Steve Vera and Jacob SMIs. They have there, I the boy on two
Sons sports station, Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Okay, welcome back to win
the ball. He Fox Sports fourteen fifty snuck up on us real quick.
We have James Gunn. I'm here now. We got our guy, Sammy
would breaking news. Yeah, we don't have the breaking news thing, but
we do have some big storylines coming out of NBA Media Day today. Okay.
Obviously before over this weekend, Drew Holliday was dealt to Boston for Robert
Williams Malcolm Brogden in a first round pick. So Drew Holiday in that Damian
Lillard trade went to Portland. Now from Portland going to Boston, and it
makes Boston now actually the betting favorite. Yeah. Yeah, and I like
that. I like them to pick. I like that pick. I would
pick them. I think they're like three hundred. Yeah, they're like three
to one, three one, Yeah, three to one. I think that's
a good pick. I still like the West. Some team coming out of
the wood to Denver. I had Denver last year. Yeah, it's Williams.
Williams was a heck of a player for Boston. Yeah, to give
him up. He just he struggled with staying healthy, staying on the floor.
But you men make a great point. When he was on the floor
and healthy, he was a problem, especially on the defensive side of the
wall. And Malcolm Brogden never seemed to be the right fit over there in
Boston. He was a great Indiana pacer. And we'll see if we'll see
if he finds the floor out in Portland. They have a loaded backcourt full
of young guys, but very very all in from Boston, especially losing Marcus
Smart bringing in Christops Porzingis, So that'll be interesting. So he made his
media debut with Boston and Damian Lillard makeing his media debut up in Milwaukee.
But the story of the day is Jimmy Butler and his quote unquote new haircut
and new persona. How long do you think that'll last? Oh? No,
he does it. He does something like this every media day. Yeah,
but how long does it last? Oh? I don't know. Before
the season, tips he'll have changed. I was gonna say, because he's
how's he gonna shoot with all those hair in his eyes? I don't know.
If you haven't seen it, it's a real it's all over Twitter now,
but very emo hair. He's got a lip ring in and if bam
Adebaio and him, we're talking about it, and Jimmy said, quote unquote,
this is my Halloween. So I think he comes to media Day every
year treating it like Halloween. So it's very interesting. And also no James
Harden for the seventy sixers on media now, as he still seeks a trade
to the Clippers. I don't know if that's gonna happen or not, so
we'll see if James Harden has suited up for the first game. Very interesting.
Two back to back points is Jannis. I don't know if you saw
his little sound bite today. He was talking about contracts and money and he
was saying money's money is not important, but a lot of blank money is
important obviously and explicit in there. But he talks hopefully working on new contract
with the Bucks and how much money maybe he should be getting paid. So
that's interesting. And Kawahi Leonard's voiced his opinion or notice on the NBA's new
rule of if you have two superstars they can't miss back to back games like
that, and so he said there's no league policy helping me play more.
Yeah, So it doesn't sound like he's he'll be paying all the fines.
Well, there was one with quiet, right, kwais the same thing if
I if I, if I'm healthy, I'm gonna play. If I'm not
well, I'm not. But but that's what he prepares a summer for.
I gets he'll be the same guy. They'll rest him whenever he wants to
rest. Yeah, And I think that's just the beginning of the incentives to
play their superstars and load management is sad. I mean, I don't know
if sadly is the right word, but it's a it's a thing in the
NBA. And then he has to take notice of it. And sure,
these guys just simply aren't playing eighty two games anymore, right, right,
And then they get big well enough that they can do whatever they don't please.
M last thing coming out of NBA Media Day is John Morant obviously starting
the season under suspension for the Grizzlies. He is allowed to practice with the
team. So I found that interesting. Of we're gonna suspend him from playing
how many games? I think it's twenty five start the game, twenty five
games. I have to go look at that, but very interesting and exciting
breaking news. Bronnie James lebron James as kid is Play, is planning to
play for USC So obviously he had that hard game and so it's it'll be
a breath of fresh air to see him playing for the Trojans in their last
year at the Pack twelve. And that's something where again you just kind of
count your blessings with with all that, and he's he's a great player.
I don't know if you've seen him. He's gonna be He's gonna be fun
to watch when he comes to McHale because yeah, we'll see it should be
fun because they're gonna be one of the better teams in the conference. Yeah.
I think they're gonna probably be picked to finish in the top three.
Yeah if that win it because they have a lot of a lot of talent,
one of the best recruiting classes up in southern California. Jonathan Taylor is
returning to practice after his little stints little injury from Colts. We'll see if
he plays on Sunday. I know I need it for my fantasy team.
And lastly, breaking news Team Europe over the weekend beat Team USA and the
Ryder Cup sixteen and a half to eleven and a half, which I personally
thought was a fantastic Ryder Cup mini storylines United States not playing the best golf
that they could have played. But what was that? What happened? So
there's there's a lot of speculation. I think it's in Europe, and so
the United States haven't beat Europe on their home soil in over thirty years.
And so, but you've you've felt that it might be different this year because
Europe, your team, Europe didn't have a ton of depth and the United
States was moving into this more nouned Ryder Cup team and a lot of talent,
a lot of depth with some good veterans. But it was evident early
on that Europe meant business. They came out in the morning on Friday,
won it four zero. It wasn't even close. And that continued the rest
of the day. The United States didn't win a single match, and so
they put themselves in a real tough spot come Saturday. But and I'm sure
I'm sure most of you guys have seen it, but with the Rory McElroy,
Patrick Cantley, Joe Lacava kind of bickering, Yeah, and that really
kind of stole the spotlight from how well Europe played because of Patrick Cantley and
he wasn't wearing a hat. On eighteen he rolls a forty three footer.
United States are waving their hats and Cantley's caddy actually kind of took it a
little maybe too far and was waving his hat right in front of Rory and
Roy didn't take to that, and that showed the next day and Europe went
on to kick the crap out of them. Yeah, it, but nonetheless,
I think if you're a golf fan, you enjoyed watching it because you
had Victor Hovland, John Ram and Rory McElroy quote unquote the big three of
Europe. They were dominant, and on the flip side you had Scottie Scheffler
Brooks kept Jordan's spee. Really, I don't want to say not show up,
because Scotty and Brooks played somewhat decent sometimes of the weekend, but they
just didn't show up. And that's really what it came down to, is
it looked like the United States were flat in Europe pounced on that, and
so it was a great weekend of golf. I don't play golf. I'm
horrible, so I don't do it. But it's it's it's a weird it's
not a weird, it's it's become a spotlight e because of the anger management
there is, you know last year with Sambo and then what's his name?
They jabs and books. Yeah, yeah, to me, it's fun and
thanks for great journalism, great media. I'm not sure if that's the purpose,
but it's getting people. And the thing this weekend with the spat in
the parking lot or whatever it was, Yeah, that was. That was
Rory still was a little upset and about what happened on the eighteen golf who
thought violently? Hey people are people get fired up about it? And I
think you have the now the two weeks and the investment going on it.
There's a lot of stuff outside the golf world affecting it right now, and
I think a lot of people get get pulled into those storylines. But that's
the breaking news. It was a great weekend of sports politically you mean or
whatever. Politically okay, with the investments going on, Well, you're not
a bad guy, We've done it, okay, Yeah, Jay's I thought
you were Okay, you're right, because the Bauer thing has settled, right,
Yeah, that just that just I think about an hour ago. Yeah,
so that's interesting. We'll see if he he's posted something on the internet
saying that he was not guilty and everything's been settled. Whether he plays or
pitches in the in the major leagues anymore, probably won't happen. Who knows.
I was just speculating, but apparently he was cleared or not cleared.
He they came up with an agreement, and I guess his four minutes speel
doesn't look favorable on his the victim, the alleged victim. Yeah, so
that's a it's a very tricky situation. I'm sure. I'm sure some team
will be in some need of it. Wow, that's a that's a heck
of a chance to take it if you're if the team's desperate, you know,
they desperate times call for desperate memory. Who's your who's your team?
Put back? Oh? Yeah, no, football Arizona Cardinals week. Oh
god, you just had a horrible childhood's brutal So as a as a Suns
fan, who were you bore ninety nine? So you were two years older
when they won the title. You have no remembrance of that, and that's
the last real major sports title. Well, the the the girls, the
women Mercury are fantastic and the Rattlers have won their share, but NBA Basketball,
NFL, MLB, that's been the last, even even a su and
you have so so let me ask you, because we fight this all the
time. So it was on basketball a blue blood or not blue Have you
heard this discussion between I haven't heard it, but so I don't think it's
a blue blood. I don't. I don't think it's a blue blood.
Jay thinks it is in your mind, is a blue blood? I would
say we are? How so I think I think we're a blue blood because
of you have the ninety seven championship, you have two final fours, and
it's a program where people get excited to go watch play basketball. And that's
that's that may sound like that's just every fan base, but I think also
having the McHale Center, you have Luke Olson, who's one of the most
iconic coaches, I would say in college basketball, and you have excuse me,
you have a program that puts out NBA talent and I think that helped
going When you were talking about the blue blood. Who the who's Who's who
is one who isn't. I think having you have a basketball players succeed in
the NBA is an argument to say they are have you Okay, I won't
fight you here because I need you the next fifteen minutes. But they haven't
won a title in ninety seven, they won one, they haven't been to
the final four in two thousand and one. I think it's a very good
program that doesn't qualify you to be a blue blood. I think the blue
bloods are limited to about five North Carolina, Kentucky Duke, don't uh reaching
that point? Reaching that point, I didn't. There's your five, can't
uh? And then you have the we see Alana so Indiana, So yeah,
that's that's I think Indiana and you have are very similar in oh because
the recency recency. Well, let me tell you, I think the Arizona
played Indiana in the in the in the Vegas, right. So when they
did the introductions, they did a long list of Indiana and all the accomplishments
and blah blah blah. It took about a minute. It took about ten
seconds to listen the accompliments of Arizona. That's kind of my point, and
I'm not ragging them. I'm just that's why I'm asking. Everybody has a
different opinion. I think the younger generation thinks they are, but over the
grand scheme of things, the grand scheme of things in the blue blood way,
Okay, not not even recently. You haven't seen that success, You
personally haven't with your own eyes because guess what, it hasn't happened. I
think it's tough because you your definition of a blue blood is I think spot
on. I think if we are going to use this term blue buds,
then you have to limit it to five to six. But then you're talking
about Michigan State. Where where are they talking about a lot of programs,
even Villanova, who has done a great job. Connecticut, no one's mentioned
that. But then if you go if you open it up and you go
to the ten to twelve team, I think I think they are there in
that. But that's not that's kind of like a light blue blood. It's
like it's like a North Carolina blue blood. I would a great color,
I would say, I would say I would err on the side of twelve
to fourteen. Oh yeah, that's just my opinion because you're trying to get
them to fit in. They're they're in that twelve. There's only a certain
amount of certain people that are very, very good, and then you have
the next group that are okay, they're pretty good. Okay, I'll look
out as and this this could be, this could be really a bad Harrison.
But I think it's like the it's like the NBA Hall of Fame these
days. Everybody's in. Everybody's in. It's there has to be a point.
And that's the thing. There is no criteria. So if if you
have a diehard Tucson fan, you have a basketball fan, oh yeah,
there were blue blood. If you go to Yukon, oh we just won
the national championship, were blue blood. It doesn't work that way. I
see, I see your angle, and I am slowly but surely going way.
But I had to convinced my guy here too. But for now,
I think, okay, you're gonna stick to your I'm gonna stick to it
and maybe to your twelve team blue blood if we if we win the national
championship this year, I'll give you a little of that leeway. Yeah,
you're blue will get darker, that's fair. It'll go it'll be a darker
blue. Okay, that's fair, And I think the program is fantastic.
And it doesn't mean that you're a blue blood. Yeah, I think too,
because you hasn't been bad for a stretch. We haven't had really bad
teams. No, but you haven't been great either. That's fair, and
blue blood signifies great. That's kind of my point. Okay, that's fair.
That's fair. You know, and those teams, even some of the
teams that are in the blue bloods, you know, Kansas want a recent
recent title, Duke and all those teams, but they're not blue blood all
the time. They're just blue bloods because of the history that they have.
If you have a word, have re more national championship then without questions,
Well, look at Villanova. They have a number right and there, and
they may not be invited to that bluebood party. They should be. You
can too, you can Calhoun is right, yeah, right, So you
don't say it could be seven now, could be seven, not five,
but seven. Let's take a break. We're gonna have whould I say,
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Sports six chef, Fox Sports fourteen fifty streaming live on the iHeart Radio.
Wap hey, welcome back to one of the ball herero Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve Braverire. Sammy Jays are out today. There's a couple of
things you missed. One of them was the word well we'll yeah, we'll
get that fixed a second. But your Diamondbacks are in the playoffs. Oh
yeah, to see, life just got a little bit better. We go
to Milwaukee instead of going to Philly, which is huge. I think you'd
rather go to Milwaukee into Philly. I'd rather go to Milwaukee ten times out
of ten Philly and Citizens Bank Park is one of the best atmospheres in baseball,
and their lineup is loaded Trey Turner, Bryce Harper, Castianos, even
Kyle Schwarber, and they're just and when when you have to play three games
there? So because we're the worst wild card or we're a wild card team,
you don't get a home game. It's best out of three, all
on the road. And I don't want to play two or three games in
Philly as opposed to going to Milwaukee. Who not to say they're not a
great team, but a lot less firepower. So what was the record between
them this year? We haven't played them in a while, but you played
them. We've played them early on and I don't think we struggled with them.
I know we struggled with Philly. So the Diamondbacks going to the playoffs,
it's huge. A team that lost one hundred and ten games two years
ago, was not good last year, showed signs of competency towards the end
of the season last year, and now is in the playoffs. We're really
fun. Got a bunch of young dudes led by Corbyn Carroll, a pitching
staff that, if things are right, is really really good. Zach Gallen
and Merrill Kellier two of MLB's I would say, higher end pitchers. So
it's the MLB postseason. Anything can happen, and we're in a position to
where if we can win two games against Milwaukee, will we'll go up against
the big brother in the Dodgers in the next round, and so I'm sure
that'll be interesting. We haven't beat the Dodgers in a playoff series and got
right and just keep the pool safe. Yep, you don't. No Dodgers
in the pool. No, no Dodgers in the pool. Yeah, okay,
okay, I just wanted to mention that because the Diamondbacks, congratulations to
them. They were very good early on, they were not so good in
the middle, and they kind of turned it on against the end and so
and they're and they're in. So there you go. Do you have it?
Your little childhood dreams are alive? But I really hope, I really
through the Phoenix Suns. Well, do you're good? For good for you
because they're they're gonna be okay, and they've they've been okay, they're okay.
When you were a kid, yeah, so I grew up watching Nash,
Yeah, the Matrix and Sean Marion. Yeah, that whole squad.
The seven seconds or less was what I grew up watching Steve Nash with a
broken nose for Halloween. Were you so? Yeah? He was. He
was the guy. And then we went through this little spell of not winning
a lot of bouts. Yeah. No, I didn't think the servereignt knew
what he was doing at the end. Yeah no. I I think there's
there's a lot of stuff going on in that organization, and I think we
have it right now. We have good leadership Matt Ishbia as the new owner,
James Jones yea, and we have our guy, and by guy,
I mean Devin Booker, who's been there. Did you see his quote today?
Someone asked him? I knew who asked him that? What calling us
from the republics is? Now you're not an up and comer anymore. You
hear this. You're not an up and comer anymore. This is you know,
your team blah blah blah. How do you feel about that? Is?
I think I arrived in nineteen ninety six. Yeah he did. Kay,
I did see that. Yeah, I did see that, and everybody
laughed. Yeah, that's crazy. He's only three years older than me.
Yeah, he's he's my son's age. I'm thinking, yes, son,
see, yeah, where's your career? It's uh, this is this is
the wind officially the window you have coming to Rant for two more years.
You have Bradley Belford two to three more years. So as a as a
Suns fan, this is this is the time. Obviously, last year didn't
end how we wanted it too, Hence Bookers the only player left on that
finals team that played the Bucks. But the NBA keeps getting better and that's
that's one thing where you know, hopefully we're the best at the end of
the season. Next year, and because they never won a championship. You
can. Ever, there's one thing all advice will give you before you leave
to your world here, you'll they you can never live without hope. No,
you can't. But that's gonna kill you at the same time, Well,
yeah, but I think as as someone and I'm sure you feel the
same way as someone who grew up playing watching sports. Sports tends to give
people the most hope. Yeah, and you also the tragedy of your life.
Yeah, but at the end of the day, it is a reminder
that it's not life or death. And when your team does win and your
team is great, you feel some sort of way. But when your team
is bad, hence the Arizona Cardinals this year, there's things like you said,
there's hope of maybe we get Caleb Williams and then maybe we can win.
You gotta be really miserable for that to happen. Yeah, So let's
just get a quick correction. You did say that there was one been to
two final fours. They've actually been to four, Yeah, which is not
a big deal. You probably slept to You probably weren't born netty seven what
you were born. God, I haven't been alive. I really have many
teachers older than you, which is sad to say. Uh, I see
you were two thousand and one, right and now was the last one you
were two years old? Not a blue blood. Not a blue blood I'm
putting in perspective means something, right, It does? It? Does?
I think it? Yeah, it's it's all. It's all a matter of
what you think of blue blood is it's your criteria. And that's why sports
are else are great because everybody has opinion about it. Sure, sure song
as you're in doesn't really matter. But we'll see, we'll see how it's
a very good program, no question about that. That the blockade means a
lot to a lot of people. Let's get caught up here. We have
Adam Lazarus. We had him scheduled for this time. We have a hard
time finding him right now. I knew he was busy all day today and
he said he'd do this. We'll see if you get him on the show
at some point to day. Blood of things going on with Arizona assists if
you're not part of it, you should be part of it. All your
your help goes to the Arizona basketball team and and and getting these kids some
money to play. Yeah, you know, it is what it is.
I want to go back to early on we've talked about you have a basketball
and how the transition to the Big twelve is going to benefit them, and
how the transition out of the Pack twelve into the Big twelve may even benefit
the football team in terms of strength of schedule. It'll end up being the
Big fourteen, probably does. And this is this is a McHale question.
Where does McHale rank in terms of atmospheres in that conference then in the Big
twelve? Yeah? Wow, I don't know because I haven't been too been
to Kansas Fall. Gallan's great because i've been there a few times. I
know that Houston was okay. I've been there, Uh, Texas Tech.
I haven't been there for basketball here it's crazy Baylor have I've been there at
Baylor that was okay, it was okay, but they weren't They weren't that
good at the time. I've been to a lot of the good teams,
a lot of these places. It'll be it'll be up there, top three,
maybe top two. Because I saw this thing the other day is since
really opening, mcale has been the place in the pack sure. Sure,
that's let's also remember that Tucson this is their child, this is you gays
are child. There's a bias because what else you gonna do? You're gonna
go to you a basketball games. Yeah, so that's why. It's why
why have we had such a I mean, I know the answer, But
why has it been such a struggle to get people to football games? Haven't
been good? That's why because because you only have to fit fifteen thousand into
that stadium, and you have to put fifteen thousand. How was the atmosphere
outside the Saturday? I thought it was great. I think I got a
ticket late. So so would you sit? We sat in uh oh man,
we sat in sight Row or something like east side. Yeah. Up
on the second day. Okay, how was that? It was good?
I don't mind those seats. I've noticed. There's not a real bad seat.
And when you can see things up there, you can see things.
Yeah, and I noticed a lot of open receivers for Washington, but that's
neither you get to see those things, yes you do, But it was
it was good. I think early on we got there a little bit early.
By early, I mean like thirty minutes before the game a zone as
he was packed the towels great. Yeah, but I will say it's hard.
And because it's not a Bama or US. Sure after halftime, you
do you do? There's a dip. Oh, there's a question. They
want to get somewhere. They want to get somewhere, and maybe it's what
do they want to get to? Oh man, there's plenty of places to
get to. But uh, I wish I was a kid, yet it
would it would have been different if the game is And I love day games
too, that's the thing. This is a day game place stays packed.
I don't know about that because that's that's a historic place where it's it's hey,
we look at their watch and it's half time. We gotta go.
We gottas. We gotta not a dis not a dinner reservation, but we
got a drink reservation somewhere. But the same thing can be said for a
night game. Sure, no, no, that's my point. They don't
discriminate drinking drink appointments. That's why that's why Michale stays amazing because because it's
it's mostly older people. Yeah, you know, they're there to watch the
games, and the kids stay too. Because it's two hours, right,
two hours of your time. It's inside, it's inside, you can be
crazy and that were you there for the Were you at basketball games last year?
Did you how did you feel about the vulgarity. It's hard because my
freshman, sophomore, and even junior year there it didn't seem like there was
there was there was that, there was nothing. I don't know what the
switch was that ulla using, that guy spitting, it was it was pissing
them off, and it was it was the kids do that, They just
do they do? And how'd you feel about that? I think I think
it is a one year thing. I think it will be. I think
it will I think it will change this year. We'll go back to okay,
because I think I'm running the stuff down, so I'll return to its
back. But you're not going to be able to control every college team what
they say, no question. And but historically, and even in my four
years here, I've noticed the appreciation towards like we're great basketball fans. Yeah.
I've talked with a couple of guys on the team and that they appreciate
how well they know the game and that they respect the game. They're not
gonna what what happened with UCLA. That was a disrespect towards our fans,
and then it was flipped where then some people took it in a way to
disrespect the game of basketball. I don't think it was anything. Sure,
And they're very, very loyal, very rabid, very loyal, very Uh.
Arizona's their son or daughter, and they don't mess with their son or
daughter. You know, they'll they'll protect it to the death, and they
do. And the kids just a little too over the top. But it's
not and it's not Arizona and specific. I mean they're everywhere exactly, They're
everwhere. They're actually like crazy, you know texta stack we talked to it's
crazy. Uh. And especially if you're good, Yes, especially you're good.
If you're good, yeah, and you you feel entitled at least,
Yeah, they're definitely. I think that's a great word. I think you
have a basketball student fans feel have a sense of entitlement. Sure, it's
not, it's not. It hasn't been worthy in a while. Oh that's
a tough Well, I'll say this, it hasn't been at the end of
Seawan's tenure, was it was not and you were here for that, so
right, and and and now they've regained it. But it just doesn't happen
overnight. It doesn't and and and and Tommy is kind of overnight. Two
years, three years, this is the third year. Maybe this is the
last of the overnight, but they've found some success. Don't what sense the
phrase I use, uh not humility but uh uh, it'll come to me.
Learn how to handle success, has to learn how to handle to act
like you've been there? Yeah, yeah, And I gotta I should know
this. I cause to use it all the time, the phrase addiversity but
a humility or whatever the word is. It'll come to me. But you
know what I'm saying, Yeah, I know what you mean. You have
success, you okay, be humble with it exactly. And I think and
I think that Tommy is about that, Like they want to build a program
that acts like they've been there before. And it's it's tough because in his
first couple of years he's had a great regular season success and I think the
next step for him is finding that postseason success. You don't it doesn't mean
winning a national championship. Obviously that's great, but a second weekend is the
third weekend. The third week they got to the second. It's gotta happen.
It's gotta happen this year. Hey, we'll take a break. Maybe
we're here from Adam. If not, we'll take your calls here on the
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on Fox Sports fourteen fift days. Hey, welcome back to win the Ball
here on Fox Sports fourteenth Filkie. I'm Steve. I got Jay's out of
out of town. I think it's something, and I got Sammy behind the
mic here. Now we have Adams artists from Arizona Assistant for you know,
one of your high powered meetings or something. Yeah, sorry about that.
I have a you know, con started meeting everything. Yeah, well,
you guys are kind of bringing in the dollars for Arizona assist You must have
had a busy, busy weekend partying everywhere. But we had a great event
with the there's a new group that was helping kind of launch the Red and
Blue Showcase and we were very involved in making a share with an event with
We had the VIPs as well ninety seven Club, So in honor of the
ninety seven Championship, we had VIPs there. We got to meet some of
the legendary players, have a locker room experience, and then there was a
great after party with our partner, General Bends, and it was a great
event. And that was also our family weekend, so yeah, quite the
weekend. So how many people went to the pre thing? We had close
to two hundred, maybe two hundred and fifty people who were at the VIP
event. Obviously it was a sellout of the Red Blue Showcase. And that
event though, was both for Arizona SIST members and VIPs of the Red Blue
Showcase and included a locker room for and all kinds of fun, fun swag
and getting to meet Richard Jefferson and Canning Fry and Andrea Gudala and all the
legends. Very nice. Did you know who they? Did you know them
before or no? I have met some of the players before just as a
fan myself, but Miles Simon and I have known each other a little bit.
But no, for the most part, most of those guys were new
to me as well. Yeah, okay, no, good dudes, Good
dudes. I'm sure they had a good time as well. Did they show
up at the after party? Richards was there? Richard has been a big
fan and friend of us for a while. He showed up. He had
his kids in town, so General Bens wasn't necessarily conducive to having a little
one, but he showed up for about fifteen twenty minutes, signed some autographs,
took a bunch of photos, and just brought his excitement and energy to
the event and General Bens it was great. Yeah, very nice, very
nice. So how's it going with Arizona Assists as you as everyone knows at
least who listens to the show, helps out the University of Riversona men's basketball
program. How is that going? Well? After a slow summer because you
know, basketball isn't top of mind for most people, it is ramped up
quite aggressively. So we had hundreds of scans of our QR code at the
various events that we hats sold a bunch of new memberships. Would talked about
it for a while, and we've been selling a lot of merchandise. All
the new players that we have on the team, all their jersey t shirts
are loaded on the website, and every dollar that we generate directly supports these
student athletes. So it's ramped up and been quite exciting, quite quickly here.
Do you have any clever T shirts this year? We do. We're
gonna get some new ones for our buddies, Lumarvallo, who's one of our
favorites, So we have a shirt where he's a little angelic if you will,
and it'll say Balalujah. So that's a fun one. We're working with
Kayland Boswell family. His sister Amaya is a very talented designer. She's supplied
us with a bunch of designs as well. So you're gonna see five or
six brand new Kaylan Boswell stuff coming up here very soon. And then we'll
be eating with the team next week actually all the new players to talk to
them about what they want to see on shirts and swag and whatnot. And
then also fans are always urge the email us and text us and let us
know what they'd like to see, even their own designs to be featured on
some of our merch. Very cool, very cool. I feel like Caleb
Love would be an easy one moving forward. Am I wrong? That's that's
a good one, that there's some of these guys that are protective of what
they wanted to say. Yeah, we want to have some fun with with
Caleb, and he's been great to be to be frank, we've all the
new players that is very appreciative. But they're balancing just getting used to Tucson,
being on a new team, all the work that they have to do
both on and off the court, and learning about Arizona sists. So they're
just as as as busy as we are. But they have been hugely supportable
what we're doing. Yeah, no question. I hope to have my book
on your site sometime soon. We'll talk about stuff like that. But you
must be doing really well please with what's going on, and you have a
big event coming up pretty soon. We do. We are playing golf.
We have our annual golf event as well, October twenty ninth on Friday.
It's a nice late time for on a Friday morning, ten thirty at Dove
Mountain, the golf Club at Dove Mountain, So it's going to be one
of the best golf courses in Tucson. The entire team will be there,
all the coaches will be there, and we have special guests showing up last
year with Tom Tulbert. This year, we're hoping to have somebody even bigger
and as great as Tom was we want to have some other special guests and
surprises. Every every person who registers becomes a member of Arizonassist and you also
get an autographed basketball and all kinds of cool stuff. So check it out
if you're a golfer or no one. It's live on the website now arizonassists
dot com. You can sign up for our golf tournament on October twenty nine.
Don't tell Tilbert you said there's somebody bigger than him. He'll never come
back. So okay, So you know, I just got a text.
How do people find out about what you're doing? Because one of the guys
said he didn't even know about the weekend for the Red and Blue showcases.
That what you're thinking about? Or yeah, yeah, all the things are
on Arizona system. We're allowed to share. We have a pretty active social
account if you're on Twitter or x or whatever it's called now and Instagram and
all those other ones. I mistakenly said October twenty ninth, by the way,
it's the twenty seventh. I apologize. Is our golf tournament. October
twenty seventh is a Friday that's available on our website too. And then we're
gonna have some fun events happening throughout the throughout the year that we once we've
known about them, we'll send out some information. We also can be part
of our email club. You don't have to be a member to be part
of our email club, but that let's everyone knows exactly what we're up to.
And our members get forty eight hours advance notice to book things and buy
things and being to know. So that's the best way to communicate or learned
more to be on arizonassist dot com will follow up on social more. And
it doesn't cost a whole Heck, it's one hundred bucks. Like to join,
right, that's our Yeah, our entry level membership of one hundred dollars.
It's good for the whole year. You get a free teacher, which
is at least the thirty dollars value. We have a really cool T shirt
it's our our logo with that Wildcap rip in it. If you want to
get the BCFD shirt that we made for Tommy that got really popular, that's
there, plus all kinds of clever stuff for rivalry games for holidays, the
Red House, so our merch game is pretty strong. You get a free
free shirt as a member, and you get all kinds of perks and invites
to to our events, including on court experiences, player intro experiences, and
really cool stuff like the Red and Blue Showcase. That was just one of
many things that you would get as a perk of being a member. I
apologize now if I get this totally screwed up, but aren't you involved in
the in the pickaball stuff. We are, But unfortunately, due to a
bunch of scheduling conflicts, we had to cancel the Pickaball events, so we're
really disappointed about that, but we are going to do it again. Our
partners, the Corbett Downtown, who have been just amazing partners, So definitely
go play some Pickaball and check out Corbett's Downtown on six and Step. They
are fantastic. But we had to cancel it just because of scheduling. So
we're focusing all our attention on our October twenty seventh golf event, which is
really going to be something fun and all players will be there and hanging out
all day long, so you can really get to know these guys versus just
meeting them. Oh good, because I was going to start learning how to
play now I can reserve my crash course into maybe a less a few lessons,
okay, cool, cool, Absolutely, And if you're a business or
a brand or you want to be involved in not a golfer, there's other
ways to get involved off which we support the team and still be part of
it, have some fun or just have dinner or lunch with these guys and
get to meet them because they are they're phenomenal. With sevent eight new players,
there's a great time to spend to get to know them. So you
still have spots available. Absolutely, it is selling out quicker than last year
though, so that's great for us. But if you guys want to h
the listeners want to play golf or know somebody that does, you could buy
a single to some fourthsome obviously, or just sponsor a hole and all of
that will get the access to the day and we can hand out information,
do whatever you want. We'll customize the package for you. So if anyone
they just didn't have them, visit Arizonasists dot com or they can email me
directly. So I know you have some new commercials out. I've heard of
time one or two. When are you going to put them on my show.
I'm gonna send you the MP three file right now here. Sounds good
because we'll put it up tomorrow if you do. Okay, Adam, I
appreciate your time. We'll talk to you again as soon as we get closer
to that event. We always like hearing what's going on with you, guys.
We appreciate it. Remember, I need all the dollars march memorabilia,
all our member events. All the dollars you're spending not only gets you cool
stuff, but it does go directly to health. These the student athletes.
With our NIL and especially with the move to the Big twelve, we're gonna
need it more than ever. So if you want to learn more about NIL,
learn more about Arizonasists or our event, let's go to Arizonasists dot com.
And thank you Steve always frog to support you. You guys have been
great partner, great Adam, thank you, appreciate you all right, you
have a good one. No, that's good. That was good. So
Kil just it was on assist Google that you'll find it. You'll find it,
you mean, go ahead, No, it's relatively cheap too. It's
pick a ball, right, ye? Pickball? What do I say?
I think he thought you said golf. No, no, no, when
when you were said you need to practice you Oh, I know, I
need to do both, but pickaball. I want to learn how to play
it. But now I can not want to worry about it because we're not
gonna have it. Well he the little bar that they Okay, Corbett,
we were there for our family weekend this weekend. It's fantastic. Yeah yeah,
yeah, yeah I heard. Yeah, that's where they were going to
play it. But now I'm good, cool, I can wait. You
don't have to worry, Tradler. No, it's it's easy. It's like,
but there's strategy to it. There is, there is and uh once
once you get into it, you have a hard time not Yeah, so
I played table times. I used to be very good at tabletons, Okay,
And it's different though it's because you know how that camp for it.
Yeah, but there's there's always strategies to sports. Yeah, and I have
to see what But you'll be fine if you play table times like it's there.
But it's the backhand that I'm concerned about more than four. But yeah,
yeah, no, we'll we'll we'll see you. Have you have you
played yet? Have you gone, I was there this weekend you played okay,
so yeah it was. It was, oh nice you have your family
down here, just my brother this weekend. Family was up at a wedding
actually, but so it was sorry, another wedding. I know, it's
just you and I. It is okay, okay, okay. It was
fun though it was. It wasn't your wedding. You're good exactly. Yeah,
you're not my wedding, not my wedding. But hey, hey,
thanks for doing this. Are you not in the rest of the week right?
When's it? Okay? Cool? So good? Maybe you could play
some music. You don't let the old man. It's gonna sit back,
get us on the way out, go ahead, we got it. Thanks
everybody for listening. She was not like this feeling to stay bombs love this
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