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Right around the year nineteen hundred in Texas and Mexico, right at the
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who won those fights and hit. The baddest animal of them all is when
Brad Folsom joins us. At nine this morning, we got Dingo's Morning News
coming up. I got some prop bets for the Super Bowl that are pretty
funny and really weird, and we're gonna I'm gonna talk to you guys in
a gambling on. Some of these do that at eight o'clock, including will
Taylor Swiss belly button be shown on National TV. I'm ready to gain.
We're putting money. I'm ready to gamble on. Let's go enough money to
wear it hurts. What if we got rich on these props, hit on
one of these ten thousand ones or whatever. It's the best and smartest way
to get wealthy is to gamble. That's that's a fact. I agree,
that is a fact, and I'll chase that dragon until I meet my grave.
Like Toby Keith. Toby Keith passed away just yesterday evening we found out.
We did talk about the life and times of Toby Keith during the most
important thing in the world. And I think you have more during the scuttle
butt, right, yeah, a little more throughout the day. I think
it's significant that someone is learning that right now for the very first time.
And every time we say it this morning. It'll be breaking news to some.
So sixty two years old Toby Keith passed away after a three to four
year battle with stomach cancer. We'll jump back into that seven thirty ors.
So right now, though, it's time for Kevin at seven. O the
we're not sports. We might need a nothing when when we get into whatever
that's only baseball time of the year is and we don't have enough for sports.
Yeah maybe Kevin at seven. Yeah, I can make roof of that
there. Yeah, sure, but no, this is a group effort.
Can I confess I didn't see any of the Maps game last night? Hello,
it was happening. I was working. You just forget it was happening.
I forgot what was happening. I was kind of I was working.
I was writing stuff for the rest of the week. We were we were
grinding on this damn morning radio show. Kevin, time for your little Mavericks.
That's why it's time for Kevin at seven, for you to bring us
up to speed on one app part sports all the time. And I looked
at my clock. It was eight thirty. I'm like, oh no,
they started at six. I put it on. There was three minutes left
in the fourth quarter, the six o'clock started shocking. Yeah, Like I
threw it on over there at five point thirty, like pregame show was happening.
I was like, Oh, that's kind of crazy. Damn Speake's you
got to knock off worker. Yeah, thirty minutes early they had Kevin Gray
in for the last segment. I listened to that and I was like,
oh, yeah, five thirty, that's an early pre game. So yeah,
they Uh, they got the win last night, one eighteen to one
oh two. And I will say the game, the Mavericks played so good
in the second half that the win is not a miracle. But this game
should not have been a four point game at halftime. The Mavericks were losing
by fourth to half and it should have been way worse than that they got.
They should have been down more. Yes, they played pretty bad in
the first half, found a way to stick it out. Now again,
the Sixers are playing without Joel Embiid making all the difference. Yeah, of
course, but MAV's got First of all, we forget because he has been
gone. Maxi has been huge. Uh. He was a good Saturday night
against Milwaukee, and he was good last night. He had fourteen points,
but just another element of size, who can stretch the flour, knock down
a three, like good defense. Again, he's healthy, so important.
Got fourteen out of Grant Williams, which is good. He knocked down a
couple threes. But the big thing here is, here's the secret elixir here.
You win that game on a game where Luca didn't have twenty points,
and Luca also did not have to play forty minutes. He played thirty six
minutes, which is still kind of a lot, and I think you'd like
to get him down a little lower than that. If again, but you
had Kyrie back. Kyrie led the team in scoring with twenty three. Luca
had nineteen. They played well with each other. Jaden Hardy was huge off
the bench with seventeen. I mean, that's that's a pretty good way to
make it work. Night's like this is like, Okay, we had six
guys in double digits. Awesome, we can win that way. Were they
double team and Luca hard there? I read a lot about it, and
I watched the condensed highlights, but I think they were saying Luca aint gonna
beat us. And it was one of those nights when the other guy stepped
up enough to beat them, and Kyrie being one of them is obviously pretty
significant. Yeah, both Luca and Maxie were questionable too, Like it was
a kind of a late decision in the day to let him play because they
played tonight. You know, we get the nets tonight. I think T
and T tonight or the game can be seen on Max as well, if
you have that. I never put much stock in that, because on any
given day, aren't we all just questionable? Yeah? I would say so
permanently listed as questionable. Mike's aroy full body injury, internal body injury.
My response going forth, if anybody's looking for you, Mikey, what times
Mikey get here? It's questionable? Heble today? Yeah, I don't know,
and just leave it at that. Oh what's wrong? I feel like
every morning when I push that door open, you two headwhip and are surprised
to see me. They think it was gonna make it. Oh doubt.
Sounds like it's every day. We started in July. None of us have
been late one time, which I'm very proud of. But I just feel
like you guys are both both are shocked. Okay, all right, let's
see what he's got to offer today. What the first thing we check off
our list? Yeah, attendance check Big Mike. Was it the Josh Green
Show early? I know, when they weren't playing their best. Josh Green
I think kept him in this thing. I think his first miss was at
the end of the second quarter. Really his first miss, he had twenty
points, not down four to threes. He's been shooting the ball really eighteen
in his last three Green arrow upward on his stock price before Thursday's trade deadline,
which is nice, but it's also the one where you're like, oh
man, this guy's really good. It makes you wonder. Don't do it
up the value. That's what you're doing right now. Lem me shooting forty
one percent from three. That's hard to get rid of. And he's still
so hyper. But yeah, he is the cocaine kangaroo. But man,
I think skin Or we started to call him that over a year ago and
then switched to the caffeine kangaroo. Fine, they call him that on the
on the broadcast. Right, he's called him that a couple of times,
the caffeine kangaroo. The mass didn't say anything to that, not to that.
Yeah, I mean caffeine kangaro, the cocaine kangaroo. They can't call
him the cocaine kangaroo. I want Harp to call him that. No heart
could get away with it. No one's gonna talk to Harp and go,
hey, Derek, could you tone it down? Could you please not use
the word cocaine during the telecast? What? But yeah, it's a perfect
time for him, maybe be scoring twenty a game. Yeah, very good.
You know, Mavericks are the eighth seed in the West. Okay,
but I'll tell you the two and a half games out of the five seed.
Here is the trade rumor from yesterday from our own Mark Stein. Now,
if you guys are follow his newsletter, and here's what happened. They
have had preliminary discussions with the Milwaukee Bucks about a trade that would send Grant
Williams to Milwaukee for Bobby Portis. Now the report also is that those conversations
were basically Milwaukee would not accept a one for one Grant Williams for Bobby Portis
because Grant Williams obviously has four years on his deal Milwaukee. Bobby Portis has
I think three years left on his but it's just two years technically because of
his player option and there's a team option on his I believe Bobby Portters's a
good, interesting player. I don't think it's a trade. I'm very interested
in honestly, because I think Grant Williams is better than what he's shown.
And even like a game like last night, let you go, okay,
can that's what we got you for. You know, if Grant Williams has
given you fourteen and seven and he's shooting the ball pretty well, then you're
back to going, oh yeah, because he can defend a lot of different
guys. And you know, there was a on the TV broadcast I was
listening to, Devin Harris made a point because Akey said he was talking to
Tim Hardway junior. By the way, Tim Hartway Junior had a stinker last
night, twenty two minutes and no points. Uh yeah, really oh for
five from three. That's but basically Tim Hartway said, look, we just
now get Kyrie back and Lively. It turns out it was a fracture on
the nose. So Jason Kidd was not right on that it was a fracture
on the nose. Mikey called it, yeah, and they're resetting that so
you'll get lively back at some point, but there's still not to the point
where they've played really any amount of games that you could go, oh,
we're healthy. They haven't got there yet. So yes, I kind of
think you just ride it out and don't make any huge transitional trades. Now.
If there's something that's great and makes sense, yeah, man, I
don't know what Bobby Port is. No, I don't know about the potential
of this team if healthy, and that is they've almost been saved by how
unhealthy they are, and you know, the eyes of fans. I mean,
only twenty three out of fifty games of Kyrie and Luca played together this
year, And yes, it's mysterious. But I don't know if you're lulled
into a sense of security thinking that if they're all healthy, they already have
the roster that can really achieve something good, I feel like a move has
to be made. Okay, So five games to the All Star Break.
One of those is against the Thunder on Saturday, which is I think it's
like a two pm game on Saturday afternoon. But let's say you take those
five games. Let's say you go four and one here, So that mean
you went five to one out of your last six. Now you only have
time. Your trade deadline is Thursday at two o'clock, so it's not like
you have time, but like it's all it takes is a little run like
that, and then before you know what, you're fifth in the West.
You know, that's where I kind of go, Okay, let's get it
together and see if they can go and run. It has been ugly.
No one's denying that or running from that. But until you get to a
point on a night like last night, when is the last time that we've
been able to go, Hey, guys, Luca can give you under twenty
points and we'll be fine. That hasn't happened ever. Yeah, So that's
uh. It was awesome just to see Kyrie back and you just felt like,
Okay, the team feels different, it looks different. It was a
little shaky in the first half and they got through it again. No embeid.
So they get the Nets tonight, they have the Nicks on Thursday.
That's two T and T games. Danny, Hell yeah, okay, you
can hear those guys here on the freak. I don't have to send you
guys pictures of my pop up windows out tonight or Thursday, we get to
watch Jalen Bruns from on National TV hang forty on us. Oh yeah,
that's not gonna feel great. That's not gonna feel great. I'm not gonna
be but hurt about it. I'm choosing to let it go. I love
Jalen Brownson. I love him. I'm choosing to I love him winning.
Yeah, it was sweet the other night. You see that when he almost
cried and the crowd was like chanting his name. He scored forty on somebody
MVP and him. Yeah he's sweet. No, he's great, good dude.
But and he probably didn't want to be here in the in the end,
right, I think he wanted to be in New York. Yeah.
I think that's what it came down to. I want to play at home.
Do you mind fay transition to football? Real quick? Are you gonna
do the NBA floor story all or no? Do you want to real quick?
I would like to do that. We got time, Okay, this
is uh, basically for the All Star Game, they're gonna go with a
full led court. I've been calling for this for years and when the entire
NBA is going to go to this This is an interesting test case. Do
you see this ding you nothing other than a couple of headlines, full led
floor, like a glass floor. And if they can prove this can work,
every team in the league is gonna have this in a decade. Yeah,
or under you know, like a full dancing floor. They're not projecting
lights on it, which they've done for a few years. This is just
whatever you want from the floor, including stats and heat vision where people are
running. If it works, halftime shows, sponsorship galore, replay the real
reason to do it. Full HD replays the entire basketball court. It just
seems like so much potential there. What is going to happen when the guys
are on the floor though, it's going to look like a basket. Yeah,
they projected to look exactly like a basketball court. You can't have a
bunch of graphics and crap while they're well, I don't know. I mean
you used to not be able to have any music playing when they were actually
handling the ball. Well, would it I don't know, I don't know.
I was think of that last night. Does it matter? Well?
And this is great to because you can use the slam duck contest and the
three point shoot out and the skills challenges your guinea pig first right in an
All Star game, like you just have fertile testing ground for this stuff.
Lab right it up and see if it works, and then players will respond.
Players will tell you if they like it or not, or if it
bothers them at all, bothers them like there will, they'll talk about it.
This is a player empowerment league too. I wonder if if they want
it tracting in any way if you're doing anything other than just wood color.
The court is two layers of laminated safety glass five millimeters thick. It's not
that thick. It's just about if the ball reacts exactly the same as it
does on hard wood, Yeah, that's you know, or if they're feet
and sneakers react exactly the same. But if that proof of concept works by
playing the damn All Star weekend on the thing, then I think it's going
to be everywhere. I think it will too, And it might be awesome
when they build the Texagon and mark Ewban builds the Cube, the maps a
new stadium inside the Texagon, the world's largest, because you know we're gonna
have the led floor. Boys think about too, like the court. They've
got the ball on one side and like, uh, you know, well
Luca just made a three and the replay is showing on the other side of
the court, right like, it's gonna be nuts. It's gonna be century
overload, but it's gonna be nuts. I think what this does more than
anything is it's another opportunity during timeouts, you know, in between quarters,
when there's not actual play happening on the floor. This is just another avenue
for revenue. Yeah, no, exactly, this is you know, it's
hello Dorito's. Yes, that's a big ass entire basketball court, says Dorito's.
Oh, they can just lay down Dorito's, yeah, on the fake
Dorito's on the court, and then when people are walking, they'll like crunch
the Dorritos. They can do that if they're cool. Ranch any kind m
taco flavor my personal topic favor. Yeah, yeah, their old school.
They went away for a while and now they're back and they're five dollars and
forty nine cents a bag. When did doritos get so g d expensive?
Inflation and everything. Have you ever tried to buy peanuts lately? Have I
ever tried to buy peanuts lately? Uh no, not ever lately you should.
But yes, groceries are ridiculous and I and Doritos, they're not immune.
I bought unsalted peanuts e because a smart you need to get the peanuts
that have some salt, some falt, mixed nuts. I love mixed nuts.
But I have the unsalted peanuts. And now I culd a handful and
it's just a little dry. So now I'm adding my own salt to the
thing. Yeah, and that just goes the bottom and it doesn't ever work.
Yeah, that's why you have to lick each peanut, put it back
in the container, add your own amount of salt, and then shake it.
Thank you, grab a morsel of shake it. I I saw to
each other, what do you do it at the balls? Well, come
out next. I'm going to tell you this quick football note. Okay,
we'll do it before the scuttle butt, where I tell you more about the
death of Toby Keith at the age of sixty two. Music legend gone after
a weird NFL nugget next to ninety seven won the freak