May 29, 2025 • 39 mins
Rob and Kelvin tell us if we would have been better off letting Inside the NBA die on TNT rather than having move to ESPN. Plus, author and Minnesota Star Tribune Timberwolves beat writer Chris Hine swings by to discuss Anthony Edwards’ relentless optimism in the wake of another crushing playoff defeat, how Ant-Man’s off-court life could be impacting his on-court performance, the uncertainty surrounding Minnesota’s roster moving forward, and much more! Finally, the Odd Couple Crew debates forgiveness in this week’s edition of Shop Talk.
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Speaker 1 (00:46):
Rob g is putting it together as we speak. No,
he's not. He out there looking at how fast does
Olympic work? I saw it?
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I see it, Screaen on LinkedIn dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, exactly, he said. He's dollar said, he's trying to
get to a better radio show. And I understand. I
don't know about that part. You know, Rob the radio.
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They're gonna trade me to the Jason Smith Show for
a player to be named later.
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Okay, it is pretty excited. All right, we'll send you there.
Don't worry about it, you know what, go ahead, no problem.
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At least they give their staff pizza. Good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
The only problem is you can't eat it because you're asleep.
But that's something else.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You're supposed to let it move on. I mean from
the hours. It's a late That's the only thing I
thought you were talking about. I thought you were referring to.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That show comes on at ten pm Eastern right until
two am.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You ever seen the movie Falling Down?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, be quiet, Martin, be quiet, mad.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Nobody believe me. You couldn't. There was only one star.
I really really want to start.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I remember I went it was a double feature. I
went to see the double feat. I went to see
The Wizard of Oz and Falling Down at the theater.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I remember that the Wizard of Oz at the theater.
How do you even go to? Wiz came about nineteen
thirty eight or something. First of all, don't actually be right, okay,
I was just let my guest that was actually pretty
good guest by me. I myself was pretty good. All right.
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Speaker 1 (03:01):
Crean out. But tonight is a milestone. Can we start there?
It is?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It really is and uh, tonight is the last broadcast
up inside the NBA on TNT. And we thought it
was gonna be the end. You know, TNT lost the
TV contract. H I told Chris rob g and my lion.
I told Chris this from a long time ago, that
(03:28):
they were gonna lose the NBA. And I remember remember
their CEO said tn T could survive without the NBA
on the record. When he said that, I was like,
there's no way they're coming back, because that was like
to put that out there.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, it was like, oh, TNT can survive without the NBA.
That that was what the quote was. And I read that.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I was like, no way, the NBA is gonna look
at that and be like, oh, yeah, it will come
back to you. It's just not because there's other shooters
and whatnot, and people looking for content and the only
thing that people watch today live sporting events and national news.
Nothing else, you know this, nothing else watch TV shows
when they want. They don't watch the local news like
(04:13):
they used to watch it. I could go on and
on and on. The numbers just bear it out. But anyway,
so next season, the NBA is moving inside, the NBA
is moving to ESPN. Supposedly the same people ran it
or whatever, we're gonna do it, and they're just kind
of like selling the the roperty right of it, but
(04:37):
all the same cast members, they're all gonna be back
and all that kind of stuff. But it's in the
But it's gonna be air on ESPN. And I know
a lot of people rejoice and were happy.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It was a mistake inside the NBA.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Coming back on ESPN next year is a mistake, a
colossal mistake. It ain't gonna work, it ain't gonna feel
the same, it ain't gonna be the same.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
TNT was a unique situation.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They didn't have all that other sports properties and Charles
ripping on this and that, and there were no other
shows or personalities that they had to worry about. Asked
Pat McAfee, who was on YouTube during his day. I
come over to ESPN. He's on the air calling out
bosses by name. He's a rat, this and that. Oh no,
(05:36):
Pat mcvvee's his own entity.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
He doesn't. Really. Nobody's their own entity when they were
on a network. Nobody. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Somebody upstairs is gonna be like I don't want to
hear that or want that stop that. Yes, they'll tell
you you have your autonomy, right, It don't work like.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That inside the NBA.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Going to ESPN is like American Idol leaving Fox and
going to ABC.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Have you watched since it don't feel the same, tell
me it.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Wasn't a hot and hot happening when it was on Fox,
and they just figured like, oh, we'll just move it
to another network. And then people are no, I don't
believe it's gonna feel the same, be the same.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And it's unfortunate because it's a great show.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
They could have gone out with a blaze of glory
as the all time great studio show.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Ever, what a great run almost thirty years?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You know, right, for real, it's okay to have a
closing curtain. You don't have to have to work all
the way through and just keep doing all these things
and moving on and to just hang on.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Sometimes it's great to go out on top. It is
John L.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Way Chupar Bolson couldn't win. He won one super Bowl,
won two super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Thank you. I'm out. I'm out. Everybody wanted him to
come back.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I thank you. I had a great career. I won
two super Bowls. You know, if people remember them as
a champ and a winner, and it would have been
great tonight for them to put a bowl on it
and say we want TNT. We did something very special
here and it ain't going to just transfer over somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I think they made a mistake. Well, so much of
what you said, I can't even disagree with it, and
I can't argue. Uh. The only thing I'll say the
caveat that I have on why I actually still would
reserve hope that the show will still be good, that
will still get ninety eight five ninety percent of the product.
A couple of reasons. One, they're still going to be
(07:52):
having the TNT crew, and I don't mean the four
guys we see every Thursday or every night, and the
playoffs that is already a good thing. You still got Kenny, Chuck,
Chack Chack and Earnie. Having the other people was vital
for me. When I first heard, Oh, they're gonna get
the guys, I was like, because what makes that show
special isn't just the four guys. It is what you
(08:14):
were saying. It is the fact that that producers, they
always shout out TK TK who runs it. He allows
for everybody to do stuff. He allows for this person
to do the Hey, you draw this on Chuck's head.
You do that, and you don't typically get this. You've
been in TV rooms. You get people who get absolutely
stuck in the ego it has to be my way,
don't do this. And if you watch the documentary on
(08:36):
this show, you understand how they allow everybody. Yeah, they
empower everybody. Hey, do what you want, do what your
best at. Give it a shot. If it was whack,
we won't do it tomorrow, but go for it. They
empower the illustrator to draw stuff. They empower the kid
who says, I got a good idea and we play
this song. Having that crew gives me hope that they're
gonna just be able to just switch the network and
(08:59):
keep it rolling. Because of that crew, not just the
four guys. Yeah, but it's that. But my issue isn't
with that, it's about the management.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Like you could act like they're not gonna have ESPN
is just gonna let them.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Put the show on. Here's where, and here's where I'm
gonna here's where. I get your sentiment and I put
a period next to it. But again, a couple of
things have happened over the years. You mentioned the name,
and I will say I think he's changed things a bit.
I think Pat McAfee coming on cursing, and I remember
(09:33):
that being at first when he first started, you know,
cursing on the show. You could tell ESPN didn't know
what to do, like, okay, wait, is that a lot?
Are we? And then they kind of just let it
roll and they make sure to put the disclaimer, Hey,
this show may have foul language. Blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. And I think he's created along with
Club Shay Shay and all the stuff he he's saying
(09:53):
and doing on all them shows and nightcaps while still
getting to come on ESPN, Disney there Away is Mondays
and Tuesdays. No, but he's not saying that on Disney, right.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But what I'm saying is he is but hear hear
me out though he's not saying that.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
But all I'm saying is is created an atmosphere where
more things go than they typically used to. You never
used to be able to have. Hey, by the way,
on the other rest of the week, I'm gonna do
the show and I'm gonna say some wild, crazy stuff
you knew know that you were never allowed to do
that the show that got millions of views. It's not
like a random one off podcast only one hundred people
listen to. So I do think the climate of things
(10:29):
have changed where people are more accepting and they don't
really do or say the wildest things. Chuck gonna say something,
Chuck gonn disrespect the women in San Antonio, but even
doing that for twenty some years, so I think we're
all used to that. You know, he might let an
s word slip out every now and again, but again,
based off what Pat McAfee's over there and allowed to do.
I just think the game has changed a little bit.
(10:51):
I would totally be with you ten years ago, five
years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Here's where I disagree, and Charles has said all the
idiots over there on ESPN on those shows, like he asked,
those are the things that ESPN.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
This is what. Don't I know that when I make
that signing? No, no, no, don't know what I'm basing.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
But it's different now once you're on the air, and
now I have a guy bashing my other shows. Okay,
like seriously, like that sounds cool. Charles was doing it.
He always uh, TNT was was separate. They didn't have
any other shows. They don't have anybody else to answer to.
It was twenty year old movies or inside the NBA
(11:29):
and basketball. That's all they had TNT. He wasn't on
there saying don't watch the morning show on TNT because those.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Guys are idiots. I'm serious.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I can't believe that ESPN will sit there and be
cool with that.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Put him to a time. I think it's a different
Disney is a different climate. I think they're gonna be
okay with that. I think they're okay with getting roasted.
I think they're okay with watch she said, let me
tell you, let me tell you something. Get up. I
go back to sleep. When get Up comes up, it's terrible.
And then they come on that Monday or that Tuesday
the next day and they roast him. I think they're
gonna be like, let the show beats begin, let it,
(12:03):
let it happen. Let stephen a and and Kenny Smith
go at it and Chuck go at it in a
in a you know, friendlier way. I think they're gonna
welcome it. I think they're gonna absolutely embrace that that
that him calling shows out, shows calling him back out.
I think they're gonna I don't know. I think that's what
you want unless they're gonna embrace it.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I worked there for eight years, and I just I
do not think that it's different bashing shows bashing other shows.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
No, they don't because they don't do it on the air.
They don't think ESPN doesn't do right. They don't do.
The only thing I'm saying is if I signed or
if I signed an artist or rock star who always
gets in trouble with Lee Deuis having drugs and I
signed him to the label, I know what he comes with.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
No, but he was there, he was over there before,
and and they do have their own standards. Pat McAfee's
not the same exact show it used to be. I mean,
once in a while to slip up, but he it
was way more cursing.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Okay, so what I'm saying, So did he change Pat
mcaffee changed. No, did Pat McAfee. But I'm saying he
would never walk on ESBN five to ten years ago.
I really need it. He tempered it down.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Okay, what I'm saying, that's what I'm saying. You're asking Chuck.
You're gonna ask him to temper it down? Can you
take it down a little bit? Out of first take?
Is our mar Key show in the morning. We just
don't want that. But can you can you avoid that?
Can you avoid telling people not to win? Just think idiot?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I think you know what you're getting with Chuck and
you absolutely signed up for it, and I think you
embrace it. This is what we get with Chuck Shaq.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Can I just don't think it's gonna be in that
show show that that is to remain to be seen.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I don't don't you know what I mean. We'll have
to wait and see what that. But me having me
still holding reserve and hope is because of the crew,
not just the four guys. If they said these four
talents are going with the ESPN crew I would throw
the talent because ESPN has not been able to have
a good basketball show. Yeah, but it's about.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
It's about the talent out there, those four guys, if
they still have their and.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's the stuff they do, like right right now?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You know, but you're acting like there are no talented
people at ESPN.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'm not saying that, but not not only they don't
have the same green light that t N t llows.
Just like on this show, we have people feeling for Alex,
but Alex gets the show. He knows the show. He does.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
He doesn't say, when you were going for six weeks,
how many get two people? I'm just trying to get
to Rob would have said both rob G not being
here you feel it and know what I'm saying is,
if it was just the talent, the stars of the show,
I would really be like Hobby right there. It was
like we're producing the show every day. Does Rob G
really need to come back?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I Rob know, I was talking to him on his
days off. Who didn't call you or text you? Rob?
I called him live on the air.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Remember that, because I was trying to I was trying
to give him respect. He was trying to nurture. You said,
you said you don't need him no more. That's what
he was like, Man, Rob G, Rob Rob Schnein, we
don't need him.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I said. Rob G is busy. He's probably breastfeeding. Do
you want me tell you what Scott told me? You
said Scott said you hit him and was like, Yo,
we don't even need producers. They'll just pay me what
you pay producers. He did you reached out to SCons.
I don't know. That's what he told me. He was like, hey, man,
I don't know. Rob just said. He was like, YO,
give me the producer's salaries.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Rob G, don't
buy that. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is
the phone number.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
And it's real simple. We do want to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Should they have let Inside the NBA die on TNT
run its course that's it? Or do you think the
show will be just as good as at on ESPN.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
We'll continue that conversation next with you.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
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Speaker 1 (16:05):
Steve Auston will be that man.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Better than he was before, better, Okay, stronger, faster, all right.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
I think the writer made a mistake better, stronger, faster
because he said better twice. It was before better, faster, stronger.
There should have been another word on there, but before
better twice.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
They should have called young, right, yeah, better than he's
gonna be, uh, innovatives something like that. Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah,
I agree with that.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We already had a couple, Rod Parker, Kelvin Washington on
a TV theme song Thursday. And on the way, we
got as you mentioned earlier, we got Chris Hine covers
the Wolves for the Minnesota Star Tribune. We'll talk to
him just a little bit. And got a book he
was author of the at The Incredible Journey of NBA
Rising Star. We'll talk about that with him in just
a bit, all right.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
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We're talking about inside the NBA, and simply put, Rob
believes they should have just let it go tonight be
the last one. Although we come to the end of
(17:21):
the road. I believe because they're keeping the great people
behind the camera. Now just thought the stars. We know
in front of the camera, there's a shot for it
to still be good at ESPN. What say you? A
seven seven ninety nine on Fox and we got.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Mister Willie in Miami. You're on the couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What's up, mister Willie?
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Hey, what's done?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Guys?
Speaker 8 (17:38):
First time calling?
Speaker 9 (17:39):
Man.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
I'm over the road driver too.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
I love you guys.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Thank you. We don't believe it till we hear the
Trump pull. We love it.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
Yeah, Yeah, I agree with you, Rob.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
I think this should just went up on the sunset.
I'm not a big esp fan, and I don't think
it's gonna be as good as it used to be
on TAT. You're right, TAT. They had just that one show.
They didn't have also I don't think it's gonna be
as good, even though you're gonna have the same guy.
I just don't think esc And is.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Right for it.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
I love.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah, mister, will we appreciate it man Mason and yeah
Mason in the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You're on the couple of Fox Sports.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, we yeoh, what's up?
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Guys?
Speaker 10 (18:25):
Loving the topic and you know, honestly, leading up to
you know, this topic, I was actually like kind of
like sad, like, dang, I don't really want this to
be like the last show on tn T obviously, But
then like Rob started talking as he usually does, and
then I started thinking, like, you know what, you know,
not that the show's run his course, but it's kind
(18:46):
of run his course, you know, and they've had a
great run, and you should go out on top in
a blaze of glory. I think that's very valid, but
also kind of to push back on the same point, Rob,
you know, I don't really think like if you're watching
the show just to hear him rip ESPN, Like that's
such a specific thing, and I hear what you're saying,
(19:07):
but it's like if you're watching it for that specific reason,
then like I don't really see the draw to it
or why it should be that big of a deal.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
In the first I'm just saying that the bosses, you know,
like it's cute.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
It's on TNT.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
They don't have any shows, any other personalities, so it's okay.
He could say, oh yeah, those idiots in the morning
on ESPN, and everybody's like, I.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Think people are gonna love that, Rob, Like, I think
people are gonna be like, that's fun. But I'm not
so sure about telling you man, they're gonna have some
good beef the next morning, gonna get up, They're gonna
go at Chuck and it's gonna be fun. Tell he's inside.
If I was a producer, that's what I do. If
I was the Rob g of the Get Up Show,
I will be doing that. Well, you can go right back, Mason.
You're on the couple Fusry. Take my salary to.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
H Ken in California. You're on the couple of Fox Sports. Ready,
what's up?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Ken?
Speaker 9 (19:57):
I don't know when I'm gonna get it right, buddy,
He's wrong again. It's gonna die. Like Rob said, Joe
go die heads, lit their hair down to wear ties,
doctor eyes cuts the cheese. They're gonna be bald. So
they should have rolled out in the sunset because I
(20:19):
ain't wanted it, because I never missed it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
For the best part about that kid, act like they
all wear ties up there, Martin, Like they'll be wearing
ties every every day. Ken, you know, good will, you
can't chut chuck up. You know, Chuck ain't gonna shut up?
All right, Appreciate the call. I told you. We got
to getting ready to talk to Chris Hine in a bit.
But right now is Martin White's what's trending? You know?
Speaker 11 (20:38):
Really the question that you guys, you guys spend all
that time talking about hair and Makeup's got a lot
of work to do because I've never seen look since
the last broadcast inside the NBA, do you tell me
another time you go see three bald men with three hairlines?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Can't you been working on that hairline for a minute,
That's what I want to know, hairline and beer. Can't
even putting into work trying to get that right.
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Speaker 1 (21:11):
Right, Martin, thank you man. It is the OT couple
Rob Parker Kevin Washington on a TV theme song Thursday,
and we're joined now by Chris Hen covers the Wolves
for the Minnesota Star Tribune and he's the author of
at the Incredible Journey of NBA Rising Star Anthony Edwards.
And he joins us, Now, what's up, Chris, How you
doing man?
Speaker 7 (21:28):
I'm good. Thanks for having me on. Guys appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Well and can't be happy about how finished last last night.
But he seemed to be kind, I don't know, optimist,
say I'm gonna be nobody's gonna outwork me, and I
love the fatio will get more cracks at this thing.
What do you make of that?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Yeah? He Uh. I think he's always been kind of optimistic,
even in the face of defeat like this. Even coming
off to the Mavericks blot last year, he was kind
of saying the same thing. We'll be back here next year. Uh,
and you know I'll be back from Mike Conley. They
did it again. They got back there. But I think
(22:05):
one thing you have to keep in mind, especially when
you have a Mike Comley on the team who's only
been the Conference finals three times in his career. Nothing
isn't given in the NBA. You know, just because you're
twenty three and you've been there twice now doesn't mean
you have an automatic road or path back to the
conference finals. It is a difficult thing. Luck plays a
(22:27):
part injury, luck, all that stuff. So he's always got
a positive helop. But I think at the same time,
you have to keep the mind that you can't take
these opportunities for granted and come out flat like they
did in Game five last night.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, I agree with that, but I think he should
be optimistic the way the NBA's turned around in that
we're going to have a seven different champion. It's not
dominated by two teams where you like, all Lebron's playing
and Stephan him are play and we got no shot
at getting in there. We keep seeing different teams and
I think they can break through. I love his attitude
and what he had to say. And you got new
(23:03):
ownership too, so I think that they aren't going anywhere.
I'm not saying that it's automatic, but I think it's
a fair optimism for him to have.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
I mean, it's a good place to be in the
in the league, right you have him, you have Jaden McDaniels,
and you know, I think their plan is to resign
nas Red and all these guys are are young, twenty
three to twenty five years old. This is kind of
a core group that I think they're in envisioning going
forward and just molding the team around them. They're getting
this experience, you know, invaluable experience in the playoffs the
(23:38):
last couple of years, deep runs and things like that
that I think curd only benefit you in the coming
years here. And the thing I think with Anthony Edwards
that we tend to forget in the NBA sometimes he's
twenty three, right, He's been in the league for five
years right now. Five years out from now, he will
be twenty eight years old. And the problem, in the
(24:01):
prime of his career, he's already accumulating all this institutional knowledge,
these playoff runs, what to do in high pressure situations.
And look, he's say all the times too, right, but
all that is going to benefit him, you know, right
around the age when stars traditions start winning titles, which
is around twenty seven, twenty six, twenty eight years old.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You know, conversation we've had a few times about him,
and it's been brought up to him a million times.
I'm sure he's tired of it. Is the whole face
of the NBA thing, and he's kind of said, I
don't want it. I don't want it. I have my
own thoughts on why he doesn't want it. I think
it's not the I think he definitely will surely will
love the money. I think he loves doing commercials.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You get to pick it, though. I hear people say that,
but I don't. I don't think you get to pick it.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I also think he doesn't want the he wants to
live his own life off the court. If you're just
leave it at that, what do you make of just
the idea of that of him being the face and
just his responses to it.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Yeah, I think there's something to just wanting to live
as pri that a life is possible away from the cameras.
There's I think there's an aspect to that.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
My experience now, when you're texting people every day and
that ain't gonna be private.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I was trying to stay on that.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
No, I'm just saying, how's that private? You're texting people
in there posting it?
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Yeah, I mean, this is the life of being a
pro athlete. Sometimes right is people, but that that stuff
comes to happen. But I will say, like, you know,
I've been around Ant a lot, the cameras, the commercials,
all that stuff. I think there's a point where he
wears on him a little bit and have all that
stuff around him. You know, I think he just wants
(25:38):
to sometimes go home, be around his people and play
video games like That's That's honestly who Ant I think
is at his core. He's a home body, you know.
I don't think he he you know, just wants wants
all that. Being the face of the league entails. And
I think you're right to some extent that, you know,
you don't get to pick that. I think that comes
(26:00):
with success as well. And if you're going to if
you're to start winning championships, MVP, whatever in the future years,
some of that is going to be thrust upon you
by the accolades that you acquire throughout your career. So
I think I think it's a give and take you to.
Some of it comes from your success and it's trusted
upon you, but I think there is a part where
you have to embrace it as well.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
He is Chris Eyne. He is on What's Up Rob
and I on The Couple on Fox Sports Radio again.
He covers the Wolves for the Minnesota Star Tribute and
he wrote the book The Incredible Journey of NBA Rising
Star Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Here's my how about Minnesota as a whole? Okay, I
know people keep waiting for Minnesota to win a championship.
The Twins go remember when like twenty what they lose
twenty one straight playoff games at one point until they
finally broke through, and the Timberwolves is always disappointing, and uh,
you know, the Vikings close and all that, but just
(26:55):
the mindset about the Minnesota fan and how people took that.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Yeah, there's a bit of a fatalism that exists in
Minnesota sports fans where whatever can go wrong will go wrong,
but they will eventually your teams will eventually let you down.
There's definitely a streak of that that runs through all sports,
no matter which sport you are a fan of. That
(27:20):
definitely exists. The last men's team to win a title,
I think with Twins won the World Series in nineteen
ninety one, and that's that's been it, and it affects
the effects the mindset. I see. I didn't grow up
in Minnesota, but I see friends of mine around my age.
I'm thirty eight years old and they grew up with
that mentality and they're millennials who you know, they expect
(27:44):
the teams to eventually lose. And I think with the Wolves,
at least there's been some hope that this is the
best two year stretch of franchise history. They're starting to
buck some of these trends and maybe they are turning
a corner. Maybe they are stamping out this this fatalism
and this attitude that sometimes creeps into the mind of
(28:06):
the Minnesota sports fan.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And let me and let me talk about you're talking
about the Minnesota uh and and them doing stuff that
they hadn't done the franchise and now they have new ownership,
I mean they do.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
You gotta hope if you're a Timberwolves fan that you
have owners now know is a rod and I can't
forget the.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Other owners name Mark Laurie.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, that that they want to win and they just
want to got a new toy. They're gonna I mean,
they might not go crazy like they do with the
Phoenix Suns, but you get but you get my point, like,
like there's a reason you have a new toy.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You're close. You want to be able as an owner
to deliver, don't you think?
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Absolutely? And Mark Glorie has said that he's got a
lot of money in the bank waiting to invest once
they become controlling owners officially waiting to invest all this
money in the team, pay the tax, this and that,
and you know, I think to your point about Phoenix,
I think you know, when they became a part of
the franchise three years ago and we're kind of on
(29:08):
this succession plan from growing Taylor, they actually did make
that move and kind of signed up on that was
the Rudy Gobert trade, and that was a trade that
people were scratching their heads that at the time. And
it's a trade that I think has been mostly good
for this team in terms of two conference final appearances,
the s they give up a lot of draft picks
(29:28):
that they'll be seeding into the future. But you know,
for the last couple of years here, it's gotten this
this franchise on a new level. It's helped the young
guys to help gance maturity as well having the playoff
runs so you know, I think that that that sort
of new owner move and kind of thing that happened
(29:50):
three years ago, well roundly criticized at the time, has
actually helped them in the end.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Hey, Chris, one more from me. You got to see
the Thunder up close. You got to really watch them.
Ab see in that Western Conference finals. If you're the
Knicks of the Pacers and they call you in, they say, Chris,
you saw them, you watch them? What do we do?
How do you stop the Thunder? If you're the Pacer
or the Knicks, however this plays out the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
I would say, I don't know, because to me, they
are heads shoulders the best team in the NBA. The
defense is just remarkable, and I think that's what's so
I'm impressed with And I watch the Thunder. They're so young,
but they're seemingly composed and mature. They they're so tuned
(30:35):
into the details of the game plan, of the scouting report,
and they're not rattled by the moment like they play
like the team you know that should be on average
about five to seven years older than a lot of
these guys. And that's it's a remarkable thing. And all
credit to you know, scouting players like that, Mark Dagnell
(30:57):
and his staff like that. Is that that is a
rare thing what's going on in Oklahoma City right now
to have this young of a team playing this high level,
high detailed basketball that they play, and it's really remarkable
to watch up close.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
All right, Well, Chris Man, the Pacers. Then people will reevaluate,
Oh wow, you.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Got And I'm just you know, this ain't your typical
radio show, Chris, where you know you just call it
the I just want you to know that.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Thank you, buddy, Appreciate you, Chris, Appreciate you guys.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Thank you man.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
They the Pacers, all right, they're heavy favorites, Pacers or Nicks.
Is actually crazy how big the favorites they are, no
matter which team comes to see that. Yeah, big favorites
on either one of those teams. All right, on the way,
Rob J's cooking up shot talk. We'll see what he's got.
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(32:22):
out there? What in the world, Spike? I mean, I
get he's a and you know what. I have a
kinship with with Spike Lee. Okay, what's that?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
In the early days before he became rich and famous,
I used to ride on a train with him and
he sat up the top like when I was a reporter,
a huge like who's that guy? Or you knew him? No,
like we knew like he was like a budding star.
He wasn't there yet and he'd be on the subway.
We once during a playoff game when they were playing
the seventy six.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I don't know if you remember. This was Mark Jackson
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Speaker 2 (32:55):
I remember they grabbed brooms at the end of it.
I rode the train down from New York to Philadelphia
and me ands Mike Lee talked the whole hour and
twenty minute let's train ride I'm done, but don't and
nobody you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Like he was just budding. Yeah, like he might have
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but he wasn't like the big star. So I remember
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Speaker 3 (33:38):
You know that?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Ain't nobody you wore talking about whoever whatever whatever you
want to in the box up?
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Speaker 1 (33:44):
Shop talk? That's right? Shop talk.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Here in the odd couple of Fox Sports Trader Sing,
where we talk about something happened outside of the world
is sports.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
This week's topic is a doozy Okay.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
It comes to us from down Under, and if you
have a queasy stomach, maybe turn your radio. So you're going, well,
I'm not gonna say exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
But here we got stomach.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
There was a story that went viral over the weekend,
went viral over the weekend in Australia, and then it
kept going viral as it made his way straightside earlier
in the week I don't know if you know, rob
g I've been down on it. There was a woman
who sat on social media. She spent the better part
of seven years suffering from constant sinus infections. Doctors could
(34:25):
not figure out what was wrong with her until they
do a swab, and they found out the culprit. Her
ex boyfriend at the time, during a hotel stay, pulled
the practical joke on her that led to her getting
E coli in her nose that was there for seven years.
Totally derailed her life. I'll tell you off the air
(34:45):
what exactly did to get E coli?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
And you're not gonna like it, Thank you, Alex. Here's
a question. If someone you know, love and care about does.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
A practical joke that has that kind of a lasting impression,
how soon, if ever, do.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You forgive them? Dub Well, I mean there are certain
people you have to forgive, meaning like if it's my sister,
you know, my children, like they're one or two friends
you kind of like have to because I think the
intent nobody intended for you to be seven years but
a random that you're kind of cool with, like a
coworker or something. Now we might have smoked forever. I might.
(35:26):
I might forgive you because that's good for me, cleansing
the poison in my heart. But I might not have
to rock with you anymore. I can't hate somebody forever
because that's bad. That that messes you up. Rob, Do
you know how I roll? Don't you? You're dead to me?
It would be dead to me, but you wouldn't know
you were dead to me, but you would be dead
to me, So I would think. I like that. I
(35:48):
know some people like that. You know what I'm saying.
The only problem with that is you're dead to me? Now?
Am I dead to him? Like you don't know who's dead?
It like? I don't know? No, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
But I'm just saying, once once you like do something
crazy to me or you like, I'm good, I don't.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
I don't need it. Don't need to happen twice or
for you to think you you're you know, so what
about forgiveness? I'm not into that. I'm not into that
that's why I'm not married. I'm just being honest, like, man,
it looked in my eyes and told me I'm not
into that. Like I said, it's true though, Hey, what
do you mean it's true? Alex?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
No, hold on, I'll give you a statistic that blew
my mind.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
You ready for this?
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Do you know that somebody who cheats on you is
now four times more likely to cheat on you again?
Of course, so what does forgiveness do? Then you went
to an extreme example.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I'm just tell me. What I'm saying is there could
be plenty of things forgive me. Nobody saying I talked
to you crazy? Uh no, because from you ten years ago, because.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
To me seriously, and I'm not I don't want to
take over the segment, but I'm being honest, like, uh,
I shouldn't have to convince you that I'm like good
and in your corner or whatever. And if you were
to dis respect me and talk to me a certain way,
that's just you've already you've already breached that and can't
(37:07):
come back to me to ball or later that night
and go like, oh, well, you know, I don't know
why you.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Would No, no, no, no, what you said was what
you meant? Okay, I heard you and Alex. Now I'm
gonna go to the other side of this. I'm just
saying that when you either of you two have wronged
or spoken to or did anything wrong, I'm not gonna
shout out, not want to forgivenness, I.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Know, because I'm not gonna say anything to dig at
your core to try to hurt you.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
You know what I see. But that now that assumes
one didn't You've will assumed that what I did or
said didn't hurt your feelings.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
So I believe forgiveness is for yourself.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Why had you heard me say that that letting the
go of the poison? Yeah, I do it.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
I agree with that, But I'm also letting go of
you two. I'm not gonna sit around here and just
keep messing with the same stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
I'm gonna let you all slide today.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
No real, Kate, what's the definition of insanity? We're gonna change? No,
rob you know better than anybody in this industry. Do
people change whatever they got? Whatever you see, that's what
that's who they are, all right, rob Gie? Where are
you you? I had something similar happened a couple of
years ago. Rob, you knowed this. Almost lost my eyesight
(38:19):
for like six weeks.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Uh, you know, plenty of visits of the doctor, But
at that point it was an accident and it was
my three year old daughter who did it to me.
In this case where it's a grown man who decides
to use something on purpose that leads to this kind
of stuff.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Na I thought, what are you doing? Well, this is wild.
That's why I said, this is what are you even
thinking about? First of all, the fact of what he
really did, felt that comfortable to do that to her.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
I don't want to know the other show he laid
up in the hot in a bed with ankle surgery.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Shit, I don't want to know what else he was doing.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
I don't even want to be You can't be that
comfortable with me, never be sorry.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Who even thinks of that stuff? Is the craziest part.
Your brain went there, Yeah,
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Yeah, exactly, he said. He's dollar said, he's trying to
get to a better radio show. And I understand. I
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Speaker 5 (01:07):
They're gonna trade me to the Jason Smith Show for
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Don't worry about it, you know what, go ahead, no problem.
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You're supposed to let it move on. I mean from
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Speaker 1 (01:47):
You ever seen the movie Falling Down?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, be quiet, Martin, be quiet, mad.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Nobody believe me. You couldn't. There was only one star.
I really really want to start.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I remember I went it was a double feature. I
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The Wizard of Oz and Falling Down at the theater.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I remember that the Wizard of Oz at the theater.
How do you even go to? Wiz came about nineteen
thirty eight or something. First of all, don't actually be right, okay,
I was just let my guest that was actually pretty
good guest by me. I myself was pretty good. All right.
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the author of ant an Incredible Journey of NBA rising
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talk as well.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Crean out. But tonight is a milestone. Can we start there?
It is?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It really is and uh, tonight is the last broadcast
up inside the NBA on TNT. And we thought it
was gonna be the end. You know, TNT lost the
TV contract. H I told Chris rob g and my lion.
I told Chris this from a long time ago, that
(03:28):
they were gonna lose the NBA. And I remember remember
their CEO said tn T could survive without the NBA
on the record. When he said that, I was like,
there's no way they're coming back, because that was like
to put that out there.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, it was like, oh, TNT can survive without the NBA.
That that was what the quote was. And I read that.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I was like, no way, the NBA is gonna look
at that and be like, oh, yeah, it will come
back to you. It's just not because there's other shooters
and whatnot, and people looking for content and the only
thing that people watch today live sporting events and national news.
Nothing else, you know this, nothing else watch TV shows
when they want. They don't watch the local news like
(04:13):
they used to watch it. I could go on and
on and on. The numbers just bear it out. But anyway,
so next season, the NBA is moving inside, the NBA
is moving to ESPN. Supposedly the same people ran it
or whatever, we're gonna do it, and they're just kind
of like selling the the roperty right of it, but
(04:37):
all the same cast members, they're all gonna be back
and all that kind of stuff. But it's in the
But it's gonna be air on ESPN. And I know
a lot of people rejoice and were happy.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It was a mistake inside the NBA.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Coming back on ESPN next year is a mistake, a
colossal mistake. It ain't gonna work, it ain't gonna feel
the same, it ain't gonna be the same.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
TNT was a unique situation.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They didn't have all that other sports properties and Charles
ripping on this and that, and there were no other
shows or personalities that they had to worry about. Asked
Pat McAfee, who was on YouTube during his day. I
come over to ESPN. He's on the air calling out
bosses by name. He's a rat, this and that. Oh no,
(05:36):
Pat mcvvee's his own entity.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
He doesn't. Really. Nobody's their own entity when they were
on a network. Nobody. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Somebody upstairs is gonna be like I don't want to
hear that or want that stop that. Yes, they'll tell
you you have your autonomy, right, It don't work like.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That inside the NBA.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Going to ESPN is like American Idol leaving Fox and
going to ABC.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Have you watched since it don't feel the same, tell
me it.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Wasn't a hot and hot happening when it was on Fox,
and they just figured like, oh, we'll just move it
to another network. And then people are no, I don't
believe it's gonna feel the same, be the same.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And it's unfortunate because it's a great show.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
They could have gone out with a blaze of glory
as the all time great studio show.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Ever, what a great run almost thirty years?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You know, right, for real, it's okay to have a
closing curtain. You don't have to have to work all
the way through and just keep doing all these things
and moving on and to just hang on.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Sometimes it's great to go out on top. It is
John L.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Way Chupar Bolson couldn't win. He won one super Bowl,
won two super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Thank you. I'm out. I'm out. Everybody wanted him to
come back.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I thank you. I had a great career. I won
two super Bowls. You know, if people remember them as
a champ and a winner, and it would have been
great tonight for them to put a bowl on it
and say we want TNT. We did something very special
here and it ain't going to just transfer over somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I think they made a mistake. Well, so much of
what you said, I can't even disagree with it, and
I can't argue. Uh. The only thing I'll say the
caveat that I have on why I actually still would
reserve hope that the show will still be good, that
will still get ninety eight five ninety percent of the product.
A couple of reasons. One, they're still going to be
(07:52):
having the TNT crew, and I don't mean the four
guys we see every Thursday or every night, and the
playoffs that is already a good thing. You still got Kenny, Chuck,
Chack Chack and Earnie. Having the other people was vital
for me. When I first heard, Oh, they're gonna get
the guys, I was like, because what makes that show
special isn't just the four guys. It is what you
(08:14):
were saying. It is the fact that that producers, they
always shout out TK TK who runs it. He allows
for everybody to do stuff. He allows for this person
to do the Hey, you draw this on Chuck's head.
You do that, and you don't typically get this. You've
been in TV rooms. You get people who get absolutely
stuck in the ego it has to be my way,
don't do this. And if you watch the documentary on
(08:36):
this show, you understand how they allow everybody. Yeah, they
empower everybody. Hey, do what you want, do what your
best at. Give it a shot. If it was whack,
we won't do it tomorrow, but go for it. They
empower the illustrator to draw stuff. They empower the kid
who says, I got a good idea and we play
this song. Having that crew gives me hope that they're
gonna just be able to just switch the network and
(08:59):
keep it rolling. Because of that crew, not just the
four guys. Yeah, but it's that. But my issue isn't
with that, it's about the management.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Like you could act like they're not gonna have ESPN
is just gonna let them.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Put the show on. Here's where, and here's where I'm
gonna here's where. I get your sentiment and I put
a period next to it. But again, a couple of
things have happened over the years. You mentioned the name,
and I will say I think he's changed things a bit.
I think Pat McAfee coming on cursing, and I remember
(09:33):
that being at first when he first started, you know,
cursing on the show. You could tell ESPN didn't know
what to do, like, okay, wait, is that a lot?
Are we? And then they kind of just let it
roll and they make sure to put the disclaimer, Hey,
this show may have foul language. Blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. And I think he's created along with
Club Shay Shay and all the stuff he he's saying
(09:53):
and doing on all them shows and nightcaps while still
getting to come on ESPN, Disney there Away is Mondays
and Tuesdays. No, but he's not saying that on Disney, right.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But what I'm saying is he is but hear hear
me out though he's not saying that.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
But all I'm saying is is created an atmosphere where
more things go than they typically used to. You never
used to be able to have. Hey, by the way,
on the other rest of the week, I'm gonna do
the show and I'm gonna say some wild, crazy stuff
you knew know that you were never allowed to do
that the show that got millions of views. It's not
like a random one off podcast only one hundred people
listen to. So I do think the climate of things
(10:29):
have changed where people are more accepting and they don't
really do or say the wildest things. Chuck gonna say something,
Chuck gonn disrespect the women in San Antonio, but even
doing that for twenty some years, so I think we're
all used to that. You know, he might let an
s word slip out every now and again, but again,
based off what Pat McAfee's over there and allowed to do.
I just think the game has changed a little bit.
(10:51):
I would totally be with you ten years ago, five
years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Here's where I disagree, and Charles has said all the
idiots over there on ESPN on those shows, like he asked,
those are the things that ESPN.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
This is what. Don't I know that when I make
that signing? No, no, no, don't know what I'm basing.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
But it's different now once you're on the air, and
now I have a guy bashing my other shows. Okay,
like seriously, like that sounds cool. Charles was doing it.
He always uh, TNT was was separate. They didn't have
any other shows. They don't have anybody else to answer to.
It was twenty year old movies or inside the NBA
(11:29):
and basketball. That's all they had TNT. He wasn't on
there saying don't watch the morning show on TNT because those.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Guys are idiots. I'm serious.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I can't believe that ESPN will sit there and be
cool with that.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Put him to a time. I think it's a different
Disney is a different climate. I think they're gonna be
okay with that. I think they're okay with getting roasted.
I think they're okay with watch she said, let me
tell you, let me tell you something. Get up. I
go back to sleep. When get Up comes up, it's terrible.
And then they come on that Monday or that Tuesday
the next day and they roast him. I think they're
gonna be like, let the show beats begin, let it,
(12:03):
let it happen. Let stephen a and and Kenny Smith
go at it and Chuck go at it in a
in a you know, friendlier way. I think they're gonna
welcome it. I think they're gonna absolutely embrace that that
that him calling shows out, shows calling him back out.
I think they're gonna I don't know. I think that's what
you want unless they're gonna embrace it.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I worked there for eight years, and I just I
do not think that it's different bashing shows bashing other shows.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
No, they don't because they don't do it on the air.
They don't think ESPN doesn't do right. They don't do.
The only thing I'm saying is if I signed or
if I signed an artist or rock star who always
gets in trouble with Lee Deuis having drugs and I
signed him to the label, I know what he comes with.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
No, but he was there, he was over there before,
and and they do have their own standards. Pat McAfee's
not the same exact show it used to be. I mean,
once in a while to slip up, but he it
was way more cursing.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Okay, so what I'm saying, So did he change Pat
mcaffee changed. No, did Pat McAfee. But I'm saying he
would never walk on ESBN five to ten years ago.
I really need it. He tempered it down.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Okay, what I'm saying, that's what I'm saying. You're asking Chuck.
You're gonna ask him to temper it down? Can you
take it down a little bit? Out of first take?
Is our mar Key show in the morning. We just
don't want that. But can you can you avoid that?
Can you avoid telling people not to win? Just think idiot?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I think you know what you're getting with Chuck and
you absolutely signed up for it, and I think you
embrace it. This is what we get with Chuck Shaq.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Can I just don't think it's gonna be in that
show show that that is to remain to be seen.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I don't don't you know what I mean. We'll have
to wait and see what that. But me having me
still holding reserve and hope is because of the crew,
not just the four guys. If they said these four
talents are going with the ESPN crew I would throw
the talent because ESPN has not been able to have
a good basketball show. Yeah, but it's about.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
It's about the talent out there, those four guys, if
they still have their and.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's the stuff they do, like right right now?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You know, but you're acting like there are no talented
people at ESPN.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'm not saying that, but not not only they don't
have the same green light that t N t llows.
Just like on this show, we have people feeling for Alex,
but Alex gets the show. He knows the show. He does.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
He doesn't say, when you were going for six weeks,
how many get two people? I'm just trying to get
to Rob would have said both rob G not being
here you feel it and know what I'm saying is,
if it was just the talent, the stars of the show,
I would really be like Hobby right there. It was
like we're producing the show every day. Does Rob G
really need to come back?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I Rob know, I was talking to him on his
days off. Who didn't call you or text you? Rob?
I called him live on the air.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Remember that, because I was trying to I was trying
to give him respect. He was trying to nurture. You said,
you said you don't need him no more. That's what
he was like, Man, Rob G, Rob Rob Schnein, we
don't need him.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I said. Rob G is busy. He's probably breastfeeding. Do
you want me tell you what Scott told me? You
said Scott said you hit him and was like, Yo,
we don't even need producers. They'll just pay me what
you pay producers. He did you reached out to SCons.
I don't know. That's what he told me. He was like, hey, man,
I don't know. Rob just said. He was like, YO,
give me the producer's salaries.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Rob G, don't
buy that. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is
the phone number.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
And it's real simple. We do want to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Should they have let Inside the NBA die on TNT
run its course that's it? Or do you think the
show will be just as good as at on ESPN.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
We'll continue that conversation next with you.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
It is the Odd Couple, Rob Parker Kelvin Washington right
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Speaker 3 (15:52):
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Speaker 1 (16:05):
Steve Auston will be that man.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Better than he was before, better, Okay, stronger, faster, all right.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
I think the writer made a mistake better, stronger, faster
because he said better twice. It was before better, faster, stronger.
There should have been another word on there, but before
better twice.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
They should have called young, right, yeah, better than he's
gonna be, uh, innovatives something like that. Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah,
I agree with that.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We already had a couple, Rod Parker, Kelvin Washington on
a TV theme song Thursday. And on the way, we
got as you mentioned earlier, we got Chris Hine covers
the Wolves for the Minnesota Star Tribune. We'll talk to
him just a little bit. And got a book he
was author of the at The Incredible Journey of NBA
Rising Star. We'll talk about that with him in just
a bit, all right.
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We're talking about inside the NBA, and simply put, Rob
believes they should have just let it go tonight be
the last one. Although we come to the end of
(17:21):
the road. I believe because they're keeping the great people
behind the camera. Now just thought the stars. We know
in front of the camera, there's a shot for it
to still be good at ESPN. What say you? A
seven seven ninety nine on Fox and we got.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Mister Willie in Miami. You're on the couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What's up, mister Willie?
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Hey, what's done?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Guys?
Speaker 8 (17:38):
First time calling?
Speaker 9 (17:39):
Man.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
I'm over the road driver too.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
I love you guys.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Thank you. We don't believe it till we hear the
Trump pull. We love it.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
Yeah, Yeah, I agree with you, Rob.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
I think this should just went up on the sunset.
I'm not a big esp fan, and I don't think
it's gonna be as good as it used to be
on TAT. You're right, TAT. They had just that one show.
They didn't have also I don't think it's gonna be
as good, even though you're gonna have the same guy.
I just don't think esc And is.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Right for it.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
I love.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah, mister, will we appreciate it man Mason and yeah
Mason in the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You're on the couple of Fox Sports.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, we yeoh, what's up?
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Guys?
Speaker 10 (18:25):
Loving the topic and you know, honestly, leading up to
you know, this topic, I was actually like kind of
like sad, like, dang, I don't really want this to
be like the last show on tn T obviously, But
then like Rob started talking as he usually does, and
then I started thinking, like, you know what, you know,
not that the show's run his course, but it's kind
(18:46):
of run his course, you know, and they've had a
great run, and you should go out on top in
a blaze of glory. I think that's very valid, but
also kind of to push back on the same point, Rob,
you know, I don't really think like if you're watching
the show just to hear him rip ESPN, Like that's
such a specific thing, and I hear what you're saying,
(19:07):
but it's like if you're watching it for that specific reason,
then like I don't really see the draw to it
or why it should be that big of a deal.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
In the first I'm just saying that the bosses, you know,
like it's cute.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
It's on TNT.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
They don't have any shows, any other personalities, so it's okay.
He could say, oh yeah, those idiots in the morning
on ESPN, and everybody's like, I.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Think people are gonna love that, Rob, Like, I think
people are gonna be like, that's fun. But I'm not
so sure about telling you man, they're gonna have some
good beef the next morning, gonna get up, They're gonna
go at Chuck and it's gonna be fun. Tell he's inside.
If I was a producer, that's what I do. If
I was the Rob g of the Get Up Show,
I will be doing that. Well, you can go right back, Mason.
You're on the couple Fusry. Take my salary to.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
H Ken in California. You're on the couple of Fox Sports. Ready,
what's up?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Ken?
Speaker 9 (19:57):
I don't know when I'm gonna get it right, buddy,
He's wrong again. It's gonna die. Like Rob said, Joe
go die heads, lit their hair down to wear ties,
doctor eyes cuts the cheese. They're gonna be bald. So
they should have rolled out in the sunset because I
(20:19):
ain't wanted it, because I never missed it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
For the best part about that kid, act like they
all wear ties up there, Martin, Like they'll be wearing
ties every every day. Ken, you know, good will, you
can't chut chuck up. You know, Chuck ain't gonna shut up?
All right, Appreciate the call. I told you. We got
to getting ready to talk to Chris Hine in a bit.
But right now is Martin White's what's trending? You know?
Speaker 11 (20:38):
Really the question that you guys, you guys spend all
that time talking about hair and Makeup's got a lot
of work to do because I've never seen look since
the last broadcast inside the NBA, do you tell me
another time you go see three bald men with three hairlines?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Can't you been working on that hairline for a minute,
That's what I want to know, hairline and beer. Can't
even putting into work trying to get that right.
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Speaker 1 (21:11):
Right, Martin, thank you man. It is the OT couple
Rob Parker Kevin Washington on a TV theme song Thursday,
and we're joined now by Chris Hen covers the Wolves
for the Minnesota Star Tribune and he's the author of
at the Incredible Journey of NBA Rising Star Anthony Edwards.
And he joins us, Now, what's up, Chris, How you
doing man?
Speaker 7 (21:28):
I'm good. Thanks for having me on. Guys appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Well and can't be happy about how finished last last night.
But he seemed to be kind, I don't know, optimist,
say I'm gonna be nobody's gonna outwork me, and I
love the fatio will get more cracks at this thing.
What do you make of that?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Yeah? He Uh. I think he's always been kind of optimistic,
even in the face of defeat like this. Even coming
off to the Mavericks blot last year, he was kind
of saying the same thing. We'll be back here next year. Uh,
and you know I'll be back from Mike Conley. They
did it again. They got back there. But I think
(22:05):
one thing you have to keep in mind, especially when
you have a Mike Comley on the team who's only
been the Conference finals three times in his career. Nothing
isn't given in the NBA. You know, just because you're
twenty three and you've been there twice now doesn't mean
you have an automatic road or path back to the
conference finals. It is a difficult thing. Luck plays a
(22:27):
part injury, luck, all that stuff. So he's always got
a positive helop. But I think at the same time,
you have to keep the mind that you can't take
these opportunities for granted and come out flat like they
did in Game five last night.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, I agree with that, but I think he should
be optimistic the way the NBA's turned around in that
we're going to have a seven different champion. It's not
dominated by two teams where you like, all Lebron's playing
and Stephan him are play and we got no shot
at getting in there. We keep seeing different teams and
I think they can break through. I love his attitude
and what he had to say. And you got new
(23:03):
ownership too, so I think that they aren't going anywhere.
I'm not saying that it's automatic, but I think it's
a fair optimism for him to have.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
I mean, it's a good place to be in the
in the league, right you have him, you have Jaden McDaniels,
and you know, I think their plan is to resign
nas Red and all these guys are are young, twenty
three to twenty five years old. This is kind of
a core group that I think they're in envisioning going
forward and just molding the team around them. They're getting
this experience, you know, invaluable experience in the playoffs the
(23:38):
last couple of years, deep runs and things like that
that I think curd only benefit you in the coming
years here. And the thing I think with Anthony Edwards
that we tend to forget in the NBA sometimes he's
twenty three, right, He's been in the league for five
years right now. Five years out from now, he will
be twenty eight years old. And the problem, in the
(24:01):
prime of his career, he's already accumulating all this institutional knowledge,
these playoff runs, what to do in high pressure situations.
And look, he's say all the times too, right, but
all that is going to benefit him, you know, right
around the age when stars traditions start winning titles, which
is around twenty seven, twenty six, twenty eight years old.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You know, conversation we've had a few times about him,
and it's been brought up to him a million times.
I'm sure he's tired of it. Is the whole face
of the NBA thing, and he's kind of said, I
don't want it. I don't want it. I have my
own thoughts on why he doesn't want it. I think
it's not the I think he definitely will surely will
love the money. I think he loves doing commercials.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You get to pick it, though. I hear people say that,
but I don't. I don't think you get to pick it.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I also think he doesn't want the he wants to
live his own life off the court. If you're just
leave it at that, what do you make of just
the idea of that of him being the face and
just his responses to it.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Yeah, I think there's something to just wanting to live
as pri that a life is possible away from the cameras.
There's I think there's an aspect to that.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
My experience now, when you're texting people every day and
that ain't gonna be private.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I was trying to stay on that.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
No, I'm just saying, how's that private? You're texting people
in there posting it?
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Yeah, I mean, this is the life of being a
pro athlete. Sometimes right is people, but that that stuff
comes to happen. But I will say, like, you know,
I've been around Ant a lot, the cameras, the commercials,
all that stuff. I think there's a point where he
wears on him a little bit and have all that
stuff around him. You know, I think he just wants
(25:38):
to sometimes go home, be around his people and play
video games like That's That's honestly who Ant I think
is at his core. He's a home body, you know.
I don't think he he you know, just wants wants
all that. Being the face of the league entails. And
I think you're right to some extent that, you know,
you don't get to pick that. I think that comes
(26:00):
with success as well. And if you're going to if
you're to start winning championships, MVP, whatever in the future years,
some of that is going to be thrust upon you
by the accolades that you acquire throughout your career. So
I think I think it's a give and take you to.
Some of it comes from your success and it's trusted
upon you, but I think there is a part where
you have to embrace it as well.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
He is Chris Eyne. He is on What's Up Rob
and I on The Couple on Fox Sports Radio again.
He covers the Wolves for the Minnesota Star Tribute and
he wrote the book The Incredible Journey of NBA Rising
Star Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Here's my how about Minnesota as a whole? Okay, I
know people keep waiting for Minnesota to win a championship.
The Twins go remember when like twenty what they lose
twenty one straight playoff games at one point until they
finally broke through, and the Timberwolves is always disappointing, and uh,
you know, the Vikings close and all that, but just
(26:55):
the mindset about the Minnesota fan and how people took that.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Yeah, there's a bit of a fatalism that exists in
Minnesota sports fans where whatever can go wrong will go wrong,
but they will eventually your teams will eventually let you down.
There's definitely a streak of that that runs through all sports,
no matter which sport you are a fan of. That
(27:20):
definitely exists. The last men's team to win a title,
I think with Twins won the World Series in nineteen
ninety one, and that's that's been it, and it affects
the effects the mindset. I see. I didn't grow up
in Minnesota, but I see friends of mine around my age.
I'm thirty eight years old and they grew up with
that mentality and they're millennials who you know, they expect
(27:44):
the teams to eventually lose. And I think with the Wolves,
at least there's been some hope that this is the
best two year stretch of franchise history. They're starting to
buck some of these trends and maybe they are turning
a corner. Maybe they are stamping out this this fatalism
and this attitude that sometimes creeps into the mind of
(28:06):
the Minnesota sports fan.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And let me and let me talk about you're talking
about the Minnesota uh and and them doing stuff that
they hadn't done the franchise and now they have new ownership,
I mean they do.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
You gotta hope if you're a Timberwolves fan that you
have owners now know is a rod and I can't
forget the.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Other owners name Mark Laurie.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, that that they want to win and they just
want to got a new toy. They're gonna I mean,
they might not go crazy like they do with the
Phoenix Suns, but you get but you get my point, like,
like there's a reason you have a new toy.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You're close. You want to be able as an owner
to deliver, don't you think?
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Absolutely? And Mark Glorie has said that he's got a
lot of money in the bank waiting to invest once
they become controlling owners officially waiting to invest all this
money in the team, pay the tax, this and that,
and you know, I think to your point about Phoenix,
I think you know, when they became a part of
the franchise three years ago and we're kind of on
(29:08):
this succession plan from growing Taylor, they actually did make
that move and kind of signed up on that was
the Rudy Gobert trade, and that was a trade that
people were scratching their heads that at the time. And
it's a trade that I think has been mostly good
for this team in terms of two conference final appearances,
the s they give up a lot of draft picks
(29:28):
that they'll be seeding into the future. But you know,
for the last couple of years here, it's gotten this
this franchise on a new level. It's helped the young
guys to help gance maturity as well having the playoff
runs so you know, I think that that that sort
of new owner move and kind of thing that happened
(29:50):
three years ago, well roundly criticized at the time, has
actually helped them in the end.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Hey, Chris, one more from me. You got to see
the Thunder up close. You got to really watch them.
Ab see in that Western Conference finals. If you're the
Knicks of the Pacers and they call you in, they say, Chris,
you saw them, you watch them? What do we do?
How do you stop the Thunder? If you're the Pacer
or the Knicks, however this plays out the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
I would say, I don't know, because to me, they
are heads shoulders the best team in the NBA. The
defense is just remarkable, and I think that's what's so
I'm impressed with And I watch the Thunder. They're so young,
but they're seemingly composed and mature. They they're so tuned
(30:35):
into the details of the game plan, of the scouting report,
and they're not rattled by the moment like they play
like the team you know that should be on average
about five to seven years older than a lot of
these guys. And that's it's a remarkable thing. And all
credit to you know, scouting players like that, Mark Dagnell
(30:57):
and his staff like that. Is that that is a
rare thing what's going on in Oklahoma City right now
to have this young of a team playing this high level,
high detailed basketball that they play, and it's really remarkable
to watch up close.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
All right, Well, Chris Man, the Pacers. Then people will reevaluate,
Oh wow, you.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Got And I'm just you know, this ain't your typical
radio show, Chris, where you know you just call it
the I just want you to know that.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Thank you, buddy, Appreciate you, Chris, Appreciate you guys.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Thank you man.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
They the Pacers, all right, they're heavy favorites, Pacers or Nicks.
Is actually crazy how big the favorites they are, no
matter which team comes to see that. Yeah, big favorites
on either one of those teams. All right, on the way,
Rob J's cooking up shot talk. We'll see what he's got.
It's the AACA, Robin Calvin. Fox Sports Radio give me
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(32:22):
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Speaker 2 (32:32):
In the early days before he became rich and famous,
I used to ride on a train with him and
he sat up the top like when I was a reporter,
a huge like who's that guy? Or you knew him? No,
like we knew like he was like a budding star.
He wasn't there yet and he'd be on the subway.
We once during a playoff game when they were playing
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I don't know if you remember. This was Mark Jackson
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I rode the train down from New York to Philadelphia
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nobody you know what I mean?
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Like he was just budding. Yeah, like he might have
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Speaker 1 (33:44):
Shop talk? That's right? Shop talk.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Here in the odd couple of Fox Sports Trader Sing,
where we talk about something happened outside of the world
is sports.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
This week's topic is a doozy Okay.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
It comes to us from down Under, and if you
have a queasy stomach, maybe turn your radio. So you're going, well,
I'm not gonna say exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
But here we got stomach.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
There was a story that went viral over the weekend,
went viral over the weekend in Australia, and then it
kept going viral as it made his way straightside earlier
in the week I don't know if you know, rob
g I've been down on it. There was a woman
who sat on social media. She spent the better part
of seven years suffering from constant sinus infections. Doctors could
(34:25):
not figure out what was wrong with her until they
do a swab, and they found out the culprit. Her
ex boyfriend at the time, during a hotel stay, pulled
the practical joke on her that led to her getting
E coli in her nose that was there for seven years.
Totally derailed her life. I'll tell you off the air
(34:45):
what exactly did to get E coli?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
And you're not gonna like it, Thank you, Alex. Here's
a question. If someone you know, love and care about does.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
A practical joke that has that kind of a lasting impression,
how soon, if ever, do.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You forgive them? Dub Well, I mean there are certain
people you have to forgive, meaning like if it's my sister,
you know, my children, like they're one or two friends
you kind of like have to because I think the
intent nobody intended for you to be seven years but
a random that you're kind of cool with, like a
coworker or something. Now we might have smoked forever. I might.
(35:26):
I might forgive you because that's good for me, cleansing
the poison in my heart. But I might not have
to rock with you anymore. I can't hate somebody forever
because that's bad. That that messes you up. Rob, Do
you know how I roll? Don't you? You're dead to me?
It would be dead to me, but you wouldn't know
you were dead to me, but you would be dead
to me, So I would think. I like that. I
(35:48):
know some people like that. You know what I'm saying.
The only problem with that is you're dead to me? Now?
Am I dead to him? Like you don't know who's dead?
It like? I don't know? No, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
But I'm just saying, once once you like do something
crazy to me or you like, I'm good, I don't.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
I don't need it. Don't need to happen twice or
for you to think you you're you know, so what
about forgiveness? I'm not into that. I'm not into that
that's why I'm not married. I'm just being honest, like, man,
it looked in my eyes and told me I'm not
into that. Like I said, it's true though, Hey, what
do you mean it's true? Alex?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
No, hold on, I'll give you a statistic that blew
my mind.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
You ready for this?
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Do you know that somebody who cheats on you is
now four times more likely to cheat on you again?
Of course, so what does forgiveness do? Then you went
to an extreme example.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I'm just tell me. What I'm saying is there could
be plenty of things forgive me. Nobody saying I talked
to you crazy? Uh no, because from you ten years ago, because.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
To me seriously, and I'm not I don't want to
take over the segment, but I'm being honest, like, uh,
I shouldn't have to convince you that I'm like good
and in your corner or whatever. And if you were
to dis respect me and talk to me a certain way,
that's just you've already you've already breached that and can't
(37:07):
come back to me to ball or later that night
and go like, oh, well, you know, I don't know
why you.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Would No, no, no, no, what you said was what
you meant? Okay, I heard you and Alex. Now I'm
gonna go to the other side of this. I'm just
saying that when you either of you two have wronged
or spoken to or did anything wrong, I'm not gonna
shout out, not want to forgivenness, I.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Know, because I'm not gonna say anything to dig at
your core to try to hurt you.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
You know what I see. But that now that assumes
one didn't You've will assumed that what I did or
said didn't hurt your feelings.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
So I believe forgiveness is for yourself.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Why had you heard me say that that letting the
go of the poison? Yeah, I do it.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
I agree with that, But I'm also letting go of
you two. I'm not gonna sit around here and just
keep messing with the same stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
I'm gonna let you all slide today.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
No real, Kate, what's the definition of insanity? We're gonna change? No,
rob you know better than anybody in this industry. Do
people change whatever they got? Whatever you see, that's what
that's who they are, all right, rob Gie? Where are
you you? I had something similar happened a couple of
years ago. Rob, you knowed this. Almost lost my eyesight
(38:19):
for like six weeks.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Uh, you know, plenty of visits of the doctor, But
at that point it was an accident and it was
my three year old daughter who did it to me.
In this case where it's a grown man who decides
to use something on purpose that leads to this kind
of stuff.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Na I thought, what are you doing? Well, this is wild.
That's why I said, this is what are you even
thinking about? First of all, the fact of what he
really did, felt that comfortable to do that to her.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
I don't want to know the other show he laid
up in the hot in a bed with ankle surgery.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Shit, I don't want to know what else he was doing.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
I don't even want to be You can't be that
comfortable with me, never be sorry.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Who even thinks of that stuff? Is the craziest part.
Your brain went there, Yeah,
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