Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Last night one of the most emotional nights in DFW
Speaker 2: sports history, the return of Luca, the prodigal son returns
Speaker 2: and man, the emotions were high at the AAC. Luca
Speaker 2: had an incredible game, forty five points. I think everybody
Speaker 2: in the building was cheering for him. Lakers got the win.
Speaker 2: Lucas still in town. He's had a Dick's Sporting Goods
Speaker 2: right now doing something with the Luca four, which I
Speaker 2: believe is the newest version of his shoe.
Speaker 3: Right So that's not what he was wearing last night,
Speaker 3: at least not what I noticed. And I didn't even
Speaker 3: notice if he changed his shoes or whatever. But we're
Speaker 3: seeing all that branding today, and we're talking earlier about
Speaker 3: those posters that were outside the arena for the what's
Speaker 3: it called the Trial of Bad Luca, Bad Luca.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're.
Speaker 2: Leaning into everything. They're leaning in with the jumpman the
Speaker 2: Jordan stuff, like, oh, yeah, you had to trade him
Speaker 2: because he's a bad guy.
Speaker 1: Huh, Let's investigate that. He's not that. Anybody said that.
Speaker 2: There's just going on with that narrative. Okay, let's talk
Speaker 2: about him being a bike. Let's put him on trial.
Speaker 2: And that's just gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3: And then that commercial is so funny because there's just
Speaker 3: a random little girl on the stand and she's wearing
Speaker 3: glasses looking around like what.
Speaker 2: And then the Trader one for Gatorade where he's got
Speaker 2: the Gatorade spelling of the word to where looks like
Speaker 2: it says Trader and he's staring at the camera dribbling,
Speaker 2: and then it ends and it says one journey fuels
Speaker 2: the next. So the Luca marketing engine is perring right
Speaker 2: now and that's magical. But we do have some audio
Speaker 2: from last night, anything else, we should take a skin
Speaker 2: You were right there in the mix. There's pictures of
Speaker 2: Nico watching the game from the tunnel and or video
Speaker 2: and there's the loudest fire Nico chain I've ever heard,
Speaker 2: which has to be awkward for everyone who works for
Speaker 2: the team, you know, And yeah, there you are in
Speaker 2: that shot. I'm like, it's all over my timeline and
Speaker 2: what was the vibe?
Speaker 3: Like? It was just really intense, man, just really intense
Speaker 3: the whole time. And you know, I know there was
Speaker 3: a moment where Luca's team, but like his marketing people,
Speaker 3: they were with Rob Polinka, his agent, after Luca got
Speaker 3: this because you know, JJ Reddick put him back there
Speaker 3: just to get a.
Speaker 1: Standing ovation, which was amazing.
Speaker 3: And then when Luca went back to the bench, his
Speaker 3: team got up and walked down the tunnel, and so
Speaker 3: they walked right by the MAVs front office, like and
Speaker 3: they did win at the end of the game, before
Speaker 3: the game was over, oh even before it was over.
Speaker 3: And and so you know where I sit to his team,
Speaker 3: meaning his marketing, His marketing people are Laurabeth Seeger, Rob
Speaker 3: Polinka was with him and his agent, Bill Duffy. They
Speaker 3: passed Nico, they walked, They might have even bumped shoulders,
Speaker 3: they were so close. And what happened was where I
Speaker 3: was broadcasting. I you know, Nico's been behind me for
Speaker 3: weeks now, and so when it happened, I saw them walking.
Speaker 3: But I'm calling the game and going, oh, this is
Speaker 3: going to be intense. And then all the media stood
Speaker 3: up and started looking because they knew what was about
Speaker 3: to happen. And I talked to a couple of people
Speaker 3: out there, like, man, I didn't get to see it
Speaker 3: in time. I don't know what it was like. So
Speaker 3: there interaction, I would imagine they all looked away. I bet,
Speaker 3: I mean, I bet, Rob Polinka and Nico probably hey,
Speaker 3: you know, shook hands or whatever, or maybe they just
Speaker 3: ignored each other all together. But that's the sort of
Speaker 3: intensity that was in the building. And then by that
Speaker 3: point it wasn't a game anymore, and Luca was just
Speaker 3: getting his flowers and it was like, is he gonna
Speaker 3: get fifty? You know? And he ended up with forty
Speaker 3: five and was really good six of eight from three
Speaker 3: in the first half.
Speaker 1: First half. He was so good last night, dude.
Speaker 3: I think it's one of the greatest performances I've ever
Speaker 3: seen because of the emotion of it all.
Speaker 1: Wow. But why don't we hear some of the audio
Speaker 1: of this Which one do you have?
Speaker 3: First?
Speaker 1: This is him with Lisassaulters at ESPN right after the game.
Speaker 4: Everybody saw me the way I erected to the video.
Speaker 1: You know, all these fans.
Speaker 4: I really appreciate it, man, all the teammates I had,
Speaker 4: you know, everybody had my bag. I'm the happy you
Speaker 4: know this guy. I love these fans, I love the city.
Speaker 5: But it sounds to the wat what was it like
Speaker 5: for you sitting there watching all that love, watching that
Speaker 5: video preview so.
Speaker 4: Many Emoss can't even explain it.
Speaker 1: You know, brought tears to my eyes.
Speaker 4: Like I say, I came as a as a young
Speaker 4: kid here every day team or not knowing we walked
Speaker 4: this back from NBA.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know they made me feel like home.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: It's just a lot of Greg Gray memories.
Speaker 5: How are you able to not be too emotional to
Speaker 5: still come out and play and perform the way he did?
Speaker 4: I know how I did it because when I was
Speaker 4: watching that video, I was like, there's no way I'm
Speaker 4: playing this minutle.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's the line of the night. Dude.
Speaker 2: He was crying and his lip was quivering. Dude, he
Speaker 2: had to stop watching and put his face in a towel.
Speaker 3: That's like I didn't think that was, Like I said,
Speaker 3: when it happened, it hit me way harder than I thought,
Speaker 3: you know, and obviously watching a grown man cry like
Speaker 3: it hits you and the intensity of the situation. But
Speaker 3: that's why I didn't think he was going to go
Speaker 3: have the game that he had because I was like,
Speaker 3: he's going to be too physically and mentally tired to
Speaker 3: do the stuff that we've seen him do. But that's
Speaker 3: why he's Luca, and he did have forty five despite
Speaker 3: having thoughts on the bench of man, I can't play
Speaker 3: this game.
Speaker 2: I saw Trey Young retweet the video of Luca crying
Speaker 2: during that and said he was never gonna leave. Like
Speaker 2: so many people watch that are like, Okay, clearly he's
Speaker 2: gutted because he was never going to leave Dallas.
Speaker 1: Well, uh, he's you pointed this out.
Speaker 3: He's in Dallas right now, still doing marketing, and they
Speaker 3: have a game in La To Marna.
Speaker 5: This is why I've been saying. This is last night
Speaker 5: I think was actually good for me. This is what
Speaker 5: I'm was saying. I've been avoiding all Luca content. You
Speaker 5: just gotta feel bad. You're never gonna feel better about this.
Speaker 2: It hurts. No fix to this, there's no there is
Speaker 2: no fix to this. It will never ever ever feel better.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm not watching Laker games. I'm not I've
Speaker 5: been staying away from it. But all that I didn't
Speaker 5: want to feel what I felt last night.
Speaker 1: That sucked. I know it sucked. It was so painful.
Speaker 2: But I do love basketball, and I love the way
Speaker 2: he plays the game, and so I love watching him
Speaker 2: play the game. I love watching him make trick shots. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it sucks that he's not in a Maverick unifor him.
Speaker 2: And now all these people in LA are talking about
Speaker 2: the Luca Magic and they're like, wow, we had.
Speaker 1: No idea, Like we know, we've been watching this. This
Speaker 1: is what he does, that's who he is.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just right now, it's still so raw
Speaker 3: and so last night was super emotional.
Speaker 1: But y'all are going to get over this. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I hope. I hope I didn't get to watch the
Speaker 1: Lakers next year.
Speaker 3: I know, But dude, that happened two months ago. Like
Speaker 3: people have divorces and get remarried, Like you didn't get
Speaker 3: your arm chopped off.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be able to use both arms, I hope.
Speaker 2: So, but watch like that, you trade a twenty five
Speaker 2: year old global icon, like we we gotta go watch
Speaker 2: and play in another team. I mean, the Mavericks would
Speaker 2: have to be so good and get another global icon
Speaker 2: for me to get over it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like, I don't know, I don't I don't see the
Speaker 1: route out of this yet. I hope you're right. I
Speaker 1: don't see it.
Speaker 3: Right. By avoiding it, I'm getting over it. That is
Speaker 3: called denial, and all that does the other problems stay
Speaker 3: in denial, right right, Yeah, no one ever stays in
Speaker 3: denial that it manifests itself in horrible.
Speaker 5: We had another clip that was kind of talked about
Speaker 5: it's got to move on.
Speaker 1: Let's hear it right quick.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's a hard question. I mean, for sure, it
Speaker 4: is a little bit more. Uh, you know, talking about
Speaker 4: closure sometimes hard because, like I said, I spent a
Speaker 4: lot of time here, great moments, but it's like I said,
Speaker 4: it's getting more and more and I got to focus
Speaker 4: on different things. Now that's one rather and.
Speaker 5: That's all I've been doing, focusing on different things, the
Speaker 5: right approach.
Speaker 1: But he admitted he said it's time to move on,
Speaker 1: but then admitted.
Speaker 2: It's hadn't He has not moved on. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: there you have it. There's some some Luca audio coming
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