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Speaker 1: Makes me feel sick.
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Speaker 1: That's your best bet. Man. I'm really conflicted about all this.
Speaker 1: I think skin your approach is a healthy one. It's
Speaker 1: a smart, practical, intelligent way to look at it. I'm
Speaker 1: just still in the middle of my tantrum because I
Speaker 1: didn't I wouldn't have ever traded Luca, and I didn't
Speaker 1: never want him to be traded, and I thought we
Speaker 1: were gonna have him for the next decade. So I'm
Speaker 1: still upset about that. I know I can't change it,
Speaker 1: but it still hurts too much. I just need time
Speaker 1: to heal time. The Anthony Davis injury really makes it
Speaker 1: hard to move on to So as Luca just continues
Speaker 1: to play himself into better and better shape, find his rhythm,
Speaker 1: you are going to get a vengeance game. I would
Speaker 1: think tonight from Luca. Maybe I thought I thought he
Speaker 1: looked dynamite against the Nugs. He really looked good. The
Speaker 1: spicy nugs. I mean, I don't know if he's one
Speaker 1: hundred percent from the injury, he's back fully in shape,
Speaker 1: ready to go. I don't know, But I know that
Speaker 1: this is a guy who looks for somebody on the
Speaker 1: second row of a visiting arena or when he's going
Speaker 1: to you know, the visitors arena, who even gives him
Speaker 1: a dirty look, just something to inspire him or motive
Speaker 1: what you say to me, Okay, now I can take
Speaker 1: my game to that higher level. So he needs something,
Speaker 1: and a lot of greats have been that way. Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan was that way. He needs some sort of adversity,
Speaker 1: some conflict, Oh you doubt me, Oh you talk trash
Speaker 1: about me to take his game to the next level.
Speaker 1: In this case, getting traded from the Mavericks cost him
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten million dollars plus all the income
Speaker 1: tax he's got to pay now, which people are like, hey,
Speaker 1: why is he so sad? Like he seems so Yeah,
Speaker 1: he just lost one hundred and ten million dollars and
Speaker 1: he didn't want to go anywhere. But but how bad
Speaker 1: it sucks to move in February. But now you know,
Speaker 1: there was this thing where sources close to Luca indicate
Speaker 1: that this trade has a litle fire under him. Mm.
Speaker 1: And so now he's gonna go get in the best
Speaker 1: shape of his life, which is something we we wondered about.
Speaker 1: And if your Nico and the Mavericks, you're like, hey man,
Speaker 1: that's not fair, that's butterfly effect. Yeah, that wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 1: And we stayed on this trajectory because we were trying
Speaker 1: to get that to happen and it never happened. But
Speaker 1: now that this trade happened, you can't compare that pissed
Speaker 1: off Luca to the one we had.
Speaker 3: I think that I think that I don't know, it
Speaker 3: was just I would be shocked if they didn't ponder
Speaker 3: that that, hey, when we trade him, we're he's gonna
Speaker 3: go do everything we wanted from him. If that is
Speaker 3: really what it is, Like We're we're facing this off
Speaker 3: of reports and conversation and all this stuff. And so
Speaker 3: I would think, because like we were talking about that
Speaker 3: the night it happened, it's like, okay, well they're about
Speaker 3: to go get what you wanted, right, Like you're about
Speaker 3: to go motivate him to be everything, and you know
Speaker 3: what he can be, and you know how rare that
Speaker 3: talent is.
Speaker 1: So I have a couple questions.
Speaker 2: Hey, well, first of all, when it comes any reports
Speaker 2: about him, like working hard and all that stuff and
Speaker 2: the PCT, I think habits are developed over time, like
Speaker 2: and I think he's twenty five. And that's why I
Speaker 2: think the magage should have been more patient with that.
Speaker 2: Tonight specifically, there's a couple things. You know, Sunday, Nico
Speaker 2: was sitting in the crowd with Michael Finlay, and you know,
Speaker 2: watching the game, Luca knocks down a three. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe it's his second or third three point or whatever.
Speaker 1: Are we getting a.
Speaker 2: Little some MFN back and forth to Nico? You think
Speaker 2: that is a storyline? I think I wonder.
Speaker 1: About you think Nico is going to be visible? I
Speaker 1: mean it was an eyeshot. As a MAVs fan, I
Speaker 1: hope not. But for the story, I hope he is.
Speaker 2: If he's on the road trip and he normally does
Speaker 2: sit in the crowd, I think he will be in
Speaker 2: the crowd.
Speaker 1: Where would Nico normally sit.
Speaker 3: They usually provide seats for the GM and so it'd
Speaker 3: probably be you know, fifth row, somewhere visible to the players.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So what do you think is gonna happen
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna I think Nico's gonna stand up
Speaker 3: with his arms folded the whole time. He's gonna sit
Speaker 3: there and Luca's gonna dog cuz He's gonna stand up
Speaker 3: with his.
Speaker 1: Arms folded and he's gonna mean mug Luca. No, I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: That's a really good question, man. I actually, uh, what
Speaker 3: was the last game they played here? Is that the
Speaker 3: Pelicans Friday night?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Pelicans. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I turned around and you know, Nico was standing there
Speaker 3: and I hadn't seen him in person since the trade
Speaker 3: went down, and it kind of freaked me out a
Speaker 3: little bit. He's back at home games, Yeah, well where
Speaker 3: I saw him, but it was just I mean I
Speaker 3: just hadn't seen him at all. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 3: that's part of the story, like you see him on
Speaker 3: the road. I mean, I knew he was in the building.
Speaker 3: I just personally hadn't seen him. So it was just
Speaker 3: kind of weird to see him in person because of
Speaker 3: everything that's happened, Like the man got death threats, and
Speaker 3: people were so upset that we knew that he got
Speaker 3: death threats that they started calling the Dallas Police Department
Speaker 3: to confirm whether or not he got I mean, that's
Speaker 3: how idiotic the whole story is, Like, it's insane. It
Speaker 3: is the craziest sports story of however many decades. The
Speaker 3: way it's impacting people, the entire league, I mean, the
Speaker 3: entire All Star weekend was about a trade that was
Speaker 3: two weeks old.
Speaker 1: Even still there's like the conspiracy theories. Yeah, okay, wait
Speaker 1: just on its own, there's no way this makes sense.
Speaker 1: So how did this happen? This is the league trying
Speaker 1: to the Allison's trade up so they can move the
Speaker 1: team to Vegas, and the league had to get a
Speaker 1: superstar in LA And you're like, wait what, My good buddy,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put his name on.
Speaker 3: Blast because he listens. Brett Lieber, My good buddy, Brett
Speaker 3: Lieber said, oh, you watch, the Lakers will be the
Speaker 3: two seed and the Maps will be the seven seed.
Speaker 1: This is what the league wants.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, there's a lot that has to happen there.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of controlling a lot of different teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah but yeah, all that, but that goes away if
Speaker 2: it's a fair trade, Like the trade is still lopsided,
Speaker 2: that that right, It brings about questions like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and when you have new owners.
Speaker 2: It brought about the whole Vegas topic, which I don't
Speaker 2: think there's anything there, but you know, do.
Speaker 1: You know I can't throw something out there right quick. Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know what.
Speaker 3: The NBA has a history of new owners doing crazy
Speaker 3: things and partners foot in their mouth. Yeah, like it
Speaker 3: happens all the time. We just never think about it
Speaker 3: because we're not following the Sacramento Kings or we're not
Speaker 3: following the Grizzly you know what I'm saying. Like these
Speaker 3: new rich guy it's this new elite uber rich people
Speaker 3: that dominate other industries of life and they come in
Speaker 3: and real Famously, in the nineties, Frank Zach and Ellie
Speaker 3: the Mavericks were a real estate investment for Ross Pro Junior.
Speaker 3: He knew nothing about basketball. He wanted the He wanted
Speaker 3: the real estate and uptown, and so he had a
Speaker 3: real estate developer running the basketball operations. Because Keith Grant
Speaker 3: was like working for them for a week and said,
Speaker 3: uh uh, this is a joke.
Speaker 1: I'm out.
Speaker 3: So they let the real estate developer run the team,
Speaker 3: and so he traded a future Hall of Famer, the
Speaker 3: future seventy fifth greatest player of all time because the
Speaker 3: coach didn't like his fit in his offense, so the
Speaker 3: real estate developer traded him. And then the quote he
Speaker 3: gave the paper was, come on, man, it's not like
Speaker 3: this is brain surgery, or maybe he said rocket science.
Speaker 1: I can remember, and it's like, oh, it's not.
Speaker 3: And there was a really great article recently. Brad Townsend,
Speaker 3: who's been covering the Mavericks whatever still does, was talking
Speaker 3: about when Frank zach and Elly pulled him aside in
Speaker 3: the hall and said, we just traded Jason Kidd.
Speaker 1: And then he said, why do you have that look
Speaker 1: on your face?
Speaker 3: And he said, because you just told me you traded
Speaker 3: Jason Kidd and the real estate developer didn't get it.
Speaker 3: Like what I'm saying is I'm just saying the whole
Speaker 3: here's the thing. It's also like sometimes people are new
Speaker 3: to something and don't understand the ramifications of what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: I think all of us knew that it was gonna hurt,
Speaker 3: but I didn't think it would be as extreme as
Speaker 3: it the reaction as extreme as it was.
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's past tense. I think still
Speaker 1: on goal. Yeah, and there continues to be things that
Speaker 1: trigger it right when you're moving forward. Okay, eight is
Speaker 1: having a good oh my god, he's out for the
Speaker 1: year or whatever, he's out, like triggered new jump man
Speaker 1: ad on Instagram, triggered. I mean, all these things are triggering.
Speaker 1: Tonight will be incredibly triggering. So you're right, Kat, If
Speaker 1: Nico is with an ice shot of Luca, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a whole nother delicious storyline tonight as Luca drops
Speaker 1: ninety four. Well, there's the other thing.
Speaker 2: Luca is having his way with the MAVs and he's
Speaker 2: getting buckets. Unlet's say there is there anyone on the
Speaker 2: team who he doesn't know very well.
Speaker 1: Who's got to step up and has to be an enforcer,
Speaker 1: who is going to.
Speaker 2: Look Luca is probably pretty hateable if you have to
Speaker 2: play against him. Yeah, we talked about this a million times, absolutely,
Speaker 2: like if he's doing some BS, who's gonna step up
Speaker 2: and be like nah, dude, Like, who's gonna foul him hard?
Speaker 2: I guess I guess it depends what kind of BS
Speaker 2: you're talking about. But I am interested to see what
Speaker 2: happens when Max Christy gets switched off on him. Yeah, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: what's that gonna be like because he doesn't have any ties.
Speaker 3: By the way, there's nobody on the Lakers that can
Speaker 3: cover anybody on the Mavericks, and nobody on the Mavericks
Speaker 3: that can really come. I mean, like PJ do a
Speaker 3: decent job against a couple guys, but it's gonna be
Speaker 3: one of those games, man, where just hit your shots.
Speaker 3: It could end up being like that Golden State Dallas
Speaker 3: game right before Christmas were remember both teams are just
Speaker 3: bombing threes at a prolific right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm hoping for something like that. That'd be really fun. Well,
Speaker 1: was the other thing you were talking about the Nico
Speaker 1: and staring.
Speaker 2: Like any tension from Lucas. It can't just be all
Speaker 2: love anymore. That's my point of me. Even this is
Speaker 2: where I'm at. We have got to learn to not
Speaker 2: hate him or whatever. He's a Laker now and personally,
Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of MAVs fans. That's how
Speaker 2: Mike Goosey just put a poll ut Fox fors Mike Goosey,
Speaker 2: who you pulling for that MAVs Lakers? Lakers are winning
Speaker 2: that poll? I had so bunch of l seven wienie
Speaker 2: stuff right there. If you want the Lakers to win,
Speaker 2: you're a boob. Yeah, I can't. I can't pull for
Speaker 2: the Lakers.
Speaker 1: The Lakers, dude, it's the Lakers, Okay. I want I
Speaker 1: want Luca to have the greatest game, maybe in history,
Speaker 1: maybe one hundred and one points, but I want Kyrie
Speaker 1: to hit a buzzer beater. Yeah, win it. I'd love that.
Speaker 1: What I will be looking for is who does Luca
Speaker 1: give love to? And who does he not give love to?
Speaker 1: Does he give love to Kid or does he think
Speaker 1: Kid knew about it? Does he give love to Kyrie
Speaker 1: or does he think kind new he? Does he worry
Speaker 1: that anybody knew. I'll be watching all that. I think
Speaker 1: that's great viewing. I agree with you.
Speaker 3: I think anybody involved in this would be they need
Speaker 3: to take the mind if we can give love after
Speaker 3: the game. I hope that's what everybody takes into it.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not saying like if the guy tries
Speaker 3: to dap, you ignore him, but like all the hugging
Speaker 3: and stuff, do that after the game, man, and I
Speaker 3: hope both teams take that into it.
Speaker 1: You know, you brought up a great point yesterday that
Speaker 1: Lebron is about to have his best game ever early
Speaker 1: in the last few years, because it does make a
Speaker 1: lot of sense that the MAVs may say, no matter what,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna let Luca beat.
Speaker 3: Us, right, and then it's just Lebron's going great, I'm
Speaker 3: running four on three, badass.
Speaker 1: So would that be Nico going to Kid and say
Speaker 1: I don't care who beats us, he doesn't beat us tonight,
Speaker 1: or like, how would that happen? Because is that even
Speaker 1: the right game plan if you just want to beat him?
Speaker 1: I think that's on I think that's on Kid and
Speaker 1: his staff. I really do, Like, what's the best way
Speaker 1: to win the game?
Speaker 3: I don't think you can take I mean, I'm not
Speaker 3: saying it's not going to happen, but I think it's
Speaker 3: super flowed to take a pr mindset in the game
Speaker 3: of like, well, we just can't have this happen because
Speaker 3: of our you know, I you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a good way to lose a game.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then do they do they hunt Luca? In
Speaker 1: other words, do they God, yes, they try to get
Speaker 1: Kyrie on Luca every chance.
Speaker 3: They every chance they get. And here's the problem for
Speaker 3: the Lakers. Like the Lakers are really bad defensive team.
Speaker 3: They're they're bad. Like, so Vanderbilt is a good defensive player.
Speaker 3: I'm sure, I don't know who, but he can't cover
Speaker 3: Kyrie Like they're gonna have to put Austin Reeves on
Speaker 3: Kyrie bro If not, it's.
Speaker 1: Luca right, But the Mavericks are missing three bigs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's Dwight Pole back. No, I don't think so,
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