Friday: Pop has mild health scare at a local restaurant

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Enjoy this podcast of the Andy Average.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
And here we are almost into late April and getting
ready to turn in a week or so into May.
It is going to be lots of stuff to get
to on the program today. The NBA playoffs are set
for this weekend. We're going to get to all of that.
The final play in games are coming up tonight. We
got to we'll get into all of that. I heard

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something that Doug Gottlieb said, and this is when I'm
gonna make some picks on who I think are going
to win these series in all these matchups, and I
think I'm pretty confident all of them except for one,
and the one is Denver and the Clippers we'll talk
about that here in just a second. Mike Martlin's the
audio assiminator and producer of the program Today. Shane's off

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doing whatever Shane's doing today, So have fun today. And oh,
by the way, here's what I heard Doug and Mark
Stein talking about. I think it was Mark Stein a
little while ago. The Clippers Denver series, I think is
the most intriguing. I think one, two, and three are
going to win. The other actually, I think Golden State's
going to be Houston, but I think one, three and

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one and three for sure are going to win. But
here's the thing. Is Kawhi Leonard going to be able
to play every game? Because I've watched a couple of
Clipper games lately and Kawhi is starting to play like
the old Kawhi. But and that scares me because I
don't like anything about the Clippers.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm not a James Harden fan.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I think he gets away with traveling on pretty much
every play he runs. And I like Steve Balmer and
what he's done for the organization to try to make
them relevant. But I just get this feeling that they're
gonna beat that they're gonna win this series against Denver,
who's a little bit in disarray because of of all
the injuries that they've had and plus the turmoil with

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the firing of Mike Malone a few weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, yeah, there there is that. But they still have,
you know, Nicola Jokicic, they have the joker. I think
it's going to come down to, not not to number two.
It's gonna come down to if Jamal Murray decides to
be the potential All Star caliber player that Jamal Murray

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has the potential to be, that's gonna be the at
least for me, that's gonna be the biggest key. And
I completely forgot this the other day when we were
talking about another guy who doesn't show up to work.
Ben Simmons is on the Clippers shoe.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
We need them, we need them to not win. We
can't have that, all right.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
There was a story that I heard about when I
walked in the building today shortly bafter one, and it
was on TMZ and then Cheam Scherini has now reported
it and it's now, I guess, an official story, probably
almost all the media outlets, including ESPN. Apparently on Tuesday
night this week, Coach Pop was at a restaurant somewhere

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in San Antonio and had a fainting episode or passed
out during the meal, and just as precaution, they took
him to the hospital and everything is fine and he's
back home resting comfortably. And I know the first thing
that people are going to look at is was this
related to the stroke that he had back in November.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Maybe maybe not.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
A lot of people are also asking the question, why
anybody find out for almost three days if it happened
Tuesday night, We're coming up on seventy two hours, and
that's not been a story yet. Understand As we have
always said, and I talk about this often on this show,
the Spurs have never been a boring basketball team. I
watched a highlight reel of this team the other day

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and they were showing some of the play that they
made and the no look passes, and they do it
just like everybody other team does.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
It gets all the credit in the world.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
The Spurs do not do drama, and if they don't
think it's your business, they don't talk about it. And
the health of one of their players or one of
their coaches is rarely something that they think is necessary
of a press conference and a full blown statement. At
some point they may release something, but they're going to
respect the pop's privacy as more teams probably should.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
And they don't do drama.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
And that's why the national media has a big issue
with them, is because when something that happens it's dramatic,
it's all you know. It's silence. It's a silent treatment.
No one's going to talk about it, and it's over
with and done in two or three days. But Shams
is reporting this and we'll talk a little bit about
it in the six o'clock hour, but there's no indication

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that it's because of or not because of what happened
in November.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
And here's the most important thing.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Whether Greg Popovich coaches another bast ketball game or not,
is that for as long as he has time left
on this earth, it's been as with the most quality
that he can have in whatever peaceful situation that he
can have. And if he wants to give advice or
credit mean advice or tips to players or coaches, currently

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he's got the pedigree to be able to do that.
And until the Spurs release something or he releases something,
I'm not going to worry about whether or not this
is related to what happened in November. I don't think
he's going to coach anymore, and not because of anything
other than the fact, as I've said a couple of times,
he's seventy six years old, I think almost seventy seven.

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And it's not the two hours at the game. I
think he can handle the two hours of the game
just fine. But you can't do a game unless you
prep for it. And prepping for a game is hours
of film study before and after games.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's a lot of sleepless nights, and.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
The one thing that I would think that you would
need is is a lot of rest. And the travel
and the grind of an NBA schedule is tough on anyone,
whether you're twenty or seventy. It's even tougher when you're
coming off the issues that he's had.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
If I had to go to Vegas and make a bet,
is he ever going to coach again or not? My
bet would be hedged towards not. But if he wants to,
he gets to. Because of what he's done, and there's
many many other things. I think that he can be
a part of the organization for as long as he
wants to be or maybe he just wants to go
hang out in Europe and you know, do what he's
used to do if he's clear to travel that far

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and around people that he's done for on his vacations
in the past.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
So that's the story.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's on TMZ, it's now on ESPN, and get well
as soon as you can, and hopefully this is just Hey,
I stood up too quick and I got like anybody
else might. I've fainted three or four times before for
no reason whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, it's happened to me a few times.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
When you sit down for so long, you don't really
do a lot of movement, and then you get up
too quick. Whether you're you know Pop's age, your age,
my age, or even younger. That blood rush just real
quick and you wove so. At least from the story
that was out there, he was alert, talkative, perfectly fine.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
They just it was precautions.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Anytime that you pass out in a restaurant, they're probably
gonna want you to go to the hospital, yes, because
they don't want to get sued exactly if they say,
oh it's okay, we're just gonna make no, we want
you to go get checked out.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
We want to make sure.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, and sometimes that ambulance rides a little expensive. I'm
sure they can afford it, but that's that's better. Then
let's take a chance that you're not okay and we're
gonna have a tragic A tragic event happened. Steve Kurz
said earlier this week that the NBA season is too long,
and that he recently wrote a letter to an email

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before the season began to Adam Silver, suggesting that we
reduce the schedule to sixty five games.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
All right, let me do a little quick a he
or just to make sure that I have this. If
you do, If you.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Have that, that's that's reducing the season by about twenty percent.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
If you go from eighty two to sixty five.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, that'd be what seventy two games, yes, or seventeen
less game.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, seventeen less games approximately one seventeen times yeah, seventeen
times five.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Is c plus student, Andy, I'm telling you. You don't
ask me for Mathew sixty five.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well, it's a it would be eighty five if it
was when you if you have played eighty five games,
that would be exactly twenty percent. But it's close to
twenty percent. Okay, So does Steve Kerr want to take
twenty percent less pay? Does every player in the league
want to take twenty percent less play? And do you
want the ticket prices to be to go up by
twenty percent Because we're not changing the dynamics of how

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we do stuff. We still got to make revenue, and
or maybe we don't need to reduce revenue. We can
reduce the games by twenty percent, but just charge the
fans more so and charge the TV sponsors twenty percent
more and get twenty percent more for our TV rights,
because somewhere along the way, if you look at the

(09:12):
growth of the league, the people in twenty twenty five
are making more money than they did ten years ago,
fifteen years ago, or forty years ago. And once the
paychecks start getting cut, that's when they're gonna go.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
I think we can play eighty two games. And here's
my other question. If we played sixty five with the
star players play in every one of them, they'd still
load manage. I think this is crazy, and I guess
I'll have to put on my common sense hat once
again and explain to Steve and Adam Silver and the
world how we can fix this. It's called play three

(09:45):
games a week for thirty for less for twenty seven weeks.
That's eighty one games and then one more. You play
a four week schedule, once a week, play three games
a week max. That would help the load management situation.
It would spread the games out, so some teams, you know,
you're not always playing Monday, Wednesday, Friday, but you're going

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to reduce the back to backs all that kind of stuff.
We'll get into that more coming up in a bit.
Rory's made it back home to Northern Ireland. Those who
I like to track private planes found his tail number
and he's in Belfast City this morning and apparently a
motor coach to mom and Dad's house, which is still

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the house that he grew up in and they've renovated
it quite a bit. But it looks like you're, you know,
typical eighteen hundred square foot English Irish flat in the
middle of Hollywood nowhere Ireland. Is that what it's called.
It's called Hollywood Hollywood. It's got one less l than
the Hollywood. But some people have pronounced it Holy Hollywood,

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but he pronounces it Hollywood. So whatever Rory says it is,
that's what I'm going.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
With, sure, Well, that's kind of that's kind of cool
that there's still a very down to earth, you know.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Parents.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
You know we talked about yesterday with some of the
athletes or whose parents. Hey I need a ten million
dollar house. Hey now I need a fifteen million dollar house.
And they're just sitting there in their normal Irish flat
that they probably royal worth about four ter million. It
lives in a twenty two million dollar home in Orlando.
But he needs a tax ride off for his US taxes.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
So sure, there you go. I've got some thoughts on
the NFL draft.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
After the first three, we'll talk four through seven, or
eight or ten, maybe twelve. Hear in a little bit.
We've got a baseball story. Jash Chisholm got tossed on
them a game yesterday because he disagreed with the balls
and strikes.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Can't do that.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
But he may he owed up to it after the game,
so we'll have you hear what he said about that.
Jay Billis has commented that he thinks it's wrong for
college coaches after the season ends to accept jobs other schools,
while said coaches are still coaching in tournament games, like
Will Wade did this year. Well, if we're gonna if

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you want to fix it, there's a fix to it.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Now.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
I've got some ideas on what that fix is, but
no one's going to like it because it's going to
mean nobody can hire anybody until the NCAA tournament's over.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
It means you can't schedule games for next year.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
That you're going to have to have an independent company
come out in schedule games. Because here's the deal, here's
what Will Wade was up against. Do you want the
North Carolina State job or not?

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yes? I do.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Okay, we're going to hire you this and we're going
to pay you. Start building your staff. Are you how
many people from MacNeice? Who are you bringing? And start
building your non conference schedule because whoever it was the
coach there before may or may not have a schedule done.
When Austin Klaudge took the UTSA job this time last year,
about a week ago, this time last year, he didn't

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have a schedule. Now, they knew they were going to
play a couple of schools because it already guaranteed contracts.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
We knew we were going to army.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
We knew that Little Rock was coming here and you
can always get Division two schools to come for seventy
five hundred bucks in a free night in the hotel room.
But the rest of it they had to build from screen,
and they had to hustle and do it because by
this time, most of the schedules are already somewhat finalized
or at least agreed on. They're just waiting for contracts

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specific dates and times. So if you want to have
coaches stop doing this, then you're going to have to
change the way that we do things going forward. Maybe
you have to create schedules two years in advance instead
of one. So we'll get into that coming up here
in a little bit. But Doug Gottlieb took Jay Billis
to task. I don't care what Jay billis. I don't

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have an issue with Jay Billis's.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Opinions on anything.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
He's got a track record that tells me that when
something comes out of his mouth, that's usually right. And
I don't disagree with the statement that he's made here.
I think he's right. I think it was terrible that
Will Wade had one foot at North Carolina State and
was coaching McNeice. But the way the rules are set
up and the way that college basketball is set up,
he had no other choice. So we'll get into that

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coming up here in a little bit as well. Let's
talk in be playoffs and who I think is gonna
win all these series and see if Mike disagrees with
me on any of this. That's coming up next, it's
the Indie Everatte show.

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