Speaker 1: It is graduation season. I still have not recovered from
Speaker 1: my daughter's graduation two years ago in a class of
Speaker 1: nineteen hundred with the last name Wade. But we got
Speaker 1: lots of stuff to get too still, So don't go
Speaker 1: nowhere right now, it's time for this.
Speaker 2: Now, let's go around the sports.
Speaker 3: KG Queints has all the sports. Ye too, I have
Speaker 3: a stapt It's gonna break your brain. Are you ready?
Speaker 3: I'm ready? Dallas legend Scotti Scheffler has won three times
Speaker 3: since May second? Has he won the Memorial this week?
Speaker 1: Three times?
Speaker 3: It's May second?
Speaker 1: That's incredible.
Speaker 3: What major League baseball team has only won three times
Speaker 3: in the last month.
Speaker 1: It takesas Rangers. No, oh, they've won a ton Okay,
Speaker 1: I thought you were tying it in. That's got to
Speaker 1: be the Chicago White SOXLP. Who is Colorado Rockies?
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 1: Good job, it's May second.
Speaker 3: Scotty Cheffer has won the same amount of golf tournaments
Speaker 3: as the Rockies have games.
Speaker 1: And they play every day. That's insane. That is nuts.
Speaker 1: They're so bad. They're nine to fifty. Rangers are off
Speaker 1: today and play tomorrow. Is that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: They got a series win. They had eleven runs Friday night.
Speaker 3: They had eight or nine yesterday they had nothing on Saturday.
Speaker 3: It's okay, series win over a good team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3: Head above Water boys, Yeah, seekers back right, he is okay?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Well we know that it is the Pacers in the
Speaker 3: Thunder that gets going on Thursday nine. Yeah, and talk
Speaker 3: a little more about that later on. Let's get to this.
Speaker 3: I want to play audio. This is Ernie Johnson of
Speaker 3: TNT Turner Sports, who's been there forever, and he is
Speaker 3: signing off the NBA on tn T because with the
Speaker 3: NBA's new media rights deal, they're gonna be on ESPN
Speaker 3: and Amazon, at NBC and ABC and they're not gonna
Speaker 3: be on Turner Sports anymore at TNT. So here's his
Speaker 3: sign off again. I cut this down to about forty
Speaker 3: seconds because he had three minutes of very thoughtful commentary
Speaker 3: and shoutouts and he is getting emotional at the end.
Speaker 1: He's been at this company his entire life. Yeah. Can
Speaker 1: I say something right quick too, because I want to
Speaker 1: set the scene on this because I was watching this live.
Speaker 1: There's four guys on set. They've been the core of
Speaker 1: the inside the NBA for a while. Shack Ernie, Kenny,
Speaker 1: and Charles. So they all said something. Shack went first
Speaker 1: set the tone dropped an F.
Speaker 3: Bomb, then Kenny went, Kenny echoed Shacks F bomb.
Speaker 1: Then Charles went, Charles told a great story, and then
Speaker 1: now it's time for Ernie, the guy who runs all
Speaker 1: of this. Ernie does his thing, and it was you
Speaker 1: could tell he had written it and it was very thoughtful.
Speaker 1: And so that's what you're gonna play.
Speaker 2: The four of us are gonna be together, our production
Speaker 2: crew is gonna be together. It's gonna be that same bunch.
Speaker 2: We're still gonna be shooting. That show in Atlanta is
Speaker 2: just going to air somewhere else. And so the craziness
Speaker 2: that you've seen, the nonsense and the foolishness and the
Speaker 2: top notch basketball analysis, all of that stuff's going to
Speaker 2: be on. It's going to be on ESPN or ABC
Speaker 2: next year, not on T young T for that. It's, uh,
Speaker 2: we're sad, but I'm proud to say, for the last time,
Speaker 2: thanks for watching us. It's the NBA on T young T.
Speaker 2: Before we go, guys, just do the money joint.
Speaker 1: Come on. Shack Man looked at me right when that happened.
Speaker 1: I was watching it live and I went, what are
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
Speaker 4: Dude?
Speaker 1: Let me just say that Ernie started that job when
Speaker 1: Shack was a senior at Cole High School in San Antonio,
Speaker 1: So that meant a lot to him. And like, I
Speaker 1: just think about in the small role I have on
Speaker 1: the MAVs broadcast when we have something important going on,
Speaker 1: follow well is the voice of it. When he's finished
Speaker 1: up going.
Speaker 3: Oh and one more thing, Like Ernie had that in
Speaker 3: his mind. I've I've been here for three decades, I've
Speaker 3: given my life to this company. I have the final word,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna end it with how I've ended every
Speaker 3: NBA broadcast.
Speaker 1: And then she goes, hold on everybody, I gotta talk again,
Speaker 1: and I was just like, dude, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: Just some f in respect. I don't know, man, I
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 3: And you know, there's probably people listening right now going, hey, skin,
Speaker 3: you're being pretentious.
Speaker 1: But like I'm telling you, that meant a lot. That
Speaker 1: meant a lot to all of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean the nature of that show is
Speaker 3: them to just goof off and say stuff, you know.
Speaker 1: So he was definitely not thinking, Yeah, I agree, and
Speaker 1: you're exactly right. And my point was, hey, man read
Speaker 1: the room. Yeah yeah, as Ernie's doing that, you can
Speaker 1: tell Ernie had thought out. This is a legendary show.
Speaker 1: Most people think Inside the NBA is the greatest sports
Speaker 1: studio show of all time. That's up for debate. But
Speaker 1: most people think that this is their final time. They're
Speaker 1: gonna go do something else on ESPN. But I tell
Speaker 1: you about that. Okay, you've got that. This is Barkley
Speaker 1: on and Dan Patrick this Morning. Does the show look
Speaker 1: like the show? It's just it's Inside the NBA, but
Speaker 1: it's on ESPN.
Speaker 4: Dad, We don't even know Okay, yeah, I don't know
Speaker 4: what we're doing. Then TNT is trying to do something
Speaker 4: stupid behind the scenes. We taped the pilot about a
Speaker 4: month ago and it was the stupidest, you know, because
Speaker 4: because we're not going to be on ESPN as much
Speaker 4: as people think.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait, what do you mean you taped a pilot.
Speaker 4: But they're trying to do something stupid at TNT. And
Speaker 4: like I say, we taped the pilot doing stupid stuff.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to go out like that. So but
Speaker 4: I guess they want to feel like they're doing something
Speaker 4: to make us earn our money, but from TNT.
Speaker 3: So they're doing a show, and they were making fun
Speaker 3: of the fact that tn T doesn't have the rights
Speaker 3: to the NBA anymore, so it's them just doing stuff.
Speaker 3: They don't have highlights of basketball games they can cut to.
Speaker 3: They can't really talk about it. So but TNT is
Speaker 3: still going to make them do a show on TNT.
Speaker 3: And also he said, we're going to work about a
Speaker 3: half or maybe a third of the time that we're
Speaker 3: normally working over at ESPN. I saw Bill Simmons say
Speaker 3: some stuff today too, where he was like, dude, ESPN
Speaker 3: is going to change that show. They're not gonna be
Speaker 3: able to do whatever they want like they were at TNT.
Speaker 1: I will say, I mean, Bill Simmons has been at
Speaker 1: war with ESPN forever. I will say, in our brief
Speaker 1: time at ESPN, Yes, ESPN is about those four letters.
Speaker 1: Those four letters matter more than anybody they've ever had
Speaker 1: on there. Oberman, Bill Simmons, Dan Patrick, Scott Van Pelt,
Speaker 1: you guys can all suck it. There's four letters ESPN
Speaker 1: and it's about that over anything else.
Speaker 3: I would disagree with that now because now it's more
Speaker 3: about Pat McAfee and Steven A. Smith than anything else.
Speaker 1: Man, they'll root Pat McAfee out, do you think so? Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean he did a bunch backtracking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: I mean, dude, Bill Simmons was huge. Bill Simmons was
Speaker 1: there when we were there. He was a monster.
Speaker 3: And he said know what fu and then he sold
Speaker 3: his company to Spotify for seven hundred million.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, No, they don't. They don't care about you.
Speaker 1: They care about those four letters. That is it telling you?
Speaker 1: That's interesting. I care about the nine letters the Today game. Oh,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna do it next. It's