WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:00.880 And closer. 2 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:04.519 A big day in the history of Dallas Fort Worth 3 00:00:04.519 --> 00:00:06.919 as the Dallas Mavericks have the number one pick in 4 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:09.880 the NBA Draft. And it's all happening tonight right here 5 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:11.759 on ninety seven point one The Eagle, the Home of 6 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:12.640 mass Basketball. 7 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:14.839 Are coverage brought to you by k Post Company. 8 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:16.960 They did the roof at the AAC Globe Lily Field 9 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:21.199 and at and T Stadium roofing, waterproofing, solar solutions. Call 10 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:24.039 our guy, Nick Post k Post Company, Good folks, appreciate 11 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:25.879 them sponsoring this presentation. 12 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:27.239 You haven't heard Skin with us in a minute. 13 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:29.600 Look, look, guys, you can see Skin's getting his TV 14 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:30.480 makeup down there. 15 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:32.799 He is getting makeup on. Look at getting make up 16 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:35.159 right there? So difficult. 17 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:37.920 He's demanding some really hot pink lipstick. 18 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:39.840 What's so happy? 19 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:44.119 So happy down there? She's getting home made up. That 20 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:46.759 voice is Max Rogers. My son is here with us, 21 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:49.719 hanging out with us. She's on the live mic hanging 22 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:53.399 out and Christina and Kat and myself. But we're looking 23 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:55.600 at Skins getting his makeup on. He's gonna be on 24 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:59.000 the TV simulcast tonight. We'll have that same TV simual 25 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:01.039 cast right here. On ninety seven point one the Eagle. 26 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:05.000 But this is a big deal. This doesn't happen very often. 27 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:06.959 And if you think about it, for a city that 28 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:11.840 was devastated, devastated by the Luca trade, a fully self 29 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:12.879 inflicted wound. 30 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:15.519 It didn't have to happen. You didn't have to trade Luca. 31 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:17.840 They traded Luca and did. 32 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:20.799 Not get a fair return back for the trade, and 33 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:21.920 then didn't even have. 34 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:25.120 To wait a year. The very next. 35 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:28.959 Offseason, they somehow lucked out and got the number one 36 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:31.319 pick in the NBA draft. And not in a draft 37 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:33.959 where it doesn't matter. Sometimes you get the number one 38 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:35.319 pick and there's like, oh, it could be an even 39 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:38.359 number of these five guys. No, they got the number 40 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:41.200 one pick. When a guy's coming out that is heralded 41 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:45.959 as an absolute phenom, sports god, a guy who can 42 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.000 impact you, know, your your your franchise for the next 43 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:53.280 fifteen seasons. A guy who's an absolute cold blooded killer 44 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:56.599 who will dunk on your soul and plays both ways, 45 00:01:56.680 --> 00:02:00.239 plays defense, plays offense. Like he's a sophomore and high 46 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:02.120 school and they're like, he's gonna he's the number one 47 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:04.599 prospect of the country. Then he's a junior he's still 48 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:06.480 the number one. Then he's a senior, still the number one. 49 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:08.800 Then he goes to college plays here he's still the 50 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.840 number one prospect on the planet. And the Mavericks lucked 51 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:15.280 into that on the heels of shooting themselves in the 52 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:17.039 Foot and Luca trade. 53 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:20.120 You can't make this stuff up. It's so unreal. 54 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:23.159 The basketball gods love us so much. I guess they 55 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:24.280 just felt bad for us. 56 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:28.280 Right, they saw the fans just like, you know that 57 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.039 that feeling. But like for it to be this year too, 58 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:33.479 Like it makes a difference because, uh, I don't know. 59 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:36.960 I don't think the casual, average Joe or the average 60 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:41.599 Kevin me would know number one pick in last year's drafting. 61 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:43.319 Oh that is it. 62 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:47.159 He was just some guy from France, Max Zachary. 63 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:54.039 I believe, yeah, Max would know, you know, Like that's 64 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:56.919 like I followed the league fairly closely. 65 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.120 But it was it was a whatever draft, right, Like, yeah, we. 66 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.439 Knew winby a couple of years ago. That's a name. 67 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:04.759 We knew Anthony Edwards a few years ago, but like 68 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:08.719 this is this is different and I just don't I 69 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:10.639 don't think a lot of people have seen him play. 70 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:13.479 I mean, college people are watching college basketball. They used 71 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:16.520 to like, you really love sports, you have, but he casual. 72 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:18.159 People haven't seen this dude play. 73 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:19.319 But he's a guy. 74 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:21.919 And dude, since Skin's not here and my son Max 75 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:24.240 Rodgers here, give us a scanning report Max on Cooper 76 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:25.080 Flag as a player. 77 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:28.120 Cooper Flag is, I mean, it's one of those guys 78 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:30.919 who you just watching the game coming in you don't 79 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:33.719 really know who's good, who's bad, who's the star player? 80 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:36.400 You will know that he's the star player on a 81 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:39.319 team that happened to do Duke is full of five stars, 82 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:41.599 are full of big time players. He could have win, Like, oh, 83 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:43.879 this guy's a great recruit. This guy's a great recruit. 84 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:47.199 Cooper Flag is just a dominating player. That's the best 85 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:47.800 way to put it. 86 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:49.159 Just he just dominates. 87 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:50.919 I think you're better than Skin. 88 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:55.960 I mean, let's know, yeah, Skin is nothing if not replaceable. 89 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.199 I think we're but in time. 90 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:04.520 So we're at the American Airline Center again, thank you, 91 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:07.879 k Post and fans are now filing in. Doors open 92 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:10.240 a few minutes ago, and there's gonna be a lot 93 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:10.719 of people here. 94 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:12.199 The thinking there anywhere. 95 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:15.000 Between eight and ten thousand MAP fans coming down here 96 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:17.240 today to be to be here to watch all of 97 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:21.439 this happen. Are piling they are piling in, and you know, 98 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:24.680 I think it's gonna be a cathartic healing situation. The 99 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:28.360 minute Cooper Flag's name is announced, this crowd is going 100 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:31.079 to lose their minds. And I think it's gonna go 101 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:34.319 a long way to helping putting the trade behind for 102 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:35.079 you know, for a. 103 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:35.879 Lot of fans. 104 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:38.639 I'm already we don't know the schedule for next year, right, 105 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.120 do we know their first game yet? Okay, because that's 106 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:43.360 all I can think about already. I'm like, when's the 107 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:45.319 first MAVs game? When will we get to see him 108 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:47.279 play with everyone? 109 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:48.319 That's great? 110 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.360 This is great, all right there, it's a real party. 111 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:52.040 This is great. 112 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:52.959 It's a party now there. 113 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.720 They're making announcements here and letting fans know what's gonna 114 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:58.399 be going on. And we're telling you the fans are 115 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:00.600 set up on one side of the state and they're 116 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:03.839 looking at a huge stage at center court and it's 117 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:07.000 our boys skin right there with Followell and Ted Emrick 118 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:08.839 and they're going to be holding down your coverage night 119 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:11.480 and laying him down there? Man, why is he standing 120 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:15.920 he's standing up, he's kind of putting his pants right 121 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:16.839 in Followell's face. 122 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:21.120 Surely appropriate and as we're used to him violating. 123 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:24.519 HR regulations, he's kind of doing a Captain Morgan like 124 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:27.519 lifting one leg up on follow Well there, But man, 125 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:30.360 this is such a special day. So what's a special 126 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:32.600 night for Dallas Fort worth it? You know, we were 127 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:35.920 talking about how rare this is. Mark McGuire nineteen eighty one, 128 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:37.680 Troy Iigman nineteen eighty nine. 129 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:38.759 Maybe you know. 130 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:41.480 Page buckets more recently for the Dallas Wings, But in 131 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:44.519 my history of being a fan of local sports, I mean, 132 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:47.839 this has just really happened twice prior to page Buckets, 133 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:50.959 and you know each time it delivered. My Mark McGuire 134 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:53.639 was a phenomenal player for the Mavericks. Yeah, led the 135 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:55.680 league in scoring, I believe, or flirted with it many 136 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:57.920 many years. And then Trougman brought three Super Bowls to 137 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:01.439 the Cowboys. But man, listening to Ted Emert get us 138 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:03.120 excited about that got me. 139 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:07.439 Felt, uh yeah, And we're ten feet away from CBS 140 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:10.839 Sports is Avery Johnson, former Dallas Mavericks coach, played in 141 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:13.120 the league for a long time for the Spurs, was 142 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:15.319 the head coach at Alabama for a while, and he 143 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:17.480 just kind of from where we're at up here on 144 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:20.040 this dock in section one oh one, looking down and 145 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:23.279 he goes, this is pretty cool, man, I'm glad they're 146 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:26.079 doing that. And he seems like, yeah, pumped about this. 147 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:28.240 That was kind of neat. Well we lived it, but like, 148 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:29.920 you know, this is pretty excitement. 149 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:30.879 That's pretty cool. 150 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:31.399 Yeah. 151 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:34.720 And you know they've had small draft parties before when 152 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:36.240 you got the twelve pick or something. 153 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:38.120 Dude, you know, just you know. 154 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:40.600 You know, when they got Derek Lively. I was at 155 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:43.560 the Echo Lounge when that happened, and it was like, Okay, 156 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.720 this is great, kind of celebrated, but let me nothing 157 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:49.360 like this. Non't mean nothing like this. 158 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:52.639 This is uh, this is like having Zion or Anthony 159 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:54.959 Davis as your draft pick, or some guy that the 160 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.279 whole world says this is for sure the number one 161 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:00.639 player and then everyone else is behind him. The MAVs 162 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:01.839 are getting that guy. 163 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:05.639 So there's a big article that dropped yesterday from ESPN's 164 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:09.120 Baxter Holmes is his name, and it's kind of about 165 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.759 the family and what they've been going through through all 166 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:15.120 this and what happened on the night of the draft lottery, 167 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.480 because we'll podcast all the segments later. 168 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:18.040 You can get him on the. 169 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:20.079 iHeart app But earlier were talking about where we all 170 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:22.120 were when we found out that the Maverick are getting 171 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:26.040 the number one pick. Well, they were at the draft lottery, 172 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:29.360 and before they went, they got in their hotel room, 173 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:32.959 his mom, his dad, and his twin brother, Ace. 174 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:37.680 And Ace Flag. Great name, Oh are you a spy? 175 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:38.160 Good name? 176 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:42.759 I'm Ace Flag, And they talked about, Okay, let's talk 177 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:45.040 about the three teams that is probably gonna be because 178 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.399 that's what the probability said, it's gonna be the Washington Wizards, 179 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:50.800 the Utah Jazz are the Charlotte Hornets, And they talked 180 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:54.319 about all the pros. Washington is real close to Maine. 181 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:58.519 Charlotte East Coast, real close to Maine. Wouldn't be a 182 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.000 hard time to you could at your time in Washingt 183 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:01.879 dinner Charlotte. 184 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:04.079 It talked about the Jazz. 185 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:07.000 They apparently were big Boston Celtics fans growing up, so 186 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:09.560 they knew Danny Ainge, right, So there there's the But 187 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.560 they also talked about the negatives and the negatives of 188 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:17.079 each of those situations. Is those are losers not It's 189 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:19.399 not hell like they said, but those are teams who 190 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:22.720 have lost for a long time. And Cooper Flagg has 191 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:28.519 never lost. He only wins. So to go here, they 192 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:31.040 had never thought it one time. They never thought it 193 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:33.720 could happen, and for him to end up here, they 194 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:35.360 were like, oh my god. 195 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:38.399 And they were as happy as we were because. 196 00:08:38.639 --> 00:08:42.519 They knew Kyrie Irving plays here, Anthony Davis plays here. 197 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:45.679 I guarantee you who knows Derek Lively, Derek two. 198 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:52.000 Years ago from Dukes Klay Thompson, forget Thompson, and it's 199 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:52.879 it's it's. 200 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:55.440 Look, it's there's so many wounds here because of the 201 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:58.240 Luca trade. But you know, Skin was talking about that 202 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:01.039 Houston game where everybody was healthy for half before Anythony 203 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:02.440 Davis got hurt and. 204 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:03.799 The MAVs looked good. 205 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:06.080 I mean, you couldn't understand them getting that much older 206 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:09.039 and taking another injury prone player. And we were still 207 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:11.039 broken hearted over Luca, but you could see the way 208 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:13.639 they were playing and contesting every shot, playing with his 209 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:16.399 defense first mentality, and you were like, okay, okay, we're 210 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:19.240 gonna be pretty good. Obviously Ad got hurt then and 211 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:23.080 it screwed everything up. But you can understand, you know 212 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.720 what they're trying to do, why they're trying to build 213 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:28.639 the team that way. They're gonna be really, really good. 214 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:30.759 And typically the team that ends up with one of 215 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:33.000 the top picks is gonna be a team that is 216 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:37.360 losing every single night. And if Kyrie hadn't have gotten hurt, 217 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:39.919 the Mavericks would have been in the playoffs. They would 218 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.399 have been a playoff team with Kyrie. And so I 219 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:45.039 understand people are like a conspiracy, but for this to 220 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:47.679 be a conspiracy, Kyrie Irving would have had to fake 221 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:50.120 a knee injury because if he hadn't gotten hurt, they 222 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:51.559 would have been in the playoffs, they wouldn't have had 223 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:52.960 a chance to have the number one pick. 224 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:55.080 It goes back to this thing I asked Skin said 225 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:58.039 it before, is like I need someone who really believes 226 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:02.480 this to walk me through these specific mechanisms in place 227 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:07.759 to rig it, Like tell me specifically how this happens. 228 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:11.360 It's not just a ping pong ball out of out 229 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:13.759 of the thing like people think it is. There's combinations 230 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:15.919 to it and things like that, Like it's a way 231 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:19.000 deeper thing. And every time you ask someone like, who 232 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:21.759 does think it's a conspiracy, And you ask them that question, 233 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:25.000 they don't have an answer, and that tells you it's 234 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:26.240 not a conspiracy. 235 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:28.960 It's just not The map's got lucky, dude. 236 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:33.919 This Nikola Harrison's ass was saved, Like, just be really 237 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:34.639 clear about that. 238 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:35.639 It was saved. 239 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:39.039 Yeah, And I'm sure they all know that. And it's 240 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:41.639 fine because it's okay. Like you just never know what's 241 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:44.559 gonna happen in life. And we got lucky. And we'd 242 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:47.720 never gotten lucky though in the NBA draft lottery, the 243 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:50.879 Dennis Smith junior year years. 244 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:51.799 And the nineties, and they're so bad. 245 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:54.639 We've never gotten lucky in the draft lottery, So maybe 246 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:57.159 it was just our time. I know that I'm walking 247 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:00.960 on sunshine. 248 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:02.039 I know, but right now we are walking on such 249 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:02.440 a ye. 250 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:05.320 That's the song that's playing here at the American Airline 251 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.360 Center Inflatable. 252 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:08.679 Champ is here inflatable MAVs man. 253 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:09.639 Look at that. 254 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:13.159 There's seventy four cameramen right now pointing cameras at skin. 255 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:15.159 Look at all the cameraman over there. 256 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:15.600 Amazing. 257 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:17.600 It looks like we're going to war down there. Those 258 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:19.159 are like a bunch of cannon does. 259 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:21.279 Look like a firing line looking at those guys. 260 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:24.559 Yeah, man, this is gonna be a good place to 261 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:26.559 hang out tonight. You'll be able to hear all the 262 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:30.799 coverage the MAVs Draft Party twenty five. Again our our presentation, 263 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:32.240 brought to you by k Post Company. 264 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:33.879 I have to do it make a complaint about the 265 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:37.440 Dallas Mavericks organization though. Yeah. Get you a look out there, Ben, 266 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:42.399 there's new MAVs man. Okay, man, this is just not 267 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:45.960 the MAVs man that we all grow to no one loves, 268 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:47.279 you know. 269 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:49.559 It's he's now. 270 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:51.720 Blue and you know, a MAVs man is a walking 271 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:52.720 human basketball. 272 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:56.360 It's lucky in the DNA test did they. 273 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:58.559 Probably scare too many kids and that's why they had 274 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:00.799 to change it to a more friendly Marvel version. 275 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:03.279 Yeah all right, Oh, the new Marvel is supposed to 276 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:07.000 be I heard its nuts there. 277 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:09.879 I can't wait to go see that. All right. 278 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:12.240 Kat's taking shots at mascots. 279 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:13.840 And I'm here for it. I can't argue with you 280 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:14.120 on that. 281 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:16.639 That's it's a weak spot of our city. You know, 282 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:18.879 we don't have a single mascot in the Mascot Hall 283 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:19.279 of Fame. 284 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:21.440 It's really discouraging. 285 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:24.559 Look down at the court, there's Chuck Cooperstein, the voice 286 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:26.320 of Dallas Mavericks basketball down there. 287 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:28.600 Oh, Ben, you're gonna like this. 288 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:34.399 So in this article when they got Cooper Flag, a 289 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:38.639 Mavericks team source said, we surprisingly renewed seventy five to 290 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:40.279 eighty percent of our season tickets. 291 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:44.320 They said that in the quote surprisingly. 292 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:46.279 Dude, he's yeah, he's saving so much. 293 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.759 The quote said, we had a lot of work to 294 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.720 do in earning back the confidence and fandom. We sold 295 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:55.759 eight million in new season tickets into three days after 296 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:56.240 the lottery. 297 00:12:56.279 --> 00:12:56.519 Wow. 298 00:12:57.159 --> 00:13:01.919 Eight million. Wow. That is so lucky. Wow. 299 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:04.000 And it's and it's gonna happen even more and more 300 00:13:04.039 --> 00:13:04.399 and more. 301 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:08.360 Yeah, I mean, excitement is back from a team that 302 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:10.240 was again shot themselves in. 303 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:11.159 The foot with the trade. 304 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:14.440 It's it's the one of the most miraculous bailouts ever. 305 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:16.960 It makes no sense. Is this real life? 306 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:19.600 Didn't Skin say he like cried when you. 307 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:23.720 Fo and and and I get it and uh he 308 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:24.759 did say that, Christine. 309 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.559 And he also cries during and after sex. 310 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.440 Right immediately after. That's just he's proud. He tells everyone 311 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:33.360 that it's a signature move. 312 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:36.320 But no, he he. You know, I know this from 313 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:37.080 being around Skin. 314 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:40.679 Skin works for the Dallas Mavericks, being around him, other 315 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.080 people that work in the Mavericks, whether they're in sales 316 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:48.919 and marketing, promotions or anybody affility with the organization wore 317 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:53.039 that trade. Yeah, Like, every single person who had any 318 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:56.240 job for the Mavericks wore that Luca trade. Everywhere they 319 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:59.480 went in the world. They got pooped on by everyone going, 320 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:01.720 what are you y' all thinking? Yeah, and it's wasn't 321 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:04.600 their decision, but they had to wear it. And it 322 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:08.080 was just this plague of depression and sadness that was 323 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:09.240 following everybody. 324 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:11.440 And Skin and I were doing a MAVs podcast. 325 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:13.000 Yeah you are too dolling. 326 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.240 So we're going up to the MAVs studio Studio forty one. 327 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:19.639 You me, Skinned going up there doing MAVs content. It 328 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:21.919 was hard to do because we're trying to put a 329 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:25.279 good face on everything, but we're all devastated. And so 330 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:27.279 for the weight of all that to be warned by 331 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:30.240 all these employees, the minute you got the number one pick, 332 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:31.639 you lucked into it. 333 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:34.440 Suddenly that weight was lifted and hope was restored. 334 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:37.360 Yeah, I know, like selfishly to make it about me. 335 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:39.600 I don't like the man I looked at the comment 336 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:41.200 section too much. But like when we were doing that 337 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:45.320 show Roundball Talk on maps Doar forty one, you come 338 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:47.000 up with something that you think is funny and you 339 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:49.399 think might be good, and then you just go to 340 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:52.080 look at the comments are all fire ego and you're like, 341 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:54.399 oh my god, no one's even watching what we're doing. 342 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:57.080 They're just saying, Matt I mean things and I'm not. 343 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:58.759 The one who had to post the video, like they're 344 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:00.960 a whole team of people well you know, And it 345 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:03.399 was like that was really discouraging to think you're doing 346 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:05.360 something that's like, oh, I don't think you were watching it. 347 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:09.120 They're just checking in to say bad things about the team. Yeah, 348 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:11.519 because they were mad, and it's okay to be mad. 349 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:14.360 It's absolutely okay to be mad, but that's still take 350 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:14.759 it too far. 351 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:17.159 That's another reason I'm excited for this pick. That's why 352 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:18.919 I brought it back up because I totally forgot he 353 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:21.399 had said that, like, we can be excited for our 354 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:25.440 friends who work for this organization again because now they 355 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:27.480 can be excited to go back to work and actually 356 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:29.919 be excited to do, you know, talk about him? 357 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:33.000 Would you say that American Airlines is the Mavericks' biggest 358 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:34.000 sponsorship deal? 359 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:36.440 What do you think I would assume? So, I mean 360 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:38.840 because the American Airlines Center. But it's kind of a 361 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:41.399 deal for both the Stars and the Mavericks, right. 362 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:44.600 So yeah, in that article, the mav source who said 363 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:47.080 all that stuff that sus tickets said, we have also 364 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:51.080 done two additional new sponsor deals, won the second largest. 365 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:51.440 In our history. 366 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:56.080 Wow, just by getting lucky on lottery night, right, because 367 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:59.159 now it's dude, it helps us as the Eagle. I mean, 368 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:04.240 we're the whole man basketball. You trade Luca and everybody's hurt, 369 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:06.919 and you can't even you barely have seven active players, 370 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:10.399 and you're just like, oh my god, this is miserable. 371 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:14.639 Please just lose every game. And they're still fighting, scrapping, 372 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:17.720 clawing and somehow winning games. It's like that would have 373 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:19.679 been a death march if you have the number twelve 374 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:20.720 pick in this draft. 375 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:23.120 But you don't. You have the number one pick. 376 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:26.519 So the you know, the radio ratings for the MAVs 377 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:29.399 games are going to be significantly higher, the interest. 378 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:31.080 In them as a team, and again. 379 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:33.159 It's the number one pick and a year where the 380 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:35.919 number one pick matters coming to a contending team that 381 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:38.279 probably shouldn't even have been in the lottery to begin with. 382 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:41.799 Yeah, let me say to you, if you're like a listener, 383 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:44.960 heard the show today and you're like, I need my rock. 384 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:47.919 Christina will have rock music for you at nine o'clock tonight. 385 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:51.080 But the draft simulcast that's gonna happen right here and 386 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:55.480 on KFAA. I would stay tuned to that because you know, 387 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:58.559 the Maverks could not only after the draft Cooper Flag 388 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:01.480 couldn't getting them and try to get someone in the 389 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:02.840 back half of the first round. 390 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:04.519 So you know, watch that. 391 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:07.000 I mean, the draft is now broken up into two nights, 392 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:09.640 around one to night, Round two tomorrow night, and it's 393 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:12.599 always fun to hear skinning those guys and Ted ever 394 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:14.799 can follow though, and when all that's going down and 395 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:17.640 there's action happening on Twitter and things like that, and 396 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.640 find out that was gonna make a trade and maybe 397 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:22.359 get another player to night too, and you're gonna be like, 398 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:24.039 you're gonna want another that you would listening. 399 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:24.680 To that line, right. 400 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:26.880 There's been some talk that they were trade back into 401 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:27.400