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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Let's get started here, And of course, the NBA All
Star Game is in San Francisco at the Chick Area. Yes,
the only bad part about the All Star Game being
in San Francisco's gotta walk over homeless people to get
into the arena.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And I'm just you ain't even really joking, And that's
the crazy part. Listen what they call it, the BIPs,
the yips to whatever they the BIPs, yeah something where
they did you gotta roll your windows down because they're
just busting everybody's windows down. It's more of an Oakland thing,
and they taking everything stuff out, So people literally keep
their windows down and you take everything out your car
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and your windows. So the person looks and says nothing
in there. Yeah, that's a real thing. But doing it
for years out there, all right?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, The bad part is that the All Star Game
is going on this weekend, and we already know that
it's been a disaster, and uh, it's just going nowhere.
It's dropping every year, we a all time low attended viewership.
It's just last year they sent in Doctor J and
Larry Bird to give them a pep talk about playing
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defense and making a count, and each team scored over
two hundred points, so that that went out the window.
Adam Silver just just nothing, has no answers for this,
but here we go.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I'm gonna tell.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You there's one person, and one person only who has
ruined NBA All Star Weekend, and that's kitlynk Clark.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Caitlyn Clark. They're just gonna look fun.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah yeah, And she just said I've never heard her
say that word before.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I heard it through the glass. That's all really.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Katelyn Clark has ruined NBA All Star Weekend. They they
invited her to be involved in you know, a shooter,
a shooting contest with Steph right, and they were gonna
make this nice thing go and give people something to watch.
She is television ratings goal right. Everything she's in the
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people are watching. That would have been the only reason
to watch any of the festivities this weekend. They got
a no name slam dunk contests. They got four All
Star teams with people who aren't even all stars playing
the younger people, the people they picked up off the street,
the old veterans. It's like the international like I don't
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even know, right, So they have all these things, all
these freaking gimmicks that the that the NBA is turned into.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
And she had the goal the audacity.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
To say no. How can she say no when the
WNBA wouldn't even be around if it wasn't for the NBA.
They have subsidized that league forever. Ratings this year right
get so much money. The WNBA lost this past year
fifty million, even with Kaitlyn Clark and her numbers, So
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the least she could have done was don as solid
for her brothers in the NBA. She should have shown up, participated,
gave them some kind of numbers, especially since most of
the people of women in the WNBA they aren't earning
their keep. Let's just be honest. I'm being honest. The
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least she could have done was take part in that.
And she has ruined NBA All Star Weekend for me.
I'm not watching one minute because of Kaitlyn Clark.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Okay, I just I mean, we came back from New Orleans,
we came back from Super Bowl Week, and you just
I mean you said there's no more football. So let
me just be the thing. Let me just start with
the Atlantis is Rob Parker. Kaylyn Clark is at home
minding her own business, and she has to be the
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sole reason for you to watch the NBA All Star Weekend.
Let's start with this. How about the NBA players make
the All Star Weekend something to watch. How About for
the last fifty six years, they made it something that
we couldn't wait to see, the dunk contest or three
point contest, And you're telling her in the NBA she
should have to do it. The NBA ain't even didn't
even make Lebron do it dunk contest for the last
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fifteen years. You know, they didn't do make stuff Curry,
Klay Thomps with Damian Lillard and all the best three
pointers shooters do it every year. They don't make their
own best participate. You've not seen Zion Williams in an
NBA dunk contest yet. Oh, let me keep going. You
haven't seen Anthony Edwards. Oh, let me keep going. You
haven't seen Joba Rent in a dunk contest. But Katelyn
Clark in another league has to all of a sudden
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come over here and be super woman to save it.
That's just that's that that part alone. I can't believe
you say when we sit up here and yell at
the NBA players for not making it something worth our worship.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
She's a part of the league that doesn't make any money.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Yes she is. She, Yes, they don't. They don't owe her.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
The NBA subsidizes that league, you know that. Yes, they
don't get sellout crowded unless they have fifty dollars nights
for fans, and they can the n b A.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Why can't they get n b A players to not
only participate, to actually play.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I'm not gonna believe that moment.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
She is a draw. That woman don't have to save
this league. The league has to save themselves. They wanted
to do something nice, include her, get some teava say no,
she said, well, what Steph, consider doing our All Star
Game later in the year. So that's another thing. She's saying, Hey,
come over here and Sabrina and Iyunescu. It also said
at some time they couldn't find no way to do it.
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They couldn't work it out. That's why her and Steph
they decided to just you know, do it another year
or something, because I think the w NBA is saying,
hey man, we're trying our best to build up our league,
to thrive in our league.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
We got They would have had actual eyeballs if if
she did it and participated, it would have helped the
w NBA.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
She said it would also help if Steph comes and
does it for us.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Steph's not doing that, Come on, what do you want?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I'm just so she's saying, I'm not the same reason
why she didn't participate in some other things. She also said,
I don't want to be people's guinea pigs. And the
thing that little you know, uh circus act like ooh,
we got you, Oh come playing this three on three tournament?
Who come save the NBA? Why she gotta do on that?
She's had you know how long her three sixty five
has been be from the the March madness to not
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playing the Summer Olympics.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It's a simple shooting contest. It ain't the end of
the world. She ate doing a seven game series.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Stop it.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
But what dude, probably she's probably shooting in a backyard
anyway or whatever, in a gym somewhere.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
What what what's the difference?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Come out and help the NBA in a situation waiting
down down bad they are.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
If you're telling me Kaitlyn Clark has to come help
and save the NBA, they're down bad. This is the
black eye season right now for the NBA, by the way,
because anything that comes out is the games aren't this,
the games aren't interesting, the stars don't play. All Star
Game is terrible. This is the rough patch for the NBA,
and all leagues go through this. Baseball is boring, they're
doing this. The games are too long. They had to
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come in tweak NFL's concussions. Is Colin Kaepernick kneel or
don't kneel? Every league has the season for a few
years where they're down a little bit. This is the
NBA's moment, and you're telling me Kaitlin Clark has to
come out here and be Superwoman's matter of.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Fact, remember that song in the eighties, I'm not your super.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yes, but I like when Karen White sang it, and
you can't believe that I knew that Karen White, So.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I hope so that was a good pool though, I
give I give you that I know what I'm talking
about right now with.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
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Speaker 1 (07:55):
At home and enjoy hers are a little omelet little shake.
Whatever she's doing, she just spit it out. This guy
just say about me?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Did Kaitlin Clark and importantly ruin NBA All Star Weekend
in San Francisco?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
That was?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Rob g wrote that.
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Speaker 1 (08:25):
Join now by Olden polynesis thea couple Rob Parker, Kevin Washington,
former NBA vet Fox Sports Radio NBA analysts Olden Polines
one on Twitter, old and what's up man?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
You've been here. We'll be talking about what's happening.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
Hey guys, how y'all doing good? Man?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I just uh, I don't know if you heard what
we were talking the conversation about. And then Rob is
blaming Kaitlyn Clark for ruining the NBA All Star Weekend?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
You hear this? Did you hear this album? Look?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Come on, Olden, if she would have been involved in
a three point contest or had some sort of competition
with Staff, right, and who else?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
What was the other woman's name, Sabrina?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I ask you, I mean it would have been Bob
Mussy TV. And now I have no reason to watch
the All Star Weekend? Seriously, Olden, how does the All
Star Weekend be? Honest, it's awful.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
It has been, and it's been that way for a while.
I think they had a couple of little reprieves, you know,
Zach Lavine, Aaron, Gordon, Dunking, you know, the Sabrina Unescu
and Steph. Last year they tried to replicate that again.
They even talked about doing, you know, Clay and Staff
versus Unescu and Caitlyn. But it goes to show you
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the power of Caitlyn Clark right now, because she's she's
the hottest thing in basketball. But it shows to where
the NBA is, you know, and the NBA has always
been a league of Star but the stars we had,
and again, you know I have to that's just by
saying this. I don't like doing the past versus I
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don't care. I mean the moment right now. But the
point I'm trying to make a stitch. All stars became stars,
whereas now we're trying to create stars and some of
these guys are not star quality. They don't have the personality.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
There's a lot to go with it. Yeah, well then
what is the all star? What would you say is
the all star superstar quality? Like, give me an example
who is and give me example who's not that they're
trying to, you know, force.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Well also, well, with that being said, also is the
fact that all stars and superstars really don't want to
do this anymore. It used to be an honor back
in the days. You don't know, like I never made
an All Star, but man, I kept working my butt off.
I'm like, I gotta be an All Star. Even when
I had the stats, my team weren't that good and
so I didn't make it. But it's like maybe one
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day I want to be an All Star. And when
guys made it, they were like, man, I want I
want to play well, I want to you know, and
we all talk to each other. You know, the first
quarter was always going to be, you know, we're going
to give them a show right a thond quarter, we
pick it up about another fifteen to twenty percent by
second by the third period. Oh, it was a full
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long game right right now. These guys they don't even
want to be there. It's it's a drag for them.
I don't want you know, I gotta go do interviews.
I got it. They don't appreciate it. And it's unfortunate.
You know, guys getting thirty forty million dollars. You think
one hundred thousand dollars is going to do anything that's
not motivation. They have none right now.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
It is so bad.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Are you planning on watching the festivities and everything or
do you I mean your former NBA player, I'm sure
gonna check in on it, But how much have you
stopped watching or do you watch?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
I don't watch anymore, Like I say, I you know, that's.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
An indictment of the league right there. You're a former
player there.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
To San Francisco. But I'm like, I'm not giving y'all
seven eight hundred dollars for a room and then I
gotta stand and I gotta do all this stuff. You know,
they don't treat the former players good. You know that's
that's the whole different conversation for the league themselves. So
it's like, why am I going to put myself through
all of that? That's trash, and it is trash now
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and I'm starting. You know, if I having a glance
at the TV and it's on, I will watch, but
it's not like, oh, I gotta watch this, So I
got none of.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
That old in politices.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Our guests form NBA VET as we just mentioned there,
Fox Sports Radio NBA analysts. Let's go to get your
thoughts on, obviously the big trays that have happened over
the last week or so. We'll start with Avis with
the biggest in Luke and the Lakers. He didn't look
great last year. All the Lakers lose Jazz, They.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Lost to Utah because they thought they could just show up.
And that's gonna be the problem for the Lakers, especially
getting uh Luka Doncis and it's like, oh, well, we
got Luca, we got Lebron, we can just show up. No,
you still got to go out there and play basketball.
And the Jazz really just put a solid game together, and.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
That zone threw them off older because it's.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Still missing some pieces. They still need a center Jason Hayes.
You know, the first game, he's all excited and it's
always happens. You know, it's brand new marriage, right, you know,
he's beautiful, and then after a couple of weeks he
starts nagging. It's not the same anymore, you know, the honeymoon.
Once the honeymoon's over and went right back to where
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we started from. So you know they're gonna have their moments,
but they still need more.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
If you're Dallas, how scared are you?
Speaker 6 (13:30):
You know?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I mean, you know, Anthony Davis has his great first
half and then there he is a non contact injury.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
He's gonna be out for a little bit. But this
is his history.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Even though he had been relatively healthy the last couple
of years with the Lakers, his history is not a
good one when it comes to staying healthy.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
It's not at all. And I used to tell people,
I told you guys, I've been on the show. It's
like you can set your watch to Anthony Davis when
he's gonna get hurt. And so to me, yeah, that
first game was it showed them and it basically was
a tease, Hey, this is how great I can be.
But unfortunately my body is made by you know, by glass,
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and so to me, it's just a tough situation. But
you know, one of something I want to point out
is this these people need to be fans instead of
fanatics or lunatics because the stuff they're doing right now
is ridiculous. This is a business at the end of
the day. You know, it's unfortunate, but it is what
it is. They made a business decision. You may not
agree with it, but at the end of the day,
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it's still business. Lucas now Laker, every Davis is a maverick.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I get to get this shocked from the beginning, but
some of this stuff is ridiculous, and I don't know,
I'm going to say this is older. I don't know
if thenverage should have announced I don't know if they
did officially that the GM or it was at least
a newspaper story that the GM has security, because you know,
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like I don't think I would want to put that
out there, you know what I mean, I would have security,
but I wouldn't put that out in media.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
No, you're absolutely right, And I think now with with
the new ownership, they're falling a little bit because they
don't they're not basketball people. Nico does no basketball. But
it's unfortunately none of this would have happened. Nico has
it cannot make this move by himself.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
No, no, no, nobody. Ownership has to sign off on this.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
It is what it is, the new ownership. You know,
for whatever reason, you know, they agreed and they allowed
it to happen. You know. I texted Nico actually and
I was like, hey, man, if you need a real bodyguard,
you called me. Well, but it's like, you know, these
people have got they've gone crazy right now?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Hey, old and I want to also go to the
Eastern Conference. What's going on out there? When we start
to see these teams up top of you? Next do
you buy the next day? All of a sudden, it
start to lose that toughness giving up a buck forty
something last night.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
The Celtics, by.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
The way, Randy Champson, man, can they do anything besides
shoot threes?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
My goodness?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
They shoot about Hey they do that, I know they do.
And then you got Cleveland right now? Yeah, So who
you're looking at in these or maybe you said the pisses?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Don't know?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Maybe here we go with the Knicks. First. The problem
is gonna be Thibodeau and his style. He's wearing these
guys out. So they're not gonna be any good come
first or second round of the playoffs. They're gonna be
worn out. I don't give it there how healthy they are,
I mean, how you know in shape they are? The
man is Wang players down, you know, the Celtics. You're right,
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they're gonna live and die by that three. Last year
they had that cake walk because all the teams they
face had they start player hurt. And so I think,
you know, all things being equal, you know, if that
three is not falling, you're not winning. So they're gonna
have to figure out something else to do. So my
money right now, believe it or not, is gonna be
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between Cleveland and for something Sae reason. I still like
the Bucks only because of the honest and dame, you know,
but I do like the addition of Kuzma, you know,
and so because to me right now is way better
than Chris Middleton. I mean, because of the injuries.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
That you can't stay healthy right.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, at this age, and you mentioned anduries Aj absolutely
least Cools can give you some on both ends of
the court.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Older man, Thank you so much, appreciate that. At least
you can wear that big, ugly yellow sweater.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I don't know what he goes. Yeah, you got to
burn some things. Yeah, remember that he looked like a
big bird walking six ' ten and something that long
on you? Then that what is that? No more yellow
fabric in DC? All right, thank you, Olden, We appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Thank you, buddy.
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Speaker 4 (17:47):
Now, rob G, can you give us the news of
the day. The NFL has basically told him what.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
They've told him, Your days of playing both sides of
the football are over. Allegedly, that's because they released their
invite list for the upcoming NFL Draft Combine. And despite
being the best defender in college football got that award.
Despite being the best wide receiver in football, he got
that award too. The NFL, in their list of the
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invitce for the MTOMY Combine, lists Travis Hunter as a
defensive back only for the combine.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
And let me tell you this, Kelvin, are you ready?
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Shame on the NFL for doing this and Steimian Travis Hunter.
First of all, if he decides this is what he
wants to do, okay, not making him. This is his
own career. But number two, hello, is this on? Has
the NFL seen show? Hey o Taani? Nobody since Babe
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Russys the twenties played both ways? Right, a pitcher and
a hitter? Is he not box office? Did he just
sign a seven hundred million dollar contract?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Is he?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Must see? No matter where the Dodgers go, they sell
out facts. They are like the Beatles. People are like,
I've never seen this. Why would you take this away
from a kid? At least give him a chance to
do it one year and if he fails at it
or doesn't and need and he could pick one.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
But this would be epic for the NFL.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
We haven't seen this since they had laces, you know,
they wore laces on the helmets or whatever, leather helmets.
Why in the world would they do this? This makes
no sense. The NFL, they got them. They want him
to play twenty regular season games, play, fly to Europe,
do anything They're They're trying to do anything to support
their their health.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Go out there, keep playing. We don't care. We just
want to make money.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
And now you have a spectacle and I say it
in a good way, something that we haven't seen. And
you don't want them to do it. You want them
to pick. Why he just did everything in college. Give
the kid a chance to do it. If he can't
do it, then he has to pick. Or the coach says,
you're better at being a wide receiver or you're better
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at being of dB.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It SAIDs that simple. They reverted back rov to be
in the NFL as in no fun league.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
This wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
This is the combine. There was literally no need for it.
It's the combine. Now I get if a GM says, look, man,
I'm be honest with you. We really love what you do,
but right now we're gonna draft you as a receiver.
We don't want to have you blah blah blah as
a dB, or we're gonna draft you as a defensive back.
We think you're special there, we think you can do there.
Maybe we'll throw you a few passes here and there,
but this is where we need you. That's great because
they're paying me, and this is what this team has
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decided to do. This coaching staff has decided to do.
But a combine, a combine where all they're gonna do
is have them out there in the tank top and shorts.
Why can't he go defend passes as a dB and
in the next day or two go catch some passes
a receiver. It's literally just the combine. It hurts you nothing.
He's there already. It's not like you gotta there are
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separate weeks where we gotta fly him out and fly
him out again, or you know, we don't want to
deal with all that he's there. This would be fun,
and the NFL has mastered keeping people interested even in
the offseason. Right, people watch the combine, people watch the draft,
people watch off season.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
OTA's all that to me.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
This is another opportunity for it to be more entertainment value,
more eyeballs watching the combine, to see this kid play
defensive back and go play receiver, maybe even do special teams.
And then when you get in the season, you let
the team, the coaching staff, the general manager, and even
himself define what he's gonna be. I know he said
he wants to try it. Everybody said I wouldn't do
it in college.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I did it. In college. I wouldn't have him do
if I was his agent.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Eventually we gonna slowed on down to pick one position
until we can play a long career, not get beat up.
But for the fun of it all, for the NFL,
for the spectacles. You said the eyeball test. Everybody watching it.
It literally makes no sense. Rob he's there and should
we listen to the NFL. Remember Bill Polan.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
The general manager of the colch Jackson to say, Lamar
Jackson to be a wide receiver. He got two MVPs
one both missed only one first place voting those two.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
And should have had three.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
But they're the ones that are now trying to tell
what position players should play. I'm not buying the NFL.
I think they're old, stuck in the mud in this situation.
Let the kid try it. He he played it at
a high level, and a high level.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
He didn't win.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Like if he didn't win those awards, then you could go,
all right, well, he won't really that good both awards exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
That's the crazy again. He didn't just do it like
Charles Woodson did it. Some return punts, caught a few passes,
that was it. He was out there on both sides
of the ball all game to the tune of winning
the award for both the bey dB and receiver.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
That's crazy and you're not gonna let it attempt that.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
And here's the thing I always say, like, if you're
a prodigy, I've always said this with like tennis, golf,
even in basketball when they don't want the kids to
go there from eighteen years old. The way this is sports,
basketball and football are the only sports where they stop
prodigy and nothing else, nothing else. A fourteen year old
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girl could play at Cardigie Cardegie Hall Hall, they don't
go she's only twelve.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
She can't play at Cardigie Hall.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
No.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
If she can play the piano at that level, then
then of course we want to hear from her.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Active people graduate three.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yes, and people graduate from college at twelve and fourteen
years old.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
They don't go. No, you got to go to junior
high school and go through high school. You're too smart.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Only in football and basketball do we stop prodigies if
he's a prodigy and he can do it. Baseball did
it for a long time, they told you pick something.
Show A came along and they were like, oh wait
a minute, and now look You're going to spawn more
show hates as time goes on, where somebody so talent
and someone's going to give them a chance because now
(23:57):
they see it.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Is most possible, it is.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And that's the way you got somebody in Travis Hunter
hanging around Deon Sanders, who also did it at times,
again not at the level he did in college, but
he played baseball and the football, played both sides of
the ball, and he played baseball. So clearly certain people
are just gifted that way athletically,