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Has the NBA All-Star Game become a JOKE? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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  Why not put it in one of the top three offensive players in the
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  league? We're going to be looking at
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  Aaron Judge 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 the fun doing that.
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  A. Game where you got to go?
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  Speedy, how are you? I enjoying the Olympics as well.
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  I always enjoyable to see. Like you could bump around so
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  many different sports, especially having Peacock.
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  You just bump around whatever sport you want.
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  I was watching a lot of the the snowboard cross, which is the
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  direct racing snowboard. That's always been my favorite
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  of the because a lot of times it's just time trials or
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  something like that and they actually go right at each other.
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  I think 6 different snowboarders all at once was cool.
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  I like a lot of the skiing. I like a lot of the skating as
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  well, like you were saying. And now we're watching some
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  speed skating, which can always get intense.
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  It's, it's fun to watch. And like I said, you root on
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  your country and, and if you're an Italian descent or your
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  Russian descent or whatever, Ukraine descent, Lithuanian
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  descent, you're rooting on your, you know, your, your
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  nationality. So it's always fun to watch and
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  the competitive nature. And like I said, you get the
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  chance to watch sports that you don't get to watch every single
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  day. I, I introduced curling to
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  Brittany last night and she like, she was like, what the
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  hell is this? And she's like, this looks
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  boring. And I said, it's strategy.
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  Have you ever played shuffleboard?
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  And she's like, yeah, but this, this is completely different
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  than shuffleboard. I said, no, it's not.
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  I mean, it's shuffleboard on ice, but just a little bit more
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  strategy. And it's fun to watch because if
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  you understand the game and you understand the point system and
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  the competitive nature when, when there's 10 rounds of
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  curling, it's interesting how they have strategy and, and they
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  contest certain things that happen during the game and, and
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  obviously call timeouts, they go to their coaches, their coaches
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  come down and they're giving them advice.
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  And it's, it's interesting. It really is.
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  It's fun to watch. And like I said, it's all
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  competitive nature and you get to see all these different
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  countries and all these different sports compete against
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  one another. It's always fun to watch.
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  All right, the NBA All Star game is right around the corner and
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  it begins on Friday with, of course, a couple new changes to
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  the format this year. Commissioner Adam Silver, who we
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  absolutely love, and the league have decided on going back to
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  the USA versus the world format with three teams and two USA
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  teams, stars and stripes and an international All Star team.
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  Charles Barkley took shots at both LeBron James and Kevin
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  Durant, saying they have turned the event into a mockery because
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  they don't show any effort. Duran, who took offense,
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  basically told Barkley I don't want your life.
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  That's what he says and took shots at him and and other old
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  heads criticizing the Americans effort but not Jokic or Luka for
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  doing basically the same. There will be several new events
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  this year in the lead up of the game on Sunday such as the HBCU
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  Challenge, the Shooting Stars Challenge and the G League All
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  Star Game that is separate from the Rising Stars Challenge.
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  The Dunk Contest continues to struggle to get big stars to
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  participate with Jackson Hayes, the Lakers center and the only
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  starter of the bunch, as well as Spurs forward Carter Bryant,
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  Heath forward Kasha Johnson and Matt and and Magic guard and son
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  of former Dunk contest winner Jason Richardson.
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  Jay's Richardson. I'm sorry, Jay's Richardson, I
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  don't know what that means. Speedy in the three-point
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  contest, rookie Kahn Canuble, Norman Powell, Bobby Portis,
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  Tyrese Maxi, Jamal Murray, Donovan Mitchell, Devin Booker
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  and Damian Lillard, who will compete despite not playing all
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  season with a torn Achilles. I look at the everybody looks
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  forward to the skills competition and Slam thunk
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  contest. And when you look at the names
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  that stick out to you, there's nobody on this list that excites
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  me. I would have liked to see and as
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  again, some of the young talent that we've seen that has been
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  drafted over the last couple years, the last time I could
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  remember that this was fun to watch was I think who's your
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  Lando Magic superstar that is now with the Nuggets, Aaron
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  Gordon. Aaron Gordon, who was the other
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  guy from the Bulls? Yeah, Levine.
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  So it was Levine and Aaron Gordon.
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  What was the last dunk contest? That really stuck out to me.
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  That was fun to watch. And then if you remember in the
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  past and then and again the Vince Carter time with with
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  Tracy McGrady and those you want to see the young superstars
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  compete. Why hasn't Anthony Edwards put
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  himself in the slam dunk contest now that LeBron James is walking
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  away from the game of basketball?
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  Everybody wanted to see LeBron James compete in the slam dunk
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  contest. Why doesn't he do it now at the
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  tail end of his career? That would be fun to watch to
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  see the the end of his career end up the way everybody wanted
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  to see it in the beginning in a slam dunk contest.
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  I I mean the dunk contest always stands out And and again, you
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  have guys over the last couple of years that are coming from
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  the G League has won multiple times.
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  Nate Robinson, I remember won three times in a row or three
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  times in his career as a dunker because he was 5 foot 8 and he
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  could just jump high against Dwight Howard, who is coming out
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  of you know, coming out of what, what do they call it telephone,
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  you know, wherever he was coming out booth as a Superman and
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  jumping. I mean, I just, it's become a
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  spectacle. It's not not fun to watch
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  anymore. Am I looking forward to the slam
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  dunk contest? No, because none of these guys
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  really stand out to me. And that goes to if if you can't
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  find these guys, if you can't find NBA players that can dunk
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  or want a dunk, then you bring some of these St.
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  Ballers in to compete against the NBA players.
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  I would like to see a street baller, a New York or a Chicago
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  St. bowler. I mean, I, I've seen guys like
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  Shaquille O'Neal host slam dunk contest for guys that are more
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  known for Instagram and, and, and all the different platforms
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  that they're on doing all these amazing crazy dunks.
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  I would like to see one of these guys compete against NBA
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  superstars in a dunk contest. That would be fun to watch.
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  The way they're putting this together makes absolutely no
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  sense. As far as the USA world format,
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  who cares? It's only to me, it's just to
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  draw the fan or have the fans or maybe even the players get to
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  compete with each other and and maybe the World Team knocks off
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  the United States team. Because if you look at the
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  talent on the World Team with guys like Giannis and Luka and
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  Yokich, I mean, the World Team is much better than the United
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  States team if you look at the talent.
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  But again, the, as far as the All Star game, it's just
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  honestly, it's just a perk. It's, it's an opportunity.
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  I think you make money playing in the All Star game.
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  I think these players make a certain amount of $100,000.
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  So it's extra money for the players.
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  It's put on your, your basketball card or put on your
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  Wikipedia that you're, you, you're a six time All Star, A5
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  time All Star. I guess that's nice to have on
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  your, your record if you want to be, you know, a Hall of Famer.
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  I mean, there's nothing that really makes the All Star Game
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  weekend spectacular except the extravaganza that it brings to
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  the table wherever it's being held.
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  All the after parties, all the opportunities to get to hang out
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  with the players or the players get to hang out with one another
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  and party with one another with their families.
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  I honestly think that this should be rid of, I think the
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  All Star Game in not only just football.
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  I think hockey should keep it because I think hockey is still
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  competitive. It's still fun.
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  I like what the NHL did last year with USA and Canada.
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  I think they should do that every single year because it
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  shows the competitive nature that teams want to play for
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  their colors and their countries.
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  That's cool, but this with the basketball and football, I, I
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  and even baseball I, I think it's the Home Run Derby stupid.
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  Now I and and and even the baseball game, nobody plays
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  hard. It doesn't mean anything.
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  Get rid of them. Get rid of them.
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  I, I just, I don't know how how far I want to put this for the
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  NBA to freaking understand that it's not competitive anymore.
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  It's not It doesn't. That's absolutely what I think
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  of Adam Silver now. Adam Silver is, is a joke and
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  what he's done and what he's put together for the All Star and
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  even for the NBA as a whole. I like what he's done.
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  I'll tell you this, Adam Silver and all these commissioners have
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  found ways to bring in more TV deals, more money for players to
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  make and and owners to to live off of and and really build the
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  product with the new opportunities to make money.
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  There's no question that he's done that.
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  But me, Speedy Fish, Jabba, any one of us could put that
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  together if we have the a big brand, a big a a very popular
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  brand. Think about this and I'll go
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  back to the NBA players. The NBA players are the most
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  popular on the social medias. If you look at LeBron James,
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  you'll look at Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.
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  If you follow them, you know that everybody is interactive
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  with these guys. They're they're the most
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  interactive out of all the athletes in professional sports.
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  So the NBA has done very, very well working through social
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  media and content, and they created platforms for these
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  players to bring in opportunities to make money on
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  and off the basketball courts. But when you look at the All
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  Star Game and what the All Star, All Star, All Star game brings,
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  Charles Barkley is absolutely right.
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  There is no more more Michael Jordans or Larry Birds or Magic
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  Johnsons. There is no more competitive
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  nature. These guys are best friends.
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  These guys are godfathers of each others kids.
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  These guys don't hate each other, they love each other.
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  There's no, there's no attack by, by any of these, these teams
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  or these players against one another.
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  They're, they love each other. And in, in the olden days, in
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  the 80s and the 90s, Michael Jordan couldn't stand Isaiah
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  Thomas. Isaiah Thomas couldn't stand
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  Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan.
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  I mean, Bill Lambier couldn't stand the Philadelphia 76ers.
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  And, and I don't know, doc doctor, you know, any one of
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  these guys. I'm trying to think of pop pop
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  into my head. What, what I remember in the 80s
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  and the 90s, Charles Barkley couldn't stand Shaquille O'Neal.
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  Now they're buddies and they're brothers in, in those days, in
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  the 80s and the 90s, they didn't like each other.
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  They didn't like Patrick Ewing, couldn't stand, couldn't stand
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  the, the, the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan and, and, and,
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  and guys like John Starks couldn't stand Horace Grant on
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  the, the, the Chicago Bulls. It's there's no competitive
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  nature anymore. These guys are best friends.
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  So that to have an All Star game where there's no competitive,
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  no, none of these guys want to compete against each other.
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  Nobody wants to dunk because they're afraid of getting hurt.
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  Their three-point contest. That's great shooting 3
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  pointers. All these guys, I could shoot a
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  three pointer if I'm shooting 500 threes every single day.
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  I'm not saying I can shoot them like Con Canubal, but I I'm I'm
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  I'm going to hit a pretty good lick of the these shots if I'm
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  shooting 500 shots a game a day. So I just don't think there's
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  any competitive nature anymore. And if there's no competitive
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  nature for the All Star game and and these skills competitions,
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  then get rid of them. Yeah, I was going to mention
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  that the dunk contest I think is something that can get overblown
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  with like the type of injuries you can suffer too.
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  Like you could low manage all you want, but a lot of the
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  injuries that are are in the NBA for a lot of these day-to-day
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  things are even lower. Lower body injuries, ankle
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  injuries, tissue, stuff like that.
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  It's not something that's just achieved by, oh, I'm going to
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  fall down after a dunk or anything like that or I'm going
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  to I'm going to do. It's one thing.
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  It's a leg injury on a lift off type thing.
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  But again, that's something that if you're a younger guy, you're
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  going to be well conditioned for.
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  That's why I think you're right. Anthony Edwards is probably
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  something that's perfect. I'm not saying veteran guys
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  should have to compete in the dunk.
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  Contest. Why doesn't Cooper Flair
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  compete? Well, he's hurt right now.
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  I'm just saying he's actually hurt, right?
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  That's not what I'm that's not what I'm saying.
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  I understand he's hurt. Why doesn't he compete in a slam
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  dunk contest? Even if he wasn't hurt, is he
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  competing in the slam dunk contest?
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  He's not right, so that's not what I'm saying.
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  Why aren't the young superstars going out there and competing in
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  the big contests so all the young fans get a chance to see
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  how athletic and how gifted they are as players?
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  Yeah, the Anthony Edwards, the Wendy's guys like that's.
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  Not what I'm talking. Those are the guys that should
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  be competing in the dunk contest because those are the big names.
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  Why shouldn't Cooper flag compete in the the slam dunk
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  contest? Stop saying he's hurt.
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  If he wasn't, he's not competing in it.
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  I'm saying this, if you're a young superstar, you've been in
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  a league for two or three or even 4 years and you've never
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  been in one of these competitions and you have
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  something to give to these competitions on the athletic
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  gifts that you have. You should be in these
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  competitions for not, not for your peers, but for the fans out
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  there wanting to see you dunk, do a wheel.
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  I, I don't know, reverse pump, slam dunk or whatever the hell
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  you call these crazy, weird dunks that you have.
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  That's what I want to see. You want to entertain people.
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  If you're not going to entertain people, you shouldn't have these
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  competitions. Yeah, even international too,
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  they're trying to push all this USA versus the world thing too.
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  Like you could try to compete these kind of things in the with
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  the dunk contest too with again, somebody like Wendy, all these
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  other international superstars that are coming.
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  Obviously, Giannis is a veteran guy, so maybe he had his chance
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  earlier in his career. But Even so, like that could
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  uplift that could get these more these kids to watch in Greece
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  too. Like you want to be able to
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  brand it that way. And then you have all these guys
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  that want to drop out. And that's why I was kind of
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  going to get. Out.
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  They're not dropping out. They're not even getting offers.
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  And that's where you look at this generational gap that
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  you're seeing that LeBron has brought in today.
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  It's it's a lot of the LeBron generation started this with not
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  warning to do it. Yeah.
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  And obviously there were some younger guys after that too,
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  like you said Aaron Gordon and Zach Levine did after that.
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  I think it's really the 2014 like and before that and and
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  2003 between those two errors. Those are the errors of the guys
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  that were all these guys that said, oh, I don't want to
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  participate in this kind of thing outside of Dwight Howard
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  and a couple others that didn't that didn't want to do it.
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  And now you're seeing a carry over into this generation where
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  a lot of these guys are the ones that are outside of Anthony
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  Edwards. They're not as outspoken.
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  Now they're actually they're doing it a little more
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  methodically. And I think that's where I think
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  Kevin Durant's trying to get, oh, why is Nicola Yokich and
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  Luka Doncic not being slinner? OK, but you're not doing it
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  either, Kevin. So like, it's, it's not
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  something that you could just attack these international
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  stars. They're trying to grow their
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  country. Does anybody want to see Yokage
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  dunk? I mean, he's what, 260 lbs and
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  he's a six foot, 11, seven foot man.
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  I don't want to see him. Luka Doncic, he doesn't really
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  have that athletic ability to dunk.
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  But Cooper Flag, we've seen what he can do with a basketball,
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  especially his dunking. If you look at some of the young
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  superstars that we've seen, some of the young guards that they
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  have. How about the kid Harper?
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  Why don't we see him in a dunk contest?
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  I would love to see young Harper in in in the dunk contest.
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  Some of the young superstars that we've heard over the years,
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  the athletic gifts that they have now look at this draft
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  class that's coming out in 2 thousand 2627.
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  These guys are totally gifted, so talented.
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  Are we ever going to see these guys in a dunk contest?
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  The BYU kid or Cam Boozer or even the kid from Kansas, these
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  guys are athletically gifted. Why aren't, are they going to be
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  in the dunk contest next year or they're going to be just like
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  all these other NBA players? You know what?
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  I don't need to be in these contests.
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  I don't have anything to prove. I'm making millions and millions
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  of dollars. I earn the right to be here.
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  I don't need to entertain the fans.
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  Meanwhile, the All Star Games are there to entertain.
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  Entertain the fans, not hang out with your buddies or hang out
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  with your family. You're there because you're an
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  All Star. You're a superstar.
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  You were invited to entertain the fans.
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  Yeah. And I think that's why you're
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  seeing all these other events that are coming in these
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  secondary events. I, I think part of it wants to
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  grow the diversity of the game too, obviously with the HBCU and
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  some of the shooting stars. And they want to, they want the
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  NBA wants to make it very inclusive, which I'm good on
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  that standpoint too. But they're also trying to reach
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  because they know that if you're not going to get young talent or
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  if you're not going to get veteran talent, to want to be
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  able to give it their all, you're going to have to have the
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  young talent shine in a different way.
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  Michael Jordan, when he was doing these dunk contests
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  against Wilkins, Dominique Wilkins and all that other
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  stuff, Michael Jordan did it for the fans.
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  He didn't do it for his peers. He went out there because he
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  wanted to compete and he wanted the fans to be wowed and wowed
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  by his ability to soar through the sky.
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  All right. Same thing with Vince Carter.
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  The ability that he had, He knew he was athletically gifted and
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  he wanted to show everybody on a national stage that this guy
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  could go out there and do dunks and and and show things that
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  nobody's ever seen before on a nationally televised, you know,
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  you know, event. And now you have you'll have all
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  these young superstars that some people say are more athletically
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  gifted than guys like Michael Jordan, like Kobe Bryant, like
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  Vince Carter. And none of these guys want to
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  compete in these in these games anymore in in these
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  competitions. You know why?
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  Because they don't want to get hurt and they don't care about
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  the fans. That to me is a big problem.
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  The NBA needs to step in. If this isn't going to work and
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  Adam Silver can't get these guys to compete.
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  They get rid of these competitions, get rid of the All
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  Star game. I don't want to see flag
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  football in the NFL anymore. They don't tackle, they don't
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  hit, they don't do anything. They don't look like they play.
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  They invite Shador Sanders and Justin Fields to play in these
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  games that nobody gives a crap about because nobody else wants
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  to play in against. If these players do not want to
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  compete and these players do not want to go besides hanging out
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  with their peers and enjoy enjoying the extravaganza
• 20:22
  against, you know at these events, just watching all these
• 20:25
  self-proclaimed super or young. Young players or half assed
• 20:29
  second round picks. Go out and and and compete in
• 20:32
  the dunk contest. Then get rid of the dunk
• 20:35
  contest. Yeah.
• 20:36
  And the other problem they have too is like when it's located in
• 20:38
  the season too, where a lot of these players are already low
• 20:40
  managing as it is, and that's what this generation is, and
• 20:43
  they're going to be stuck doing it.
• 20:44
  It's not like you could say, all right, let's go push the event
• 20:46
  to the beginning of the season, because then you don't have a
• 20:47
  good enough sample of who actually should be All Stars and
• 20:49
  who shouldn't, even though it's just going to be a popularity
• 20:51
  contest. Anyway, and I want to say
• 20:52
  something to all the fans. We we always trying to find
• 20:55
  stories that we can draw fans to kind of give our take.
• 20:59
  And that's it's right now with the transition of the NFL
• 21:02
  season. Now that's over.
• 21:05
  And now we're we're going to go into March Madness and
• 21:07
  baseball's still not here. And you have hockey and
• 21:09
  basketball. Hockey right now is it?
• 21:12
  It's right now it's, it's on hold because they're in the
• 21:15
  Olympics. All the players are in the
• 21:17
  Olympics. So the only thing to talk about
• 21:19
  right now is the NBA and LeBron James is a big story and this
• 21:23
  stupid All Star extravaganza that's coming up this weekend
• 21:27
  that nobody cares about. I mean, nobody because every
• 21:31
  single player, I don't want to hear about Jason Richardson's
• 21:35
  son in in the slam dunk contest. This isn't Jason Richardson.
• 21:39
  So there's nobody that really stands out in the dunk contest.
• 21:43
  Yeah, the three-point contest. I it's cool getting to see Con
• 21:46
  Canupal and and Mitchell and all these other guys and and now you
• 21:49
  get to see Damian Lillard come back to shoot threes because
• 21:52
  he's been out the whole season. That's great.
• 21:54
  But nobody cares about the three-point contest in these
• 21:57
  kills competition. Everybody looks forward to the
• 22:00
  dunk contest. And by the way, the dunk contest
• 22:03
  have been horrible the last four years.
• 22:06
  Horrible. They Errol, they have a stat and
• 22:08
  I don't know if you know about this stat speedy.
• 22:10
  It's called the dunk score. And they they measure like how
• 22:13
  good a dunk is in game and the figure and that basically tells
• 22:17
  you who the best dunkers are this year.
• 22:20
  The names of the top Justin Champagne from Washington, Shade
• 22:24
  and Sharp, who is the guy that I personally would love to see in
• 22:28
  the dunk dunk contest from Portland.
• 22:31
  I'm going to put up some of his dunks right now while we're
• 22:33
  talking. He was like that at Kentucky,
• 22:34
  too, but he barely played. Unbelievable.
• 22:37
  And he's been playing pretty well.
• 22:38
  He's really developing. He just hammers it down on
• 22:41
  everybody. Jalen Smith, he's another guy
• 22:43
  that a big dunker on. Yeko Congu is #4 and Zion
• 22:46
  Williamson, everybody knows Zion can dunk.
• 22:49
  I'd love to see Zion do one of these before he loses his UPS.
• 22:52
  You know, Brandon Miller has really high dunk scores.
• 22:56
  He's another real high flyer, young guy on the Hornets.
• 23:01
  Booz Ellis, we've already seen do it.
• 23:03
  He's he's somebody that's a good dunker.
• 23:05
  And then it's just, you know, a bunch of guys.
• 23:08
  We don't really hear from much. Nobody, nobody cares about the
• 23:12
  All Star game. Everybody cares about the skills
• 23:14
  competition. And the only thing that I look
• 23:17
  forward to in the skills competition is the dunk contest.
• 23:20
  That's all. I look forward to it.
• 23:22
  That whole All Star weekend is completely ridiculous without a
• 23:27
  great dunk contest. And every single year for the
• 23:30
  last three or four years has been horrible to watch.
• 23:33
  You listen to guys like Kenny Smith and and all the other
• 23:38
  guys, Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley when they talk
• 23:40
  about these dunks and they're they're grading in 50s when
• 23:43
  they're not even great dunks. There's nothing, there's nothing
• 23:46
  impressive about these dunkers And why?
• 23:49
  Because they're just grading at that high because there's
• 23:52
  nothing impressive about any of them.
• 23:53
  So it's just you. Know the Mac Mcclung dunks were
• 23:56
  good, except he wasn't an NBA player doing him.
• 23:59
  He was like a dunk specialist. And Mcclung doesn't want to
• 24:02
  compete anymore. He's done it, what, 3-4 years?
• 24:06
  He was dominant, as a matter of fact, my cousin and his brother
• 24:09
  got a chance to see, to get to meet Mclonkey.
• 24:13
  He trains out here. He does these dunk sessions out
• 24:16
  here on trying to create new dunks because he just loves to
• 24:21
  do it. And, and he got a chance to meet
• 24:23
  my, my cousin's got to meet Mclonk and it was pretty cool.
• 24:26
  I mean, I seen the picture. I, I was actually send you the
• 24:28
  picture so you can post it up. But it's, it's pretty cool.
• 24:32
  But man, I've heard Mcclunk is a really, really nice guy.
• 24:34
  It would have been cool to see Mcclunk compete until somebody
• 24:37
  beats him, but I don't think anybody is going to be able to
• 24:39
  beat this kid and because there's nobody anywhere close to
• 24:43
  the talent in these dunk contests with with Mcclung, even
• 24:47
  these guys that we see that were that the list of guys that are
• 24:49
  going to be in the dunk contest this year.
• 24:51
  I don't think I'm excited about any one of them.
• 24:53
  It's horrible. I, I just, I'm not looking
• 24:56
  forward to the, the NBA All Star weekends.
• 24:59
  And again, this, this is probably the turning point of
• 25:04
  the sports year because like I said, the NHL is on hold.
• 25:09
  They're at the Olympics. The NBA is the only thing going
• 25:11
  on. Baseball's pitchers and catchers
• 25:14
  are coming up, but baseball doesn't start for another
• 25:16
  probably 3-4 weeks until spring training.
• 25:20
  So we're not, there's really nothing to talk about baseball
• 25:24
  and March Madness is exciting because it's three weeks away, 4
• 25:27
  weeks away. But again, this is this is like
• 25:30
  the stolen part. I mean, the masters isn't the
• 25:33
  masters coming up. That's.
• 25:34
  April, That's the right. After so, I mean, so this is
• 25:38
  probably the worst time when it comes to sports.
• 25:39
  So you're reaching when it comes to sports and radio and
• 25:42
  television because you're trying to find something to talk about.
• 25:45
  It's this time and then the worst.
• 25:47
  I think this is the second worst.
• 25:48
  The worst is definitely middle of July baseball All Star break
• 25:52
  when there's literally just nothing else.
• 25:55
  There's no football yet. Basketball and hockey are over.
• 25:58
  Is literally is. There's nothing on.
• 26:00
  Well, Pitch Grid Pod says the Premier League and he's right.
• 26:05
  It is heating up right now I'm. Sorry, soccer is he, football is
• 26:09
  is heating up. When I speak to Jeff, he says
• 26:11
  this is the best time to to bet on European or soccer, whatever
• 26:16
  you want to call it, because this is a time for the
• 26:18
  championships and like that so. I love betting on overs of 2
• 26:22
  1/2. So much fun watch.
• 26:25
  I love playing soccer as a kid I was I was really good.
• 26:27
  I was a center forward and I was a goalie and I dominated it
• 26:31
  until everyone got bigger, faster and stronger than I was
• 26:34
  and that was it for me. But I love the game.
• 26:37
  I just I never really understood that as a spectator thing except
• 26:41
  like you know, during the World Cup and stuff.
• 26:43
  I've watched it. I don't know, Errol.
• 26:45
  I'll try, I'll try to learn some Premier League for you if you
• 26:48
  think we need to talk about it, but.
• 26:51
  We might have to with what, with everything that's going on with
• 26:54
  basketball is like nothing to talk about well.
• 26:56
  Well, there's so much drama with these Divas in the NBA.
• 26:59
  They like to keep us busy, you know?
• 27:02
  Definitely. Divas.
• 27:03
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, Concrete, concrete jungle
• 27:09
  carousel. All right.
• 27:11
  We're going to start this. This is going to be a new
• 27:13
  regular segment. We do guys, whenever there isn't
• 27:17
  any major New York stories, we're going to have like a New
• 27:19
  York, like wrap it up, talk about everything in New York
• 27:23
  segment. We're calling it the concrete
• 27:25
  jungle carousel. So here we go.
• 27:28
  We're going to start it off and we're going to move it in to the
• 27:31
  first topic of it, which is basketball.
• 27:33
  We'll start with the Knicks and Nets.
• 27:35
  The Knicks, they just picked up somebody.
• 27:39
  The Spurs had just released Jeremy so Chan and was bought
• 27:45
  out and he's expected to sign with the Knicks one eligible.
• 27:48
  He's 6822 years old. The Spurs have a lot of young
• 27:52
  talent. He wasn't getting any reps.
• 27:53
  He's basically at the end of his rookie contract type of a deal.
• 27:57
  He gets to try try to pick it up with the Knicks.
• 28:00
  I feel like there's a place for him in that rotation.
• 28:03
  I, I love the move because one, he's a great rebounder, he's a
• 28:07
  great defender and he's going to put a lot of pressure and he's
• 28:10
  another guy, he's another Josh Hart.
• 28:11
  He's going to go up for rebounds.
• 28:13
  He's going to be aggressive. And that's what they did when
• 28:15
  they brought in Jose Alvarado and and they brought him, they
• 28:19
  brought this guy. Now they're bringing this guy
• 28:21
  in. They're going to give you that,
• 28:22
  that grit that the Knicks have had problems all season having
• 28:26
  these guys. And I'm not saying that some of
• 28:28
  the guys that are OG Ananobi and but OG Ananobi isn't grit,
• 28:32
  doesn't have grit. McHale Bridges doesn't have
• 28:35
  grid, but there are guys that call Anthony Towns or even Jalen
• 28:38
  Brunson. They don't play defense.
• 28:40
  They're offensive type of players.
• 28:42
  And when you bring in Jose Alvarado and you bring in a guy
• 28:45
  like Soshin, these are the guys that are going to be able to
• 28:47
  defend and they're going to be able to to put pressure on the
• 28:50
  best offensive players on the opposing team.
• 28:53
  Yeah, 6 foot eight, really good long defender, good versatile
• 28:57
  defender, can play both the two and the three, maybe in a
• 28:59
  smaller bench line up with the four could could work in certain
• 29:02
  matchups. And his offensive, the game was
• 29:04
  just bit bad this year, but was 11 points per game, pretty
• 29:07
  solid, not as much 3 point shooter, but decent inside
• 29:09
  shooter. And that it could give a little
• 29:11
  bit as well, maybe as a second or third bench option on the
• 29:14
  offensive side if you need to do it.
• 29:16
  And I think Mike Brown's going to make that kind of thing work
• 29:18
  because he actually plays as younger guys.
• 29:20
  He's still very young, 22 years old.
• 29:22
  Definitely someone they can bring back on a shorter deal as
• 29:24
  well, even after this year. Before we move away from the
• 29:27
  Knicks, we've got to talk about Alvarado a little bit more.
• 29:29
  This guy just went eight for 13 from the field.
• 29:33
  All thirteen of those shots were three pointers.
• 29:36
  He ended up putting up 26 points.
• 29:38
  He had five steals. They call him Grand Theft
• 29:41
  Alvarado for a reason. There was 1 possession arrow.
• 29:44
  He hit, he took a shot, he bricked it.
• 29:47
  They get the rebound. He steals the ball at half
• 29:49
  court, gets another shot, doesn't get it again, steals it
• 29:54
  again at half court and instead of shooting, gets the assist on
• 29:58
  a three-point in the corner. This guy's a dog.
• 30:01
  This guy's awesome. And he said that he's spending
• 30:03
  the All Star break in the lab with Mike Brown.
• 30:06
  He's a Brooklyn native. I mean, pump this into my veins,
• 30:10
  man. This is the best thing you can
• 30:12
  get at the trade deadline. He grew.
• 30:13
  He grew up a New York Knick fan. He grew up around Madison Square
• 30:17
  Garden. This was the place he wanted to
• 30:18
  play for. There was no other team he
• 30:20
  wanted to go to, and now he has the opportunity to play, play
• 30:23
  for the colors that he always grew up wanting to play for and
• 30:27
  at MSG in front of all the fans. He's a hometown kid.
• 30:32
  His family goes to the games and you could see the aggressive
• 30:35
  nature, the the speed that he puts on the court, on the
• 30:38
  basketball court. He plays that Mike Brown type of
• 30:41
  offense up and down the court. He was the perfect match, the
• 30:45
  perfect fit to the what the New York Knicks were looking for
• 30:48
  defensively. The problem last year against
• 30:51
  guys like Tyrese Halliburton is they didn't can have a guy that
• 30:54
  can defend him, get up onto him and make him force him to do
• 30:57
  things he was uncomfortable to do.
• 30:59
  Now they have that guy and they have a player option next year.
• 31:02
  I expect Jose Alvarado to be a Knick for a very, very long
• 31:06
  time. He's still fairly young.
• 31:08
  I, I love the kid and, and he's what you want as a New York
• 31:11
  Knick fan. He's he's not that great.
• 31:14
  He's got everything you want as a New York basketball fan.
• 31:17
  So I it was a slam dunk for Leon Rose and another absolute slam
• 31:21
  dunk home run Grand Slam for that executive bunch of Leon
• 31:26
  Rose and Worldwide West. Yeah, You also have a defensive
• 31:28
  line up towards the end of the games that really could work
• 31:31
  when, if you're up by 10 or something, you could really just
• 31:33
  focus on that, give Brunson some rest.
• 31:35
  Even then, when you could put when McBride comes back in the
• 31:38
  playoffs, you could put him there at the 1.
• 31:40
  You could put Sochon then at the 2 with with OG and Anobi at the
• 31:43
  four. And Mitchell Robinson.
• 31:44
  Three and Robinson at the five, right?
• 31:46
  You have that kind of thing for like a defensive game ending up
• 31:49
  by 12 or 3 minutes to go line up in the playoffs.
• 31:51
  I love. It that's what it is.
• 31:53
  It's a playoff lineup. That's what we haven't had with
• 31:55
  Tibbs. Tibbs just had one lineup, you
• 31:57
  know what I mean? Like that's just how it was.
• 32:00
  Now we have a mix and match for whatever you throw at us.
• 32:03
  We've got an answer for you. I love it.
• 32:05
  Let's move on to hockey. Obviously hockey's at the break
• 32:08
  right now. Olympic hockey break.
• 32:10
  There was a trade a couple weeks ago between the Islanders and
• 32:12
  Devils. Andre Plot going to the
• 32:15
  Islanders. Obviously a long time player.
• 32:18
  The Devils before that I believe he was with.
• 32:21
  Tampa. Manager Darsh in Tampa, right?
• 32:24
  So he was real good in Tampa. He's a veteran, 34 years old.
• 32:30
  Makes sense to fill out the lineup.
• 32:33
  Also traded for Siplakov the Devils in return, Devils are
• 32:38
  taking all reclamation projects at this point of the season.
• 32:42
  It was a slam dunk for the New York Islanders.
• 32:44
  First of all, he won a Stanley Cup.
• 32:45
  He has an understanding how to lead and Darsh was a guy that
• 32:50
  wants to bring his own guys in because of the type of GM he
• 32:55
  wants to be there with the New York Islanders.
• 32:57
  And and Palat is is a guy that could put the puck in the net.
• 33:01
  He is he scored a lot of goals in the playoffs over the years
• 33:04
  with the Tampa Bay Lightning. They're trying to build a course
• 33:07
  of talent and and veteran players that can give them that
• 33:10
  boost that they're going to need if they make that playoff run.
• 33:13
  I think it was a slam dunk for the Islanders and they really
• 33:15
  didn't give up anything for him. So actually for the the trades
• 33:19
  that the Islanders made, they got more draft picks back.
• 33:22
  I think they got a third round draft pick back for Pelot and
• 33:26
  they get, they got Pelot who scored more goals than the kid
• 33:29
  that they traded Max, I forget his last Tavola.
• 33:32
  So I I think it was a slam dunk for the New York Island.
• 33:35
  Yeah, Pelot is even when he was like a third line player on the
• 33:38
  on the Lightning in the playoffs for their first, their first
• 33:41
  stretch of that were one of their best playoff scorers.
• 33:43
  There was a reason they kept him for a while when they had to get
• 33:46
  rid of Kolorin and Tyler Johnson and from that their kid line at
• 33:49
  the time. So he has the playoff experience
• 33:51
  that a definitely team like the Islanders could use with a very
• 33:54
  young team overall. And again, we've seen obviously
• 33:56
  bars Allen Horvat have been an experience in the playoffs.
• 33:58
  But this is this is a two and three group that probably is
• 34:02
  care about. He was a, he was a big part of
• 34:04
  that Stanley Cup championship team.
• 34:06
  I think he, if I'm not mistaken, he scored like nine goals on
• 34:09
  that run. He he could score goals in the
• 34:11
  playoffs. And I think that's the way Darsh
• 34:13
  is, is looking at it. If, if you make that playoff
• 34:15
  run, you need a guy that's been in those situations and can help
• 34:18
  you win. And I think Pelada is that kind
• 34:20
  of guy. It makes a lot of sense.
• 34:22
  I I think that's a great addition.
• 34:23
  I was living in Tampa. I got to see the end of that run
• 34:27
  by that team. That was an awesome team.
• 34:29
  He was a big part of it. The Rangers are clearly going to
• 34:33
  sell off Vincent Trochek before the trade deadline after the
• 34:37
  roster freeze of the Olympics. Right now we're just hearing who
• 34:41
  the suitors are. Probably smart that they waited
• 34:43
  till after the deadline. No reason to wait on Panera and
• 34:47
  get him out of town. They weren't going to get a ton
• 34:48
  for him anyway, but they should get a lot more for Trochek
• 34:52
  contracts. More manageable.
• 34:54
  I think he's under control as well for an extra year speedy.
• 34:58
  Correct me if I'm wrong about. That three more years after
• 35:01
  this? So he had, so they had.
• 35:02
  So this is like a real deal and he is a good face off man in the
• 35:06
  middle. He's a two way player.
• 35:08
  I love watching him play. I am going to hate to see him
• 35:11
  go, but what can they get from him?
• 35:14
  And the three teams I'm hearing, the top three are the Mammoth,
• 35:17
  the Red Wings, and I'm hearing the wild, Billy Guerin.
• 35:23
  I, I could see them getting a top six player for a TRO check
• 35:27
  and and maybe a third round draft pick.
• 35:29
  They're going to get a lot back for him.
• 35:30
  First of all, he's a two way player.
• 35:32
  He's a great face off guy and he's a he's, he's a guy that you
• 35:36
  could just put right into your offense, in your defense, no
• 35:39
  matter where he goes. The Mammoths, any one of those
• 35:41
  teams, Minnesota would be the best fit because they're a
• 35:44
  contender. He's been a part of those kind
• 35:47
  of teams with the Carolina Hurricanes.
• 35:49
  I I could see, I could see the somebody like that, the
• 35:52
  Minnesota, Minnesota team Wild going to make a move for him
• 35:56
  because they got a lot of lot of players, a lot of talent over
• 35:58
  there and their farm system is very strong.
• 36:00
  They're going to get a lot back for Trojic.
• 36:02
  One, he's still fairly young, 2. He's a great two way player.
• 36:05
  He's the to me, out of all the guys that they were that are up
• 36:09
  to trade, he's the best one because he could do the most out
• 36:13
  of all the players that are available.
• 36:15
  Yeah, we were talking having a good playoff identity and
• 36:17
  Minnesota's lacked that for a while despite having good talent
• 36:20
  on that team. I think somebody like Trochek,
• 36:22
  who not only wins face off but hits very well for a center as
• 36:25
  well would be perfect for them. And Fish, I've heard that
• 36:27
  they've been eyeing him for like 2 months now.
• 36:28
  They've been just waiting for the Rangers to kind of think
• 36:31
  that they're not there because the Rangers were kind of stuck
• 36:33
  in mediocrity even in December and Minnesota always liked.
• 36:35
  And then Detroit, they have a lot of ex Rangers they've traded
• 36:38
  with. They've either signed or traded
• 36:39
  with them over the years too, so that wouldn't surprise me
• 36:41
  either. They're another young team on
• 36:43
  the rise. They were looking to make their
• 36:44
  mark finally, and I think now maybe they feel like they have a
• 36:47
  core to do that. But I agree, Minnesota kind of
• 36:49
  makes that perfect sense because they have not won a playoff
• 36:52
  series by having many good young cores.
• 36:54
  Since Patrick Walk coached the Colorado Avalanche in 2013,
• 36:58
  Minnesota beat them as a wild card team.
• 36:59
  That's the last time they won a playoff series with a lot of
• 37:01
  good players. The only thing I want for the
• 37:03
  Rangers if they're going to do this rebuild is build up the
• 37:06
  middle. Please please get centerman who
• 37:08
  that are young that can get they can win face.
• 37:11
  They've been rebuilding. They've been rebuilding since
• 37:14
  1994. Everyone is stupid, they get
• 37:16
  winger after winger, you know, looking for a big contract.
• 37:20
  And and so every time. So would you rather Chris jury
• 37:23
  make that that decision making over the next couple of years or
• 37:27
  do you bring in another GM that actually or a young GM that
• 37:31
  actually knows what he's doing and has been successful as an
• 37:34
  assistant GM or working with the executives for other
• 37:38
  organizations. Look what the Islanders did.
• 37:39
  They they fire Lou Labarello because he just couldn't cut it
• 37:43
  anymore. Too old and they brought in
• 37:45
  harsh and there were a lot of questions on some of the guys
• 37:48
  that they were going to bring in, especially some of these
• 37:50
  suitors that they were looking at.
• 37:52
  They didn't the Islanders made the right choice.
• 37:54
  They brought in a younger guy that's never had the opportunity
• 37:57
  to build a team that has one with another organization for a
• 38:01
  significant amount of time. I think that's where the Rangers
• 38:03
  go. Chris Drury is not the guy Chris
• 38:05
  Drury is not going to build this team in A2 contender team to a
• 38:09
  contender team. If you look at what he's done in
• 38:11
  the last five years, he's hired coaches, he's fired coaches and
• 38:14
  he just hasn't put this team and this organization in the right
• 38:18
  place. As a matter of fact, he's giving
• 38:19
  these guys no trade clauses and they're harder to move as we are
• 38:24
  seeing right in front of her eyes.
• 38:25
  So you look what they traded. Well, look what they got for
• 38:27
  Panarin. You could say whatever you want.
• 38:29
  They got nothing for one of the best players in the league.
• 38:32
  And I know he's 34, but he's one of the best offensive players
• 38:35
  still in the league. He has what, 57 points going
• 38:38
  into the All Star break? I mean, I'm sorry, the Olympic
• 38:40
  break. I mean, the guy's going to get
• 38:42
  closer to 100 points than you think, and the Rangers got
• 38:46
  nothing for him, and you're going to trust Chris Drury to
• 38:49
  move Trochick and get a lot back from I I think that to me, it's
• 38:53
  just an absolute debacle. And This is why I think James
• 38:56
  Dolan is one of the dumbest owners in professional sports.
• 38:59
  Yes, you mentioned it too, like the the way you win in hockey,
• 39:01
  no matter like where your star players lie, you need to have
• 39:04
  three good three depth of centers.
• 39:06
  Like every team that's won the Stanley Cup I think in the last
• 39:09
  15 years have had that to some capacity.
• 39:11
  Yeah, yes, you need defensive depth too.
• 39:13
  Obviously Vegas and Saint Louis teams like that.
• 39:15
  But you of other teams like Pittsburgh, those are a great
• 39:17
  defensive, if I could still win Cups goalies.
• 39:19
  You could just have random guys break out for them.
• 39:20
  And look at Vegas like Aiden Hill came out of nowhere.
• 39:23
  They had four different goalies start in the playoffs like.
• 39:25
  Do you trust Chris Drury? I must say a cross.
• 39:27
  Trust. Do you trust him?
• 39:28
  If you were running this organization, you own this team,
• 39:31
  do you go into the offseason with a rebuild offseason and
• 39:35
  trust that Chris Drury is going to make the right?
• 39:37
  No. Decision.
• 39:37
  I'm not making a trusted Chris Drury.
• 39:39
  I'm also not trusting the Rangers prospect development
• 39:41
  either. That's the other problem they
• 39:42
  have to solve right now, whether it's their assistant coaches,
• 39:43
  the scouting staff, whoever is involved in that has to go too
• 39:47
  because there's too many bad prospects that have good.
• 39:49
  Prospects and when you bring in AGM, the GM hires his own
• 39:52
  scouting, his own people, and Chris Drury needs to go just as
• 39:57
  much as his scouts and the decision makers behind the
• 40:00
  scenes because they have failed this organization.
• 40:03
  Don't you think Chris Drury just like, knows how to kiss Dolan's
• 40:06
  ass better than anybody? Like he survived like that
• 40:10
  entire situation with John Davidson earlier on?
• 40:13
  Like they kept him instead of those guys, made you think, you
• 40:16
  know, if he was kind of playing to the boss a little bit, you
• 40:19
  know, double dealing, trying to get the job for himself, gets
• 40:21
  the job for himself. I don't know.
• 40:23
  What do you think? He's like a big, you know,
• 40:26
  Jayden sure shots Blues fan, you know, like going to see Dolan
• 40:30
  and his band out on the island, you know, up in the North Shore,
• 40:34
  you know, see him just, you know, keep a beat, sing some
• 40:37
  songs. I, I personally, when I grew up
• 40:40
  as a hockey player, I knew the Drury family and I knew Chris
• 40:43
  Drury. He wasn't a likable person.
• 40:45
  I didn't like his father. I didn't like his cocky, you
• 40:49
  know, personality. He thought he could play
• 40:51
  professional baseball just as much as he played professional
• 40:54
  hockey. He was very conceited.
• 40:56
  And I think that's the same type of person, the same type of GM
• 40:59
  he is right now for the New York Rangers as an executive.
• 41:03
  I don't think he knows what he's doing.
• 41:04
  I don't know. I don't think he knows how to
• 41:05
  build an organization in the right state.
• 41:08
  He has brought in Peter Laviolette, who won a Stanley
• 41:11
  Cup, who's one of the greatest coaches of, of this time and one
• 41:15
  of the greatest coach, top 10 greatest coaches of all time.
• 41:18
  And then you bring in a guy like Sullivan, who's also a very
• 41:21
  consistent, very popular head coach in the NHL.
• 41:24
  That's once 2 Stanley Scott, 2 Stanley Cups with the Pittsburgh
• 41:28
  Penguins and very successful and again, the coach of the United
• 41:31
  States hockey team. So, you know, he's, he's a very
• 41:34
  successful, you know, personality behind the bench.
• 41:37
  And I don't know how long he he's going to be, you know, safe
• 41:41
  at his position because if you if you trust Chris Drury, you
• 41:45
  know that it's not going to last more than two or three years
• 41:47
  with that coach if they're not winning.
• 41:49
  So they're going to fire Sullivan, who was there with the
• 41:51
  Pittsburgh Penguins for how long?
• 41:53
  Over 10 years with Sidney Crosby and Mulkin.
• 41:56
  That's a problem when you know that a coach can't stay there
• 41:58
  more than two or three years, that there's something going on
• 42:02
  with the executives and GM up on top.
• 42:05
  And. They're always going to make the
• 42:05
  coach the scapegoat, especially for ones that don't develop the
• 42:08
  young players like Gallon had trouble doing for a while.
• 42:10
  But Mike Sullivan, actually, it's pretty, pretty good.
• 42:13
  Not great, but pretty good with the younger players.
• 42:15
  It's the veteran players that have all fallen off badly this
• 42:17
  year and that's why they're gonna have to trade.
• 42:18
  Has he been good with the younger players laughing here?
• 42:20
  Has been No, not. Laughing here, I'm talking about
• 42:22
  like the Matthew Robertson's and Will Cooley guys like that.
• 42:25
  The second tier prospects laughing here I think is busted
• 42:27
  as it is already. I think there's no coach to save
• 42:30
  him right now. He had his chance I think two
• 42:32
  years ago. Three years ago was the best
• 42:34
  chance to resurrect his career. And look at the 20, 2014 fish
• 42:37
  like they finally get the center depth finally went face off.
• 42:40
  So they're not going to even shrink.
• 42:41
  So they're very fluky. President, trophy team.
• 42:43
  They were definitely fluky, but you know, a couple of years ago,
• 42:45
  LA for a year was just like everywhere.
• 42:48
  He was hustling, he was making plays at the net and he just
• 42:51
  stopped doing that. Peter la violette this season,
• 42:53
  Peter la violette and even Capococka was playing under
• 42:57
  Peter La violette very, very well.
• 42:59
  And what how long did Peter la Violette stay with the New York
• 43:03
  Rangers? What was it a year and a half
• 43:05
  and they found? Locker room debacle and Oh yeah.
• 43:07
  Yeah, because he's a scapegoat because of the veteran players.
• 43:09
  Panarin couldn't control his his own attitude.
• 43:12
  You had guys like Crider, who's a crybaby and.
• 43:15
  And by the way, I told the beef on all the Ranger fans when
• 43:18
  Crider scored 52 goals that season, they should trade him in
• 43:21
  the offseason. No, we can't trade A50 goal
• 43:24
  scorer. He's the heart and soul of this
• 43:26
  team. Now he's playing with the the
• 43:28
  Anaheim Ducks and he's playing pretty well.
• 43:30
  The Anaheim Ducks is playing pretty well.
• 43:31
  That whole organization has a, you know, has good leadership
• 43:35
  and understands what it takes to win with veterans and young
• 43:39
  players. The Rangers, no matter how young
• 43:41
  they get and how many veterans they have, if the guy up top
• 43:45
  doesn't know what he's doing, they're never going to succeed.
• 43:47
  All right, let's move on to baseball.
• 43:50
  It's been a silence mostly offseason for the Yankees.
• 43:55
  You know that. The pitching staff, you know,
• 43:57
  you're getting guys back, but they're not ready.
• 43:59
  And on top of that, today we found out that last year's
• 44:03
  breakthrough, a performer in the playoffs, Cam Schlittler has
• 44:07
  tweaked his back. Now he's they don't expect him
• 44:10
  to be out for a while, but the depth is really worrisome.
• 44:14
  You know, Garrett Cole and Clark Schmidt are probably not coming
• 44:16
  back till closer to the All Star break after going through the
• 44:19
  Tommy John and recovery from it. Carlos Rodon had offseason
• 44:24
  surgery. What was it, bone spurs or
• 44:26
  something like that? Speedy, Something along those
• 44:29
  lines to clean up some stuff. So he's going to be out for
• 44:32
  probably the first month or so as well.
• 44:34
  So that's three guys that you're expecting in the rotation that
• 44:38
  you're not seeing right away. Now.
• 44:40
  Schlittler's banged up, so now you're already going deep into
• 44:44
  it. Kind of makes you feel like
• 44:46
  maybe you should have added a little bit more depth this
• 44:49
  offseason. I don't think the Yankees going
• 44:52
  into the season are going to worry about their pitching
• 44:54
  staff. It's going to.
• 44:55
  It's a long season. It's 162 games as expected and
• 45:00
  if we had job on the show right now, he'd probably say the same
• 45:02
  thing. Preseason players are going to
• 45:05
  go down and all the way into the beginning of the season.
• 45:08
  I expect by June the Yankees will be 100% healthy.
• 45:11
  They got to compete early into the season.
• 45:13
  They might have to, you know, scrap in certain games and put
• 45:17
  up, you know, a lot of runs because they're pitching staff
• 45:21
  is not at has doesn't have as much depth as they would have
• 45:25
  with the talent that they have in the beginning of the season.
• 45:28
  If Cole was healthy and Rodon was healthy and Schlittler was
• 45:31
  healthy, I think the Yankees are going to be fine.
• 45:33
  They added Weathers. Weathers will be put in that
• 45:35
  rotation right now. And I I think that as we move
• 45:39
  forward going into spring training, we're going to see
• 45:41
  what the Yankees have in their farm system.
• 45:43
  They have two young pitchers that one of them, they think
• 45:45
  that could be called up at some point this year that they can
• 45:49
  put in the bullpen before he becomes a starter.
• 45:51
  And they've got guys like Spencer Jones.
• 45:54
  We got to see what he could do in spring training.
• 45:56
  He looked pretty good in spring training last year.
• 45:58
  He was up and down in AAA last year.
• 46:01
  They and again, I want to see more of Dominguez.
• 46:04
  I want to see some of these these guys that have not fully
• 46:07
  developed with the the Yankees over the last couple of years.
• 46:10
  I want to see them come out strong early in the season where
• 46:14
  if the Yankees decide that these guys are going to be the
• 46:16
  backbone of the team or trade pieces in the long run, they
• 46:20
  could get a lot out of them. Yeah, you don't want, if you're
• 46:22
  no matter what scenario for the Yankees, you don't want to have
• 46:24
  to rush Schwitler back at any cost because yet the Yankees
• 46:28
  have a enough, I think, between organizational and hybrid
• 46:31
  starter relievers types to make it work creatively in the
• 46:34
  beginning of the season until Rodon comes back.
• 46:35
  You don't want to have to rush Schlittler if he's really not up
• 46:38
  to it because we've seen the Yankees do this a lot.
• 46:40
  They when they tried to, when they signed Montes, they traded
• 46:42
  for Montes. They did the same thing.
• 46:43
  He pitched one game with the Yankees and then he was hurt the
• 46:45
  rest of the year. Severino had all those injury
• 46:47
  issues at the beginning of his career.
• 46:48
  So you don't want to have to do that kind of thing with a young
• 46:50
  player. I will say this for the Yankee
• 46:53
  fans out there throwing Volpe under the bus, I think you got
• 46:58
  to give Volpe another full season, see how he stays
• 47:00
  healthy. Maybe he wasn't.
• 47:02
  Wasn't 100%. They said he had shoulder
• 47:04
  problems all throughout the season.
• 47:06
  He did have shoulder surgery in the offseason.
• 47:08
  Maybe that was the reason why he couldn't throw the ball to 1st
• 47:12
  and it had problems with his woes defensively.
• 47:15
  I think he's much better offensively than he's been over
• 47:18
  the last two years. If he can hit 240 or 250 and
• 47:21
  give you 25 home runs and about 60 to 70 RBIs as shortstop,
• 47:26
  you're getting a lot out of the kid.
• 47:27
  I I still think he is going to be a part of the future of this
• 47:31
  New York Yankee team, either as a shortstop or a second baseman.
• 47:36
  I do not believe Jazz Chisholm will be there at the end of this
• 47:39
  season. Yeah, and that's the other thing
• 47:40
  too. You bring up the offense and
• 47:41
  keep the abilities that the Yankees could have when it comes
• 47:44
  to some of their young players finally breaking out if they can
• 47:46
  all do it. Not maybe not all at once per
• 47:49
  SE, but Wells had spurts. Rice had spurts last year.
• 47:52
  If Volpe could have the spurts like he did at the end of the
• 47:53
  season when he started to play well, that's enough for they
• 47:56
  could be able to weather the storm with some of those back
• 47:57
  end pitchers to make it work. Fish, you mentioned Weathers
• 47:59
  too. Then you also got Heal and
• 48:01
  Warren. Like those are enough of capable
• 48:03
  that still a lot of a lot of teams don't have right now in
• 48:05
  the American League that they can still at least weather the
• 48:07
  storm. And watch out for Clark Schmidt.
• 48:09
  I I think Schmidt looked really, really good, good early last
• 48:12
  season and then he got hurt and he was out for the rest of the
• 48:15
  season. This kid has a tremendous amount
• 48:17
  of pitching, you know, pitch. He could throw curveballs and
• 48:21
  sliders and he's got a great fastball, 4 seam and two seam
• 48:25
  fastball. He's got a ton of pitches and,
• 48:27
  and this guy when he figures things out, I think he could be
• 48:30
  a very dominant pitcher for the New York Yankees.
• 48:33
  He has, he has the stuff to be 1/3 starter on this roster
• 48:38
  really when you look at Schlittler and Cole and even
• 48:41
  Freed. So I, he's got that kind of
• 48:43
  talent. I, I think the Yankees going to
• 48:45
  be fine. I, I do believe the Yankees
• 48:47
  should have added a little bit more depth into free agency.
• 48:50
  I think Fish is right about that.
• 48:53
  But they added Weathers, and Weathers is a guy you could put
• 48:55
  in the rotation until these guys come back and then you can move
• 48:58
  them in the bullpen. Yeah, you know, you just, you
• 49:00
  just worry about them falling behind the 8 ball a little too
• 49:03
  much in the first month, month and a half of the season before
• 49:06
  they get some of this step. Back they never do fish.
• 49:08
  They never do. I know with the.
• 49:09
  Injuries, they usually start hot, right?
• 49:11
  They usually start hot. And then it's something more
• 49:13
  like Midsummer. Yeah, kind of the Aaron Boone
• 49:15
  swoon over there. They get into a cold spell where
• 49:18
  they lose 12 out of 15 games and everybody like I thought the
• 49:21
  Yankees are in trouble. The rotation is not as good as
• 49:24
  everybody thought they were or the bullpen looks worn out.
• 49:26
  I it's usually right after the All Star break where the Yankees
• 49:29
  go on this, this cold spell of like 12 out of 15 games and they
• 49:33
  look really, really bad. And and then they pick it up
• 49:36
  maybe because of injury or maybe because they just they thought
• 49:40
  that they were just going to run away with the division like they
• 49:42
  did last year. And then the Blue Jays got back
• 49:44
  into it and then eventually beat the Yankees out and winning the
• 49:47
  division and winning the American League.
• 49:49
  So I I'm, again, I'm not worried about the Yankees.
• 49:53
  I expect the Yankees to win 95 to 96 games this year.
• 49:56
  They still have a tremendous amount of talent.
• 49:58
  And I really think it all depends on Aaron Judges health.
• 50:02
  If Aaron Judge is healthy, they're going to be able to
• 50:04
  compete. He's that good of a player.
• 50:07
  He changes everything when it comes to their when it comes to
• 50:11
  their line up. I think he adds that that power
• 50:13
  that you need and that offense that you need to win games.
• 50:16
  You know, a little X Factor for the Yankees offense.
• 50:19
  You know, he didn't really get much out of him last year.
• 50:21
  He struck out a lot. But Ryan McMahon has been an All
• 50:24
  Star in this league, little in the National League when he was
• 50:26
  with Colorado. Obviously Coors Field aided a
• 50:28
  little bit, but that guy has got pop and that guy plays excellent
• 50:32
  as we saw, excellent third base. So if they if they can get him
• 50:36
  to fix his swing in a little bit, I mean this could be like
• 50:40
  another Brochus type story with this guy.
• 50:42
  Probably this. Is that kind of defense?
• 50:44
  Problem with him is just like Todd Hilton, he played in
• 50:47
  Colorado and Todd Hilton was good when he left Colorado, but
• 50:51
  not as good. Everybody knows in Colorado
• 50:54
  there's you get more pop, There's no, you're elevated.
• 50:58
  There's more home runs that go out of the stadium.
• 51:01
  So I, I don't, I'm not saying McMahon can't be good for the
• 51:05
  Yankees. He's a pretty good defender, but
• 51:07
  he's a guy that the Yankees have reached on and, and again, the
• 51:10
  Yankees like making trades with Colorado over the years.
• 51:12
  If you look at what Brian Cashman likes to do, it's it's
• 51:15
  usually Colorado and Pittsburgh are the two teams that he likes
• 51:18
  to trade with. All right, let's talk about the
• 51:21
  other side of the city and the Mets, who just lost Francisco
• 51:25
  Lindor for 6:00 or so weeks with a broken ham aid bone.
• 51:29
  And things happen in threes, Errol, because and within 24
• 51:33
  hours, Francisco Lindor, Corbin Carroll is star player
• 51:38
  outfielder for the Diamondbacks and Jackson Holiday, second
• 51:41
  baseman for the Orioles, all broke their hamate bone, which
• 51:45
  is I guess happens when you grip the nub of the bat too tight.
• 51:50
  I don't know. It's just so weird that they
• 51:52
  have it. Apparently you have to remove it
• 51:55
  in surgery and it's you have to heal.
• 51:57
  And it just takes a while to get the power and strength back in
• 52:01
  your wrist. Not exactly what you want for
• 52:04
  your star shortstop to start a season.
• 52:06
  No. And and again, Lindor was going
• 52:09
  to play in the WBC. I guess he's not playing in the
• 52:11
  WBC. I know he was looking forward to
• 52:14
  doing that. And again, the New York Mets,
• 52:17
  it's 162 games. They're going into a season
• 52:21
  where they got a, they got to start strong, and they usually
• 52:23
  do. In the last couple of years, the
• 52:25
  Mets start up very, very, very strong and then they fall off as
• 52:29
  the season progressively moves forward.
• 52:31
  Last year they got very, very hot.
• 52:32
  I think they won 20 out of their their first like 30 games and
• 52:37
  they were playing great baseball.
• 52:39
  And then all of a sudden they got into a cold spell.
• 52:41
  And Carlo Mendoza, he might be on a hot seat early in the
• 52:44
  season if if he doesn't start off strong, they could fire
• 52:47
  Mendoza and and again the Mets have they spent a lot of money
• 52:51
  in the offseason. Once again, as Cohen, he was
• 52:54
  reaching, he brought in, you know, Devin and he brought in
• 52:58
  some pieces and this roster, you know, you, you put a guy that's
• 53:02
  ever played first base on first base.
• 53:04
  You put a guy that's never played third base on third base.
• 53:07
  This team is all scrambled and really it's like a puzzle for
• 53:10
  the Mets. They're trying to connect the
• 53:12
  dots and hopefully they connect the right way.
• 53:14
  I don't know how it's going to work, but I I think they have
• 53:17
  enough pop in this lineup with some of the additions that they
• 53:20
  made that if Lindor's out for six to eight weeks, they'll be
• 53:23
  fine offensively. Yeah, I think they have enough.
• 53:25
  I think Lindor, it's the same thing I was saying with the
• 53:27
  Yankees. They just have to make sure that
• 53:29
  a guy that's been one of their most durable players that we've
• 53:32
  seen since he's come over here with the mats, you can't have
• 53:35
  him all of a sudden be an injury tailspin when you have all these
• 53:37
  other fragile question marks outside, probably outside of
• 53:40
  semi and like the rest of your team are a lot of fragile
• 53:42
  question marks in that lineup. Alvarez, obviously Bruschette,
• 53:45
  who they bring in. A lot of these guys just can't
• 53:48
  stay healthy. So they cannot make that same
• 53:49
  kind of mistake with Lindor. Now, obviously the question is
• 53:51
  all right, if you can't play, who plays shortstop?
• 53:53
  And that's where the rotation will have to come in.
• 53:54
  But you have enough time to experiment.
• 53:56
  The problem with the Mets is they have guys playing out of
• 53:58
  position. They've never played these
• 54:00
  positions before in their careers and now you're shifting
• 54:04
  them now that you're a New York Mets.
• 54:06
  That is the problem. I don't think it has anything to
• 54:08
  do with Boba Shett being injury prone or any of these guys.
• 54:11
  Alvarez. I think what bothers me if I was
• 54:14
  a Mets fan, is how is this going to work?
• 54:17
  How is it, especially you're on the diamond and you for the last
• 54:22
  couple of years, your infield has been not good.
• 54:25
  And now you have guys like Beau Bichette, who has been a
• 54:28
  consistent defensively talented shortstop.
• 54:31
  Now you're moving to third base. Does he have the arm strength to
• 54:33
  get it to 1st? Is he is it going to be like an
• 54:36
  Alex Rodriguez? And then you have a guy that has
• 54:39
  been a second baseman practically his whole career and
• 54:42
  you're moving him to what first base?
• 54:44
  He's never played first base. And I I, I first base is one of
• 54:48
  the hardest positions to play on the field.
• 54:50
  So I don't know how that's going to work either, even going into
• 54:53
  the offseason knowing that that's the position you're going
• 54:55
  to play. So that's the problem.
• 54:57
  I don't think the Lindor problem is going to be that much of a
• 54:59
  problem because there's a, it's a long season.
• 55:01
  Lidor will be back probably around I, I would say May.
• 55:05
  So it's just to start up a season.
• 55:08
  You're missing the, you know, spring training and, and, and a
• 55:10
  quarter of, you know, probably all of April and then you're
• 55:13
  going to be back. So I don't think that's going to
• 55:15
  be the problem. The problem with the Mets is the
• 55:17
  corner, the corner positions, the first and third base
• 55:20
  position. How is that going to work?
• 55:22
  Yeah, that's why I'm saying you if even if Lidor is hurt for an
• 55:26
  excited period of time, at least try to lock into one philosophy.
• 55:29
  Because again, it's going to be tough to tell if you're going to
• 55:31
  have enough of a sample to judge if one guy is going to be able
• 55:34
  to adapt to be comfortable with a different.
• 55:35
  Position. Don't you think Lindor would be
• 55:37
  better at third base than Beau Bichette?
• 55:39
  No, not. Don't move Lindor.
• 55:40
  No, I would say why? He's a better.
• 55:42
  He has a better. What I'm saying is, lock into
• 55:44
  one way of thinking. If Bichette's going to play
• 55:46
  third, let him play third. Let Polanco play shortstop as a
• 55:49
  substitute if you need to. Let Simeon play shortstop if you
• 55:52
  need to lock into one. Philosophy, don't get cute.
• 55:55
  I think when trying and rotate everyone in short time unless it
• 55:58
  really doesn't work badly. Well, I think that you put the
• 56:01
  guy at third base that has the better arm.
• 56:03
  Lindor has a better arm. I would have shift Lindor if
• 56:06
  Lindor wanted to move to third base, to third base.
• 56:09
  If he's the captain of the team and a leader of the team, which
• 56:12
  everybody says he is, move the guy with the better arm at third
• 56:15
  base. Keep Beau Bichette in the
• 56:16
  position that he feels more comfortable on because everybody
• 56:19
  says that Beau Bichette might not have the arm strength to get
• 56:22
  that ball to first base as most third baseman's do have that arm
• 56:27
  strength so. So Simeon is already going to be
• 56:29
  comfortable enough at 2nd where I think you want to leave him
• 56:32
  there at some point. That's why I'm saying, look, get
• 56:34
  the Bachette third base experiment start.
• 56:35
  You can rotate from shortstop or if you want to try to experiment
• 56:39
  within the outfield like you like to do and put Louise,
• 56:41
  Robert and all these other guys elsewhere or Beatty, same kind
• 56:45
  of thing. If you're going to commit to
• 56:46
  keeping him, commit to one position.
• 56:47
  Beatty's a bench guy, he's not a *.
• 56:50
  Which is which is sucks because he started to come on really
• 56:52
  well last season and now they're really funneling his position
• 56:56
  with overloading out too many infielders.
• 56:58
  Don't you think that's what they're going to do though?
• 57:00
  Play Beatty and move Bichette to short until he comes back and
• 57:03
  probably puts Semi in as the leadoff hitter for Lindor.
• 57:06
  I would imagine that works. They just got to hope Semi and
• 57:09
  doesn't suck like he sucked the last season and 1/2 and that
• 57:12
  Bichette can hold up, you know, physically.
• 57:14
  It's never going to happen. It's not going to happen as much
• 57:16
  if Bichette can't stay healthy. I think Bichette will also will
• 57:18
  later in the season start to DH more too if he doesn't have
• 57:21
  final. Position.
• 57:22
  I don't think Beau Bichette has the arm strength to get that
• 57:24
  ball to first base well. I'm more worried about his range
• 57:28
  at shortstop, like his side to side range.
• 57:30
  That's why Lindor has to stay at short.
• 57:32
  No one else is going to be able to get the ball in the hole at
• 57:35
  the same level even, you know, the arm strength been damned.
• 57:38
  You know, on something like that, it's more about like, can
• 57:40
  you get to the ball? That's why they always ripped on
• 57:42
  Jeter at the end of his career, because he didn't get to the
• 57:44
  ball. You know it wasn't his arm.
• 57:45
  Strength. So what I would do is move
• 57:47
  Simeons, who I think can play shortstop still, he's a great
• 57:50
  defender. Move him to shortstop, move
• 57:52
  Bobashette to second base and move Lindor to 3rd.
• 57:55
  That would make more sense. He has the best arm strength on
• 57:58
  this team and can could it really take up more room than
• 58:01
  any. And you need a third baseman
• 58:03
  that could defend with all that room.
• 58:05
  So I would have moved Lindor to third base.
• 58:07
  That would have made more sense. I would have tried to pitch that
• 58:10
  to Lindor than Beau Bichette. I I just don't agree with it.
• 58:14
  Don't agree? With it, it's it's definitely a
• 58:15
  weird one. The only other thing that was I
• 58:17
  thought we had to talk about is I guess city field, the
• 58:22
  dimensions, left field is easier to play in right field because
• 58:25
  they're moving Juan Soto to left field away from right field.
• 58:29
  Not that they have like a real replacement in right field.
• 58:32
  It's like Tyrone Taylor or MJ Melendez they got from the
• 58:36
  Royals. It's just like, I don't really
• 58:40
  understand that move, but apparently, you know, Juan Soto
• 58:43
  gets what he wants. He got all the money he wants to
• 58:46
  play and left. He feels more comfortable with
• 58:48
  the quote, so he's playing and left.
• 58:50
  It could be Ronnie Mauricio too and right as well because they
• 58:53
  also think he could get shortstop reps as well.
• 58:55
  The only season that I thought that Juan Soto played half
• 58:58
  decent in the outfield was with the Yankees.
• 59:01
  He did not look good last year. How many times did he make
• 59:04
  blooping mistakes out in the outfield?
• 59:06
  There were games that he made multiple mistakes in one game.
• 59:10
  I don't think it works. You need to be a really good
• 59:13
  defender in the open field. There's a lot of field to cover
• 59:16
  at left field, less in right field.
• 59:19
  It would have made more sense for him to stay in right field.
• 59:21
  But again, like you said, fish what Soda wants he gets.
• 59:25
  All right, so let's move on to some football offseason stuff,
• 59:31
  starting with the New York Football Giants.
• 59:34
  Well, we're going to talk about their free agents in a second,
• 59:36
  but first let's talk about them hiring.
• 59:38
  You mentioned earlier Brian Callahan to be the quarterbacks
• 59:42
  coach and pass game coordinator, meaning he's the I guess you
• 59:48
  call him the Lieutenant to the offensive coordinator, which is
• 59:51
  Charles Nagy, which makes Greg Roman long time Jim Harbaugh guy
• 59:57
  way back in the 49ers days, obviously spent some time with
• 1:00:01
  John and in Baltimore with with Lamar.
• 1:00:05
  Didn't work out so great, but he's going to run the run game
• 1:00:09
  aspect of it. So they have three guys with a
• 1:00:13
  wealth of experience, Errol, which is why some people are
• 1:00:16
  excited about this move. Others like yourself have
• 1:00:19
  pointed out. It's a lot of, you know, chiefs,
• 1:00:23
  maybe you know too many chiefs, not enough Indians.
• 1:00:25
  It doesn't make any sense. I I like John Harbaugh and I'm
• 1:00:29
  not saying that John Harbaugh won't be a successful coach with
• 1:00:32
  the New York Giants. He got paid a lot of money and
• 1:00:34
  now he's reaching. You bring in Matt Nagy.
• 1:00:37
  He wasn't a successful head coach with Chicago.
• 1:00:41
  He went back to Kansas City. He was not even calling the
• 1:00:44
  plays with Andy Reid. He was really Andy Reid's
• 1:00:46
  puppet. And Andy Reid said he should go
• 1:00:48
  to an organization where he has a chance to make the play.
• 1:00:50
  And now he's going to the Giants where you have Brian Callahan
• 1:00:54
  and you have Greg Roman as as guys that are going to help you
• 1:00:58
  make the play calls and and help you out with the throwing game
• 1:01:01
  and the running game. It doesn't make any sense.
• 1:01:03
  If you're going to bring in an offensive coordinator, you bring
• 1:01:05
  in one guy making the play calls.
• 1:01:07
  And again, this is very jet esque.
• 1:01:09
  This is what happened with Robert Sala.
• 1:01:11
  Robert Sala couldn't make a decision on who is offensive
• 1:01:14
  coordinator was, so he fired one and then brought in two.
• 1:01:17
  It makes no sense. Yeah, Callahan's like I get play
• 1:01:19
  calling duties. It just also at the same time,
• 1:01:21
  how much do you trust a Joe Burrow sample when Joe Burrow
• 1:01:24
  was already good as a Cincinnati quarterback coach and then he
• 1:01:26
  goes to Tennessee and can't develop Cam Ward to the same
• 1:01:29
  extent. Now he's going to get Brian
• 1:01:30
  Davis. Oddly enough, they're swapping,
• 1:01:32
  but still, he's not going to be play calling at all.
• 1:01:34
  Naggy. I don't like it all calling
• 1:01:35
  plays if they're going to trust him to do that.
• 1:01:37
  Do you like these moves, Speedy? You're a giant.
• 1:01:39
  Callahan I'm indifferent on. Roman is fine, but I don't want
• 1:01:42
  him calling plays either. Matt Naggy.
• 1:01:44
  If you say Roman is fine, why didn't anybody but The Jets
• 1:01:48
  interview him? Because he's too old school of
• 1:01:50
  an offensive coordinator and I can't trust a one month sample
• 1:01:53
  of him trying to be pass happy at the beginning of the season
• 1:01:55
  with the Chargers. I don't want Greg Roman calling
• 1:01:57
  plays, but I am interested in his ability to, you know, scheme
• 1:02:00
  up some run plays. He was that's what they did with
• 1:02:03
  Lamar. They've had this like very
• 1:02:05
  unique offense because they said, oh, Lamar is not going to
• 1:02:07
  be able coming out of college to run a regular offense.
• 1:02:10
  So Roman made this kind of non traditional offense.
• 1:02:13
  Eventually teams caught on to it and they had to let him go.
• 1:02:15
  It didn't work. You know it after a while and
• 1:02:18
  that's the end of NFL you got. You got to keep adapting.
• 1:02:21
  But Roman knows the run game. I'm excited about that, but
• 1:02:24
  potentially with Scatabo coming back, there's too many.
• 1:02:27
  There's too many voices that are going to be in that offensive
• 1:02:30
  side of a room. Where there's going to, I have a
• 1:02:33
  feeling there's going to be backlash.
• 1:02:35
  There's going to be some kind of backlash with all three of these
• 1:02:38
  guys. I don't think it's going to
• 1:02:39
  work. So he was with the Lions, with
• 1:02:43
  Stafford, he was with Peyton Manning and Tim Tebow in Denver,
• 1:02:48
  Callahan. He was with Derek Carr in that
• 1:02:52
  good Raiders season they had before he broke his leg I
• 1:02:54
  believe. And he was the OC for Zach
• 1:02:59
  Taylor with Burrow, like you said, for four years before
• 1:03:01
  becoming the Titans head coach. Car samples, the one out of them
• 1:03:04
  encouraged the most about because he's not like previous
• 1:03:06
  elite somewhere else. Yeah, So look, we'll see how it
• 1:03:09
  goes. The Giants have some free agents
• 1:03:12
  and not a lot of money. Nope.
• 1:03:13
  Looks like Wandale Robinson's going to cash in on his big, you
• 1:03:17
  know, at least target share. Once neighbors went down this
• 1:03:20
  year, he got over 1000 yards. Someone's going to pay.
• 1:03:22
  Him. And don't be surprised if it's
• 1:03:24
  the other team at the Meadowlands, the New York Jets,
• 1:03:27
  because I, I could see The Jets, they're looking for another wide
• 1:03:30
  receiver to put on the other side of Garrett Wilson.
• 1:03:32
  Then you know, the weapon, weapon.
• 1:03:34
  And a guy like Wendell Robinson, you can move him in the slot.
• 1:03:38
  You could do a lot of things with him.
• 1:03:39
  So I wouldn't be surprised if it's like the New York Jets
• 1:03:42
  making that move and bring in Wandell Robertson as the other
• 1:03:45
  guy. Yeah, then you got Jermaine
• 1:03:47
  Aluminor and Cordell Flott. Both had good seasons.
• 1:03:50
  Cornerback Flot is probably the best corner on the Giants, but
• 1:03:53
  that's more by default than by. He had a great season.
• 1:03:57
  He just was competent out there, which was a high bar to to
• 1:04:00
  match. I think for anybody else on the
• 1:04:03
  roster. Illuminor was pretty good right
• 1:04:05
  tackle. He's going to get paid.
• 1:04:07
  The Giants don't have money to pay him.
• 1:04:08
  They can't. They can't give him like a
• 1:04:10
  double his salary. That's why I think the Giants
• 1:04:12
  three guys, that's why I think the Giants at #5 as much as
• 1:04:15
  everybody thinks they need a wide receiver, I go offensive
• 1:04:17
  tackle, yeah. They're going to look at a
• 1:04:19
  couple of those guys and we'll profile a lot of them as we get
• 1:04:22
  closer to the draft. The Jets, Well, how do you like
• 1:04:26
  Kyler Murray, Errol? Because I'm seeing heavily
• 1:04:31
  rumored to The Jets Kyler Murray right now.
• 1:04:36
  This looks like he may be your bridge quarterback.
• 1:04:38
  He he would be a bridge quarterback in a Frank Wright
• 1:04:41
  offense. I could see it working.
• 1:04:43
  It's only going to be this year and probably half of next year.
• 1:04:47
  They're going to draft the quarterback.
• 1:04:48
  The not this coming draft, but the next coming draft.
• 1:04:52
  I Kyla Murray is an interesting person.
• 1:04:55
  He's selfish, but a guy that has the ability to do a lot of
• 1:04:58
  things that you want a quarterback to do.
• 1:05:00
  He's in he's great outside of the pocket and making throws.
• 1:05:03
  And like I said, Frank Wright is going to need those type of guys
• 1:05:06
  that are going to be able to make throws on the run.
• 1:05:08
  That's his style of offense. When he was successful in
• 1:05:11
  Indianapolis with Carson Wentz and I thought that Carlson Wentz
• 1:05:16
  was better when he was outside of the pocket and making throws
• 1:05:19
  on the outside of the pocket. I, I, I, Kyler Murray still has
• 1:05:22
  the ability to be a good quarterback in this league.
• 1:05:25
  It just it didn't work very well over there in Arizona.
• 1:05:29
  Maybe with a new roster and a new team and a bunch of fans
• 1:05:34
  screaming his name and hopefully him not screaming in a third
• 1:05:37
  person in front of the media and embarrassing himself, it might
• 1:05:40
  work out for a couple of years with the New York Jets.
• 1:05:42
  It's it's interesting because yeah, we liked him speedy.
• 1:05:46
  The off field, the off field stuff is definitely something
• 1:05:48
  that maybe you don't want to bring to a young roster.
• 1:05:50
  But I do agree with you on the Reich aspect.
• 1:05:51
  If you could get the efficiency mark that you got with the
• 1:05:55
  Carson Wentz with the Colts in 2021 and in the with the Eagles
• 1:05:59
  the first half of his rookie season, his second-half wasn't
• 1:06:02
  great. Then he started to play a lot of
• 1:06:03
  hero ball. But if you can get a combination
• 1:06:05
  of that, maybe you can have it. I'm not going to say great
• 1:06:07
  offense, but at least enough of a competent passing offense with
• 1:06:09
  him. The leadership, obviously all
• 1:06:11
  field stuff. He's known for using his legs
• 1:06:13
  outside of the pocket. The Jets like running the ball
• 1:06:16
  and if, And I think that would make Breece Hall a little bit
• 1:06:18
  more happier if they franchise him and want to bring him back
• 1:06:21
  to have a quarterback that he believes is more competent than
• 1:06:25
  any of the quarterbacks The Jets have had over the last couple of
• 1:06:28
  years. And remember, Kyla Murray a
• 1:06:29
  couple of years ago was not bad when it came to statistics,
• 1:06:33
  especially in fantasy. The guy has a tremendous ability
• 1:06:36
  of getting out of the pocket and making throws and he is pretty
• 1:06:39
  accurate. I just his problem is is really
• 1:06:42
  speaking to the media. I don't know if New York is the
• 1:06:43
  place for him to come when he does the most dumbest things
• 1:06:48
  when it comes to speaking and and saying things that kind of
• 1:06:51
  turn you off as a player that he is.
• 1:06:53
  So I I think he's got a tremendous amount of talent.
• 1:06:56
  He's still fairly young. He's 28 years old, 29 years old.
• 1:06:59
  He still might have a lot of football left and but I coming
• 1:07:03
  to New York, I don't know if it makes sense.
• 1:07:04
  We'll see. So one more New York team to
• 1:07:06
  talk about. Western New York when I went to
• 1:07:08
  college, Buffalo, the the Buffalo Bills.
• 1:07:12
  They are being rumored to be trying to pry former Joe Brady
• 1:07:19
  receiver from LSU Justin Jefferson away from the Vikings.
• 1:07:24
  Not going to happen. Now Jefferson is saying he's not
• 1:07:27
  asking for a trade or anything like that, and the Vikings
• 1:07:30
  obviously not publicly stating it, but if the Bills offer
• 1:07:33
  enough because they certainly need a number one receiver, they
• 1:07:37
  may have to think about it. It's not going to happen.
• 1:07:39
  JJ McCarthy is. Quarter, they have nothing.
• 1:07:41
  Are they, are they willing to give up two or maybe even three
• 1:07:44
  first round draft picks to get a Justin Jefferson and 2nd 2 back
• 1:07:47
  three first 100%? On his salary.
• 1:07:50
  Justin Jefferson right now. Last year he had a bad season
• 1:07:53
  because he had nobody throwing the ball.
• 1:07:55
  This guy is the best wide receiver in the NFL hands down.
• 1:07:58
  If he has the right guy throwing the ball, he's going to put up
• 1:08:00
  1500 yards. There is no way they they don't
• 1:08:04
  get OK, let's say 2 first round draft picks and maybe a second
• 1:08:09
  and a third. They're going to have to give up
• 1:08:10
  a significant amount for Justin Jefferson.
• 1:08:14
  I think this is a combination of two things, one of which is
• 1:08:17
  Brandon Bean. He knows that McDermott got
• 1:08:19
  fired. He was kind of lucky to keep his
• 1:08:20
  job. For whatever reason.
• 1:08:22
  He knows he has to make a big swing.
• 1:08:23
  And then Minnesota's got a new GM.
• 1:08:24
  Maybe you pick on him. Maybe you think all right.
• 1:08:26
  Maybe. What would it take to get?
• 1:08:28
  I would, again, I think it would be two first round picks, but I
• 1:08:30
  think Brandon Bean is going to try to manipulate as new GM in
• 1:08:33
  order to get him for less. Now the the tough situation with
• 1:08:35
  Buffalo is they they still have to do a lot to make the cap
• 1:08:38
  space work with Justin Jefferson.
• 1:08:40
  There's the scenario I brought up to you Fish was they have to
• 1:08:43
  restructure 3 contracts and get rid of four players and Even so
• 1:08:45
  that's only 25,000,000 in cap space.
• 1:08:47
  Jefferson's making 37 a year. So can they rearrange it enough
• 1:08:51
  to make it work? Will be another question.
• 1:08:52
  Or include a player in the deal that Minnesota could want.
• 1:08:55
  I would imagine they asked they they tell Jefferson, we're going
• 1:08:57
  to restructure, we'll give you all signing bonus and the cap
• 1:09:00
  numbers comes down for years one and that's what they would do.
• 1:09:03
  Rousseau can be restructured. He's he's probably their best D
• 1:09:06
  lineman since Oliver keeps getting hurt.
• 1:09:09
  He's a really good player. It's not going to happen.
• 1:09:11
  You. I don't.
• 1:09:12
  I don't see Minnesota doing that.
• 1:09:14
  I can't. All right, let's let's wrap up
• 1:09:16
  the carousel. Errol, just quickly talk about
• 1:09:18
  some college hoops. We're not going to get into too
• 1:09:20
  much. Let's just kind of stay in
• 1:09:21
  local. There was a big game last week
• 1:09:23
  between UConn and Saint John. St.
• 1:09:25
  John's upset UConn. UConn had won something like 18
• 1:09:28
  or 19 in a row. You got still in the top five.
• 1:09:32
  But Saint John's, you know, they had, you know, Luis Junior, the
• 1:09:35
  famous flame out last year in the tournament.
• 1:09:38
  They weren't really expected as much this year to be at the top.
• 1:09:41
  And now they may end up back there, maybe make more impact,
• 1:09:45
  more as a middle seed than a top seed.
• 1:09:47
  Everybody knows I like my I like Pitino and I like Danny Hurley.
• 1:09:51
  I think they're both competent, great coaches in in the country.
• 1:09:56
  I would love to see these guys play against one another in the
• 1:09:59
  tournament in March Madness. That's something that you would
• 1:10:02
  love to see being that both guys are, you know, Big East guys and
• 1:10:07
  guys that really stand for something.
• 1:10:09
  And Pitino, who was a New York guy and so is Danny, Danny
• 1:10:13
  Hurley is a New Jersey guy. This is something that you like
• 1:10:15
  to see. I look at both guys, both teams
• 1:10:17
  right now, UConn is one of the best teams in the country, even
• 1:10:21
  though losing against Saint John's.
• 1:10:22
  Saint John's is one of the oldest teams in the country.
• 1:10:25
  And, and we expected that. We, we expected Pitino to to
• 1:10:29
  bring in older guys that can run his offense and run his defense.
• 1:10:32
  I think this is going to be, I think both teams are going to be
• 1:10:35
  high profile teams going into March Madness.
• 1:10:38
  And I, I think Danny Hurley could get this team in the Final
• 1:10:41
  Four. And I wouldn't be surprised if
• 1:10:43
  Saint John's somehow gets in the Elite Eight, maybe in the Final
• 1:10:46
  Four as well. It's enticing with the Saint
• 1:10:48
  John's team because much more efficient offensively, more deep
• 1:10:51
  offensively than they were last year or still with.
• 1:10:53
  I wouldn't say as good of defense they had last year, but
• 1:10:55
  still good enough to definitely make a good run.
• 1:10:57
  Yukon is interesting because their offensive efficiency for a
• 1:11:00
  top five team is not as high as you want to see usually, but I
• 1:11:03
  think this is the perfect time to try to get it into shape.
• 1:11:05
  I always say like you can't really streak into a tournament
• 1:11:08
  and be expected to last either. They need to lose at some point.
• 1:11:10
  I brought up to you fish in the in the reading that they hadn't
• 1:11:13
  lost since November when they played Arizona, who just got
• 1:11:15
  their first loss of the season to Kansas.
• 1:11:16
  Like that was a good stretch they're on.
• 1:11:18
  But this is I think it was a good loss for them to refocus.
• 1:11:20
  Danny Hurley is a. Fundamental loss means nothing.
• 1:11:22
  The regular season means nothing.
• 1:11:24
  Both teams are going to the tournament and I and both teams
• 1:11:28
  are quite capable of winning the whole thing.
• 1:11:31
  So I it's great. It's great for Big East
• 1:11:33
  basketball. You want to see UConn, UConn at
• 1:11:36
  the top level and you want to see Saint John's at the top
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  level and two of the best coaches in the country.
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  You love it, you love the competition and I'm looking
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  forward to March Madness. Rick Pitino the the next game
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  they had he beat his son Richard Pitino and Xavier to get sole
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  possession of third all time in college basketball Division One
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  wins, passing Roy Williams from UNC in Kansas.
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  Roy friggin Williams. I couldn't stand him in North
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  Carolina, by the way. Anyways, here we go.
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  My deuce of the day. The deuce of the day.
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  You log. Not a log.
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  I don't have a log. But you know, Danny Ainge,
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  ladies and gentlemen, there's a lot of questions on Danny
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  Ainge's madness. It is got a tremendous amount of
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  madness. But guess what?
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  He makes a trade recently, over a week ago and he adds a guy
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  like Jaron Jackson Junior. And now all of a sudden, Jaron
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  Jackson Junior is out for the season with a knee injury.
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  And everybody's questioning why. What was the man?
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  Why did he make this move? And I believe he made this move
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  because he knew that Jaron Jackson was going to be out for
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  the season. They were going to choke for the
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  rest of the year to try to get a high draft pick, a top ten pick
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  where they can possibly get one of these lottery picks.
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  Maybe they get lucky, they get into the top three and get even
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  Cam Boozer, a BYU kid, or even Kansas or whatever.
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  I I think this was a reason why he's rebuilding.
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  Danny Ainge is one of the smartest, not dumbest GM's and
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  executives and all the basketball.
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  He has screwed everybody over the years when he was running
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  the Celtics and he won championships over there and now
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  he's screwing again as an executive with the Utah Jazz.
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  Don't be surprised in the next three or four years Danny Ainge
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  in the Utah Jazz are a contention competitive
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  This All Star break of garbage, the slam dunk contest, the
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  three-point contest and whatever Adam Silver or whatever we want
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