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Inside the NBA Crew Remembers Greg Gumbel · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: I first got to the NBA we flew commercial, Yes exactly,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just agreeing with So when you played the
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  Speaker 1: night before and flew the next morning, when was you
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  Speaker 1: exactly gonna get your uniform clean? You had to wash
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  Speaker 1: your uniform yourself. So after the game, when you got
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  Speaker 1: to your room, you took a shower in your uniform
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  Speaker 1: and dried and dropped on from the commercial outline, the
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  Speaker 1: next one, clemp it and clean your uniform without showering
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  Speaker 1: in it. Well, that is that is that is possible
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  Speaker 1: after nationally clean it with without showering in it. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to have it. Oh yeah, no, but it's
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  Speaker 1: easier to do it that way. You take it off,
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  Speaker 1: you put it back on. It's just easier to clean it.
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  Speaker 2: On that note, On that note, let's get you back
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  Speaker 2: out to dreams Borough and join Iron Eagle, Jim Spinarkle
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  Speaker 2: Evan Washington A hard time topping this.
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  Speaker 3: How we.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoyed all those all those shows, all those nights working
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  Speaker 2: with the great great Gumble.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Ernie, when you meet legends, and Greg's been
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  Speaker 1: a legend fifty years, and they just as nice as
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  Speaker 1: you hoped and thought they would be I'm gonna miss
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  Speaker 1: his jokes and I'm gonna miss the jokes.
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  Speaker 2: Jack.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about the jad the dad jokes of all.
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  Speaker 1: He went to King Chap, You're like knock knock and
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  Speaker 1: the second.
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  Speaker 4: Thing broken pencil, broken pencil.
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  Speaker 1: Who you know, it's pointless. You know I've seen I've
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  Speaker 1: seen the Eagles probably forty times. And he says, I've
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  Speaker 1: seen the Rolling Stones seventy five times. And I said, Greg,
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  Speaker 1: one of my goals in life, I want to see
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  Speaker 1: the Rolling Stones. He said, just let me know any
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  Speaker 1: time you want to go. But between the jokes and
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  Speaker 1: him bragged about the Rolling Stones man, and he was
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  Speaker 1: just a kind, honorable man. I know and his brother
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  Speaker 1: Brian a long time, but getting to know him just
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  Speaker 1: because of Mars the badness Man. When I got that
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  Speaker 1: text last week, man, it just kind of ruined my
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  Speaker 1: new year going into the new year. Man, And just
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  Speaker 1: rest in peace, Greg, and thank you for being the
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  Speaker 1: consummate pro and gentlemen without question.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it was. It's one of those things too.
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  Speaker 2: When we when we heard we were going to be
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  Speaker 2: doing March Madness, first thing I did was reach out,
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  Speaker 2: sit down with Greg and talk about what exactly is
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  Speaker 2: this because it looks like mayhem, it looks like chaos,
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  Speaker 2: but you make it look like there's nothing to it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the way he did it. And he never
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  Speaker 2: did it by drawing attention to himself. He just did
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  Speaker 2: his job and he was a prose pro And the.
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  Speaker 1: First person I reached out to was Clark Kellogg. Yes
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  Speaker 1: because they I said, yo, Man, reach out to Bryant first, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but Clark, because man, Clark is just a wonderful person.
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  Speaker 1: And I felt, I felt like when I got there,
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  Speaker 1: like we know how we feel about you, Ernie. I
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  Speaker 1: guess Clark felt the same way about Greg and man.
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  Speaker 1: I had some texts from Dev Gallman and people at
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  Speaker 1: CBS like this one hurt a lot, And it did
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  Speaker 1: hurt a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah know him and his brother, fine gentleman. You know
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  Speaker 3: for me, it hits a little different, Ernie. I was
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  Speaker 3: a high level juvenile delinquent. And of course I watched
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  Speaker 3: guys like you, Dick Vattel, Brian and Greg. But when
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  Speaker 3: you get interviewed by gentlemen, fine german, such as yourself,
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  Speaker 3: you know that you've made it. So you know the
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  Speaker 3: fact that I was interviewed him by a couple of
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  Speaker 3: times they would call him a friend and know him
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  Speaker 3: my condozs to his family. But now he reminds me
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  Speaker 3: of view just a fine young gentleman.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's difficult for us obviously. We I think it's
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  Speaker 4: now going almost a decade. I'm doing March Madness with him.
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  Speaker 1: How many years has it been, Erniere?
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  Speaker 2: It is it's been ten, twelve.
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  Speaker 4: Years, it's and the most memorable day, honestly for me,
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  Speaker 4: was the first because just like I would imagine if
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  Speaker 4: someone sits on his set and you open the show.
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  Speaker 4: And when he opened it up, I got even I'm
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  Speaker 4: getting it now. I got chills hearing his voice.
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  Speaker 2: You heard you heard the CBS the music. Yeah, this is.
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  Speaker 4: Real, this is a fake. I'm actually in this. And
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  Speaker 4: because when you hear Ernie Johnson, Ah, this is Ernie
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  Speaker 4: Johnson with tn T and you hear that, it gives
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  Speaker 4: you an elevated feeling that this is important.
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  Speaker 1: So he gave it a whole whole March Madness selection
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  Speaker 1: show when he opens that up, and we watched that,
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  Speaker 1: and we used to watch that even before we actually
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  Speaker 1: did it. You're like, oh man, it's time for the
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  Speaker 1: selection show. You feel you feel different.
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  Speaker 4: When you hear that voice, you know yourself, Greg Bob Costas.
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  Speaker 4: When they used to open you guys open shows. It's like,
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  Speaker 4: oh no, it's real now.
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  Speaker 2: Greg, one of a kind to his whole family, comes
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  Speaker 2: from the heart, and he will be missed and we
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  Speaker 2: will miss him dearly, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Assass