WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.639 --> 00:00:05.000 Welcome into another edition of Clippers Talk, off season edition, 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:07.960 but we are getting close. Preseason basketball is starting up 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:11.480 on Saturday, Clippers in Hawaii in Honolulu taking on the 4 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:15.519 Golden State Warriors. I feel like I'm bringing on somebody 5 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:17.600 and I'm going through some time travel here as we're 6 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:20.280 starting the first segment of Clippers Countdown or something. But 7 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:24.280 right now joining the show is your former voice of 8 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:27.519 the Clippers. Did it for four seasons, but now here 9 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:31.559 in LA. You see him on NBC four on NBC 10 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:35.560 on the Peacock of course with Big Ten Saturday night, 11 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:39.600 and I love it. It's the young goat, Noah Eagle 12 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:42.520 here on Clippers Talk. Noah, my friend, how are we doing? 13 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:45.359 Double A? You know, you just made me think of something, 14 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:49.320 So this is I think they just left yesterday after 15 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:51.880 media Day. I know you were there in your suit 16 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:55.039 per usual. It looked like with a nice blue steel 17 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:57.880 on your selfie that you put out there to the world. 18 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:01.560 But it made me remember my first year doing the job, 19 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:04.760 and I was fresh out of college and I was 20 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:07.400 trying to just get to know everybody before I got there, 21 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:10.239 and so your number was passed along and I reached 22 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:12.959 out to you and I called you and we talked 23 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:15.480 for like five minutes and I was like, hey, man, 24 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:17.280 you know really looking forward to me. You're like yeah, yeah, 25 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:19.959 yeah so am I so my like great, and so 26 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:21.680 I was like, well that was kind of short. I 27 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:25.200 don't really that was odd. And then literally the next 28 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:26.719 time I saw you, I think it was a media day. 29 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:28.439 You're like, yeah, that was my bad man. I was. 30 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:31.200 I was at a bar, I couldn't really talk, and 31 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:33.560 I was like, oh, dude, that's cool, that's cool. And 32 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:36.040 from that moment on, I was like, Oh, this guy's great, 33 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:38.959 this guy's awesome. Because I just remember sitting next to 34 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:41.280 you at media day and I think you made a 35 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:42.959 couple of jokes. I'm like, oh, this is gonna go 36 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:45.480 really really well. But I remember that first phone conversation. 37 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:48.680 I'm like, who is this dude? This Adam Austlin. What's 38 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:50.719 his deal? Yeah? 39 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:53.599 I know. I stopped drinking a couple of years ago. 40 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:56.400 That was a tin Horn Flats in Burbank, which is 41 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:59.840 no longer an establishment or at least a legal as 42 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.719 there has nothing to do with me. 43 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:05.280 I just figured once you've stopped drinking, you put them 44 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:06.200 out of business. 45 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:11.400 Mandy, you have said that that the Hollywood way. Look, 46 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:14.400 we're all better off with me in this mode. Now 47 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:17.520 I'm just working, baby. Now it's all clippers twenty four 48 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:17.960 to seven. 49 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:20.719 Dude, what is it? Ten percent? Body fat? I see 50 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:21.360 the videos. 51 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.280 I'm trying. And I did run a marathon on Saturday. 52 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:28.800 Granted it was on a treadmill. Big brother Jake told me, 53 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:31.039 that's even harder because I got nothing to look at. 54 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:34.280 Yeah, I mean way harder. What did you listen to? 55 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:36.319 Did you listen like, were you listening to music? Were 56 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:37.719 you watching something? What were you doing? 57 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:42.280 I had, let's see Deftones. I went through almost the 58 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:45.919 entire album of Adrenaline, which is a band from Sacramento, 59 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:48.479 hardcore rock, and they're still going now, like in their 60 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:52.680 forties and fifties. And that did me some good because 61 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:54.919 it was just very nostalgic for me. It's an album 62 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:57.879 from nineteen ninety five, so you know, time flies when 63 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:00.639 you're listening to music you're already familiar with. And it 64 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:04.039 took five hours and I think thirty six minutes to 65 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:07.479 complete this bad Boy, the twenty six point two miles. 66 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:09.080 But then I was listening to, of course, just a 67 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.960 bunch of Clippers podcast Brian Seeman. He was on the 68 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.719 lob of the Jam the podcast. I was listening to 69 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:19.039 Clips Forum, I was listening to Lockdown Clippers. I just 70 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:21.599 absorb as much Clippers content as possible. 71 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:24.039 You know this, Oh no, I do. I do like 72 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.639 people I think just assume. Oh, Adam, just whatever. No, No, 73 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:31.719 it's very much real. This is not any bit of 74 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:35.159 an act. It is authentic, Adam Austlin. That's triple A 75 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:37.960 for you. We can take it one a further and 76 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.840 it's not easy A. This is a difficult ay to attain. 77 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:44.400 It was definitely authentic today and real. When I was 78 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:46.879 getting into an argument with Fred Rogan on A five 79 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:50.520 seventy as he is such a Clippers hater. Noah, Ya 80 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:52.639 don't know if you ever had you on going Rogan 81 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:55.240 at some point he loves you. He says you're also 82 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:58.080 the young goat. He admires you. But he's a Clippers 83 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:02.240 hater through and through, no doubt. Today he said, you know, 84 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:04.919 give me some storylines for the Clippers. So I'm talking 85 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:07.599 about Kawhi and then he's like, okay, enough, let's get 86 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:10.319 to the Lakers' Fred, we got more to talk about here. 87 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:15.280 Terrence man Zubos Extensions, Jeff van Gundhi into a dome 88 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:18.160 and he said this, I go into a dome and 89 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:22.360 he's like, already been there, don't care. What how do 90 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:25.120 you dismiss the eighth Wonder of the world like that? 91 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:27.720 Well, what did he go for? Bruno? What did he do? 92 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:31.000 I don't know. You probably just went there with an 93 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.879 old NBC four truck or something like that to sneak 94 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:35.800 his way in because I know he's working in Palm 95 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:38.279 Springs now. I don't know if it was even a concert. 96 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:40.600 He just got his own private tour, so he felt 97 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:42.480 like he had experienced everything. 98 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:47.079 I did always enjoy listening to you battle with him 99 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:51.360 when I would be randomly driving on a Wednesday afternoon 100 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:54.720 or whatever it might be. It was always great entertainment 101 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:57.680 for me. And now that I don't have to drive anymore, 102 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:00.399 weird flex of being in New York, But now that 103 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:03.120 I don't have to drive anymore, that is probably the 104 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:05.839 only thing I do miss about being behind the wheel 105 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:09.879 is hearing randomly you defending the Clippers honor on a 106 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:11.959 five seventy. It was always excellent. 107 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.800 I did my best. It's tough going against Fred that's 108 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:19.519 like John Snow and the Battle of the Bastards, the 109 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.160 lone sportsman out there in the field. 110 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:23.920 He doesn't say you know nothing, Adam Auslin, at least 111 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:26.160 acknowledges you know some things. 112 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:30.800 Damn straight. All right, let's get into before we talk Clippers. 113 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:32.720 I want to get your opinion on the latest this 114 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:35.800 offseason where the team has gone since you've been gone. 115 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:38.040 But I want to talk about your new gig a 116 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:42.920 little bit and currently something more recent that happened this summer. 117 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:45.439 I want to reflect a little bit because there was 118 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:48.199 the call of the summer, a call to live on 119 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:51.240 for ages and it happened in the Golden Medal game 120 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:54.879 between France while in France and Team USA, and it 121 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:58.319 was the Golden Dagger call with Steph Curry going off 122 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:01.399 for Team USA. We're on the call which Wayne Wade 123 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:05.040 talk about the experience in France and calling one of 124 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:08.800 the most prestigious moments in international sportes. 125 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:12.079 Yeah, I mean, Adam. The funny thing is, I think 126 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:14.959 a lot of people, most people asked me just to 127 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.480 go to that. That moment was Steph where he hits 128 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:20.439 the third, the four to three whatever third three in 129 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:22.879 a row, basically, But I mean he had I think 130 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:25.399 what seven or eight He had like a combined seventeen 131 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.959 the last two games, which was insane. And I had 132 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.040 obviously seen a lot of Steph Curry performances, but it 133 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:34.560 was the first time I actually got to be semi 134 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:37.480 on his side and calling the game. I think about 135 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:39.240 do you remember the game that he had against the 136 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:42.639 Clippers where he had I think fifty at Staples. 137 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:44.160 And the first quarter. 138 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.720 Yeah, but the Clippers still won that game, but he had, 139 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:50.319 like there were so many highlights in that one that 140 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:52.879 you know, I could call, but I didn't really get 141 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:56.879 to get fully creative and let it rip because he 142 00:06:57.040 --> 00:06:59.560 was on the opposing team. And the same with the 143 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:02.399 nets or whatever else. There was the one at Chase 144 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:05.040 Center at twenty five in the first quarter against the Clips, 145 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:07.120 he and Paul George are dueling, and that one that 146 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:10.000 was the PG saying I'm from the logo too, you know, 147 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:13.399 I'm from the logo two game. So I had had 148 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:16.079 all those experiences and I kind of knew how to 149 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:18.439 call a Steph game, but I never actually got to 150 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:20.720 do it where I really got to do it, if 151 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:23.439 that makes sense. And so I was just excited that 152 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:25.920 I actually got to be excited for him for once, 153 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:29.920 because it is brutal when you're the opponent and he 154 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.079 just does that to you. And so everything that everybody 155 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:35.319 in that arena that was French, which was a large 156 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:38.319 portion of it, was feeling I had felt before, so 157 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:40.439 I kind of knew that end of it. But the 158 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:44.079 jubilation that came from what he did was incredible. And 159 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:47.800 that was really the case for the entire Olympics because 160 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.800 I did a number of non US games as well. 161 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:52.920 I did the US men and women, I did non 162 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:56.240 US men and women's games. And the one thing that 163 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:58.560 really stood out to me is it was the only 164 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:02.240 time so far in my career that everybody back home 165 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:05.240 that was watching and I mean just about everybody. Maybe 166 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:07.360 not you because I know you declared something about the 167 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:11.639 French team with Nico, but basically ninety nine percent of 168 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:14.600 the people watching here in America where we're broadcasting, we're 169 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:18.279 rooting for one side, which is you never get that 170 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:21.079 even now in the modern NBA, if you're calling for 171 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:25.920 a team because it's basically national and there's league pass, 172 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:29.920 and same with radio and Sirius XM. You get fans 173 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:32.559 of all different teams tuning in to your games, and 174 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:36.559 so you never have a basically one hundred percent approval 175 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:40.120 rating on anything, and so it was just fascinating that 176 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:43.399 the way I call these games, like the Serbia game 177 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:46.480 that was the semi final with the us Men where 178 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:49.399 they're down seventeen to the third quarter, there was this 179 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:51.960 moment where I'm like, oh, I'm gonna be hated forever. 180 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:54.919 Dwayne and I are literally going to be hated figures 181 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:59.120 because we called this failure of US basketball and Dwayne 182 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:03.320 already got third place and a bronze medal in two 183 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:06.799 thousand and four. He's gonna be like the scapegoat of 184 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:09.480 USA basketball forever. And I'm gonna be the guy who 185 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:13.120 had to call Serbia upsetting them with Jokic and everyone's 186 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:15.320 gonna hate us. And then they win that game and 187 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:17.919 it completely flips and everyone's like, these guys are awesome 188 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:21.440 because we're we were all excited and everyone was excited together. 189 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:23.399 So yeah, it was really cool. It was some of 190 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:25.799 the most fun I had. I will say that the 191 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:27.919 other thing that people asked me was did you have 192 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:30.480 any of those calls ready to go? You know me, 193 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:32.639 you worked with me for four years. I don't come 194 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:35.279 up with anything ahead of time. It's whatever is in 195 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:38.000 the moment is what comes out. But I will say 196 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:40.639 that all four of those years of doing the Clipper 197 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:44.559 games prepared me for every one of those moments, because 198 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:47.639 I felt like I'd seen everything with the Clippers, and 199 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:51.159 I really had seen just about everything with the Clippers. 200 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:52.799 And think about some of the games that we got 201 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:55.720 to do in those four years. I mean the thirty 202 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:58.679 one point, the thirty five point comeback. I'm thinking of 203 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:01.320 the other one. The one point comeback was right before 204 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:04.240 I got there, thirty five point comeback against the Wizards, 205 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:06.759 the twenty five point comeback in Game six, So I 206 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:10.679 knew crazy comebacks. I'd seen those, and then just tense moments, 207 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:13.200 tense games, down to the wire games. I had seen 208 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.919 those blowout games. I had seen those unsung hero games, 209 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.480 Terrence Man coming out of nowhere. I had seen those. 210 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:21.360 So I kind of knew what to expect and what 211 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:24.120 to feel in each of those moments. And I don't 212 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:25.679 think I would have done it as well as I 213 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:28.360 did if I hadn't had those four years. 214 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:32.080 For sure, I obviously was soaking it all up watching 215 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:35.440 those broadcasts. It was incredible. It was good to hear 216 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:38.159 you on that big of a stage in your bag 217 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:42.279 as the world's watching something in an area I knew 218 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:44.960 you'd thrive in. What was it like working with Dwayne 219 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.559 Wade as well? I thought you guys developed a lot 220 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:48.399 of great chemistry. 221 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:51.200 Yeah, it was. It was great. I didn't really know 222 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:54.960 what to expect going in because he literally never had 223 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:57.240 called a real game before. The only game he had 224 00:10:57.279 --> 00:11:00.360 ever called was a Rising Stars Challenge I think a 225 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:02.360 couple of years back, and that might have been the 226 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:05.480 same year that he messed up the dunk contest, which 227 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:08.440 I didn't actually directly ask him about, but I think 228 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:10.759 he acknowledged at one point over the course of the 229 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:13.799 two weeks there. But the one thing I'll say about Dwayne, 230 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:15.519 there are a couple things that really stood out. The 231 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:17.799 first one was how much of a team player he was. 232 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:20.159 And you know how much that means to me. I mean, 233 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:23.759 that's MYMO to me, this is it's a group. It's 234 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:25.600 a team. I mean what we see on the court 235 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:28.159 as a team and we are all a team as well. 236 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:32.200 So to me, everybody plays a vital role in what 237 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:36.039 eventually is hopefully a successful broadcast, and I think Dwayne 238 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:39.879 he showed up and he just felt that immediately. He 239 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.519 knew that immediately. You know, the first week we're there, 240 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.320 everybody just assumed you're in Paris, but that first week 241 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:49.120 was in Lele, which was two and a half hour 242 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:52.279 drive from Paris. The way that I would describe it, 243 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:55.639 and I had described it to people, is it's basically 244 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:57.840 like someone said, Hey, you're gonna go call these games 245 00:11:57.919 --> 00:11:59.960 in Paris, or excuse me, you're gonna go call these 246 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:02.279 games in New York. And so in your head, you're like, 247 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:04.200 New York City, this is gonna be amazing. And then 248 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:08.360 you land and it's Buffalo. It's like, oh, that's quite 249 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:11.879 the same. Like it's a little different. Wings are good, 250 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.519 but not New York City. You know, I was kind 251 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:17.759 of expecting that. So I we get to lil and 252 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:20.200 I just figured Dwayne. I'm like, there's no way Dwayne's 253 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:23.440 staying in this crappy hotel that we're in. And he 254 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:25.759 was right across the hall from me the entire time, 255 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:28.919 and so that right off the rip, I was like, Okay, 256 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:32.120 he's in on this. He's he's down to do this 257 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:34.799 the right way, and from that point on. Yeah, we 258 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:39.399 developed a great friendship chemistry, go out to dinners, talk 259 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:42.600 things through, learn about each other, not just on the air, 260 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.320 but off the air, and I think it really it 261 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:49.399 definitely showcased itself down the stretch. And then my favorite 262 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:51.960 part of all of it was the step shot over 263 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.039 the double team where he gave the Nui Nui as 264 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:59.240 we call it, the Golden dagger shot. If you go 265 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:02.440 and look at the video in the background, you can see. 266 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:04.480 So the China. Robinson did the women's games with me, 267 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:06.200 and she actually just came to that game. It's the 268 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:08.360 only one she came, the only men's game she came to. 269 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:13.120 And she was sitting and actually listening to Dwayne and 270 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:15.919 I while watching the game live and which I'm like, 271 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:18.279 the China at halftime, like, the China are you what 272 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:20.120 are you listening to music? She's like, no, I'm listening 273 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.039 to broadcast. That was funny what you said. And I'm like, 274 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:25.600 isn't this a delay? She goes, oh, yeah, it's like 275 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:28.279 two minutes behind. I'm like, that can't be good. I 276 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:30.679 can't be an enjoyable experience. She's like, it's great, what 277 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:33.840 are you talking about? So if you watch. She's got 278 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:37.240 earphones in, but she is literally jumping up and down 279 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:40.799 after Steph makes the shot and almost like clapping. And 280 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:45.759 Dwayne jumped on my back and I'm basically giving him 281 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:50.480 a piggyback ride as I'm calling the shot good and 282 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:53.399 he was losing it. Our entire area was losing it. 283 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:56.799 There was an on site producer who just looks completely stunned, 284 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:01.279 David Gibson, completely stunned. My stats guy Tyler is I 285 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:04.039 think beside himself, and if you just look at the 286 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:06.840 reactions of everybody, I think that was that told pretty 287 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:09.080 much the story any better than I could have with 288 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.759 the words. So yeah, he was great, and I think 289 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:13.879 I don't know if he's going to do it long term. 290 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:15.840 He'll have plenty of options to do so if he 291 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:17.480 wants to, But if he does, I think he has 292 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:19.799 a chance to be one of the best ones doing it. 293 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:23.200 I thought it was fun. I thought I was very entertaining, 294 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:27.279 and you met the moment without a doubt when it 295 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:31.080 reached that climax with that shot from Steph Curry. How 296 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:33.320 much interaction did you end up having with some of 297 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.960 the players. Did you tap up Nico? But Tom was like, oh, 298 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:38.639 there's no ego. Did just talk with coach Lou seeing 299 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:40.159 him on the coaching staff. 300 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:43.320 So yeah, I would say coach has more than players 301 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:46.559 for sure. You know. Obviously I had a relationship with 302 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.840 t Lou already, so that was great to see him 303 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.279 and he was pumped. You know. The funnier part was 304 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:56.759 Christina Pink actually did the first scrimmage that they had, 305 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:00.240 the exhibition game against Canada, and so she was Aaron 306 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:04.000 Vegas and saw him there and he was like, oh, Christina, 307 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:06.600 are you coming to Paris. And She's like, no, no, 308 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.519 I'll be there. He's like Noll who noa eagle and 309 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:12.159 she was like yeah. He goes, oh, all right, that's cool. 310 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:14.919 You know, it just kind of moved on, which is 311 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:17.759 him in a nutshell. But he saw me there and yeah, 312 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:19.759 we had we had a nice little chat. We got 313 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:23.200 to I congratulated him about the extension. Then he goes, no, no, no, no, 314 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:26.399 congrats to you. I'm like, well, congrats to both of 315 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:28.879 us then and he goes, yeah, I like that. I 316 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:31.279 like that. So it was good to see him. Jason 317 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:35.039 Powell and pretty much all that the Clippers peeps were 318 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:37.759 out there, which was cool. And I definitely had a 319 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:39.960 lot of time with Eric Spolstrow, which I guess you 320 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:43.120 can put two and two together. With Dwayne, he was 321 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:47.200 very happy to come hang with us before games. Grant Hill, 322 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:50.759 Steve Kerr a little bit. But for the most part, 323 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:52.799 you know, we were doing our thing, they were doing theirs. 324 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:55.200 The players would come, all of them would come say 325 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:57.000 hello to Dwayne, and then a lot would you know, 326 00:15:57.120 --> 00:15:58.960 just come and either dap me up or tap me. 327 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:01.679 So Steph was one of those early in the tournament. 328 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:04.559 But for the most part, No, it was no different 329 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:06.440 than anything else. I'd just kind of go and do 330 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:09.000 my thing. I'd do my job and let the rest 331 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:10.080 kind of handle itself. 332 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:13.559 Did you have much downtime at all to experience some 333 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:14.440 of the other events. 334 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:17.840 No, good I had. I had a game, at least 335 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:20.600 one game every single day. So we started the first 336 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:23.120 day of the Olympics, the day after the opening ceremonies 337 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:25.919 was we had a doubleheader that day. This was Dwayne's 338 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:28.919 first day and we had it was our first game 339 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:33.240 was France and Brazil, and I'll never forget this moment. 340 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:36.200 So the first week in Lelle, the stadium, it was 341 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:39.200 a stadium. It was a soccer stadium, so the arena 342 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:43.360 quote unquote actually sat twice the amount as the arena 343 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:47.679 in Paris. So there were thirty thousand people in there, 344 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:51.120 and it was full for the France. It was France's 345 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:56.440 first game, obviously full an hour before tip one hour 346 00:16:56.519 --> 00:16:59.639 before tip literally not a seed empty, and one hour 347 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:01.840 before when they let the players on. And Victor web 348 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.839 it's a little different. That's a little different. But Victor 349 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:10.799 Webbanyama first player out an hour before tip off and 350 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.519 he literally just palms like the ball like this basically, 351 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.920 you know, with two fingers, essentially picks up the basketball, 352 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:22.759 flings it from half court, nothing but net and the place. 353 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:26.640 I've almost never heard a building louder than when that happened. 354 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:29.160 And that was the first thing we did. We weren't 355 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:31.240 even on yet, and Dwayne looked at me and he 356 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:33.880 was like, is this normal, Like, oh no, no, it 357 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.240 is not. It is very abnormal. So we had that 358 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:39.920 game and then we had a great game Canada and Greece. 359 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:44.680 That was our first day. Now, the Greek names were adventurous, 360 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:49.559 to say the least. Jannistetakumbo was probably the easiest traditional 361 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.720 unquote Greek name, even though that's not Greek by nature. 362 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:57.599 But we had a guy totally Apolis. There was harrin Popolis. 363 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:01.400 There was Kostas Papa Nicolau, which Pizza might remember from 364 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:05.599 the NBA lore. There was your ghost Papa Yanis, who 365 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:09.680 I said was Giannis's father, Papa Yannis. So there were 366 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:11.920 a lot of things there. But anyway, we didn't have 367 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:14.440 a single day off from that point on. The one 368 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:17.079 day off we had was when we traveled from Lill 369 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:20.359 to Paris, and then we had that NBA party that 370 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:23.359 Snoop Dogg came out and performed at, which was awesome. 371 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:26.240 So I was all in on that, But no I 372 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:31.599 was hoping to get to beach volleyball or swimming or gymnastics. 373 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:32.880 Didn't happen. 374 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:35.599 You got to insulate yourself a little bit. You're on 375 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:39.400 the grind. Noah Eagles with us here on Clippers talk 376 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:43.240 back from the Olympics. Back with Big Ten Saturday Night. 377 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:45.680 We'll talk about that in just a moment. We'll get 378 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.119 his thoughts on the Clippers in this upcoming season as well. 379 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:50.839 If you guys got questions for Noah Eagle, I know 380 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:53.359 somebody's calling him Mona. I think he may have hit 381 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:56.319 the wrong button here. People boughts asking about Jeff van 382 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:59.440 Gundy at the with his Olympic work that he's been 383 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:00.319 doing for years now. 384 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:04.079 Yeah, the best part about Jeff's Olympic work. And I've 385 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:07.920 known Jeff now for many years from his broadcasting work. 386 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:11.160 I love the man. I thought that was a massive 387 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.599 higher by the Clippers. He was huge for the Celtics 388 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:15.359 last year. It's going to be a big loss in 389 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:18.440 Boston and it is going to be a massive addition 390 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:22.640 in LA. But the craziest thing about how he worked 391 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:25.799 with the Olympics, he was a ghost. He was like 392 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:29.599 James Saint Patrick. He never saw him operate. So he 393 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:32.559 was I think in scouting more than anything. And my 394 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:35.640 stats guy is a guy by the name of Tyler Freed, 395 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:38.640 whose father is Dave Freed, who's Mike Breens stats guy, 396 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:41.880 and so he worked with Jeff for years, and Jeff 397 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:44.799 and the Freed family are very close, and so Tyler 398 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:47.599 texted Jeff and it was like, hey, are you here? 399 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:49.599 He goes, I am, He goes, we don't see you. 400 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:53.559 He goes, you won't like that. That was how he 401 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:56.160