June 24, 2022 • 35 mins
Jason and Mike react to the NBA Draft night picks, Kyrie Irving may or may not be a New York Knick one day, and Pete Fiutak - CollegeFootballNews.com joins the guys!
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. The Knicks are not
gonna take Kyrie anymore? All right, right away, right away,
right away. Any of you guys, you Harmon, you, Frostberg,
you tie Shirt, Monsey, Andy, you guys start saying the
Knicks and making moves so they can get Kyrie. No, no, no, no,
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stop putting that out downiverse. He could be one of
several name no stop, no, no stop. I mean they've
vacated a high earning player at a certain position. Mr
Irving plays said position. Okay, so it's there. It's low
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hanging fruit. It's not. And it's just like when the
Jets won the NFL Draft. This could be as good
or bad as it gets for you as a Knicks fan.
You had a scene whereby Spike Lee came up on
the the ESPN Draft set to Hug Stephen A Smith,
who looked despondent like he hadn't seen this since the
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Patrick Ewing Frozen envelope time and time and time again.
But he served it well and he might as well
cast him as the lead in his next movie because
he acted brilliantly heartbroken. No, this is exactly what you expect.
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match limitations they do apply. So the big highlights of
the draft tonight are two one. Pala Bunkarro goes number
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one overall. This is earlier in the day when Adrian
wal Zarowski reported, Hey, no, no, m Smith number one overall.
The top three picks are all locked in and Mankarro
goes number one. Well, we said that yesterday we were
on the show talking about the betting odds sliding all
over the place, and how all of a sudden he
was two or two and a half to one. It's like, no,
the market has spoken perfect information had been released saying
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something else was a fool's errand but now let me
explain the Knicks, which is really the thing is? I
can you tell me it like I'm a five year
old so I can transcribe it into a child's book
that will be a best seller. I'm gonna get your
kid prepared for disappointed. There's let me explain. No, there's
too much. Let me sum up. It would be easier
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for me to put an Ikea bed together with an
Alan wrench than to explain the genesis of all the
Knicks moves so far in the draft night, Because the
Knicks acquired a player, then they traded away the eleventh
pick in the draft, and they traded away that player
with the eleventh pick in the draft and traded away
Kemba Walker to the Detroit Pistons. So let me just
some up basically what happened the Knicks were picking and how.
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Because Nick's Twitter is crazy, everybody is crazy. Of course
the Nicks do something, and it's all anybody could talk about.
And it's not for Kyrie upcause we've talked about if
you've got a few guys that you really know, but
the rest of the drafts kind of so what happens
kicks you something crazy? You win? You could they could
put fake names up there for people being drafted. Right now,
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the average fan wouldn't know. You could have done that
in the top ten picks probably, I think you probably
couldn't see, but especially now when you're in, like you know,
you're like pick number nineteen and twenty uh from Northwestern
Mike Harmon. Mike Harmon was a great combo guard. You know,
didn't didn't have a great NBA training camp, but can
hit the outside three, can make a cup of coffee.
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He's really good. Look he loves the color purple. So
he was hoping to go to the Kings. This is
a dream come true from my karment. It's a match
made heaven. Absolutely, and he can trash talk as well
as anybody from the Overseas Academy. Alex tishert goes number
nineteen overall to the I mean that he's probably animal account.
But here's the here's the question about his want you
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and desire. He had already made millions in anime podcasts
and n I L deals. So does he have the
want to be great at the next level? So what
are we going to get out of you? Not a lot? Really,
what's the bare minimum I can do? And that's get
early releases on my podcast. Check out his MySpace while
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you're there, so and and don't don't forget you get
the bonus of a Friends Too account as well. So
the Knicks, why they're all over the place right now
right They had the eleventh overall pick, they traded it,
they acquired another player, and they were able to trade
that player and Kemba Walker to the Pistons. So the
big way to break this down, because I can break
it down for you, is that the Knicks basically traded
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away the eleventh overall pick to be able to trade
Kemba Walker away and shed some salary. And according to
Mark Stein in New York Times, uh a lot of
this money that they're shedding now, which is a good
move to stop. Stop, don't say that, that don't's not
that's not today. But I was gonna say it's not
mark Stein's name, No, not don't know mark Stein reporting
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I've talked to many times, interview him many times. Says
that don't stop stop. I'm gonna forget about key in
your car. I'm putting holes in your tires. You're gonna
be stuck here for three days. Do you get fires?
He means the sheets of paper by which he printed
out the rundown, because we would not have him subject
to any felony charges. So because of this, the Knicks
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trading away these picks because you have to trade value
if you're going to trade away salary, it's how it works.
Then X traded this pick to be able to trade
away Kemba walker and shed salary so they can pursue.
I thought you were gonna say no, because he's back
on Monday, they can pursue you. No. I want to
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get this out because I don't want any other names.
If Frostburg decides to say it, no, it's not it's not. No,
it's not Kyrie not Kyrie. No, no, no, no, don't
say don't align Voldemort tonight, because otherwise Jason don't say
his name. Blood pressure is gonna spike the roof. I know,
I know, we're not We're not We're we're not supposed
to be worried about giving voice to what we're afraid of.
But just don't sell his name. Don't put it out there.
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Staff the taxes, Kyrie to the next way to Kyrie.
Go to the lakes. You can avoid taxes. I mean,
you've seen a lot of folks do that. You might
have to go to a cell for a while, but
you don't have to pay you. You know, I don't
be saying good thing, Hey Frostburg, proper, get Wesley Snipes
on the show. Get him up. I wasn't saying not to.
I was just saying that that is a fraudulent, you know,
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triad in terms of life. So the Knicks traded away
Kemba Walker to free up money so they could pursue Okay,
stop not as bad as Kyrie irving. I'll allow it.
I'll allow that. I'll allow it. I'll allow it. I'll
allow it. It's okay, I'll allow that. He who does it,
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I'm gonna objection. I'll allow it sustained. I'll allow it.
I'll allow Lebron James. I'm not allowing Kyrie, not allowing Carrie.
So the Knicks are freeing up money allegedly for Jalen
Brunson now in the real world because now I can
break down Mark Stein's reporting. When hey, the Knicks making
this trade to free up money for Jalen Brunson, the
Knicks are actually freeing up money for free agents who
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are going to go some place else. So it's just
money not have to give it to people. That's the
day they have a stack of money to go look
at all these players who are not going to take
our money and then go play someplace. Use we spend
for that shark when we brought that guy in for
a visit? Much can we bring Tosh Gibson back and
just give him thirty million? Because we got to give
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somebody thirty million dollars. Let's just so that's what's going on.
That's why the Knicks are going crazy. That's the big
story of the draft because the track I keep saying,
because it's it's complicated, it makes the Knicks sound bad
and you don't need any help with that. But that's
kind of what's happening because they want to trade, so
they used that getting getting the player they did and
being able to trade the eleventh pick. They're able to
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trade Kember Walking to the Piston as they shed salary,
which is good because kember Walker wasn't playing for the
team anyway. You know, he played a little bit last year.
He wasn't any good anymore. Got John Walt, which is
what the Lakers need to do to Russell Westbrook. I
want to create a trading card insearch set. You got wall,
got walled, you got walled, you got walled, you got
does one a case so it still has value, but
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it really is the pejorative right. Normally it's heys the
you know, fantasy m v P. He's the you know,
Hall of Fame or whatever, and so those are the
hardest defined. This way, it's you got walled, like Hots
twelve guys who were forced to sit down because their
team just good deal anymore. But honestly, I know it's
embarrassing because it basically looks like the Knicks traded away
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at first round pick a trade. But that's how it
works the NBA. I'm okay with this. What's a better
what's a better thing for the Knicks to take some
guy at number eleven who may work out, may not,
maybe a rotation player at some point, or to be
able to shed the salary to go after a free
a big time free agent. Yeah, I'll take that gamble.
I'm okay with this right. Usually I don't agree with
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stuff the Knicks do because anytime I look hot to go,
whatever the Knicks do, I look at that's that's on No,
not in my hand, like Homer Simpson. Whatever Nick say,
do the opposite. But this is kind of what you
have to do. It doesn't serve you to pick a
guy eleventh overall if you have no idea if he's
gonna be any good. If the Knicks and traded the
fifth pick overall in the draft, I'd say, Okay, you
don't know what this draft is gonna be. There's not
a lot of star power. Maybe some of the player
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you know, some of the players will work out, but
it's a crapshoot. So you're looking to get better now
because you have young players already. So hey, we gotta
go pursue some guys. What do we have to do?
We have to shed salary. This is how you do it.
This is how you do it. An I know everybody's
mad because it looks like, oh, the Knicks are embarrassing.
Yes it is. It is embarrassing because you have to
try to explain it is very difficult, but shedding salary
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going forward, Yeah, I'm okay with it. The Knicks had
to do it. Now potentially they can go get somebody
or they can just get somebody to the sum. We
don't want your money, not kyriely. I mean, it is
a salary shed but it's not that big. That's this
is Andy Dufraine sloughing off a couple of rocks in
the yard and Shawshank right, eight point nine million or thereabouts.
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That's nothing, right, that's a walk in the park. That's
barely abo above the mid level exemption. So yeah, on
paper it's good, but it's only a dent. So now
you've got to figure out how to how to keep
making it move. Now for Dallas, the interesting parties, do
they want Brunson around or do they get into the
Kyrie or others sweepstakes to bring in someone alongside Luca.
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Now that's where this gets fun. This is where it
gets chaotic and takes a little shore off your Nicks.
Because I'll do it momentarily it's still out there. I mean,
because look, I mean that's every mock up. We'll get
mock on the twitterverse. Right, what do you guys doing
this to me for why? Why are you guys doing
this to me for what? We wouldn't do this if
we didn't love. Why do this to me? This is
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the night you guys are like. You guys are like
when hey, if something happens to somebody and they go
to the hospital with a heart attack and they come
out and the doctor says, hey, listen, just so you know,
this person has had a bit of a scare. You
know they're gonna be okay, but you know, just you know,
no loud noises around them. Try to keep everything calm
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and you know, don't raise their blood pressure. You guys
are banging pots and pants together and jumping out of
closets going hey, look at docupasky. That's what you guys say. Hey,
they let you out without a stress test, and your
friends are there to help build up the calluses, to
build up the resolve and the hate because I mean, really,
let's face it, a lot of our lives were fueled
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by eight So bring bring the pain back. You survived
forty years of the Knicks. You're gonna be just fine
with Kyrie stops. It's no, no, no, no, This is
just another bump in the road. Yeah, it's it really is,
you know, still peak Knicks to do something like wait,
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let me ask one last question here, though, Frostberg. Let
me let me ask you here, because remember when the
Knicks recording Carmelo Anthony. Oh yeah, all right, remember all that.
It's like, is this more or less painful? Right now?
This is gonna be way more to get a second
shot at Carmelo as a lesser player but still getting
paid King's ransom, because well, desperation is a stinky cologne
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versus Kyrie. He's gonna have the root for Kyrie Irving. No, no,
no night. We're gonna put We're gonna have a camera.
We're gonna do video during Knicks games. You guys, you
know what I hope. I know. I no longer hope
because I told you that the Lakers should be the
one franch has to get Kyrie Irving. I hope instead
that the Lakers get Kyrie Irving and Frostburg. He moves
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in with you, and you and you have to live
in your house. I bet you use the hell of
a house. You know what he does. He's gonna walk
in right away and start sprinkling stage all around. They're
gonna feel protected and around and I'll drink all your
booths all around front. I wasn't gonna gonna say that
I wasn't there, But you know what else he's gonna do.
You're never gonna know when he's gonna be home or not.
You're gonna make plans for dinner, and you're never gonna
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Some nights he's gonna be home. Some nights he's not
going to be home, and you're not gonna be where.
That's kind of what he is. You're expecting to have
a weekly game night, and some nights he's just not
gonna be there. You don't know when he's gonna show up.
That's what it's gonna be. What he's coming there when
he and he runs runs the joy right, you're paying
rent to him on every roll of the dice, sure,
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but then some nights he's just happens. Be sure to
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see what you're doing here, I see what you're doing
because it's spelled like kyrie. I see what you're doing now,
I see it. I see it speaking into existence not
happening like Back to the future. Four Kyrie to the
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Slash rewards limitations they do apply. Well, we'll tell you
what is happening. Arch manning to the Texas Longhorns a
seismic college football headline earlier in the day today, and
no one better to talk to about it right now
than the owner, proprietor, and grand puba of College Football
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News dot com. It is longtime friend of the show,
Pete Futack. You can follow them on Twitter at Pete
few Tech and Pete. I gotta be honest with you.
I don't know if you and I are in the
same page on this, but when I saw arch Man
into Texas, I went, I don't know how this is
gonna work. In belong Hall. I, first of all, I'm
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still kind of trying to get over you know, Mr
mr As an actual worst lead in than poison. So
I you somehow managed to do that. So that but
you're right, you know what, men of a certain age,
we've all been here. We remember Kristen's you know, we
remember Texas gathering all these you know, great talents and
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amassing you know so much. And you know, just because
you know Arch Manning, you know, goes to Texas, you know,
you know, so an Alabama friend of mine, you know, texted, oh, Granny,
they're gonna screw it up. Another Alabama friend of mine
was like, no, big whoop where this? You know, get stick?
Our NFL defensive ends on him, you know. So it's
and they already got a star there in Quinny Worth.
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So you know, let's let's see what happens with this.
But hey, look, you've got a guy who is projected
to be an NFL franchise quarterback. Such a good thing.
Start with that. And if you're Texas, you're happy about
this today? Oh no, no, I'm not saying you're not happy.
If you're Texas, you're not yet. But I look at
this and go Texas has not really been any good
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for a decade, and they've screwed up things like this before,
and suddenly, okay, I'm gonna entrust my college football future
where you wanted to be mutually beneficial for balls, right,
Arch Manning wants to get to the NFL and be
the number one overall pick. Texas wants to win at
least one national championship. I don't know, man, I I
look at this and I go, this is not Texas.
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If you people have this image of Texas, all, yeah,
they'll be right back, They'll be right back. No, it's
hard to get right back. And it's been a long
time for Texas. It's not like, oh, they'll get back
fine because now they have you know, they have Arch Manning.
Now remember this too, though, is that the Mannings are
they're kind of different. How many national championships that pay
Manning and Eli Manning combined for zero? You know how many?
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You know Tennessee was you know Rising, you know that
was a powerhouse back then. But okay, you know it's
it's a it's a different thought. It's a different place
for you and to go kind of it's still Texas.
Look we're talking about it like it's like he went
to Utah State or something like that. He's it's Texas.
You know, they're they're good, They're going to be better.
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They've got a whole lot of talent in place. You
could make an argument that in terms of NFL talent,
once he gets there, well, I guess bi John Robinson's
going to be gone. But right now they might have
the most talented NFL back in the country, and they
might have the most talented quarterback in the country coming
in next year. But again, let's see what Queeny Worth does.
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I mean, that's a guy who was every bit the
the prospect that arch Manning is supposed to be. And
there is a thought I do have a pretentious recruiting
friend out there who's like, if his name was arch Manning,
he would not be you know, he's not the talent
that Queenys was. I doubt that. But okay, let's see.
But look, it's a Texas can't get anybody they want.
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And that's the argument when it comes to that program.
It is the richest program, that's the richest athletic department.
They are bound by absolutely nothing. There is absolutely no
reason why they shouldn't be in the running for any
in every talent, But now they need more of them
because in two years from now, arch man is gonna
be going up against Alabama, Texas A and M and
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LSU and that whole fun buds the sec. Now. I
do remember Peyton Manning playing catch with peerless price against
my beloved Northwestern Wildcats down at a Citrus Bowl many
many moons ago. The thing that concerns me, though, Pete,
when I when I look at well, everything that's put
on tape in front of me for arch Manning is
that he's evading guys that look like me in the
pocket to keep looking down the field. There's there's one
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clip that I saw pop up all over the place
like a guy look like it looks like back of
the day, thinking of that you just created. I just
remember the flash pick. That's what doubt was what Jason
Witten looked like. If you remember against your Wildcats, Like
Jason Witten looked like he was eight foot about six
hundred pounds and he was drinking down the fields, like,
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oh my god, who's that guy? Um, But yeah, that's
a little bit. And actually the funny part of bod
is he's a manny and I think the two main
highlights of him have him tearing off like a sixty
four yard touchdown. Right, It does skip a generation or two,
but look, he is a big time talent. It just
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kind of shows that in today's day and age of
college football, you just keep bringing guys. And again, I'm
gonna keep harper on this, Quinny Wears is going to
be a playmaker this year. He is a talent. Texas
has talent there. But you're right this, let's let's the difference.
Back in our days, Mac Brown managed to do of
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the least with the most because he would get not
just one great guy, but he'd also get a Roy Williams.
Then you know all these great defensive line linemen and
other parts, and they just then they come out and
get their brains beaten in by Oklahoma. Now Texas is
not quite there when it comes to the recruiting in
the SEC. I mean, look, I mean Texas A and
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M is coming off of arguably, you know, technically one
of the best recruiting classes ever. Alabama's great every year,
Georgia's great every year. You can have a top ten
recruiting class in the SEC. SEC and still be like
seventh in the conference, Like, yeah, it's just it's you've
got to get more guys like that. But obviously it
is a start in the theory being okay, this is
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you know, where's the trend going in recruiting and if
you get an arch manning all of a sudden, that
guy says, all right, this this is kind of a
hot hit program for right now, throwing all the n
I L money that's gonna come their way with the
long horns, and you know that's gonna be an interesting
program for all the starkeys. Yeah, and right now major
Apple whites going, why is my phone ring? Why are
people calling me for any of you? Uh? Pete few
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Tech our guest here college Football News dot com. So
here's here's the big question now coming in because you
could see the past few years that the national championship
winners in college football have been names like to a
tug of high first round pick, to Shaun Watson high
first round pick, Matt Jones as much of a game
manager as he was still a first round pick, had
a decent rookie year. Last year you had stets In Bennett,
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former walk on win. How much do you need to
have that a list top five star quarterback to win
a national title at this point in college, it's hilarious.
So my Georgia friend texted me about the arch Manning thing.
You know, big bleeping deal, we won the national bleeping
championship with a freaking Bennett, Like, you're right and that
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that that is the anti argument. But but look the thing,
not to get off topic here, but if you remember
that game at all, oh, Stetson Bennett was awful, he
was He almost gave that game a way, and he
had two really good throws. To say that, but if
you're going to have a Stetson bedded, that means you
have to have a historically awesome group of other guys
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around you, just like Georgia was able to have. So
every arch Manning or having an elite quarterback kind of
makes up for all the other parts. And you remember Alabama,
You mentioned Matt Jones, you mentioned too of Kunga Bayola.
Give me the national championship quarterbacks before that. You know
John Parker Wilson, You know that John. I'm black as
that wasn't John Parker Wilson. It was gosh, what was it,
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Jacob Coker. It was Jacob Coker. It was Greg McElroy.
You know, you had a J. McCarron. You didn't have
the superstar talents there at Alabama. But now you have to, Yeah,
you have to in the SEC. You've got to have
its Jerguman against Texas a at M this year. They
got everything else in place, but where is there? You know,
you know, Grace Young, where is their superstar quarterback? And look,
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Tectis has a couple of them now, And you know
right now, who's gonna be the number one team in
the country is starting the season. It's gonna be Alabama
mainly because they have everything else and Brice Young, who's
number two. It's gonna be Ohio statement because it's Ohio State.
And C. J. Scroud is probably gonna be the first
overall pick in the draft next year. Yeah. I see
one of the first previews as I scrolled down College
Football News is the Syracuse Orange players. So he's got
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every team covered, because I mean that's scraping the bottom.
John Tucker is gonna run for three thousand yards that year.
But the point I was going to get back to
with Texas is how much do you think the Minister
of Culture influenced the decision. Matthew McConaughey, did they do
a little Wolf of Wall Street kind of lunch in
without the martinis? Maybe with the martinis? I don't know,
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you know what it's it's a fun program. It's got
everything there, you know. And it's the thing about Texas too,
and you remember this with the Mannings too, is you
know they actually kind of care about academics and things
and that it's kind of my argument about Texas, what
are you doing going to the SEC getting your beating
in every year? But from a branding standpoint, that Texas
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actually was a much much better fit for the Big ten,
like you know, back you know, fifteen years ago, that's
what everyone talked about is possibly happening. But Texas is
automatically now, you know, if not number two behind Vanderbilt,
it's right there with Florida as you know, the best
academic institution in the SEC. And they you know, it's
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a get is the University of Texas. It's got the
high end talent, it's got the quarterback coach in the
Sarkasian to grow. And really this is just a holding pattern.
The whole idea behind arch Manning going to UH Texas.
Is that that's where the whole Manning contingent figured out
that here's the coach and this is the staff that's
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going to prep him the best to become the best
NFL player possible. He's on Twitter at Pete few Tech.
That is at peach few Tech. College football news dot
com is the site already putting up previews of the
biggest of the big team Syracuse on the front page
right now for the college football season. Again, you're one
stop shopping for everything college football. Arch Manning and beyond.
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Pete has always buddy, appreciate your time. My friend will
talk to you soon as anybody. I'm coming home in
a couple of weeks. I'll find you for beer. I
just like, for a second, just for you know, I
like that we spent so much time getting ready for
the draft in college basketball talking about a guy named Chet,
and now we're talking about a guy named Arch. I
just like that we've had Chet and Arch to talk
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about old school. A bit of a throwback, you know.
I mean, you've got all these television channels that the
rights fees for some of those fifties shows are a
little cheaper. She can go back and watch a little
Andy Griffith show and all those kind of things where
you had simpler times. Yeah, and you had guy's name.
But like all in the family, we called Archie arch
all the time. Hey, dummy, up, will you now if
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if Archie Manning starts going to town with some quotes,
they aren't straight out of straight out of the Bunker household.
I mean, you want to talk about a guy that
could be a hero or villain real fast? Hey, arts,
what do you think about that? I got one thing
for you, meet head. If he does that, that's hashtag
new media, hashtag new media, all things old are new again.
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He does that in response to a question. You have
to like the first guy from from the Dallas Morning, Hey,
I got I got an answer for you. He gets
one of those long winded questions from a reporter and
he pretends like he's doing the thing to kill himself
like Archie Bunker used to do. Who was loading the gun?
Or he had he had the notch ready? Yeah, there
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were a lot of those, All of those that when
you watch them on late night TV, they now have
to put a disclaimer before they show you an episode
of the Jefferson's All in the family or Sanfords. Oh
we got Arch, Yo, we got Arch and you got Kyrie. Yes,
stop stop, still a net. He is a net right now, right,
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we'll get to that. He is a net. Yeah, but
the show is tonight. We're trying to deal with the
present and predict the few. Now. I just want to
say this before you get to mons Blanas for a second.
Remember I told you before the season began that Aaron
Judge was going to be the a L m v
P Game of the night in Major League Baseball. The
Yankees walk it off with four runs in the bottom
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of the ninth inning, capped off by a game winning
single from Aaron Judge, who knocks in the winning run.
Yankees beat the Astros seven to six. That's how you
celebrate arbitration, right, Aaron Judge, Because tomorrow he's in. He'll
be They'll give him three hundred million dollars tomorrow just
for the rest of this year. I don't know he's
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got forty five RB. I know he's fifty three. Sorry, Stan,
because my guy Alvarez get hit his twenty two and
he's got fifty four. He's got like eighty six, he's
got eighty six On runs and forty five RBI. Come on,
that's it's not even All Star break. He's hitting three
oh four. Aaron Judge is gonna win the mvnour Aaron Judge,
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who everybody knows, and people want to give an m
v P tow you're doing. No, not everybody wants to
give it. And I mattered, damn it. You don't have
a vote. Do you have a vote? I can get one.
How can you can keep south side? You can get
stuff done? That sounds pretty illegal. I know, I know
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people who can do things on any level of We
had some late votes coming for Alvarez from the South
side of Chicago. We're gonna have to go through this
since I have a wide influence. Harmon is just admitted
he can hack the m v P voting in the
American League. I didn't say that explicitly, and those are
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your words. I just said I can get things. No,
it's okay. Look he's second in ops. I mean he's fine,
he's fine. Every he's gonna be the m v P
walk off it right here? Whose team did he beat?
Your team? Your guys, doesn't matter. I told you what
I told you at thirty to one odds. Can I
can I tell you what's really more concerned? My white
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socts are down three noth into these. I think it's
concerning that you just said you could hack it to
the A L M V P phoning if you want it.
I'm just saying you're just gonna pull the plugs out
of the machines. Well you can do that too. Be
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I'm Doug Gottlie. The podcast is called All Ball. We
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the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, orherever you get
your podcast. Man, I'll tell you the heat are gonna
be really good. They just drafted Nicola Yokich. Was that
just unbelievable? They find a glitch in the matrix? Did
he went back into the draft, they didn't know if
they just tried. He said, I'm tired of waiting for
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these guys to get healthy. I'm out of here. The
Heat just draft Nicola Yovich. But Penal people just looked
at that, I'm sure looked at the screen and said,
did the Heat just getting Nikola Yokich? Why would they
trade him? What are the Nuggets doing now? It would
have been funny if they'd announced his drafting in the
middle of a taco bell ad, like Nicola Yokich all
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those years ago. Is in the middle of the state
farmat Is that the same guy? Is that? Is that
what we got right there? So, yeah, Nicola Yovich was
just not Nicola Yokich. Nicola V instead of a K.
It's a V instead of a K. Yeah, but six
ten out of Mega Mozart. I would just keep showing
Yoka highlights this way. Look at this guy's game in
the low post, look at the passing talent that he has.
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We're gonna be great warriors. Uh. Select Patrick Baldwin Jr.
Pat Baldwin was a star player for Northwestern when I
was a student. And there's this kid being drafted by
the world. You feel old now. Huh A little bit,
I feel little feet. He's one of those guys getting
into the lane and floaters, always with the soft touch,
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one handed kind of set shot kind of thing. But
there's some big goings on in the NBA draft with
earlier in the day, agent wil Gerowski ESPN NBA insider. Look,
there's no bigger NBA insider than Woes, right. Woad bombs
happened all the time. Look, chimps fighting, but woas his
woades right. Everybody else just has sources and that's all
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I got. So it was the it was the top
three picks in the draft. We're done right. He he
had let it go earlier in the day. These are
cemented Barr Smith is gonna go number one overall, chat
Home Grin and Palabunk Caro's gonna go number three. This
was it all day long. These were the ignored the lines,
all other information and intel. Did he shut it off
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and decided he was getting gonna have a swim? Dann
today are like and when you hear this, okay, je
Barthie's woa just telling you the truth? We know this
right then, something weird happened with the number one pick
with the first pick in the two thousand NBA draft,
the Orlando Magic select Halo ben He how pissed is who?
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That's the way it went. And we did put out
a tweet right before the draft started that said, hey,
there's some more flux with the draft and potentially bun
Caro could go number one. But all day it was hey,
it's Bares. This is it, this is it, this is it.
And this shows you how tenuous the line is when
you are an insider in sports, because you and I
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can talk about stuff. Our job is to give our
opinions and to entertain. I love trying to predict the future,
you know. I like being right, and I'm right more
than i'm wrong, and we're right more than wrong. So
that's fine. But sometimes they're gonna be wrong, and that's okay, right,
because you're trying to pick the future. It's all right,
it happens that way. Sometimes you're gonna be wrong. I
get it. But when your job is to be right
all the time and you're wrong about something big, nobody
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remembers anything else you did. It's Hey, remember when you
said Jabari Smiths the number one overall pick in the
draft and trying to be Balaban care and all day
long it was this is it. They're cemented in these
are the guys, and then this is what happened. Because
when you're an insider, you are only as good as
your last report. And that's why you can't miss any
your your your winning percentage has to be like near
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a hundred. The only thing that's gonna save him is
that this wasn't star power near the top of the draft, right,
because it's like, could you imagine if it it was
Zion and John Morant the top of the draft and
it was, Hey, I got it, John Morran's number one
overall pick in the draft. They're locked in John Morrans
going number one, Zion's going number two. R J. Barrett's
going number three, right, and then the draft comes and
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Barrett a hell of a player. He is two years old.
He's already doing great thing. He's gonna be great with Kyrie.
Stop a guy like Kyrie set him up for so
many buckets. What Kyrie would look at him and go, hey,
I got this, rook you just stay over there. I've
been in the league three years. Yeah that's okay, you
just stay there. Um, But if you if he got
that wrong. It was a big name like that, and
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suddenly Zion goes number one. Boy, this thing mushrooms in
a large way as it is to get the number
one overall, picking the draft wrong is a big deal.
But that's the only thing that's going to save him
is that. Okay, it's Paula bunk Aram and maybe the
average NBA fan knows him because they know he went
to Duke and Duke had the big run this year
in Stowski's last year. But uh, this is like, this
is an insider's worst nightmare. When you say I got
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this and here's the story and it turns out to
be something different. Well, that's it. You got all the
information and this is the kind of thing, especially draft nights. Yes,
there's a lot of stuff swirling, but this isn't Kush
going back to Jerry McGuire, right, hey, jockey up to
get here. No, it was pretty clear who was drafting
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and weren't going to see any big crazy things happen
as to a team. This is information was out there.
The betting lines moved, so people knew what was going on,
which means as soon as that happens, that should be
Woes's next call. Okay, this move and getting back with
your sources, going, what are you giving me if a
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bunch of mine started, a bunch of money came in
that moved the odds as much as it did. They fluctuated,
They were back and forth over the last twenty four hours.
You know there there was more to it, which is
why you know Jay Glazer, our guy, you don't say
much what he does. It's right. All other NFL insiders
they're they're throwing darts at times. Him pops out of
the weeds says, I'm right here we go. Sorry, we
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had a consultant come in and convinced us that bunk
Carrol was. We didn't have that meeting till after lunch,
So I'm sorry. I know I said you. They had
to publish sorry, Twitter and out about a Fresca Mike
and Swollen demo Barer NBA coming up next, because yeah,
now it's time for the Kyrie conversation. Stop
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. The Knicks are not
gonna take Kyrie anymore? All right, right away, right away,
right away. Any of you guys, you Harmon, you, Frostberg,
you tie Shirt, Monsey, Andy, you guys start saying the
Knicks and making moves so they can get Kyrie. No, no, no, no,
(00:48):
stop putting that out downiverse. He could be one of
several name no stop, no, no stop. I mean they've
vacated a high earning player at a certain position. Mr
Irving plays said position. Okay, so it's there. It's low
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hanging fruit. It's not. And it's just like when the
Jets won the NFL Draft. This could be as good
or bad as it gets for you as a Knicks fan.
You had a scene whereby Spike Lee came up on
the the ESPN Draft set to Hug Stephen A Smith,
who looked despondent like he hadn't seen this since the
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Patrick Ewing Frozen envelope time and time and time again.
But he served it well and he might as well
cast him as the lead in his next movie because
he acted brilliantly heartbroken. No, this is exactly what you expect.
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match limitations they do apply. So the big highlights of
the draft tonight are two one. Pala Bunkarro goes number
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one overall. This is earlier in the day when Adrian
wal Zarowski reported, Hey, no, no, m Smith number one overall.
The top three picks are all locked in and Mankarro
goes number one. Well, we said that yesterday we were
on the show talking about the betting odds sliding all
over the place, and how all of a sudden he
was two or two and a half to one. It's like, no,
the market has spoken perfect information had been released saying
(02:35):
something else was a fool's errand but now let me
explain the Knicks, which is really the thing is? I
can you tell me it like I'm a five year
old so I can transcribe it into a child's book
that will be a best seller. I'm gonna get your
kid prepared for disappointed. There's let me explain. No, there's
too much. Let me sum up. It would be easier
(02:56):
for me to put an Ikea bed together with an
Alan wrench than to explain the genesis of all the
Knicks moves so far in the draft night, Because the
Knicks acquired a player, then they traded away the eleventh
pick in the draft, and they traded away that player
with the eleventh pick in the draft and traded away
Kemba Walker to the Detroit Pistons. So let me just
some up basically what happened the Knicks were picking and how.
(03:18):
Because Nick's Twitter is crazy, everybody is crazy. Of course
the Nicks do something, and it's all anybody could talk about.
And it's not for Kyrie upcause we've talked about if
you've got a few guys that you really know, but
the rest of the drafts kind of so what happens
kicks you something crazy? You win? You could they could
put fake names up there for people being drafted. Right now,
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the average fan wouldn't know. You could have done that
in the top ten picks probably, I think you probably
couldn't see, but especially now when you're in, like you know,
you're like pick number nineteen and twenty uh from Northwestern
Mike Harmon. Mike Harmon was a great combo guard. You know,
didn't didn't have a great NBA training camp, but can
hit the outside three, can make a cup of coffee.
(04:00):
He's really good. Look he loves the color purple. So
he was hoping to go to the Kings. This is
a dream come true from my karment. It's a match
made heaven. Absolutely, and he can trash talk as well
as anybody from the Overseas Academy. Alex tishert goes number
nineteen overall to the I mean that he's probably animal account.
But here's the here's the question about his want you
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and desire. He had already made millions in anime podcasts
and n I L deals. So does he have the
want to be great at the next level? So what
are we going to get out of you? Not a lot? Really,
what's the bare minimum I can do? And that's get
early releases on my podcast. Check out his MySpace while
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you're there, so and and don't don't forget you get
the bonus of a Friends Too account as well. So
the Knicks, why they're all over the place right now
right They had the eleventh overall pick, they traded it,
they acquired another player, and they were able to trade
that player and Kemba Walker to the Pistons. So the
big way to break this down, because I can break
it down for you, is that the Knicks basically traded
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away the eleventh overall pick to be able to trade
Kemba Walker away and shed some salary. And according to
Mark Stein in New York Times, uh a lot of
this money that they're shedding now, which is a good
move to stop. Stop, don't say that, that don't's not
that's not today. But I was gonna say it's not
mark Stein's name, No, not don't know mark Stein reporting
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I've talked to many times, interview him many times. Says
that don't stop stop. I'm gonna forget about key in
your car. I'm putting holes in your tires. You're gonna
be stuck here for three days. Do you get fires?
He means the sheets of paper by which he printed
out the rundown, because we would not have him subject
to any felony charges. So because of this, the Knicks
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trading away these picks because you have to trade value
if you're going to trade away salary, it's how it works.
Then X traded this pick to be able to trade
away Kemba walker and shed salary so they can pursue.
I thought you were gonna say no, because he's back
on Monday, they can pursue you. No. I want to
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get this out because I don't want any other names.
If Frostburg decides to say it, no, it's not it's not. No,
it's not Kyrie not Kyrie. No, no, no, no, don't
say don't align Voldemort tonight, because otherwise Jason don't say
his name. Blood pressure is gonna spike the roof. I know,
I know, we're not We're not We're we're not supposed
to be worried about giving voice to what we're afraid of.
But just don't sell his name. Don't put it out there.
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Staff the taxes, Kyrie to the next way to Kyrie.
Go to the lakes. You can avoid taxes. I mean,
you've seen a lot of folks do that. You might
have to go to a cell for a while, but
you don't have to pay you. You know, I don't
be saying good thing, Hey Frostburg, proper, get Wesley Snipes
on the show. Get him up. I wasn't saying not to.
I was just saying that that is a fraudulent, you know,
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triad in terms of life. So the Knicks traded away
Kemba Walker to free up money so they could pursue Okay,
stop not as bad as Kyrie irving. I'll allow it.
I'll allow that. I'll allow it. I'll allow it. I'll
allow it. It's okay, I'll allow that. He who does it,
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I'm gonna objection. I'll allow it sustained. I'll allow it.
I'll allow Lebron James. I'm not allowing Kyrie, not allowing Carrie.
So the Knicks are freeing up money allegedly for Jalen
Brunson now in the real world because now I can
break down Mark Stein's reporting. When hey, the Knicks making
this trade to free up money for Jalen Brunson, the
Knicks are actually freeing up money for free agents who
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are going to go some place else. So it's just
money not have to give it to people. That's the
day they have a stack of money to go look
at all these players who are not going to take
our money and then go play someplace. Use we spend
for that shark when we brought that guy in for
a visit? Much can we bring Tosh Gibson back and
just give him thirty million? Because we got to give
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somebody thirty million dollars. Let's just so that's what's going on.
That's why the Knicks are going crazy. That's the big
story of the draft because the track I keep saying,
because it's it's complicated, it makes the Knicks sound bad
and you don't need any help with that. But that's
kind of what's happening because they want to trade, so
they used that getting getting the player they did and
being able to trade the eleventh pick. They're able to
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trade Kember Walking to the Piston as they shed salary,
which is good because kember Walker wasn't playing for the
team anyway. You know, he played a little bit last year.
He wasn't any good anymore. Got John Walt, which is
what the Lakers need to do to Russell Westbrook. I
want to create a trading card insearch set. You got wall,
got walled, you got walled, you got walled, you got
does one a case so it still has value, but
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it really is the pejorative right. Normally it's heys the
you know, fantasy m v P. He's the you know,
Hall of Fame or whatever, and so those are the
hardest defined. This way, it's you got walled, like Hots
twelve guys who were forced to sit down because their
team just good deal anymore. But honestly, I know it's
embarrassing because it basically looks like the Knicks traded away
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at first round pick a trade. But that's how it
works the NBA. I'm okay with this. What's a better
what's a better thing for the Knicks to take some
guy at number eleven who may work out, may not,
maybe a rotation player at some point, or to be
able to shed the salary to go after a free
a big time free agent. Yeah, I'll take that gamble.
I'm okay with this right. Usually I don't agree with
(09:28):
stuff the Knicks do because anytime I look hot to go,
whatever the Knicks do, I look at that's that's on No,
not in my hand, like Homer Simpson. Whatever Nick say,
do the opposite. But this is kind of what you
have to do. It doesn't serve you to pick a
guy eleventh overall if you have no idea if he's
gonna be any good. If the Knicks and traded the
fifth pick overall in the draft, I'd say, Okay, you
don't know what this draft is gonna be. There's not
a lot of star power. Maybe some of the player
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you know, some of the players will work out, but
it's a crapshoot. So you're looking to get better now
because you have young players already. So hey, we gotta
go pursue some guys. What do we have to do?
We have to shed salary. This is how you do it.
This is how you do it. An I know everybody's
mad because it looks like, oh, the Knicks are embarrassing.
Yes it is. It is embarrassing because you have to
try to explain it is very difficult, but shedding salary
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going forward, Yeah, I'm okay with it. The Knicks had
to do it. Now potentially they can go get somebody
or they can just get somebody to the sum. We
don't want your money, not kyriely. I mean, it is
a salary shed but it's not that big. That's this
is Andy Dufraine sloughing off a couple of rocks in
the yard and Shawshank right, eight point nine million or thereabouts.
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That's nothing, right, that's a walk in the park. That's
barely abo above the mid level exemption. So yeah, on
paper it's good, but it's only a dent. So now
you've got to figure out how to how to keep
making it move. Now for Dallas, the interesting parties, do
they want Brunson around or do they get into the
Kyrie or others sweepstakes to bring in someone alongside Luca.
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Now that's where this gets fun. This is where it
gets chaotic and takes a little shore off your Nicks.
Because I'll do it momentarily it's still out there. I mean,
because look, I mean that's every mock up. We'll get
mock on the twitterverse. Right, what do you guys doing
this to me for why? Why are you guys doing
this to me for what? We wouldn't do this if
we didn't love. Why do this to me? This is
(11:16):
the night you guys are like. You guys are like
when hey, if something happens to somebody and they go
to the hospital with a heart attack and they come
out and the doctor says, hey, listen, just so you know,
this person has had a bit of a scare. You
know they're gonna be okay, but you know, just you know,
no loud noises around them. Try to keep everything calm
(11:38):
and you know, don't raise their blood pressure. You guys
are banging pots and pants together and jumping out of
closets going hey, look at docupasky. That's what you guys say. Hey,
they let you out without a stress test, and your
friends are there to help build up the calluses, to
build up the resolve and the hate because I mean, really,
let's face it, a lot of our lives were fueled
(11:59):
by eight So bring bring the pain back. You survived
forty years of the Knicks. You're gonna be just fine
with Kyrie stops. It's no, no, no, no, This is
just another bump in the road. Yeah, it's it really is,
you know, still peak Knicks to do something like wait,
(12:20):
let me ask one last question here, though, Frostberg. Let
me let me ask you here, because remember when the
Knicks recording Carmelo Anthony. Oh yeah, all right, remember all that.
It's like, is this more or less painful? Right now?
This is gonna be way more to get a second
shot at Carmelo as a lesser player but still getting
paid King's ransom, because well, desperation is a stinky cologne
(12:44):
versus Kyrie. He's gonna have the root for Kyrie Irving. No, no,
no night. We're gonna put We're gonna have a camera.
We're gonna do video during Knicks games. You guys, you
know what I hope. I know. I no longer hope
because I told you that the Lakers should be the
one franch has to get Kyrie Irving. I hope instead
that the Lakers get Kyrie Irving and Frostburg. He moves
(13:05):
in with you, and you and you have to live
in your house. I bet you use the hell of
a house. You know what he does. He's gonna walk
in right away and start sprinkling stage all around. They're
gonna feel protected and around and I'll drink all your
booths all around front. I wasn't gonna gonna say that
I wasn't there, But you know what else he's gonna do.
You're never gonna know when he's gonna be home or not.
You're gonna make plans for dinner, and you're never gonna
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Some nights he's gonna be home. Some nights he's not
going to be home, and you're not gonna be where.
That's kind of what he is. You're expecting to have
a weekly game night, and some nights he's just not
gonna be there. You don't know when he's gonna show up.
That's what it's gonna be. What he's coming there when
he and he runs runs the joy right, you're paying
rent to him on every roll of the dice, sure,
(13:47):
but then some nights he's just happens. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike
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see what you're doing here, I see what you're doing
because it's spelled like kyrie. I see what you're doing now,
I see it. I see it speaking into existence not
happening like Back to the future. Four Kyrie to the
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Knicks is not happening. Hey, all the principles are still around.
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Slash rewards limitations they do apply. Well, we'll tell you
what is happening. Arch manning to the Texas Longhorns a
seismic college football headline earlier in the day today, and
no one better to talk to about it right now
than the owner, proprietor, and grand puba of College Football
(14:54):
News dot com. It is longtime friend of the show,
Pete Futack. You can follow them on Twitter at Pete
few Tech and Pete. I gotta be honest with you.
I don't know if you and I are in the
same page on this, but when I saw arch Man
into Texas, I went, I don't know how this is
gonna work. In belong Hall. I, first of all, I'm
(15:15):
still kind of trying to get over you know, Mr
mr As an actual worst lead in than poison. So
I you somehow managed to do that. So that but
you're right, you know what, men of a certain age,
we've all been here. We remember Kristen's you know, we
remember Texas gathering all these you know, great talents and
(15:36):
amassing you know so much. And you know, just because
you know Arch Manning, you know, goes to Texas, you know,
you know, so an Alabama friend of mine, you know, texted, oh, Granny,
they're gonna screw it up. Another Alabama friend of mine
was like, no, big whoop where this? You know, get stick?
Our NFL defensive ends on him, you know. So it's
and they already got a star there in Quinny Worth.
(15:58):
So you know, let's let's see what happens with this.
But hey, look, you've got a guy who is projected
to be an NFL franchise quarterback. Such a good thing.
Start with that. And if you're Texas, you're happy about
this today? Oh no, no, I'm not saying you're not happy.
If you're Texas, you're not yet. But I look at
this and go Texas has not really been any good
(16:19):
for a decade, and they've screwed up things like this before,
and suddenly, okay, I'm gonna entrust my college football future
where you wanted to be mutually beneficial for balls, right,
Arch Manning wants to get to the NFL and be
the number one overall pick. Texas wants to win at
least one national championship. I don't know, man, I I
look at this and I go, this is not Texas.
(16:41):
If you people have this image of Texas, all, yeah,
they'll be right back, They'll be right back. No, it's
hard to get right back. And it's been a long
time for Texas. It's not like, oh, they'll get back
fine because now they have you know, they have Arch Manning.
Now remember this too, though, is that the Mannings are
they're kind of different. How many national championships that pay
Manning and Eli Manning combined for zero? You know how many?
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You know Tennessee was you know Rising, you know that
was a powerhouse back then. But okay, you know it's
it's a it's a different thought. It's a different place
for you and to go kind of it's still Texas.
Look we're talking about it like it's like he went
to Utah State or something like that. He's it's Texas.
You know, they're they're good, They're going to be better.
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They've got a whole lot of talent in place. You
could make an argument that in terms of NFL talent,
once he gets there, well, I guess bi John Robinson's
going to be gone. But right now they might have
the most talented NFL back in the country, and they
might have the most talented quarterback in the country coming
in next year. But again, let's see what Queeny Worth does.
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I mean, that's a guy who was every bit the
the prospect that arch Manning is supposed to be. And
there is a thought I do have a pretentious recruiting
friend out there who's like, if his name was arch Manning,
he would not be you know, he's not the talent
that Queenys was. I doubt that. But okay, let's see.
But look, it's a Texas can't get anybody they want.
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And that's the argument when it comes to that program.
It is the richest program, that's the richest athletic department.
They are bound by absolutely nothing. There is absolutely no
reason why they shouldn't be in the running for any
in every talent, But now they need more of them
because in two years from now, arch man is gonna
be going up against Alabama, Texas A and M and
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LSU and that whole fun buds the sec. Now. I
do remember Peyton Manning playing catch with peerless price against
my beloved Northwestern Wildcats down at a Citrus Bowl many
many moons ago. The thing that concerns me, though, Pete,
when I when I look at well, everything that's put
on tape in front of me for arch Manning is
that he's evading guys that look like me in the
pocket to keep looking down the field. There's there's one
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clip that I saw pop up all over the place
like a guy look like it looks like back of
the day, thinking of that you just created. I just
remember the flash pick. That's what doubt was what Jason
Witten looked like. If you remember against your Wildcats, Like
Jason Witten looked like he was eight foot about six
hundred pounds and he was drinking down the fields, like,
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oh my god, who's that guy? Um, But yeah, that's
a little bit. And actually the funny part of bod
is he's a manny and I think the two main
highlights of him have him tearing off like a sixty
four yard touchdown. Right, It does skip a generation or two,
but look, he is a big time talent. It just
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kind of shows that in today's day and age of
college football, you just keep bringing guys. And again, I'm
gonna keep harper on this, Quinny Wears is going to
be a playmaker this year. He is a talent. Texas
has talent there. But you're right this, let's let's the difference.
Back in our days, Mac Brown managed to do of
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the least with the most because he would get not
just one great guy, but he'd also get a Roy Williams.
Then you know all these great defensive line linemen and
other parts, and they just then they come out and
get their brains beaten in by Oklahoma. Now Texas is
not quite there when it comes to the recruiting in
the SEC. I mean, look, I mean Texas A and
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M is coming off of arguably, you know, technically one
of the best recruiting classes ever. Alabama's great every year,
Georgia's great every year. You can have a top ten
recruiting class in the SEC. SEC and still be like
seventh in the conference, Like, yeah, it's just it's you've
got to get more guys like that. But obviously it
is a start in the theory being okay, this is
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you know, where's the trend going in recruiting and if
you get an arch manning all of a sudden, that
guy says, all right, this this is kind of a
hot hit program for right now, throwing all the n
I L money that's gonna come their way with the
long horns, and you know that's gonna be an interesting
program for all the starkeys. Yeah, and right now major
Apple whites going, why is my phone ring? Why are
people calling me for any of you? Uh? Pete few
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Tech our guest here college Football News dot com. So
here's here's the big question now coming in because you
could see the past few years that the national championship
winners in college football have been names like to a
tug of high first round pick, to Shaun Watson high
first round pick, Matt Jones as much of a game
manager as he was still a first round pick, had
a decent rookie year. Last year you had stets In Bennett,
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former walk on win. How much do you need to
have that a list top five star quarterback to win
a national title at this point in college, it's hilarious.
So my Georgia friend texted me about the arch Manning thing.
You know, big bleeping deal, we won the national bleeping
championship with a freaking Bennett, Like, you're right and that
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that that is the anti argument. But but look the thing,
not to get off topic here, but if you remember
that game at all, oh, Stetson Bennett was awful, he
was He almost gave that game a way, and he
had two really good throws. To say that, but if
you're going to have a Stetson bedded, that means you
have to have a historically awesome group of other guys
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around you, just like Georgia was able to have. So
every arch Manning or having an elite quarterback kind of
makes up for all the other parts. And you remember Alabama,
You mentioned Matt Jones, you mentioned too of Kunga Bayola.
Give me the national championship quarterbacks before that. You know
John Parker Wilson, You know that John. I'm black as
that wasn't John Parker Wilson. It was gosh, what was it,
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Jacob Coker. It was Jacob Coker. It was Greg McElroy.
You know, you had a J. McCarron. You didn't have
the superstar talents there at Alabama. But now you have to, Yeah,
you have to in the SEC. You've got to have
its Jerguman against Texas a at M this year. They
got everything else in place, but where is there? You know,
you know, Grace Young, where is their superstar quarterback? And look,
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Tectis has a couple of them now, And you know
right now, who's gonna be the number one team in
the country is starting the season. It's gonna be Alabama
mainly because they have everything else and Brice Young, who's
number two. It's gonna be Ohio statement because it's Ohio State.
And C. J. Scroud is probably gonna be the first
overall pick in the draft next year. Yeah. I see
one of the first previews as I scrolled down College
Football News is the Syracuse Orange players. So he's got
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every team covered, because I mean that's scraping the bottom.
John Tucker is gonna run for three thousand yards that year.
But the point I was going to get back to
with Texas is how much do you think the Minister
of Culture influenced the decision. Matthew McConaughey, did they do
a little Wolf of Wall Street kind of lunch in
without the martinis? Maybe with the martinis? I don't know,
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you know what it's it's a fun program. It's got
everything there, you know. And it's the thing about Texas too,
and you remember this with the Mannings too, is you
know they actually kind of care about academics and things
and that it's kind of my argument about Texas, what
are you doing going to the SEC getting your beating
in every year? But from a branding standpoint, that Texas
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actually was a much much better fit for the Big ten,
like you know, back you know, fifteen years ago, that's
what everyone talked about is possibly happening. But Texas is
automatically now, you know, if not number two behind Vanderbilt,
it's right there with Florida as you know, the best
academic institution in the SEC. And they you know, it's
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a get is the University of Texas. It's got the
high end talent, it's got the quarterback coach in the
Sarkasian to grow. And really this is just a holding pattern.
The whole idea behind arch Manning going to UH Texas.
Is that that's where the whole Manning contingent figured out
that here's the coach and this is the staff that's
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going to prep him the best to become the best
NFL player possible. He's on Twitter at Pete few Tech.
That is at peach few Tech. College football news dot
com is the site already putting up previews of the
biggest of the big team Syracuse on the front page
right now for the college football season. Again, you're one
stop shopping for everything college football. Arch Manning and beyond.
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Pete has always buddy, appreciate your time. My friend will
talk to you soon as anybody. I'm coming home in
a couple of weeks. I'll find you for beer. I
just like, for a second, just for you know, I
like that we spent so much time getting ready for
the draft in college basketball talking about a guy named Chet,
and now we're talking about a guy named Arch. I
just like that we've had Chet and Arch to talk
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about old school. A bit of a throwback, you know.
I mean, you've got all these television channels that the
rights fees for some of those fifties shows are a
little cheaper. She can go back and watch a little
Andy Griffith show and all those kind of things where
you had simpler times. Yeah, and you had guy's name.
But like all in the family, we called Archie arch
all the time. Hey, dummy, up, will you now if
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if Archie Manning starts going to town with some quotes,
they aren't straight out of straight out of the Bunker household.
I mean, you want to talk about a guy that
could be a hero or villain real fast? Hey, arts,
what do you think about that? I got one thing
for you, meet head. If he does that, that's hashtag
new media, hashtag new media, all things old are new again.
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He does that in response to a question. You have
to like the first guy from from the Dallas Morning, Hey,
I got I got an answer for you. He gets
one of those long winded questions from a reporter and
he pretends like he's doing the thing to kill himself
like Archie Bunker used to do. Who was loading the gun?
Or he had he had the notch ready? Yeah, there
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were a lot of those, All of those that when
you watch them on late night TV, they now have
to put a disclaimer before they show you an episode
of the Jefferson's All in the family or Sanfords. Oh
we got Arch, Yo, we got Arch and you got Kyrie. Yes,
stop stop, still a net. He is a net right now, right,
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we'll get to that. He is a net. Yeah, but
the show is tonight. We're trying to deal with the
present and predict the few. Now. I just want to
say this before you get to mons Blanas for a second.
Remember I told you before the season began that Aaron
Judge was going to be the a L m v
P Game of the night in Major League Baseball. The
Yankees walk it off with four runs in the bottom
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of the ninth inning, capped off by a game winning
single from Aaron Judge, who knocks in the winning run.
Yankees beat the Astros seven to six. That's how you
celebrate arbitration, right, Aaron Judge, Because tomorrow he's in. He'll
be They'll give him three hundred million dollars tomorrow just
for the rest of this year. I don't know he's
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got forty five RB. I know he's fifty three. Sorry, Stan,
because my guy Alvarez get hit his twenty two and
he's got fifty four. He's got like eighty six, he's
got eighty six On runs and forty five RBI. Come on,
that's it's not even All Star break. He's hitting three
oh four. Aaron Judge is gonna win the mvnour Aaron Judge,
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who everybody knows, and people want to give an m
v P tow you're doing. No, not everybody wants to
give it. And I mattered, damn it. You don't have
a vote. Do you have a vote? I can get one.
How can you can keep south side? You can get
stuff done? That sounds pretty illegal. I know, I know
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people who can do things on any level of We
had some late votes coming for Alvarez from the South
side of Chicago. We're gonna have to go through this
since I have a wide influence. Harmon is just admitted
he can hack the m v P voting in the
American League. I didn't say that explicitly, and those are
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your words. I just said I can get things. No,
it's okay. Look he's second in ops. I mean he's fine,
he's fine. Every he's gonna be the m v P
walk off it right here? Whose team did he beat?
Your team? Your guys, doesn't matter. I told you what
I told you at thirty to one odds. Can I
can I tell you what's really more concerned? My white
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socts are down three noth into these. I think it's
concerning that you just said you could hack it to
the A L M V P phoning if you want it.
I'm just saying you're just gonna pull the plugs out
of the machines. Well you can do that too. Be
sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. Hey,
(29:25):
I'm Doug Gottlie. The podcast is called All Ball. We
usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's more
about the stories about what made these people love their
sport and all the interesting interactions along the way. We
talked to coaches, we talked to players, We tell you stories.
You download it, you listen to it. I think you
like it. Listen to All Ball with Doug golib on
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the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, orherever you get
your podcast. Man, I'll tell you the heat are gonna
be really good. They just drafted Nicola Yokich. Was that
just unbelievable? They find a glitch in the matrix? Did
he went back into the draft, they didn't know if
they just tried. He said, I'm tired of waiting for
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these guys to get healthy. I'm out of here. The
Heat just draft Nicola Yovich. But Penal people just looked
at that, I'm sure looked at the screen and said,
did the Heat just getting Nikola Yokich? Why would they
trade him? What are the Nuggets doing now? It would
have been funny if they'd announced his drafting in the
middle of a taco bell ad, like Nicola Yokich all
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those years ago. Is in the middle of the state
farmat Is that the same guy? Is that? Is that
what we got right there? So, yeah, Nicola Yovich was
just not Nicola Yokich. Nicola V instead of a K.
It's a V instead of a K. Yeah, but six
ten out of Mega Mozart. I would just keep showing
Yoka highlights this way. Look at this guy's game in
the low post, look at the passing talent that he has.
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We're gonna be great warriors. Uh. Select Patrick Baldwin Jr.
Pat Baldwin was a star player for Northwestern when I
was a student. And there's this kid being drafted by
the world. You feel old now. Huh A little bit,
I feel little feet. He's one of those guys getting
into the lane and floaters, always with the soft touch,
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one handed kind of set shot kind of thing. But
there's some big goings on in the NBA draft with
earlier in the day, agent wil Gerowski ESPN NBA insider. Look,
there's no bigger NBA insider than Woes, right. Woad bombs
happened all the time. Look, chimps fighting, but woas his
woades right. Everybody else just has sources and that's all
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I got. So it was the it was the top
three picks in the draft. We're done right. He he
had let it go earlier in the day. These are
cemented Barr Smith is gonna go number one overall, chat
Home Grin and Palabunk Caro's gonna go number three. This
was it all day long. These were the ignored the lines,
all other information and intel. Did he shut it off
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and decided he was getting gonna have a swim? Dann
today are like and when you hear this, okay, je
Barthie's woa just telling you the truth? We know this
right then, something weird happened with the number one pick
with the first pick in the two thousand NBA draft,
the Orlando Magic select Halo ben He how pissed is who?
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That's the way it went. And we did put out
a tweet right before the draft started that said, hey,
there's some more flux with the draft and potentially bun
Caro could go number one. But all day it was hey,
it's Bares. This is it, this is it, this is it.
And this shows you how tenuous the line is when
you are an insider in sports, because you and I
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can talk about stuff. Our job is to give our
opinions and to entertain. I love trying to predict the future,
you know. I like being right, and I'm right more
than i'm wrong, and we're right more than wrong. So
that's fine. But sometimes they're gonna be wrong, and that's okay, right,
because you're trying to pick the future. It's all right,
it happens that way. Sometimes you're gonna be wrong. I
get it. But when your job is to be right
all the time and you're wrong about something big, nobody
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remembers anything else you did. It's Hey, remember when you
said Jabari Smiths the number one overall pick in the
draft and trying to be Balaban care and all day
long it was this is it. They're cemented in these
are the guys, and then this is what happened. Because
when you're an insider, you are only as good as
your last report. And that's why you can't miss any
your your your winning percentage has to be like near
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a hundred. The only thing that's gonna save him is
that this wasn't star power near the top of the draft, right,
because it's like, could you imagine if it it was
Zion and John Morant the top of the draft and
it was, Hey, I got it, John Morran's number one
overall pick in the draft. They're locked in John Morrans
going number one, Zion's going number two. R J. Barrett's
going number three, right, and then the draft comes and
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Barrett a hell of a player. He is two years old.
He's already doing great thing. He's gonna be great with Kyrie.
Stop a guy like Kyrie set him up for so
many buckets. What Kyrie would look at him and go, hey,
I got this, rook you just stay over there. I've
been in the league three years. Yeah that's okay, you
just stay there. Um, But if you if he got
that wrong. It was a big name like that, and
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suddenly Zion goes number one. Boy, this thing mushrooms in
a large way as it is to get the number
one overall, picking the draft wrong is a big deal.
But that's the only thing that's going to save him
is that. Okay, it's Paula bunk Aram and maybe the
average NBA fan knows him because they know he went
to Duke and Duke had the big run this year
in Stowski's last year. But uh, this is like, this
is an insider's worst nightmare. When you say I got
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this and here's the story and it turns out to
be something different. Well, that's it. You got all the
information and this is the kind of thing, especially draft nights. Yes,
there's a lot of stuff swirling, but this isn't Kush
going back to Jerry McGuire, right, hey, jockey up to
get here. No, it was pretty clear who was drafting
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and weren't going to see any big crazy things happen
as to a team. This is information was out there.
The betting lines moved, so people knew what was going on,
which means as soon as that happens, that should be
Woes's next call. Okay, this move and getting back with
your sources, going, what are you giving me if a
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bunch of mine started, a bunch of money came in
that moved the odds as much as it did. They fluctuated,
They were back and forth over the last twenty four hours.
You know there there was more to it, which is
why you know Jay Glazer, our guy, you don't say
much what he does. It's right. All other NFL insiders
they're they're throwing darts at times. Him pops out of
the weeds says, I'm right here we go. Sorry, we
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had a consultant come in and convinced us that bunk
Carrol was. We didn't have that meeting till after lunch,
So I'm sorry. I know I said you. They had
to publish sorry, Twitter and out about a Fresca Mike
and Swollen demo Barer NBA coming up next, because yeah,
now it's time for the Kyrie conversation. Stop
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