Speaker 1: Damn, I look good. Uh, welcome to Clippers Talk. I'm
Speaker 1: Adam Osland. Must be a big show today because I'm
Speaker 1: all dulled up coming on today's episode. Well you see
Speaker 1: him right now. I don't want to tease it out
Speaker 1: too much here, but I do want to let you
Speaker 1: know later in the show. At some point I'm gonna
Speaker 1: drop that third keyword. You put all three in the
Speaker 1: comments section. If you are first, you will win a
Speaker 1: new Clippers hat from the Flagship's store. I gave out
Speaker 1: one last night with Doctor Chap on Clippers Talk. I
Speaker 1: gave out one the show prior with Joseph Riah Ward here.
Speaker 1: But now join the show is Clippers Royalty. It's the
Speaker 1: voice of the Clippers, Brian Seaman, who has pipes in
Speaker 1: his vocal cords more golden than the Larry O'Brien Trophy,
Speaker 1: and as it turns out, he was the king of
Speaker 1: clever all along and here with his wordplay and went
Speaker 1: pertaining to your favorite Clippers players and plays nightly during
Speaker 1: the season. He has seamlessly taken in the baton from
Speaker 1: Ralph Lawler and is lapping the competition with his informative
Speaker 1: and entertaining broadcast. Whether he's next to Jim Jackson or
Speaker 1: Mike Furtello the Bizarre. And you know, I'm especially proud
Speaker 1: because I worked with him for multiple years on the
Speaker 1: radio side, and he has settled into the big chair now,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't be more happy for him because I
Speaker 1: know how talented he is and how hard he works
Speaker 1: to make sure he's always at the top of his
Speaker 1: game and stuck in a perpetual prime. We'll call it.
Speaker 1: It's my friend and yours Clipper Nation. Brian Siemens joining
Speaker 1: me here on Clipperstock be how we're doing well.
Speaker 2: That was a wonderful intro, and it's because of that
Speaker 2: intro that I will break a long standing rule that
Speaker 2: I usually don't do podcasts with people that have over
Speaker 2: ten percent body fat. So I'm gonna break that rule.
Speaker 2: Don't think I haven't been paying attention out. I appreciate
Speaker 2: the intro. I may my friend, it's great to talk
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 1: Give me two weeks, I'll get to I'll get a
Speaker 1: lot of Tipple cent for you and we can redo this.
Speaker 1: Thanks for doing this so much. Now. I have an
Speaker 1: idea about a lot of these questions, but I want
Speaker 1: the audience to be more informed on who you are
Speaker 1: as a broadcast or what it takes it gets to
Speaker 1: this level. But first, just what's the off season been
Speaker 1: like for you? What's the off season like for a
Speaker 1: broadcaster or is it like a school teacher. You just
Speaker 1: got a little bit of summer off, You're hanging out
Speaker 1: with the family. What is it you know?
Speaker 2: So my first couple of years in the off season
Speaker 2: were I did WNBA. I mean, I loved it, and
Speaker 2: it was but it was a grind in the way
Speaker 2: of I go from charter flights to now flying commercial
Speaker 2: to waking up at four thirty in the morning. But
Speaker 2: I loved the travel party. I had a great time.
Speaker 2: We moved to Los Angeles and then my summers have
Speaker 2: been free. I don't know what I would do if
Speaker 2: somebody said go to work, go ahead and go to work.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I would actually do. But with
Speaker 2: that said, our first year here, we had our first child,
Speaker 2: and two years later had our second child. So I've
Speaker 2: been home with the boys all summer. Once my season ends,
Speaker 2: I'm kind of a homebody. They're now teenagers, so I
Speaker 2: don't know if you remember being a teen, but you
Speaker 2: don't really need your parents around that much. That's the
Speaker 2: drift I'm getting by the eye rolls, the shoulder shrugs,
Speaker 2: and the I don't care. So that's what I'm kind
Speaker 2: of feeling from them.
Speaker 1: Well TV danks, yeah a little bit.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm good at reading body language, and I
Speaker 2: don't think that I'm really all that required in their
Speaker 2: life right now. So it's been good. It's relaxing. It's
Speaker 2: always been relaxing for me. I'm Sometimes we'll go on
Speaker 2: a vacation with everybody, so we went to New York
Speaker 2: last year. We always go home to our hometown. My
Speaker 2: wife and I are both from West of One, Iowa,
Speaker 2: so we go back there once a year to see
Speaker 2: our family and friends. But overall, I like to relax
Speaker 2: and just be around my family. My wife and I
Speaker 2: watch movies at night. It's simple. It's really nothing major.
Speaker 2: Other people I know are super busy writing or reading
Speaker 2: books and doing fun things that are absolutely out of
Speaker 2: my comfort zone. I enjoy just being a homebody with
Speaker 2: my family. It's pretty simple.
Speaker 1: We'll get a little more input on your media that
Speaker 1: you consume movies and television shows and a little bit
Speaker 1: and favorites lease fans. But did you grow up wanting
Speaker 1: to make the league like many of us, and at
Speaker 1: some point you made that hard pivot to broadcasting greatness
Speaker 1: or did you always have designs on calling games.
Speaker 2: Always wanted to do it. I was. I've told the
Speaker 2: story before, but I was in second grade and my
Speaker 2: second grade teacher was dating a news anchor, a sports
Speaker 2: anchor in Iowa and to one Iowa and in fact
Speaker 2: he went on to CNN he ended up losing his voice.
Speaker 2: His name was Jeff Biinford. He was very good, and
Speaker 2: he came in and he said, here's my day. I
Speaker 2: wake up. I get to the office at eleven, so
Speaker 2: already I'm like, I'm listening. I drive to Iowa City
Speaker 2: because back in the eighties, Iowa basketball, Iowa football was
Speaker 2: literally the king of the states. I drive to Iowa City,
Speaker 2: I talked to players, I watched the game, and then
Speaker 2: I go on the air and I'm on TV for
Speaker 2: five minutes. I go home, rinse, and repeat, go to Ames,
Speaker 2: Iowa the next day. So I'm just talking with athletes
Speaker 2: all day and I'm like, this is a job, this
Speaker 2: is it. And so it was a six ten job,
Speaker 2: is what they're called an anchor job. But back then
Speaker 2: that's in the Midwest. The news comes on at six
Speaker 2: and ten. But then I saw Magic Johnson play and
Speaker 2: my DNA changed. Lightning struck. I was nine years old
Speaker 2: and it was maybe the eighty four finals and I
Speaker 2: saw him. I was playing basketball. I didn't even like
Speaker 2: basketball at that time so much. I saw him play
Speaker 2: and I was absolutely captivated. And then I thought, I
Speaker 2: just want to talk about basketball all day, every single day,
Speaker 2: and that's what I have done for the last forty
Speaker 2: years or so. I love it. I'm blessed. And there's
Speaker 2: been some challenges, as everybody has in life and adversity
Speaker 2: to get to where you want to go. Stubbornness is
Speaker 2: for sure, but I didn't have a real good plan
Speaker 2: b and I think that actually helped. I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's what I would encourage everybody else to have,
Speaker 2: but I knew that I didn't have anything else to
Speaker 2: go back on, so I kept going and going. I
Speaker 2: had a great support system, And I mentioned my wife
Speaker 2: and I were both from West and Mooyines. She's been
Speaker 2: with me from before I ever call the game ever,
Speaker 2: so she's always been in my corner. And I've been
Speaker 2: very blessed with people around me, helping me make decisions,
Speaker 2: helping me get opportunities, and taking advantage of those.
Speaker 1: Shoot your shot, like Bryan Seaman, it can work out
Speaker 1: for you. What are the traits of a great play
Speaker 1: by play man in your mind when you're watching a
Speaker 1: game and maybe grading an announcer because you can't help it,
Speaker 1: because you are when you're in the profession, What are
Speaker 1: you looking for?
Speaker 2: So? I want the sound to be big. If I'm
Speaker 2: watching a game, it's going to be an NBA game.
Speaker 2: I love the college game. I used to love love
Speaker 2: the college game. Now I just kind of watch it
Speaker 2: in and out unless there's a dynamic player that I
Speaker 2: need to see. So I'm watching an NBA game, whether
Speaker 2: it's a network game or a local game, which they
Speaker 2: all are network games now and when you have League Pass,
Speaker 2: everybody can tune in. I want to hear the sound.
Speaker 2: Does it sound like a big game? How prepared are you?
Speaker 2: Are you giving me stuff that I know is just
Speaker 2: in the game notes that we all get? Are you
Speaker 2: doing research on your own? Have you talked to players
Speaker 2: and coaches? Do you have backstories that don't necessarily need
Speaker 2: to take up three paragraphs of a game? Just a
Speaker 2: little side note, Oh yeah, he played for that coach
Speaker 2: ten years ago. They've remained close ever since. They texted
Speaker 2: each other. This morning, he makes two free throws back
Speaker 2: the other way, just like little things like that. And
Speaker 2: then how do you capture the big moment? And that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean you have to be in my favorite doing
Speaker 2: that of all time, And I think no one has
Speaker 2: ever captured a moment better than Kevin Harlan. Ever, it
Speaker 2: doesn't have to be that level of excitement. It's just
Speaker 2: how how do you? How do you what do you say?
Speaker 2: How do you frame it? And those are the things
Speaker 2: that I look for. And then I listened to that.
Speaker 2: I listen and watch all of my games multiple times
Speaker 2: throughout the year, and I'm a tough critic and I
Speaker 2: do the same thing, and there are days where I
Speaker 2: just I'm like, who did you fool to get here?
Speaker 2: Don't don't tell anybody because you are. And it's I
Speaker 2: watch him during the summer, and it can be it
Speaker 2: can be fine, and it can be very frustrating because
Speaker 2: I know I've got a long time until I call
Speaker 2: another game. When I watch him during the season, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: you weren't your best last night? Here's where you struggled.
Speaker 2: Don't do that again tomorrow. So I'm a fine tooth
Speaker 2: comb guy. I'm obsessive about the craft to play by play,
Speaker 2: not only for myself but for others. If I hear
Speaker 2: someone doing something really well, I'll call him and ask
Speaker 2: him where they got that idea. If I think somebody
Speaker 2: could be really good and I think they're kind of
Speaker 2: like Iffy in certain areas, I give them one man's
Speaker 2: opinion for them to throw it out, take it, do
Speaker 2: whatever they want with it. I just love the craft
Speaker 2: of storytelling that is play by play.
Speaker 1: I really do You mentioned Kevin Harlan there, But who's
Speaker 1: maybe a favorite announcer that you don't have a personal
Speaker 1: relationship with. You can't say, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know him that well, or No Eagle or me or
Speaker 1: anybody you know. I love golf with Joe Davis. Just
Speaker 1: somebody you maybe watch from Afar and go that guy
Speaker 1: has it right there.
Speaker 2: Boy, there's so many, and I've been around the league
Speaker 2: a while that I've gotten to know a lot of people,
Speaker 2: meaning like give me an example, like I don't have
Speaker 2: to know them, or I don't get to know them.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying, just no personal or relationship,
Speaker 1: no bias there, just so.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of relationships. I've been lucky. You mentioned.
Speaker 1: Let's just at this level, let.
Speaker 2: Me just say something about Noah. Can we just talk
Speaker 2: about Noah? He sir as I texted you, was predictably
Speaker 2: incredible for Teambu. I say, like, like I knew he
Speaker 2: was good, and he gets some noise. He gets a
Speaker 2: little bit of noise that I don't appreciate because he
Speaker 2: has some connections. Let me tell you, man, there's no
Speaker 2: one that's as good at basketball as he is. He
Speaker 2: crushed that stage beyond words, and it wasn't just capturing
Speaker 2: the moments. Like I mentioned, he had anecdotes, he had
Speaker 2: NBA references. He played off Dwayne Wade incredibly. Well, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Mike Turco might be the face of NBC, but make
Speaker 2: no mistake, Noah's the best basketball play by play guy
Speaker 2: they have on that roster. I was so proud of him,
Speaker 2: and I wasn't surprised, but I was just so happy
Speaker 2: for him. He was so good. So I would just say,
Speaker 2: I just who has it? Noah? Noah has it.
Speaker 1: Noah has the golden dagger call with that Steph Curry
Speaker 1: three pointer will live on for generations.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know Captain America with Lebromi, he just
Speaker 2: had so many good calls. But again, it was it
Speaker 2: was some of the just like after a rebound, he
Speaker 2: would just throw out a quick anecdote or a quick
Speaker 2: statistic mentioning the fever rules. Oh you know he's taken
Speaker 2: advantage of the feeble rules right there, because we're all
Speaker 2: used to the NBA rules. And Uh, he's always been
Speaker 2: a savant with foreigner names, like it's always I don't
Speaker 2: know how he does it. It's it really is a
Speaker 2: skill set that you are born with. But I was
Speaker 2: just so happy for him, and not in the least
Speaker 2: way surprised at how good he sounded.
Speaker 1: Uh, when you come up with a new call, a nickname,
Speaker 1: a phrase, does it hit you at once? Do you
Speaker 1: have to work shop it? Are there different ways you
Speaker 1: go about it? Because obviously the mere coffee stuff is
Speaker 1: next level, Like I don't think anybody has ever really
Speaker 1: experienced before from their local play by play guy, you
Speaker 1: make it special.
Speaker 2: Well, the mere stuff came out of necessity and I
Speaker 2: always like to reference that. I think he's a pretty
Speaker 2: pretty damn good player, so it isn't. I don't want
Speaker 2: to make it novelty for him, so the story behind
Speaker 2: that would be yeah, I actually did the first The
Speaker 2: first game we did was in Hawaii and Amir gets
Speaker 2: in and I in my mind, first game on television,
Speaker 2: I'm replacing a legend in Ralph Lawler. I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to get the boat out into the harbor. I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to bring on a personality too strong. That was
Speaker 2: always one of my things I didn't like about the
Speaker 2: ESPN anchors back in the nineties. A new guy would
Speaker 2: show up and then boom, he'd have like eighty catch phrases.
Speaker 2: You're just like, bro, slow down, man, Like that's too.
Speaker 1: Much, too much dip on your catch.
Speaker 2: I'm just like, I'm like, in my mind, I'm like,
Speaker 2: you're just going to call this game straight. You're going
Speaker 2: to be normal. You're just gonna let him know that
Speaker 2: you love the Clippers and that you love basketball. That
Speaker 2: was my goal really for the first year. Amir checks
Speaker 2: in in the first game and I just I can't
Speaker 2: help myself. I say, coffee to the cup, it's good,
Speaker 2: and I catch myself. I literally say I'll show myself
Speaker 2: out no more puns. I won't do it anymore. I apologize.
Speaker 2: Ha ha ha. Clippers lead by eighty or whatever it was.
Speaker 2: It was it the preseason, so I actually got some
Speaker 2: tweets that were like, no, we like coffee puns, keep
Speaker 2: doing it. Amir didn't really have much of a role
Speaker 2: that year until the Bubble, and so when I look
Speaker 2: at the role of a play by play guy, what
Speaker 2: do I have that that the regular fan? What do
Speaker 2: we have at them that regular fans don't have access
Speaker 2: to the team, ability to talk to coaches and players,
Speaker 2: get behind the scenes stories. When the when the scene
Speaker 2: shifted to the Bubble, I no longer had any of that.
Speaker 2: I was just basically I had all the information that
Speaker 2: my next door neighbor had by reading the paper. I
Speaker 2: had nothing. I had nothing. So I felt, Okay, I
Speaker 2: don't have info, I don't have background stuff. But we
Speaker 2: need to be entertaining now. We need to have something
Speaker 2: that is fun. So when Amir came into the game,
Speaker 2: I had a few in my head and then we
Speaker 2: would joke about it. Chauncey Billups and I we would
Speaker 2: joke about it. Christina Peak, we would have fun in
Speaker 2: our pregame meetings and come up with stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But that's how that came up. I don't like to
Speaker 2: premeditate those things. To be very honest with you, A
Speaker 2: lot of whatever calls I might have, let's say it's
Speaker 2: just a regular a dunk happens, and I'm like, you
Speaker 2: know what would be next time that happens? Say this
Speaker 2: in in the moment, like you kind of file it away,
Speaker 2: and you know, sometimes they're they're good, sometimes they're forgettable.
Speaker 2: I enjoy the creativity part. I'm learning as you go
Speaker 2: on to kind of narrow it down. It's not not
Speaker 2: every game has to be the super Bowl of catch phrases.
Speaker 2: You know, one or two a game gets it done.
Speaker 2: And I'm really not trying. I don't have a list,
Speaker 2: I don't have a I need to get this in.
Speaker 2: This is I haven't said this today in the next game,
Speaker 2: next next play, I'm going to just force it in there.
Speaker 2: I don't really care. I don't really I don't really
Speaker 2: keep tabs on it so much.
Speaker 1: Riot Seam as our guest here on Clipperstock saying, sometimes
Speaker 1: less is more the Vince Scully approach to calls. Rightfully,
Speaker 1: so is there has there ever been a call, or
Speaker 1: a phrase you've used in the past, you tried it out,
Speaker 1: you didn't like it, it didn't hit the right note.
Speaker 1: How do you overcome something like that as a young broadcaster.
Speaker 2: I never really think about them. To be honest, I
Speaker 2: don't grade them again. It's it's and I don't think
Speaker 2: this is a unique skill for play by play guys.
Speaker 2: I think all of us have this kind of as
Speaker 2: our brain. The way it works is a play happens,
Speaker 2: and in a micro second you can go through your
Speaker 2: mental rolodex and be like, this is what I want
Speaker 2: to say about it, and it happens. Obviously, the play
Speaker 2: happens like that. I'm not saying I'm smarter. My processing
Speaker 2: speed up here is not faster than anybody's. It's just
Speaker 2: the way that we have been wired to do this.
Speaker 2: I just think it goes through your mind of all
Speaker 2: these things that you can say, have said, maybe want
Speaker 2: to say, so I never really grade them, and I
Speaker 2: never go back and look and be like that was lame.
Speaker 2: I'm never going to say that again. There are probably
Speaker 2: many that people think are lame that I wish would
Speaker 2: never be heard again. But I don't like grade them
Speaker 2: that way. The only one that I think I ever
Speaker 2: went into premeditated was it was a playoff game in
Speaker 2: twenty twelve. We're playing Memphis and it was May fifth,
Speaker 2: and the day before Adam Yak passed away with the
Speaker 2: Beastie Boys, and I was a Beastie Boy fan, and
Speaker 2: I remember the night before. I'm like, I want to
Speaker 2: just give a hat tip that maybe only I recognize.
Speaker 2: So I look through all of their I look through
Speaker 2: all of their songs and I'm going through lyrics and
Speaker 2: I'm like, there's nothing I can do here that wouldn't
Speaker 2: be super contrived. Don't do it. The Beastie Boys would
Speaker 2: not appreciate it, So don't do it. And so I
Speaker 2: let it go. And then we get into the game
Speaker 2: and Reggie Evans has a breakaway dunk and he throws
Speaker 2: it down, and the mental rollodecks. Again, it's not that
Speaker 2: we're smarter than anybody else. I'm like, wait a second.
Speaker 2: The album was Hello, Nasty and Honest to God, That's
Speaker 2: how that came about. That was I wanted. I wanted
Speaker 2: a premeditated Beastie Boys thing, but I didn't have it
Speaker 2: in line, and it was that was I always liked
Speaker 2: that one and if nobody likes it, that's fine. I
Speaker 2: just dig the Beastie Boys and my sons. Actually that
Speaker 2: we had a bond with the boys and it was good.
Speaker 2: It was good.
Speaker 1: It is great. Uh, maybe on a turnover, ill communication or.
Speaker 2: I was always trying to work in three M season
Speaker 2: one DJ when we had Dennis, or uh, when we
Speaker 2: had DeAndre, and I was like, no, you're gonna ruin it.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be awful. Don't do it, do not do it.
Speaker 2: And I never, I thankfully listened to myself. I didn't
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: Well, we love that Hello Nasty as part of the repertoire,
Speaker 1: part of your bag. Now, is there any element to
Speaker 1: radio you miss besides me? Is there any element to
Speaker 1: radio and just how you have to call a game
Speaker 1: there that you sometimes miss?
Speaker 2: Oh? Radio is is such a fun, fun place to exist.
Speaker 2: It is to cliche in our business. It's a blank canvas.
Speaker 2: So whatever I see, I can tell, whatever I want
Speaker 2: you to see, I can paint that picture. And it
Speaker 2: was so fun. You're the you're the producer, you're the director,
Speaker 2: you're the voice, you're all of it. And I just
Speaker 2: I missed that element of it and just uh, you know,
Speaker 2: when I was climbing the ladder, I remember, uh, trying
Speaker 2: to describe as much as I could. So I would
Speaker 2: draw a basketball court. I would draw the benches, and
Speaker 2: I would draw the crowd, and I'd be like, okay,
Speaker 2: these are the things, all the things that I can
Speaker 2: describe in a game. And when I do a game,
Speaker 2: I would follow the court with a pencil, making sure
Speaker 2: I had all the places where the ball was. I
Speaker 2: just miss, you know, staying on top of the action
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 1: But I tell you, Brian seem as a hard worker.
Speaker 2: But then on on on the TV side, what I
Speaker 2: what you give up on on radio and you gain
Speaker 2: on TV is again a less is more approach, and
Speaker 2: I'm still working on that. That's it's not easy to
Speaker 2: let go of the radio kind of background that I have.
Speaker 2: But what I love, love, love, love love is the
Speaker 2: production crew. It's the collaboration. There's a producer in my ear,
Speaker 2: sometimes there's a director in my ear. Sometimes I'm talking
Speaker 2: to one or both of them. You know, I'm hitting
Speaker 2: Mike Frotello and or Jim Jackson like hey do you
Speaker 2: have something to say here? Or Hey remember that conversation
Speaker 2: we had. Here's the time to talk about it. I
Speaker 2: just love the team element that we have on television,
Speaker 2: so they both have amazing attributes. If all of the same,
Speaker 2: I think I probably prefer the group effort, like the
Speaker 2: Big ten to twelve production crew. But I think at
Speaker 2: the end of it, all those have been I remember
Speaker 2: Ralph would always say, this is like a tin can
Speaker 2: and a string. This is the best way to do it.
Speaker 2: You know how you communicated with treehouses back in the
Speaker 2: late and you know whatever in the late nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's just fun. It's just a fun way to
Speaker 2: do it, and you just have your own world. You
Speaker 2: don't have graphics, you don't have any of that stuff.
Speaker 2: It's just being a play by play guy is all
Speaker 2: I've ever wanted to do. I've been lucky to do
Speaker 2: it on both mediums, and I just I pinched myself
Speaker 2: every day. I never take one of these days for granted.
Speaker 2: I really don't.
Speaker 1: You mentioned your color analysts there with Mike Rotello and
Speaker 1: Jim Jackson, two different guys, two different styles. How do
Speaker 1: you blend your personality and no matter who you're next
Speaker 1: to that night.
Speaker 2: With the TZAR, I go less pop culture references. If
Speaker 2: there are any to be made, and sometimes I'll make
Speaker 2: it knowing full well he doesn't have any idea who
Speaker 2: it is. And then sometimes he'll say something that is surprising,
Speaker 2: that is fun, And the thing of it is, does
Speaker 2: everyone knew who the Zar was before he was a clipper?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like they knew how great
Speaker 2: he was at his job. They knew his delivery, they
Speaker 2: knew his style, they knew his knowledge. And I'm being
Speaker 2: I can't be more serious than I am right now.
Speaker 2: So it's nineteen ninety. NBC just got the NBA rights, Okay,
Speaker 2: So now they got him again here in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four and it'll start next year. So twenty thirty four
Speaker 2: years ago, Mike Fotello and Marv Albert are calling games.
Speaker 2: Bob Costas is the pre im post guy for the
Speaker 2: NBC broadcast. And I learned everything I could ever learn
Speaker 2: about how I'm in right now because of all three
Speaker 2: of those guys, the wit and the charm of Bob Costas,
Speaker 2: the delivery the understated delivery of Marv Albert, and the
Speaker 2: knowledge of the game. And no one is better at
Speaker 2: the tellustrator. There's a reason he's called the Zar of
Speaker 2: the Illustrator. That's why he got the job. No One
Speaker 2: in NBC, all the people that they brought in, no
Speaker 2: one knew how to work the telestrator, but the czar.
Speaker 2: He was supposed to be the kind of analyst in
Speaker 2: the studio. But because he could work it so well
Speaker 2: and then they had lightning in a bottle with he
Speaker 2: and Marv, they shipped them over to TV. So for
Speaker 2: thirty four years plus, because I remember him being the
Speaker 2: coach of Atlanta. Remember TBS the superstation, and they would
Speaker 2: broadcast all of the Hawk games. So I lived in Iowa,
Speaker 2: I still saw the games in Atlanta, every NBA game
Speaker 2: they had them on in Des Moines. So I've known
Speaker 2: of the czar since I was in single digits. And
Speaker 2: my wife and I just started dating when he was
Speaker 2: doing NBC, and I would be like, you understand the
Speaker 2: world that I'm living in going with Mike Frtello, So
Speaker 2: I went around the block to go next door. I
Speaker 2: keep it a lot more simple and pretty more straightforward
Speaker 2: with the czar. We start that way with Jim, and
Speaker 2: if the game can get sideways, I know we can
Speaker 2: go off on a little bit of a tangent. That's
Speaker 2: kind of fun, just a possession or two. I hope
Speaker 2: it doesn't go longer than that, where we can make
Speaker 2: a pop culture reference, or he can draw the veins
Speaker 2: on Bill Kennedy's arm when he's doing an official review
Speaker 2: and talk about how he's lifting. And when the game
Speaker 2: gets sideways or it gets kind of to be a
Speaker 2: rock fight, I like to lean on that a little bit,
Speaker 2: just so that there's something that's of value and entertaining
Speaker 2: other than the game, which sometimes can be difficult to watch.
Speaker 2: But I tell you, I watched Jim Jackson. I grew
Speaker 2: up in the Midwest. I watched Jim Jackson on Big Mondays.
Speaker 2: I followed his career. He was one of my favorite
Speaker 2: college players of all time. And here I am, so
Speaker 2: many years later, working with these guys, texting these people,
Speaker 2: going to dinner with them, sometimes not picking up the
Speaker 2: phone when they call because I'm like, all right, for tello,
Speaker 2: I got stuff to do. Like it's just crazy. It's
Speaker 2: a crazy world that I've been living in. I really
Speaker 2: don't know how I got here, who I fooled, and
Speaker 2: whether I was born unto a lucky star or made
Speaker 2: a deal with the devil. One of those things is true.
Speaker 2: I've been very lucky.
Speaker 1: Now I'm saying the same stuff about working with you.
Speaker 1: Best performance you've seen and called a game for by
Speaker 1: a Clipper's team or an individual performance.
Speaker 2: That's a tough one. The individual one is hard, obviously,
Speaker 2: Kawhi Game three, Dallas, first Round twenty twenty one comes to.
Speaker 1: Mind down nineteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll tell you I've never been more frightened
Speaker 2: than I was. I've been in a I've been in
Speaker 2: a bank stick up, I have been in three car crashes,
Speaker 2: and once attacked by King Cobra. And I was more
Speaker 2: nervous and scared than I was when we were down
Speaker 2: in the first quarter, that we were going to go
Speaker 2: down three to zero.
Speaker 1: It was does echis commercial? The most interesting man in
Speaker 1: the world here, What life have you lived?
Speaker 2: Well? It actually it wasn't a King Cobra. It turned
Speaker 2: out it was just an extension cord hanging from our
Speaker 2: ceiling in the garage. But I thought it was a
Speaker 2: King Cobra. And I know how I would react now
Speaker 2: that if I was ever to be attacked by one.
Speaker 2: So I can go ahead and give you the same comparison.
Speaker 2: The best game, I would say one of my favorite
Speaker 2: games was obviously the twenty seven point comeback against Memphis
Speaker 2: in the playoffs Game one, Round one, late April twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: But one that just really stood out to me wasn't
Speaker 2: the thirty one point comeback against Golden State. It was
Speaker 2: the Game five where we controlled from start to finish,
Speaker 2: And it's worth pointing out at that time and maybe
Speaker 2: we could still make this case. You argue with me
Speaker 2: if you want to. Is that the greatest starting five
Speaker 2: of all time? Curry, Durant, Klay Thompson. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 2: is there a better one than that? No, I think
Speaker 2: And that was the best offense in league history at
Speaker 2: that point in time. And what ended up happening in
Speaker 2: Game six, because the Clippers had played so well and
Speaker 2: Doc Doc was really coaching that team and it was
Speaker 2: really fun, they had to make the first real in
Speaker 2: game adjustment they had to. They I think they started
Speaker 2: Sean Livingston when we were starting Jamichael Green. We made
Speaker 2: the best team in the league play differently, and then
Speaker 2: we won that game fair and square. It was an
Speaker 2: absolute I just remember the feeling of control that whole game. Adam,
Speaker 2: There's literally three dozen games that I could list. Those
Speaker 2: are the ones that just currently jump out. Now, there
Speaker 2: were some fun games this year, the thirty five point
Speaker 2: comeback in Washington. Any double digit comeback is fun. Really
Speaker 2: love all the games for their value, I really do.
Speaker 2: But when you have a buzzer beater, you have something
Speaker 2: on the line, it's it's just a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: It's just it's really the adrenaline and just the connection
Speaker 2: you get to that game and that team is it's
Speaker 2: hard to describe what's.
Speaker 1: Your pregame routine when it comes to diet and the
Speaker 1: caffeine intake. I have an idea with the caffeine.
Speaker 2: And you've seen it. I never eat before a game
Speaker 2: unless it's like something really good in the in the
Speaker 2: media room. So I eat a big lunch and I
Speaker 2: usually fast for until breakfast. My brain, if you haven't
Speaker 2: learned by now, is wired much differently than anybody else's.
Speaker 2: So I take and so it's I hate the name,
Speaker 2: it's rock Star. I just love the flavor and it
Speaker 2: has a ton of caffeine in it. But it doesn't
Speaker 2: hype me up. It brings me down. It really levels
Speaker 2: me down, and I get really focused, and that's why
Speaker 2: I drink it. I actually go to bed. I go
Speaker 2: to bed quite easily after a game, even though I
Speaker 2: just drank, however many eighteen ounces sixteen ounces of a
Speaker 2: heavily induced caffeine beverage. But my pregame routine is that,
Speaker 2: and then I like to the forty five minutes before
Speaker 2: tip I just kind of sit by myself and I
Speaker 2: just think of all the possible scenarios how I want
Speaker 2: to start it out just in my head. If I
Speaker 2: have a question of the analyst, I'll say, hey, do
Speaker 2: you want me to talk about this, or hey, kind
Speaker 2: of bring this up with you at some point in time.
Speaker 2: But I like to be very quiet just about forty
Speaker 2: five minutes before the game and just get into my
Speaker 2: own little world.
Speaker 1: I want to shift into talking more about this Clippers
Speaker 1: team and where things are headed, and that of course
Speaker 1: includes talking about the biggest offseason move, which was Paul
Speaker 1: George leaving for Philadelphia. Just what was your initial reaction
Speaker 1: when you knew he was going to Philly and where
Speaker 1: are you at with it now? Processing wise? Because you
Speaker 1: know he is an all time Clipper. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people were saying he's a top five all
Speaker 1: time Clipper. I'd love to get your insight on that
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I have him ranked yet. I
Speaker 2: am good with the decision on both ends. I don't
Speaker 2: have any ill will. I think he made the right choice.
Speaker 2: I think the Clippers made the right choice. I will
Speaker 2: say this. I remember feeling that, Listen, I don't think
Speaker 2: he's getting a max deal. This is going into the
Speaker 2: Dallas series, and I said, what if he plays out
Speaker 2: like he shows out and we win the series and
Speaker 2: he's thirty five ten nine on incredible shoots and on
Speaker 2: splits and we win the series. I'm like, I don't
Speaker 2: know what they're going to do with that. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you saw the box scores at him that
Speaker 2: that did not happen, and I thought it was an
Speaker 2: easier decision to move on. I'll be honest. I was
Speaker 2: very disappointed in his play in the playoffs, but he
Speaker 2: gave us some fun moments. You know, getting the getting
Speaker 2: to the conference finals is not going to be the
Speaker 2: peak of the mountain for this organization. It's just not
Speaker 2: going to be. And there's going to be several trips
Speaker 2: to the finals and there's going to be trophies over
Speaker 2: the next ten fifteen years. I promise you, I know it.
Speaker 2: I will just say Paul George led led us to
Speaker 2: the conference finals, and I will will never be a
Speaker 2: moment I will forget that night leaving Staples. The crowds
Speaker 2: were that, the streets were packed, everyone was yelling Let's
Speaker 2: go Clippers. It was such a community, it was so awesome.
Speaker 2: That's what I'll remember Paul George for. That's what I
Speaker 2: would like to remember. He was a very nice guy.
Speaker 2: I think he talked too much. I don't think he
Speaker 2: I don't think he held himself accountable as much as
Speaker 2: he should have. But I wish him well in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: He's a very nice guy. There's he was always approachable
Speaker 2: and I always appreciate that in players. And I'll never
Speaker 2: forget the joy we all had. It was a July fifth,
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen when we found out Kawhi was coming, PG
Speaker 2: was coming. I mean, that was a great day. And
Speaker 2: there'll be more days ahead for Clippers fans, I promise.
Speaker 1: What do you think the reception for him will be
Speaker 1: November sixth, when he returns to LA now in a
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy six ers uniform.
Speaker 2: It's going to be mixed, and I think it's going
Speaker 2: to be probably not as positive as it could have
Speaker 2: been if you just said, hey, I have no ill
Speaker 2: will to the Clippers, I'm getting what was it, seventy
Speaker 2: plus extra million dollars. You know. This is where they stood,
Speaker 2: This is where I stood. I wanted it to get
Speaker 2: a deal done, but I wanted a no trade clause.
Speaker 2: I get exactly his business plan, like, if you're going
Speaker 2: to give me a pay cut, then don't trade me.
Speaker 2: But if you're gonna not do that, give me the
Speaker 2: max so I can get it, because I can get
Speaker 2: it somewhere else, but I want to be here. But
Speaker 2: his comments on his podcast were disappointing. I think the
Speaker 2: B team remark was unnecessary. Some of his cohorts took
Speaker 2: to Twitter to kind of like bash the Clippers. The
Speaker 2: social media guru who has maybe over one thousand followers
Speaker 2: started taking shots at the Clippers. I don't even know
Speaker 2: their names. To be honest with you, I would always
Speaker 2: just fast forward to the interviews. If you're a guru
Speaker 2: in social media, to me, I think you need to
Speaker 2: have more than a thousand followers. I'll let you figure
Speaker 2: out who I'm talking about. I am not a social
Speaker 2: media guru, as you can tell. But I was disappointed.
Speaker 2: In that in the way that was handled. But I
Speaker 2: think he's gonna get some jeers and some cheers, and
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be probably more of the
Speaker 2: former than the latter. But there'll be a great tribute
Speaker 2: video for him. There'll be a lot of those twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one highlights. There's some game winners in there. He
Speaker 2: did a lot of good for the Clippers. It just
Speaker 2: wasn't enough. And to be fair, they were never whole.
Speaker 2: They were never whole even when they were a hole
Speaker 2: in the bubble. Mentally, no one was hold They didn't
Speaker 2: even want to be there. And we've only learned recently
Speaker 2: that they basically quit on that team. So they were
Speaker 2: never whole in their last game of the year, and
Speaker 2: that's always the thing. I'm going to be so disappointed
Speaker 2: at the what if with this team, and there's no
Speaker 2: one that's gonna tell me different. We have two championships,
Speaker 2: maybe three if those two guys are healthy and rolling.
Speaker 2: There's no one telling me that we wouldn't have won
Speaker 2: two or three times.
Speaker 1: No one in moving past the two point three era
Speaker 1: and into this season with the current roster construction, who
Speaker 1: do you think they're gonna need more often production from
Speaker 1: now between of eats a Zoo Bots and Terrence Man,
Speaker 1: who gets featured more on the offensive end, because obviously
Speaker 1: some of that lost production will have to be made
Speaker 1: up for.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be Zoo. I think Zoo's gonna
Speaker 2: see a big spike and it's gonna be great for him.
Speaker 2: I'm such a Zoo fan. I feel he could finish
Speaker 2: his career here. I would love it. I just feel
Speaker 2: he plays his role as well as you can play
Speaker 2: that role, and with him being kind of an outlet
Speaker 2: for Harden in a pick and roll, they found a
Speaker 2: nice little groove together. I think James has another chance.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if our offense is
Speaker 2: going to be that great, but James has a chance
Speaker 2: to be high up there and assists in terms of
Speaker 2: league average. And I think this is a great year
Speaker 2: for Terrence Man. I'm super excited for him. I'll probably
Speaker 2: say this on the air when we get to the
Speaker 2: preseason in the regular season, but I've never once judged
Speaker 2: Terrence by his numbers, never, and I'm not going to
Speaker 2: start doing that this year. But I think you're gonna
Speaker 2: be able to see tangible things with Terrence. He found
Speaker 2: that stroke, that three point shot at the start of
Speaker 2: the new year. He just knows where to be. He's
Speaker 2: just a great dude to have on the team. So
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to those guys. Those are your four scores.
Speaker 2: After that, we've got Norman Powell and then I'm a
Speaker 2: little concerned on the depth chart of scoring. Who's gonna
Speaker 2: get it done. But I'm really looking forward to seeing Zoo,
Speaker 2: who I thought was could you make the case he
Speaker 2: was first or second best player in that series against
Speaker 2: Dallas after James, Right, Yeah, I think he's gonna get
Speaker 2: a real opportunity. That's just how I feel. Tyler might
Speaker 2: see something different. But I'm looking forward to those two guys.
Speaker 2: I've been fans of there since day one and looking
Speaker 2: forward to see how they do this year.
Speaker 1: Speaking of coach lou he joked a little bit after
Speaker 1: they lost the series in Game six postgame saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going back to loadvantagement because Kawhi Leonard obviously was
Speaker 1: noticeably absent once again. Unfortunately that right knee swelling up
Speaker 1: after the Charlotte game on March thirty. First, how do
Speaker 1: you think they approached this season just attacking the Kawhi
Speaker 1: injury issues that gone on. How did they handle it?
Speaker 2: It's a great question because it wasn't an event, right,
Speaker 2: It wasn't like he bump knees with somebody two weeks
Speaker 2: before and it started to really kind of play through it.
Speaker 2: This was seemingly from what we see now, and I
Speaker 2: truly only know what everyone else knows. Everyone knows it's
Speaker 2: a very quiet situation around Kawhi, and I respect that.
Speaker 2: What are they going to do? I mean you have
Speaker 2: to think back to backs are off the table, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what I would predict. If you can
Speaker 2: get sixty games out of Kawhi in the regular season,
Speaker 2: I'd be happy about that. Again, we would just be
Speaker 2: happy having him in the playoffs. I think that would
Speaker 2: be great. Now, what are the playoffs? What what are
Speaker 2: we looking for? I mean, the ceiling is, let's be
Speaker 2: honest today in the middle of August. The ceiling to
Speaker 2: me is a sixth seed. That's what I think we're
Speaker 2: going for, and that listen to me. I think this
Speaker 2: year is going to be a blast, if you want
Speaker 2: me to be really honest. Last year was so much
Speaker 2: fun once they found their groove. But one thing that
Speaker 2: I love are big games, and when you're one of
Speaker 2: the elite teams, there's not as many big games. Right Like,
Speaker 2: there's you can play Boston, you can play ok See,
Speaker 2: you can play now Minnesota is pretty good. But not
Speaker 2: all those games pan out, not everybody's playing. I think
Speaker 2: we had maybe four, maybe five big games last year
Speaker 2: where everyone was playing. No one was on some kind
Speaker 2: of crazy bender of a schedule that they were just
Speaker 2: wiped out. This year, you're gonna have I think double
Speaker 2: triple that in terms of games that matter for the Clippers,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna have vibes that we did back in
Speaker 2: twenty one twenty two where it was so much fun
Speaker 2: and those guys played so hard. We've got a lot
Speaker 2: of role players on this team that can play defense.
Speaker 2: We've got two superstars, one that's won a title, one
Speaker 2: that's won an MVP. If they can put together, if
Speaker 2: those two guys play one hundred and twenty to one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty games between the two of them, we
Speaker 2: could have a real shot at the six, maybe the five,
Speaker 2: but I'm anticipating mid forties in the wins and but
Speaker 2: really competing and being in that top six is what
Speaker 2: I think the goal would be in the regular season,
Speaker 2: and I think that's a fun year. I really do.
Speaker 2: Like if you're not gonna win, it, have something that
Speaker 2: you can achieve, not just get in the playing game,
Speaker 2: but be in that top six. I think it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a blast. I think this team's gonna play hard,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Part of what's gonna make this season so special is,
Speaker 1: of course moving into into a dome. If you can't tell,
Speaker 1: Brian's still on the crypto Wi Fi a little bit
Speaker 1: with the video glitchick in and out, but the voice
Speaker 1: is fine.
Speaker 2: So that's all.
Speaker 1: That's all we care about. At at into a dome,
Speaker 1: it will be very different. I just got a tour
Speaker 1: of it on Sunday. Brian. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: already been there. I don't know if they showed you
Speaker 1: your seat. But what are you looking forward to most
Speaker 1: about the Clippers new and first home.
Speaker 2: So it's unbelievable and I don't want this to be overhyped.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure you could do it like not
Speaker 2: to a Clipper fan anyway. You know, this is an
Speaker 2: organization that what twenty five well when I first started,
Speaker 2: which was an O seven. They were to seeing what
Speaker 2: is now the Bay Club in El Segundo, which meant
Speaker 2: they walked through the public lobby. They they they played,
Speaker 2: they showered with the regular folks. They were in a
Speaker 2: really weird spot. I've lost you here, Adam, Can you
Speaker 2: see me?
Speaker 1: I got you Ryn.
Speaker 2: Click to full screen, click exit to full screen. Let's
Speaker 2: try that. I can't see you. But if it's all
Speaker 2: good on your end, that's fine. I don't want to
Speaker 2: overhype this thing. I will just tell you it's flawless.
Speaker 2: I was there for the and I saw your wonderful
Speaker 2: video where your it was it your podcast? You maybe
Speaker 2: did that. They had six the beta test where they
Speaker 2: had six thousand people there. This was on July July twentieth.
Speaker 2: This was about almost a month ago. So they had
Speaker 2: a beta test where they wanted to see how how
Speaker 2: the software worked and how the facial recognition worked and
Speaker 2: all this kind of stuff. So there were six thousand
Speaker 2: people there and I'm getting to the point of what
Speaker 2: I think this is going to be the really best
Speaker 2: part of it. They were all scattered. There were maybe
Speaker 2: I want to say, maybe thirty people consolidated in the
Speaker 2: wall only thirty of the huge wall, six thousand people
Speaker 2: spread from top to bottom. There was no like massive
Speaker 2: gaggle of fans aside from that one area in the
Speaker 2: wall that was maybe one twentieth full. So during this presentation,
Speaker 2: Steve Palmer says, let's see how loud we can get
Speaker 2: this place. I happened to be sitting right behind where
Speaker 2: the visiting bench would be. I want to be abundantly
Speaker 2: clear about this again, six thousand people completely spread out.
Speaker 2: It was so loud at them I had to plug
Speaker 2: my ears. The decibel level and I don't know if
Speaker 2: this is high, I will say that it's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Was one twelve six thousand people, the way it is
Speaker 2: angled and and the way that the sound was just
Speaker 2: jumping around that place. I literally plugged my ears. It
Speaker 2: was that loud. And I just looked over to my
Speaker 2: wife and we just started laughing. Staple Center is a
Speaker 2: wonderful arena, and I will always consider that a home
Speaker 2: of mind. But the way it is designed, and the
Speaker 2: way these arenas are designed, it's flat and the end
Speaker 2: they can get loud. Don't get me wrong, Staples has
Speaker 2: been amazing. This is going to take it to another level.
Speaker 2: And the wall I promise you is going to be
Speaker 2: the heart and soul of that building. It will be
Speaker 2: a place, in my opinion, if you're a Clipper fan,
Speaker 2: you have to go to at least one game and
Speaker 2: sit in that wall. I think it's going to generate
Speaker 2: an atmosphere unlike any in the NBA. I sincerely believe that,
Speaker 2: certainly for the big games, You're going to see NonStop cheering, hollering,
Speaker 2: all of it. It's going to be awesome. I'm very proud,
Speaker 2: I'm and I'm I'm super happy for Steve, Gillian Zucker,
Speaker 2: Chris Wallace. They all had a big hand in putting
Speaker 2: that together and it is flawless. It is wonderful, and
Speaker 2: it is a It'll be a real source of pride
Speaker 2: for Clippers all around forever. It is that great of
Speaker 2: an arena.
Speaker 1: Damn and damn is your third keyword, by the way,
Speaker 1: first person's foot All three into the comment section below
Speaker 1: from our last three shows, including this one with Brian
Speaker 1: Seaman wins a new Clipper hat. Brian. Something I like
Speaker 1: to get to do here at the end of shows
Speaker 1: to make things a little bit more unique here to
Speaker 1: Clippers talk is favorites least favorite. Anything can be a favorite,
Speaker 1: whether it is a TV show, a movie, you saw,
Speaker 1: an ice cream flavor, you tried something related to the Clippers.
Speaker 1: We'll start with that. I'm gonna just, you know, cheapen
Speaker 1: this a little bit and say, my favorite thing is
Speaker 1: just having you on today. I'm way too excited about
Speaker 1: posting this. Could we hurry up so I could post
Speaker 1: this episode? Give me, give me a favorite, a recommendation
Speaker 1: to the audience you'd like to.
Speaker 2: Give, give me a give me a guideline here. I
Speaker 2: know you gave me a very big one.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe your golf game even improved something there. Maybe uh,
Speaker 1: you watched Killing Him a Sacred Deer recently. I mean
Speaker 1: I gave for.
Speaker 2: Two years of you harping about it was it was
Speaker 2: very good. I did not I was expecting like a
Speaker 2: normal drama, and that's that's not what happened. Let me see,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you some shows I'm watching and I
Speaker 2: just got on. It might be late to this show.
Speaker 2: It is ten out of ten hacks On, it is
Speaker 2: very great.
Speaker 1: Um, you really looked at me strongly when you said
Speaker 1: hacks I didn't.
Speaker 2: I can't believe you picked up on that. I really don't. Man,
Speaker 2: I'm so plain. I don't even I've got to be
Speaker 2: prepared for this stuff.
Speaker 1: Because No, that's that's good. Hacks is great.
Speaker 2: And then there was another show I was watching that
Speaker 2: I really it was. I watched this a year ago.
Speaker 2: Uh it's called it's called jury Duty. It was. It
Speaker 2: was reality show where it's like one guy goes to
Speaker 2: jury duty and everyone literally else is an actor and
Speaker 2: they they stage a bunch of different scenarios. You will
Speaker 2: laugh out loud. The ending is a ten out of ten?
Speaker 2: What else? Give me one of your favorites? Help me
Speaker 2: out here?
Speaker 1: The Bear. I blew through the first two seasons in
Speaker 1: two weeks, and I still am waiting for season three
Speaker 1: to finish so then I can just binge the entire thing.
Speaker 2: And it's finished. It's been finished for a while.
Speaker 1: Is it finished?
Speaker 2: Okay? I think they released all of them that once.
Speaker 1: No did they not? That may have been the case
Speaker 1: on that, and it is it is.
Speaker 2: I loved it. It was great. It was absolutely great.
Speaker 1: I will say. What was the other show I was watching? Oh,
Speaker 1: it was a little show I think called Clipped, And
Speaker 1: it was better than I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1: And and of note. There was a montage I believe in
Speaker 1: the first episode and they were showing broadcasters court side
Speaker 1: and I looked at one and I said, that is
Speaker 1: the Brian Seman character. I don't know got credited. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're getting residual checks, but I swear
Speaker 1: there was a guy there, and there was a distinct resemblance.
Speaker 1: In episode one.
Speaker 2: He sounds handsome. I did watch clipped. I was not
Speaker 2: going to do it, and I thought the last three
Speaker 2: or four episodes were very good. I didn't I thought
Speaker 2: there were some inaccuracies in the beginning, not major. And
Speaker 2: I told my wife, I said, I'm gonna be the
Speaker 2: most annoying person to watch this show with. I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna be very honest with you, because literally every scene
Speaker 2: him like that didn't happen. Nope, that's not true. No,
Speaker 2: he wasn't wearing that shirt. He was wearing a red shirt.
Speaker 2: I know what he was wearing. It was Britian.
Speaker 1: Just did it guy.
Speaker 2: I didn't think they captured Doc spirit at all. I
Speaker 2: didn't like how they portrayed Doc. I thought at O'Neill,
Speaker 2: I think Ed O'Neill's a wonderful actor. That I got
Speaker 2: better as Sterling, but I didn't think he I don't
Speaker 2: know if I can get sued for them and not
Speaker 2: go on wood. He didn't give the creepiness that is
Speaker 2: Donald Sterling. He didn't feel it anyway. I didn't feel it.
Speaker 1: They almost tried to make him too much of an entertainer.
Speaker 2: He's not. He's not that he's It seemed like they.
Speaker 1: Portrayed him as much sharper than maybe he was at
Speaker 1: that time.
Speaker 2: He might be his business. I never spoke business with him.
Speaker 2: I just I didn't feel that that was the same vibe.
Speaker 2: Doc was way off. I felt Sterling was a little off.
Speaker 2: Got better as the show went on. I never got
Speaker 2: to know Shelley at all, so I don't know what
Speaker 2: she was like. But I thought it was really well
Speaker 2: done at the end, I liked it. They did not
Speaker 2: use the same casting person that did Showtime, the HBO
Speaker 2: one and for clip the Showtime look alikes. I mean
Speaker 2: you could have literally seen them. You saw the actual player.
Speaker 2: I didn't know is that Blake Griffin or cam Christy.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what that one was. I
Speaker 2: don't know who Jamal.
Speaker 1: Blake was saying the same thing.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, I think I heard that they did not
Speaker 2: like the way Blake was not Blake Griffin, real Blake.
Speaker 2: They didn't like how he looked, so they basically cut
Speaker 2: him out of all the scenes. They didn't think it
Speaker 2: was proper. So it was good. I'm I would I'm
Speaker 2: glad I watched it. I lived through it, and it
Speaker 2: was it was I thought they did a decent job.
Speaker 2: There was a show came out during the pandemic called
Speaker 2: Blackballed and it was on it was on it it's
Speaker 2: not with us anymore, kibba. It was a quick bit quibi.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 1: Oh? I remember those? Yeah, that was.
Speaker 2: Really well done and it was with actual people and
Speaker 2: it was one accurate everything was Everything that was said
Speaker 2: and done was accurate. But yeah, it was good. I'm
Speaker 2: glad I watched it.
Speaker 1: Luckily, there's a happy ending for Clipper Nation. God bless
Speaker 1: Steve Balmer.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go least favorites. And it's me for forgetting
Speaker 1: to ask you this question. What will you remember most
Speaker 1: about Jerry West is a Clippers executing consultant.
Speaker 2: The instant credibility he gave and just seeing wisdom that
Speaker 2: he had. I mean, so I was lucky to do
Speaker 2: the introductory press conference. And this was in May of
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, and so to go back and revisit, we
Speaker 2: still have Chris Paul, we still have Blake Griffin. We
Speaker 2: are still technically Lob City. And I remember feeling this
Speaker 2: group is not this grouping, this group aing it. It
Speaker 2: isn't getting it done. Chris is a free agent. I
Speaker 2: know that if you lose Chris, you're not going to
Speaker 2: win many games. What's that due to Blake? What's that
Speaker 2: due to DeAndre? And there were just so many questions.
Speaker 2: And Jerry gets up and he goes, let me just
Speaker 2: tell you something. What's right isn't always popular, and what's
Speaker 2: popular isn't always right. And I said to myself, Yeah,
Speaker 2: these guys are gone, these guys are going to be
Speaker 2: We're going to start anew He gave you instant credibility.
Speaker 2: I already trusted Lawrence. I knew Lawrence. I knew that
Speaker 2: that front office was going to be great with or without.
Speaker 2: But what the Clippers did not have at that time
Speaker 2: was championship credibility at the highest level. That doesn't mean
Speaker 2: that Lawrence doesn't know more than Rob Polinka, who won
Speaker 2: a title in twenty two or you know pat Riley
Speaker 2: in Miami. It just means that he hasn't done it yet.
Speaker 2: So now that they bring in Jerry, Jerry's able to
Speaker 2: call the free agents and call these people and say, man,
Speaker 2: this is it, Steve Balmer, is it? These guys are
Speaker 2: going to win. Come here and be a part of it.
Speaker 2: He was a wise, wise man, and one thing that
Speaker 2: was always interesting Jerry would come into practices and come
Speaker 2: in to shoot a rounds and there'd be a huddle.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it was players, sometimes it was his cohorts in
Speaker 2: the front office, and within five seconds of him approaching
Speaker 2: that group, there was always gut busting laughter. So he
Speaker 2: came in there, busted someone's balls real quick and everyone laughed.
Speaker 2: I mean, he always brought some kind of humor with them,
Speaker 2: and he was beloved in that front office. And I
Speaker 2: think he made the Clippers an infinitely better place. I
Speaker 2: really do. Just his presence, just him saying that he's
Speaker 2: part of the Clippers was super important and he will
Speaker 2: be missed, but his job was absolutely well done, and
Speaker 2: I'm glad he was. I'm glad he was a Clipper.
Speaker 2: He really helped us out.
Speaker 1: I suppose We'll end this on an emotional note because
Speaker 1: I think I brought this up to you before in
Speaker 1: speaking to what you mean to me. I was the
Speaker 1: producer initially for the role I'm in now that host
Speaker 1: ended up leaving the Clippers after a year, and I
Speaker 1: thought I had this wild hair and I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: what if I did it? And I wrote down about
Speaker 1: ten different reasons here, including hey, Clippers like me, Ralph
Speaker 1: likes me. And I called Brian Seaman and I asked
Speaker 1: him what he thought, and he implored me to go
Speaker 1: for the job. And I wouldn't have this if it
Speaker 1: wasn't for your encouragement and support. And I can't say
Speaker 1: enough about how much I appreciate you as a coworker
Speaker 1: and a friend. And when things are going hard and
Speaker 1: I'm struggling and you give me a hug, itet lists
Speaker 1: my spirits and your phrase that rings true always the
Speaker 1: worst day in the NBA is the best day anywhere else.
Speaker 1: And so I just thank you. And I couldn't be happier,
Speaker 1: I know, Clipper, couldn't be happier that you are the
Speaker 1: voice of the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Well, I love you, Adam, and I did when you
Speaker 2: were just kind of even behind the scenes, and we
Speaker 2: would have our little kind of rap sessions. I just
Speaker 2: I knew that you were destined for bigger things, and
Speaker 2: I still know that. I still feel that way. I
Speaker 2: love listening to all the different podcasts you're on. I
Speaker 2: appreciate what you bring. You really do get it in
Speaker 2: the sense of you know that we're we're somewhere in
Speaker 2: the on the mountain. We're not quite the Celtics and
Speaker 2: the Lakers, but we're definitely not the bottom feeders. Were
Speaker 2: realistic and you help bring that out. And I just
Speaker 2: trust what you say. You have an elite level sense
Speaker 2: of humor, a distorted view of fonts. But nevertheless, I
Speaker 2: love you, and I know I speak for everybody. We're
Speaker 2: so lucky to have you. We really are. I think
Speaker 2: you do a wonderful job. You You brought the humor
Speaker 2: when we were on the show together, you and Noah
Speaker 2: brought it together. And now you and Carlo are doing
Speaker 2: the same thing. Carlo Jimenez, the young talented superstar to be.
Speaker 2: It's just Clipper is very blessed to have you for
Speaker 2: the last what is it now, six years?
Speaker 1: Six seven years. I haven't had a losing season since
Speaker 1: I've been here. Okay, I start before that.
Speaker 2: Well, I love it, Adam, and I'm happy to join
Speaker 2: you anytime. You know I love it.
Speaker 1: Yet I love you too, appreciate you coming on Clippers Talk.
Speaker 1: I've only been doing this about a week now. Guys,
Speaker 1: I may get up one hundred episodes before the season starts.
Speaker 1: We still have two months to go. So what do
Speaker 1: they say? Subscribe and save? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Hit the smash, smash that subscribe button for the dings.
Speaker 2: Come on, you got to get that down.
Speaker 1: I don't know if any other episode is going to
Speaker 1: reach the rating spike that we're getting from Brian Seamen
Speaker 1: being on today, but I will do my best. This
Speaker 1: has been another episode of Clippers Talk. Brian Semen, I'm
Speaker 1: Adam Moslin. We will talk to you next time.
Speaker 2: Are you wearing pants? Please keep that in there.