup for a short stretch as they manage the soreness.
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  Speaker 1: The test revealed it was near his shoulder, no structural damage,
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  Speaker 1: so he will be day to day. And it comes
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  Speaker 1: right off the heels of the Yankees wrapping up a
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  Speaker 1: road series against the Athletics where Judge was fighting through
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  Speaker 1: at bats but clearly dealing with some discomfort. So obviously
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to lose a guy like that for
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  Speaker 1: a long period of time. He's hitting two forty eight,
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  Speaker 1: He has seventeen homers and thirty eight RBIs. He has
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  Speaker 1: one in his last eighteen games since May tenth, and
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  Speaker 1: that ended in eleven game homer and RBI drought with
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  Speaker 1: a game ending to run drive of the ninth inning
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  Speaker 1: to give the Yankees a two to zero win over
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. On May twenty fourth, he ended the game
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  Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay in a one for twenty four slump
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  Speaker 1: that dropped his average to two forty six because he
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  Speaker 1: was hitless in fifteen netbats before singling in the first
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  Speaker 1: inning and when he was hurt. Last season, stand played
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  Speaker 1: seventeen games in the outfield. But Stan has been out
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  Speaker 1: since April twenty fourth with a strained right calf, so
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  Speaker 1: they are trying to make sure that they do not
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  Speaker 1: lose Judge for a long period of time. He had
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  Speaker 1: started fifty two of New York's fifty nine games in
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  Speaker 1: right field, So I love this story. Ten time Pro
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  Speaker 1: bowler and Super Bowl champ Russell Wilson is potentially putting
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  Speaker 1: a pause or retiring from the NFL to join CBS
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  Speaker 1: Sports as a pregame analyst for the twenty twenty sixth season.
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  Speaker 1: He spent the spring weighing a contract to become the
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  Speaker 1: backup to Gino Smith with the New York Debts, but
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  Speaker 1: he's seventy thirty seventy thirty seven years old and has
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  Speaker 1: chosen the studio. I love this for him. Last year
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  Speaker 1: was not a great year. The Giants did not have
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  Speaker 1: the season they hoped for. They finished with a four
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  Speaker 1: and thirteen record, missed out in the playoffs for the
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  Speaker 1: third street season, and he began his own season with
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  Speaker 1: New York as a starting quarterback, but ended up playing
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  Speaker 1: three games and completed sixty nine of one hundred nineteen
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  Speaker 1: passes for eight hundred and thirty one yards three touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: three interceptions in an zero to three start, and of
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  Speaker 1: course he was benched for Jackson Dart, who was nominated
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  Speaker 1: for Rookie of the Year. So yeah, I think this
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  Speaker 1: is the right move for US. I think he's going
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  Speaker 1: to do a great job with CBS. I mean, Russ
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  Speaker 1: has a great personality. He's somebody who has always been
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  Speaker 1: good on the mic and and interviews and with the media,
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  Speaker 1: so I think it'll be really interesting to get his perspective.
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  Speaker 2: I do think he probably has a little.
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  Speaker 1: More football to play, but being that he would be
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  Speaker 1: the backup to Gino Smith starting his television career at
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  Speaker 1: this moment and it being his choice was kind of
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  Speaker 1: a nice way for him to do that. And I
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  Speaker 1: think he's going to do a great job. I think
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  Speaker 1: that it's very interesting the quarterback market right now. Guys
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  Speaker 1: who you think are backups who end up playing there.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like a starved market.
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  Speaker 1: And after the draft this year, being so light on quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really interested to see if he ends up coming back.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you have Aaron obviously is still playing at
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  Speaker 1: a really high level, Aaron Rodgers, but I mean he's
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  Speaker 1: in his forties and still the starting quarterback for the
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Obviously on a different level than Russell Wilson
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: But the point is.
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  Speaker 1: There's injuries and a lack of high level rookies coming
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  Speaker 1: in the quarterback market can get really scarce really quickly,
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  Speaker 1: so it'll be interesting.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm excited to see what he does with CBS. Well,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for joining me. That's the Daily Play.
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