Speaker 1: We got some sports to get into, very much looking
Speaker 1: forward to that. Also, some huge news for Christina because
Speaker 1: truck nuts might soon be banned. What is she gonna do?
Speaker 1: She's the only person I've ever known who had truck
Speaker 1: nuts on her car. Graduated from Crandall High School with
Speaker 1: truck nuts hanging right there.
Speaker 2: From the car.
Speaker 1: I don't remember that part. You aren't gambling in high school.
Speaker 1: But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2: Now, let's go around.
Speaker 1: The sports KT tweets as all the sports.
Speaker 2: Ye, so there's a little gossip going around in the
Speaker 2: NBA world. Basically, yesterday the Knicks fired their head coach,
Speaker 2: Tom Thibodeau Tibbs the Tibby, and then there's a little
Speaker 2: stuff going on d LLS. The first report it that
Speaker 2: the Knicks are interested in the Mavericks Jason Kidd to
Speaker 2: be their next head coach. I guess that'd be Mark
Speaker 2: Stein over at DLLs as well.
Speaker 1: They're If Stein is getting it, it's awesome, Like it's
Speaker 1: rock solid information, especially against their how far back he
Speaker 1: goes with Kid. I'm shocked by this because, first of all,
Speaker 1: I didn't think you would fire your coach unless you
Speaker 1: knew who you were gonna replace him with, so to
Speaker 1: go ahead and fire him a guy that's gotten them
Speaker 1: further than that anyone's gotten him in the last twenty years, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: to not know who it's gonna be or else they
Speaker 1: think they can get kid or I don't. But how
Speaker 1: odd is it to say we want your coach?
Speaker 2: Like it's not that odd.
Speaker 1: That seems odd to me, Like it just doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like a common practice to say, you know what, we
Speaker 1: fired our coach. We're now going to go take your
Speaker 1: coach and you can't stop us or a contract, I know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's like that just seems odd that that would
Speaker 1: be the first report we want this team's coach, and
Speaker 1: with the Mavericks even entertained that. So here's why, presumably
Speaker 1: here's why everyone thinks this is why? Wait what? So
Speaker 1: basically here's how the whole Knicks thing came about. So
Speaker 1: the Knicks are run by a guy named Leon Rose.
Speaker 1: We've told the Leon Rose story before. The very first
Speaker 1: client Leon Rose had coming out of college, coming out
Speaker 1: of Temple was a Temple point guard named Rick Brunson.
Speaker 1: Rick Brunson had a son named Jalen Brunson, and Rick
Speaker 1: Brunson was on the staff in Minnesota under head coach
Speaker 1: Tom Thibodeau. Rick Brunson had some accusations of some sexual
Speaker 1: improprieties and so he got sent out of the league
Speaker 1: for a little while. But he was living in Dallas
Speaker 1: when Jalen was here. And remember we talked about this,
Speaker 1: he was making a lot of noise. My son's not
Speaker 1: coming back here now unless you back up the brinkstruck
Speaker 1: because he knew with Leon Rose running things in New
Speaker 1: York and Tom Thibodeau being the coach. In fact, if
Speaker 1: you remember, the Knicks got charged with tampering you guys
Speaker 1: remember now, So it's all in the family. Rick Brunson
Speaker 1: is an assistant coach for the New York Knicks.
Speaker 2: I would assume.
Speaker 1: Whoever takes over for Thibodeaux has to keep Brunson on staff,
Speaker 1: because that'd be weird to fire your best player's dad
Speaker 1: from the staff. But Rick Brunson was a package deal
Speaker 1: with Tom Thibodeau. And again, Leon Rose's very first client
Speaker 1: in the NBA before Lebron James was his client was
Speaker 1: Rick Brunson. So this is all like this, So everyone's like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't understand all this. One of the knocks on
Speaker 1: Thibodeau is that he runs players into the ground. And
Speaker 1: so I don't know, Like Jalen Brunson very much had
Speaker 1: Thibodeau's back, but I don't know if Michale Bridges did.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Karl Anthony Towns did. You know, Katie,
Speaker 1: you brought up an interesting point where you were talking
Speaker 1: about the head coach of the Stars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and right now there's.
Speaker 1: All these reports that the players are going to ownership, going, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up with this guy? He let Otter hang out
Speaker 1: to dry. I don't know that he's the coach for us. Well,
Speaker 1: you can almost draw a parallel with Thibodeaux. Karl Anthony
Speaker 1: Towns is like, how did we lose Game two with
Speaker 1: me sitting on the bench for nine minutes in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter?
Speaker 2: Right? Like?
Speaker 1: This is a tricky deal.
Speaker 2: Is Thibodeaux. He gets running out of town pretty quickly
Speaker 2: a lot of times because Dubor's got that reputation. Three
Speaker 2: four years of a spot and then he's out. He's
Speaker 2: a hard ass, you know what it is? It's four
Speaker 2: and five years with Thibodeaux and the main players like him.
Speaker 2: But the main thing is that, like Michel Bridges, I'd
Speaker 2: have to go back to March or whatever.
Speaker 1: He's like, why did I play forty four minutes in
Speaker 1: this game? I don't understand. And that happens with all
Speaker 1: the Tibbs players. They get they get ground down. So
Speaker 1: then who is the guy that put Jalen Brunson's well
Speaker 1: being ahead of the overall team in his contract year?
Speaker 1: How many times did we hear Jason kidds say my
Speaker 1: job is to get him the biggest contract he can get, right, right, right,
Speaker 1: Jay Kid and Joe and Rick Bronson knows it, okay, right,
Speaker 1: So here's what I would say. They would have to
Speaker 1: know that it would even be a possibility to have
Speaker 1: I'm sure they talk. I'm sure they talk all the time.
Speaker 1: Like I can tell you guys a story of after
Speaker 1: a mav game before Jay Kidd coached.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Man, I was standing in the back of the tunnel
Speaker 1: with Ja Kid Jamal Mosley about forty five minutes after
Speaker 1: a game, and we were I was just I wasn't there.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wasn't talking. I was listening. They were
Speaker 1: talking strategy for like half an hour. It was amazing,
Speaker 1: and I'm just sitting so what I'm saying is and
Speaker 1: to be and to be clear, like it wouldn't hurt
Speaker 1: Ja Kidd for this to be out. It was amazing
Speaker 1: for Jakid. Jay kids now like and and really like
Speaker 1: he can go. A lot of this has to do
Speaker 1: with his relationship with Dumont, A lot of it has
Speaker 1: to do with his relationship with his players, A lot
Speaker 1: of it has to do with his relationship with Nico
Speaker 1: and much how much footing do all these guys have,
Speaker 1: right Like how ensconced are they in the Mavericks' future plans?
Speaker 1: If the Mavericks are not dead set that they want
Speaker 1: Jason Kidd for the next decade or whatever, and they're like, man,
Speaker 1: we can do this with anybody. If Nico's thinking that
Speaker 1: I'd love to go PIMPA first round pick out of
Speaker 1: the Knicks, now, I'd have to go look and see
Speaker 1: what they have because they traded everything away to put
Speaker 1: this team together. But Jay Kidd may want to go
Speaker 1: coach the Knicks, or he may go to Dumont and say, man, look,
Speaker 1: I'm red hot right now. I'd love it if you
Speaker 1: guys gave me an extension. And it's it's also like,
Speaker 1: what is what do the Mavericks want moving forward? They
Speaker 1: still have an inexperienced ownership, Yeah, they do. Is Nico
Speaker 1: have firm ground to stand. I've heard a lot of
Speaker 1: people like fans go, now's the time to fire Nico
Speaker 1: start over, And I'm like, but dude, don't Ki and
Speaker 1: ad love They love them, so you can't do that.
Speaker 1: So you could do it, but I mean you might
Speaker 1: risk losing Kyree can opt out.
Speaker 2: And leave now.
Speaker 1: He's not going to He's got a knee injury. Right,
Speaker 1: But anyways, but the players love Jkid too, right, All
Speaker 1: players love ja Kid right, So anyway, it's just a
Speaker 1: fascinating situation. I think there's probably more heat there than
Speaker 1: just wild speculator.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I had somebody reach out to me on social media
Speaker 1: esterday and they were very upset about something I said
Speaker 1: about Luca and coming up in just three minutes, I'm
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