Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of Clippers Talk, off season edition,
Speaker 1: but we are getting close. Preseason basketball is starting up
Speaker 1: on Saturday, Clippers in Hawaii in Honolulu taking on the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. I feel like I'm bringing on somebody
Speaker 1: and I'm going through some time travel here as we're
Speaker 1: starting the first segment of Clippers Countdown or something. But
Speaker 1: right now joining the show is your former voice of
Speaker 1: the Clippers. Did it for four seasons, but now here
Speaker 1: in LA. You see him on NBC four on NBC
Speaker 1: on the Peacock of course with Big Ten Saturday night,
Speaker 1: and I love it. It's the young goat, Noah Eagle
Speaker 1: here on Clippers Talk. Noah, my friend, how are we doing?
Speaker 2: Double A? You know, you just made me think of something,
Speaker 2: So this is I think they just left yesterday after
Speaker 2: media Day. I know you were there in your suit
Speaker 2: per usual. It looked like with a nice blue steel
Speaker 2: on your selfie that you put out there to the world.
Speaker 2: But it made me remember my first year doing the job,
Speaker 2: and I was fresh out of college and I was
Speaker 2: trying to just get to know everybody before I got there,
Speaker 2: and so your number was passed along and I reached
Speaker 2: out to you and I called you and we talked
Speaker 2: for like five minutes and I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 2: you know really looking forward to me. You're like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah so am I so my like great, and so
Speaker 2: I was like, well that was kind of short. I
Speaker 2: don't really that was odd. And then literally the next
Speaker 2: time I saw you, I think it was a media day.
Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, that was my bad man. I was.
Speaker 2: I was at a bar, I couldn't really talk, and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, dude, that's cool, that's cool. And
Speaker 2: from that moment on, I was like, Oh, this guy's great,
Speaker 2: this guy's awesome. Because I just remember sitting next to
Speaker 2: you at media day and I think you made a
Speaker 2: couple of jokes. I'm like, oh, this is gonna go
Speaker 2: really really well. But I remember that first phone conversation.
Speaker 2: I'm like, who is this dude? This Adam Austlin. What's
Speaker 2: his deal? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know. I stopped drinking a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: That was a tin Horn Flats in Burbank, which is
Speaker 1: no longer an establishment or at least a legal as
Speaker 1: there has nothing to do with me.
Speaker 2: I just figured once you've stopped drinking, you put them
Speaker 2: out of business.
Speaker 1: Mandy, you have said that that the Hollywood way. Look,
Speaker 1: we're all better off with me in this mode. Now
Speaker 1: I'm just working, baby. Now it's all clippers twenty four
Speaker 1: to seven.
Speaker 2: Dude, what is it? Ten percent? Body fat? I see
Speaker 2: the videos.
Speaker 1: I'm trying. And I did run a marathon on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Granted it was on a treadmill. Big brother Jake told me,
Speaker 1: that's even harder because I got nothing to look at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean way harder. What did you listen to?
Speaker 2: Did you listen like, were you listening to music? Were
Speaker 2: you watching something? What were you doing?
Speaker 1: I had, let's see Deftones. I went through almost the
Speaker 1: entire album of Adrenaline, which is a band from Sacramento,
Speaker 1: hardcore rock, and they're still going now, like in their
Speaker 1: forties and fifties. And that did me some good because
Speaker 1: it was just very nostalgic for me. It's an album
Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety five, so you know, time flies when
Speaker 1: you're listening to music you're already familiar with. And it
Speaker 1: took five hours and I think thirty six minutes to
Speaker 1: complete this bad Boy, the twenty six point two miles.
Speaker 1: But then I was listening to, of course, just a
Speaker 1: bunch of Clippers podcast Brian Seeman. He was on the
Speaker 1: lob of the Jam the podcast. I was listening to
Speaker 1: Clips Forum, I was listening to Lockdown Clippers. I just
Speaker 1: absorb as much Clippers content as possible.
Speaker 2: You know this, Oh no, I do. I do like
Speaker 2: people I think just assume. Oh, Adam, just whatever. No, No,
Speaker 2: it's very much real. This is not any bit of
Speaker 2: an act. It is authentic, Adam Austlin. That's triple A
Speaker 2: for you. We can take it one a further and
Speaker 2: it's not easy A. This is a difficult ay to attain.
Speaker 1: It was definitely authentic today and real. When I was
Speaker 1: getting into an argument with Fred Rogan on A five
Speaker 1: seventy as he is such a Clippers hater. Noah, Ya
Speaker 1: don't know if you ever had you on going Rogan
Speaker 1: at some point he loves you. He says you're also
Speaker 1: the young goat. He admires you. But he's a Clippers
Speaker 1: hater through and through, no doubt. Today he said, you know,
Speaker 1: give me some storylines for the Clippers. So I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Kawhi and then he's like, okay, enough, let's get
Speaker 1: to the Lakers' Fred, we got more to talk about here.
Speaker 1: Terrence man Zubos Extensions, Jeff van Gundhi into a dome
Speaker 1: and he said this, I go into a dome and
Speaker 1: he's like, already been there, don't care. What how do
Speaker 1: you dismiss the eighth Wonder of the world like that?
Speaker 2: Well, what did he go for? Bruno? What did he do?
Speaker 1: I don't know. You probably just went there with an
Speaker 1: old NBC four truck or something like that to sneak
Speaker 1: his way in because I know he's working in Palm
Speaker 1: Springs now. I don't know if it was even a concert.
Speaker 1: He just got his own private tour, so he felt
Speaker 1: like he had experienced everything.
Speaker 2: I did always enjoy listening to you battle with him
Speaker 2: when I would be randomly driving on a Wednesday afternoon
Speaker 2: or whatever it might be. It was always great entertainment
Speaker 2: for me. And now that I don't have to drive anymore,
Speaker 2: weird flex of being in New York, But now that
Speaker 2: I don't have to drive anymore, that is probably the
Speaker 2: only thing I do miss about being behind the wheel
Speaker 2: is hearing randomly you defending the Clippers honor on a
Speaker 2: five seventy. It was always excellent.
Speaker 1: I did my best. It's tough going against Fred that's
Speaker 1: like John Snow and the Battle of the Bastards, the
Speaker 1: lone sportsman out there in the field.
Speaker 2: He doesn't say you know nothing, Adam Auslin, at least
Speaker 2: acknowledges you know some things.
Speaker 1: Damn straight. All right, let's get into before we talk Clippers.
Speaker 1: I want to get your opinion on the latest this
Speaker 1: offseason where the team has gone since you've been gone.
Speaker 1: But I want to talk about your new gig a
Speaker 1: little bit and currently something more recent that happened this summer.
Speaker 1: I want to reflect a little bit because there was
Speaker 1: the call of the summer, a call to live on
Speaker 1: for ages and it happened in the Golden Medal game
Speaker 1: between France while in France and Team USA, and it
Speaker 1: was the Golden Dagger call with Steph Curry going off
Speaker 1: for Team USA. We're on the call which Wayne Wade
Speaker 1: talk about the experience in France and calling one of
Speaker 1: the most prestigious moments in international sportes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Adam. The funny thing is, I think
Speaker 2: a lot of people, most people asked me just to
Speaker 2: go to that. That moment was Steph where he hits
Speaker 2: the third, the four to three whatever third three in
Speaker 2: a row, basically, But I mean he had I think
Speaker 2: what seven or eight He had like a combined seventeen
Speaker 2: the last two games, which was insane. And I had
Speaker 2: obviously seen a lot of Steph Curry performances, but it
Speaker 2: was the first time I actually got to be semi
Speaker 2: on his side and calling the game. I think about
Speaker 2: do you remember the game that he had against the
Speaker 2: Clippers where he had I think fifty at Staples.
Speaker 1: And the first quarter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the Clippers still won that game, but he had,
Speaker 2: like there were so many highlights in that one that
Speaker 2: you know, I could call, but I didn't really get
Speaker 2: to get fully creative and let it rip because he
Speaker 2: was on the opposing team. And the same with the
Speaker 2: nets or whatever else. There was the one at Chase
Speaker 2: Center at twenty five in the first quarter against the Clips,
Speaker 2: he and Paul George are dueling, and that one that
Speaker 2: was the PG saying I'm from the logo too, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm from the logo two game. So I had had
Speaker 2: all those experiences and I kind of knew how to
Speaker 2: call a Steph game, but I never actually got to
Speaker 2: do it where I really got to do it, if
Speaker 2: that makes sense. And so I was just excited that
Speaker 2: I actually got to be excited for him for once,
Speaker 2: because it is brutal when you're the opponent and he
Speaker 2: just does that to you. And so everything that everybody
Speaker 2: in that arena that was French, which was a large
Speaker 2: portion of it, was feeling I had felt before, so
Speaker 2: I kind of knew that end of it. But the
Speaker 2: jubilation that came from what he did was incredible. And
Speaker 2: that was really the case for the entire Olympics because
Speaker 2: I did a number of non US games as well.
Speaker 2: I did the US men and women, I did non
Speaker 2: US men and women's games. And the one thing that
Speaker 2: really stood out to me is it was the only
Speaker 2: time so far in my career that everybody back home
Speaker 2: that was watching and I mean just about everybody. Maybe
Speaker 2: not you because I know you declared something about the
Speaker 2: French team with Nico, but basically ninety nine percent of
Speaker 2: the people watching here in America where we're broadcasting, we're
Speaker 2: rooting for one side, which is you never get that
Speaker 2: even now in the modern NBA, if you're calling for
Speaker 2: a team because it's basically national and there's league pass,
Speaker 2: and same with radio and Sirius XM. You get fans
Speaker 2: of all different teams tuning in to your games, and
Speaker 2: so you never have a basically one hundred percent approval
Speaker 2: rating on anything, and so it was just fascinating that
Speaker 2: the way I call these games, like the Serbia game
Speaker 2: that was the semi final with the us Men where
Speaker 2: they're down seventeen to the third quarter, there was this
Speaker 2: moment where I'm like, oh, I'm gonna be hated forever.
Speaker 2: Dwayne and I are literally going to be hated figures
Speaker 2: because we called this failure of US basketball and Dwayne
Speaker 2: already got third place and a bronze medal in two
Speaker 2: thousand and four. He's gonna be like the scapegoat of
Speaker 2: USA basketball forever. And I'm gonna be the guy who
Speaker 2: had to call Serbia upsetting them with Jokic and everyone's
Speaker 2: gonna hate us. And then they win that game and
Speaker 2: it completely flips and everyone's like, these guys are awesome
Speaker 2: because we're we were all excited and everyone was excited together.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was really cool. It was some of
Speaker 2: the most fun I had. I will say that the
Speaker 2: other thing that people asked me was did you have
Speaker 2: any of those calls ready to go? You know me,
Speaker 2: you worked with me for four years. I don't come
Speaker 2: up with anything ahead of time. It's whatever is in
Speaker 2: the moment is what comes out. But I will say
Speaker 2: that all four of those years of doing the Clipper
Speaker 2: games prepared me for every one of those moments, because
Speaker 2: I felt like I'd seen everything with the Clippers, and
Speaker 2: I really had seen just about everything with the Clippers.
Speaker 2: And think about some of the games that we got
Speaker 2: to do in those four years. I mean the thirty
Speaker 2: one point, the thirty five point comeback. I'm thinking of
Speaker 2: the other one. The one point comeback was right before
Speaker 2: I got there, thirty five point comeback against the Wizards,
Speaker 2: the twenty five point comeback in Game six, So I
Speaker 2: knew crazy comebacks. I'd seen those, and then just tense moments,
Speaker 2: tense games, down to the wire games. I had seen
Speaker 2: those blowout games. I had seen those unsung hero games,
Speaker 2: Terrence Man coming out of nowhere. I had seen those.
Speaker 2: So I kind of knew what to expect and what
Speaker 2: to feel in each of those moments. And I don't
Speaker 2: think I would have done it as well as I
Speaker 2: did if I hadn't had those four years.
Speaker 1: For sure, I obviously was soaking it all up watching
Speaker 1: those broadcasts. It was incredible. It was good to hear
Speaker 1: you on that big of a stage in your bag
Speaker 1: as the world's watching something in an area I knew
Speaker 1: you'd thrive in. What was it like working with Dwayne
Speaker 1: Wade as well? I thought you guys developed a lot
Speaker 1: of great chemistry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was great. I didn't really know
Speaker 2: what to expect going in because he literally never had
Speaker 2: called a real game before. The only game he had
Speaker 2: ever called was a Rising Stars Challenge I think a
Speaker 2: couple of years back, and that might have been the
Speaker 2: same year that he messed up the dunk contest, which
Speaker 2: I didn't actually directly ask him about, but I think
Speaker 2: he acknowledged at one point over the course of the
Speaker 2: two weeks there. But the one thing I'll say about Dwayne,
Speaker 2: there are a couple things that really stood out. The
Speaker 2: first one was how much of a team player he was.
Speaker 2: And you know how much that means to me. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's MYMO to me, this is it's a group. It's
Speaker 2: a team. I mean what we see on the court
Speaker 2: as a team and we are all a team as well.
Speaker 2: So to me, everybody plays a vital role in what
Speaker 2: eventually is hopefully a successful broadcast, and I think Dwayne
Speaker 2: he showed up and he just felt that immediately. He
Speaker 2: knew that immediately. You know, the first week we're there,
Speaker 2: everybody just assumed you're in Paris, but that first week
Speaker 2: was in Lele, which was two and a half hour
Speaker 2: drive from Paris. The way that I would describe it,
Speaker 2: and I had described it to people, is it's basically
Speaker 2: like someone said, Hey, you're gonna go call these games
Speaker 2: in Paris, or excuse me, you're gonna go call these
Speaker 2: games in New York. And so in your head, you're like,
Speaker 2: New York City, this is gonna be amazing. And then
Speaker 2: you land and it's Buffalo. It's like, oh, that's quite
Speaker 2: the same. Like it's a little different. Wings are good,
Speaker 2: but not New York City. You know, I was kind
Speaker 2: of expecting that. So I we get to lil and
Speaker 2: I just figured Dwayne. I'm like, there's no way Dwayne's
Speaker 2: staying in this crappy hotel that we're in. And he
Speaker 2: was right across the hall from me the entire time,
Speaker 2: and so that right off the rip, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: he's in on this. He's he's down to do this
Speaker 2: the right way, and from that point on. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: developed a great friendship chemistry, go out to dinners, talk
Speaker 2: things through, learn about each other, not just on the air,
Speaker 2: but off the air, and I think it really it
Speaker 2: definitely showcased itself down the stretch. And then my favorite
Speaker 2: part of all of it was the step shot over
Speaker 2: the double team where he gave the Nui Nui as
Speaker 2: we call it, the Golden dagger shot. If you go
Speaker 2: and look at the video in the background, you can see.
Speaker 2: So the China. Robinson did the women's games with me,
Speaker 2: and she actually just came to that game. It's the
Speaker 2: only one she came, the only men's game she came to.
Speaker 2: And she was sitting and actually listening to Dwayne and
Speaker 2: I while watching the game live and which I'm like,
Speaker 2: the China at halftime, like, the China are you what
Speaker 2: are you listening to music? She's like, no, I'm listening
Speaker 2: to broadcast. That was funny what you said. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: isn't this a delay? She goes, oh, yeah, it's like
Speaker 2: two minutes behind. I'm like, that can't be good. I
Speaker 2: can't be an enjoyable experience. She's like, it's great, what
Speaker 2: are you talking about? So if you watch. She's got
Speaker 2: earphones in, but she is literally jumping up and down
Speaker 2: after Steph makes the shot and almost like clapping. And
Speaker 2: Dwayne jumped on my back and I'm basically giving him
Speaker 2: a piggyback ride as I'm calling the shot good and
Speaker 2: he was losing it. Our entire area was losing it.
Speaker 2: There was an on site producer who just looks completely stunned,
Speaker 2: David Gibson, completely stunned. My stats guy Tyler is I
Speaker 2: think beside himself, and if you just look at the
Speaker 2: reactions of everybody, I think that was that told pretty
Speaker 2: much the story any better than I could have with
Speaker 2: the words. So yeah, he was great, and I think
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's going to do it long term.
Speaker 2: He'll have plenty of options to do so if he
Speaker 2: wants to, But if he does, I think he has
Speaker 2: a chance to be one of the best ones doing it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was fun. I thought I was very entertaining,
Speaker 1: and you met the moment without a doubt when it
Speaker 1: reached that climax with that shot from Steph Curry. How
Speaker 1: much interaction did you end up having with some of
Speaker 1: the players. Did you tap up Nico? But Tom was like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's no ego. Did just talk with coach Lou seeing
Speaker 1: him on the coaching staff.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I would say coach has more than players
Speaker 2: for sure. You know. Obviously I had a relationship with
Speaker 2: t Lou already, so that was great to see him
Speaker 2: and he was pumped. You know. The funnier part was
Speaker 2: Christina Pink actually did the first scrimmage that they had,
Speaker 2: the exhibition game against Canada, and so she was Aaron
Speaker 2: Vegas and saw him there and he was like, oh, Christina,
Speaker 2: are you coming to Paris. And She's like, no, no,
Speaker 2: I'll be there. He's like Noll who noa eagle and
Speaker 2: she was like yeah. He goes, oh, all right, that's cool.
Speaker 2: You know, it just kind of moved on, which is
Speaker 2: him in a nutshell. But he saw me there and yeah,
Speaker 2: we had we had a nice little chat. We got
Speaker 2: to I congratulated him about the extension. Then he goes, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: congrats to you. I'm like, well, congrats to both of
Speaker 2: us then and he goes, yeah, I like that. I
Speaker 2: like that. So it was good to see him. Jason
Speaker 2: Powell and pretty much all that the Clippers peeps were
Speaker 2: out there, which was cool. And I definitely had a
Speaker 2: lot of time with Eric Spolstrow, which I guess you
Speaker 2: can put two and two together. With Dwayne, he was
Speaker 2: very happy to come hang with us before games. Grant Hill,
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr a little bit. But for the most part,
Speaker 2: you know, we were doing our thing, they were doing theirs.
Speaker 2: The players would come, all of them would come say
Speaker 2: hello to Dwayne, and then a lot would you know,
Speaker 2: just come and either dap me up or tap me.
Speaker 2: So Steph was one of those early in the tournament.
Speaker 2: But for the most part, No, it was no different
Speaker 2: than anything else. I'd just kind of go and do
Speaker 2: my thing. I'd do my job and let the rest
Speaker 2: kind of handle itself.
Speaker 1: Did you have much downtime at all to experience some
Speaker 1: of the other events.
Speaker 2: No, good I had. I had a game, at least
Speaker 2: one game every single day. So we started the first
Speaker 2: day of the Olympics, the day after the opening ceremonies
Speaker 2: was we had a doubleheader that day. This was Dwayne's
Speaker 2: first day and we had it was our first game
Speaker 2: was France and Brazil, and I'll never forget this moment.
Speaker 2: So the first week in Lelle, the stadium, it was
Speaker 2: a stadium. It was a soccer stadium, so the arena
Speaker 2: quote unquote actually sat twice the amount as the arena
Speaker 2: in Paris. So there were thirty thousand people in there,
Speaker 2: and it was full for the France. It was France's
Speaker 2: first game, obviously full an hour before tip one hour
Speaker 2: before tip literally not a seed empty, and one hour
Speaker 2: before when they let the players on. And Victor web
Speaker 2: it's a little different. That's a little different. But Victor
Speaker 2: Webbanyama first player out an hour before tip off and
Speaker 2: he literally just palms like the ball like this basically,
Speaker 2: you know, with two fingers, essentially picks up the basketball,
Speaker 2: flings it from half court, nothing but net and the place.
Speaker 2: I've almost never heard a building louder than when that happened.
Speaker 2: And that was the first thing we did. We weren't
Speaker 2: even on yet, and Dwayne looked at me and he
Speaker 2: was like, is this normal, Like, oh no, no, it
Speaker 2: is not. It is very abnormal. So we had that
Speaker 2: game and then we had a great game Canada and Greece.
Speaker 2: That was our first day. Now, the Greek names were adventurous,
Speaker 2: to say the least. Jannistetakumbo was probably the easiest traditional
Speaker 2: unquote Greek name, even though that's not Greek by nature.
Speaker 2: But we had a guy totally Apolis. There was harrin Popolis.
Speaker 2: There was Kostas Papa Nicolau, which Pizza might remember from
Speaker 2: the NBA lore. There was your ghost Papa Yanis, who
Speaker 2: I said was Giannis's father, Papa Yannis. So there were
Speaker 2: a lot of things there. But anyway, we didn't have
Speaker 2: a single day off from that point on. The one
Speaker 2: day off we had was when we traveled from Lill
Speaker 2: to Paris, and then we had that NBA party that
Speaker 2: Snoop Dogg came out and performed at, which was awesome.
Speaker 2: So I was all in on that, But no I
Speaker 2: was hoping to get to beach volleyball or swimming or gymnastics.
Speaker 2: Didn't happen.
Speaker 1: You got to insulate yourself a little bit. You're on
Speaker 1: the grind. Noah Eagles with us here on Clippers talk
Speaker 1: back from the Olympics. Back with Big Ten Saturday Night.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in just a moment. We'll get
Speaker 1: his thoughts on the Clippers in this upcoming season as well.
Speaker 1: If you guys got questions for Noah Eagle, I know
Speaker 1: somebody's calling him Mona. I think he may have hit
Speaker 1: the wrong button here. People boughts asking about Jeff van
Speaker 1: Gundy at the with his Olympic work that he's been
Speaker 1: doing for years now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the best part about Jeff's Olympic work. And I've
Speaker 2: known Jeff now for many years from his broadcasting work.
Speaker 2: I love the man. I thought that was a massive
Speaker 2: higher by the Clippers. He was huge for the Celtics
Speaker 2: last year. It's going to be a big loss in
Speaker 2: Boston and it is going to be a massive addition
Speaker 2: in LA. But the craziest thing about how he worked
Speaker 2: with the Olympics, he was a ghost. He was like
Speaker 2: James Saint Patrick. He never saw him operate. So he
Speaker 2: was I think in scouting more than anything. And my
Speaker 2: stats guy is a guy by the name of Tyler Freed,
Speaker 2: whose father is Dave Freed, who's Mike Breens stats guy,
Speaker 2: and so he worked with Jeff for years, and Jeff
Speaker 2: and the Freed family are very close, and so Tyler
Speaker 2: texted Jeff and it was like, hey, are you here?
Speaker 2: He goes, I am, He goes, we don't see you.
Speaker 2: He goes, you won't like that. That was how he
Speaker 2: was operating. He was so stealth that we.
Speaker 1: Did you drop the cup? Like in usual suspects say yes.
Speaker 2: I was limping around trying to find them. I could,
Speaker 2: We could not locate him. It was like the worst
Speaker 2: game of Where's Waldo that you never find the guy.
Speaker 2: So I give him tons of credit for operating at
Speaker 2: that level. But yeah, apparently he was there. I asked Grant.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, it's Jeff here. He goes yeah. I
Speaker 2: go I haven't seen him. He goes, yeah, you probably won't.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what what is this? What role do you have?
Speaker 2: So I didn't really get to see him very much specifically,
Speaker 2: but I heard about the urban legend that was Jeff
Speaker 2: ben Gundi, tem USA employee.
Speaker 1: Just disappears in the midst. We'll ask Noah about where's
Speaker 1: Puldo in a little bit here. But I know, uh,
Speaker 1: NBC looks to have a contract signs sealed, delivered. It's
Speaker 1: yours with the NBA now, which everybody is excited about.
Speaker 1: First time since two thousand and two. I remember that
Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals in NBC for whatever reason, Uh, your
Speaker 1: dad's working at TNT, you're an NBC. They're taking it
Speaker 1: from TNC. I'm not saying there's some infighting or a
Speaker 1: civil war going on right now, but those have to
Speaker 1: be interesting conversations.
Speaker 2: Now. We haven't spoken in eight weeks. No, Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: I would say that. You know, we're both excited to
Speaker 2: see what the future has in store. You know, there's
Speaker 2: nothing that's guaranteed, nothing given yet, so we'll see what
Speaker 2: it all looks like when the time is right. But
Speaker 2: I'm certainly hopeful that I would love to be a
Speaker 2: part of some level of coverage because I love the league.
Speaker 2: That's you know that the NBA and basketball are my
Speaker 2: main passions, and so when there's an opportunity to be
Speaker 2: more involved within that, you always want to jump at it.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what that looks like. We'll see what
Speaker 2: it looks like for me, what it looks like for him.
Speaker 2: But we would love double bird action in some way,
Speaker 2: shape or form, and we know that people seem to
Speaker 2: respond to that, so we'll see what it looks like.
Speaker 1: That's the best double bird you can.
Speaker 2: Get, well, Albatross, little basketball Albatross.
Speaker 1: The only positive double bird there. So your dad is
Speaker 1: now officially the voice of marsh Madness. I think many
Speaker 1: people felt like he was for a long time. I
Speaker 1: certainly did. It was great to see him on the broadcast,
Speaker 1: But when he's there during marsh you've been filling in
Speaker 1: for him with the Brooklyn Nets. What is it like
Speaker 1: to be on the NBA grind, I guess, back with
Speaker 1: your old childhood team and filling in for your father.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cool. You know, it's different because when I
Speaker 2: first got to the Clippers, it was literally an opposite
Speaker 2: coast and a completely different team. There was. There were
Speaker 2: very little connections to him, you know. The only real
Speaker 2: connection was Lawrence Frank, who was coaching with the Nets
Speaker 2: years ago when my dad was calling the game. So
Speaker 2: I had known Lawrence since I was literally eight seven,
Speaker 2: eight nine years old, whatever it might have been. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's photo of me pre puberty with Lawrence and a basketball,
Speaker 2: and I showed it to him and he's like, God,
Speaker 2: I look better with a beard. I go, you do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to argue that. But because of that,
Speaker 2: it really just allowed people to form their opinion of
Speaker 2: me solely on me. When I get back to New York.
Speaker 2: People had known me from childhood all the way through,
Speaker 2: and so I think it took a couple of games
Speaker 2: for them to separate what they had known their whole
Speaker 2: life into what I am now. But after that it
Speaker 2: was just off and running and it was great. But yeah,
Speaker 2: working with different people. You know, I have known Sarah
Speaker 2: Coustack since I was probably fifteen fifteen years old, and
Speaker 2: so for her, I think it tripped her out initially, like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're working together, fully, fully working together, you know it
Speaker 2: had worked in different capacities before, but she loved it.
Speaker 2: By the end of it, we had a great time.
Speaker 2: Richard Jefferson I knew when he was playing with the nets,
Speaker 2: and at that time when he first got drafted there,
Speaker 2: I was probably six or seven years old, and so
Speaker 2: for him, he knew me when I was seven years old,
Speaker 2: and now we're working together so similarly, and he, you know,
Speaker 2: wanted to test see where I'm at, see if I
Speaker 2: could hang and do all that stuff, and we hit
Speaker 2: it off. So it was it was a blast. Our producer,
Speaker 2: Frank de Grace is amazing and someone that I've known
Speaker 2: and he's been working with them for twenty five years
Speaker 2: basically now, so most of my life. So it was
Speaker 2: just a different vibe than it was in LA But
Speaker 2: it was amazing once you got off and running, and
Speaker 2: once we found a rhythm and once we kind of
Speaker 2: understood each other, and I just got accepted like I
Speaker 2: was part of the team very very quickly, which was
Speaker 2: always kind of what you want to see and how
Speaker 2: you wanted to go. So we'll see how it goes
Speaker 2: this year, hopefully a couple more games added to that slate.
Speaker 2: I did twelve last year, and we'll see where it
Speaker 2: ends up when we shake out the schedule.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to check the Clipper schedule. I haven't
Speaker 1: even thought about it. When are those Brooklyn Nets games?
Speaker 1: Are they coming around March somewhere in there and I
Speaker 1: can visit with Noah Eagle? That'd be nice. I hope
Speaker 1: you guys are. I don't know. Let's get to your
Speaker 1: current gig right now, and it is a prime time
Speaker 1: Saturday night gig on NBC where you're calling games for
Speaker 1: I think the pre eminent conference now with the Pat
Speaker 1: twelve invasion for the Big Ten, it's been really fun.
Speaker 1: I know you have Michigan visiting Washington a rematch of
Speaker 1: the National Championship game. I know both teams are very
Speaker 1: different now, but you talk about basketball being your first love,
Speaker 1: how much of an adjustment. Is it calling these games
Speaker 1: for football. I know it's not new to you, You've
Speaker 1: done it over the years already, but now it's a
Speaker 1: weekly thing for you on Saturday nights.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The difference now is I don't have the jigsaw
Speaker 2: puzzle of how do I get from State College back
Speaker 2: to LA for a twelve thirty tip with the Clippers
Speaker 2: and Pacers, which I did make and Avita Zubats nearly
Speaker 2: had thirty thirty, so I was glad to be there
Speaker 2: for that game, but I was very nervous that I
Speaker 2: was gonna make it. And I had a kid who
Speaker 2: was trying to sell me something next to me on
Speaker 2: the plane ride home, which was I remember I was
Speaker 2: doing work and he goes, what is that? I go work.
Speaker 2: He goes, what do you do? Fantasy basketball? I go
Speaker 2: that that's insulting com from it, dude. I was like,
Speaker 2: come on, man, it's very much reality. This right here
Speaker 2: is more real than you'll ever be. And he was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: buy this. I'm like, I'm not buying it. So anyway,
Speaker 2: I would say that's the first difference is I'm not
Speaker 2: worrying as much about where the next assignment is, which
Speaker 2: will change when basketball starts, it still gets tough. For
Speaker 2: I'm doing college again with NBC. I'm doing the net
Speaker 2: stuff again, so it's still fitting the pieces, but not
Speaker 2: quite at the level it was a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: But the adjustment has been great. You know, I have
Speaker 2: a really great partner in Todd Blackledge, who's been doing
Speaker 2: this for a long time at an elite level. And
Speaker 2: you know, when you work with elite people like yourself
Speaker 2: and like big brother Jake and many others, it makes
Speaker 2: your job easier because everybody gets to pull their weight,
Speaker 2: and Todd almost pulls our weight collectively in some respects,
Speaker 2: and make sure that we're always heading in the right direction.
Speaker 2: Same with Catherine Tappan on the sideline and our entire
Speaker 2: production crew. And so I just kind of do my work,
Speaker 2: make sure I'm prepared, make sure I'm ready to go,
Speaker 2: ready to have some fun. I bring a lot of
Speaker 2: positive energy, a lot of just period energy. And you
Speaker 2: know how I am, I byoe. It's always byoe with me.
Speaker 2: There's no caffeine for me. I'm not a five hour
Speaker 2: energy guy like some others who dug that stuff. I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I don't know who I'm not a protein shape guy
Speaker 2: either mid game. I can't have that effect the vocal court.
Speaker 1: So I was wondering what my problem was this whole time.
Speaker 2: But no, it's cool, man. It's been great and we
Speaker 2: got a great slate the rest of the way. We
Speaker 2: got an awesome game this week, as you mentioned National
Speaker 2: Championship rematch. We've got a potential top five showdown next week.
Speaker 2: And I've enjoyed this new Big ten because it does
Speaker 2: add a little extra flavor to a conference that was
Speaker 2: so heavily defensive focus. Now you've got to contend with
Speaker 2: these West Coast teams, which is different and new and
Speaker 2: fun and exciting. So we're enjoying it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Big ten patch on a PAC twelve former
Speaker 1: PAC twelve team still is difficult for me to wrap
Speaker 1: my head around, but I like it. I love the
Speaker 1: matchups every week. And another good one Saturday night Michigan
Speaker 1: taken on Washington. The Huskies no ego on the call.
Speaker 1: So you mentioned working with elite people, and there's a
Speaker 1: new one that is coming on the podcast later tonight
Speaker 1: that I've had the pleasure of working with Carlo Jimenez.
Speaker 1: How proud are you of Carlo and taking that torch
Speaker 1: from you on the radio side for the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Well, apparently, if it weren't for me, he wouldn't look
Speaker 2: old enough to do the job. Apparently he owes getting
Speaker 2: classes to me. Now, I would tell him, you know,
Speaker 2: year one, a year or two, you can switch the style.
Speaker 2: Now it's time. We can just step it up. Now
Speaker 2: you can go in there, maybe get some cardiac glasses
Speaker 2: and really flex on everybody, show him who's really bossed.
Speaker 2: As a year two approaches, and apparently the hair thing
Speaker 2: is not changing. I didn't get the memo that. Apparently
Speaker 2: I also sound like the kid on Live Tell. Apparently
Speaker 2: I've never been on live television. Apparently I told him
Speaker 2: to change his hair. I must have been under the
Speaker 2: influence in some way, shape or form when that happened.
Speaker 2: But not Carlo is sensational, and not just on air,
Speaker 2: but off air, and I think you know how much
Speaker 2: that means to me. I talked about it with Dwayne
Speaker 2: and how he interacted. But if you watch him interact,
Speaker 2: he comes from an outstanding family. I've met his family
Speaker 2: and how he was raised. You could tell that he
Speaker 2: was going to fit right in wherever he ended up.
Speaker 2: And so I thought it was great that the Clippers
Speaker 2: was that destination. And it's a guy who got to
Speaker 2: be really familiar with la I have known him since
Speaker 2: he was going into his freshman year of college, and
Speaker 2: you knew early with him that he was going to
Speaker 2: be a star because you could tell one the work
Speaker 2: ethic was off the charts, which is vital to success
Speaker 2: in this particular field especially. You've got to be willing
Speaker 2: to grind and you've got to be willing to go
Speaker 2: the extra mile, and he always was from freshman year
Speaker 2: all the way through. It was never something you had
Speaker 2: to remind him. It was instinctive, and so that goes
Speaker 2: a long way. The second thing was his comfortability, not
Speaker 2: just in terms of his broadcasting, but his comfortability interacting,
Speaker 2: and I think that goes a long way as well.
Speaker 2: I think that is really important to determine your future success.
Speaker 2: And then the third one was how are you as
Speaker 2: a teammate? And you could tell early that he was
Speaker 2: a great teammate. And then when I got to do
Speaker 2: some USC games, I got to see him interacting with
Speaker 2: the guys who were a year younger than or two
Speaker 2: years younger than him, who now we're looking up to
Speaker 2: him and the way that he was going back and
Speaker 2: forth and helping them along and not selfish about how
Speaker 2: he was going about his business. You go, Okay, this
Speaker 2: kid's got an understanding of how it's supposed to go.
Speaker 2: And in terms of the on air performance, I think
Speaker 2: if you listen to his first game last year all
Speaker 2: the way through his last one, there's a major leap.
Speaker 2: I mean, I told him the same thing happened when
Speaker 2: I did it, and it's true with anybody if you
Speaker 2: start at a certain level, and his level was more
Speaker 2: than good enough when he first got there to be
Speaker 2: on the air and to have that job. But you're
Speaker 2: only going to keep getting better at that point. And
Speaker 2: so the strides he took from the beginning to end
Speaker 2: of year one were sensational, and I expect now he's
Speaker 2: only going to keep building because he's motivated. He's self motivated,
Speaker 2: and he does seek out opinions from a variety of sources,
Speaker 2: and he does listen. He doesn't just poo poo it
Speaker 2: and say, well, I know what I'm doing. He really
Speaker 2: wants it. He wants to be coached at the highest level,
Speaker 2: and I think takes all of that to heart. So
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to what year two has for him.
Speaker 2: I thought you guys were great together. I loved always
Speaker 2: tuning into your pregame chats or post game or even
Speaker 2: sometimes in the middle of games during a timeout. It
Speaker 2: was it was a lot of fun. But you guys
Speaker 2: sounded great. He sounded great, and I'm pumped because the
Speaker 2: Clippers are in really good hands now. I could never
Speaker 2: do the TikTok stuff that both of you guys are doing.
Speaker 2: That's not my forte. But I've been thoroughly impressed with
Speaker 2: what he's built and I know that that's only going
Speaker 2: to continue taking off as well.
Speaker 1: Carlo truly in a league of his own there with
Speaker 1: the TikTok at the public editing he does like by
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 2: Though, by the way, Jake did tell me that, and
Speaker 2: this is not surprised. And I don't know what you
Speaker 2: guys are gonna do this year for home games, but
Speaker 2: a lot of people would come up to him because
Speaker 2: they wanted photos. And then I can confirm because I
Speaker 2: went through this, that Robin also just invites people like
Speaker 2: random people who don't want photos to then take photos
Speaker 2: like no, no, you're gonna want the photo. Rob And
Speaker 2: for anybody who's watching or listening is the usher of
Speaker 2: the section in which the Clippers radio would inhabit, and
Speaker 2: he was the king of angles. He is a great
Speaker 2: angle photographer, but he's also he's so friendly that he
Speaker 2: doesn't want anyone to be left out. Even people that
Speaker 2: weren't asking would get opportunities. So I can't even imagine,
Speaker 2: considering Carlo already had suitors the level that it reached
Speaker 2: when Robin got involved.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was basically like a class photo at that point.
Speaker 1: The group that would expand so much thanks to Robin
Speaker 1: and Vincent our guys there. Speaking of this season, of course,
Speaker 1: we have the Into a Dome opening up. And while
Speaker 1: Fred Rogan has been hating on the Into a Dome
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, because he's just wants to be the
Speaker 1: enemy the Clippers, and he will be known for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let what happened, man, Yeah, that's his prerogative.
Speaker 1: Fred embraces the hate the Into It Dome ex experience.
Speaker 1: And I'm hoping there's a at Brooklyn Nets game coming
Speaker 1: up around Marsh so we can see you there. But
Speaker 1: how impressed are you with what you've seen so far?
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've had a chance to get
Speaker 1: a private tour or whatever. But the Clippers finally have
Speaker 1: a home.
Speaker 2: Noah, Yeah, I think that's the biggest part of all
Speaker 2: of this is it's something that they get to call
Speaker 2: their own. And we experienced it on many levels where
Speaker 2: it wasn't just the team itself, the players on the
Speaker 2: court or the coaches on the on the bench that
Speaker 2: were getting disrespected. It was a lot of us. It
Speaker 2: was any bit anybody who was a staff member of
Speaker 2: the Clippers. You were always looked at as secondary or
Speaker 2: tertiary when you were walking those halls. And I love
Speaker 2: that building and I love a lot of the people
Speaker 2: that do work there, whether it's Ab or Vincent and
Speaker 2: Robin or many others. You know Bernard in the media room.
Speaker 2: All those people were great and treated me great. But
Speaker 2: there were the occasions where we kind of got laughed
Speaker 2: at or scoffed, or we were trying to do something
Speaker 2: and got rejected, whatever it might be. It's just not
Speaker 2: going to be the case anymore. And I think that
Speaker 2: you can't undersell the importance of that. I also think
Speaker 2: you can undervalue the importance of having your facility basically
Speaker 2: attached and having everything in one place that is massive
Speaker 2: as well, the ease of having everybody under one roof,
Speaker 2: as opposed to some downtown, some imply a vista, some elsewhere,
Speaker 2: some at home. That's a game changer. It builds camaraderie
Speaker 2: within an organization. And then on top of that. I
Speaker 2: haven't been able to see it yet. I haven't gone,
Speaker 2: but I've seen the renderings. Chris Wallace just delivered a
Speaker 2: great presentation at the NBA meetings a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: ago where he showcased everything. I've talked to Carlo, I've
Speaker 2: talked to Christina, I've talked to others who have been
Speaker 2: there and have really gotten a sense of it. It
Speaker 2: sounds like a spaceship. Basically, that is a basketball mecha,
Speaker 2: and that's what they wanted it to be. I love
Speaker 2: the Jersey touch with all the high schools. Love the
Speaker 2: abundance of bathrooms because you know me, I was willing
Speaker 2: to shove a nine year old out of the way
Speaker 2: to make sure I could make it to the bathroom
Speaker 2: in time and get back before I to be on again.
Speaker 1: The old George Castanza move if there's a fire, look out,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, living and children again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was out of there. I was out of
Speaker 2: there gore text or not, I was out of there,
Speaker 2: and I love that they didn't spare any cost or thought. Now,
Speaker 2: like any new place, arena, stadium, whatever, there will be
Speaker 2: some kinks they need to work out. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: just the nature of it, and so I think you
Speaker 2: do have to give a little bit of a grace
Speaker 2: period to figure some of that out. And I just know,
Speaker 2: because I know how the Clippers are looked at and
Speaker 2: perceived and talked about, that people are not going to
Speaker 2: give it that that if it was other organizations, maybe
Speaker 2: you would. So I do ask everybody give it time
Speaker 2: so that they can truly get everything figured out. But
Speaker 2: if a year in they still have issues, that's I
Speaker 2: think that this place is going to be pristine. I
Speaker 2: think that it's going to be the premiere spot for
Speaker 2: basketball in the country, and we've already seen that. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of faith in that because the Olympic basketball
Speaker 2: competition in twenty twenty eight is going to be played there,
Speaker 2: and probably deservedly so. So I give Steve a ton
Speaker 2: of credit. I gave him another and I've said this
Speaker 2: a lot. I give him a ton of credit as
Speaker 2: well for privately funding the whole thing and not asking
Speaker 2: for any public dollars because he's got more than enough.
Speaker 2: And I hope to see it this season. If not
Speaker 2: this season, then I certainly hope to see it next season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you'll definitely be seeing it in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: For the Olympics. We know that it's it's going to
Speaker 1: be fun to get comfortable there and finally get to
Speaker 1: really settle in. I know coach lu made a joke
Speaker 1: about finally being able to leave some shoes or having
Speaker 1: a locker there and guy's not having to take stuff
Speaker 1: home with them because they're going to tear it down
Speaker 1: for the Kings of the Lakers right afterwards. It's just
Speaker 1: a completely different experience. It'll take time getting used to,
Speaker 1: but it's a good feeling and kind of that security
Speaker 1: blanket for Clippers fans now knowing that they have a
Speaker 1: home base, as Kawhi put it at media Day.
Speaker 2: I also just know from when the Nets built a
Speaker 2: new facility a couple of years back in Brooklyn. You know,
Speaker 2: when they first got there, it was kind of makeshift,
Speaker 2: but when they fully built out the new facility, there's
Speaker 2: a quote that Luis Scola had that you can go
Speaker 2: back and he's correct, which was he said they will
Speaker 2: when they start to get good basically, or when people
Speaker 2: start to realize how nice everything is here, how they
Speaker 2: treat their veterans, their players, et cetera. They'll get anybody
Speaker 2: they want. And then I think two years later they
Speaker 2: signed Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, DeAndre Jordan trade for hard
Speaker 2: and et cetera. And obviously it didn't work out the
Speaker 2: way that they hoped it would because of injuries and
Speaker 2: vaccines and many other factors, but it did ring true
Speaker 2: and a lot of that was a direct result of
Speaker 2: the Pristine facility, and that facility is right near Barkley
Speaker 2: Center and easy access and all of that. That does
Speaker 2: make a huge difference. And it was their home instead
Speaker 2: of sharing it to your point with the Devils like
Speaker 2: they did for years in New Jersey or being.
Speaker 1: I thought you met the Lakers there for a second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Nooklyn, Sorry, I'm talking to I'm talking to
Speaker 2: David Putty. Devils for sure, And yeah, I think it
Speaker 2: was huge. It just it was huge for them. It
Speaker 2: still is. It's a legit magnet for free agents. And
Speaker 2: when you're in New York or LA if you have
Speaker 2: that it does give you that extra lego.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun for Clipper nations to embrace having
Speaker 1: their own home and having a top tier, first class
Speaker 1: ten years ahead of any other arena in the world
Speaker 1: basketball court. It's the greatest place in the world to
Speaker 1: watch a basketball game. That's what it's going to be.
Speaker 1: So October twenty third, they're taking on the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 1: Can't wait, baby, oh baby, let's get into I pushed
Speaker 1: this off for too long the Clippers off season. What
Speaker 1: could be to come with this team? We just had
Speaker 1: media day yesterday, But I want to start with Paul
Speaker 1: George leaving because that was the initial shoot to drop
Speaker 1: the big news and then he made a couple of
Speaker 1: comments calling them the B team in LA, saying they
Speaker 1: got stabbed in the back. His dad mentioned that he
Speaker 1: kind of signed off on it. I know he has
Speaker 1: a podcast. I know how that is. You can put
Speaker 1: your foot in your mouth sometimes you can talk too much.
Speaker 1: There isn't edit butter edit button. I would have edited
Speaker 1: that out. I not been live here. But how do
Speaker 1: you feel about Paul George at this point? What was
Speaker 1: your impression of him? Covering him for four years as
Speaker 1: a clipper.
Speaker 2: I would love edit butter. First of all, I'd love
Speaker 2: to know what that teams like, I.
Speaker 1: Can't believe it's added butter.
Speaker 2: Hey, my grandfather did the the commercials, several of them
Speaker 2: for Fleischmann's Margarine, which was essentially that I can't believe
Speaker 2: it's not butter. Before I can't believe it's not butter,
Speaker 2: where he played mister cholesterol. Look it up. It's high
Speaker 2: quality entertainment. And he was excellent in the role. If
Speaker 2: I do say so myself, that this was I think
Speaker 2: right after he was in the OJ Hurts commercials. But
Speaker 2: that's beside the point. That's that's a different story for us.
Speaker 1: Both involved a knife, a.
Speaker 2: Baby, just attention. All that to say with PG, I
Speaker 2: always had good experiences with Paul, and I do think
Speaker 2: that I just know this from broadcasting even and I
Speaker 2: know that you know this, and anybody who has gone
Speaker 2: to their boss after doing really good work in their
Speaker 2: eyes for years and said, I think I deserve a
Speaker 2: raise and your boss says no, You'll get emotional and
Speaker 2: sometimes irrational because you're like, how could they not see that?
Speaker 2: I think that people forget in all forms of business
Speaker 2: that it is just at the and the way I
Speaker 2: saw it with the Clippers and Paul, they saw him
Speaker 2: in one area and he had publicly said that he
Speaker 2: was number two to number one who wears number two,
Speaker 2: and he had made that pretty clear publicly again, and
Speaker 2: then he wanted to go back and say, but I
Speaker 2: should still be paid like the guy who wears number two.
Speaker 2: And I think the Clippers finally said, look, we're gonna
Speaker 2: pay you. Well, We're gonna pay you handsomely. You've said
Speaker 2: you wanted to retire with this organization, you said you
Speaker 2: wanted to you owe us a championship. You've said all
Speaker 2: of these things. You've handled yourself very well. You were
Speaker 2: the driving force to getting us to our first conference final,
Speaker 2: and we do appreciate that, but we also want to
Speaker 2: make sure that the team's competitive, competitive enough to do it.
Speaker 2: And I look at what Jalen Brunson has done in
Speaker 2: New York and saying I'll take slightly less so we
Speaker 2: can try to be as competitive as possible. And we
Speaker 2: see that every now and then across sports, but more
Speaker 2: than the other side. You see guys maximizing what they
Speaker 2: can make. And I can't blame a person for maximizing
Speaker 2: what they can make. It's a very finite period of
Speaker 2: your life that you're going to have this ability to
Speaker 2: go out there and make millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: And Philadelphia was willing to pay him, what two hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty million over four years? How can he turn
Speaker 2: that down? And realistically, it didn't seem like the Clippers
Speaker 2: blamed him either. It didn't seem like there was ill
Speaker 2: will from the organization saying how dare you turn your
Speaker 2: back on us? Or they said we understand it's a business.
Speaker 2: And so that's what I go back to. But I
Speaker 2: do think that even when you get your money and
Speaker 2: you get it from somewhere else, there is this feeling of, well,
Speaker 2: that was wrong. They wronged me, because there's a motion
Speaker 2: that comes with this that's natural for any human being
Speaker 2: to feel. So I don't blame Paul for how he's
Speaker 2: handled himself, but he's going to have to go and
Speaker 2: prove it now on the court. I mean, that's been
Speaker 2: the case with him for years. Is it's time to
Speaker 2: prove it on the court. And the reality was last
Speaker 2: postseason was not kind for him. It was not a
Speaker 2: great series for Paul George, not quite what it was
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one when he looked like he was
Speaker 2: that guy, a guy that could lead a team through
Speaker 2: a playoff run. He's playing now with two awesome, awesome players.
Speaker 2: Now all three of those guys are going to have
Speaker 2: to stay healthy. The Eastern Conference got a little more
Speaker 2: interesting in New York City, and the Boston Celtics are
Speaker 2: running back what was a juggernaut of a team, so
Speaker 2: they're going to have real competition, not to mention Milwaukee
Speaker 2: and Indiana and many of these other teams. I mean,
Speaker 2: I could go deep into both conferences. I'd say the
Speaker 2: West is a little bit more of a bloodbath, but
Speaker 2: that's for a deeper discussion. All this to say, I
Speaker 2: actually think that both sides kind of handled it the
Speaker 2: way I expected them to both handle this, And that's
Speaker 2: really where I'm getting at. And now the Clippers get
Speaker 2: to turn the page. And look, if you're a Clipper fan,
Speaker 2: you're saying, oh, this is not great that we don't
Speaker 2: have them. I would argue to think a little bit
Speaker 2: into the future here about what that contract would look
Speaker 2: and feel like in three years when he's going to
Speaker 2: be thirty seven years old and making What would it
Speaker 2: be sixty million dollars at that time. That's a lot
Speaker 2: of money for a guy who has dealt with a
Speaker 2: lot of injuries over the course of his career and
Speaker 2: is going to be making that much at thirty seven.
Speaker 2: So I just look at it as business and I'm
Speaker 2: happy for him that he got what he thought he deserved.
Speaker 1: How did you feel about the way the Clippers were
Speaker 1: able to retool and pivot kind of immediately into maybe
Speaker 1: more of a defensive oriented team with bringing in Derek
Speaker 1: Jones Junior, who was locking up Paul George at times
Speaker 1: in that first round series.
Speaker 2: I like the mentality. I think that they looked at
Speaker 2: it and said, look, they still have two premier players
Speaker 2: in James Harden and Kawhi Leonard, And to me, James
Speaker 2: Harden proved that with a couple of vintage performances in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. He wasn't great for the entire series, but
Speaker 2: he was great when they needed him to be to
Speaker 2: help them win a couple games. And their viewpoint is, well,
Speaker 2: if Kawhi is healthy, which obviously is a big if,
Speaker 2: and they're going to do things, I would say a
Speaker 2: little bit differently to try to ensure that this year
Speaker 2: into the playoffs. But if they had Kawhi and it
Speaker 2: was Kawhi and James, they feel like they could have
Speaker 2: won that series, especially now with these new additions that
Speaker 2: are younger, athletic and defensive, and that's it did feel
Speaker 2: like that's where they needed to get a little tougher, right.
Speaker 2: They got pushed around a little bit in that Dallas series.
Speaker 2: But I think a lot of people undervalue what Norm
Speaker 2: pala is capable of. I mean, this is a guy
Speaker 2: that he's more than capable of being a twenty point
Speaker 2: per game scorer. And in that series two years ago
Speaker 2: against Phoenix, when they didn't have Kawhi or Paul, Norm
Speaker 2: had a couple of massive games. So he had forty
Speaker 2: plus in a playoff game. That's not simple to do.
Speaker 2: I don't care who you are, we know that Terrence
Speaker 2: Man is a perfect role piece of Zubots. I still
Speaker 2: think gets undervalued around the NBA. And finally, even though
Speaker 2: it seems like now you quote unquote got paid, he
Speaker 2: still seems underpaid compared to a lot of guys around
Speaker 2: the NBA. So you still have this nucleus that you
Speaker 2: had built. I got to call him Minnesota game last year,
Speaker 2: so I got to see Cam Christy. I actually am
Speaker 2: a big fan of his, and I think that he
Speaker 2: has a chance, with the right development and with the
Speaker 2: right time, to be a legitimate NBA player. So you've
Speaker 2: got these guys that were already in your orbit, and
Speaker 2: then you add a Mobamba who look isn't necessarily what
Speaker 2: people anticipated he would be given the recruit He was
Speaker 2: a one and done guy, had a number one song
Speaker 2: on the chart about him, all that stuff. But he's
Speaker 2: still a serviceable piece, and he's going to be battling
Speaker 2: now with Kai Jones, and people forget about the Kai
Speaker 2: Jones thing, and Kai wasn't necessarily a similar both Texas guys, right,
Speaker 2: both guys who came out after a year and both
Speaker 2: projected to be something great. He wasn't that in Charlotte.
Speaker 2: But he's also younger than people think he is, and
Speaker 2: he's also uber athletic, and he's also an element that
Speaker 2: they haven't had in a long time since basically the
Speaker 2: Lob City days at that position. So I'm fascinated to
Speaker 2: see what Tilu can do with him. You bring back Nico,
Speaker 2: who we know just the vibe that he can bring
Speaker 2: and how that permeates through the rest of the team.
Speaker 2: So to me, they went in the right direction in
Speaker 2: how they wanted to build it out. They didn't overspend,
Speaker 2: they didn't overreact. They said, Okay, let's see what we
Speaker 2: have and if nothing else, we can reassess when the
Speaker 2: time is right.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Kawhi Leonard there, and maybe they'll revolutionize load management,
Speaker 1: because if anybody I think has earned the benefit of
Speaker 1: the doubt, it's Kawhi. We know his body has been
Speaker 1: betraying him the last four seasons. It's been really unfortunate.
Speaker 1: I'm open to pretty much anything at this point, and
Speaker 1: I think the Clippers are exhausting all avenues and leaving
Speaker 1: no stone unturned when it comes to figuring this thing out.
Speaker 1: And he spoke a little bit at media day yesterday,
Speaker 1: and we had Lawrence Frank and coach Lou's talking about
Speaker 1: it last week. But his knee still has some swelling.
Speaker 1: It's almost gone. And it sounds like from Shan Sharani
Speaker 1: on the report he had that Kawhi had a procedure
Speaker 1: back in May. Just where are you and you're thinking
Speaker 1: about Kawhi? And maybe I don't know how they could
Speaker 1: try to manage this and just get the most out
Speaker 1: of him now at the age of thirty three, and
Speaker 1: hopefully have him available for the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think obviously that's the goal is you want
Speaker 2: him for an extended playoff run, and that's gonna be
Speaker 2: wear and tear on the body come May and hopefully June.
Speaker 2: But I see it as this, I think for so
Speaker 2: many years, so what he's been five years with the team,
Speaker 2: he's already done five seasons. I think for these five seasons,
Speaker 2: the Clippers have operated with the Hey, we're gonna we're
Speaker 2: gonna publicly say how great everything is and not necessarily
Speaker 2: divulge the dark aspects of this. Now it feels like
Speaker 2: they're saying, Okay, you know what, people I think have
Speaker 2: right through that. Let's go the opposite way, and we're
Speaker 2: going to reveal maybe some of the stuff that we
Speaker 2: never would have in the past. And it's actually probably
Speaker 2: better than what they've said, because from what I've heard,
Speaker 2: he's on a better track than what it seemed like
Speaker 2: it was when Lawrence revealed all that stuff. From what
Speaker 2: I've heard, at least, and again Kawhi goes about at
Speaker 2: Kawhi's way. So I can only tell you from this
Speaker 2: game of telephone, But from what I'm hearing is he's
Speaker 2: pretty far along and he feels pretty good that he
Speaker 2: can get back there come opening day, and even if
Speaker 2: it's not opening day, that opening week, two weeks of
Speaker 2: the season, he should be good to go. The biggest
Speaker 2: key is to your point, now, once he is back,
Speaker 2: how do you manage that? Is it a minutes thing,
Speaker 2: is it a games thing? Is it a combination of
Speaker 2: the two? Which it likely will be. But I think
Speaker 2: that the first part of this is people have to
Speaker 2: stop giving a negative connotation to Kawhi. Leonard and load
Speaker 2: management think that they have to understand that his situation
Speaker 2: and circumstance is incredibly unique. Given what he has to
Speaker 2: deal with every single day with a degenerative knee. It's
Speaker 2: not something that is just a one time injury that
Speaker 2: he's managing the rest of his career. This is a multitude.
Speaker 2: It's an amalgamation of things that have come together now
Speaker 2: and he has to really manage it. And he's talked
Speaker 2: about it at great length that this isn't just about
Speaker 2: his playing career. This is about his post playing career
Speaker 2: as well. And I mean, I've been around enough of
Speaker 2: these guys, whether it's Doc Rivers or Sam Cassel or
Speaker 2: Tlu who played a long time in the NBA, and
Speaker 2: they look like their question marks when they're walking around,
Speaker 2: like literally the shape not questionable to play, but they're shaped.
Speaker 2: And Doc is hunched over and he would tell you
Speaker 2: it's from the wear and tear on his body. And
Speaker 2: there was no load management at the time. So I
Speaker 2: do think there's something to that, and a lot of
Speaker 2: these guys are starting to understand that there's two parts
Speaker 2: of it. The careers are lasting longer, which is a
Speaker 2: good thing given that the salaries are going up and
Speaker 2: you can maximize your spending. So Jeff Green can play
Speaker 2: for two decades, or Andre Gadala can play for two decades,
Speaker 2: or now Steph Curry or Lebron James or stars Kevin
Speaker 2: Durant who tours Achilles and is literally still playing at
Speaker 2: an incredibly high level. We can do that now, So
Speaker 2: there is something to managing that, so you can extend
Speaker 2: as long as you possibly can. And then there's the
Speaker 2: post playing side of it as well. So I do
Speaker 2: think that for Kawhi, they're gonna have to be extra cautious.
Speaker 2: I think that James looks like he's in great shape,
Speaker 2: which generally happens when he's back in a place for
Speaker 2: a second go around. He comes back ready to go
Speaker 2: and the rest of the team is going to have
Speaker 2: to pick it up. And Norman Powell has been very
Speaker 2: clear that he believes he should be starting. Now's the
Speaker 2: time to prove it. Bro. If you think that you're
Speaker 2: ready for that, if you think that you're capable of
Speaker 2: being an All Star, which he's talked about in the past,
Speaker 2: this is your time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of chum in the water for
Speaker 1: guys competing for spots at training camp now in Hawaiian Honolulu.
Speaker 1: We'll have Carlo Jimenez on from Honolulu later tonight. So
Speaker 1: if I tell you Kawhi can play somewhere between fifty
Speaker 1: five and sixty five games, and the Clippers don't have
Speaker 1: any catastrophic injuries and they're relatively healthy, what do you
Speaker 1: think their ceiling is this season given the current roster construction.
Speaker 2: So that's the thing. I think that it's so hard
Speaker 2: to look forward in the Western Conference this year because
Speaker 2: everybody's good and everybody's ceiling is good. Like literally, I
Speaker 2: think thirteen out of the fifteen teams in the West.
Speaker 2: If they don't make the playoffs, are going to say
Speaker 2: this season was a complete and utter failure. I mean,
Speaker 2: just go down the list of the teams that were
Speaker 2: in the playoffs last year. Oklahoma City got better. Denver
Speaker 2: is going to be Denver. I know they lost KCP,
Speaker 2: but they're still going to be exceptionally good. And they
Speaker 2: believe Christian Brown is ready to take the step. Peyton
Speaker 2: Watson's ready to take the step. They still have Jokis
Speaker 2: the best player in the world, which he proved I
Speaker 2: would at the Olympics. Again, Yeah, you've got who was
Speaker 2: a three era Minnesota and they just traded away cat
Speaker 2: but and I'm curious what they do with Julius Randall.
Speaker 2: But Dante DiVincenzo was a massive addition for them. Anthony
Speaker 2: Edwards is ready in his mind to be the face
Speaker 2: of the league. McDaniels proved how valuable of a player
Speaker 2: he was. Rudy Gobert another defensive Player of the Year,
Speaker 2: probably should have been second place, but that's okay. He
Speaker 2: wins his fourth So they're gonna be back, right The
Speaker 2: Clippers believe that they're going to be back. Dallas made
Speaker 2: the finals last year. Now I'm curious how the Klay
Speaker 2: Thompson experiment works for them, But they believe they're going
Speaker 2: to be back even with slight changes to their roster.
Speaker 2: And then you just look down Phoenix. Why shouldn't they
Speaker 2: think with Kevin Durant and Devin Booker alone, And then
Speaker 2: if Beal looks any bit like the Beal of old,
Speaker 2: why wouldn't they believe that they're going to be ready
Speaker 2: to go. Tyas Jones is a great addition for them.
Speaker 2: And then there's teams that missed the playoffs like Memphis.
Speaker 2: To me, is the scariest team in the NBA right
Speaker 2: now because nobody he remembers how good John Moran actually is.
Speaker 2: Because of the last two seasons two years ago with
Speaker 2: all of his off the court stuff last year with
Speaker 2: the suspension leading right into the injury, that dude is,
Speaker 2: at his peak one of the most fun and difficult
Speaker 2: players to deal with in the NBA. Now you pair
Speaker 2: that with Marcus Smart, which we really didn't get to see,
Speaker 2: Desmond Bain, Jaron Jaction Junior, and I did a ton
Speaker 2: of Purdue last year. I can tell you this much.
Speaker 2: Zach Edy is a seven foot four of Vitza Zubots.
Speaker 2: All right, so put a Vita Zubots and add four
Speaker 2: inches to him. That's what zach Edy is capable. Now
Speaker 2: he's gonna have to work defensively to get there. As
Speaker 2: a rim protector, that's the one area. But offensively, his
Speaker 2: hands are ridiculous. Nobody understands how impressive he is catching
Speaker 2: the basketball. His finishing touch is off the charts, his
Speaker 2: footwork is elite, and so he's zoo. So imagine that.
Speaker 2: Now that's starting five with a bench with Gigi Jackson,
Speaker 2: who was awesome last year, et cetera, and many others.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a team that's scary. Sacramento Lisdamar DeRozan,
Speaker 2: that's a team that's scary. The Lakers still have Lebron,
Speaker 2: who just proved at the Olympics that he's got a
Speaker 2: lot left. So that's a team that's scary. I just
Speaker 2: you go through. I mean Golden State, Golden State could
Speaker 2: be a completely under the radar team that's still scary.
Speaker 2: So it's so hard to predict now that what to
Speaker 2: answer the actual question on the ceiling of the Clippers.
Speaker 2: I still think that they're capable of winning a lot
Speaker 2: if those guys can play. I still think they're capable
Speaker 2: of being a playoff team, not a play in team,
Speaker 2: But I wouldn't know what to say once they get
Speaker 2: into the tournament because I think at that point all
Speaker 2: bets are off. This year in the Western Conference, yeah.
Speaker 1: I just love to see a healthy James Harden and
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard. I wouldn't care if they are a five
Speaker 1: or six seed. Nobody would want to see that team
Speaker 1: in a first round series, even at the top of
Speaker 1: the West. And I agree with you. Everybody forgets when
Speaker 1: Memphis was healthy, they were a second seed, they were
Speaker 1: a third seed. That's another team you kind of just
Speaker 1: have to think is going to be in the mix
Speaker 1: for a top five seed back in the West.
Speaker 2: They're going to be so good at him. That's my team.
Speaker 2: Where them in Oklahoma City to me are the scariest
Speaker 2: teams to deal with because look, we saw what Oklahoma
Speaker 2: City was capable of last year. Shake Gilgris Alexander Clipper
Speaker 2: fans know how good he is. I think that we
Speaker 2: all thought he would be an All Star, and the
Speaker 2: Clippers organization has very Vihetmaly said, we knew he would
Speaker 2: be an All Star. I don't think that they knew
Speaker 2: he was going to be an MVP level guy every year.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody did. And he's built himself into that.
Speaker 2: He deserves a lot of credit. Ja Dubb and j
Speaker 2: will I hate that as a broadcaster, sucks, but Jalen
Speaker 2: Williams from Santa Clara is a stud. Lou Dort is
Speaker 2: an elite defender. Alex Caruso now elite defender. He is
Speaker 2: the prototypical championship level role player. You get another year
Speaker 2: of muscle on Chet Holmgren and then our favorite man,
Speaker 2: Isaiah Harten. Talk about a perfect fit. Talk about a
Speaker 2: guy who has really finally put himself on the map.
Speaker 2: We knew it the second we saw it. I will
Speaker 2: never forget. We go to training camp that year, so
Speaker 2: this would have been twenty one to twenty two season,
Speaker 2: the year after the conference finals, and we go to
Speaker 2: training camp in San Diego because it was still kind
Speaker 2: of the back half back end of COVID, so we
Speaker 2: weren't doing Hawaii and Kawhi got us at San Diego State.
Speaker 2: So we go and I was sitting next to Brian
Speaker 2: and Lawrence Frank and it was if you remember, I
Speaker 2: know you remember, But for those listening. Remember it was
Speaker 2: between Harry Giles and Isaiah Hartenstein for the final roster spot.
Speaker 2: Only one of them was going to get it, and
Speaker 2: it was literally a duel, and going in everyone thought
Speaker 2: Giles was going to be the guy. Everyone said, well,
Speaker 2: this was the number one recruit in the country, won
Speaker 2: and done. If it wasn't for injuries, he's gonna find
Speaker 2: it with this team. And day one, Brian and I
Speaker 2: looked at each other and were like, Oh, this is over.
Speaker 2: This guy's got it. And so we started talking to
Speaker 2: Lawrence where like, this guy's really good. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 2: we want to keep that a secret for as long
Speaker 2: as we can, and obviously they could keep it only
Speaker 2: so long. And I remember seeing Isaiah right after that
Speaker 2: season ended. I'm like, you're coming back, right, and he's like,
Speaker 2: I want to. I want to be back. I'm willing
Speaker 2: to take slightly less. I'm here to do it. He
Speaker 2: had to take that deal with New York. You know,
Speaker 2: he wasn't gonna get that money necessarily from the Clippers,
Speaker 2: and you just never know with your career what happens.
Speaker 2: But I'm so happy for him with the contract he got. However,
Speaker 2: that is brutal for the rest of the Western Conference,
Speaker 2: because that combination of what they've got in Oklahoma City
Speaker 2: has a chance to be insane. And I think the
Speaker 2: same could be said about Memphis, and I really think
Speaker 2: that they match up. Those two teams match up exceptionally
Speaker 2: well with one another. So it's gonna be fun to
Speaker 2: see some of those duels. That's all I'll say.
Speaker 1: Okay, see, he's gonna win sixty games this season, like
Speaker 1: they are going to say that.
Speaker 2: You say that, but you could say that about almost
Speaker 2: every team in the West, is my point. You can
Speaker 2: go down the list and you can just start saying,
Speaker 2: all right, well, like, if everything hits right and Anthony
Speaker 2: Edwards is the MVP, Minnesota could win sixty games this year.
Speaker 2: You could easily say. You could say Memphis, if John
Speaker 2: Moran is back to John Moran and these pieces clicked,
Speaker 2: they could win sixty games. You could say that about
Speaker 2: a number of the teams in the Western Conference, at
Speaker 2: least in my opinion. So yes, I think Oklahoma City
Speaker 2: going into the season is probably still looked at as
Speaker 2: the likely number one seed. That's why you gotta go
Speaker 2: play the games. You got eighty two. Let's see what you.
Speaker 1: Got Yeah, it's a gauntlin as it always is. I
Speaker 1: do think the East is probably the best it's been
Speaker 1: since Jordan left the Bulls in ninety eight. Like they're deeper,
Speaker 1: but and they're top heavier than they've been and they
Speaker 1: do have some depth. But the West to me is
Speaker 1: still hell.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest, I don't think it's even close.
Speaker 2: I I you can look at the East. So let's
Speaker 2: look at the East right now, just as an exercise.
Speaker 2: I think we know Boston, we know what they are
Speaker 2: right New York, we have an idea that they're going
Speaker 2: to be, at minimum the regular season excellent. Now I'm
Speaker 2: curious playoff time, with the minutes that Tibbs tends to
Speaker 2: play his guys, what that looks like. But they're going
Speaker 2: to be an excellent team. You say Philadelphia now with
Speaker 2: PG in the fold, they should be very good. They
Speaker 2: should be competing in there. Orlando got better with Kntavious
Speaker 2: Caldwell Pope, they should be fun. Cleveland still should be
Speaker 2: very good with Donovan Mitchell and company. You've got Indiana
Speaker 2: who went to the conference finals last year, that I
Speaker 2: think is good. But I think it's probably a slight
Speaker 2: tier below those teams we just mentioned. So outside of
Speaker 2: those those teams, you've got Atlanta, who I have very
Speaker 2: little faith in being a playoff team this year, Detroit
Speaker 2: very little faith in being a playoff team this year, Miami,
Speaker 2: who tends to be good, right, but we don't. It's
Speaker 2: just an known. It feels like it's just every year
Speaker 2: you have no idea which version of them you're going
Speaker 2: to get, and you know Spoe is going to coach
Speaker 2: the hell out of them. You just don't know. Milwaukee,
Speaker 2: we know is going to be in contention at minimum,
Speaker 2: but it does sound like they've got some stuff to
Speaker 2: figure out coming out of Bucks camp right now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would say, and then what Washington, Toronto, Charlotte and
Speaker 2: my good old Brooklyn Nets. I mean, do you believe
Speaker 2: in any of those teams?
Speaker 1: No, But compared to where the East was, where you
Speaker 1: had like two or three teams when Lebron was dominating
Speaker 1: that were even considered contenders.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know why that's the case though, because you
Speaker 2: had Lebron James and so anybody who was a free
Speaker 2: agent that said, okay, what's our best opportunity? Now Golden
Speaker 2: State was on the other side. But yeah, it was
Speaker 2: just how it was back in those glory days as
Speaker 2: they called it.
Speaker 1: There's at least six or seven now really good teams
Speaker 1: in the East that could compete. I think two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine was the last time the East beat the
Speaker 1: West in head to head records during regular season matchups,
Speaker 1: Like it's only happened once. Something near. Yeah, it's been
Speaker 1: a long time. The West is still the West is
Speaker 1: still the West, and it is going to be held
Speaker 1: and every night and every game is going to matter
Speaker 1: more for the Clippers because of this.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just looking through of the Western Conference.
Speaker 2: I forgot Houston, Like Houston's gonna be that are really tough. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're gonna be a tough team, and they're really well coached.
Speaker 2: I forgot. I mean, I'm curious, what is San Antonio
Speaker 2: gonna look like? Now? I saw Weben Yama go up
Speaker 2: against Team USA and go toe to toe by you know,
Speaker 2: with himself. By the way, that was the other big
Speaker 2: signing for Philadelphia, Yabu.
Speaker 1: For Duncan on broad Dude.
Speaker 2: My favorite thing maybe I saw on Twitter after the
Speaker 2: Olympics was that they were calling him ben Wah Wallace. No, sorry,
Speaker 2: Ben Ye, Ben Ye Wallace ben Yay Wallace is an
Speaker 2: elite nickname.
Speaker 1: It's no zeeal Cinder, but I like it.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: He is the great Noah Eagle, king of the nicknames, pronunciations,
Speaker 1: and just all around star when it comes to broadcasting,
Speaker 1: which is why I nicknamed him the young Goat. Like
Speaker 1: I don't know, midway through the first year you were
Speaker 1: with the Clippers, like I had seen enough. I had
Speaker 1: seen enough of Lebron in two thousand and seven and
Speaker 1: be like, this guy could be the best player ever.
Speaker 1: I had seen enough of Noah Eagle already halfway through
Speaker 1: his first year calling games with the Clippers, where I said, no, Moss,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I know this guy is him. This is
Speaker 1: the one, and you've only proven that more and more
Speaker 1: over the years. And I couldn't be prouder to have
Speaker 1: worked with you. I knew him when Noah Eagle working
Speaker 1: with the Clippers for four seasons, and now I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see what happens here in the future. And
Speaker 1: I'm watching every big ten Saturday night. Now, I do
Speaker 1: love the broadcast because NB I've been saying this for years.
Speaker 1: First of all, you know I have hardcore nostalgia for
Speaker 1: the nineties basketball and NBC and John Tesh and round
Speaker 1: Ball Rock and blah blah blah blah blah basketball and
Speaker 1: all these things. But they have the best production. You
Speaker 1: guys have the best cameras. I'm a stickler, I'm a
Speaker 1: video file type guy or whatever it's called. I want
Speaker 1: to see my s and four K. I know what,
Speaker 1: I'm watching a game on NBC. It's gonna look pristine.
Speaker 2: That is definitely a point of importance that I've realized
Speaker 2: when I've gotten there is they stress that they stress
Speaker 2: the cuts, the production, the quality and all of it
Speaker 2: is top tier. So yes, I appreciate you saying that.
Speaker 2: I do appreciate you always tuning in, which I know
Speaker 2: you do. And in terms of the Young Goat nickname,
Speaker 2: I'm glad. I'm very pleased that Carlo has now gotten
Speaker 2: that same love because it is deserved. It is very
Speaker 2: much deserved, so I'm happy to pass it along to him.
Speaker 1: The Young go two point zero will be on with
Speaker 1: me a little bit later tonight.
Speaker 2: Two is that YG two YG two.
Speaker 1: That is Carlo Jimenez, and he'll be on the call
Speaker 1: for the Clippers taking on the Golden State Warriors Saturday
Speaker 1: in Honolulu Game one of the preseason. Noah Eagle will
Speaker 1: be on Big ten Saturday night on NBC on the
Speaker 1: Big Channel here it's Channel four in Los Angeles, Colin
Speaker 1: Michigan at Washington, a rematch of the championship game last season. Noah,
Speaker 1: my friends, it's been a blast. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: doing this and staying long. And I should mention this
Speaker 1: episode was basically sponsored by the New York Mets, because
Speaker 1: if they hadn't won that game and Noah was sweating
Speaker 1: it out here, I don't know if he would have
Speaker 1: been able to come on with me. So thanks for
Speaker 1: handling your business there, Mets.
Speaker 2: I don't know a team of destiny vibes slight team
Speaker 2: of destiny vibes. I guess we're gonna find out. All
Speaker 2: I gotta say is OMG and thank you Grimace.
Speaker 1: Jason Smith somewhere is laughing watching this. Uh, Noah, thanks
Speaker 1: for doing this once again here on Clipperstock DOUBLEA.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you and with the season around the corner, can't.
Speaker 1: Wait for Noah Eagle. I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up. A
Speaker 1: little bit later, we got Carlo Jimenez live from Honolulu,
Speaker 1: Hawaii with an update on training Camp, Day one in
Speaker 1: Hawaii on the Islands. This has been a blast. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to you guys later at follow out of May
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