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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The NBA released the full schedule today and as you
might have guessed, everybody's playing eighty two games again and
one or two our two teams will play an eighty
third game to determine the ridiculous Emirates in season game tournament.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's not ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
They're fantastic organization. So so.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Why is this necessary?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Has anybody ever come up with an explanation as to
why we need an nd season tournament? I know soccer
does it, but that's a different world anyway.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's because that's the the commissioner, Adam Silver, likes the
way that soccer does it.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
But what what does it? What does it do for
soccer that it's not doing for the NBA. I can't
figure that part out.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
The only thing I can think of is it gives
your purgatories a chance to for four potential games that
they can raise a banner and say, hey, we're champions.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I hear Dan White's doing the San Antonio FC Insider
Report from time to time, mister Hockey as I call him,
and and uh and so Dan, and I'll say, you know,
the record is this and that and the next regular
season games coming up in two weeks but we're gonna
play two friendlies in the middle of the season. I'm like,
why are we playing friendlies in the middle of the season.
I know, either play a game that counts or don't
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play at all. I don't know why you even. To me,
friendlies are like, let's just go play pick up basketball
in the backyard and see who wins. They'll have you know,
we'll play for beers or whatever. But to me, the
I and I don't follow the MLS enough to figure
this out, but I guess at some point during the
middle of the season or Premier League or whatever, they
have a separate tournament.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But it's the same teams, it's not.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It would be one thing if you took two weeks
off and eight NBA teams played, you know, eight teams
from euro Basket in France or something, and basically had
a mini Olympics every year.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I could could get.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
On board with that a lot more than just having
a tournament against the same teams that you already are
playing droughout the regular season. You know, I'll get into
some golf talk later. I think the Cup is the
most anti climatic thing in golf. The four majors is
what matters and the players is the fifth most important
golf tournament. And whoever wins in Memphis, whoever wins BMW,
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whoever wins the Tour Championship, who cares. I mean, they're
making a lot of money. The person is forty million
for the Tour Championship, so the winner's gonna get ten
million or something like that. And that's great from a
money standpoint, and it's great that the players who are
already super wealthy get an extra five hundre grand or
whatever if they win the Cup. And I'm glad that
Emirates is sponsoring it because it puts funding back into
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the league to pay for whatever they need. But they
I just don't understand the You're in mid December or
late November or mid December, you're playing you know, these
in game these other games that counters regular season games
but also count as tournament games, and you're going to
crount a tournament champion, like these games in December are
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more important than if you played them in January. I
just it's not something that's ever res with me as
to why it's important for it to be done. And Aless,
I'm all ears. If somebody can give me a reason why.
But I can tell you this, it's not bringing more
people to watch the Emirates Cup if their choice on
the other channel is the NFL or even college football.
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Because basically from two weeks from tomorrow or Saturday or
one week if you want to look at the Ireland
game with Kansas State and Iowa State and a handful
of others, from now until the Super Bowl, if there's
football programming on, it supersedes everything. Whether it's college football
or pro football, it supersedes everything. So having an in
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season tournament in December doesn't mean I'm going to watch
the NBA more to see if my team wins the
n season tournament. I don't think you can artificially make
up things that are supposed to be important when most
of the fans and all of the players realize they're not.
And if you ask Scotty Scheffler or Rory McElroy or
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Tiger or Jack have you I've ever been out on
the golf course, you know the eighteenth hall, I got
a four footer to win the FedEx Cup. No, that
dream never happened, That announcer voice never went off in
your head. It was a four foot er to win
one of the majors, and most likely the Masters US.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Are British opens.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
The PGA kind of gets stepped on a little bits
as the fourth most important major, but however you look
at it, that's what golfers are always a cheering and
then we throw in artificial things like the FedEx Cup
or the signature events now where we have a limited field.
So you're artificially creating things that are supposed to be
important that are not anywhere near as important as you know,
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winning an NBA championship. Would any team rather for go
even making the playoffs? And you mentioned Washington? If what
Washington is probably not going to make the playoffs again
this year, So what if they win the Emirates Cup,
that doesn't mean that they had a good season.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Well, but I think there's also a you know, when
it comes down to I think there's a money factor
as well that if you win the n season tournament.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, huge player gets five hundre grand, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
An nexture. You know. So, but like you just mentioned,
you're creating this artificial thing to make it seem like
it's more important.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But let's be honest, we're gonna have a river parade
if the Spurs win, the Emirates cut.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I don't know if we would. But but again, let's
be honest. We've seen how sports in general is starting
to go towards like shiny lights, you know, shorter games
because the attention span for the younger audience isn't quite there.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
But now you know how we can get through to
I'll go, I'll go, get off my lawne right here,
all right?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Hit me with it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
How many times have you ever gone out to eat
and there's a family there with small children and in
order to shut up the kids, they give them an
iPad or and iPhone to play with.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I mean that's pretty much how it is nowadays.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, the looking at your child and saying shut up
and eat your food is no longer.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's child abuse, I guess now, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Kind of drop drop? Was that? Scotty? My god?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
By the way, you know, as we have the golf
channel on in your studio and in mind as well,
death taxes and lo and behold, Scotti Scheffler.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Is shocking league in the league again again.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
But no, I think it's it's just going back to like,
are you talking about it's creating an artificial thing for
the younger audience to say, hey.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I don't know, I don't know watch this.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I don't know of one person that has ever come
up to me and said, hey, the Spurs are in
the Emirates Cup.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
This is a great game. I can't wait to watch
this game.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It to me, it's just another regular season game. That okay,
if it means something else as well, But at the
end of the year, you're trying to establish wins. And
if you have forty seven wins and I have forty
six and you lost the Emirates Cup, it's not that
you lost the Emirates Cup. It said you didn't get
the forty seventh wins someplace else down the road. And
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to me again, these games in December, I mean, I
understand what the league is a guest trying to do
is to create more interest in those games in December exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
But it's not gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You're you could play, you could play any anything in
the world in those months, and if football is on,
football is always gonna win. And it's why golf is
ending its season before Labor Day weekend. It's why, it's
why why the w NBA should try to get it
season over with by the end of before that Labor
Day weekend. Once we get Baseball can't help it. But
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baseball's already said we're not playing on Sunday nights. You
know why baseball is not gonna play on Sunday nights
because I don't care if Jacksonville and Tennessee or playing
each other. No one's gonna watch the game when uh
or no one's gonna No one's gonna watch the World
Series if there's a football game on Sunday night. Football
and they probably shouldn't play on Monday nights either. If
you want to play Tuesday through through Tuesday through Friday
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and maybe a few Saturday nights, you're regionally competing against
some football games. But there's always going to be a
national game on Saturday night that Chris Fawler and Kirk
carp Street are going to call. That's probably more important
than the World Series. And certainly you don't want to
go opposite the NFL. In the seventies and eighties and nineties,
you could go against the NFL and have a chance
to win that that that ratings battle and to get
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people to watch you. But every league in the world
is trying to avoid having anything that matters during its
football during football season. Oh what a.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Shot, though, that was that hard of a shot. That
was pretty easy pitch.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
That's a pretty easy pitch, but that was that was
pretty I mean, not to be honest, Andy, you were like, oh,
he's about to make this.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Again.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I just go back to like how you mentioned it.
The national media talks about, well, we should cut the
season and not start until December because nobody plays, nobody
cares the first twenty thirty games of the season. It's
drawing interest early on into the season and it's also dry.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
But I don't think that I don't think that it is.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I think it's I don't think there's enough people that
have figured out what the Emirates Cup is or what
the is. Twenty years from now, maybe they will, But
was this season three of this three or four?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Three or four?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So I understand that you're trying to get people to
take your eye off of football for a few minutes
and see if your team's going to win an end
season cup, and in in Europe and in Central and
South America and around the country of world, in Asia
and other places that could possibly happen because it's soccer
is king, So you've got an in season thing for
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soccer inside a season. It would be like if the
if the NFL decided to play a three game mini
series in December to crown an in season champion before
we get to the rest of the regular season or
make it part of the regular season, people would probably
pay way more attention to that because they can bet
on it. But it's football is probably the second most
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popular sport in our in our lexicon of sports in America.
I just don't think you can still be you can
beat at the NFL or college football when the and
in December.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
College football is.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Kind of done and until we get to the CFP
and the end of the bowl games. But we certainly
have the NFL on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday, Thursday
Saturday and month Thursday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday in December,
and those are going to be hard for the the
NBA to overcome. But anyway, that's what we got going
on in the Spurs schedules out. You can go to
Spurs dot com or NBA dot.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Com and.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
All of those things are are there for you and
see when they play, and I I'm kind of like,
I'm like kind of like players and coaches, I'll tell
you about the game they're playing when they play it,
because I have no ia. Obviously, playing Cooper Flag the
first game of the season is going to be but
it's going to be interesting. But my guess is Cooper
Flag gets more minutes than Dylan Harper does in the
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in the in the first game of the season.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Ever know, you never know, maybe new head coach Mitch
Johnson throws a curve.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Well, I think he's a start. I think he's a
he's not a starter.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I think the starting lineup, well, I get to if
I get to play coach or manager for for a second. Here,
I'm going Fox Castle and Vassel in the backcourt. I'm
going Wimby in Olenic up front, and I'm bringing Harper
first off the bench along with the probably uhkj bykj
and and when Wimby goes out, likely Cornett and Harrison Barnes.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Those are your top nine. Well again, Champagne, when you need.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
A three point shooter, and maybe you know, so Hanna
and the others kind of and so Hanna and Carter
get in when I can get him in Okay, that's
my rotation in seventy eight games.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Right there, seventy seventy eight. There you go. You know what,
let's not shoot the bar that high. Let's say, uh,
let's hit fifty fifty or so.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, all right, let's talk about Well, I tell I'm
telling you it's going to be a recurring theme. More
Project Marvel stuff to get to and some n I L.
Transfer portal stuff as well. Coming up, it's the Andy
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