Speaker 1: We got the Bending skin Wayback Machine coming up, and
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Speaker 1: That's all coming up, But before we move to anything else,
Speaker 1: I just want to say, I'm so increppy. I feel
Speaker 1: like a weight has been lifted on the entire Metroplex,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to sports, especially when it comes
Speaker 1: to the Dallas Mavericks. Just the full three, the full
Speaker 1: one to eighty of having your franchise player, your twenty
Speaker 1: five year old global icon, your five time All NBA
Speaker 1: player traded and never really given a good reason as
Speaker 1: to why, and traded for not a fair return is
Speaker 1: judged by most of humanity. I feel like the whole
Speaker 1: Metroplex was gutted and to defy the odds and come
Speaker 1: back and get the number one pick. MAV's had a
Speaker 1: one point eight chance of getting the number one pick
Speaker 1: in the lottery and they got it. And it's just
Speaker 1: truly remarkable, and I've found myself just feeling so happy.
Speaker 1: Like for a while there, for about a half a day,
Speaker 1: I was filled with dread thinking that Nico was going
Speaker 1: to trade him. Then news comes out that Patrick Dumont
Speaker 1: is shutting that down, saying no, no, no, he will
Speaker 1: not be traded. Tim McMahon has that, Mark Stein had that.
Speaker 1: That's that's great. I'm those were Patrick Dumont quotes, right,
Speaker 1: that was him.
Speaker 2: Well, they weren't exact quotes. But but also let me say,
Speaker 2: matt Riccardi was walking around the room saying, we're drafting
Speaker 2: Cooper Flag like there was I mean, I think there
Speaker 2: are checks and balances like you're talking about, but that
Speaker 2: that front office was going to draft the generational player.
Speaker 2: It wasn't. Patrick Dumont's got to stop anybody from doing it.
Speaker 2: They were in the room, but we just got Cooper Flag.
Speaker 1: You can understand why people would wonder, of course, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's fair to wonder about those things. The damn near
Speaker 1: most unlikely thing is always likely these days. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was That was so regardless, Like you went from
Speaker 1: being in the NBA Finals losing and then being in
Speaker 1: the lottery and and trading this global icon and it's
Speaker 1: just like such a high to being the finals and
Speaker 1: make it there and then the extreme low of having
Speaker 1: it all fall apart and just get the rug ripped
Speaker 1: out from under you. But then suddenly to be given
Speaker 1: this incredible gift of this generational talent that is like
Speaker 1: you're now set for even longer than you were with
Speaker 1: Luca Dude. The number one pick went to the Atlanta Hawks.
Speaker 1: Last year.
Speaker 2: The Hawks were about in the same position the Mavericks were,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't a year where a player like this
Speaker 2: comes out. It's not only the first time they've ever
Speaker 2: moved up. It's not only the second time in is
Speaker 2: that fifty years that they've had the number one pick. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they last had the number of pick in nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 2: right or forty five years or whatever. It's not even
Speaker 2: just that it's getting it the year that this player
Speaker 2: is available. And to Ben's point, like I don't know
Speaker 2: if people think I'm joking or not. I cried and
Speaker 2: it was not like it just it was such I
Speaker 2: guess the thing I would equate it to I've never
Speaker 2: done this. I have gone to the top of a
Speaker 2: mountain in Switzerland, but it wasn't like it was Everest,
Speaker 2: but like when there is something that seemed so daunting
Speaker 2: and so impossible and then you break through, that is
Speaker 2: an emotional release. And they got gifted the most incredible
Speaker 2: thing ever, and you know, we were talking about this
Speaker 2: last night on our little pop up YouTube thing that
Speaker 2: me and Ben did with Jake, our buddy from the
Speaker 2: Dumb Zone, is that you can feel however you want
Speaker 2: to feel about Nico and do that and hate him
Speaker 2: and do whatever you want. But and don't give him credit,
Speaker 2: don't whatever, tell him you hate him, you know whatever.
Speaker 2: By the way, I watched during at the end of
Speaker 2: the year, I watched Nico stand there in the hallway
Speaker 2: talk to fans. Fans wanted to talk to him.
Speaker 1: He said, there and talk to him.
Speaker 2: So feel however you want to feel about that person.
Speaker 2: But I think if you just took everything away and
Speaker 2: you sat there and go, hey, man, I'll give you
Speaker 2: Cooper Flag, Anthony Davis, Max Christie and an unprotected twenty
Speaker 2: twenty nine first round pick for Luca Man. If you weren't,
Speaker 2: if you took your emotion out of it, you would
Speaker 2: do that deal all.
Speaker 1: Day after day. You would take it. I'm not giving
Speaker 1: Nico credit for it the number one pick at all, don't.
Speaker 1: I Mean, it's like, That's what I'm saying. Feel it's
Speaker 1: very lucky, falling down, throwing up the basketball behind his
Speaker 1: back and hitting a hundred foot shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't get credit for it. I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 2: you know, if you just took those two things and
Speaker 2: compared them and you're just being a basketball person, go,
Speaker 2: oh my god, you I'd rather have that.
Speaker 1: And and to your point, if you were to just
Speaker 1: take stock of where you are in your basketball life
Speaker 1: as a fan, this is a better situation than that was.
Speaker 2: It's not I'll tell you what, that's not fair. It
Speaker 2: is close, but take again, take emotion out of it.
Speaker 2: You are taking the current option over what you had
Speaker 2: all day after action.
Speaker 3: My problem is like that right now, if you just
Speaker 3: do nothing that right now, you're probably on a title run. Yes,
Speaker 3: And there's just no way of knowing. Like I think
Speaker 3: that's why some people are gonna it's gonna take them
Speaker 3: a little bit longer to come to grips with all
Speaker 3: this is because they can't let go of the fact
Speaker 3: that this shouldn't have happened. Not the trade with Luca right,
Speaker 3: getting Cooper flag also should not have happened.
Speaker 2: No, right, but I don't even know.
Speaker 3: It's more shocking. I would both two things that you
Speaker 3: would never imagine what happened.
Speaker 1: Right, and I wouldn't presume to tell anyone how to feel,
Speaker 1: but I just know for me personally, I'm hitting the
Speaker 1: reset button. Yeah, as long as I know they're not
Speaker 1: gonna trade him and there's somebody that could stop that
Speaker 1: trade from happening, Uh, then I feel pretty good. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's safe footing, like they're not gonna trade
Speaker 1: this guy. And so he's eighteen, he's seven years six,
Speaker 1: you know, eight years younger than Luca.
Speaker 2: If you, as a boy, I'll put it to you
Speaker 2: like this, if you really love watching basketball, which is
Speaker 2: probably why you liked Luca, you're gonna really love watching
Speaker 2: the Mavericks with Cooper Flag.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: If you are dead set on not experiencing that joy,
Speaker 2: that is absolutely your choice. And I know people that
Speaker 2: at least tell me that they don't watch the Cowboys
Speaker 2: anymore because of the way the Jones family runs it,
Speaker 2: And that's their prerogative.
Speaker 1: And I've seen that. I've seen that happen. I saw
Speaker 1: it with my dad. My dad quit on all the
Speaker 1: local teams, especially he put his money or his mouth was.
Speaker 1: He quit watching.
Speaker 2: And that's a choice that you, as a person that
Speaker 2: has time to spend in this world, can make. I
Speaker 2: will watch a Cowboy game, and during a Cowboy game,
Speaker 2: if things are going well, I rarely sit there and
Speaker 2: think about what Jerry Jones is or isn't doing. Last night,
Speaker 2: I made the comparison. So I want to get this right.
Speaker 2: All these people that are watching Jalen Bruntson be the
Speaker 2: MVP of the league right now, are their knicks fans
Speaker 2: that can enjoy it because of how they feel about
Speaker 2: James Dolan. I mean like, ultimately, when the game happens,
Speaker 2: whatever the sport is, you're caught up in the game
Speaker 2: and the guys that are out there doing it and
Speaker 2: laying it all out. And the reason you love sports
Speaker 2: in the first place is that experience. And so you
Speaker 2: can make the conscious choice I refuse to experience this
Speaker 2: particular set of joy. But if you loved basketball in
Speaker 2: the first place, I'm here to personally guarantee you you're
Speaker 2: gonna love watching Cooper Flag play with maps written across
Speaker 2: his chest.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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