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And we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney
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Uh let it this hour, Vick
will be along with the high Coup and

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he will provide the spirituality that we
desperately need. What do you look at

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at? What do you look at
at? Happened over there? I just

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want to say, there was an
injury. Okay, someone suffered an injury.

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There was an injury. Everybody's okay, we need to call Jacob I

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mean, win the world. Yeah, no, I think we're okay.

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But there just was a minor injury
in the radio booth. I did not

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suffer it, but someone did and
basically hobbled out. That's all I can

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say. Did they go down?
They were close? They they were close

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to going down. Yeah, they
were close. All right? Now capologists

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for Bleacher NBA insider front of the
show, Eric Pinkus joins us, Eric,

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how are you today doing well?
Thanks for having me? All right,

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Eric, you did such a great
job of writing this. Do the

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Lakers have money? Are the Lakers
cheap? Break it down? Well,

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it's a common narrative, right,
Like that's what people want to say.

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Like if you look at the ownership
of the Lakers and look at the Bus

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family. This is their main thing. That is how they've earned their money.

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And can they compete in terms of
wealth with Stee Bomber. No,

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of course not. But like hate
to say, but like twenty eight other

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teams, their ownership can't compete with
the Sea Bomber and straight up wealth right

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like the guys who are the wealthiest
guys in the world. Mark Cuban gets

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lapped by Bomber a bunch of times. But you know, the NBA has

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a salary cap and the NBA also
has a TV deal, a broadcast deal

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that's about to get signed off on
that's going to triple the income. So

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the Lakers have the operating income.
They're one of the biggest brands in the

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world. They don't need to rely
on the Bus can just put money,

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and that's just not how the NBA
is designed. So yes, there are

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elements where the Lakers have a brand. They rely on their brand. And

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the offer they made to Hurley then
early was a good offer. It would

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have made him a top five to
six paid coach in the league. But

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it wasn't a great offer. It
wasn't the kind of offer that was like

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for ad when they got AD.
They gave everything they could to get AD.

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They gave the Pelicans an offer that
was going to happen no matter what

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it happened. They want a title
out of it. Whether the Lakers overpaid

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or not, that was not the
Lakers being cheap. That was the Lakers

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going after what they wanted. And
it doesn't feel like they did that here,

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and it doesn't feel like they've done
it. When it comes to building

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out an infrastructure. I think they're
a little behind. I think they have

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the means. I don't think they've
invested all of those means where they need

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to. Yeah, I guess that
was my question. Because the salary cap,

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like you said, that is what
it is is it's about to go

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up. The players are getting the
share of the money and the revenues,

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but when it comes to coaches,
that becomes an individual franchise decision of what

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they're going to pay. Correct.
So, I mean, if they wanted

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to, they could have gone up. But they're making it. You're saying

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that they have enough, They're generating
enough revenue to pay whoever they want to

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pay as much money as they as
anybody else. Sure, and like the

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Clippers have Ballmer their infrastructure is huge
compared to most of the teams in the

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NBA. They have there was a
point before Michael Linger left for the Wizards

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that they had two three candidates who
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Of course, the late Jerry westwork
for them as well, So like they

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have this incredible brain trust, They
have a huge staff, everything that you

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could need, and yet they haven't
won the title, and so like just

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spending in and of itself isn't the
solution. They've been paying in the two

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hundred million range in payroll. The
Lakers are one of the top ten teams,

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one of the top five seven teams
or so the last however many years

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in payroll, So they have been
paying on players. And if you go

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back to Doctor Buss, the legendary
late owner of the team, his philosophy

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was really pay the players, and
he didn't pay his staff as much as

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maybe Jerry West wanted, and that
might have contributed to Jerry West leaving when

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he did. But when Doctor Buss
saw that Shaq and Kobe couldn't get over

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the hump, he went and paid
Phil Jackson. He paid the market rate,

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or he paid higher than the market
rate. He made sure that Phil

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Jackson was comfortable and they got it
done, they won the titles, etc.

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Etc. So I just think the
Lakers are at that point where,

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hey, either you invest in a
Dan Hurley to help build out your program

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post Lebron. You give him a
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Okay, Lebron's got two three years
left. Now you have somebody who is

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going to be the basketball visionary for
your team. You're going to build a

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team around his vision. He's going
to be the face of the franchise post

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Lebron until you get that next star. And they didn't give him enough.

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So now look, they may pivot
give someone else a great deal. Maybe

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it's JJ Reddick, maybe it's Brego, Maybe they go after Jay Wright.

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But it's an unknown right now.
And at this point, Laker fans are

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certainly concerned, concerned, and a
little perplexes to what happened. Yeah,

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I mean, bottom line, you
nailed it. Yeah, they'll pay the

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players, but the infrastructure isn't that
strong, and ultimately that I think comes

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back to bite you at times.
I mean, Hurley could have had a

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conversation like, all right, what
are you gonna pay me? Well,

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that's not enough. Who knows what
they said they pays assistance. Do they

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pay as well as the Clippers?
I don't know. I don't know.

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Well, I mean, the Clippers
pay probably better than anybody. So again,

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if you have the wealthiest owner in
the league, there is no cap

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as we said, on what you
spend on your front office. But the

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Lakes don't really have like an in
depth or really an existing pro personnel department.

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So when I go to games,
I go to whatever, Crypto,

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whatever, Staples, I call it
Staples still, but they go I go

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to Crypto, and you see people
from all kinds of teams scouting pro personnel.

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And we're not talking about scouting for
like advanced scouting, where they're on

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the coaching staff and they're trying to
prepare for the next time they play them.

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You ad people whose job it is
is to just go to games all

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throughout the league, So not just
in LA, but in every arena.

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There are people who go and scout
and they're looking at pro players, and

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the Lakers don't really do that.
That's just not where they've invested their money.

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So they could point out, hey, we just want a title.

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A few years ago we don't need
that. I disagree, but again,

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there is no one way to do
this thing, and I do think they're

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a little behind in certain areas,
but again their track record, does they

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have a brand, They do win
titles, and it's been a few years.

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Boston's probably about to eclipse them,
and if they want to get back

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on that track, I do think
it would be smart to kind of catch

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up in the areas that they're behind. Is it a you think it's a

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outside of Phil Jackson, who you
mentioned, Is it just a mentality that

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they have over there, because it
is still in the family that we'll pay

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the players, but we're not going
to invest our money into coaching or into

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infrastructure, whether it be scouting,
whether it be staff, whether it be

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anything that. But that's just a
mentality that's been passed down through generation.

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Now that denis running it, you
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But like they looked at Toron Lou
and this is before hiring Frank Vogel,

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and Lou wanted a five year deal, which is pretty much what everyone's

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getting. But they didn't want to
give out a five year deal. Now

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you could say that's because of money, or you could say it's like they

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weren't ready to make that kind of
commitment. And I do feel at times

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they're a little afraid of certain commitments
because things they've struggled to find a coach.

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Maybe he wasn't the right guy.
But you look at the Suns and

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they're paying Frank Vogel now for four
years not to coach, right Like,

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they're like, okay, we're going
to hire Frank Vogel. We'll give him

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five years. They didn't like what
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him. They're going to pay him
four more years. And they're fine with

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that because financially, if they have
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we need a little bit more,
you know, put little funds into the

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chest so that we can pay two
three coaches at a time, and so

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be it. And I don't think
that's the Lakers' way. And you could

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say, certainly people will tell me
on Twitter that they're cheap and that's why,

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and maybe that's the case. I
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motivation, or is it just that
they're picky and they do things the way

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they do things, And they did
get Vogel Vogel did a great job.

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They want a title, and then
they let him go and you went with

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Darvin. But you know, the
coaching job for the Lakers, they don't

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have a great track record of longevity. I mean, if you last three

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years with the Lakers. Shoot,
the last person lasted three years with the

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Lakers was Phil Jackson in his second
stint. So it's not necessarily a job

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you look at if you're a coach
and say, oh, I want the

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Lakers job at the end of Lebron's
career. Now, maybe they win a

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title, maybe Lebron is stays young
forever. But you know, you could

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see like, Okay, there's maybe
not this infrastructure. Maybe they're not going

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to make the same commitment I'm getting
Lebron at the end. They fire coaches

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left and right. You know,
you can see why it's a job where

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if you're Dan Hurley, I'll come
and he's probably backtrack and now saying you

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know whatever, whatever. But like
if they offered a job enough money there,

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then he's coming and his wife is
coming and it is happy to be

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here. And they make the move
from Connecticut, LA, which is a

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very different different city, different state, different part of the world, but

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I think they'd adapt at the right
price. I just don't think the Lakers

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were willing to do that. That's
fine, but who are you going to

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get now? And is it going
to be someone who Yeah, you didn't

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get lou last time you got Mogul, you had a tie. It'll fine,

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go ahead, go ahead and get
somebody, get another title. But

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you know, execute that, and
I think that's what the fans want.

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They want they want the team to
win understandably. We just have to wait

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and see what they choose in the
next couple of weeks. Eric Pakis,

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cap Biologists, Bleacher Report, NBA
Insider with US. Okay, Lakers,

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now what deals can they make and
what kind of money do they need to

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move around with players to do them? So there are two key decisions that

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are coming. And what's good is
what we'll have these decisions all worked out

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by less than a month from now. This is all going to be figured

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out around the draft, which is
the twenty sixth and twenty seventh. Free

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agency starts on July first, So
around June thirtieth, July second at the

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latest July fifth or sixth or seventh, we'll know everything. So Lebron needs

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to opt in or opt out.
Either way he'll be back. If he's

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back at about fifty ish million dollars, and you're already paying a d a

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ton of money, So that you
can see that the Lakers right up the

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bat are invested. They're not team
like Detroit or whatever that has a zillion

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dollars to spend, or Orlando.
But they also have another key decision,

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which is D'Angelo Russell. And Russell
has almost nineteen million dollars in an option.

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So I think that's really the hinge
point for what happens. Either he

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opts in and they either keep him
and he's maybe a coach brings a different

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result, or they trade him and
they could trade him with some other players

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you have contracts, maybe Vanderbilt,
maybe Rui. I don't think they want

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to move Austin Leaves. I think
they're happy with Austin. They probably don't

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even want to move Ruie. But
maybe you know, find a few players,

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Christian Wood, whatever, and find
players that fit a little bit better

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defensively and improve the team. Make
sure they're shooting, but also defense.

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But if D'Angelo leaves, or if
he opts out and leaves, then they

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have a little more flexibility, but
it's going to be difficult to replace it.

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Maybe they have thirteen million dollars to
spend because they what's called the mid

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level exception, the non taxpayers,
So they would have about thirteen million if

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D'Angelo left, So it's kind of
either the Angelo opts in and they keep

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him or trade him, and they
really don't have much left to spend after

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that, maybe five million dollars or
he leaves and they have about thirteen and

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you could get a good player,
but it's it's there's not a lot of

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great free agents. It's not like
you're going to get a great player at

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thirteen million dollars. Maybe do,
but there's just not a lot out there

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in free agency. So when does
Eric, When does the new agreement happen?

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Once it does happen, when does
the new salary cap kick in which

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you said is going to go up
dramatically? When would that kick? Yeah,

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it's twenty five. But also they
put in something called cap smoothing,

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which is basically in twenty sixteen,
if you remember, we had that was

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the last TV deal and things went
nuts, and that's what enabled the Warriors

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to sign KD. And it was
never the intention of the NBA to let

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teams be able to sign like that
kind of star power like they want it

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spread out. And so what the
NBA and the MVPA, which represents the

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players, they agree to a ten
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the players still get their share.
It comes to them in a different way.

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So the players are still getting their
money, but there's a limit on

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the growth of the cap. So
it is going to go up this year,

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not much, about a little long
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moderate growth this year starting in July
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the next year the expectation is ten
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have a CBA for seven years.
We're in year one, so another six

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years. I guess year two would
still be small, but every other year

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five the next five years should be
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and it'll help. But I mean
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going to start to climb because the
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share of that, a one thirtieth
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that, but that's rudimentary, you
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whatever they're getting now is going to
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with the new TV deal, not
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and NBC. So Turner will be
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you know, I'm I'm a Turner
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So you know, I support you
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stuff. I really hope that.
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that Warner Brothers Discovery is still in
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of first refusal type things. It's
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know, I I would love for
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and do our part. I certainly, you know, root for that.

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But yeah, NBC. As long
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Rock as a theme song, I
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course. I mean, you know, come on, I mean that's what

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that there was only one man.
Victor Brick with the daily haikup at two

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and Bick at afternoon. He wants
the guy who wrote the book. I'm

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Fred Rogan. You know I do
vic he read the book, he knows

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the book. He doesn't buy the
book. Rodney Pete VTB. Yeah,

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yeah, he reads the book to
young Oliver Kevin fish Shall come on now,

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that's right. Musically, he's our
book of love, love, love,

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love love. Roddie Fossil shaking his
groove thing with King Flavor. Yeah,

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you know, I'm with Ned Colletti. When the Dodgers lose, you

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go huh? That was that an
interesting take? I thought it was really

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interesting, very very fascinating, But
obviously it's true. My qualms with the

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game last night. First off,
why are you pitching to Corey Seeger with

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a base open? Okay? I
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With the Texas Rangel lineup? Pitt
to Garcia, Let Garcia beat you.

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Let a del Garcia beat you?
What m hm? And Buella's amigo

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took him very deep. But for
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I mean a lot of machismo flowing
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there's got to see you hitting two
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In that Texas range. Not so
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if you got a bass open,
I mean it's basic, basic hardball,

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no base open. The best hitter
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walk them. Yeah that that You
never questioned the send, say Dave Roberts,

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I don't, right, So what
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am questioning Andy Pye has as well
last night. I mean, head stop

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Andy ignoring the greatest third base coach
in the game. Do you know evil

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head down goes to a stop sign. You nailed at the plate in the

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final play of the game, and
you Dave Roberts said afterwards, Look,

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he was making he was making a
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He saw the bobble and took it
on himself and saw the bobble in

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center field. It's like I can
score and made an aggressive play. Look,

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they had to get it had to
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But but yeah, I thought.
I also think Vic that Walker Buhler

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is making his way back right,
and it's June. We're gonna run away

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with the division. I'm gonna let
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let him have that moment against against
their best hitter, against his buddy,

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Corey Seeger, because if it goes
the other way, there's nothing but confidence

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in Walker Buhler's back. It doesn't
he hits the home run, Walker Buler's

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got still got work to do.
But I let Walker Buhler have that moment

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in June. Now, if this
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wouldn't play, you know, Texas
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this is September, are you trying
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a critical moment like that? Yeah, I'm with you, but I'm letting

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Walker Buley try to go strike him
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still June. You know, Walker
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a couple of years. But if
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so frustrated and really exasperated that he's
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yet. And I love that about
Bulah. I mean, he has a

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warrior attitude on the mount and you're
right, that's that's why he pitched to

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his you know, his good friend
Siegs in that situation. He wanted to

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challenge him. Unfortunately, you challenge
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Siegs, and you make a mistake
because Bueller did on the pitch, SIGs

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is going to take it deep,
and he did. But five five solid

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endings for Beulah. You know,
I'm happy for the you know, for

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the rest of the rest of the
performance. Only two words and we move

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on with Buelah. And he's gonna
be fine. He's gonna be a love

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walker's attitude. He's fierce man.
He is a fierce dude. How about

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Kevin b Shield. You like his
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strike count, made an error at
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at third base, So I call
it solid debut for Bgo. No told

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you a critical acquisition. Critical,
it's gonna help. Not necessary. Critical,

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not necessary? Critical man, not
necessary. Andrew Friedman, our president

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Data Baseball ops. He's filling out
the edges. You're trying to make the

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team stronger, especially with Max still
at real bleak. Well, we'll get

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Yes, come, let's bring it
on home, Roddy b fed Rogan Vic

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the brick Tacobs. Come on,
baby, Hey, Vic, what do

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you think of that squatty potty?
You know me, I'm strictly Toto when

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I go toilets. I'm going Toto, the great Japanese toilet. Are you

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guys similar with Toto? Yes?
The best and then not a sponsor,

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but I love them. I loved
I've been going Toto for years. Never

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really made a difference to me,
Vic, Are you kidding me? Fred?

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Please? There's there's another another Planet's
special about the total toilet there,

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Victor, Oh, just a construction. I know what's talking about. Here

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is the one that cleans but esquirts
a little water if your butt right,

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Vic. It has so many different
enhancements. It's unbelievable. How many enhancements

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can the toilet? All I need
is a flush lever, Vic, come

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on, let's go. Wow.
Well, you can keep it rudimentary,

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you can keep it fund of the
metalimentary. I don't have a chain.

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Vic. I'm telling it, Toto
is steps above the leagues above the normal

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toilet for five granded toilet. It's
not that expensive to o t O Toto.

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I'm not talking to Wizard of Oz's
dog. You know what I'm saying.

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Well, everybody has to have something
that means something to them. Vic,

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Listen, you believe in certain products
for d don't you. Throughout your

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life. Everyone's got a favorite product, you know, in our lives which

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is a go to and for me
it's total toilets. And I totally recommend

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them. They got your seal of
approval absolutely, Fred, and I recommend

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Dodger Stadium tonight you have amno bobblehead
night, Yoshi. He's not pitching.

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His start got pushed back. Grove
gets the ball from the sensee Dave Roberts

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Morongo Casino, Dodgers on deck at
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Right here, am five to seven
the LA sports and fellas. I

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know you had Eric Pinker sign with
sensational information, but let's face it,

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JJ Reddick serious sit down this weekend
he had. There has no leverage,

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Reddick. He harbors no resentment when
the Lakers were wooing and schmoozing Hurley.

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So this should be an easy negotiation
if Reddick gets by the first phase of

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the serious sit down with Jeanie and
Polenka this weekend. Given everything that's been

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reported, Vic, doesn't it seem
like they've talked to him twenty times already?

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It does. It seems like it's
been saturated with Reddick. But it

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was more of a preliminary get to
know me interview. This is more serious

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now that you know Hurley and his
wife Andrea. And Andrea apparently was really

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upset that her husband was going to
pull them into the West Coast. She

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says, our life is so perfect. Why why, why all this crap

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that seems to be the newest of
the newest emotions coming from the East Coast.

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That Andrea, Hurley's wife, was
really upset with the whole with the

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whole process of him uprooting and going
to LA So she got a wish and

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I think she was, really,
as I always said, a very prominent

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piece of this negotiation. Maybe thirty
million dollars that have made her happier to

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move to the West coast, thirty
million more, maybe not fred But again,

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Reddick is no leverage. It's going
to be an easy, easy negotiation

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with Reddick no leverage. What he
can leverage, what he has the leverage.

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He's the podcast. You gotta give
me, you gotta give me.

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I want the exact same thing as
Hurley got. He'll get that. Then

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I'm out because there'll be another job
around the corner for digit. His name

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is out there already. The Laker
gig is still obviously great. Yeah,

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still you have the tradition. Obviously
the mystique has been taking a serious beating,

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you know, mystique, schmustique,
they're saying now. But still it's

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a glorious job. But JJ is
not gonna get the same deal as Hurley

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and Riddick will take it. He
hasn't coached, you know, amend in

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the association. He'll take the gig. There's scrambling aboum JJ. I don't

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take it as they give me money, give me something, the same deal

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as Hurly. I don't think it's
on the table. I don't believe that's

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on the table. I don't need
it. Then I don't need it.

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There'll be another job, and you're
right, there will be another job.

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Yeah, a lot of people believe
in the Laker job, not even a

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great job at least right now,
we'll leave it more pressure because they hated

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Celtics on the verge of their eighteenth
banner. Yeah, I mean there's the

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blueprint. Can you believe it?
I hate to say this, but they

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are so deep. I mean it's
not just you know Tatum and Brown and

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Puzingis. You know, Derek White
is very tough. They got Hawford,

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their bench produced who was Sam Houser
nine points for Sam house Less. Xavier

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Tillman was large. That's Dookie Howser's
son on the verge of a sweep.

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Yeah, they're deep. The Celtics
are very deep. But I said,

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go Mavericks, go suit up Novitzky
if you would ever shake it up.

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You guys interested in the US Open
with Tiger Woods, I know one thing

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Tiger needs desperately a high coup.
Yes, he's nine shots back after a

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four to over seventy four in North
Carolina, nine back of UCLA's Patrick Cantley.

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Who are the five under sixty five? Those greens Man are wacky?

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Over in North Carolina, Colin Morrikawa
hit a bunker shot that landed on the

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green, ended up in Chapel Hill
somewhere. So Tiger's gonna hustle tomorrow to

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make the cut. But this high
coup is about hardball Dodgers tonight. Remember

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seven is first pitch right here.
I am five to seven. The other

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sports. This is from cor Vanderhovel, Fred you all right, they're not

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whole man, Yes, uh,
this high coup for you on this Thursday,

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June the thirteenth, from cor Vanderhovel, hot day, listening to the

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ball game on AM five seven the
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That is that's not even remotely close. It's totally no, it's not no,

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it's not core. No, it's
not core. All right, Ronnie,

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thank you, great work, Kevin
appreciated as always, our best of

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baby Oh and Rodney will wrap up
the week tomorrow. Y