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Does the NBA have a problem with TANKING? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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And the man, the Mets are going to give him a significant,
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you're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not pulling in one of the top three offensive players in
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the league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron George and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see LeBron doing that. A game where you got to go
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before I told you. Giant feet, Saquon Barkley at
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www.worldwidesportsradio.com. And gentlemen, it's been a
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crazy, crazy weekend for the one they call the mouth.
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I'm not going to talk like a a third person speak or look like
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a complete moron because Kyler Murray does that enough for
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himself. I can't speak in a third person,
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but if I must, I will today. And I enjoyed the weekend.
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We saw a little snow last night and I there was nothing on our
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forecast. And that's why, ladies and
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gentlemen, weather men and women should not be weather men or
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women. There should be AI women and men
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controlling the thought of what our weather is going to be every
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single week, every single day, every single hour, every single
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second. You know why?
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Because they're never right. They're always wrong.
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So over the weekend we had some interesting weather.
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It went from at one point it was like 49°, almost 50, and then it
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dipped down at night to almost 20°.
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I can't understand this weather over here.
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I can't, I don't get it. But New York weather is a unique
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place and a unique forecast and, and be, by the way, being that
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we live on the island, it's completely different as far as
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the weather is concerned. In Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan,
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Staten Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, upstate New York, it's
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probably 10 feet of snow. I mean, I don't get it.
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But there's nothing. There is nothing like New York.
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Nothing. I don't care what anybody says
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and I've been all over the world.
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Anybody that knows me and listens to the show, I'm a DJ.
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I've traveled all over the world.
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I've been to Poland, I've been to Germany, I've been to New
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Zealand, Iceland, you name Amsterdam, Amsterdam, I've been
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all over the place. There are some countries I've
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never been to. Australia is one place I
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definitely want to get a chance to visit but never got a chance
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to yet. But me and my girl have spoke
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about that. That's one place that we're
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definitely going to have an opportunity.
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By the way, they have a place in Australia, Australia called like
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the Blue Lagoon and that's where great white sharks breed every
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winter. So don't go into the Blue Lagoon
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if you want to survive because these, there's like hundreds of
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sharks that go over there and they breed in this particular
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place. So I, I that's not a place that
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I would be going and, and hanging out.
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But yeah, it's been a crazy, crazy weekend.
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I don't like when it's snowing or it's bad weather out because
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even if it's flurrying, people are rushing, rushing to the,
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the, they're rushing to all these different stores like
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Walmart. And if you live in, in certain
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parts in the West Coast, they still have Kmart.
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And then all the food markets, shop rites, stop and shop all of
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them. They're all packed.
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And we, we have what's the place called?
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Weymans. Now it's called Weymans, right?
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Wegmans, Wegmans, Wegmans, which is, I think it's, I think it was
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built in the South. I, I, I don't know where, where
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it started, but we have a Wegmans here now and they want
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to put one in Nassau. But right by me they opened up a
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Wegmans and I still never been there because every day it's
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like it's, I don't even know it's like 6 flags over there.
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You can't even find a spot to park to go and check out the
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store. So me and my girlfriend who
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likes to go to different stores and check out the place.
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We have never been to Wegmans and it's been open for over a
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year now. So hopefully one of these days
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we'll get a chance to go and check out the the nice, nice
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sitting arrangements where you can have lunch and breakfast
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there and have all their different desserts.
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And those are the places that you you like to check out when
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you've never been. I see fish they.
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Got those by me and when I was in college, I saw a lot of them
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20 years ago because they started up in like Syracuse,
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Rochester, Buffalo area. They were like ranked like #1
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for like employee satisfaction really for years.
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Like they just treat their employees really well there.
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And it's a little expensive, but like they do it all there
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themselves. So it's kind of like more like
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an authentic feel. I've always had good stuff from
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them. It's just, it's going to, you're
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going to pay for it, you know? That's what I, I've heard
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everything there. If you want to buy like a milk,
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a 2% milk, it's like over there in Walmart you can buy for like
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$2.25. Over there at Wegmans you're
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going to spend like 325 or 345. What what's the difference
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between milk? I mean, why?
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Because as a Wegmans. Themselves or something like
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that. We got to ask Speedy because
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he's the milker. The 2026 The NBA All Star
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Weekend was yet another different format as the NBA
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tries to make the event as relevant as it once was.
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This year was uneven as many stars played very few minutes
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and small roles in the weekends festivities.
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The youth movement, however, did not disappoint, which many fans
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thought was an improvement on previous years and contests.
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San Antonio's went as we own webbing.
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Yama took the spotlight early, making athletic plays on both
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sides of the court, contesting a lot of shots like he would in
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the NBA games. Anthony Edwards won the All Star
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game MVP. Wow.
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But mention how much credit Wembe deserves for sparking a
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competitive atmosphere. The All Star game usually
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doesn't have Edwards. Team of Stars defeated Team
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Stripes in the All Star game final.
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Team World, who stars Luka Doncic and Nikola Yokich, didn't
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even play Game 2 for injury management reasons.
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Outside of Devin Booker, Team Stripes featured a lot of young
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players including Pistons forward, forward and point guard
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Kate Cunningham. 76ers guard Tyrese Maxi along with Mr. MVP
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himself Anthony Edwards on Saturday the heats.
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Kashad Johnson won the dunk contest while an injured Damian
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Lillard won the three-point contest LED by #3 overall pick
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of Rising Stars MVP Vijay Iscomb.
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Vince Carter's team edged out Carmelo Anthony's team in the
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Rising Stars game, while the New York Knicks won yes.
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While the New York Knicks won the first even Shooting Stars
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challenge led by Jaylen Bronson, Karl Anthony Towns and future
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Hall of Fame. I'm I'm not going to say that
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because that's probably not going to happen anyways.
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The I guess the assistant GM of the New York Knicks, Alan
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Houston. I will say this, I wrote a story
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and it's right up right now on the worldwide Sports radio
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network and I'm going to bring it up right here so people can
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check it out. If you haven't read it, it is a
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great story. I put it together.
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I had a lot of thought to it. It's called Put the All Star
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Game in the G League and let and let it think about what it's
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done. Why the NBA needs to cancel its
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own birthday party. So ladies and gentlemen, go
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check out my wonderful story. I gave you my take on why the
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All Star Game should not exist anymore in the NBA because it's
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an absolute joke and they didn't disappoint it really.
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I know if you're a Knicks fan, you love to see the New York
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Knicks win that extravaganza of shooting as we saw Jalen Bronson
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and Karl Anthony Towns and Alan Houston, who was one of the
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great shooters the Knicks have have always had.
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You know, you think about all the great players Alan Houston's
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get Alan Houston gets hidden for the time that he was a a really
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good player, an average 20 point scorer, who at some points was
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the Knicks big time option, offensive option or either as a
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starter or off the bench. But when you watch the All Star
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game, you want to be wowed and I wasn't.
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And you think about it, the, the fact that the All Star Game was
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out West and the game, I mean, as far as the All Star
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extravaganza, the, its festivities, as far as the dunk
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contest, the three-point contest, it, it aired at 5:00 PM
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on the West Coast. And on the East Coast, it's
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8:00. But you can't find it.
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You couldn't find it. It usually is on TNT, but TNT
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doesn't have that contract anymore.
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So it was on NBC/ESPN. So right there.
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And I'll say what I, I want to say about this.
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This is the perfect time to promote the All Star Game
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because there's nothing going on except the Olympics.
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And if you're not a World Olympic fan, you're not really
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tuned into it. I mean, like we're watching
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right now curling. I mean, my girlfriend didn't
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even know what it was. So you're not, if you're not
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into the Olympic thought or into into the Olympic sports, you're
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really in tune to what's going on in the NBA because baseball
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isn't going on right now. Pitchers and catchers are a week
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away. I the hockey, hockey is right
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now put on hold because they're in the Olympics.
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I mean, if you want to watch NASCAR, I mean, Daytona 500 was
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on this weekend. If you're really interested in
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that. There's nothing.
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There's nothing going on. So this is the spotlight for the
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NBA and Adam Silver. And what Adam Silver should be
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doing is figuring out ways to entertain the fans and they
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failed to do that. Say whatever you want.
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And and by the way, Anthony Edwards winning an MVP for the
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All Star game needs nothing. It means nothing because this is
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the same guy that the NBA and American basketball is trying to
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put the the American basketball on his shoulders.
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We watched it on the Netflix documentary Go for Gold, and he
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pretty much told Obama that he doesn't want to be the face of
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America. He's the truth, but he doesn't
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want to be the face of America. He has no interest in being that
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person, that guy. And maybe Cooper flags going to
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be that guy in the future. He looks like he's going to be a
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rising star. They've got some good players
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coming out this coming year out of the draft.
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Three of them are are American coming out from Kansas and BYU
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and Duke. Maybe one of those guys could be
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the face of American basketball because we know it's not going
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to be LeBron James or Steph Curry or Kevin Durant much
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longer. And I, I'll say this, going back
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to the All Star game, bringing this world versus America.
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That's cool, that's cool. But you saw what the NHL did
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last year. What, what, what did they call
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that? The Four Nations having
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different nations play against one another, Finland and Sweden
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and America and Canada, 34 big time places, big hockey
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programs. It was fun to watch because
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they're playing not to, you know, play with your teammates
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or play again, you know, play for each other or whatever.
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Dilly dally and and be a skills skill player.
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And that's why you make these All Star games to impress the
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fan. No, they played for their
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colors. They played for their countries.
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And that's what obviously the NBA tried with this, but none of
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it made sense. Why do you have Carmelo Anthony
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and Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady and all these guys
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create their teams and compete against one another?
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First of all, I love you Carmelo, and I love what he does
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right now in the media world. I think he brings a different
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dynamic to his Brooklyn show, and it's great.
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It really is. But sometimes when somebody
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speaks too much into a mic, it gets you to wonder if the guy
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really knows what he's talking about or speaking about.
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I listen to these guys and Vince Carter, out of all of them, to
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me is the most knowledgeable 1 when it comes to the game of
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basketball because I listen to Tracy and Tracy, this is not a
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shot at you. You are a great basketball
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player and when you went to Houston, you became a superstar.
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You were a great player with Orlando, but you knew you were
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never going to be, I mean, I'm sorry, Toronto, you never knew.
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I don't think you ever thought you were ever going to be the
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superstar, which you're when you're playing with your cousin
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Vince Carter from North Carolina.
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And he was a superstar, right when he he stepped on an NBA
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basketball court because of his ability to dunk and do all these
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acrobatic things on a basketball court.
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The league is different now. It's a business.
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It's about sponsorships and building a brand, including your
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own. LeBron James has been the king
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of that as maybe we should give him the name King for that
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because that guy is the first billionaire as an athlete
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playing in his sport. Now Tiger Woods became a
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billionaire but it wasn't. He wasn't a billionaire until at
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the tail end of his career and I don't even know if he broke a
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billion dollars even though his contract said that he did.
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LeBron is a natural billionaire. Michael Jordan was one of the
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first athletes to ever become a billionaire, not as a player.
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And if you ask Michael Jordan right now or Larry Bird or Magic
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Johnson about the game of basketball and even these All
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Star games, they would probably joke, bicker about it, laugh
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about it and tell you this is absolutely horrible to watch.
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You want to see the best players on the basketball court and in
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the All Star game, you don't even see them play at a high
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level. You don't.
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Karl Anthony Towns looked like he was an overweight big man
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going up and down the court. That's what he look like.
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Now, I'm not saying he doesn't look like that sometimes when he
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plays for the Knicks, but he looks better than that.
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He didn't look good. I mean, I don't care what
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anybody says, these guys, Anthony Edwards, if he wants to
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brag about being an All Star MVP, good for you, good for you.
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You're choked in the Finals. We've seen you do that.
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It unfortunately when you look at the NBA now and I, I, that's
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where my story really ends and begins.
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When you compare the players, the backup players on the bench
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on an NBA team, they're making almost $1.5 million more than
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some of the bench players on an, in an NFL, on an NFL team that
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holds 53 players and probably never gets a chance to play or
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play, I'm sorry, gets to play more minutes than you do and you
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never get a chance to play as an NBA player.
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I mean, how many 13th 13 players or the 13th player on the bench
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or 12th player on the bench actually gets a chance to play
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on an NBA team? And if they do, how many minutes
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do they have? A minute, 4 minutes, 3 minutes
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at best, at best. And they're making $3,000,000,
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two and a half million dollars doing nothing, throwing the
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throwing the at the end of the bench, the best players, some
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water. If, if you want to, if you want
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to bring a player in to pay two and a half, $1,000,000 to to
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throw some water to Jalen Brunson or Mikhail Bridges, I'll
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do it. Give me two and a half million
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dollars. I'll do whatever you want.
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If you want me to wash their jock strap, I'll do that too.
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It's two and a half million dollars, but that's what the NBA
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All Star festivities is. That's what these All Star games
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are. Look at the NFL with the flag
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football. That's a joke.
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It's a joke. The MLBI mean it is competitive
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somewhat I I guess. I mean, you can't fake hitting a
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home run. I mean, I, I'm not, but I've
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seen pitchers just throw it like right over the plate for them to
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smack a ball. I think baseball, at least they
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play somewhat. I mean, it's some competition.
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Yeah, baseball. At least they try a little
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harder. They'll just take a picture out
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after two outs, though. The NHL has been the most
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impressive out of all of them. I mean, the skills competition,
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they love to compete against one another, They love it.
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And Gary Bettman has done a great job for all the hockey
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fans, booing him every time the the draft comes around.
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And I've been to a ton of them. I was invited to a ton of them
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and got a chance to interview Gary Bettman in the past.
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I feel bad for Gary because he's been there.
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He has the longest tenure of any of the commissioners.
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Gary Batman's been around since the 80's, the 80s with the NHL.
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Rodger Goodell has only been around what, 15 years?
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You have Manford, How long has he been around 10?
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Last year I was gonna say about 10-11.
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Think about it, out of the four major sports here in America and
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Adam Silver I. Think it's always slightly
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before man. Yeah, Adam Silver is the biggest
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joke out of all of them. One of the ugliest commissioners
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I've ever seen. By the way, his ears are
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probably bigger than his whole face.
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I mean, his nose sticks out like he's going to poke you in the
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eye, so. Basically, he's Pinocchio.
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No, he's worse than that. Oh, he's worse.
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Wow. He, I mean, he does a lot of
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lying, there's no question. That he I was going to say
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that's. Why?
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He does a lot of lying. But the NBA is just an absolute
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joke, the festivities. And I don't care what anybody
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says, it's great to see a New York team win something.
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We watched them play in this what this, this league
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tournament thing that they won. And listen, they won.
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I got a hat. It might be the only thing they
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win in the next 10 years. The Shooting Stars hat now, too.
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No, I didn't get that. I don't know if I won, but
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here's the facts. You want to see these young
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superstars develop and in the Rising Stars game, that was fun
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to watch, that was more interesting to watch than any of
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these, you know, slam dunk these contests that they have and even
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the All Star game, the regular All Star game, because you got a
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chance to to meet the Harpers. You got the chance to got a
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chance to meet and see the the stars in his league like Cooper
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flag and and all these guys play against one another.
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This is the future of the NBA and they're competitive.
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They're competing because they want to show off their skills.
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That's what you want to see when you look at the league now.
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I just think it's a bunch of cry babies because LeBron James has
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brought a distinct version of what the NBA shouldn't be now in
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the league. I don't care what anybody says
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and I'm not blaming LeBron James.
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And everybody keeps attacking me on my take like I hate LeBron
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James. Oh, I hate Steph Curry because
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I've said my piece against him. I don't think Steph Curry is a
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top ten player of all time because there's a lot of other
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guys that have distinctively, distinctively have changed the
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game. That doesn't mean Steph Curry
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isn't a great player, but when you look at the facts here,
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LeBron James just hurt the league, the growth of the
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league, not in a way for money, but when it comes to, hey, I
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want to play football, basketball, hockey or baseball,
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I'm looking at basketball completely different way right
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now. I'm looking at it as, oh, I got
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to be a prima Donna crybaby. That has to be a me player, not
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a team player to become a superstar in a league where
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there's so many of them. Think about it.
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Anthony Edwards, is he A-Team player, a me player?
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He's a me player. Webbing.
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Yama is the only guy that I've seen, and I'm not a big Webby
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fan because they're trying to compare him to LeBron James.
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I mean, I'm sorry, not LeBron James.
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Michael Jordan. He's the next Michael Jordan.
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He could go down better than Michael Jordan.
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I don't like when I hear that every single time a new
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superstar comes into this lake. I can't stand it.
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But what I do know about webbing Yama is he's a competitor.
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It doesn't matter if it's an All Star game.
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It doesn't matter if it's a skills competition.
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It doesn't matter if he's playing a pickup game on the
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street. This man plays to win, he plays
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to compete. Those are the type of players
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you want in the NBA. Those are the type of players
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you want to build your emblem, you want to build your brand
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around, not cry baby LeBron or Anthony Edwards saying I don't
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want to be the face of American basketball.
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He can't even pronounce basketball.
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He goes at best ball. You know, I don't even know.
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How are these guys educated, honestly?
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You have Steph Curry saying it meant many, many different times
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saying that. Do we even know if we've been on
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the move before? I don't know.
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I mean, there's video, there's pictures, and this guy says
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we've never been on the moon. We should just somebody should
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just kidnap him from NASA and just put him in and put him on
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another planet for. See, the problem with the NBA is
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they use their platform to be like to be.
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It's everything they don't. They don't use the platform for
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good to help kids understand the game and and try to want to be
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the next big superstar in the NBA.
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No, they don't want to do that. What they do is they use the
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platform to attack politics or attack this attack that and and
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even this All Star game during the weekend.
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I mean, when it listen to what every single one player was
24:47
talking about, they every one of them in some kind of
24:50
conversation brought up ice every single one of them.
24:56
I don't want to hear it. Go out there and impress me on
24:59
your skills, your dunking ability.
25:02
I don't care what your politician as a politician or
25:05
your politic way, or if you're Republican, Democratic or
25:08
conservative. I don't care.
25:11
I care about the game of basketball.
25:13
It's my favorite sport. It's my favorite sport since I
25:18
was a kid and watching that All Star game, it was pathetic.
25:23
Pathetic. They should be ashamed of
25:26
themselves. The NBA should be ashamed of
25:28
themselves having those festivities.
25:30
And dude, some of these dunks that they were doing, I mean,
25:33
they weren't even jump jumping from the foul line and they were
25:36
like they were all like they were like dancing around like
25:39
they were going crazy. Like it was the best dunk
25:42
they've ever seen. When we've seen guys on the in
25:44
the park in Brooklyn dunk like that, there was nothing
25:50
impressive. And the fact that Damian Lillard
25:54
won the three-point contest tells me one thing.
25:57
Why is he on the basketball court?
26:00
If you could chew like that, you should be playing basketball.
26:04
You're pretty much taking money from Portland.
26:08
And that's what I that's where I come from when it comes to
26:11
basketball and watching the game of basketball in the 80s and the
26:13
90s, because guys like Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan, Charles
26:16
Oakley, guys that I rooted for, Anthony Mason, Xavier McDaniel,
26:22
these guys would go on the basketball court with broken
26:25
fingers, broken toes, bad knees, pulled hamstrings.
26:32
You have LeBron James. Oh my Binky.
26:35
I can't play for two weeks. Give me a break, a break, guys.
26:43
So when I watch these All Star games and I watch the
26:45
festivities and what they bring to the table, all they bring is
26:49
a bunch of crap. A bunch of boring dunks, A bunch
26:54
of guys that could shoot 3 pointers.
26:56
Hey, if I could shoot 503 pointers in a day, which some of
26:59
these guys do. Kobe Bryant even admitted he
27:02
shoot 503 pointers in the morning and 503 pointers after
27:06
practice. When you're shooting 1003
27:08
pointers a day, you're going to be pretty damn good at it,
27:10
wouldn't you think? Practice makes perfect.
27:13
Maybe not for James Harden, but for everybody else.
27:17
It's pathetic. The NBA needs to get rid of the
27:22
All Star game. If they can't find a way to get
27:24
these guys to compete in a competitive fashion, then get
27:27
rid of it. Banish it.
27:29
It's done. Sayonara Ovoir.
27:33
As you know, Webanyama would say I don't want it anymore, I don't
27:37
want to deal with it. And that's, to me, is where the
27:41
NBA needs to go. Yeah, I think if you're going to
27:44
make it where you're going to have these players, these
27:46
younger players be more competitive, there's an obvious
27:48
solution if you want to try to keep it, and that's get rid of
27:50
the fan vote, because I think the fan vote is the big reason.
27:52
That's all these other guys, the Lebrons, the Kevin Durants, all
27:55
these guys that aren't showing effort are in the All Star game.
27:58
And LeBron was out half the season.
28:00
Like in a lot of years. If your name is not LeBron
28:02
James, a player in that same scenario might be a fringe All
28:04
Star at best because he's but is LeBron.
28:07
He's the LJA, the basically the face of the league forever.
28:11
And you can, you can say you are, he says he's the first
28:13
billionaire CEO. He's the CEO commissioner of the
28:15
LJA because he's the he's the guy running the league now.
28:18
I think when you look at the younger players than the
28:21
previous generation, I would say outside of Anthony Edward,
28:23
Anthony Edward just cocky, whatever.
28:25
I think a lot of these guys like Wendy, like Nicola Yokich, like
28:29
Lukodontik are not trying to make it all about themselves
28:31
anymore, which I think is a good thing to an extent.
28:34
You need more of those types of players to do it because this is
28:36
a product that's been really bad for a while with the All Star
28:39
game. And while this is a step in the
28:41
right direction, you'd still can't say, OK, this is All Star
28:43
Game is saved by any means just because the younger players
28:45
played hard. Yes, the Rising Stars played
28:47
hard. Yes, even some of those veteran
28:48
guys, the Alan Houston's, Ron Harper's, the alumni guys, they
28:52
played hard in that Shooting Stars contest.
28:54
And the youngsters are going to play hard.
28:55
The only reason you're going to get the young, the only way
28:57
you're going to get the youngsters to vote is if you
28:59
collaborate with the players. I mean, obviously there's going
29:02
to be some with the injury issues, whatever.
29:04
Collaborate with the players and make them the ones or the
29:06
coaches, the ones that'll vote on who plays in the All Star
29:10
game, who wants to actually play hard.
29:11
Make it something like that rather than the fan vote where
29:15
you're just going to have all right, casual basketball fans
29:17
voting for LeBron, casual backs, fans voting for Steph Curry when
29:21
there might be more qualified guys.
29:22
I'm not saying that Steph Curry's had a bad year.
29:24
I'm not saying Lebron's had a bad year, but Kate Cunningham
29:27
and Tyrese Maxi have been better than those two guys this year.
29:29
And maybe in a popular vote that wouldn't have been the case.
29:33
So I think you have to be able to branch it out where you've
29:36
seen progress with these younger players showing much more effort
29:39
than the veteran players on the court, A young team winning in
29:42
this new format and say, all right, we're going to have
29:44
players vote and coaches vote from now on.
29:47
Because a lot of these LeBron era and probably up until
29:50
Joellen B, let's let's use that Ranch 2003, 2014, Those are the
29:54
ones that are complaining the most.
29:55
Those are the ones that are and. They're the ones that are making
29:58
the most money. And they're the ones like you
30:00
were saying before that are making these outrageous
30:01
statements. Kyrie Irving, James Hard and all
30:03
these guys. It's really the outside of
30:05
Anthony Edwards past the 2015 draft as much.
30:08
You're not seeing that as much with Yokich, Luka Doncic, the
30:11
two Celtic Stars, like guys like that.
30:13
You're not seeing it with as much outside of Anthony Edwards.
30:15
So that's the gap that if you want to save the All Star game,
30:18
you got to start utilizing that more and brand these young guys
30:21
better. I will say this, I agree with
30:24
you with some of the young superstars that they have in the
30:26
NBA and and Tyrese Maxi is a great player.
30:29
I I know Fish didn't think he was a top five player when he
30:32
was at the point of his dominance early in the season.
30:35
He's been amazing on a roster that, let's be honest, when you
30:39
playing with Joel Embiid and Paul George, 2 cocky guys that
30:43
can't stay healthy and have their own thought about team
30:47
basketball because I don't think they believe in it.
30:50
I, I think Tyrese Maxi gives you a different impression on that.
30:53
And I think the 76ers are put in a really good position.
30:55
Having a player of that magnitude, especially a guy that
30:58
wasn't a lottery pick, a lot of people passed up on.
31:00
And you see his development as we've seen a lot of John
31:03
Calipari guys after a little while, like Devin Booker when he
31:07
came into the league, a lot of people were questioning he was a
31:09
high draft pick. He was a lottery pick, but a lot
31:11
of people were like, will his ability of shooting work in the
31:15
NBA. And boy has it ever.
31:16
I mean, he he's become more of a guy, more of a defensive player
31:20
in the NBA than he was when he was playing for Kentucky in
31:22
college. But there are guys that Halpern,
31:25
Tyrese Halpern, he was not a good shooter when he came into
31:27
the NBA. A lot of people question his
31:29
skills offensively. How is it going to work his
31:31
release everything? Well, Tyrese Halpern has proven
31:34
that he you can win with him and you could build a roster around
31:37
him. Sacramento had to lose him to
31:39
understand how great he has become as a player.
31:42
But again, when you watch the rising star game, there are some
31:46
thought that these the NBA is in a very good position to build
31:50
their organization and their brand around these players in
31:54
the future. But when you have guys like
31:56
Anthony Edwards, who is I, I would say 2526 years old, he's
31:59
just, he's starting to kick as the, the player, the go to
32:03
player that the NBA can build their brand around when it comes
32:06
to American basketball. He doesn't want to be the guy.
32:09
He doesn't want to be the factor.
32:10
And that goes to guys that are making fifty $660,000,000 a
32:15
year. Where you, you, you wonder when
32:18
guys like James Harden or I, I don't know, LeBron James, who
32:22
are they're both at the tail end of their career.
32:24
And what they've done for the NBA is they've taught these
32:27
young players how to travel, how to not play the game of
32:31
basketball the right way, how to complain to the referees so they
32:35
can shoot 1415 of free throws every single game and get just
32:40
14 points. Oh, I've become.
32:41
I'm a good free throw shooter. Yeah, when you're shooting 2530
32:44
of them every single game. I mean, James Harden.
32:47
Think about this. When James Harden was a triple
32:51
double player that year when he won the MVP, he was averaging 15
32:55
to 16 free throws a game. Think about that.
32:59
That's almost half the amount of points he needs to hit 30
33:03
points. And when he's a good free throw
33:05
shooter and he's only missing maybe one or none every single
33:08
game, that's 16 points automatically because he was
33:13
traveling with the ball, hopping to the hole or stepping back.
33:17
Oh, I, I define the backup jump shot.
33:20
Really. You, you defined it all right?
33:22
You taught us how to double dribble.
33:23
You taught us how to travel. The one thing that you're taught
33:27
as a young kid not to do. Hey, James Hardens, the guy,
33:30
he's the factor. He's the absolute impression of
33:34
baby antics. Just say.
33:36
Yeah. And again, I think you're seeing
33:37
a lot of these other guys being more humble.
33:39
And maybe it's the international push with Wendy, with him
33:43
showing the effort and some of these other players that are
33:45
going to be coming in the league now that are more of the
33:48
international stars because you're not seeing as much of
33:50
their, I guess, antics. And we talked about it last
33:52
year, not last year, I think right before the Summer Olympics
33:55
a few years ago where we were talking about, oh, the European
33:57
brand of basketball is going to take over.
33:59
Now, I'm not saying that obviously the the freak athletes
34:01
that you see the power game with the big men and stuff like that
34:04
are the same in Europe as they are in the US.
34:06
See why you have more of these tactical types like Yokich.
34:09
Even Kristaps Porzingis when he got drafted was thought of as a
34:11
shooter, not really thought of as that big behemoth type that
34:14
you're seeing with guys like Joel Embiid.
34:15
It's a different type of game. But that type of mindset I think
34:18
is what these younger stars have, which is a good thing to
34:20
see. But you can't judge just one
34:22
year of a sample to say, oh, the NBA All Star game is saved.
34:25
These antics are not going to continue as long as LeBron and
34:28
these other stars are going to run the league.
34:29
So I have some solutions Errol to to fix this, and I think
34:34
there's a very simple problem them that they they haven't
34:37
figured out yet. First off, before I tell you the
34:40
solution, Dame isn't playing because Dame was bad at defense
34:44
before he tore his Achilles and that dude's going to have to be
34:47
completely healthy just to be passable on the defensive end.
34:50
I, I kind of expect him to be kind of like a 6th man off the
34:54
bench in this stage of his career coming back like this
34:57
instant offense type of guy, because I defensively, I just
35:00
don't think he can hold up in the starting lineup, But I hope
35:03
he does because he's the one of the all time great shooters and
35:05
competitors that we've had in like the modern era.
35:08
But Speaking of shooters, like don't we have enough?
35:11
Like, do I really want to see cat, even though I'm so glad the
35:14
Knicks won that? Do I need cat hitting like 3
35:16
foot shots and then 10 foot shots and then taking a shot
35:20
from the top of the key And then do I really need that?
35:22
Do we are we just playing around the world?
35:24
Like is that the best that we have?
35:25
When I. Was a kid around the world
35:27
basketball? But, but like as something to
35:30
watch, it's something to play. It's great, but it's something
35:32
to watch. I, I'm not into that.
35:34
So here's what I think. I think they should have went to
35:37
what the fun games really are when you're on the basketball
35:40
courts when you were kids. I like, I didn't want to play
35:43
horse. I wanted to play.
35:45
We called it Utah 'cause I grew up in the city.
35:47
When I moved out of the city, they called it city or I've
35:50
heard it called 21 one-on-one. You're always challenging
35:54
someone king of the court. I'd love to see a king of the
35:57
court in the All Star game, these All Stars challenging All
36:01
Stars who can stay on the court one-on-one.
36:03
Can you imagine like a guy like Michael Jordan back in the day,
36:05
like just challenging everybody to come at them?
36:08
It would have been and just calling people out even it would
36:10
be the best ever or two on two tournament, you know, like NBA
36:13
Jam style. Maybe you put hot spots on the
36:15
floor where they could shoot a 5 point shot for Steph Curry.
36:18
Wouldn't that be a lot of fun? But the reason why, like those
36:22
things would be great. It's not going to happen.
36:24
Those things, it's not going to happen because they'd rather
36:26
have these lazy shooting competitions that are boring to
36:29
watch. You know what I mean?
36:31
Like, it's not fun. Like what we should see is
36:33
competition. We had Luka and Jokic play what,
36:37
a combined 6-7 minutes in this, Like the kids would say 6-7
36:41
minutes, absolutely nothing, a bunch of garbage.
36:45
I accidentally didn't. I had to play into it, you know
36:47
what I mean? You know, it's, it's funny that
36:49
you brought up Luka Doncic because I was talking about, I
36:51
was talking to one of the unique personalities for Nick
36:55
basketball. He has his own podcast, his
36:57
name's Quran and his beautiful wife or his girlfriend Maxine
37:02
And we, I was, I got a chance to be introduced to them.
37:04
I was watching their 24 hour show this past weekend and they
37:08
did, they talked Nick basketball for 24 hours.
37:11
I want to give a shout out to them.
37:12
They're sensational. They really are.
37:13
And, and, and Quran knows his basketball.
37:16
No question. He knows his Nick basketball.
37:18
And I, I got on the phone with Quran and we were talking about
37:20
the Lakers. And he's I said the Lakers are
37:23
the one team that I think is going to tell they're going to
37:25
be on a tailspin because once Lebron's gone, because LeBron is
37:28
hurtful at the organization, I don't know if they're going to
37:31
be able to bring players there because I don't know if anybody
37:34
was going to want to play there. And she, he told me, he says
37:36
they have Luca there and every every 5 to 10 years, they always
37:40
get that superstar that they can build with, which he's right.
37:43
And pretty much he was, he was hand fed Luca Doncic was hand
37:46
fed to from Dallas, thanks to you know who and the NBA hand
37:50
fed them to the Lakers. And and but here's the problem.
37:54
Does anybody really want to be a Laker?
37:55
Now he says that don't be surprised if Nicola Yokich, you
37:58
know, when he becomes a free agent in the next year or two,
38:02
he he wants to go and play with Luca.
38:04
But does it work? We've seen Luca play over there
38:08
with Dallas with his his buddy Chris stops Porzingis.
38:11
They wanted up fighting and it didn't get along.
38:13
They didn't get along over there because Chris stops wanted a
38:15
little bit more of the GOAT. He wanted to be one of the the
38:19
go to guys, but he couldn't stay healthy.
38:20
He had knee problems. Maybe that's the reason why the
38:22
Knicks couldn't stand him or didn't want to them there.
38:24
But what I'm saying here is the NBA is different now when you
38:28
look at the teams like the Lakers and the Celtics or even
38:30
the Knicks, the Knicks have become a good destination.
38:33
They were never a destination. Now they've become more of a
38:36
destination. And, and, and it really hurt him
38:38
with the Charles Oakley thing. But when James Dolan did what he
38:41
did to Charles Oakley and then LeBron, his big mouth came out
38:45
and stuck up for Charles And I love Charles.
38:47
I've interviewed Charles Oakley, love Charles.
38:50
I, I love him. He was my favorite player
38:51
growing up for the New York Knicks.
38:53
So I'm not taking shots of Charles.
38:54
What I'm saying is the league, the NBA guys like LeBron James
38:59
after what James Dolan, that has nothing to do with the Knicks
39:02
organization. It doesn't have anything to do
39:04
with the the how it's run. When the owner opened up his
39:07
mouth, it, it hurt the Knicks getting that big superstar.
39:11
Why? Because LeBron James said
39:13
something. He used the media to attack the
39:16
New York Knicks organization and that set the Knicks back 5-6
39:19
years because nobody wanted to go over there and play with
39:22
Carmelo Anthony after that whole situation.
39:25
So Carmelo, after the fact of that, that story happening, the
39:30
Knicks could never find that other guy.
39:31
As soon as Amari Stoudamire had to walk away from the game of
39:34
basketball, nobody, no other super.
39:36
I wanted to come here and play with him.
39:38
All because of that Charles Oakley situation.
39:40
Yeah, that's how the league has changed too.
39:42
When you look at the format of these teams.
39:44
We talked about it last week with the Lakers.
39:45
Like the Lakers have you mentioned there the Knicks of of
39:48
the past now transforming themselves and they're really
39:50
only being saved because they have LeBron and Luka Doncic.
39:53
If they had that level of talent, they probably don't make
39:55
the playoffs like the Knicks didn't do many times with
39:58
Carmelo Anthony. If they didn't make the
39:59
playoffs, they were they had that one year as a three seed
40:01
and then every other year they were a French team.
40:03
Does the NBA have a tanking problem?
40:06
At the NBA All Star Game, reporters asked Adam Silver
40:10
about the recent tanking behavior going on, related
40:14
mainly to the Utah Jazz and the Indiana Pacers being fine 6
40:19
figure amounts for making it obvious that they were throwing
40:24
certain games. Silver was very blunt with the
40:27
media, saying that there's no options.
40:31
I'm sorry, no options are off the table.
40:34
As far as trying to prevent future tanking, Silver mentioned
40:38
that he believes that the problems lie in and how the NBA
40:42
Draft is structured, where the three worst records in the NBA
40:47
have the same amount of odds to get the number one overall pick.
40:51
He also mentioned that tanking away draft picks from teams I'm
40:57
sorry taking away draft picks from other teams could be a
41:01
punishment if a team keeps purposely trying to lose.
41:06
Another possible solution would be the to I'm sorry to end the
41:10
draft lottery as Silver claims it it.
41:13
It has a possibility to become a counterproductive rewarding,
41:19
tanking, rewarding taking and opposing to trying to help the
41:25
worst teams. There are five teams going into
41:29
the All Star break with less than 20 wins right now with the
41:33
Jazz, the Pacers, the Wizards, the Kings, the Nets.
41:36
This draft is expected to be most mostly loaded with at least
41:42
8 franchise changing players expected to go in the top ten
41:47
and four players that could be instant All Stars with Cameron
41:51
Boozer, Caleb Wilson, Mr. Peterson, and AG.
41:55
The Bensa from BYUI don't think takings that big of a problem
42:00
with the NBA. I'm going to be quite honest
42:02
with you because we saw a Dallas Maverick team that was probably
42:07
the 10th or the 11th worst team in the NBA win the lottery.
42:12
They went from 10 or 11 where they should have been and they
42:16
jumped all the way to 1 because of the lottery.
42:18
Now, maybe it was a winky dink or maybe it's just the NBA
42:22
helping or throwing a bone to the Dallas Mavericks after
42:25
trading Luka Dodgek and helping LeBron James and the Lakers out.
42:29
I understand what they're saying and the Pacers have to be, I
42:33
think a top, I think it's a top five or top six team to get
42:38
their draft pick because if they're not a top five, top 6, I
42:42
don't remember who it goes to, but it goes to another team.
42:44
I think it's OK. So whatever, I I don't know who
42:48
it's who it's from, but I'm hearing that they have to, they
42:51
have to be in the top five or top 6 to get their their first
42:56
round draft pick. And that's the problem.
42:58
I think that's the problem with the NBA, the unprotected and
43:02
protected trades, and I've been saying this for a long, long
43:05
time. If you're trading a pick, there
43:09
shouldn't be a protected and unprotected because it it
43:12
screwed the Knicks with Kristaps Porzingis.
43:15
They got two first round draft picks for Kristaps Porzingis.
43:18
At the time, Kristaps Porzingis was a 20 point player and almost
43:22
10 rebounds. He was one of the the best young
43:24
players in the NBA. He really was.
43:27
He was one of the up rising superstars and probably one of
43:30
the best young superstars the NBA and the New York Knicks have
43:34
had in almost 10 years. And what happened?
43:39
They traded him for two first round draft picks that turned
43:43
into two second round draft picks that really turned into
43:45
nothing. Kristaps Porzingis eventually
43:48
moves from Dallas, it says the Celtics, and wins a
43:51
championship. Helps out the Celtics.
43:53
A big part of the Celtics run to win a championship.
43:57
Thank you, New York for giving us a superstar player for
44:01
nothing. That is the problem.
44:04
And I don't know what. I don't know what Dallas got
44:06
from the Celtics, but I'm sure they got something better than
44:09
the Knicks got. It's a big problem.
44:13
This protected, unprotected thing is the problem.
44:16
It's not about the lottery and tanking.
44:18
I I don't think it really matters because the NBA has
44:20
control of that. They have control of it.
44:24
You don't get a chance to do what the NHL did and, and, and
44:28
draw the balls in front of the cameras.
44:30
No, they have a closed door with 18 tested ball sections where
44:37
you can have multiple or hundreds of different ways to
44:41
calculate who goes 12345. I mean, it's so weird.
44:47
It's so different. It's like you have to be a
44:49
scientific month. You know, I, I don't know
44:52
astronaut to understand how the NBA is picking these balls.
44:57
It's a big problem with the protected and unprotected
45:00
because what does it mean? Oh, so I'm going to trade the
45:04
pick. But guess what?
45:06
I'm protecting it. If if, if it's not if, if I'm
45:10
not drafting, if if I'm not as bad and I'm not drafting in the
45:14
top five, anything after the top five, you can get the pick.
45:17
That's what that's what these teams are doing.
45:18
I'm trying to spit it out because I'm trying to think on
45:20
how I want to as a as AGM or as a as a coach.
45:26
I'm looking at how the NBA is working this.
45:29
How does this make sense? So I'm going to trade a
45:33
superstar player on my team, but I'll give you 2 first round
45:37
draft picks, but they're protected first round draft
45:40
picks. So if I'm a bad team next year,
45:45
even with that superstar player and I, I, I'm a lottery pick and
45:50
I fall into the top five, I get to I get to pick that pick no
45:54
matter what. How is that fair?
45:59
It doesn't make any sense. And then I understand the bird
46:02
right situation on obviously keeping players.
46:06
I understand why the NBA did it and why they do it.
46:09
Get rid of it. Get rid of it.
46:15
It's not helping the game. And as like I said as a Knicks
46:18
fan, how many times as a Knicks fan have we seen the Knicks be
46:23
one of the worst five teams in the NBA?
46:25
We've seen it for in the last 25 years, at least 10 or 12 times
46:30
in that stint. And I'm going to tell you this
46:35
right now, I'm going to need a stint after watching this happen
46:40
year in and year out. Teams like the Knicks getting
46:42
screwed because they trade players because they don't need
46:45
them anymore and they're not going to win with those players.
46:47
And they try to to build on first round draft picks.
46:50
And then after the fact that the Knicks traded McHale bridge,
46:53
traded for McHale Bridges and give up five first round draft
46:56
picks that are probably going to mean nothing, nothing.
46:59
And it went to the Nets. Knicks fans are jumping off a
47:02
bridge. Why would you give up all those
47:04
picks? We can get Giannis really.
47:09
If you think that Milwaukee's going to want a bottom feeding
47:13
third like 28th pick, 27th pick in the next 5 or every other
47:18
five years, you're out of your damn mind.
47:21
I would rather OG and Anobi or McHale bridges in a package.
47:28
That's what I think is the problem.
47:29
It has nothing to do with like tanking.
47:32
I know Adam Silver wants to believe it when we all know
47:35
everybody and their mother knows that it's bull crap.
47:39
The NBA draft is is not a lottery.
47:43
It's who do I have to pay under the table to get that pick?
47:48
What do I got to do to get and Adam Silver and his bunch of
47:52
goons, He get me a top three pick every time The Knicks had
47:56
a, you know, anywhere close to a top three pick, they had RJ
47:59
Barrett that the only way they were going to get a superstar
48:02
player is if they drafted at one and two.
48:04
It was never this deep where if the Knicks were in a top five or
48:07
top six, they were getting a stud.
48:10
Never. This is the best draft we've
48:12
seen since the LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony draft.
48:16
Do we remember who was in that draft?
48:18
Dwyane Wade, Remember that Chris Bosh, that was one of the
48:23
greatest drafts of all time. A lot of people compare this
48:25
draft to that type of draft. But to say that the fact that
48:30
Adam Silva, out of all the things Adam Silva can talk about
48:35
the political views of these players, why are they?
48:37
If I was at the media day or at the All Star game, I would be
48:42
saying, hey, Adam, why haven't you controlled these players on
48:46
what they say on your platform, on the NBA's platform?
48:50
It is not their platform. Colin Kaepernick lost it.
48:54
He lost his career. I'm not saying that I agree what
48:57
Colin Kaepernick did, but because Colin Kaepernick used
49:00
the NF LS platform to do what he did, kneeling down on on the
49:05
American flag, he never played another day of football again.
49:10
He had the whole league doing it.
49:14
So Adam Silver, my question to you is, all right, you think
49:19
these teams are tanking? That's fine.
49:22
You think they're taking to get the future lottery pick, super
49:26
stud in the NBA when we don't even know what these lottery
49:30
picks are going to be. How many great players that
49:32
we've seen get drafted, not turned into anything?
49:35
A lot of them in the NBAI can name a bunch of them that the
49:39
76ers have drafted, the Lakers have drafted over the years, the
49:44
Phoenix Suns. A lot of these guys don't turn
49:48
into crap. So there's no guarantees.
49:52
So let me ask you this question. Why do you let the players run
49:56
your league? Why are the players have more of
49:59
a voice than your own owners? Do?
50:03
The guys that are paying these guys salaries, which are
50:06
ridiculous by the way, Think about it.
50:10
You have guys that are injured. Think about, I'm thinking about
50:14
just thinking about players getting hurt.
50:18
These guys, some of these guys. Paul George has been hurt how
50:21
many times he's played, what, 160 games in three years?
50:25
I don't even know. I don't even have the number.
50:26
But he's played like 160 games in three years.
50:31
Out of 82 games every single year, he's making close to $50
50:35
million. How does an organization give a
50:41
guy that barely plays answer that question?
50:46
How is that fair? Contracts are guaranteed.
50:50
Maybe the NBA needs to figure out what the new CBA is.
50:53
If you don't play a certain amount of games, you don't get
50:55
that full contract. That would make sense.
50:58
That would mean something to me. I just, I don't understand why
51:02
out of all the things you could talk about, how about why is the
51:05
All Star game so goddamn boring? Why is it so dumb?
51:10
Why are these players even invited?
51:12
I'd bring, I would bring bench players to come and play these
51:15
games. They'd be more interesting to
51:16
watch. I would like to watch Miles
51:19
McBride or somebody like that. Guys that are going to go up and
51:22
down the corner, actually play defense, actually play the game,
51:25
actually show people that he wants to be in the game.
51:28
Not guys like I, I don't know, Anthony Edwards that's dancing
51:33
and prancing around doing tomahawk jams because nobody's
51:35
defending him. Or James Harding hopscotching to
51:38
the hole because he doesn't know how to dribble.
51:41
It's a big problem. The problems right now in the
51:44
NBA doesn't lie in tanking. The problems with the NBA is
51:48
these, these rules, these different things that they
51:51
brought in to the implemented end of the game of basketball or
51:54
brought into the game of basketball.
51:56
That's pathetic. Pathetic.
52:01
That's what bothers me about the NBA.
52:05
That's what it is. Stop this crap Adam.
52:10
You know you, you should have became the CEO of Disney.
52:13
Maybe we don't have to see your ugly face for the rest of our
52:16
time watching this game of basketball.
52:18
Ask ask me this question. Why is the NBA regular season in
52:23
most fans faces or folks most fan podcasting fans that listen
52:28
to podcast? Why is the NBA not important in
52:31
the regular season? That's my question because I
52:36
will tell you this, besides the die hard, you know, basketball
52:40
fan or sports fan, most fans in the regular season are not
52:44
watching more than 20 games. Nobody gives a crap unless
52:47
you're a die hard Knick fan, which I am.
52:49
I'm not going to watch all 82 games, but I'm going to watch
52:51
it. Maybe every single game.
52:53
I'll watch 1/2, but it's it's unwatchable.
52:58
Sometimes guys don't play defense.
53:03
Players don't start playing until the last five weeks of the
53:06
season going into the playoffs. It's pathetic.
53:11
That's why I like watching OK C. If you ask me my true opinion,
53:15
teams that really play hard every single game, teams like OK
53:18
CI. Don't think there's anything
53:23
more than what I have said that I would bring up.
53:27
I would bring up right now the trade as far as the draft is
53:32
concerned. I could care less tanking or not
53:34
tanking. I care more.
53:36
I care more about right now. Why are these protected and
53:41
unprotected picks actually still involved in the NBA?
53:45
If you're going to trade a pick, you trade the pick, even if
53:48
you're a bad team the next year. If I'm giving you a superstar
53:52
I'm and you're trading me your first round draft pick at the
53:54
end of the season or the year after, I should get it.
53:57
No matter how bad you are, if it's you turn out to be the
54:00
number one pick, oh, so be it. You traded it.
54:03
Yeah, I they've always had an issue with that because I think
54:06
you look at the year to year basis that how much they could
54:09
be spread out with the picks, which I think the NHL philosophy
54:11
is a lot better. You have a conditional pick.
54:13
Like we talked about the Rangers a few weeks ago.
54:15
A third round pick can become a second round pick in this
54:17
condition. A second round pick can become a
54:19
first round pick. We've seen that before or we've
54:21
seen kind of pick swaps. If you get it, you if you want
54:24
to pick a first round pick, then you can the other team gets it
54:26
the next year. That's what happened with Ottawa
54:28
and Colorado. Ottawa got Brady Kachuk out of
54:30
that and then Colorado I believe got a Bowen Byram.
54:33
You were at that draft in 2019. That was a pick swap of year to
54:37
year type thing. And Colorado could have easily
54:38
gotten like Jack Hughes or something like that if they if
54:41
it happened to be in their favor.
54:43
That's the model the NBA should take and not have these teams
54:46
get backstashed so many picks and that's the biggest problem.
54:49
I think the second biggest problem is the other thing you
54:51
mentioned the bias. I think The Mavericks should not
54:53
be gifted a number one pick because they made the worst
54:56
trade arguably in NBA history. And we've seen it with other
54:59
teams too. The Pelicans have gotten, oh,
55:00
they trade Anthony Davis. No, we'll still help you the
55:02
next year. The Pelicans got Anthony Davis
55:04
in 2012 after losing Chris Paul. And I think those types of
55:08
cases, they have to figure out how to get more balance in that
55:10
because there's other teams, the Knicks being included.
55:12
Phoenix, another one you mentioned they got DeAndre
55:15
Ayton, but how many years did they get the number 4 or #5 pick
55:17
when they had top three odds? That's why this percentage
55:19
system is still very flawed. And if a gay, if a team like
55:23
let's say all the five of those teams that you listed are
55:25
clustered, all of them win in the low 20s.
55:29
Like why should the three and four be that big of a drop off
55:31
compared to the the one and the two and the three all getting
55:35
the same? All those teams should have a
55:37
similar number. That's why I proposed this a
55:39
while ago. It should just be based on games
55:41
back. Let's say the lowest win team
55:43
wins 21 games, then the first team out of the playoffs wins 38
55:47
or something like that. Do 17.
55:49
Do a system like that of similar odds, 17 ping pong balls all
55:53
differentiated. Who cares about the ping pong
55:55
balls? I don't think it means anything
55:57
because we they already know who's going to win.
56:00
They know who they're going to give the second pick to.
56:02
I don't think that has anything to do with it.
56:04
I think the problem right now lies really what I think the
56:09
media should have brought up is the protected and non
56:11
unprotected type of picks. I think that's the most.
56:15
Errol I, I disagree a little bit.
56:17
I, I think it's more like the quality of the game gets
56:19
destroyed when they do this. It's not about the lottery.
56:22
I don't really care about the lottery either.
56:23
I don't care about the envelopes being frozen or the ping pong
56:26
balls in the percentages. That's not really what it is.
56:29
It's like, take a look at what happened to Washington, though.
56:31
Washington traded for Anthony Davis, traded for Trey Young.
56:35
They ain't going to play this year.
56:37
Alex Saar is out too. He's like, they're only halfway
56:40
decent guy going on right now. I guess champagne.
56:42
He was in a dunk contest. He's OK Keyshawn George Nicks
56:46
draft pick I believe as well. He's not bad as well as a 2
56:50
guard. They're bad.
56:51
They're trying to get a below then top eight pick.
56:55
They may if they tried to compete, be a top eight team.
56:58
But if they don't that protection now the Knicks don't
57:02
get that pick from them. So if it falls as #9 the Knicks
57:06
will get it. But this is a big time draft.
57:07
Like you said, if you get a top ten that could be an All Star in
57:10
this draft. So they're intentionally,
57:13
intentionally tanking and they have guys.
57:16
Look, Anthony Davis is banged up.
57:17
Is he out for the season though? He's not.
57:19
He could play. Trey Young has an MCL that's a
57:22
six to eight week injury. Is he out for the season?
57:24
No, he could play. Is he going to?
57:26
No, he's probably not. And if he does, it's going to be
57:29
in limited minutes and then they'll shut him down anyway.
57:31
Fish. To put in perspective, Jaren
57:33
Jackson in previous years would not have been able to be traded
57:36
if he had that bad of an injury. Then, coincidentally, the second
57:39
game he plays with Utah, he leaves the game in the third
57:41
quarter. Now he's out for the season.
57:42
It's like a like a lottery ticket for Danny Ainge, right?
57:45
Like, like he knew he was like, oh, this is perfect.
57:47
This is how I'm going to beat the cap this year.
57:49
You know, and that's the thing. That's why I have a problem with
57:52
the tanking because I just think it and then like you got at the
57:55
end of the season Arrow. Are we watching regular season
57:58
basketball when there's three to five games left?
58:00
This guy's from the YMCA getting 5 minutes out there because they
58:03
don't want to win. They don't want to win.
58:06
They want to have the worst odds.
58:08
Maybe that's why you get rid of the lottery.
58:10
Maybe the odds are a waste of time.
58:11
Maybe just get rid of it because it's a waste of time.
58:14
But other than that, like I agree with you, I don't think
58:17
it's the ping pong balls. I just think if you make the
58:19
game suck because you're trying to lose, who wants to watch
58:23
that? Who wants to pay big money back?
58:24
Do you know how many times they screwed the New York Knicks?
58:27
How many times has the NBA screwed the New York Knicks?
58:29
And the one time the Knicks got the pic that they wanted and
58:33
Patrick Ewing, they iced the envelope, as everybody says, oh,
58:37
they cheated. They cheated.
58:38
We don't know if that story is true, but that's what
58:40
everybody's assuming what happened.
58:42
David Stern has never come out. May he rest at peace ever come
58:46
out and say, oh, that's the truth, that that really did
58:48
happen. But that's what every single
58:51
writers assuming happened. And again, going back to my
58:55
thought, Utah, I can't stand Danny Ainge.
58:57
If I could smack the crap out of Danny Ainge, if I get a chance
59:01
to interview him face to face, I'd smack the you know what out
59:03
of him. Because how many times, how many
59:06
times have we seen Danny Ainge just stick it to the New York
59:09
Knicks? He loved pissing off the New
59:11
York Knicks fans and for the for the years that he was running
59:14
that Celtic organization and he's good.
59:16
He's a good GM, He's a good executive.
59:18
He knows the game of basketball. One of the things that he's
59:21
always stuck out to being is one of the thorns in the New York
59:25
Knicks's ass. That's why the Knicks and why
59:27
Jaylen Brown can't stand losing against the Knicks.
59:30
Because one of the things and one of the reasons why Danny
59:33
Ainge drafted a guy like Jaylen Brown was against, you know, to
59:37
play against those New York Knick teams that he wanted to
59:40
stick it to. I'm just telling you the truth.
59:42
Jaylen Brown can't stand the Knicks.
59:44
Out of all the teams that the Celtics play against, when they
59:46
lose against the Knicks, Jaylen Brown play when the Knicks just
59:50
beat him and just tortured the the Celtics recently, they had a
59:54
players team meeting after the game.
59:56
Why? Because they lost against the
59:58
Knicks. It's not because the Knicks are
1:00:00
a good team. It's not because the
1:00:01
organization actually knows what they're doing.
1:00:03
No, it's because the Celtics lost against the oh, the lonely
1:00:08
New York Knicks. My problem here with the NBA is
1:00:11
pretty. Pretty strict, I think that this
1:00:13
protected and unprotected pick, look, if the Wizards, this is my
1:00:17
opinion, if if this unprotected and protected picks weren't
1:00:20
around, the Knicks would have the Wizards pick.
1:00:23
So what are the Wizards going to try to do?
1:00:24
They're going to try to win because they want to screw the
1:00:27
Knicks. But right now, because the
1:00:29
Knicks only get their pick if it's out of the top 8, they're
1:00:33
trying to do everything they can to keep their pick.
1:00:36
That's the problem guys. That's the problem.
1:00:39
It has nothing to do with the lottery and choking up and and
1:00:44
trying to find a way to get a higher pick.
1:00:47
You know what's going to be funny?
1:00:48
And I'm going to I'm going to predict this.
1:00:50
The Jazz, the Pacers and the Wizards don't get a top three
1:00:53
pick. I'm going to predict it today
1:00:56
that all three of those teams, because they're choking, watch
1:01:00
the NBA screwball. All three of those teams watch
1:01:04
it because I believe it's going to happen.
1:01:06
If it happens, I'm I'm going to tell you guys it wasn't a
1:01:08
Kowinky dink. I'm going to say it.
1:01:11
Oh, that I was right. I was right again.
1:01:13
Told you guys told you so I. Think we're pulling for the Nets
1:01:16
to get the number one pick, yeah.
1:01:17
I'm rooting for the Nets. Why not?
1:01:20
I know a lot of Knicks fans don't want to see the Nets get a
1:01:22
lottery pick, but I'm rooting for them.
1:01:24
Who wouldn't want to see Cam Boozer over there?
1:01:26
That's true. I mean, I would love to see it.
1:01:28
I don't care if he's if he's playing for the Brooklyn Nets.
1:01:32
It only tells me that when he becomes a free agent, it'll be a
1:01:34
Knick. Just sit courtside and see if
1:01:36
you could tell Cam Boozer now you're playing for a good coach.
1:01:38
I love Shire. I love anybody that comes from
1:01:41
the Duke Blue Devils. I love them.
1:01:42
I love them. Cams and Bob telling every
1:01:45
single fan, remember I said this?
1:01:46
Cam Boozer is the best player coming out of this draft.
1:01:49
Remember I said this, He's the best player coming out of this
1:01:52
draft. Book it, seal it, deliver it,
1:01:55
and spread your cheeks, speedy. Because I'm not doing that.
1:01:58
I'll do something anyways. I'm nothing do that.
1:02:04
I want to hit it. Somebody's going to hit it.
1:02:06
A lot of hot ladies, nothing knows it.
1:02:08
Do you want to jerk me off? Anyways, Ladies and gentlemen,
1:02:11
we call this the Golf Clap of the Week.
1:02:15
This deserves a golf clap. No doubt.
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Golf clap. Golf clap and my golf clap goes
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to or my golf clap or golf clap goes to Tyree Kill, ladies and
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gentlemen, because the one and only Tyree Kill is a free agent.
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He's off to go where he wants as Miami decided to release him
1:02:40
after that horrible injury this past year.
1:02:43
A horrible Watching his knee just like completely buckle the
1:02:46
way he did it was disgusting. A lot of people think that maybe
1:02:49
Tyree Kill won't be the same, but something tells me the
1:02:51
cheetah will be back next year. I don't know what full strength
1:02:55
but about 95% and a 95% tyree kill is better than most 100%
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wide receivers. So let's think, where could
1:03:05
Tyree Kill go in free agency this offseason?
1:03:08
Well, there's two teams that really stand out from all the
1:03:12
rest, ladies and gentlemen, and that is the Kansas City Chiefs,
1:03:16
the LA Chargers, and there's a lot of reasons why I would look
1:03:20
at the Chargers as the front runner to get him one.
1:03:24
Mike McDaniel is there and he played pretty well in that
1:03:27
offense #2 that team with that offensive line is going to be
1:03:31
elite. Justin Herbert #3 and Jim
1:03:34
Harbaugh, since he has come back to the NFL 11 or more win
1:03:38
seasons, back-to-back years. That tells him with all the
1:03:42
injuries they've had this past year, having almost over eleven
1:03:45
wins, it tells me Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl as they
1:03:49
might be my surprise Super Bowl contender out of the AFCI.
1:03:54
Don't know. I know we have Dylan Lobby
1:03:55
coming on. I don't know if he'll get.
1:03:57
You just named 2 AFC West teams. I'm just saying I'm just saying
1:04:01
they're going to look pretty damn good.
1:04:03
I I think Slater and all coming back and with that offensive
1:04:06
line and and with the ability for they're going to have in the
1:04:10
offseason with the money they're going to have to spend.
1:04:12
I think they're in a driver's seat.
1:04:13
But yeah, my my Golf Club of the day goes to Miami one they they
1:04:18
let go of the big mouth Tyree kill.
1:04:20
And I don't know if it if it benefits them or hurts them.
1:04:23
What it does benefit, it benefits maybe Kansas City
1:04:25
because they're going to be looking for a #1 wide receiver
1:04:28
as Patch Mahomes is going to lose one of his big targets and
1:04:31
Travis Kelsey, who hasn't announced retirement, but it
1:04:34
seems like he is off to the wizard as are actually he's
1:04:39
following the yellow brick road to old Taylor Swift's house.
1:04:42
Hopefully there there's nobody hidden in the pond because
1:04:46
there's a couple dead bodies found over there.
1:04:47
Anyways, I'm just saying. Anyways, yeah, my golf clap of
1:04:52
the day goes to the one and only Tyree kill.
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Enjoy this freedom. Hopefully it's hands them back
1:05:00
either in the red and whites or maybe I.
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I wouldn't even say it. What are the charges colors
1:05:06
Blue. Light blue and.
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Blue, orange, yellow, blue, yes, I'm color blind, ladies and
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gentlemen, whatever the colors are.
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1:06:28
We got a lot of things planned out.
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We are going to do a live show at American whiskey, maybe
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Carmine's in the very near future.
1:06:35
So just stay tuned. I'm bringing I'm bringing in a
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high school product out to Long Island called the Long Island
1:06:43
mouth, which will be out soon our website.
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So stay tuned for that. All the high school kids that
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are tuning in or even watching us right now, you're going to
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see us in a very in a high school near you.
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That's all I can say. All of us are going to be
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involved with the product. So a lot to get into in the very
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near future and we appreciate you guys and and by the way,
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shout out to Jabba cart hopefully pitch very well.
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Jabba should be back on Thursday.
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We're we're we're shooting for so a lot of great things
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happening for Jabba and the mouth.
1:07:14
Thank you to our interns, all the great interns that popped on
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today. We really love them and all the
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work dates. Suit and Zach.
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Thank you to tom-tom. That's what it meant, Tom.
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Tyron. Tyron, all the guys wipe it and
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swipe it. As we all say, Speedy, you know
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how to bend. No no no no wiping it is jobless
1:07:32
department because he has to uses dude wipes.
1:07:34
That's right. But you know, I I want to leave
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it to this. A lot of hot ladies.
1:07:38
I'm putting you on a leash now anyway is we will be back on
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Thursday sweetie. Who do we?
1:07:43
Have well, John better be back on Thursday because we have a
1:07:45
Husker coming out on Thursday. Huskers only.
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Yes. 8:30 PM. Joining us is former Seahawks,
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Packers and Houston Texans running back.
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I'm on green. Awesome.
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Huskers only. Huskers only.
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By the way, thank you to Nith for getting us all these guests.
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He is sensational. He's doing such a great job on
1:08:03
the back end. Our PR manager, he's hopefully
1:08:06
not playing with himself. He doesn't have anything on the
1:08:08
wall. So I'm thinking that he's maybe
1:08:10
in a jail cell or something. I don't know what he's doing
1:08:12
over there, but I, I like the he sent us a picture of his sofa
1:08:16
and his nice little, you know, television, his big television
1:08:20
and all set up. It's like the only thing in that
1:08:22
room, but nothing's on the wall. There's no pictures.
1:08:25
Why don't you have a picture of Lisa Ann on the wall?
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I mean, that would be nice. I mean, all that stuff.
1:08:30
It would be beneficial, beneficial for you to there it
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is maybe a Shudor Sanders picture, you know, maybe you
1:08:36
know him wearing a Speedo or something like that.
1:08:39
That would be cool. You know, you know, a San
1:08:41
Francisco 49ers, you know, Speedo because he might be the
1:08:45
fourth string quarterback before you know it over there like Kyle
1:08:48
Shanahan or whoever is going to be coaching that team in the
1:08:50
near future might be Deon Sanders at this race.
1:08:53
Deon Sanders, But here we go. No, no, no, no.
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Oh, there it is. There he is.
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When a gin and tonic when the moon heats the high like.
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Gin tonic and chicken Curry. That's Amore, right?
1:09:08
There you go. Little old myth has lost his,
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you know, whatever. Anyways, that's it for a show.
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Gotta go. Tired running away.
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See you Thursday. Goodnight.
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