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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Rudy Gobert, who plays for.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The Minnesota Timberwolves, I can finish the center.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Sorry, I promise, Sorry, my man, I'm messing with you.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
I get there, I I I get there. I was
maybe maybe you should have.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Jason Brown, Jason Brown should have said it first.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Sports are part obviously, He's like, did you say the
Mets gallop? All the Mets were there? You still don't
get the reference to you know what isn't the Mets?
That's is the team? Right? What team? Though? I don't know.
Let's game basketball. That's nuts, that's what The Nats.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Is a basketball team. That's another New York team. You
don't like the Nuts? Okay, real lazy, the versus the Nuts.
That's is New Jersey, Brooklyn now. And then the Mets

(01:06):
are baseball team in Queens, New York.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Matt's got it. Yeah, well, I mean New York's New
York Yankees. They have two like Chicago does, right, Men's
and the Yankees. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Nonetheless, this guy who plays for the Timberwolves is probably
going to it looks like he might miss Game two
of the NBA Playoffs, the second round of the NBA
Playoffs because his wife either is.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
It is having a bit.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
I'm trying to get the story here straight because I
have the clip of a bunch of people complaining about this.
But following the birth of his first child, a baby boy,
so he's thinking about missing a playoff game because his
wife had a baby already. So we're not talking just
to be clear, we're not talking about the baby was

(01:58):
about to be born and he might out of town
for that or something like that. We've heard of that
story before. The baby apparently has been born and so
he might not play in this game, and a bunch
of other NBA players have a bunch of things to
say about it.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
But just to I mean, I want to.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Know if that makes a big Does that make a
big difference though, if the baby just arrived and is
here versus the baby hasn't been born yet and you
might be missing the you know, actual birth. I think
to support your you know wife, girlfriend, whatever it is.
I think it's his wife and and and be present
for the you know, actual arrival of this kid. He's

(02:36):
a bunch of NBA players Gilbert Arena complaining about it.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, I would imagine in Minnesota. I don't know if
for sing not that man's business.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Like, okay, for that baby when you get back. I mean,
so that that's his comment. Uh, the baby will be
there when you get back. So do we think that
missing a playoff basketball game for the birth of your
kids so you can be there for like I don't know,

(03:05):
day two three, whatever it is, day you know, just
I don't know. Again, big difference between the baby actually
being born and you being there to support your wife
in the process and however long that takes, and you
don't want to miss that moment once in a lifetime
versus Okay, I was there for that baby's here, baby
looks healthy, wife's healthy.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'm gonna go play this basketball game. I'll be right back.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
So he already met the baby. Just to be clear,
he met the baby already.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
That's the way that I understand the game. The game
was he missed the game yesterday. The game was yesterday.
It's already happened.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
It happened he missed the game, So he did because
the story I just read was that he might miss
the game. So we missed the game, but not because
he was trying to be there. The baby was already
here when he missed the game. Are we clear about that. Okay,
So then so are we mad about this? I mean,
should you? Should you? Does it? Is there any excuse
for missing work if you're if you're an athlete, is

(03:57):
there any excuse?

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Are you allowed to miss work for the birth of
a baby.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
You should be allowed to You should be allowed to
be with your baby. That's the ones in a lifetime
moment that you won't get back. You can play another
basketball game, but you will not get that precious moment
with your child again. However, if I'm on the team,
you got to come to work. Were trying to win
a championship. I don't have time for you to go
meet no baby. Let him bring the baby up here?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
What are you talking about? Actually, that's a good idea, Helena.
Bring the baby up here. Baby is four weeks so
come on priority taking the baby to Taco bell Lea.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Bring the baby up here.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
So, yeah, I get I feel like if it's if
it's hey, I'm gonna be on the road and my
wife is in labor or something, then I'm not going.
I'm sorry, I'm not going, especially if it's my Wow. No,
I don't think there's anything I was gonna say. It's
my first kid. But no, because every time it's dangerous,
every time my wife needs support, I help make the baby.
I need to be there. So I need to be there.

(04:59):
You're missing the if. Now here's the thing though. If
I was there for the birth, I held the baby,
everybody's okay. Yeah, I don't know that I sit there
and stare at the baby for another how many times
I gonna say baby in this break? I don't know
that I sit there and stare at the child for
a day or two instead of going and helping my
teammates win the game because it's a very important game.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
But yet that's I think.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
I think. I go if the baby's already born and
everything everybody's okay, then I go play. If the baby's
not here yet and it's gonna happen during the game,
I'm missing the game, right.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
No, you missed the game. It's a game. It's you
missed the game even after the kids already here.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
So the game was yesterday his wife, his fiance, gave
birth to the baby early Monday, and then the game
was at night.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
But right, so that's what I'm saying. The babies here,
everybody's okay, Get on a PJ or whatever and go.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Where it is.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
You're already in You're already in Denver because they're on
the road. He has to fly back to Minneapolis for
the birth of his first child. And you're gonna be like,
all right, see you later.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
I gotta go play this game. They didn't even need
him yesterday. They won by a gazillion yesterday, but he
didn't know that at the time.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
But still, like it's just one game out of a
game of seven, you know, like it's it's like if
it was like the final championship game. Okay, that's that's
a little like if the championship's on the line, that's
a little different.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
But if the.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Baby was worn at like nine o'clock in the morning
and everybody's okay, and you were there and she wants
to like she probably wants to sleep. You know, there's
nurses at the hospital, the whole thing. I mean, I
probably sound wildly.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
And you're taking care of a child.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, I don't know, there's I assume there's nannies and
moms and dads and family. I mean, Rich he's an
NBA player. I'm sure there's no there's no lack of support.
Here's what you do. You hop on a PJ, you
hang out all day, you hop on a PG two hours,
you go play the game, hop back on a PJ,
come back, and it's almost like you weren't even gone.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
I mean, if I'm his girl and this is gonna
shock you all, I'm team basketball. I'm like, go, babe,
I don't remember one second of meeting my parents.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
So it's fine, meet me, say what up, and then
go win.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
A game and come back. I would say that, but
if she says no, then he's got to stay. What
about my FanDuel?

Speaker 4 (07:09):
You know, betting on our husband name as a consumer,
as a watcher, what about that FanDuel bit? It's like,
I need you to be under there. You know, I've
been loyal to you for years. This baby just met you.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
So it's.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Why they won regardless. But that's the thing you didn't know.
He's a very good player.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
We don't have You don't have a child, Fred, That's
what I'm saying, Like that experience is once in a lifetime.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
He was there for that.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, but it's it's just not over. The baby doesn't
come out, and you just say, if I were to
do that and be like, hey, Jess, the show's on.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
You had the baby at seven. I'm gonna go it's stupid.
Who can It's the same thing. That's work. It's it's
work to him, that's a job.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yes, they could affect his money in the future, which
affects his baby's college and stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
I'm team basketball.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Balls on now, I'm getting I'm getting killed this So
clearly Fred never had a baby.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
I'm also not in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Okay, it's the same situation here, Fred, if you were,
if your girl was pregnant and she was going to
give birth, process and say, like, if she gives birth
at four thirty in the morning, this show starts at five,
you're leaving, you leaving.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
It's the same situation. We do two hundred and fifty
stupid shows a year. I mean eighty two basketball games
a year. That's no difference. That's a job.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
He gets paid forty million dollars or something to play basketball.
It's the playoffs. He was there, He's got tons of money.
He can teleport his ass and play and come back,
and it's all she could take a nap.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
It's up to the wife, And it's one hundred.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Percent up to the wife. And I would. I wonder
what the wife said. I agree with you. It's what
if she said stay, then you're staying. Oh well if
she said go and he stayed anyway, well then he
could have gone.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Hey, that baby could change his whole life. That baby
could have been borned yesterday. He does like me, he
doesn't want to play basketball ever again, he gets what
his head up. I'm just saying, like people have kids
that they don't want to work ever. Again, that baby
could change his life for the instant that baby's born. Says,
I don't want to ever play basketball yet. Mad him
already He's like, no, I still want to play.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Hey, April, how you doing?

Speaker 4 (09:18):
All right?

Speaker 3 (09:19):
How you doing?

Speaker 1 (09:19):
What do you think about this? So this dude, we
finally got.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
The story right after but twenty minutes is stumbling around.
So this guy plays for the Timberwls. Very good player,
important player on the team. His wife had a baby
early yesterday morning. They had a playoff game at later
in the day at night that same day, and he
missed the game, and people are asking a question, should
he have made it to the game. He would have

(09:42):
had to travel from Denver to Minneapolis the other way
or the other way around.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
But yet he didn't go. And are we mad about
this or not?

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Well, I'm not mad if the baby was born that day.
But if everything was okay and everything he should on
the first thing, smogan. Back to the playoff game. This
playoff time.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Ye listen, suit up and boot up. Let's go, come
on now, game two.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
I gotta windy that the baby sleeps twenty two hours
out of the day.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Get your boy do the basketball day the time.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
You gotta do the look, you gotta stand, you gotta,
You've gotta in the first twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
You have to establish a relationship with that baby.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
You gotta do skin the sand that baby you got
eighteen years, established the relationship this baby baby.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
It's playoff time.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
And you all belong to the NBA. You get that.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
Everything's okay, everybody's okay, okay, let's go.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
We gotta we got a championship the way. Job, it's
a job. Thank you. Have a good day. Look all right,
you guys. I love about you.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Guys. Keep trying to roofy over here, trying to keep
up making an apply to me. I'm not him, I'm
not famous, I'm not important. I I do a radio show.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
We'll do it.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Just see you another one another day. I I am
missing it. Ninety nine percent of people are missing it,
but I miss particular case.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
You got so much money.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Honestly, he could have left it like three o'clock and
been back in the hospital room six hours later if
he wanted to, because he got pj's and money and rolexes.
I don't know what the rolex has to do with it,
but he probably got those. Hey, Jessica, heright, Jessica, you say,
you say, don't play the game, it doesn't matter, stay
with the baby.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
Oh absolutely. I think that there's a lack of understanding,
like the pregnancy ends once the baby's born, but there's
a whole life that's starting, So you have to think
about those first twenty four hours, forty eight hours. It's
just the start of a long game with that baby.
So what dame matters more?

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Okay, No, that's fair, and you're right.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I don't know about that, but I have been present
right after a baby was born, and there was a
lot of sitting there staring at the kid. Yeah, because
there was nowhere to go. In fact, I think my
sister and brother in law were downright board because my
sister had to stay because she was wearing a diaper,
and and you know, the baby's brand new, but the
baby which just was there. I think at one point
the baby went to the nursery for a little while

(12:09):
and they slept. So how about we do that part. Well,
he goes and wins a basketball game, comes back, everybody wins.
I don't know, I don't I don't care about either
one of these teams either. By the way, I really
don't care about this man, Rudy Goldber.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
I don't care. I'm just I'm just wondering.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
This is my one and only time where I'm not
fully on Rufio's side.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
I appreciate that. Okay, all right, one time we agree
with Rufiel.

Speaker 5 (12:32):
Also stay with the mama is also there, who may
want some support if she says go.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
And by the way, we all agree on that, if
the wife is like, you're not going anywhere. I need
you here for this whole thing start to finish, then
then he's not going anywhere.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
But I will say that's a threat.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
Sometimes I tell my husband, you want to go to
the bar, go well, go ahead, but it's really just
a threat. You don't go.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Oh yeah, I see what you're saying, have fun. If
I tell you have fun does not mean.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Do not have fun. I thank you, Jessica, have a good.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Day, all right.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
People agree with the rufio here I have a kid.
I understand the significance. But it's a playoff game, not
a regular season game. Rufeo's acting like this is his
kid and needs to chill. I gave birth to two am.
My husband's father is wake was that day. He didn't go,
but he went to the funeral the next day, as said,
so sad.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
He's a basketball player. Baby was born.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
If healthy, jump on the plane, player game, jump on
a plane, go home. She has help with mom, nanny's,
et cetera. How you know that just because he's got money. Oh,
come on, you don't think they have nanny's and stuff?
Come on, you think they are? Do you think they're
out here?

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Just will you? You don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Just because you have money doesn't change the situation. It's
it's becoming a parent for the first time.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
My husband is not in the NBA, and after he
spent the first night in the hospital, I sent him home.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's probably that too. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Anyway, this was a very controversial topic. Yes, no idea
how he did this would get and it also it
already happened, and he didn't go.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
He didn't go, so I didn't look it all worked out.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
I mean, that was probably the right decision and the
team won and nobody can really be mad about it.
But if the team had lost, this man has would
have problems. This man would have problems in the city
of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
And what if.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
The nurses were like big Timberwolves fans and they're like, dude,
we'll take care of it.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
This place she can be is right here right well,
that is true.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
That's another thing is like he left her like on
the street, you know, all right, Well, so someone'll come
pick you up. I guess, get an uber home. I'm
being discharged, sonny. I don't care. I'm outright. I'm in
the club right now in Denver or wherever they all
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