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Speaker 4: Welcome in Happy Monday, Coffee and Company, Fueled by Thornton's
Speaker 4: here on Sports Talk seven ninety feels good saying that
Speaker 4: only only nine more times will I be saying that
Speaker 4: to start a show, which is kind of crazy to say.
Speaker 4: But that's, uh, that's where we are. Because next week,
Speaker 4: a week from today, is the holiday.
Speaker 3: Right, that's like is that?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: Okay, that's that seems off. It's you know, it seems
Speaker 4: like it's early. I don't know why, but uh yeah,
Speaker 4: so we'll have a holiday next Monday.
Speaker 6: But uh, like it's been a while since we've had
Speaker 6: a holiday. A day off, yeah, a company day.
Speaker 4: Off, yep, long weekend and man, doesn't it just feel
Speaker 4: like that's the that's the weekend that gets the summer started.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 4: I would imagine I've never been a pool owner, but
Speaker 4: if you have a pool, maybe you already have it
Speaker 4: up and run and you have it open, but I
Speaker 4: feel like you always want to target to have it.
Speaker 3: Open by by Memorial Day weekend, and it's.
Speaker 5: Usually the where the parties happen.
Speaker 4: And I mean it's the unofficial start to the summer.
Speaker 4: I know, technically they'll tell us that summer starts on
Speaker 4: a specific date and it has.
Speaker 5: Some record to thee.
Speaker 4: Exactly, and it has and it has since the beginning
Speaker 4: of time. But uh no, I uh, I'll tell you
Speaker 4: what I'm I'm excited and cannot wait to get the
Speaker 4: summer started. And I'm excited for the these next two weeks.
Speaker 4: So for those who missed it, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: spend nearly as much time on it today as I
Speaker 4: did last Friday. But maybe people weren't listening on Friday.
Speaker 4: Maybe somebody listens only on Mondays. I don't know your schedule.
Speaker 4: You know it is what it is. But starting June second,
Speaker 4: I will I will be moving to a different station
Speaker 4: within our family here of iHeart Louisville. I'll be moving
Speaker 4: to News Radio eight forty whas stepping in to to
Speaker 4: host Kentucky and His Morning News as Tony Cruz is
Speaker 4: set to retire. I'll be joining Scott Fitzgerald, John Alden,
Speaker 4: John Shannon, that great crew. That's that's been in place
Speaker 4: for quite some time now. So again when I mentioned
Speaker 4: there's only this many shows left and we're really gonna
Speaker 4: make the most of the time left, that's here. That
Speaker 4: is what I'm referring to. And you know, if you
Speaker 4: missed the show Friday, you can go back and listen
Speaker 4: to the podcast. Each hour will start with me kind
Speaker 4: of sharing that news, and it's not super repetitive, but
Speaker 4: you know that is. That is what I'm referring to.
Speaker 4: So to keep people from saying, you know, what the
Speaker 4: hell is he talking about? That, that's in fact what
Speaker 4: it is. So in all seriousness, I am looking forward
Speaker 4: to whatever the hell happens in these next two weeks,
Speaker 4: because you know, I always try to my best every
Speaker 4: day to to you know, have a fun show and
Speaker 4: keep you guys listening and hopefully however much time you're
Speaker 4: able to give us you you walk away thinking, you
Speaker 4: know what, Nick and Austin weren't so bad. I'm a
Speaker 4: I'm a tune in tomorrow as well. I mean, I
Speaker 4: hope that's the way, uh the experience works out for you.
Speaker 4: But we're gonna have some fun. Like I don't really
Speaker 4: have any big plans as far as how how we finish,
Speaker 4: but uh, you know, the goal is always to make
Speaker 4: the most of it and uh have some fun. And
Speaker 4: I do have next week a couple of things I
Speaker 4: want to try to make sure I do as it'll be,
Speaker 4: you know, the last week. But uh, yeah, that's uh,
Speaker 4: that's the news that if you didn't hear Friday, that's
Speaker 4: that's what it is. So back to you know what
Speaker 4: we typically do here talk sports. Actually, let me let
Speaker 4: me back up just a second. I'll tell you what
Speaker 4: I Uh, I'd be foolish not to mention what has
Speaker 4: happened in our state. And I've throughout the last I
Speaker 4: don't know, half year or so. You know, I've made reference.
Speaker 4: And it's not as if I'm saying it in a
Speaker 4: joking way, but you know you've heard me say, Man,
Speaker 4: Mother Nature's not been too kind to us when it
Speaker 4: comes to this state of Kentucky, the city of Louisville specifically,
Speaker 4: meaning because that's where we live. Obviously that's the majority
Speaker 4: of our audience is in the Kentucky and area. But man,
Speaker 4: it really is the entire state of Kentucky that has
Speaker 4: just had absolute tragic weather. I mean, we knew that
Speaker 4: the storms were coming in on Friday, we knew that
Speaker 4: they were severe, and I mean, I don't think you
Speaker 4: ever think to yourself, well, I wonder what the total
Speaker 4: is going to be as far as the you know,
Speaker 4: those who end up you know, those who end up
Speaker 4: passing away losing their life. I mean, that's a that's
Speaker 4: an awful thing to ever like think about before it happens,
Speaker 4: because who.
Speaker 3: Would do that, right?
Speaker 4: But that's that's in fact what has taken place. I
Speaker 4: mean we've had I believe a total now of I
Speaker 4: think nineteen killed in Kentucky with the tornado. They're still
Speaker 4: searching for survivors. The footage of the area that was hit,
Speaker 4: specifically in Laurel County, I mean, I kind of feel
Speaker 4: like it's something i've never I've never seen before, and
Speaker 4: I'm sure there are other storms that have had results
Speaker 4: that are similar or maybe worse as far as just
Speaker 4: the visual and I guess really that's just up to
Speaker 4: you to determine on your own end. But the area,
Speaker 4: the neighborhood that has you know, I don't know how
Speaker 4: many houses, but I mean it's not just as if
Speaker 4: you can tell a storm came through and did some damage.
Speaker 4: It's completely wiped out. I mean Saturday morning seeing I
Speaker 4: guess the first drone footage that went viral, I mean
Speaker 4: it was, I mean, it it'll almost you know, it's
Speaker 4: crushing and then you know, I mean I knew this,
Speaker 4: this is this is something you probably don't think about.
Speaker 4: But then when you hear people hear from people who
Speaker 4: have been able to actually see it up close, they'll
Speaker 4: tell you, not surprisingly, that it's actually worse than you
Speaker 4: would imagine.
Speaker 3: And I mean I get it.
Speaker 4: I mean I've not ever seen destruction quite like that
Speaker 4: from a tornado and to see what it's done to,
Speaker 4: you know, a house that a family has called their
Speaker 4: home for however many years, and now it's just completely demolished,
Speaker 4: and some people are are now dead because of this,
Speaker 4: and they're still trying to track down survivors. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's just it's an absolutely tragic situation that you know,
Speaker 4: it'll be remembered for a long time. And when you
Speaker 4: consider the flooding that's taken place, the severe winter that
Speaker 4: we had, I mean, it's just been it's been a
Speaker 4: rough go. And you also, in times like this, you
Speaker 4: are reminded of something that we probably you know, need
Speaker 4: to be reminded of more often than we are, and
Speaker 4: that is that there are really really good people that
Speaker 4: just want to help, and the amount of folks that
Speaker 4: are just showing up to try to do whatever they
Speaker 4: can to help people. You know, obviously, I'm sure a
Speaker 4: lot of money has already been raised to go to
Speaker 4: those who are gonna certainly need it, but also just
Speaker 4: people showing up like, hey, what can I do to help?
Speaker 4: And I thought it was really good of the KSR
Speaker 4: crew this morning to to be on site for their
Speaker 4: show right near where you know, it was most devastating,
Speaker 4: and have local folks that are that are you know,
Speaker 4: part of that community, government officials and whatnot that are
Speaker 4: that are letting you know how you can help. And
Speaker 4: you know, I think some people just want to show
Speaker 4: up and you know, their heart's in the right place.
Speaker 4: They really want to in a big way to help. However,
Speaker 4: you know, you just don't know, like maybe it's a
Speaker 4: little overwhelming of people to just show up. So again,
Speaker 4: I mean, I would continue if you want to help,
Speaker 4: there's certain ways you can you can learn as to
Speaker 4: what would be the best way to to help, because again,
Speaker 4: it probably changes, right like they may run into in
Speaker 4: you know, a few days that maybe something that they
Speaker 4: didn't they didn't necessarily you know, need at that time
Speaker 4: right now, Maybe they're going to need it in a
Speaker 4: few days. But have you seen Austin some the some
Speaker 4: of the footage of just how devastating it is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's it feels gross comparing like other storms and what
Speaker 4: it's done. But I think it's also kind of human nature,
Speaker 4: like the neighborhood specifically, and I think it's bigger than
Speaker 4: just your standard neighborhood. But where it really seemed to
Speaker 4: do its most damage. I mean it it's it's not
Speaker 4: just wow, it really damaged. I mean it completely wiped
Speaker 4: out so many people's homes.
Speaker 6: And stuff that has just like been thrown onto cars
Speaker 6: I've seen and just like.
Speaker 5: It feels, I wouldn't say.
Speaker 6: I don't know, maybe it does feel a little bit
Speaker 6: unsettling just because a lot had a lot of destruction
Speaker 6: has happened to the state and just this year, and
Speaker 6: that's something that I feel like we haven't seen on
Speaker 6: a regular basis, and it's it's just been really ramped
Speaker 6: up this year. And it's I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 6: For the longest time, I just thought that we were
Speaker 6: immune to it. Right, we haven't had a tornado hit
Speaker 6: Kentucky and forever. I remember there was that big one
Speaker 6: in eastern Kentucky years ago, but like there's been a
Speaker 6: few of them this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And I don't know.
Speaker 4: I I don't know if this is I don't think
Speaker 4: this is like inhumane or anything like that. But it's
Speaker 4: when I look at some of the pictures and against
Speaker 4: some of the video footage, you know, my mind does
Speaker 4: go to, well, if you're in that home, there's no
Speaker 4: way you survived, and that makes me feel like again,
Speaker 4: like I'm like, that's a sick and twisted way to
Speaker 4: to to look at it. But I'm sure I'm not
Speaker 4: the only one, but like you're not. It's you're not
Speaker 4: used to seeing a residential area that you know, for
Speaker 4: however many years people called it their home. You know
Speaker 4: kids probably play on that street. You see somebody's backyard
Speaker 4: that they probably had, you know, cookouts, and you know
Speaker 4: it's it's your home, and it's one thing to lose
Speaker 4: your home, but to have people, you know, I mean
Speaker 4: lose their lives.
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's mother Nature can be you know, there's.
Speaker 4: She can be a real uh, she can be devastating.
Speaker 4: And there's certain things that you know, weather can get
Speaker 4: in the way, whether can impact your events that you
Speaker 4: want to do, whether it can impact a lot of things.
Speaker 4: But when something weather related takes someone's life, like it
Speaker 4: really is a completely different situation in every aspect to
Speaker 4: where like has me thinking, like, no matter what happens
Speaker 4: weather related, whether it be.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, we don't live anywhere where a hurricane would happen,
Speaker 4: but whatever the hurricane, flooding, tornadoes, you know, I guess
Speaker 4: cold weather to where it can freeze things, to where
Speaker 4: you know you don't have any resource for heat, like
Speaker 4: whatever it is, I mean like if you can still
Speaker 4: keep yourself safe, keep your loved ones safe. I mean
Speaker 4: I feel like these are the kind of things that
Speaker 4: make me make me at least be able to hope
Speaker 4: that if there ever is a situation to where I
Speaker 4: lose my home or there's crazy damage or you know,
Speaker 4: just something really really bad, but everybody in my life
Speaker 4: is safe, and really everybody's safe, Like whenever there's a
Speaker 4: rare situation where you you look back and think, man,
Speaker 4: that's insane that this type of damage took place and
Speaker 4: yet nobody lost the life, Like think I'm seeing the
Speaker 4: situation that unfolded this weekend, specifically Friday. I mean, that's
Speaker 4: that's what makes you really realize that, you know, that's
Speaker 4: what it's all about.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I to just know that people lost loved ones and
Speaker 4: of course lost everything because of this. I don't know
Speaker 4: how it can't make you learn to appreciate what you
Speaker 4: have a little bit more so.
Speaker 3: I uh, yeah, I've.
Speaker 4: Thought some prayers to everybody affected. I mean that I
Speaker 4: feel like the eastern part of Kentucky has been has
Speaker 4: been hit harder than really any part of this state.
Speaker 4: And I'm not sure what the extent of storm damage is.
Speaker 4: Hurricane hurricanes, tornadoes, whatever it is. It's not something I
Speaker 4: keep up with year round. I'm not It's not something
Speaker 4: that I'm you know, super interested in it just going
Speaker 4: in and looking at I'm more of a hey, how
Speaker 4: does it impact me, which I you know, I think
Speaker 4: that's what a lot of how a lot of folks are.
Speaker 4: But man, it is, Uh, it's devastating, and I I'm
Speaker 4: kind of the point now where I really I really
Speaker 4: feel like looking at it like it just puts me
Speaker 4: in a bad spot. But it also again I guess
Speaker 4: it'll make you appreciate what it is that you actually have.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it wasn't just Kentucky by the way. I
Speaker 4: think there's up to thirty people overall. Obviously the state
Speaker 4: of Missouri got hit pretty bad.
Speaker 5: So oh yeah, those videos are pretty nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I feel like, more often than not if
Speaker 4: I see and I guess there are certain parts of
Speaker 4: the country that are much more prone to getting hit
Speaker 4: with tornadoes that can be really devastating. In Missouri has
Speaker 4: always seemed to be one that has had some real
Speaker 4: devastation when it comes to that kind of stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 4: at least I think it's nineteen people now in the
Speaker 4: state of Kentucky have been confirmed dead from this, and
Speaker 4: throughout five states in the South and Midwest. It was
Speaker 4: really just Friday night and just absolutely devastating, and again,
Speaker 4: I don't know what to compare it to, and it
Speaker 4: feels gross comparing it. As I mentioned, but when you're
Speaker 4: just scrolling through one of your social media platforms and
Speaker 4: you're seeing and you know, may there it be Facebook
Speaker 4: reels or Instagram reels or TikTok whatever it may be Instagram,
Speaker 4: you know, you see someone who had their phone out
Speaker 4: videoing certain things, and you know, like, I don't know,
Speaker 4: I guess what I'm getting at as I'm spending my
Speaker 4: wheels here. I'm not to the point where it's almost
Speaker 4: like uncomfortable to like look at because I feel like,
Speaker 4: although I'm interested, like I can't look away. It's like
Speaker 4: I don't know, I just it's been these kind of things.
Speaker 4: The devastation total here is is it puts me in
Speaker 4: a spot to where I hope that I learned to
Speaker 4: appreciate everything I have in life, because you can you
Speaker 4: can just all of a sudden lose at all, lose
Speaker 4: a loved one, lose your life with things like this.
Speaker 4: So yeah, thoughts and prayers to everybody, everybody involved. Alread again,
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Speaker 4: be all over the place today. We do some big
Speaker 4: news that I was not expecting to be on the
Speaker 4: list of things to discuss today, but certainly, when Louisville
Speaker 4: basketball adds a new player to the roster for the
Speaker 4: upcoming season, that's certainly something we've got to discuss. However,
Speaker 4: I will admit to you not a name I'd ever
Speaker 4: heard of, other than seeing that he is somebody that
Speaker 4: has in fact committed to Louisville. So Mohammed Kamara from Senegal,
Speaker 4: a six to eight big man, is going to be
Speaker 4: a Louisville cardinal least twenty years old. And again, I'm
Speaker 4: just going to read for you what I know about him,
Speaker 4: what I have read about him, you know, in the
Speaker 4: last couple of hours, because maybe there are some that
Speaker 4: did have some real insight to this recruitment and we're
Speaker 4: aware of it. But I'm willing to be transparent and
Speaker 4: honest with you.
Speaker 3: I don't have a.
Speaker 4: Clue who this is, but if Pat Kelsey believes that
Speaker 4: he's somebody that can help this team, then you know
Speaker 4: that's good news. But again, he's six', eight he comes
Speaker 4: from THE Nba Academy africa and average ten point seven,
Speaker 4: boards three and a half a cis two point eight,
Speaker 4: steals two and a half blocks per game at The,
Speaker 4: academy shot thirty seven percent from. Three so this tells
Speaker 4: me that they are just trying to add some more
Speaker 4: presents in the front. COURT i, mean obviously you did
Speaker 4: Lose James, scott which WAS i, MEAN i don't know
Speaker 4: if any any loss can be considered like an unexpected
Speaker 4: loss in the portal, era because there are certain guys
Speaker 4: that will surprise you more than others if they do
Speaker 4: decide to, leave and that's WHAT i Think James scott.
Speaker 4: Was but, overall like guys hitting the portal, like that's
Speaker 4: just now the way things. Go so when it, happens
Speaker 4: you got to be. Prepared and With James scott off
Speaker 4: the board and now at, all, MISS i don't know
Speaker 4: IF i would say That kamara is his, replacement but
Speaker 4: they've now added a piece in the front court after losing,
Speaker 4: one and they're still up in the air obviously With Ali, khalifa.
Speaker 3: So we'll see sort of how his appeal process.
Speaker 5: Goes.
Speaker 3: Again the biggest issue there is there's no. TIMETABLE i,
Speaker 3: mean n is.
Speaker 4: Douaa they've probably been made aware That louisville is going
Speaker 4: to appeal this, decision And Ali khalifa has hired an.
Speaker 4: Attorney but as far as like when they get an,
Speaker 4: update as far as the appeal being a success or a,
Speaker 4: failure you, know it's it's anybody's guests as far as
Speaker 4: when you get, that when you get that. Information Also Scotty,
Speaker 4: schffler the winner of THE Pga, championship and anybody who
Speaker 4: is surprised that there was some level of like coverage
Speaker 4: of this in you, know with with a mention or
Speaker 4: a reference to what happened last year at THE Pga
Speaker 4: championship In louisville with him getting, Arrested like you shouldn't
Speaker 4: have been. Surprised that was a. Given but we can
Speaker 4: certainly get into that because you gotta wonder how long
Speaker 4: is that going to be out? There like With Scotty,
Speaker 4: scheffler that is such a wild thing to happen to
Speaker 4: somebody who you, know is a professional golfer on his
Speaker 4: way to participate in THE Pga, championship that it's not
Speaker 4: just going to go. Away but like if he stays,
Speaker 4: dominant because he's a really really good, golfer very. Successful
Speaker 4: you don't have to follow. GOLF i don't follow golf
Speaker 4: that closely really at, all but clearly he's one of
Speaker 4: the top golfers in the world right, now and he's
Speaker 4: been on a hell of a run in the last
Speaker 4: couple of, years it seems maybe even. Longer but if
Speaker 4: he keeps keeps it, rolling will be arrest In louisville
Speaker 4: still find its way to be? Mentioned or is it
Speaker 4: more so just because he you, know he won the
Speaker 4: event a year later after bage arrested on his way
Speaker 4: to the, event you, know the prior.
Speaker 3: Year, like maybe that's.
Speaker 5: It BUT i was just.
Speaker 6: About to, ask what do you think is? Cool what
Speaker 6: do you think would have been cooler him winning it
Speaker 6: at the time right after being, arrested or just the
Speaker 6: year of his. Anniversary but obviously you, know doing it
Speaker 6: after he just got out of after they just opened
Speaker 6: up the clink for, Him.
Speaker 3: Oh that would have been a bigger. Story, yeah and
Speaker 3: that would have been.
Speaker 4: TRULY i mean it already is kind of a maid
Speaker 4: for a movie, story, Right like it's got some Happy
Speaker 4: gilmore element to. It but had he won it during
Speaker 4: while that, happened like that would have BEEN i kind
Speaker 4: of feel like. It you, know maybe this is just
Speaker 4: an exaggeration and we'll never, know but, LIKE i kind
Speaker 4: of feel like it would have been an old time
Speaker 4: memory in, golf just because it's so unlike any other
Speaker 4: story you can think of when it comes to, golf
Speaker 4: the gentleman's, game and you, know THE Pga championship such
Speaker 4: a prestigious. Event but, YEAH i kind of feel like we're.
Speaker 5: Gonna for a wild.
Speaker 4: Week, yeah we're gonna be living with that one for
Speaker 4: for a. While that's gonna be a tough one FOR
Speaker 4: lmpd to just completely dissolve themselves. From so we can
Speaker 4: certainly get into. That, ALSO nba, playoffs we now have
Speaker 4: The Eastern Conference finals in The Western Conference finals. Set
Speaker 4: i'll continue to say THE nba the, POSTSEASON i, think
Speaker 4: despite still getting some big blowout losses like we saw
Speaker 4: yesterday with The thunder running away with it against the
Speaker 4: the the The NUGGETS i still think overall the playoffs
Speaker 4: have been better this year than what we typically. Get, now,
Speaker 4: again the. Blowouts thirty point wins In game seven is
Speaker 4: not ideal for anybody under any. Circumstance and that is
Speaker 4: actually something that has been happening for a while to
Speaker 4: where you'll get get, you you will get series that'll
Speaker 4: that'll be competitive when it comes to the to the series,
Speaker 4: lead but the actual games in between are, blowouts and
Speaker 4: that's just that's just not. Good, again it's better than
Speaker 4: having four blowouts in somebody winning a series four, Zero
Speaker 4: but Like game, seven they're supposed to be really, competitive
Speaker 4: and we we haven't really got that aspect of. It
Speaker 4: and that's that's you, KNOW i Guess bakers can't be
Speaker 4: choosers because AGAIN i think THE Nba PLAYOFFS i crushed
Speaker 4: them before they, started But i've been more entertained by
Speaker 4: it THAN i. Anticipated SO i we'll, see, uh we'll
Speaker 4: see how it plays out with These Eastern conference In
Speaker 4: Western conference. Finals but we now have both sides said
Speaker 4: it's gonna be THE okc thunder in the minnesot At
Speaker 4: timberwolves in The west and My pacers taken on The
Speaker 4: New York knicks and that'll start On wednesday.
Speaker 6: Night so exciting. STUFF i like Your pacers chances me.
Speaker 6: TOO i think they're gonna beat The.
Speaker 4: KNICKS i think THEY'RE i think they're a better. TEAM
Speaker 4: i will say they need to be a better team
Speaker 4: than they were a year, ago which AGAIN i believe
Speaker 4: they are because last year when they beat The, knicks
Speaker 4: The knicks were not fully they weren't at full strength
Speaker 4: at that, time and this, year you, know they're, uh you.
Speaker 3: KNOW i think it should be a really good.
Speaker 4: Series BUT i just, think, man The, PACERS i, mean
Speaker 4: if you look at how good they've been in the,
Speaker 4: PLAYOFFS i mean they should beat The. KNICKS i mean
Speaker 4: THEY i know The cavs had their own issues with
Speaker 4: injuries early on that, series BUT i Mean indiana's kind
Speaker 4: of dominated the. Postseason, again it's The Eastern, conference AND
Speaker 4: i know that The Eastern conference isn't necessarily, loaded BUT i, mean.
Speaker 3: What they did to The, caves what they did to The, BUCKS.
Speaker 4: I, mean they've got a lot of confidence and they're
Speaker 4: built to not do what they did against The caves
Speaker 4: in that final game of that, series where they scored
Speaker 4: what eighty points in the in the in the in
Speaker 4: the first, half like that's that's not sustainable or something
Speaker 4: that you would ever expect anybody to do on a consistent. Basis,
Speaker 4: however they're built to where they are oftentimes going to
Speaker 4: have five guys on the floor that if they get
Speaker 4: a clean look in rhythm and they let it rip
Speaker 4: and it goes in, like nobody's gonna be surprised that
Speaker 4: They've they've built their team to do exactly, that AND
Speaker 4: i think it's gonna be tough For New york to.
Speaker 4: Stop but Obviously Jalen brunson's a hell of a. Gamer
Speaker 4: Karl Anthony, towns he's kind of become the punching bag
Speaker 4: of THE nba on social.
Speaker 3: Media but he's still a really good.
Speaker 4: Player and then they've got guys Like Josh, hart WHO i,
Speaker 4: think you, know does a lot of the dirty.
Speaker 3: Work not a guy that maybe will be viewed as
Speaker 3: a star quite like A, bridge's but he's really really.
Speaker 4: Valuable so The knicks are going to be a tough,
Speaker 4: out but, MAN i would love beating, them not only
Speaker 4: Because i'd love to see My pacers get back to the,
Speaker 4: finals But i'd love to beat The.
Speaker 3: Knicks there's a rivalry factor. THERE i think The KNICKS
Speaker 3: D miller is going to be calling all the.
Speaker 4: Games OH i can't, WAIT i Can't and, sure here's
Speaker 4: What AND i KNOW i said this to you last
Speaker 4: time we talked about, it but like last, year The
Speaker 4: knicks got so, cocky they got so ahead of themselves
Speaker 4: because you, know they are a front running. Franchise their,
Speaker 4: players to, ME i, think for the most, part are
Speaker 4: are fairly. Likable LIKE i Respect Jalen brunson a. LOT
Speaker 4: i don't like The knicks never really, have probably never.
Speaker 4: Will but LIKE i don't think their team as far
Speaker 4: as the individuals are really. Unlikable but like you, know they're,
Speaker 4: fans they're pretty. UNLIKABLE i. Think now, AGAIN i think
Speaker 4: it's also good when they're good because they are a big.
Speaker 4: Market and as much as that may irritate, PEOPLE i
Speaker 4: think there is clear there's like here's what could happen
Speaker 4: if it's The thunder and The pacers in the. FINALS
Speaker 4: i think it'll be In. Heering i'll enjoy. It that
Speaker 4: would be a nightmare scenario for THE nba as far
Speaker 4: as viewership because of those two. Markets to where like
Speaker 4: if you thought there was an issue with you, know
Speaker 4: the lottery being rigged, Before LIKE i think they'll get
Speaker 4: viewership that is so underwhelming if it's those two teams, that,
Speaker 4: like it'll be a real eye opener for anybody who, claims,
Speaker 4: yeah the big market teams don't. MATTER i wish they,
Speaker 4: didn't but they do So, anyways with The knicks last,
Speaker 4: year like they were so cocky they Had game, seven
Speaker 4: they could close it out on their home court in
Speaker 4: the garden in The Eastern Conference, semis and they got
Speaker 4: routed by my pacers and they got, humbled and like
Speaker 4: it never became like everybody just forgot about it because
Speaker 4: you're not surprised that's what The knicks. Do when's the
Speaker 4: last time The knicks did anything? Good as The knicks
Speaker 4: ever went to the finals outside of that one year
Speaker 4: With ewing When jordan retired briefly like The knicks.
Speaker 5: At the one where he missed the easy finger Roll, ewing.
Speaker 4: Maybe yeah had to be because again they had been
Speaker 4: there many times in my in our. Lifetime SO i,
Speaker 4: Uh i'm and you, know we'll. SEE i don't want
Speaker 4: TO i don't want to set the bar too high
Speaker 4: for myself because THEN i don't want to be. Underwhelmed
Speaker 4: BUT i know last year when these two teams played
Speaker 4: in The Eastern, conference Semis, MAN i was into it
Speaker 4: in a way THAT i hadn't been into THE nba
Speaker 4: in a long, time and it was. Exciting it was
Speaker 4: a lot of. Fun and we'll see if that's you,
Speaker 4: know that's how it plays out.
Speaker 5: Here and you know, WHAT i can't really.
Speaker 6: Like one thing THAT i always hate in, sports regardless
Speaker 6: of what sport it, is is like in this case The,
Speaker 6: knicks is when someone says the, league THE nba is
Speaker 6: just so much better when When New york is good
Speaker 6: when they're in, it And i'm, like is it REALLY i,
Speaker 6: mean people are just gonna make fun of them regardless
Speaker 6: because they're a big. MARKET i, mean look at look
Speaker 6: like on THE mlb front or something like, that like The. Mets,
Speaker 6: ever THE mlb is always better when Both New york
Speaker 6: teams are, Running LIKE i, mean it's has THE mlb
Speaker 6: really been better just because of The mets or that
Speaker 6: THE nfl is really more interesting when The cowboys are in,
Speaker 6: it and you, know when they're in, it they usually always,
Speaker 6: choke and when they, suck it's still fun to talk
Speaker 6: about out so, like is it really making it like,
Speaker 6: Better is The knicks being good really making THE nba?
Speaker 4: BETTER i think that's a great. QUESTION i want to
Speaker 4: get right to that on the other, side BECAUSE i
Speaker 4: think there's a good reason for people to say, it
Speaker 4: BUT i think the reason behind.
Speaker 3: Like there needs to be a better way to deliver that.
Speaker 4: Information because, yes it is better for THE nba if
Speaker 4: big brands with big viewership are, alive because you, know
Speaker 4: that leads to more more interest because again they happen
Speaker 4: to have a humongous fan. Base but those that just,
Speaker 4: say you, know THE nba or THE mlb or even
Speaker 4: like college, basketball they really need this franchise or this
Speaker 4: program to be good or, Else that's that's where it's not.
Speaker 4: True so we can get to that in a lot
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Speaker 4: Guys i'm twenty five minutes in WHEN i should have
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Speaker 4: again consistency never good at managing the. Clock and why start, now? Right,
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Speaker 4: montgomery alongside. Today and he mentioned something towards the end
Speaker 4: of our first segment in regards to the saying out
Speaker 4: there when it comes to bigger brands in college, sports
Speaker 4: AND i guess bigger markets and pro sports that you,
Speaker 4: know everything is better in certain league or certain sport
Speaker 4: at the college level when those teams are.
Speaker 3: Better and if you.
Speaker 4: Think about, it THE nba or whoever you know truly
Speaker 4: benefits for college football or college basketball, succeeding like they
Speaker 4: would be a liar if they told you that things
Speaker 4: weren't better are when certain franchises or certain programs are,
Speaker 4: successful because for, example like The New York, knicks they
Speaker 4: have a lot a lot of, fans they're they're kind
Speaker 4: of a national.
Speaker 3: Team they're not like The yankees In New. York BUT
Speaker 3: i mean The.
Speaker 4: Knicks they've got a lot of, fans which they're loyal,
Speaker 4: fans because The knicks have never really been good in my,
Speaker 4: lifetime at least not. CONSISTENTLY i, MEAN i guess they've
Speaker 4: had years where they were good in certain, instances but
Speaker 4: LIKE i don't, remember Like Carl mello never made THE Nba,
Speaker 4: finals did? HE i don't remember him ever playing in the. Finals,
Speaker 4: oh actually he, did but he was In, DENVER i.
Speaker 4: BELIEVE i, mean didn't they lose to? Somebody, no they
Speaker 4: never could get Past. Kobe that's. Right they had some
Speaker 4: good teams. There like his best teams he played for
Speaker 4: was Not New. York it was When denver was.
Speaker 3: Rolling.
Speaker 4: Yeah so, Yeah Chauncey, Billups Marcus, Camby George Carl oh,
Speaker 4: yeah Big NANE i remember. Him so, anyways you, know
Speaker 4: there are really two conversations to. This one, is, yeah
Speaker 4: it's better for the league when more people, Watch when
Speaker 4: the programs or the franchises that have the biggest reach
Speaker 4: because of their fan, base the longer they are alive
Speaker 4: in your, postseason and the better they are. Overall the
Speaker 4: more likelihood you have of getting a humongous fan base,
Speaker 4: watching which is good for the. Sport so, AGAIN i
Speaker 4: think it's two things to say that THE nba is
Speaker 4: better when The knicks are. Good it is when it
Speaker 4: comes to just reaching the amount of people you can
Speaker 4: when those teams are. Good and anybody who told you
Speaker 4: that that doesn't matter and that's not an objective is a.
Speaker 4: LIAR i, mean that's just the. TRUTH i, mean doesn't
Speaker 4: mean that they're rooting for that to. Happen but if,
Speaker 4: they if they internally are hopeful that you end up
Speaker 4: with a, like you, Know. Denver to, me if they'd
Speaker 4: have won, YESTERDAY i think it would have been better Than.
Speaker 4: Okac but like how much BETTER i don't, know you
Speaker 4: know WHAT i, Mean Like denver's a bigger market Than.
Speaker 4: Okac Clearly denver has a bigger market despite him not
Speaker 4: really being interested in embracing the role of. Superstar Nikole
Speaker 4: jokich is appointment viewing if you, really you, know think about.
Speaker 4: IT i, MEAN i can get why some maybe wouldn't
Speaker 4: care to watch THE nba or The, nuggets but, like
Speaker 4: if you like, BASKETBALL i wouldn't be shocked if you're
Speaker 4: somebody that wouldn't identify as A nets fan or maybe i'm,
Speaker 4: sorry A nuggets, fan or maybe even A jokic, fan but,
Speaker 4: like you like watching him play because he's just that.
Speaker 4: Good and there's also that weird element to where the
Speaker 4: way he looks visually he shouldn't be as good as he.
Speaker 4: Is it kind of makes you, know out of shape
Speaker 4: hefty guys feel, like you know, WHAT i may not
Speaker 4: look the, part BUT i might give him some buckets
Speaker 4: every now and then because look at this. GUY i,
Speaker 4: mean it's not really, that that's not. Reality you shouldn't
Speaker 4: assume that you're a better basketball player because of what
Speaker 4: he can, do but.
Speaker 3: You, know you get. It so let's say THE Ncaa.
Speaker 4: Tournament THE Ncaa tournament is a sixty eight team, event
Speaker 4: and there's no THERE'S i, mean it's maybe there are
Speaker 4: some scenarios when it comes to pairings in the tournament
Speaker 4: that they've set up to maybe give them a better
Speaker 4: likelihood of a good deep and big brand Filled sweet
Speaker 4: sixteen And lade eight and all, that but you really can't.
Speaker 3: Control you got to go out there and.
Speaker 4: Play so if THE ncublea like those, like let's just
Speaker 4: say somebody at the top of THE. Ncuba maybe it's
Speaker 4: That Charlie baker, guy or in a previous world was
Speaker 4: the other guy who was there.
Speaker 3: Forever that's Thunk, Emert is that his? Name Mark.
Speaker 4: EMMERT i can't Believe i'm forgetting the guy's name who
Speaker 4: was the punching bag for all college sports fans for so.
Speaker 4: Long Em, YEAH i think It's Mark, emmerate emirate either,
Speaker 4: way he's, Yeah, Mark Mark, emmert you were. CORRECT i was, Wrong,
Speaker 4: Sorry Mark. Emmert so, anyways he let's just say like
Speaker 4: his job was solely dependent upon a certain which would
Speaker 4: never be the, case but like if his if his
Speaker 4: job was specifically dependent upon a certain amount of viewers
Speaker 4: tuning in for THE ncaa, tournament that's how they justify his. Salary,
Speaker 4: well he would be a liar if he didn't say
Speaker 4: that he hoped that the final four Featured Kentucky Duke
Speaker 4: carolina In kansas because that gives them the better. Likelihood
Speaker 4: so it can be, that but not be like a,
Speaker 4: conspiracy you know What i'm, Saying like it's just common knowledge, that,
Speaker 4: yeah the better programs with bigger fan bases, historically if
Speaker 4: they make it deeper into the postseason and they're having.
Speaker 4: Success really at any point in the, season that is
Speaker 4: a preferable thing because it does in fact make the
Speaker 4: league more successful or make the sport more. Successful that's
Speaker 4: a different conversation than, well you, know they just need this,
Speaker 4: Program like The cowboys have not been good and done
Speaker 4: anything substantial in THE nfl and how. LONG i, mean
Speaker 4: when's the last time they flirted with A Super? Bowl
Speaker 4: have you been alive for, One, Austin i'm not, exaggerating.
Speaker 6: NO i think the closest that they've ever gotten WAS
Speaker 6: i thought they were going to possibly do it last
Speaker 6: year when that a twelve one season and my, God
Speaker 6: Dak prescott was like SECOND mvp, voting but they got blown.
Speaker 5: Out BUT i think think The, LIONS i.
Speaker 3: Mean that that's what they. DO i, mean that's that's
Speaker 3: that's what they.
Speaker 4: Do So i'm looking here at playoff, history and by the,
Speaker 4: WAY i don't THINK i, MEAN i could be, wrong
Speaker 4: and MAYBE i am BECAUSE i don't follow really baseball at,
Speaker 4: all BUT i think that The Dallas cowboys are the
Speaker 4: biggest brand In american professional, sports AND i don't think it's.
Speaker 3: Close maybe some would say The.
Speaker 4: YANKEES i WOULD i would be willing to be corrected
Speaker 4: if that's the, case because AGAIN i just don't follow
Speaker 4: baseball like.
Speaker 5: That, yeah probably probably has to be those two.
Speaker 4: Teams so The Dallas cowboys are always going to be talked.
Speaker 4: About that's always gonna. Happen but THE nfl has been
Speaker 4: a monster In american sports for a long long time
Speaker 4: and will continue to be an even bigger monster moving.
Speaker 4: Forward and The cowboys can stay being who they are a.
Speaker 4: Team they get so much talk because of their, brand
Speaker 4: their you, know their, reach but also like they've had
Speaker 4: no factor in THE nfl continuing to be a dominant
Speaker 4: monster In american sports because, again they haven't been very.
Speaker 4: GOOD i, mean you've got they've got past the wild.
Speaker 4: Card let's see three times in the last four times
Speaker 4: in The i'm, sorry three times in the last. Decade twenty,
Speaker 4: sixteen they played in the divisional round and lost to The.
Speaker 4: Packers twenty, eighteen they played in the divisional round and
Speaker 4: lost to The. Rams twenty twenty, one they lost in
Speaker 4: the wild card game to The. Niners twenty twenty, two
Speaker 4: they won in the wild card round against The, bucks
Speaker 4: and then they ended up losing the in the divisional
Speaker 4: round against The, niners and then in twenty twenty three
Speaker 4: they ended up getting routed by The packers in the
Speaker 4: in the wild card. Round so the last time they
Speaker 4: made it to a conference, championship.
Speaker 3: Which which which then led to.
Speaker 4: Them getting to a Super bowl in winning that was
Speaker 4: in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3: Five were you born?
Speaker 5: Old?
Speaker 3: Yeah, SO i mean.
Speaker 4: They haven't got to a conference championship since ninety. Five so, therefore,
Speaker 4: again THE nfl doesn't need The cowboys to do anything
Speaker 4: other than just, exist because they can exist and be,
Speaker 4: awful or exist and be, decent or exist and be.
Speaker 4: Good but that's been a long time coming as far
Speaker 4: as them being like a threat to win at, all
Speaker 4: and THE nfl is going to continue to. Grow so
Speaker 4: that's WHERE i think there is like, that, like for,
Speaker 4: Example louisville. Basketball college basketball is better When louisville's really.
Speaker 4: Good you know, why because we have a huge fan.
Speaker 4: BASE i, mean we're not the biggest fan, base but
Speaker 4: we're also sort of you, know we're clearly in the
Speaker 4: top ten really in every. ASPECT i would say when
Speaker 4: it comes to historically things that really add up to
Speaker 4: how you qualify who really matters in the. Sport you,
Speaker 4: KNOW i think top, seven top eight, realistically but certainly top.
Speaker 3: TEN i, mean even when we sucked major in a major.
Speaker 4: WAY i guess with the last you, know nine, SHOWS
Speaker 4: i was about to just FORGET i was on the.
Speaker 4: Radio there's THINGS i can't, say but like even when
Speaker 4: we Had Kittie, payne, terrible but yet we still as
Speaker 4: far as, revenue were up there and we were a talking,
Speaker 4: point and it was for a bad. Reason but like
Speaker 4: teams who suck that bad don't end up still being
Speaker 4: like somewhat in the news wire throughout a college basketball,
Speaker 4: season unless you know it's such a, surprise like can
Speaker 4: you believe this team's that? Bad like this Is, louisville
Speaker 4: this is one of the bigger. Brands so if we
Speaker 4: just stayed, terrible college basketball would be, fine because they
Speaker 4: don't Need louisville in order for the sport to be.
Speaker 4: Successful but that's not the same as saying that they're better.
Speaker 4: Off now how much better? OFF i don't, Know but
Speaker 4: anybody who was looking out for the greater good of college,
Speaker 4: basketball or the greater good of really any, sport what
Speaker 4: would be lying to you if they said that there's
Speaker 4: nothing beneficial by the bigger brands and the bigger teams
Speaker 4: being really.
Speaker 3: Good you, know it's.
Speaker 4: Not a WELL i guess we got a close up
Speaker 4: shop because this team's really struggling and there's no point
Speaker 4: and you, know even existing if this team and their
Speaker 4: fans aren't into. It and by the, way The cowboys
Speaker 4: are the best example of that that you will ever.
Speaker 3: Find they've not been.
Speaker 4: Relevant and again there have been years where they're good
Speaker 4: and they just completely underwhelmed in the, postseason and that.
Speaker 4: Happens it's really kind of been what their brand has
Speaker 4: been when they but there's also years where they're not
Speaker 4: good at. All, Right, like there's been plenty of years
Speaker 4: where they're just you, know they're bad or they're. MID i,
Speaker 4: MEAN i could think of maybe two seasons that when
Speaker 4: they did lose in the, playoffs it wasn't a surprise
Speaker 4: for one, aspect because you're, thinking, like you, know, well
Speaker 4: it's The. Cowboys what do you expect they'll Choke romo
Speaker 4: w choke it, again Or dackle choke Or mike McCarthy
Speaker 4: Or garrett whatever.
Speaker 5: Or Does bryant will catch it or exactly.
Speaker 4: Exactly but then there's also been years where, like, yeah
Speaker 4: they lost in the postseason and they got to the wild,
Speaker 4: card but like that result is pretty on, point probably
Speaker 4: what a lot of folks. Expected SO i think THE
Speaker 4: nba would be lying to you and they would never say,
Speaker 4: it because that's not how you run a. League like
Speaker 4: you can't tell, yeah you, know we really didn't want
Speaker 4: The pacers to get to the. Finals we really did
Speaker 4: not also want OK c to be, here but you,
Speaker 4: know we'll make the most of. It they'd never say.
Speaker 4: It but like some things don't need to be. Said
Speaker 4: it's it's rather.
Speaker 3: Obvious.
Speaker 4: Now another thing that's rather obvious IS i give you
Speaker 4: a little tease here before we hit the last segment
Speaker 4: of the three o'clock. Hour THE wnba Without Kaitlyn clark
Speaker 4: would would maybe not need to exist. Anymore oh, YEAH
Speaker 4: i hate saying, that but like when it comes to
Speaker 4: who and what, program what franchise is needed for the you,
Speaker 4: know for the sustainability of a, league, like say what
Speaker 4: you want about THE. Wnba The Kaitlyn Clark Angel rees
Speaker 4: thing has, absolutely absolutely added an element that THE wnba
Speaker 4: has never had. Before And i'm not sure how sustainable
Speaker 4: it is long, term BUT i, mean there is now
Speaker 4: interest and coverage to a sport that has never been
Speaker 4: there before and clearly would not be there now without
Speaker 4: this one individual by the name Of Kitlyn. Clark and
Speaker 4: we'll talk a little bit about what happened over the.
Speaker 4: WEEKEND I i'm not one for, conspiracies but the OLDER i,
Speaker 4: get the MORE i KIND i kind of lean into
Speaker 4: them a little. Bit AND i actually start a little,
Speaker 4: late THOUGH i KNOW i am start real, late But
Speaker 4: i'm Gonna i'll get into WHAT i have on the
Speaker 4: other side about this whole. Situation keep a lot right
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Speaker 4: Dy AS i come upon MY i guess this is
Speaker 4: My after, today there'll be only eight more shows left
Speaker 4: here for me On Sports talk seven Ninety AND i
Speaker 4: THINK i might have done something for the first time
Speaker 4: ever as we just exited from our second segment here
Speaker 4: in the three o'clock, hour and that was tease a
Speaker 4: W nba, Topic, like, hey stick.
Speaker 3: Around we're going to talk about something from THE.
Speaker 4: Wnba AND i don't say that's poke, fun but you
Speaker 4: know WHAT i, mean, Right like it's just. NOT i,
Speaker 4: mean even if THE wnba was vastly more successful than
Speaker 4: it is as far as interest in, viewership it probably
Speaker 4: wouldn't necessarily be a regular thing that comes up within
Speaker 4: sports talk. RADIO i, mean Maybe i'm, wrong BUT i
Speaker 4: don't Think i'm saying anything out of line. Here But
Speaker 4: Caitlin clark has certainly, become in my, opinion just my,
Speaker 4: opinion she's the best women's basketball player That i've ever.
Speaker 4: Watched And i'm not sure it's. CLOSE i, MEAN i
Speaker 4: know some will, say you, know players that played, long long,
Speaker 4: ago even before there was A, wnba AND i you,
Speaker 4: KNOW i can't speak.
Speaker 3: To that because that's WHY i said players That i've.
Speaker 4: Watched but she's she's so, good and she's clearly great
Speaker 4: for that league in a way that nobody else has ever,
Speaker 4: been and it's not even.
Speaker 3: Close that's really.
Speaker 4: Undeniable anybody claiming that like she doesn't help that league
Speaker 4: in a major way and provide value viewership, reach.
Speaker 3: That's that's not.
Speaker 4: Deniable anybody who would deny that is straight up. Delusional
Speaker 4: so WHAT i think actually makes it more entertaining and
Speaker 4: interest that even brings more people in is the element
Speaker 4: of the rivalry With Angel, reese and who would claim
Speaker 4: that they're not like.
Speaker 3: RIVALS i, MEAN i think both of. Them, WELL i.
Speaker 4: Didn't hear anything that angel had said after the situation
Speaker 4: On saturday Where Kaylen clark was called for a foul
Speaker 4: THAT i, mean it was a straight up foulue so
Speaker 4: you don't get free. Throws but obviously you know it
Speaker 4: was called a you, know, Flagrant but anybody WHO i
Speaker 4: Mean Kayln clark said its. Best that's literally what you're
Speaker 4: taught to do as a basketball, player men or. Women
Speaker 4: IF i know, That i've essentially found myself in a
Speaker 4: position Where i'm not going to be able to prevent
Speaker 4: two points from being. Scored i'm not going to be
Speaker 4: able to contest a shot really in any. Way you
Speaker 4: burn a foul and make a murdered that the free throw,
Speaker 4: line and you do it in a way to where
Speaker 4: you're keeping them from getting the shot off by committing a,
Speaker 4: foul but you're also not going to let, them you,
Speaker 4: know fall and get. Hurt and you know it turned
Speaker 4: into something, different and that's Not i'm not saying that
Speaker 4: That Angel reese.
Speaker 3: Was out of line sort of by her.
Speaker 4: REACTION i think it was it was viewed as, like
Speaker 4: what the hell's going on like, Meeting like why would
Speaker 4: she act like? That that was a clean, Foul like
Speaker 4: some people have viewed it that, way but, like you,
Speaker 4: know that's just, basketball and there's clearly a competitive rivalry
Speaker 4: between the. Two so, LIKE i don't really have ANY i,
Speaker 4: mean if, anything the call shouldn't have been called a
Speaker 4: flagrant by by how basketball has always been. Called But
Speaker 4: i'm not totally surprised that they, did AND i really
Speaker 4: don't have any kind of, like, Like i'm not bothered
Speaker 4: That Angel reese reacted the way that she did because to,
Speaker 4: me that's got to be like the last piece of
Speaker 4: evidence that's ever been needed to confirm, that like she,
Speaker 4: is this is a. Rivalry like here's what has really
Speaker 4: bothered me in sports is that there are there are
Speaker 4: times WHERE i guess athletes have become too cool to
Speaker 4: like embrace the. Rivalry like maybe you maybe you feel
Speaker 4: like if you acknowledge that their, arrival then you're acknowledging
Speaker 4: that they're on your mind and that you're giving them
Speaker 4: attention and they but like last tutche, rivalies that's a
Speaker 4: big part of what makes sports.
Speaker 3: Great And Angel.
Speaker 4: Reese there's no conversation that needs to be needs to
Speaker 4: happen for anybody debating if she's if she's as good
Speaker 4: of a, player it as valuable As Kaitlyn. Clark like
Speaker 4: that's honestly nonsense and unfair for people to still try
Speaker 4: to take that approach as if she's a better. Player
Speaker 4: but she's not getting the love That Caitlyn clark is
Speaker 4: getting for whatever reason they want to come up, with
Speaker 4: because that's just that's. Asinin that's not like that's somebody
Speaker 4: not on Planet.
Speaker 6: Earth, well and we talked about it, before and this
Speaker 6: could go back to relating to your, uh your pacers
Speaker 6: in The, knicks like their. RIVALRY i, mean, heck you've
Speaker 6: had you've Had brunson And halliburton's square off with each.
Speaker 5: Other yea and wwe but forgot about.
Speaker 6: That but it's it's everyone's friends now in the, league
Speaker 6: like everyone they follow each other on social. Media they're
Speaker 6: always doing stuff like outside of the outside of the.
Speaker 6: Court they're they're swapping, jerseys they're talking to each other
Speaker 6: after the, game just just mucking it. Up you don't
Speaker 6: see that much hatred. Anymore, Yeah AND i think there's
Speaker 6: there's layers as to why it's become that. WAY i
Speaker 6: think the culture of basketball really is that the circuit
Speaker 6: being what it is FOR aau and. Whatnot there's a
Speaker 6: good chance there's guys in THE nba that have known
Speaker 6: of one another for ten twelve years because they've honestly
Speaker 6: competed with each other from THE aau circuit at the
Speaker 6: national level since the time they were fourteen years, old
Speaker 6: to where you, know when you play that many games
Speaker 6: and you know your goal is to get to the,
Speaker 6: league and then you get, there like maybe the competitive
Speaker 6: edge has gone a little bit to where you, know
Speaker 6: you're just happy that you're. There but, NO i, MEAN
Speaker 6: i think society, really as it's, evolved has made it
Speaker 6: a little bit more difficult to, have like the TRUE
Speaker 6: i don't, KNOW i JUST i don't think rivalries are
Speaker 6: dead by any, Means but rivalries from a fan, PERSPECTIVE
Speaker 6: i think they are as strong as ever because we
Speaker 6: have access now at any point in our lives to
Speaker 6: get online and, battle you know WHAT i.
Speaker 3: Mean we used to have, that so you know we
Speaker 3: don't need to do it.
Speaker 4: Online we, do meaning the level In, Kentucky, ribberry but
Speaker 4: there's so many people that work at an employer where
Speaker 4: half the places loisvill fans have to play this As kentucky,
Speaker 4: fans and you, know you go back and forth and it's.
Speaker 3: Just part of the.
Speaker 4: Culture but in professional, sports you, know LIKE i think the,
Speaker 4: athletes they the way in which you come up now
Speaker 4: to become a pro, athlete you can be super, competitive
Speaker 4: but like you, know it just doesn't seem to be as.
Speaker 4: Natural for Like Michael jordan would manufacture a rival he
Speaker 4: would manufacture a reason that he's got to take something
Speaker 4: personal because he was, disrespected and none of that. Happened
Speaker 4: it was delusion if he was made up in his,
Speaker 4: mind but it was how he was. Competitive AND i
Speaker 4: just think if we would embrace rivalries and not act
Speaker 4: like we're too cool for, him not act like all
Speaker 4: we don't even care like it would it would help
Speaker 4: in every way when it comes to the overall, competitiveness.
Speaker 3: Which that's what this is all. About that's what sports.
Speaker 3: Is it's.
Speaker 4: Competing if something's not, COMPETITIVE i, mean it's only worth
Speaker 4: watching if in fact it's your team that's dominating and
Speaker 4: you're entertained because it's your team and you like the.
Speaker 4: Result but Like Lebron james And Steph curry refusing to
Speaker 4: acknowledge that they were. Rivals WHEN, Lamba lebron was in
Speaker 4: was In cleveland again for the second, time and The
Speaker 4: warriors were in the midst of their big.
Speaker 3: RUN i, Mean.
Speaker 4: Lebron james got off the plane In cleveland with the
Speaker 4: trophy wearing An Ultimate warriors. Jersey that's that's that's, like
Speaker 4: that's not a. Coincidence nobody would claim that it. Is
Speaker 4: SO i don't know why the you, know it didn't
Speaker 4: used to be that, way But angel can no longer
Speaker 4: claim that she's not like. That she, doesn't you, know
Speaker 4: feel some way About Caitlyn. Clark and it's, look that's
Speaker 4: okay if she, does and she's benefiting from.
Speaker 3: It, LIKE i don't mean to be.
Speaker 4: DISRESPECTFUL i don't think this is, Disrespectful but If Caitlyn
Speaker 4: clark didn't have this dynamic between, Her i'm, sorry If
Speaker 4: Angel rees did not have this dynamic between her And Kaitlyn.
Speaker 3: Clark she would be a pretty forgettable player in the W. Nba,
Speaker 3: like that's not that's not a that's that's just.
Speaker 4: Reality and, oh by the, way you know how she
Speaker 4: became such a she was a great player AT. Lsu
Speaker 4: they were at a national, championship so like she was notable.
Speaker 4: Then but you know why she was a big, time you,
Speaker 4: know celebrity after winning that title was because she went
Speaker 4: out of her way to walk up To Angel. Reese
Speaker 4: And i'm not to walk up To Kaitlyn clark and taunt.
Speaker 4: Her and, Look i'm not bringing that up now as
Speaker 4: if like that was. CLASSLESS i, mean it was kind
Speaker 4: of out of, nowhere but Like i'm not of the
Speaker 4: belief that she's actually from the beginning of this whole,
Speaker 4: thing utilize. This she, calms like somebody got in her, head, like,
Speaker 4: hey do whatever you. Can you're gonna be in THE wnba,
Speaker 4: regardless but do whatever you can to attach yourself To
Speaker 4: Kaitlyn clark because it's gonna be beneficial for you in every,
Speaker 4: way good or. Bad, NOW i think maybe if that
Speaker 4: was AND i don't know if that, happened but like
Speaker 4: they wouldn't shock me if she's wanted to continue to
Speaker 4: have this dynamic to where it's always gonna be in
Speaker 4: the news. Cycle BUT i think at times she wanted
Speaker 4: to play villain when she just got In Angel reese's,
Speaker 4: face she got In Kaitlyn clark's face and taunted her
Speaker 4: and was doing all kinds of hand gestures or. Whatever
Speaker 4: everybody remembers, that, right like that was a big. Deal
Speaker 4: that's what it all. Started, honestly did The ring thing?
Speaker 5: Too?
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly did The ring? Thing that's that exact encounter
Speaker 4: is What i'm referring. To and when all that, HAPPENED i,
Speaker 4: mean like it created its own life for. Itself and
Speaker 4: here we are many years later and it's still it's
Speaker 4: still hot and.
Speaker 3: Heavy and WHAT i don't.
Speaker 4: Like you, know she wants to play the villain until
Speaker 4: until it's until you are the villain and then you play.
Speaker 4: Victim but, again maybe that's all. Calculated maybe it's all
Speaker 4: part of this big strategy because you, know she's probably
Speaker 4: never gonna get the best of her as far as
Speaker 4: being a BETTER wnba player or really being a on
Speaker 4: a better. Team Maybe i'm, Wrong but, like this thing
Speaker 4: has been good for THE. Wnba that's not that's not
Speaker 4: me saying that THE wnba is great and everybody shoul watch.
Speaker 4: IT i, mean you can watch it if you, Want
Speaker 4: but this is the best thing that's ever happened in THE.
Speaker 4: Wnba when it comes to interest in. Viewership AND i
Speaker 4: don't really think it's. Debatable and there's a part of
Speaker 4: me that now thinks that maybe it was calculated in a,
Speaker 4: Way but you, Know i'm interested in, it, Right i'm
Speaker 4: not going to tune in BECAUSE i JUST i, MEAN
Speaker 4: i don't tune into a lot of LIVE nba, games
Speaker 4: even unless it's like my. Team but WHEN i, see,
Speaker 4: okay these two teams played each other and there's a
Speaker 4: clip or a story that's posted on some platform that,
Speaker 4: says you, know hard foul or you know they got
Speaker 4: into some kind of a contentious, Situation i'm clicking on.
Speaker 4: It AND i mean that doesn't mean a LOT thatt
Speaker 4: mean Like i'm. Invested i'm gonna go watch the next
Speaker 4: game they. Play but that's more Than i've ever done
Speaker 4: with THE. Wnba and, again THE, wnba AND i think
Speaker 4: college basketball at the women's level is a much better
Speaker 4: product than THE. Wnba AND i don't mean just the
Speaker 4: basketball the way it's. Played but like THE wnba, players
Speaker 4: they don't do themselves any favors as far as do
Speaker 4: you actually want people to watch your league or?
Speaker 3: Not do you want people to embrace it or?
Speaker 4: Not because they complain that there's more people that are
Speaker 4: that have you, know like, clearly more attention is going
Speaker 4: to be given to the person that is that is
Speaker 4: dominating interest level in your in your league for your.
Speaker 4: Employer so whenever that happens and then they play victim
Speaker 4: and claim that it's about favoritism or race or, whatever,
Speaker 4: like good luck getting more people to embrace your league
Speaker 4: when anytime they, do they're told by some players directly
Speaker 4: that they're not that we don't need, you we don't
Speaker 4: want you because all you want Is Kaitlyn. Clark, well, okay,
Speaker 4: FINE i MEAN i don't. Know it's JUST i find
Speaker 4: it interesting AND i never found myself in any way
Speaker 4: seeing myself interested to this level about anything related to THE.
Speaker 4: Wnba and Again i'm only talking about that league. SPECIFICALLY
Speaker 4: i won't lie to you and act LIKE i think
Speaker 4: you know THAT i watch a lot of women's college,
Speaker 4: basketball BUT i think it's a good. Product there's reason
Speaker 4: why it's grown substantially as far as viewership in THE Naa,
Speaker 4: tournament and a lot of that had to do With
Speaker 4: Kaitlyn clark And Angel reese and those teams and. Whatnot so,
Speaker 4: anyways let's get too a quick break. Again if, Anything
Speaker 4: i'm consistent terrible clock management, here but you know it
Speaker 4: is what it. Is keep it locked right here On
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