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Speaker 4: It's the world famous Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers,
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Speaker 4: I noticed you're wearing a suit. You're fired up because
Speaker 4: tonight you will be broadcasting at the AAC for the
Speaker 4: Laker Return of Laker Luca. I'm almost as excited about
Speaker 4: that as the fact that Corey Seger has had another
Speaker 4: home run in this Ranger game been six to one
Speaker 4: Rangers two bombs for Corey Seeger. Yep, these bats are back. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Cory Seger, I guess we do know hold on Presidy,
Speaker 4: Can I hear that again? Well the paraphrase, Corey Seeger,
Speaker 4: I guess we do know the power phrase. So Luca
Speaker 4: is back. This is an emotional night for all of DFW.
Speaker 4: It's the biggest story in town, one of the biggest
Speaker 4: stories on planet Earth. Nobody can understand how we the
Speaker 4: Mavericks traded a twenty five year old global icon and
Speaker 4: it's just not done. It's as you just don't see
Speaker 4: it happen ever, like maybe a guy demands a trade
Speaker 4: to go somewhere, maybe, but to be traded, to be blindsided.
Speaker 4: And look, it hasn't gone well for the Mavericks, and
Speaker 4: for a lot of different reasons. Almost everyone in their
Speaker 4: organization has been hurt. I mean everybody. It's the walking wounded.
Speaker 4: Guys have been banged up and hurt. I got injured
Speaker 4: doing a game.
Speaker 1: God, there's so.
Speaker 4: Many roster problems, like there was a question of the
Speaker 4: mapsn't even have enough bodies to suit up for a game.
Speaker 4: Good news Ben, not for tonight, but for the Toronto game.
Speaker 4: We got Brandon Williams back. Great back from Friday and
Speaker 4: Sunday against the grizz things. I never imagine a millionaires.
Speaker 4: I'd be so excited to get a two way player back.
Speaker 1: He's that's great.
Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, do you know who's questionable for
Speaker 4: tonight's game? Dante Xum.
Speaker 1: Yep, look out dude. That means he might be back
Speaker 1: in time for the play in. That'd be huge.
Speaker 5: Great.
Speaker 4: Look, these are tough times. These are tough times, and uh,
Speaker 4: emotions are going to be high. This is the weirdest
Speaker 4: sporting event maybe ever, because there will be more Luca
Speaker 4: fans in the house than Maverick fans.
Speaker 1: Do you remember, like.
Speaker 5: Usually these these are go bad the return you know
Speaker 5: of someone you usually it's man. Do you remember when
Speaker 5: the Rangers had a rod Well when he went to
Speaker 5: Seattle for the first time and Seattle would printed out
Speaker 5: like money and they're like throwing fake money on the
Speaker 5: field and stuff because he signed for two hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty two million dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like that's what.
Speaker 5: It's never like this where I think everyone in the
Speaker 5: arena wants the other team to win. I think a
Speaker 5: good portion of them. What I mean, I want the
Speaker 5: MAVs to win. But I think a lot of people
Speaker 5: there are going to be pulling for the Lakers tonight,
Speaker 5: and that drives me nuts. But it's what it is
Speaker 5: that'll be the that'll be the real interesting thing is
Speaker 5: how noticeable it is. That's what I'm so I guess
Speaker 5: anticipatory about more than anything, because look, everyone didn't cancel
Speaker 5: their season tickets.
Speaker 1: That didn't happen.
Speaker 4: Okay, there's a lot of people, and I see him
Speaker 4: at games all the time that are still season ticket holders,
Speaker 4: and those people are probably going to be rooting for
Speaker 4: the Mavericks and Luca at the same time I will.
Speaker 4: And then there's gonna be keep in mind, even before Luca,
Speaker 4: the Lakers always traveled really, really well. Anyways, we always
Speaker 4: make jokes about look at all these Kobe jerseys. And
Speaker 4: then on top of that, there's gonna be people that
Speaker 4: are no longer Maverick fans, but they're only Luca fans,
Speaker 4: and they went out of their way to come to
Speaker 4: this game to show it. And so when the Mavericks
Speaker 4: make a bucket, there's gonna be noise. There's gonna be
Speaker 4: your normal home crowd noise. However, when Luca makes a bucket,
Speaker 4: there's gonna be probably more noise than anything, and then
Speaker 4: there's gonna be Laker noise whenever Austin Reeves makes a bucket.
Speaker 4: So it's gonna be the strangest crowd reaction in a
Speaker 4: home game that really anyone has ever seen.
Speaker 1: There's really nothing like this to even compare it to.
Speaker 1: I need, I need an offseason.
Speaker 4: I just can't get to the off season fast enough
Speaker 4: to really process emotionally how I feel about all this,
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, Yeah, like I don't even
Speaker 4: know how I feel about being a mass fan moving
Speaker 4: forward into the future. I love this team. It's always
Speaker 4: been my team. But I'm gutted by this. I mean
Speaker 4: it is I don't even on. My brain is having
Speaker 4: a hard time processing it. And it would have been
Speaker 4: so much easier to process if they had been healthy,
Speaker 4: because what we saw in the one half before Anthony
Speaker 4: Davis got hurt, what we saw in that one half
Speaker 4: was like, Okay, they could be going to the finals
Speaker 4: again this year.
Speaker 1: That's how good they look. They looked like they could
Speaker 1: beat anybody.
Speaker 4: But it's an incomplete work because we didn't even get
Speaker 4: to see that, right.
Speaker 5: So it does nothing for you. That tonight might be
Speaker 5: Clinch night. Clinch that ass clinch What a plan? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: because there's three up with three to play on and
Speaker 5: Phoenix plays Oklahoma City. So if the MAVs win tonight,
Speaker 5: if the Maths whin, they're in. Because the magic number
Speaker 5: with two is Phoenix and Phoenix got drummed last night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's two they win. Yeah, they're in. They're in.
Speaker 1: The place is Clinch Night. Anything happens on Clinch Night.
Speaker 4: You always say that, I don't there's not a lot
Speaker 4: of hope there because there's no like getting in. All
Speaker 4: I want is the best bet draft pick possible. Well,
Speaker 4: I want to get better and contend or can And
Speaker 4: they're in the middle.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Now, if they were to upset Oklahoma City, that'd be insane.
Speaker 4: If they get into the play in and advance and
Speaker 4: then to upset Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh my god. Okay, this has been a
Speaker 1: magical ride.
Speaker 4: But I think that's just a series of other guillotines
Speaker 4: waiting for them right now. I mean, it would be
Speaker 4: very difficult to beat Oklahoma City unless Oklahoma City had
Speaker 4: similar injuries.
Speaker 1: Me a crack at doing something that's never been done before.
Speaker 4: I mean, shot, yeah, I think the likelihood of having
Speaker 4: a pick that's higher than twelve is so minuscule. I'd
Speaker 4: rather just see what you can do. And dude, I mean, look,
Speaker 4: you're not going to beat the best team in basketball
Speaker 4: without Kyrie Irving probably it seems very unlikely. But they
Speaker 4: will have a good portion of the rest of their
Speaker 4: team healthy. And so if they did get Dante XM
Speaker 4: back and then they had Spencer and Dante and Brandon Williams, well,
Speaker 4: then it can be a more competitive thing. And then
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City has to do with Anthony Davis and Gafford
Speaker 4: and live Here's the thing I'm also very excited about tonight.
Speaker 4: This will be the first game where you have your
Speaker 4: full front line without minute restrictions. Now, because of the
Speaker 4: way they play in general, it's not like some guys
Speaker 4: gonna go out there and have thirty eight minute game.
Speaker 4: Like I still think I doubt Ad plays more than
Speaker 4: thirty two minutes or whatever. But this is a this
Speaker 4: is a battle of teams that play way differently, and
Speaker 4: so the you know, Luca's gonna have to be great
Speaker 4: for them to go in there and do what they
Speaker 4: want to do, and Lebron and Austin reeves, those three
Speaker 4: guys are gonna have to be great because the Mavericks
Speaker 4: should be able to play baller defense.
Speaker 1: And those guys are gonna be amped up for this.
Speaker 4: It's the most anticipated regular season basketball game in the
Speaker 4: NBA in a decade. Yeah, and I wonder how j
Speaker 4: Kid approaches the game. You know, we'll get into this later,
Speaker 4: but it certainly if you read Mark Stein, it certainly
Speaker 4: feels like Lucas Campus does not think this was all
Speaker 4: Nico the trade. They certainly think j Kid is culpable
Speaker 4: as well. That would be his prerogatives as the coach.
Speaker 4: But like, how much of Luca's angst is directed towards
Speaker 4: j Kid because he'll be able to see him the
Speaker 4: whole night, right, And then how does Jake Kidd approach it?
Speaker 4: Does anybody in the Mavericks organization care how it goes
Speaker 4: other than just winning? Like in other words, you have
Speaker 4: everybody knows Luca's game exceedingly well. He's played his whole
Speaker 4: career here until recently. So they've seen some teams try
Speaker 4: to blitz Luca and get the ball out of his hands.
Speaker 4: This happens with a lot of superstars. They've seen some
Speaker 4: teams go no, we're just gonna play you straight up.
Speaker 4: And if you know, so, which way will they choose
Speaker 4: to go? And like they do they care if Luca
Speaker 4: has a pedestrian game statistically versus like the owner does
Speaker 4: you know the governor? Does he would he much rather
Speaker 4: Luca had a pedestrian game or does it hurt more
Speaker 4: if he goes for sixty against him? You know, I
Speaker 4: don't know, that's super interesting. I haven't even thought about
Speaker 4: whether or not Patrick Dumont will be in the house
Speaker 4: else does he want to be in the house for this?
Speaker 4: Like you know, Nico's changed where he is in the arena. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think he's going to be in the tunnel where
Speaker 4: he's been Yeah, I mean I I would be surprised
Speaker 4: if he if he moved. Maybe I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 4: there's maybe the NBA wants for security reasons for them
Speaker 4: to not have those And that's how volatile the thing
Speaker 4: has been that that would even be a consideration.
Speaker 1: And it could be too that.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know how those guys feel. They
Speaker 4: may be like I don't want to be a distraction,
Speaker 4: so I don't want to be here. But man Nico
Speaker 4: was in the building in La and it wasn't no thing.
Speaker 4: You know, he was down there on the court. So
Speaker 4: the other side of the ball, when when the Mavericks
Speaker 4: have the ball, clearly they're going to want to attack Luca, right,
Speaker 4: So who does that?
Speaker 1: What's the matchup that works best for that? You, Kyrie?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't really have that. I mean, Luca's probably
Speaker 4: going to be covering Clay most of the night. I
Speaker 4: could see a couple of times where he's covering So
Speaker 4: the problem, well, no, because then you could you could
Speaker 4: put Austin Reeves on vincer Dinwiddie, and then you could
Speaker 4: put Luke on Clay. It's but then they go even
Speaker 4: smaller with Vincent. That's gonna it's that's part of the
Speaker 4: fun of the intrigue of the matchup. The Mavericks are
Speaker 4: way bigger and stronger and the Lakers are more perimeter.
Speaker 5: You know what really speaks to how big this is.
Speaker 5: It's like growing up as a kid, you would say, oh,
Speaker 5: one of the bulls come into town. Okay, you try
Speaker 5: to get you know, tickets for you know, Michael Jordan,
Speaker 5: when you said lebron a minute ago, or one of
Speaker 5: you said Lebron a minute ago.
Speaker 1: I went, oh, yeah, he's on the Like.
Speaker 5: Dude, this is like like maybe last five, six, seven
Speaker 5: times Lebron will ever play here in town.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I ain't thinking about him for a second.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Dude?
Speaker 4: He's having his best year ever and he's got like
Speaker 4: zero percent body fat. How I play for another decade?
Speaker 4: It is interesting depending on what role he wants to take.
Speaker 4: You know, he could he could play longer, Like would
Speaker 4: he ever be cool with coming off the bench?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 4: He's not close to that now, but I think in
Speaker 4: two years if he wanted to play fifteen minutes and
Speaker 4: now off the bench, I would love that on my team. Now,
Speaker 4: you can't pay that fifty million dollars a year whatever,
Speaker 4: but it's certainly in play if that's what.
Speaker 1: He wants to do with his life.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm struggling with this in so many ways, and
Speaker 4: I feel bad for every Mavericks employee because not every
Speaker 4: Mavericks employee made this trade, and so they're like, even
Speaker 4: you guys as broadcasters are are put in a tough spot.
Speaker 4: But like, I see a lot of the stuff that's
Speaker 4: out there like saying thank you Luca and Slovenian and
Speaker 4: things like that, and there's gonna be montage videos and
Speaker 4: appreciation and it's like the people that made those videos, man,
Speaker 4: God bless him for making those and but Party of
Speaker 4: You is like you.
Speaker 1: Didn't have to trade him. Why are we doing this montage?
Speaker 1: Like he still could be you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But it's like it's it's complicated because it's not their fault.
Speaker 4: They're just I know, But that's like getting caught up
Speaker 4: in something that's never gonna change and is in the past.
Speaker 1: Like that, doesn't you know at some point you got
Speaker 1: to move on with your life. Just not there yet.
Speaker 4: I can't take me a while. I get I need
Speaker 4: an off season. I need this season to be over
Speaker 4: with and just move forward. Unless they go on a
Speaker 4: huge run and beat Oakhomas and.
Speaker 1: Then back then, I mean, that's probably not gonna happen.
Speaker 4: It'll be this offseason, all right. What are we gonna
Speaker 4: do next? I got something I want to tell you guys.
Speaker 4: How I knew today was not gonna go well for
Speaker 4: the Mavericks, And I'll tell you what that is next