Speaker 1: Unfortunately, devastating news came down today. It was a parent
Speaker 1: last night, Kyrie irving out for the remainder of the year,
Speaker 1: torn acl. The struggle continues for MAVs fans. It's just
Speaker 1: been a tough, tough road. Hard to believe. They were
Speaker 1: in the finals in June and this thing has just
Speaker 1: fallen in so many ways. But the Mavericks were they
Speaker 1: made this move. They traded Luca for ad and the
Speaker 1: idea was, it's a shorter window, but we feel better
Speaker 1: about contending in that window. And the idea was this
Speaker 1: year they'd be a contender, and next year they'd be
Speaker 1: a contender, and maybe even the next year after that.
Speaker 1: But it was a short, concise window, and now all
Speaker 1: of that is in question. As their leader, Kyrie is
Speaker 1: probably looking at nine to twelve months of rehab, and
Speaker 1: in an emotional show of just courage and badassery and toughness,
Speaker 1: he got out there and he shot the free throws
Speaker 1: even though he had a torn ACL and could put
Speaker 1: any weight on that leg. Very Kobe esque, you know,
Speaker 1: the torn achilles getting out there shooting the free throws.
Speaker 2: I love Kyrie, We all love Kyrie. This is heartbreaking
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 1: Personally, and it's just more terrible news for a fan
Speaker 1: base that probably feels a little bit.
Speaker 2: Like a speed bag right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great description, Katie. You're in the building
Speaker 3: last night as a fan. How much cheering did you do?
Speaker 4: There was not a ton, although the kai Jones experience
Speaker 4: was fun. Yes, as every time he would score, I
Speaker 4: would I would yell out, goat life. You can look
Speaker 4: it up if you want. If not, no, that's not
Speaker 4: a big deal. A long time ago, he had a
Speaker 4: little social media freak out.
Speaker 3: He had a social media meltdown, but he has received
Speaker 3: counseling since then.
Speaker 2: Good, he's good. He's young.
Speaker 1: He's twenty four, dude, he's young. He is as you
Speaker 1: said last night, he's springy.
Speaker 2: He could be a nice piece moving forward.
Speaker 3: Now they don't really have him, but for eleven more games.
Speaker 3: Oh no, they're good. Oh so they showcase you's gonna
Speaker 3: be here for at least eleven of the remaining twenty.
Speaker 2: I have to have some players.
Speaker 3: Yeah so, but he is a two way player and
Speaker 3: he's pro rated because.
Speaker 2: Of when they signed him. When he's twenty one. He
Speaker 2: had some good tweets.
Speaker 4: It's basically said, I'm the best there ever was, and
Speaker 4: he called out Lebron and then he would hashtag his
Speaker 4: tweets with goat life. Yeah, so when he was catching
Speaker 4: lobs and throwing him down, I was yelling out goat life.
Speaker 3: And if I remember correctly, he asked the Hornage to
Speaker 3: trade him, so they waved him, which yeah, I remember,
Speaker 3: and that is against NBA rules to publicly ask for
Speaker 3: a trade on social media. And I believe he was
Speaker 3: fined one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which he probably
Speaker 3: didn't have at the time.
Speaker 2: Oh no, he was. He was a mid first round pick,
Speaker 2: so he.
Speaker 3: But hey man, he was young and is apparently on
Speaker 3: the rebound, as it were.
Speaker 1: When Kyrie first came to the Mavericks, everybody said, there's
Speaker 1: no way this is going to work. I can't believe this.
Speaker 1: He even called himself bad goods. He said, that's how
Speaker 1: he was perceived. I didn't know how it was going
Speaker 1: to work out. You know, people are like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Kyrie's going to tank your franchise. He was the exact
Speaker 1: opposite of that. He immediately acquiesced to Lucas, said, this
Speaker 1: is your team. I could be the robin in the
Speaker 1: sidecar and man, it worked beautifully. And then this year
Speaker 1: he's taken on so much with Luca being traded, with
Speaker 1: all the injuries, playing so many minutes, and you know again,
Speaker 1: he came into last night averaging over thirty in his
Speaker 1: last seven games. He's so skillful, and he really is
Speaker 1: a beautiful human being. He's just an amazing person. And
Speaker 1: just listening to him speak is always enjoyable for me.
Speaker 1: And you can tell the way that he's revered throughout
Speaker 1: the league by his teammates and by all of his peers.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is a basketball god in all
Speaker 1: these different ways, and here he was stepping up for
Speaker 1: his squad and I just hate it for him personally,
Speaker 1: but I also hate it for the MAVs fan base,
Speaker 1: who's really beat up right now. It's there, there's nothing
Speaker 1: for them to cling on to right now. And then
Speaker 1: even if you look at it like I mean, so,
Speaker 1: I know where a lot of people's minds go as
Speaker 1: they go, Okay, Ken, we get in the lottery and
Speaker 1: get lucky there. I mean, just looking at it, I
Speaker 1: think it's probably just as likely that Portland catches you
Speaker 1: as Phoenix. They've got so much dysfunction going on. I
Speaker 1: don't know that they want to be on the.
Speaker 3: Floor together, which we may see more of how that
Speaker 3: plays out. Hell Phoenix might be sitting there going, oh
Speaker 3: my god, did you see what happened to the Mavericks?
Speaker 3: Now is our way back in, Let's get it together,
Speaker 3: and maybe that galvanizes them and they go on some
Speaker 3: long run. But it's just it's really hard for the
Speaker 3: Mavericks fan base to have something to latch onto because
Speaker 3: as the Lakers descend to the two seed, the Mavericks
Speaker 3: just keep getting one bit of bad news after another.
Speaker 3: And so the day that the story comes out, I
Speaker 3: mean it was inevitable that the Mavericks were going to
Speaker 3: raise ticket prices that didn't have anything to do with
Speaker 3: anything other than it's a new ownership group and they're
Speaker 3: putting money into the arena and they're making those tickets
Speaker 3: a premium. And the day that that new story broke,
Speaker 3: even more bad news comes your way. And I was
Speaker 3: just looking up on the TV and I saw, you know,
Speaker 3: whenever that. So there's reporters that are just plugged in. Guys, right,
Speaker 3: they don't like break down basketball. They talk to agents
Speaker 3: and they talked to front office people and they break news.
Speaker 3: Scham's is one of those guys, and you know, you
Speaker 3: tend to read between the lines on that stuff. And
Speaker 3: for him to make the comment that Anthony Davis and
Speaker 3: his people are going to have to have hard conversations
Speaker 3: with the Mavericks, that is code for Anthony Davis is
Speaker 3: about to ask out of you.
Speaker 2: This is what Seams is saying. I'm not saying this.
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis is about to ask out And you know,
Speaker 3: I'm sure you know you guys have seen lots of commentary.
Speaker 3: It's like, well, you got to trade aDNA, you got
Speaker 3: to tear the thing down. There's all this stuff. And
Speaker 3: in the middle of all that stuff, the Mavericks just
Speaker 3: got on a plane to fly to Milwaukee. Like those guys,
Speaker 3: they have to go play twenty more games regardless of
Speaker 3: who's there. Klay Thompson just signed his first of probably
Speaker 3: his final deal. You know as an NBA player, he's
Speaker 3: a Hall of Fame player. He signed here for a
Speaker 3: title run and there couldn't be anywhere further away from
Speaker 3: that then right now.
Speaker 1: No, and if if Kyrie's out for twelve months, you know,
Speaker 1: nine to twelve months is the is the recovery period.
Speaker 1: You know, he may not be back before even the
Speaker 1: trade deadline next year. And you know this thing with
Speaker 1: Shams if Ad is saying if a d if you
Speaker 1: believe that, is like, okay, They're gonna have some hard conversations.
Speaker 1: He may not want to miss next year because if
Speaker 1: Kyrie's not able to play all of the next year,
Speaker 1: as Ad, you're looking at, I'm at the end of
Speaker 1: my run here, how do I maximize the final years
Speaker 1: of my career? I want to go contend. Well without Kyrie,
Speaker 1: You're not going to contend, presumably, so he may say,
Speaker 1: trade me to a contender, and then that expedites everything
Speaker 1: with the Mavericks and they start looking at, okay, are
Speaker 1: we just looking for young players and bigs? Are we
Speaker 1: completely rebuilding? You know what happens to some of these
Speaker 1: other guys. You know, these other guys have one year
Speaker 1: left and are winning pieces because they were brought here
Speaker 1: to be a winning piece around Luca. Other teams would
Speaker 1: have interest in those guys. Who do they go into
Speaker 1: a complete sell off at that point. It's just it's
Speaker 1: an amazing turn of events to have them in this situation,
Speaker 1: just months removed from being in the finals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is unfathomable. And you know, I'm not this
Speaker 3: idea that this is some sort of karma. You know,
Speaker 3: if you're gonna go down that route, that road, then
Speaker 3: realize it's Kyrie's career that's being punished.
Speaker 2: Like that's that's a really weird in my opinion. What
Speaker 2: is that I'm not seeing that.
Speaker 3: I've been texted with it constantly. What is it like,
Speaker 3: Look what Luca did, Look what Nico did to everybody?
Speaker 3: So this is karma against the franchise. And it's like,
Speaker 3: I don't go to those places.
Speaker 4: I mean, you could you had to insert a little
Speaker 4: bit of reality into it. Maybe you could say Kyrie's
Speaker 4: had to carry a heavier load for the last six weeks,
Speaker 4: which we've talked.
Speaker 2: About that on the on the actual game, but that
Speaker 2: was a.
Speaker 1: Freak injury bumping knees with Big Boy to begin with
Speaker 1: his right knee, which caused him to land awkwardly on
Speaker 1: his left.
Speaker 3: What the conversation, and I again I'm uneducated about this.
Speaker 3: What the conversation becomes is when your body is worn down,
Speaker 3: could it have withstood that in a way? And again,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of people that are on this side
Speaker 3: of well, all this wear and tear kills a.
Speaker 4: Lot of the time though on those conversations. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: was a big thing with Kobe when that happened a
Speaker 4: long time ago. Is he was playing virtually every minute
Speaker 4: of all these games, you know. I mean, that's what
Speaker 4: happened to KD in the finals right when he was
Speaker 4: with Golden State. So yeah, man, it's just, uh, it
Speaker 4: had felt the way that they were playing post All
Speaker 4: Star Break was you know, showed you how difficult it
Speaker 4: was going to be, like everything's got to go their way,
Speaker 4: they got to make shots and all this stuff, and
Speaker 4: so it was already starting to feel heavy, and then
Speaker 4: that happened, and it just got so heavy. It was overwhelming.
Speaker 3: Like I was looking at the season as all right,
Speaker 3: they're gonna have they might get all the way up
Speaker 3: to seven. They're gonna be in the play in and
Speaker 3: then they're gonna get everybody back, and then they're gonna
Speaker 3: be the proverbial team that nobody wants to face. And
Speaker 3: now it's like, man, if they can hang on to
Speaker 3: a play in spot, they're still not gonna have the
Speaker 3: guns to move forward.
Speaker 1: No, I they have twenty games left. I mean as
Speaker 1: a fan, it would be great if they lost all twenty.
Speaker 1: I know that's hard on the players are gonna go win,
Speaker 1: They're gonna go bust their ass. You know, these guys,
Speaker 1: Jason Kidd has them playing hard. But you know who
Speaker 1: who knows. But if you just if you could fast
Speaker 1: forward to the draft and you suddenly had a top
Speaker 1: seven or eight pick, maybe you know, it's certainly better,
Speaker 1: especially if you are looking at all, right, are we
Speaker 1: gonna retool the team?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, if you're looking at it that way,
Speaker 3: any asset would be would be good for you. I
Speaker 3: was just gonna pull up a of the standings just
Speaker 3: to see how far you have to fall to get
Speaker 3: an actual pick that means something to you, right, And
Speaker 3: really that's so hard to say. It's so hard to say. Like,
Speaker 3: I'll give you an example. Brooklyn is twenty one and
Speaker 3: thirty nine. They're in eleventh place in the East. You
Speaker 3: currently have eleven games on Brooklyn and the overall standings. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so if you lose all twenty of your games and
Speaker 3: one of those games is against Brooklyn, by the way,
Speaker 3: then and Brooklyn goes five hundred, they'll pass you.
Speaker 1: Right, You're probably looking at the best you could possibly
Speaker 1: get as a tenth pick, and you might end up
Speaker 1: being like twelve or fourteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, San Antonio is seven games behind you with twenty
Speaker 3: left right, and they are in thirteenth place.
Speaker 2: There's still New Orleans and Utah behind them.
Speaker 1: And then I think you have your pick after next season,
Speaker 1: and then after that, I don't think you have a
Speaker 1: lot of Your twenty seven pick goes to Brooklyn, so
Speaker 1: you've got twenty six, so you'll have this year and
Speaker 1: next year's picks. Yeah, if you are in a full
Speaker 1: on rebuild, but.
Speaker 3: You could be in a position to where like you
Speaker 3: take this twenty five pick and some players to get
Speaker 3: a really good player that's a veteran player to stem
Speaker 3: the tide, and those two guys in a D hold
Speaker 3: it down until Kyrie comes back, and then you make
Speaker 3: one last run with the K the I'm just saying
Speaker 3: KD because he's being out there's going to go.
Speaker 1: If they were healthy, I know that's a huge if,
Speaker 1: But if they were healthy, I'd like them as much
Speaker 1: as anyone in the West.
Speaker 3: Sure we saw it for a half yeah, and not
Speaker 3: even fully healthy, but.
Speaker 2: We when you watch them play with the heavy days
Speaker 2: for a half, You're like, oh, okay, do you know
Speaker 2: what that did?
Speaker 3: Now that we're at this point in time, it just
Speaker 3: made it worse for the fans, right, for them to
Speaker 3: see a glimpse of that and then never get it right,
Speaker 3: that's just even more painful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has been a shocking six week turn of events.
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Speaker 1: All right, So last night before I went to bed,
Speaker 1: you know, we all have friends and maybe it's you guys,
Speaker 1: but we all have friends who are really good on
Speaker 1: their weather apps. Maybe they're golfers or whatever, but they
Speaker 1: have the best weather apps and they always have a
Speaker 1: good handle on the weather situation. So we have a
Speaker 1: group of we have some people like that in my
Speaker 1: group and never sent it out group texts, And it
Speaker 1: was looking like all right, man, around three or four
Speaker 1: or five in the morning's past, you know this morning,
Speaker 1: that's when it's going to be potentially really bad for us.
Speaker 1: And I know in my home, it's hard to get
Speaker 1: my wife serious about tornado warnings because she's from Oklahoma
Speaker 1: and she's lived through so many of them that she
Speaker 1: just she thinks it's like fake weather for ratings, like
Speaker 1: let's just talk about tornadoes because the ratings.
Speaker 3: Will skyrocket like warnings. Though she doesn't even pay attention
Speaker 3: to warning.
Speaker 1: Well, like the alarms could be going off and she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: they have to if like winds are a certain amount there,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean, doesn't mean there's a tornado above our house.
Speaker 1: And there was that one time I kind of filmed
Speaker 1: one that was very near my house. I was but
Speaker 1: so I woke up in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: The storm woke me up, and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that is loud. And I was like, cat, cat, you know,
Speaker 1: I this may you know. I'm seeing some text messages
Speaker 1: our friends are like in their bathrooms or in their hallways.
Speaker 1: They're making the moves they need to protect themselves to
Speaker 1: their families. She's like, it's fine, goes back to sleep.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, what do I do? Do I save
Speaker 1: myself and my kids? I say, let it crack, right,
Speaker 1: But ultimately I just fell back asleep.
Speaker 2: She was giving the behavior of someone who doesn't want
Speaker 2: to be saved. That's right, thank you, that's and.
Speaker 3: That's what a lot of Christians believe, that they don't
Speaker 3: want to be saved. Did did either of you guys
Speaker 3: get woken up by bad weather?
Speaker 6: I was woken up by our alarm going off. I
Speaker 6: guess alarm, Yeah, I guess because the power went out
Speaker 6: for a split second.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I was a little freaked out because I was the
Speaker 6: only one awake. It was like five am, and that
Speaker 6: alarm's going.
Speaker 2: Off, and now when Troy goes to bed close to it.
Speaker 6: And so neither of them woke up. Neither of my
Speaker 6: roommates woke up to this alarm. It was just me
Speaker 6: and it was so freaking loud. But yeah, I was
Speaker 6: kind of scared. I was like, what if someone actually
Speaker 6: did break in? But Hendrix would have done something anyway.
Speaker 2: Horrible storm is always the best time to break in,
Speaker 2: so right.
Speaker 6: So yeah, once I kind of realized no, no, no, no,
Speaker 6: there's a storm. It went off because the lights went out.
Speaker 6: That's all I dealt with. But there was a tree
Speaker 6: that went down across the street from me, a pretty
Speaker 6: big tree.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got an update at five ten and all
Speaker 4: the damage through DFW, and it is a lot.
Speaker 2: Did you get damaged? I was good. I was in
Speaker 2: the clear. Woke up with the siren.
Speaker 4: As you know, it was just going off because of
Speaker 4: straight line winds that are above fifty mile per hour
Speaker 4: or whatever it is. But yeah, I got lucky this time.
Speaker 4: You don't have to replace offense.
Speaker 3: Coming up next, we'll do a Gene Hackman update and
Speaker 3: I'll tell you the fund that I had in my
Speaker 3: house at five in the morning.
Speaker 2: We'll do the next