July 5, 2019 • 42 mins
Dan Beyer and Jonas Knox sit in for Doug Gottlieb and are on Kawhi watch, what ever that means. The guys talk about the race for Kawhi Leonard and how the the teams not in the race for Kawhi must be so relaxed and actually in a better spot. The guys also talk to FS1 NBA Insider Ric Bucher who tells them why the Toronto Raptors are in the favorites to land Kawhi. Dan and Jonas also tell you how Kawhi WON'T be announcing his decision when it is finally made. Plus, the guys really miss football and they give you their latest list of why we need football back.
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We all just try to guess and get a sense
of while there was this meeting. I did it myself. Heck,
I've changed my pick of where I think he's going
because how this is all played out and we sit
in the same exact spot jonas as we were twenty
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four hours ago. Absolutely nothing has changed. There have been reports,
there have been maybe maybe some leaks or some thoughts
on where this decision is going, but nothing has changed
for Kawai Leonard that has become public. Nothing has changed
for the Lakers, Clippers or right now I know. It
was mentioned in the top of the hour update Isaac
Loan Coron who said that the private jet, the company
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that sponsors Kawai Leonard, they tracked that jet going from
Toronto down to San Diego. Everyone just assumes that that
means that it's for Kawai Leonard. How do we not
know it's for Manning Machado. I mean, you cannot convince
me that that's not for Manning Machado. I remember Brian
Giles was a padre for for a short time Dan.
How do we know it's not for Brian Giles? So
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so I just think that. And I was gonna throw
out some San Diego Charger, but they left and playing
a soccer stadium, so I can't can't do that. So look,
I just I think until we actually see uh either
you know, when I'm when I know that Kawhi Leonard
is going to be a raptor again? When's the season start?
When does uh? That's when I know he's gonna be
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a raptor again. And here's the best part about all this,
Since everybody else is getting it wrong, It's like if
you found out part way through the test in school
that they said, yeah, it's not going to count against
your credit on that case, why did I do to
the what do we got? This is a free pass
for every insider out there to get this one wrong
because everybody's getting it wrong. So let's just start throwing
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out ideas. If that's what we're gonna do, let's throw
out some ideas. There is there is something that is
got to be relaxing. If you're the Brooklyn Nets, yeah,
there's got to be something at least being at peace.
If you're the Boston Celtics right now, or the Milwaukee
Bucks or that's not just the Eastern Conference teams. It's
basically teams that have already got their plans done for
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free agency, and that now that you're just you're you're
moving on and looking forward to it. As a fan Jonas,
as a fan of the Milwaukee Bucks, it would be
better for Kawhi Leonard to sign with the Clippers or
Lakers because you wouldn't want him in the Eastern Conference.
But I'm just to the point of, all right, wherever
it's going, just let let this, just let this end
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however it happens. Already. If you got to play him
in the East, then then the Bucks will play him.
If you only face him twice in the year in
the in the Western Conference, that's that's fine as well.
There was something to be at peace with not being involved. Look,
there's a stress level that comes along with Here are
the people that are stressed out about it. The Lakers clearly,
Laker fans clearly, the Clippers, Clipper fans clearly, uh and
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the Raptors and Raptors fans and probably the entire country
of Canada. They're all stressed out. Also the people that
have made predictions and have said I'm hearing that he's
going here. If you've made a prediction on Kawhi Leonard,
you're stressed out about it. For the rest of us,
kick our feet up, baby, ye dog? Yeah, why not
another hot dog? Another ConA big wave, like why let
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let's just sit back and relax. It's the same thing.
And I always feel this that it's really fun when
your team is in a championship game and you can
root for your team as a fan. You know what
else is fun when you don't have to stress out
about it. Yeah, you're not You're not being hijack. You're
social life isn't being hijacked because you're a an Islanders fan.
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And and Game one of the Stanley Cup is on
versus at eight Eastern time, like you know, and it's
a Friday night. You know, you don't have to worry
about all that, so you could just kind of sit
back and relax. For the rest of us, Let's just
enjoy the Rideman, enjoy all the gossip, enjoy the stress,
the nail biting from some of these people that are
involved in the Kauai watch, and let's just sit back
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and have a good time. And even with the team's involved,
it's with the Raptors and the Lakers, it's not as
it's not as much about winning, I think, as it
is not losing. Where where the Clippers. You know, we
were going back and forth about this yesterday and and
like who needs Kauai the most and who really needs him?
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But it's also of of when you're when you're a
fan of Alabama football or now Clemson football, the winds
aren't as exciting as they were five or ten years
ago Clubs and five years ago, ten years ago Alabama.
It's just making sure that you don't embarrass yourself if
you win a title that's expected. You just don't want
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the worst case scenario. And I almost think like with
the especially with the Lakers, of like, yeah, it'd be
nice to have him, but they don't want to fall
in their you know, flat on their face and saying, oh,
we missed out on another big free agent. How is
this going to look? Listen, what if this happens? If
you're like, talk about a blow to the ego. What
if the great Magic Johnson, the great Lebron James, the
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potentially all time great Anthony Davis, the Lakers brand, the
city of Los Angeles, the Laker organization, Laker Nation. What
if they lost out on the Kauai sweep stakes to
the guy who started Degrassi Junior High. Honest to God,
like you talking about a kick in the nuts like
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that is that's a blow to the ego. So they're
so pot committed to Akers in this whole scenario, they've
got to get it done somehow, someway, the Lakers have
to get this done. They've got to figure out a
way to get it done, because it's gonna be egg
on their face and they're gonna be It's a reminder
for however long Kauai is in the league that that's
why we didn't do this, because that guy chose the
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kid from Degrass. He was a better salesman than we were.
It is such a it's such a a not lose
scenario instead of a win scenario. It really really is
because there isn't there. It's not going any You already
got Anthony Davis first of all, but your whole plan
is developed, this super team, and it doesn't fall out.
I do think I and I take that back because
I do think it's very important for the for the
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Raptors to get him, and that's where I think he's
gonna go back. It would feel like a lost but
you do a bit of the cushion you talked about
this yesterday of winning that title. You know, like like
that's there for you, but for the Lakers it's I mean, man,
it's the fear of what's gonna happen if you don't
get him, rather than the excitement of what's going to
happen when you have him or if you have them.
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Because there's also a question of how it's actually going
to work with the Lakers, But none of that is
really even being spoken about because you're like, oh, we
got we got four really good players and also here's
here's you better hope that details And I know the
Lakers are bad at this and we've seen some stuff
come out as far as the Raptors approach and their presentation.
If you're one of those teams and you don't land them,
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and let's just go over to the Raptors. If the
Raptors don't land Kauai Leonard and he chooses to go
to the Lakers or the Clippers. Anytime you go to
pitch a free agent, or if somebody else's contract comes
up and they're thinking about going somewhere else, you know
exactly where they're going. Well, hey, you offered Kauai all this,
What about me? I mean I heard the stories you
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you offered him a part of your record deal. You've
offered him part of this own training staff could play
a sixty out of eighty two games? Uh? Am I
going to get the same treatment? Now? Okay, well I'm
out of here. Clearly he's more important than me. So
now all the details are out. So if you lose out,
you are all. You're literally all in, which means if
you lose the details of all your bets that you
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place and everything you put in the middle of the
table is gonna be released, and people are gonna find out,
and soon free agents are gonna come knocking on the
door saying, am I gonna get the same treatment, the
same stuff you offered Kawhi Leonard, not different story. Hello, Hello,
and they're gone, they're out, ul A, that's how much
you want to pay John calip Her, even though he's yeah, perfect, yeah,
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and now oh you've got all this sort of this
is all you want to offer me. But like when
the story came out to where Alabama boosters were like,
we paid off Nick Saban's house, all right, well congratulations.
No matter what you do moving forward, it's never gonna
be enough because now he doesn't even have house payments.
Nick Saban has no more house payments because you guys
have paid off his property. Be sure to catch live
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Still a wainning Kawhi Leonards decision. I'm Dan buyer, that's
Jonas knocks. He is John Ramo sitting in Fort Doug today,
and still no decision from Kauai. But it was apparently spotted.
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Um I don't know Isaac had the flight tracker. I
thought I saw a tweet that said he was spotted
somewhere in Carmel Valley. I don't somewhere. He had audio
from the cockpit from the from the pilots, uh Isaak,
that was legitimate audio you had earlier. Oh yeah, that
was of the return flight getting cleared from San Diego
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to fly to Toronto. And Dan, what we you're talking
about the alleged picture that's starting to circulate on social
media someone claiming they just saw Kauai at the Carmel
Valley AMPM in San Diego, which is a couple of
miles south of the house that he bought earlier this year.
And it's the picture of a gentleman. Well, it's the
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back of this gentleman. He's wearing snazzy New Balance shoes
that Kauai has been spotted with before and a hat
that is similar to one that Kauai has worn before
Welcome to Life. And I remember seeing JaVale McGhee like
years back before he became JaVale McGhee, like down on
the promenade in Santa Monica, Like, oh, that's JaVale McGhee.
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You should be able to know if it's Kawhi Leonard
or not. I mean, he's the only guy who've've spoken
about for the last week. Yeah. And by the way,
if it's in and around San Diego, Um, look, there's
a lot of like you go to San Diego Beach
and there's a lot of guys who are like, I
don't know, forty five to fifty and still think they're
nineteen and uh so Kwai Leonard does not look like
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any of them. And uh and do we know what
he was buying at the amp M? Did he get
an icy did he have like one of those pack
of donuts? He is in the candy area. I see
slim gyms nearby, and David sunflower seeds as well as
ruffles and laz that he appears to be looking at.
Interesting Now, Dan, all right, let's so let's have the
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conversation here. And this is the most important aspect of
this Kawhi Leonard discussion. If you were Kawai lean nerd,
what would you have bought at the amp M? Well,
here's the deal. First of all, jerky is at the
end of the aisles, So like, if you're looking for
a beef snack, you're not going to find it in
the middle of the aisle, So you would probably just
stand out at the end. I would probably go with
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a bag of chips um, maybe a t G I
frought a potato skins, sour cream and onion, and then uh,
then a good old dou or something. Look, if he
needs a caffeine kick, I would go with an iced coffee,
but you gotta read the label because there's a lot
of sugar in those. If you can find a no
sugar iced coffee to wash yourself and make your decision
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a little easier, I would recommend that. And the beef
jerkey is always good Dan everybody needs. I would always
also go with a jerky dip, you know, like the
jerky snuff that you can get that's like you still
a favorite of mine and throw people off. Think you
had a skull pouchin or something like that. Yeah, yeah
it's rick bmucker. Are you a fan of jerky snuff?
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If you ever had jerky snuff? You know the stuff
that looks like it's in the tobacco tin, but it's
beef jerky. No. I think I've I've eaten a lot
of different things. I've I've missed out on that, like
it haven't lived. Now, just go when you when you
see beef jerky at your next convenience store. You'll see
it in a little plastic tan. All it is is
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salt like that. That's the whole thing. But it's it's
that's where you can put a little dip in. Yeah,
I just want to meet the guy who said, hey,
you know what we should do. We should put jerky
in a snug Tanya and then and then I want
to meet the person who said, yeah, and I'll pay
for it. I'll tell you who he is. He's candy cigarettes. Yeah,
that's what I was just gonna say. Candy cigarettes on
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the ice cream truck years ago. I mean those were
hot man or fake tattoos like apparently because because you know,
people back then who rode around an ice cream trucks thought,
you know what, let's find something that's gonna make our
youth look like thugs. So here's some fake tattoos and
some candy cigarettes. Okay, but still candy cigarettes. At least
the first word is candy. Yeah. The that that kind
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of tips you off jerky snuff. Jerky snuff. I've still
got questions is actually what you're giving me. I'll tell
you what. You'll go to the Star. You'll look in
the beef jerky section and you'll see a little plastic
and you'll be like, Oh, that's what Dan and Jonas
we're talking about. Rick, can I ask you this? Um? So,
we're We've got audio from the cockpit of a plane
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that may or not may not have been carrying Kawhi Leonard.
We've got Kawhi Leonard spotted in the AMPM. What's happening here?
What the hell is happening here? Uh? Well, I can't
speak for your your tape or the amp M M
at this point. And look, we're all reading tea leaves.
Uh the idea that he's still deliberating, I'm not. I'm
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not buying that as much as I am. Okay, So
how are we going to handle them? The announcement? Most
everyone that I'm talking to around the league at this
point believe that um it having gone on this long
is is an indicator that the that he's staying with
the Toronto Raptors. And I've even had somebody in the
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Lakers organization who didn't speak from a place of knowledge
that they had been tipped off, or that they thought
the that or that they knew something had been decided,
but they were of the mind that he was staying
with Toronto simply looking at the usual conduct of circumstances
like this, that if he was going to he was
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going to take the light Lakers offer, that it would
have been done, it would have been expedited after he
met with them, but that at this point this is
a matter of not so much having to still make
a decision, but how do we announce that decision? Is
it a matter of that if you want to be
a Laker, you shouldn't have to be convinced to be
a Laker. Maybe that's not the right way of putting it.
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But if you wanted to be a Laker, he would
have known it from the beginning. Is that a sense
that that there may be compose that some of it,
I think more of it is is that there's just answer.
There's questions that they can't answer for him right now,
and that no doubt that they couldn't in the in
the meeting, which is, you know, what's the rest of
the roster gonna look like? Um, you know, what are
we gonna run under Frank Vogel, And how's it gonna
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work with Jason Kidd and the coaching staff and um
and But I think that the the and um, you know,
how are you going to handle my health? Who's gonna
be in charge of that? I mean, he doesn't have
any of those questions. With Toronto. He's been He's got
a relationship with Alex McKechnie Judicidou, who worked on on
Kobe UM. Alex also worked on Kobe at one point.
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If I'm not mistaken, I know that he was with
the Lakers at a time where Kobe was there. UM.
Kobe is familiar with both of them, but Kauai is
only familiar with one. And I've been told for a
while now that health and the ability to stay healthy
and play UH and get through a season and and
be ready to play for a championship is a big
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element for him in this decision. And for all that
the Acres can offer, UH, if you really get down
to brass tacks in terms of what that requires, there's
a lot of things that they can't answer as far
as that's concerned. Rick. We compared it as we've been
talking to the last couple of days, of when you're
trying to decide where to go to dinner, you kind
of just end up falling back to the place you
always go yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that's a it's a
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it's a big part of it. And I think, especially
with a guy like Kauai, familiarity as part of it.
Look at when when he first went there. I was
told by another uh GM that when they didn't expect
him to stay, because when he went up there for
the All Star Game, he stayed. He never left his room.
Now it was I was there. It was one of
the coldest places I've ever been on Earth. And I
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went to school in New Hampshire, so I mean, I've
never experienced cold like that. Um. But since then, we
haven't heard. I mean, he spent an entire year there
and we never heard or saw any indication that he
had issue with playing in Toronto or the weather or
any of those things. And I would have thought that
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if it was a factor that that we would have
heard something by now. He signed a a endorsement deal
with a private jet company that is tied in with Drake.
A lot of people around the league took that as
a signal, um, because I just I don't know how
how that works. And the reality is, you have a
private jet, you can go back to you know, back
to l a any time you want. You can go
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back to to California anytime you want. But as far
as playing for a championship next year and knowing what
you're who and what you're going to be working with again,
I'm I'm relaying what I'm hearing from people around the league,
which the consensus at this point is that all signs
point to him staying with Toronto, largely because of the timeline.
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But when you start breaking everything else down, uh and
Kauai wanting to know exactly what he's going to be
working with the next couple of years. Um, the Toronto
can bribe provide more answers than anybody else. He is
Rick Buker, Fox Sports One, Fox Sports Radio, NBA Insider.
Also you see his work on the Bleacher Report. You
can get his stuff on Twitter at Rick Buker. Joining
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us here on Fox Sports Radio, Dan Buyer, Jonas Knox
in for Doug gottlieb Rick. What's which team is hurt
the most by Kawhi Leonard not going there? If we
want to throw in the Clippers, that's fine. These two
teams that aren't going to get Kawhi Leonard up the
final three are going to be hurt the most. It
has to be the Clippers just because of the timeline. Um, well, actually,
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I take that back. It has to be the Lakers
because of the timeline with Lebron James. I don't know
what how they can salvage this at this point. It's
really once you get past that the Clippers were expecting
to have him and this was supposed to be at
a great step forward. Yes, they were able to get
Anthony Davis. Is that enough for them to win another
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championship before Lebron turns the corner if he hasn't already.
I think most people would say no, there's there's nothing
guaranteed there, and as a result nothing being guaranteed that
they're going to be playing for a championship, it's gonna
be difficult to get some of these ancillary veterans like
in Andrea Guddala or some other guys who might go
there on the cheat saying, hey man Kauai a d Lebron,
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let me go get another ring. Uh. With that not
being assured, I think those type of veterans are going
to be dispersed across the league and it's going to
be more difficult for the Lakers to do to to
make a serious upgrade other than the fact that they've
added Anthony Davis to the equation. Rick Bucker joining us
here on the dug Out Leap Show on Fox Sports Radio.
He's Jonas Knocks. I'm Dan Buyer. Last one for me. Rick,
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has the East caught up with the West if Kauai
stays in Toronto? Yeah, I don't see what. I don't
see why not. I mean, they were the champions this year.
I felt going into the year that whoever was that
that an Eastern Conference team was going to win it,
simply because I thought the Golden State was at this
point where the number of law long seasons and the
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shortened bench and the wear and tear on their main
horses was going to leave them vulnerable to whoever was
left at the at the end of the road. But
you look at I don't know if it's I think
what's I think there's there's parody between the two conferences
as much as there's ever been, maybe not in terms
of depths, but certainly at the top. Uh Toronto, Philadelphia, Milwaukee,
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those are all teams that are that are that can
hold their own and can consider themselves as much title
contenders as anybody that we're going to see coming out
of the West without without Kauai making the switch to
the Lakers. He's Rick Buker, Fox Sports One NBA analysts.
How much is this cut into your surfing time just
waiting for Kauai. Well, you know it's funny that you
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say that, because, um, a couple of my buddies. I'm
headed back home for a day before I go to Vegas,
and a couple of buddies. Buddies were just out and
one was on a stand up and he had like
a ten foot great white go under, And so everybody's
kind of chilling on. Maybe maybe we'll take a couple
of days off from surfing our usual spots because we've
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had My group of guys has had. One of them
is a pilot and flies a little plaine up and
down the coast and he saw like five or six
ten to twelve foot great white all in the pack.
So we're all spooked right now. So it's not cutting in.
I was gonna go tomorrow, for sure, you know, I might.
I might. I might wait till I get back from Vegas.
The men in the in the in the white suits
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have decided to move on to greener, greener waters. And Okay,
now where exactly are you seeing these sharks or people
out there that might be considering going to a beach.
Where are you seeing? Um these stunt double the great
White was seen at Dunes Beach off of Half Moan Bay.
That's where I live and most of the most of
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the breaks that I surfer right around there. So but
as we know, great whites, uh, they've got some change.
They're they're they're like Steph Curry. They can they can,
they can go a long way. Yeah, go to channel
to channel surfing instead of actual surfing this week, that
would be the best way. Rick Buker, Fox Sports One
NBA analyst and our friend here at Fox Sports Radio.
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Find um on Twitter at Rick Buker. Appreciate it, Rick,
have a great weekend. Be sure to catch live editions
of the Doug Dot Leap Show weekdays at noon Eastern
three pm Pacific. This is something that we started yesterday.
We are going to continue it today. The reasons that
make us want the NFL and college football back now,
Yesterday I brought up is this good for baseball? Is
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this that topic that's why we need football back? So
we don't have people saying all these other runs, are
they good for baseball? Is it good for baseball? Isn't
netting good for baseball? Is uh? Is the home run
be good for baseball? Or strike out is good for baseball?
That is gone. Also, you had NBA free agency, right Yeah, Yeah,
(22:59):
that's why we needed because it keeps going on. I
had the branch off of that NBA summer league. I
am I no interest whatsoever in the NBA summer League. Yeah,
I don't. I don't. Look, the Bucks are playing right now,
and I do not care. I wish now summer leagues
in Vegas again, right, Yeah? Like, I just wish some
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of these reporters and insiders would come out and just
be honest and say, we just wanted to go to Vegas.
So we don't really give a crap about any of
these guys. We just want to go to Vegas. There's
not the wrong with it. Just say it. It's why.
It's why more media members seem to venture out to
the Super Bowls that are in Miami as opposed to Minnesota.
You know, like it just there's a reason for it. Um,
here's the other one, Dan, this is gonna be near
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and dear to your heart. Another reason we need a
football back fantasy football. Look, we're approaching draft time, Dan,
We're approaching draft time. I think fantasy football gives people
some interest. They've got a dog in the fight. No
matter what, whether you're playing a daily league or a
season long tournament, there's money involved to see. Football has
revolutionized the way that we watch the NFL. I think
(24:04):
we need a back big time. I've already ranked my
quarterbacks for the upcoming season, and I have Kyler Murray
way higher than I think other people do. Actually, Kyler
Murray higher than Drew Brees right now? Yes, yes, okay,
now that's a fair ranking. And there's gonna be people
out there in New Orlengs go, well, what do you
(24:25):
talk about? Man? You guys are after kid. It's just
like those officials. Do you see some of those balls
Drew Brees is throwing Layton games. Uh, Like he's showing age.
Whether anybody wants to acknowledge it or not. Yeah. And
the and the True Saints vic like the the the
real chances where they had to win Super Bowls. It
was really based on the running game and and and
it was a good mix of what you had, and
(24:47):
I do think that I don't know if Arizona is
gonna be able to stop people because I just don't
know how the offense is going to work. But whether
they follow through with Cliff Kingsbury's air raid offense and
it works, then ky La Marie is getting stats, or
if it doesn't work, they're not twenty eight to nothing,
and then he's gonna get garbage time stats that will
help you either way. So at some point, that's why
(25:08):
I like Kyler Murray. Why why I miss football? I'll
branch off on another thing with the NBA bad Kauai jokes.
Oh my goodness. Yeah, the the Kauai Leonard jokes on
Twitter over these last few days need to go. I
may have made a bigger deal about my pool yesterday, okay,
(25:30):
then some of these jokes, but this is ongoing from everyone.
I get that everything's got a shelf life, but there
are people who just do not want to give up
on making Kawhi Leonard jokes on Twitter. So if the
NFL was here, we wouldn't have to worry about those
stupid jokes. So for you guys out there making those
Kauai jokes, just do your do us a favor and
keep quiet. I don't mind puns. I don't mind puns.
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I like funds. I like funds, So I'm fine with
puns um, but actual jokes, yeah between all right, But
I have a question for you, dan uh kawhy do
we keep doing the John rama? I've got another one.
I have a lesson, Leonard, have about national love for
small markets? All right, because you know, you know, when
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Tuscaloosa is important during college football season, all right, Columbus,
Ohio during college football season. Nobody's no offense to Columbus Ohio.
I love Columbus. The Dublin area was out there last year, beautiful,
beautiful place. But nobody gives a crap about the Blue Jackets.
I'm sorry. Then, that's just a fact, the cous But
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Columbus is all Ohio State and harbor the same way.
I just think it's national love for those smaller markets,
those college town Now it should be noted just because
this is the geography of me. Columbus is the biggest
city in Ohio. It's bigger than Cleveland, bigger than Cincinnati.
But maybe the one team I get what you mean,
you know, with the Madison's of the world. Fine, yeah, fine, Columbia,
South Carolina, Yes, Spin Athens, Georgia. Like those small markets
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I think get a little bit of love during the
football season. At other times during the year, maybe they
don't get as much love nationally. I can't wait for
the NFL because I was slipping channels the other night
and on one of the ESPN stations, you know what
I saw? Top twenty games of right, guess what was
number sixteen? John Ramas, you want to take a guess
college hoops the sixteenth best game of last season. I'm
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gonna go out in a limit say maybe you say Oregon, Oh,
that's a good guy. Hawaiian Duquesne it was, it was.
Those were both really good guesses, but they were incorrect.
TCU at k State, Oh yeah, sorry, honey, Purple on
Purple crime going on right now on ESPN. You remember
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when I watched this in January, We're watching oh tc
They didn't make the tournament. No, they didn't. K State did?
They were out early? But yeah, sorry, And that was
number who says tense not enough, Let's do twenty good? Uh,
but at what point do you think they were like
it's seventeen and just said well, we can't do seventeen.
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That doesn't sound right. Can we just squeeze three more
in here? Like? Can somebody find three more games? Like?
Nobody out perfect? I have another one, Dann. This is
why we need the NFL slash college football back for
the Tony Romo ball washing. I mean, nobody gets a
kick out of out of the washing of balls for
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Tony Romo than I do during the football season where
it is just, mom my god, how did he know
that play was coming up? Because he's a former quarterback
in any quarterback who played in the NFL could also
do the same thing, but they're not doing it because
they realize you don't want to have that be your crutch,
because the further you get away from the game, the
less likely you're gonna recognize those plays. Fast forward to
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four years from now, Tony Romo was gonna swear to
God that there's a play action pass coming up next
and it's a punt formation. Okay, the game changes and
you can't rely on that as your go to But
I just I love the idea that people are so
fooled by this, and because Tony Romo is doing it,
all of a sudden it's it's magic. What God, he
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really knows his stuff. He should be a coach. Get
out of here with the crap. But I get such
a kick out of seeing the feedback on it that
I can't wait to watch it again. There it is
just a few more reasons why we need the NFL
and college football back because of all this is going on.
If you've got any submitted to us, I'm aunt Dan
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there a little bit later on the show and maybe
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came to big threes, sixties six percent of that big
three gets to be who they are, so two of
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the three guys and it's someone who has to adjust.
That's what I think. If Lebron would go to the Lakers,
or excuse me, if kau I would go to the Lakers,
that's what they've got to sort out. And I think
we talked about yesterday. I have no idea who's going
to be the one to play defense. And if I
were to pick anybody to lock down the opposing team's
best player, it would probably be Kawai Leonard. Now, Kauais
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shown in Toronto that he could play both ends of
the court. But I don't think that you want to
take Lebron and exert him on the defensive end, which
would hurt him on the offensive end. Like I think,
if Kauai comes to l A, it's Kauai. Even even
if Kauai is the best player of them all, I
think Kauai is the one that actually ends up having
to take the back seat because the personalities and the
skill sets and who can really do what at this
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age of their career. And everybody can say, well, Lebron
is an unselfish player. He'd be more than welcome to
bring these guys along. That's easy to say when he's
been in control of of both quote unquote big threes
that he was a part of because he was the
guy Dwyane Wade stepped aside. Lebron James is the best
player in the team. When he was in Cleveland, that
was his Cleveland team that he pulled the strings on
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to get Kevin Love and to want to work with
Kyrie Irving. But it was Lebron's team no matter what,
which is why Kyrie Irving wanted to leave that team
when he had been on there after Lebron left like
he was he was the incumbent there and and Lebron
ended up taking the reins on that team. So it's
easy to say, oh, look, he's going to be an
unselfish player, and he's gonna welcome in Kauai, and Lebron
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will be the guy to take a step back. Everybody
says that, But I seem to remember Lebron James sort of,
you know, gloating about some of his individual accomplishments last year.
I seem to remember Lebron James, you know, promoting more
of himself and less about the team a year ago.
I just think we can all talk big about how
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you're going to act in a situation until the situation happens,
and then you really find out what what all that
talk was. The roles all have to be sorted out,
and I just I don't see the you know, the
the positions of where the Lakers are. I know it's
a positionless basketball nowadays, what positionless basketball? Jonas is usually
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a guy who was usually the three playing the five.
It's not a bunch of three fours and fives out
of the court. Really like it's it's more guard based
of playing without a position than it is front court based.
And if you want to put Kauai in that backcourt,
even though Lebron needs the ball in his hands, he's
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still a really a three or a four. The you
have four guys in the front court and putting Kyle
Kuzma into that sin and you have nothing to do
in the backcourt. I I don't know how the world
are you gonna guard Golden State. And I'm so glad
he brought up Kuzma because the Lakers held onto Kuzma
because they think he's got a really bright future. I
got news for you, that future gets stunted when you've
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got Kauai, Leonard, Lebron James, and Anthony Davis and you're
starting five. So this whole talk about we can't trade
Kyle Kuzma, No way, we're trading him. Okay, Well, then
that's that's a great plan if you plan to build
around him somewhere, but you're not really building around him.
Your star chasing, and he's going to be the guy
left holding the bag because he's the youngest player there
and he's you're not giving him time or room to develop.
(33:36):
It's it seems like a great plan. I always I
felt like the Lakers were taking the easy way out
by just going after a big three. You don't take
any It's easy to sell that to your fan base. Look,
we got Kauai, obviously you want Kawhi Leonard, and you
do a deal with Anthony Davis. But to think zero
scouting and then now you're just filling out a roster
to hope they have pieces instead of figuring out how
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hasn't made up his mind of where he is going
to play. We were joined earlier by Rick Buker, Fox
Sports one NBA analysts on what he's hearing when it
comes to Kauai and him making his decision when when
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he first went there, I was told by another GM
that when they didn't expect him to stay, because when
he went up there for the All Star Game, he stayed.
He never left his room. Now it was I was there.
It was one of the coldest places I've ever been
on Earth. And I went to school in New Hampshire,
so I mean, I've never experienced cold like that. Um,
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But since then, we haven't heard. I mean, he spent
an entire year there and we never heard or saw
any indication that he had issue with playing in Toronto
or the weather or any of those things. And I
would have thought that if it was a factor that
we would have heard something by now. But as far
as playing for a championship next year and knowing what
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you're who and what you're going to be working with again,
I'm I'm relaying what I'm hearing from people around the league,
which the consensus at this point is that all signs
point to him staying with Toronto, largely because of the timeline.
But when you start breaking everything else down, uh and
Kauai wanting to know exactly what he's going to be
(35:29):
working with the next couple of years. Um, the Toronto
can pride provide more answers than anybody else. Really good
insight from Mark Buker. I hope you didn't hear my
cough too much in the background. Sorry again, it was
the fans at night. But the point is is everything
that he said is is basically what why I've changed
from the Clippers to Toronto. Because it's gone on this long.
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There's a reason why Toronto is still in it. And
if you were really down to locale, it would be
down to the raptors or excuse of the Clippers and Lakers,
And that's not the case, because the raptors are still.
And look, if you if you wanted out of something
so badly, all you needed was an opportunity, Like if
you wanted out of anything so badly, oh, you just
(36:13):
need as an opportunity. He has his opportunity and he
hasn't left yet. So what does I tell you he
didn't want out badly? So and not badly enough. And
maybe this you know, maybe in having conversations because one
of the things that I know Chris Bruce Artist said
on Fox Sports Radio and Fox Sports One is that
when he talked with the Lakers, he met individually with
(36:36):
different pieces of the Lakers organization Lebron Magic, like just
so he could find out whether or not their stories
line up. If you've got to go to that much
trouble just to find out whether or not somebody's lying,
maybe you shouldn't go there, Like if that's if that's
one of the concerns, I need to know that that
you guys aren't lying to my face, and you need
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to go through all those channels. Maybe the bigger question
is why am I having to do this like that?
That oughted to be a telltale sign that you've got
a problem with the organization. And it was like, uh
Tyrian Game of Thrones. Yeah, see, this is what happens
when you actually watch it. To make a reference, when
he planted it with the information this is earlier, so
there's like six or seven years ago. But who would
(37:19):
say what the cer se and then it got back
to him and he knew who he could trust. Maybe
that's what Kauai is doing with the Lakers. Send a
raven dan the raven Uh. That probably won't be a
way that Kawhi Leonard UH would announce where he is
going to play via raven. Why don't we figure out
some other ideas on maybe reasons why or or ways
(37:40):
that Kawhi Leonard will not make his announcement. Let's let's
see if John Ramos can, I don't know, strike up
the band for a little bit, UH, play a little
something for us, because we always like to have music
when we do these sorts of things. It's a good
way for us to go back and forth. Isaac brought
up when we thought the time would be that Kawai
Leonard makes this decision um something without explosives so that
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we can talk over. I thought eleven oh four Eastern time,
Saturday night. I thought that was that was my guest
and one Kauai was going to make his John I
just played the open the street finer for some reason.
It's tomorrow night, it's Big East basketball. That doesn't take
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that one off? Do we have still have the open
for top take stand? Here's what's awesome. John and I
had a three minute conversation in the commercial break, not
about what music we were going to play in the
next segment, but how the Whole Foods didn't have uh
pastrami today. That's that's what it was. So I apologized
(38:45):
that was my fault and not telling John that we
needed a music bad I'm sorry, John. What a sick,
twisted joke by the people in Sherman Oaks who said, hey,
there's a radio station there. Look, you know radio it's
not like the most lucrative job in the whole world,
So what what would be? What would best fit their
hunger needs? I know, let's throw in whole paychecks right
(39:09):
next door, and that's the only place you can go
to get food where a half a sandwich is just
to rip off and nostrami today, right, John? Nope, it's
Dray today, Jonas. You know what? You know what they say, John,
I don't know stuff. I don't think he's gonna do
it with a rap song. Dan, he doesn't strike me
(39:29):
as a rapper. Kawai Leonard, I don't think there's gonna
be a rap song that comes out. I just I
can't imagine that's the place he goes. Take that Fakirs
and go into the Lakers. Won't hear that from Kawai
Leonard Now? You probably also won't see a billboard saying,
you know, like we have billboard Skiered in l A
trying to convince Kahi Leonard to come to Los Angeles,
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whether it be with the Clippers or whoever. I don't
think that you're going to see that from Kauai and
announcing where he's going. Yeah. I don't think we're going
to get a Sports Illustrated Was it Lebron who was
on the cover of Sports Illustrated? Yeah, and he just
with that serious look like I don't even know the
cameras they're like, I don't even know we're taking pictures
at this point. I don't think it's going to be
as choreographed as a Lebron decision. I wish, I wish
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we had a TV show, but I don't think it's
gonna happen on America's Got Talented Now. I don't think
that he is going to be given the thumbs up
from Howie Mandel to show that he is staying with
the Raptors. I also don't think that he when he's
right about to give his decision. I don't think that
Jim Gray is going to cut in and say are
you still a nail biter? Like I don't. I don't
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think that is going to be part of his decision
in front of in front of kids while people burn
his jersey in Cleveland. I don't think that's gonna happen.
I Also, I also don't think he's going to do
it on the John Ramo Show. Not because he doesn't
want to, but I just don't think John would let
him have that. No, definitely not. Um. Also, Kauai doesn't
strike me as a snapchatter. No, you no like Draymond
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Green snapchatter. That's clear, we all remember that story. Well,
Kawhi Leonard doesn't doesn't strike me as somebody who's going
to take it to snapchat in order to to make
his announcement. Man, there's so many different ways where he
could do it, but you try to figure out which
way that he he won't do it. Man, I'm running out,
Eric Roberts, you've got anything for me? Any anyways that
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Kawai Leonard is not going to announce, I'm gonna go
with he's not gonna announce it via FaceTime. Via FaceTime,
I don't think he's gonna do any kind of live
video stream. No. Um, you know, athletes left to you know,
fire up the Instagram live videos nowadays. Dan, you're a
game show guy, you know where He's definitely not gonna
do it. You're not gonna see Kauahi Leonard with goggles
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and some cheap elbow and kneepads as he tries to
pull a contract out of a giant nose on Double Dare.
All right, that is that's not going to happen with Kawai.
I watched an episode of Double Dare the other day
with my wife, and they had six flags with one
second left, and somehow, I don't know, I think I
was holding onto the one second, but they got both
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of them and then they yeah what they grabbed it
out of the nostril and then took it off the
pancakes chocolate and you know, oh yeah, Sunday slide was
impossible if he took one step on the the the
ice cream or whip cream whatever they had going up
the slot, and then they gave you a little bike,
a little tricycle to where you had to ride the
tricycle and the slop that was that was always very challenging. Yeah,
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he's not gonna do it on double there. I can
assure you that's not happened. And he won't do it
at Summer League. He won't show up in a pair
of shorts with the Raptors, Lakers, or Clippers, And, as
John Ramos mentioned to us earlier, no Janice for the Bucks.
Today in Summer League, Philadelphia also played without Joel Empi.
Damn it, I had over. Yeah, there goes that bad. Yep, yep, yep.
Didn't see him, didn't see him at all.
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We all just try to guess and get a sense
of while there was this meeting. I did it myself. Heck,
I've changed my pick of where I think he's going
because how this is all played out and we sit
in the same exact spot jonas as we were twenty
(00:44):
four hours ago. Absolutely nothing has changed. There have been reports,
there have been maybe maybe some leaks or some thoughts
on where this decision is going, but nothing has changed
for Kawai Leonard that has become public. Nothing has changed
for the Lakers, Clippers or right now I know. It
was mentioned in the top of the hour update Isaac
Loan Coron who said that the private jet, the company
(01:05):
that sponsors Kawai Leonard, they tracked that jet going from
Toronto down to San Diego. Everyone just assumes that that
means that it's for Kawai Leonard. How do we not
know it's for Manning Machado. I mean, you cannot convince
me that that's not for Manning Machado. I remember Brian
Giles was a padre for for a short time Dan.
How do we know it's not for Brian Giles? So
(01:28):
so I just think that. And I was gonna throw
out some San Diego Charger, but they left and playing
a soccer stadium, so I can't can't do that. So look,
I just I think until we actually see uh either
you know, when I'm when I know that Kawhi Leonard
is going to be a raptor again? When's the season start?
When does uh? That's when I know he's gonna be
(01:49):
a raptor again. And here's the best part about all this,
Since everybody else is getting it wrong, It's like if
you found out part way through the test in school
that they said, yeah, it's not going to count against
your credit on that case, why did I do to
the what do we got? This is a free pass
for every insider out there to get this one wrong
because everybody's getting it wrong. So let's just start throwing
(02:09):
out ideas. If that's what we're gonna do, let's throw
out some ideas. There is there is something that is
got to be relaxing. If you're the Brooklyn Nets, yeah,
there's got to be something at least being at peace.
If you're the Boston Celtics right now, or the Milwaukee
Bucks or that's not just the Eastern Conference teams. It's
basically teams that have already got their plans done for
(02:32):
free agency, and that now that you're just you're you're
moving on and looking forward to it. As a fan Jonas,
as a fan of the Milwaukee Bucks, it would be
better for Kawhi Leonard to sign with the Clippers or
Lakers because you wouldn't want him in the Eastern Conference.
But I'm just to the point of, all right, wherever
it's going, just let let this, just let this end
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however it happens. Already. If you got to play him
in the East, then then the Bucks will play him.
If you only face him twice in the year in
the in the Western Conference, that's that's fine as well.
There was something to be at peace with not being involved. Look,
there's a stress level that comes along with Here are
the people that are stressed out about it. The Lakers clearly,
Laker fans clearly, the Clippers, Clipper fans clearly, uh and
(03:18):
the Raptors and Raptors fans and probably the entire country
of Canada. They're all stressed out. Also the people that
have made predictions and have said I'm hearing that he's
going here. If you've made a prediction on Kawhi Leonard,
you're stressed out about it. For the rest of us,
kick our feet up, baby, ye dog? Yeah, why not
another hot dog? Another ConA big wave, like why let
(03:41):
let's just sit back and relax. It's the same thing.
And I always feel this that it's really fun when
your team is in a championship game and you can
root for your team as a fan. You know what
else is fun when you don't have to stress out
about it. Yeah, you're not You're not being hijack. You're
social life isn't being hijacked because you're a an Islanders fan.
(04:04):
And and Game one of the Stanley Cup is on
versus at eight Eastern time, like you know, and it's
a Friday night. You know, you don't have to worry
about all that, so you could just kind of sit
back and relax. For the rest of us, Let's just
enjoy the Rideman, enjoy all the gossip, enjoy the stress,
the nail biting from some of these people that are
involved in the Kauai watch, and let's just sit back
(04:25):
and have a good time. And even with the team's involved,
it's with the Raptors and the Lakers, it's not as
it's not as much about winning, I think, as it
is not losing. Where where the Clippers. You know, we
were going back and forth about this yesterday and and
like who needs Kauai the most and who really needs him?
(04:48):
But it's also of of when you're when you're a
fan of Alabama football or now Clemson football, the winds
aren't as exciting as they were five or ten years
ago Clubs and five years ago, ten years ago Alabama.
It's just making sure that you don't embarrass yourself if
you win a title that's expected. You just don't want
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the worst case scenario. And I almost think like with
the especially with the Lakers, of like, yeah, it'd be
nice to have him, but they don't want to fall
in their you know, flat on their face and saying, oh,
we missed out on another big free agent. How is
this going to look? Listen, what if this happens? If
you're like, talk about a blow to the ego. What
if the great Magic Johnson, the great Lebron James, the
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potentially all time great Anthony Davis, the Lakers brand, the
city of Los Angeles, the Laker organization, Laker Nation. What
if they lost out on the Kauai sweep stakes to
the guy who started Degrassi Junior High. Honest to God,
like you talking about a kick in the nuts like
(05:55):
that is that's a blow to the ego. So they're
so pot committed to Akers in this whole scenario, they've
got to get it done somehow, someway, the Lakers have
to get this done. They've got to figure out a
way to get it done, because it's gonna be egg
on their face and they're gonna be It's a reminder
for however long Kauai is in the league that that's
why we didn't do this, because that guy chose the
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kid from Degrass. He was a better salesman than we were.
It is such a it's such a a not lose
scenario instead of a win scenario. It really really is
because there isn't there. It's not going any You already
got Anthony Davis first of all, but your whole plan
is developed, this super team, and it doesn't fall out.
I do think I and I take that back because
I do think it's very important for the for the
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Raptors to get him, and that's where I think he's
gonna go back. It would feel like a lost but
you do a bit of the cushion you talked about
this yesterday of winning that title. You know, like like
that's there for you, but for the Lakers it's I mean, man,
it's the fear of what's gonna happen if you don't
get him, rather than the excitement of what's going to
happen when you have him or if you have them.
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Because there's also a question of how it's actually going
to work with the Lakers, But none of that is
really even being spoken about because you're like, oh, we
got we got four really good players and also here's
here's you better hope that details And I know the
Lakers are bad at this and we've seen some stuff
come out as far as the Raptors approach and their presentation.
If you're one of those teams and you don't land them,
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and let's just go over to the Raptors. If the
Raptors don't land Kauai Leonard and he chooses to go
to the Lakers or the Clippers. Anytime you go to
pitch a free agent, or if somebody else's contract comes
up and they're thinking about going somewhere else, you know
exactly where they're going. Well, hey, you offered Kauai all this,
What about me? I mean I heard the stories you
(07:41):
you offered him a part of your record deal. You've
offered him part of this own training staff could play
a sixty out of eighty two games? Uh? Am I
going to get the same treatment? Now? Okay, well I'm
out of here. Clearly he's more important than me. So
now all the details are out. So if you lose out,
you are all. You're literally all in, which means if
you lose the details of all your bets that you
(08:02):
place and everything you put in the middle of the
table is gonna be released, and people are gonna find out,
and soon free agents are gonna come knocking on the
door saying, am I gonna get the same treatment, the
same stuff you offered Kawhi Leonard, not different story. Hello, Hello,
and they're gone, they're out, ul A, that's how much
you want to pay John calip Her, even though he's yeah, perfect, yeah,
(08:23):
and now oh you've got all this sort of this
is all you want to offer me. But like when
the story came out to where Alabama boosters were like,
we paid off Nick Saban's house, all right, well congratulations.
No matter what you do moving forward, it's never gonna
be enough because now he doesn't even have house payments.
Nick Saban has no more house payments because you guys
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Still a wainning Kawhi Leonards decision. I'm Dan buyer, that's
Jonas knocks. He is John Ramo sitting in Fort Doug today,
and still no decision from Kauai. But it was apparently spotted.
(09:08):
Um I don't know Isaac had the flight tracker. I
thought I saw a tweet that said he was spotted
somewhere in Carmel Valley. I don't somewhere. He had audio
from the cockpit from the from the pilots, uh Isaak,
that was legitimate audio you had earlier. Oh yeah, that
was of the return flight getting cleared from San Diego
(09:29):
to fly to Toronto. And Dan, what we you're talking
about the alleged picture that's starting to circulate on social
media someone claiming they just saw Kauai at the Carmel
Valley AMPM in San Diego, which is a couple of
miles south of the house that he bought earlier this year.
And it's the picture of a gentleman. Well, it's the
(09:49):
back of this gentleman. He's wearing snazzy New Balance shoes
that Kauai has been spotted with before and a hat
that is similar to one that Kauai has worn before
Welcome to Life. And I remember seeing JaVale McGhee like
years back before he became JaVale McGhee, like down on
the promenade in Santa Monica, Like, oh, that's JaVale McGhee.
(10:12):
You should be able to know if it's Kawhi Leonard
or not. I mean, he's the only guy who've've spoken
about for the last week. Yeah. And by the way,
if it's in and around San Diego, Um, look, there's
a lot of like you go to San Diego Beach
and there's a lot of guys who are like, I
don't know, forty five to fifty and still think they're
nineteen and uh so Kwai Leonard does not look like
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any of them. And uh and do we know what
he was buying at the amp M? Did he get
an icy did he have like one of those pack
of donuts? He is in the candy area. I see
slim gyms nearby, and David sunflower seeds as well as
ruffles and laz that he appears to be looking at.
Interesting Now, Dan, all right, let's so let's have the
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conversation here. And this is the most important aspect of
this Kawhi Leonard discussion. If you were Kawai lean nerd,
what would you have bought at the amp M? Well,
here's the deal. First of all, jerky is at the
end of the aisles, So like, if you're looking for
a beef snack, you're not going to find it in
the middle of the aisle, So you would probably just
stand out at the end. I would probably go with
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a bag of chips um, maybe a t G I
frought a potato skins, sour cream and onion, and then uh,
then a good old dou or something. Look, if he
needs a caffeine kick, I would go with an iced coffee,
but you gotta read the label because there's a lot
of sugar in those. If you can find a no
sugar iced coffee to wash yourself and make your decision
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a little easier, I would recommend that. And the beef
jerkey is always good Dan everybody needs. I would always
also go with a jerky dip, you know, like the
jerky snuff that you can get that's like you still
a favorite of mine and throw people off. Think you
had a skull pouchin or something like that. Yeah, yeah
it's rick bmucker. Are you a fan of jerky snuff?
(11:56):
If you ever had jerky snuff? You know the stuff
that looks like it's in the tobacco tin, but it's
beef jerky. No. I think I've I've eaten a lot
of different things. I've I've missed out on that, like
it haven't lived. Now, just go when you when you
see beef jerky at your next convenience store. You'll see
it in a little plastic tan. All it is is
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salt like that. That's the whole thing. But it's it's
that's where you can put a little dip in. Yeah,
I just want to meet the guy who said, hey,
you know what we should do. We should put jerky
in a snug Tanya and then and then I want
to meet the person who said, yeah, and I'll pay
for it. I'll tell you who he is. He's candy cigarettes. Yeah,
that's what I was just gonna say. Candy cigarettes on
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the ice cream truck years ago. I mean those were
hot man or fake tattoos like apparently because because you know,
people back then who rode around an ice cream trucks thought,
you know what, let's find something that's gonna make our
youth look like thugs. So here's some fake tattoos and
some candy cigarettes. Okay, but still candy cigarettes. At least
the first word is candy. Yeah. The that that kind
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of tips you off jerky snuff. Jerky snuff. I've still
got questions is actually what you're giving me. I'll tell
you what. You'll go to the Star. You'll look in
the beef jerky section and you'll see a little plastic
and you'll be like, Oh, that's what Dan and Jonas
we're talking about. Rick, can I ask you this? Um? So,
we're We've got audio from the cockpit of a plane
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that may or not may not have been carrying Kawhi Leonard.
We've got Kawhi Leonard spotted in the AMPM. What's happening here?
What the hell is happening here? Uh? Well, I can't
speak for your your tape or the amp M M
at this point. And look, we're all reading tea leaves.
Uh the idea that he's still deliberating, I'm not. I'm
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not buying that as much as I am. Okay, So
how are we going to handle them? The announcement? Most
everyone that I'm talking to around the league at this
point believe that um it having gone on this long
is is an indicator that the that he's staying with
the Toronto Raptors. And I've even had somebody in the
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Lakers organization who didn't speak from a place of knowledge
that they had been tipped off, or that they thought
the that or that they knew something had been decided,
but they were of the mind that he was staying
with Toronto simply looking at the usual conduct of circumstances
like this, that if he was going to he was
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going to take the light Lakers offer, that it would
have been done, it would have been expedited after he
met with them, but that at this point this is
a matter of not so much having to still make
a decision, but how do we announce that decision? Is
it a matter of that if you want to be
a Laker, you shouldn't have to be convinced to be
a Laker. Maybe that's not the right way of putting it.
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But if you wanted to be a Laker, he would
have known it from the beginning. Is that a sense
that that there may be compose that some of it,
I think more of it is is that there's just answer.
There's questions that they can't answer for him right now,
and that no doubt that they couldn't in the in
the meeting, which is, you know, what's the rest of
the roster gonna look like? Um, you know, what are
we gonna run under Frank Vogel, And how's it gonna
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work with Jason Kidd and the coaching staff and um
and But I think that the the and um, you know,
how are you going to handle my health? Who's gonna
be in charge of that? I mean, he doesn't have
any of those questions. With Toronto. He's been He's got
a relationship with Alex McKechnie Judicidou, who worked on on
Kobe UM. Alex also worked on Kobe at one point.
(15:35):
If I'm not mistaken, I know that he was with
the Lakers at a time where Kobe was there. UM.
Kobe is familiar with both of them, but Kauai is
only familiar with one. And I've been told for a
while now that health and the ability to stay healthy
and play UH and get through a season and and
be ready to play for a championship is a big
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element for him in this decision. And for all that
the Acres can offer, UH, if you really get down
to brass tacks in terms of what that requires, there's
a lot of things that they can't answer as far
as that's concerned. Rick. We compared it as we've been
talking to the last couple of days, of when you're
trying to decide where to go to dinner, you kind
of just end up falling back to the place you
always go yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that's a it's a
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it's a big part of it. And I think, especially
with a guy like Kauai, familiarity as part of it.
Look at when when he first went there. I was
told by another uh GM that when they didn't expect
him to stay, because when he went up there for
the All Star Game, he stayed. He never left his room.
Now it was I was there. It was one of
the coldest places I've ever been on Earth. And I
(16:40):
went to school in New Hampshire, so I mean, I've
never experienced cold like that. Um. But since then, we
haven't heard. I mean, he spent an entire year there
and we never heard or saw any indication that he
had issue with playing in Toronto or the weather or
any of those things. And I would have thought that
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if it was a factor that that we would have
heard something by now. He signed a a endorsement deal
with a private jet company that is tied in with Drake.
A lot of people around the league took that as
a signal, um, because I just I don't know how
how that works. And the reality is, you have a
private jet, you can go back to you know, back
to l a any time you want. You can go
(17:23):
back to to California anytime you want. But as far
as playing for a championship next year and knowing what
you're who and what you're going to be working with again,
I'm I'm relaying what I'm hearing from people around the league,
which the consensus at this point is that all signs
point to him staying with Toronto, largely because of the timeline.
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But when you start breaking everything else down, uh and
Kauai wanting to know exactly what he's going to be
working with the next couple of years. Um, the Toronto
can bribe provide more answers than anybody else. He is
Rick Buker, Fox Sports One, Fox Sports Radio, NBA Insider.
Also you see his work on the Bleacher Report. You
can get his stuff on Twitter at Rick Buker. Joining
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us here on Fox Sports Radio, Dan Buyer, Jonas Knox
in for Doug gottlieb Rick. What's which team is hurt
the most by Kawhi Leonard not going there? If we
want to throw in the Clippers, that's fine. These two
teams that aren't going to get Kawhi Leonard up the
final three are going to be hurt the most. It
has to be the Clippers just because of the timeline. Um, well, actually,
(18:30):
I take that back. It has to be the Lakers
because of the timeline with Lebron James. I don't know
what how they can salvage this at this point. It's
really once you get past that the Clippers were expecting
to have him and this was supposed to be at
a great step forward. Yes, they were able to get
Anthony Davis. Is that enough for them to win another
(18:51):
championship before Lebron turns the corner if he hasn't already.
I think most people would say no, there's there's nothing
guaranteed there, and as a result nothing being guaranteed that
they're going to be playing for a championship, it's gonna
be difficult to get some of these ancillary veterans like
in Andrea Guddala or some other guys who might go
there on the cheat saying, hey man Kauai a d Lebron,
(19:16):
let me go get another ring. Uh. With that not
being assured, I think those type of veterans are going
to be dispersed across the league and it's going to
be more difficult for the Lakers to do to to
make a serious upgrade other than the fact that they've
added Anthony Davis to the equation. Rick Bucker joining us
here on the dug Out Leap Show on Fox Sports Radio.
He's Jonas Knocks. I'm Dan Buyer. Last one for me. Rick,
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has the East caught up with the West if Kauai
stays in Toronto? Yeah, I don't see what. I don't
see why not. I mean, they were the champions this year.
I felt going into the year that whoever was that
that an Eastern Conference team was going to win it,
simply because I thought the Golden State was at this
point where the number of law long seasons and the
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shortened bench and the wear and tear on their main
horses was going to leave them vulnerable to whoever was
left at the at the end of the road. But
you look at I don't know if it's I think
what's I think there's there's parody between the two conferences
as much as there's ever been, maybe not in terms
of depths, but certainly at the top. Uh Toronto, Philadelphia, Milwaukee,
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those are all teams that are that are that can
hold their own and can consider themselves as much title
contenders as anybody that we're going to see coming out
of the West without without Kauai making the switch to
the Lakers. He's Rick Buker, Fox Sports One NBA analysts.
How much is this cut into your surfing time just
waiting for Kauai. Well, you know it's funny that you
(20:47):
say that, because, um, a couple of my buddies. I'm
headed back home for a day before I go to Vegas,
and a couple of buddies. Buddies were just out and
one was on a stand up and he had like
a ten foot great white go under, And so everybody's
kind of chilling on. Maybe maybe we'll take a couple
of days off from surfing our usual spots because we've
(21:11):
had My group of guys has had. One of them
is a pilot and flies a little plaine up and
down the coast and he saw like five or six
ten to twelve foot great white all in the pack.
So we're all spooked right now. So it's not cutting in.
I was gonna go tomorrow, for sure, you know, I might.
I might. I might wait till I get back from Vegas.
The men in the in the in the white suits
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have decided to move on to greener, greener waters. And Okay,
now where exactly are you seeing these sharks or people
out there that might be considering going to a beach.
Where are you seeing? Um these stunt double the great
White was seen at Dunes Beach off of Half Moan Bay.
That's where I live and most of the most of
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the breaks that I surfer right around there. So but
as we know, great whites, uh, they've got some change.
They're they're they're like Steph Curry. They can they can,
they can go a long way. Yeah, go to channel
to channel surfing instead of actual surfing this week, that
would be the best way. Rick Buker, Fox Sports One
NBA analyst and our friend here at Fox Sports Radio.
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Find um on Twitter at Rick Buker. Appreciate it, Rick,
have a great weekend. Be sure to catch live editions
of the Doug Dot Leap Show weekdays at noon Eastern
three pm Pacific. This is something that we started yesterday.
We are going to continue it today. The reasons that
make us want the NFL and college football back now,
Yesterday I brought up is this good for baseball? Is
(22:38):
this that topic that's why we need football back? So
we don't have people saying all these other runs, are
they good for baseball? Is it good for baseball? Isn't
netting good for baseball? Is uh? Is the home run
be good for baseball? Or strike out is good for baseball?
That is gone. Also, you had NBA free agency, right Yeah, Yeah,
(22:59):
that's why we needed because it keeps going on. I
had the branch off of that NBA summer league. I
am I no interest whatsoever in the NBA summer League. Yeah,
I don't. I don't. Look, the Bucks are playing right now,
and I do not care. I wish now summer leagues
in Vegas again, right, Yeah? Like, I just wish some
(23:20):
of these reporters and insiders would come out and just
be honest and say, we just wanted to go to Vegas.
So we don't really give a crap about any of
these guys. We just want to go to Vegas. There's
not the wrong with it. Just say it. It's why.
It's why more media members seem to venture out to
the Super Bowls that are in Miami as opposed to Minnesota.
You know, like it just there's a reason for it. Um,
here's the other one, Dan, this is gonna be near
(23:41):
and dear to your heart. Another reason we need a
football back fantasy football. Look, we're approaching draft time, Dan,
We're approaching draft time. I think fantasy football gives people
some interest. They've got a dog in the fight. No
matter what, whether you're playing a daily league or a
season long tournament, there's money involved to see. Football has
revolutionized the way that we watch the NFL. I think
(24:04):
we need a back big time. I've already ranked my
quarterbacks for the upcoming season, and I have Kyler Murray
way higher than I think other people do. Actually, Kyler
Murray higher than Drew Brees right now? Yes, yes, okay,
now that's a fair ranking. And there's gonna be people
out there in New Orlengs go, well, what do you
(24:25):
talk about? Man? You guys are after kid. It's just
like those officials. Do you see some of those balls
Drew Brees is throwing Layton games. Uh, Like he's showing age.
Whether anybody wants to acknowledge it or not. Yeah. And
the and the True Saints vic like the the the
real chances where they had to win Super Bowls. It
was really based on the running game and and and
it was a good mix of what you had, and
(24:47):
I do think that I don't know if Arizona is
gonna be able to stop people because I just don't
know how the offense is going to work. But whether
they follow through with Cliff Kingsbury's air raid offense and
it works, then ky La Marie is getting stats, or
if it doesn't work, they're not twenty eight to nothing,
and then he's gonna get garbage time stats that will
help you either way. So at some point, that's why
(25:08):
I like Kyler Murray. Why why I miss football? I'll
branch off on another thing with the NBA bad Kauai jokes.
Oh my goodness. Yeah, the the Kauai Leonard jokes on
Twitter over these last few days need to go. I
may have made a bigger deal about my pool yesterday, okay,
(25:30):
then some of these jokes, but this is ongoing from everyone.
I get that everything's got a shelf life, but there
are people who just do not want to give up
on making Kawhi Leonard jokes on Twitter. So if the
NFL was here, we wouldn't have to worry about those
stupid jokes. So for you guys out there making those
Kauai jokes, just do your do us a favor and
keep quiet. I don't mind puns. I don't mind puns.
(25:56):
I like funds. I like funds, So I'm fine with
puns um, but actual jokes, yeah between all right, But
I have a question for you, dan uh kawhy do
we keep doing the John rama? I've got another one.
I have a lesson, Leonard, have about national love for
small markets? All right, because you know, you know, when
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Tuscaloosa is important during college football season, all right, Columbus,
Ohio during college football season. Nobody's no offense to Columbus Ohio.
I love Columbus. The Dublin area was out there last year, beautiful,
beautiful place. But nobody gives a crap about the Blue Jackets.
I'm sorry. Then, that's just a fact, the cous But
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Columbus is all Ohio State and harbor the same way.
I just think it's national love for those smaller markets,
those college town Now it should be noted just because
this is the geography of me. Columbus is the biggest
city in Ohio. It's bigger than Cleveland, bigger than Cincinnati.
But maybe the one team I get what you mean,
you know, with the Madison's of the world. Fine, yeah, fine, Columbia,
South Carolina, Yes, Spin Athens, Georgia. Like those small markets
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I think get a little bit of love during the
football season. At other times during the year, maybe they
don't get as much love nationally. I can't wait for
the NFL because I was slipping channels the other night
and on one of the ESPN stations, you know what
I saw? Top twenty games of right, guess what was
number sixteen? John Ramas, you want to take a guess
college hoops the sixteenth best game of last season. I'm
(27:28):
gonna go out in a limit say maybe you say Oregon, Oh,
that's a good guy. Hawaiian Duquesne it was, it was.
Those were both really good guesses, but they were incorrect.
TCU at k State, Oh yeah, sorry, honey, Purple on
Purple crime going on right now on ESPN. You remember
(27:49):
when I watched this in January, We're watching oh tc
They didn't make the tournament. No, they didn't. K State did?
They were out early? But yeah, sorry, And that was
number who says tense not enough, Let's do twenty good? Uh,
but at what point do you think they were like
it's seventeen and just said well, we can't do seventeen.
(28:10):
That doesn't sound right. Can we just squeeze three more
in here? Like? Can somebody find three more games? Like?
Nobody out perfect? I have another one, Dann. This is
why we need the NFL slash college football back for
the Tony Romo ball washing. I mean, nobody gets a
kick out of out of the washing of balls for
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Tony Romo than I do during the football season where
it is just, mom my god, how did he know
that play was coming up? Because he's a former quarterback
in any quarterback who played in the NFL could also
do the same thing, but they're not doing it because
they realize you don't want to have that be your crutch,
because the further you get away from the game, the
less likely you're gonna recognize those plays. Fast forward to
(28:54):
four years from now, Tony Romo was gonna swear to
God that there's a play action pass coming up next
and it's a punt formation. Okay, the game changes and
you can't rely on that as your go to But
I just I love the idea that people are so
fooled by this, and because Tony Romo is doing it,
all of a sudden it's it's magic. What God, he
(29:14):
really knows his stuff. He should be a coach. Get
out of here with the crap. But I get such
a kick out of seeing the feedback on it that
I can't wait to watch it again. There it is
just a few more reasons why we need the NFL
and college football back because of all this is going on.
If you've got any submitted to us, I'm aunt Dan
Buyer on Fox, get Jonas at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter,
(29:35):
and get John at j S Ramos zero six. He
is Dan Buyer and I'm Jonas Knocks his Fox Sports
Radio and we're going to dive back into this right
there a little bit later on the show and maybe
if the submissions are good enough, and if you follow us,
we'll read them. Okay, And by the way, those of
you complaining, it's either that or tracking Kawai's playing, all right,
So so get out of here with that. Fox Sports
(29:56):
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s R to listen live. I've always thought when he
came to big threes, sixties six percent of that big
three gets to be who they are, so two of
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the three guys and it's someone who has to adjust.
That's what I think. If Lebron would go to the Lakers,
or excuse me, if kau I would go to the Lakers,
that's what they've got to sort out. And I think
we talked about yesterday. I have no idea who's going
to be the one to play defense. And if I
were to pick anybody to lock down the opposing team's
best player, it would probably be Kawai Leonard. Now, Kauais
(30:43):
shown in Toronto that he could play both ends of
the court. But I don't think that you want to
take Lebron and exert him on the defensive end, which
would hurt him on the offensive end. Like I think,
if Kauai comes to l A, it's Kauai. Even even
if Kauai is the best player of them all, I
think Kauai is the one that actually ends up having
to take the back seat because the personalities and the
skill sets and who can really do what at this
(31:04):
age of their career. And everybody can say, well, Lebron
is an unselfish player. He'd be more than welcome to
bring these guys along. That's easy to say when he's
been in control of of both quote unquote big threes
that he was a part of because he was the
guy Dwyane Wade stepped aside. Lebron James is the best
player in the team. When he was in Cleveland, that
was his Cleveland team that he pulled the strings on
(31:27):
to get Kevin Love and to want to work with
Kyrie Irving. But it was Lebron's team no matter what,
which is why Kyrie Irving wanted to leave that team
when he had been on there after Lebron left like
he was he was the incumbent there and and Lebron
ended up taking the reins on that team. So it's
easy to say, oh, look, he's going to be an
unselfish player, and he's gonna welcome in Kauai, and Lebron
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will be the guy to take a step back. Everybody
says that, But I seem to remember Lebron James sort of,
you know, gloating about some of his individual accomplishments last year.
I seem to remember Lebron James, you know, promoting more
of himself and less about the team a year ago.
I just think we can all talk big about how
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you're going to act in a situation until the situation happens,
and then you really find out what what all that
talk was. The roles all have to be sorted out,
and I just I don't see the you know, the
the positions of where the Lakers are. I know it's
a positionless basketball nowadays, what positionless basketball? Jonas is usually
(32:31):
a guy who was usually the three playing the five.
It's not a bunch of three fours and fives out
of the court. Really like it's it's more guard based
of playing without a position than it is front court based.
And if you want to put Kauai in that backcourt,
even though Lebron needs the ball in his hands, he's
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still a really a three or a four. The you
have four guys in the front court and putting Kyle
Kuzma into that sin and you have nothing to do
in the backcourt. I I don't know how the world
are you gonna guard Golden State. And I'm so glad
he brought up Kuzma because the Lakers held onto Kuzma
because they think he's got a really bright future. I
got news for you, that future gets stunted when you've
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got Kauai, Leonard, Lebron James, and Anthony Davis and you're
starting five. So this whole talk about we can't trade
Kyle Kuzma, No way, we're trading him. Okay, Well, then
that's that's a great plan if you plan to build
around him somewhere, but you're not really building around him.
Your star chasing, and he's going to be the guy
left holding the bag because he's the youngest player there
and he's you're not giving him time or room to develop.
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It's it seems like a great plan. I always I
felt like the Lakers were taking the easy way out
by just going after a big three. You don't take
any It's easy to sell that to your fan base. Look,
we got Kauai, obviously you want Kawhi Leonard, and you
do a deal with Anthony Davis. But to think zero
scouting and then now you're just filling out a roster
to hope they have pieces instead of figuring out how
(33:56):
can this thing really work? Be sure to catch live
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the I Heart Radio app well KWI let it still
hasn't made up his mind of where he is going
to play. We were joined earlier by Rick Buker, Fox
Sports one NBA analysts on what he's hearing when it
comes to Kauai and him making his decision when when
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he first went there, I was told by another GM
that when they didn't expect him to stay, because when
he went up there for the All Star Game, he stayed.
He never left his room. Now it was I was there.
It was one of the coldest places I've ever been
on Earth. And I went to school in New Hampshire,
so I mean, I've never experienced cold like that. Um,
(34:44):
But since then, we haven't heard. I mean, he spent
an entire year there and we never heard or saw
any indication that he had issue with playing in Toronto
or the weather or any of those things. And I
would have thought that if it was a factor that
we would have heard something by now. But as far
as playing for a championship next year and knowing what
(35:07):
you're who and what you're going to be working with again,
I'm I'm relaying what I'm hearing from people around the league,
which the consensus at this point is that all signs
point to him staying with Toronto, largely because of the timeline.
But when you start breaking everything else down, uh and
Kauai wanting to know exactly what he's going to be
(35:29):
working with the next couple of years. Um, the Toronto
can pride provide more answers than anybody else. Really good
insight from Mark Buker. I hope you didn't hear my
cough too much in the background. Sorry again, it was
the fans at night. But the point is is everything
that he said is is basically what why I've changed
from the Clippers to Toronto. Because it's gone on this long.
(35:52):
There's a reason why Toronto is still in it. And
if you were really down to locale, it would be
down to the raptors or excuse of the Clippers and Lakers,
And that's not the case, because the raptors are still.
And look, if you if you wanted out of something
so badly, all you needed was an opportunity, Like if
you wanted out of anything so badly, oh, you just
(36:13):
need as an opportunity. He has his opportunity and he
hasn't left yet. So what does I tell you he
didn't want out badly? So and not badly enough. And
maybe this you know, maybe in having conversations because one
of the things that I know Chris Bruce Artist said
on Fox Sports Radio and Fox Sports One is that
when he talked with the Lakers, he met individually with
(36:36):
different pieces of the Lakers organization Lebron Magic, like just
so he could find out whether or not their stories
line up. If you've got to go to that much
trouble just to find out whether or not somebody's lying,
maybe you shouldn't go there, Like if that's if that's
one of the concerns, I need to know that that
you guys aren't lying to my face, and you need
(36:57):
to go through all those channels. Maybe the bigger question
is why am I having to do this like that?
That oughted to be a telltale sign that you've got
a problem with the organization. And it was like, uh
Tyrian Game of Thrones. Yeah, see, this is what happens
when you actually watch it. To make a reference, when
he planted it with the information this is earlier, so
there's like six or seven years ago. But who would
(37:19):
say what the cer se and then it got back
to him and he knew who he could trust. Maybe
that's what Kauai is doing with the Lakers. Send a
raven dan the raven Uh. That probably won't be a
way that Kawhi Leonard UH would announce where he is
going to play via raven. Why don't we figure out
some other ideas on maybe reasons why or or ways
(37:40):
that Kawhi Leonard will not make his announcement. Let's let's
see if John Ramos can, I don't know, strike up
the band for a little bit, UH, play a little
something for us, because we always like to have music
when we do these sorts of things. It's a good
way for us to go back and forth. Isaac brought
up when we thought the time would be that Kawai
Leonard makes this decision um something without explosives so that
(38:03):
we can talk over. I thought eleven oh four Eastern time,
Saturday night. I thought that was that was my guest
and one Kauai was going to make his John I
just played the open the street finer for some reason.
It's tomorrow night, it's Big East basketball. That doesn't take
(38:23):
that one off? Do we have still have the open
for top take stand? Here's what's awesome. John and I
had a three minute conversation in the commercial break, not
about what music we were going to play in the
next segment, but how the Whole Foods didn't have uh
pastrami today. That's that's what it was. So I apologized
(38:45):
that was my fault and not telling John that we
needed a music bad I'm sorry, John. What a sick,
twisted joke by the people in Sherman Oaks who said, hey,
there's a radio station there. Look, you know radio it's
not like the most lucrative job in the whole world,
So what what would be? What would best fit their
hunger needs? I know, let's throw in whole paychecks right
(39:09):
next door, and that's the only place you can go
to get food where a half a sandwich is just
to rip off and nostrami today, right, John? Nope, it's
Dray today, Jonas. You know what? You know what they say, John,
I don't know stuff. I don't think he's gonna do
it with a rap song. Dan, he doesn't strike me
(39:29):
as a rapper. Kawai Leonard, I don't think there's gonna
be a rap song that comes out. I just I
can't imagine that's the place he goes. Take that Fakirs
and go into the Lakers. Won't hear that from Kawai
Leonard Now? You probably also won't see a billboard saying,
you know, like we have billboard Skiered in l A
trying to convince Kahi Leonard to come to Los Angeles,
(39:51):
whether it be with the Clippers or whoever. I don't
think that you're going to see that from Kauai and
announcing where he's going. Yeah. I don't think we're going
to get a Sports Illustrated Was it Lebron who was
on the cover of Sports Illustrated? Yeah, and he just
with that serious look like I don't even know the
cameras they're like, I don't even know we're taking pictures
at this point. I don't think it's going to be
as choreographed as a Lebron decision. I wish, I wish
(40:14):
we had a TV show, but I don't think it's
gonna happen on America's Got Talented Now. I don't think
that he is going to be given the thumbs up
from Howie Mandel to show that he is staying with
the Raptors. I also don't think that he when he's
right about to give his decision. I don't think that
Jim Gray is going to cut in and say are
you still a nail biter? Like I don't. I don't
(40:35):
think that is going to be part of his decision
in front of in front of kids while people burn
his jersey in Cleveland. I don't think that's gonna happen.
I Also, I also don't think he's going to do
it on the John Ramo Show. Not because he doesn't
want to, but I just don't think John would let
him have that. No, definitely not. Um. Also, Kauai doesn't
strike me as a snapchatter. No, you no like Draymond
(40:55):
Green snapchatter. That's clear, we all remember that story. Well,
Kawhi Leonard doesn't doesn't strike me as somebody who's going
to take it to snapchat in order to to make
his announcement. Man, there's so many different ways where he
could do it, but you try to figure out which
way that he he won't do it. Man, I'm running out,
Eric Roberts, you've got anything for me? Any anyways that
(41:17):
Kawai Leonard is not going to announce, I'm gonna go
with he's not gonna announce it via FaceTime. Via FaceTime,
I don't think he's gonna do any kind of live
video stream. No. Um, you know, athletes left to you know,
fire up the Instagram live videos nowadays. Dan, you're a
game show guy, you know where He's definitely not gonna
do it. You're not gonna see Kauahi Leonard with goggles
(41:37):
and some cheap elbow and kneepads as he tries to
pull a contract out of a giant nose on Double Dare.
All right, that is that's not going to happen with Kawai.
I watched an episode of Double Dare the other day
with my wife, and they had six flags with one
second left, and somehow, I don't know, I think I
was holding onto the one second, but they got both
(41:57):
of them and then they yeah what they grabbed it
out of the nostril and then took it off the
pancakes chocolate and you know, oh yeah, Sunday slide was
impossible if he took one step on the the the
ice cream or whip cream whatever they had going up
the slot, and then they gave you a little bike,
a little tricycle to where you had to ride the
tricycle and the slop that was that was always very challenging. Yeah,
(42:21):
he's not gonna do it on double there. I can
assure you that's not happened. And he won't do it
at Summer League. He won't show up in a pair
of shorts with the Raptors, Lakers, or Clippers, And, as
John Ramos mentioned to us earlier, no Janice for the Bucks.
Today in Summer League, Philadelphia also played without Joel Empi.
Damn it, I had over. Yeah, there goes that bad. Yep, yep, yep.
Didn't see him, didn't see him at all.
Host
Doug Gottlieb
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