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As we get through almost another week here on Ticket
seven sixty, I'm Andy Evert along with our audio disseminators
today that would be Ty Suchick and the producer of
this show, one Michael Barlett. It's Game six of the
NBA Finals tonight. The Oklahoma City Thunder can win their
first ever championship if they win tonight Indianapolis, And for
those of you that are wondering, and I know some
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of you are, yes, this would be Oklahoma Cities and
the franchisees first championship because when the Sonics left Seattle,
the Thunder became a completely new organization. None of the
records from that seventy eight and seventy nine finals appearances,
and the guys like Gus Williams and Downtown Fred Brown
and all of those of you that are old enough
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to remember those guys. They stay in Seattle Lore. Everything
else is Oklahoma City from the eight to nine season on,
and Shay and Holmgren and the company can get this
job done tonight, Tyrese Halliburton's gonna give it a go, Mike,
But I don't know how effective he's going to be.
And if he's not effective, this could be a cakewalk
for the thunder.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I don't know that it will be, but it could be.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well, I'll reiterate what I said yesterday. If coming out
today the doctors look at him and say, look, dude,
you're not going to do any more damage whatsoever. There's
no other risk of how do they know that they
at least have a medical license.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I'll look at it from that perspective. Google dot com
is where they got their their doctorate. Yeah, WebMD.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
But if it's just hey, it's the calf strain, there's
no other risk. Because I heard somebody today talking about, well,
what if it's a potential that he career ending achilles injury.
I'm like, all right, it's the calf, it's on now.
The cat's connected to the achilles. You could hurt the
achilles and you could be out for longer. But my
fingers connected to the achilles at some point, Andy.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Everything's connected exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So if the doctors say you're not going to do
any more damage than what is already done, it's going
to be a pain tolerance thing, then five minutes we'll
see how he is. If there's any hindrance, then then
Rick Carlos has to do a coach popped to Tim Duncan.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Dude, I'm shutting you down, yep.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I have to shut you down because you're becoming a
liability at.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That well it's only a liability, but it's also could
you know, you never know if you could injure an
achilles or something else as well. But we'll talk NBA
Finals coming up here in just a little bit. I've
had more time to dissect the shad Or Sanders speeding
thing the other day, and I've got a which one,
well the latest one, the one oh one in the
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sixty and I'm going to tell you a story in
a little bit about I just don't understand why people
have so much disregard for other people. It's one thing
if you're out on it in between you know, I
don't know, uh San Angelo and El Paso, and you
just want to see how fast your car will go
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for twenty or thirty seconds while still dangerous and technically
against the law. The speed limit I think is eighty
five out there. So if you're going ninety five or
one hundred for a few minutes just to see, hey,
I want to I always want to know what it
was like to go one hundred. At least you're being
somewhat responsible when there's nobody else on the road but you.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
And from the few.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Experience I've had of driving that west, there's not much
traffic once you'll leave Kerrville, I can kind of get that.
But when you're on four ten, or when you're on
too you know McAllister Freeway or the portion that we
call it that, or you're zig zagging in out of traffic.
I mean, how many times have you been driving down
the road and of a sudden you look in your
rearview mirror and there's two guys that are racing each
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other and they're doing one hundred and twenty and there's
egzagging out of traffic to see wherever they're going.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I had that the other day at the quarry. It's
when he won in Vassie and it wasn't one, it
was like five.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
So okay, not only are you not caring about anybody
else on the road, you're putting their lives in danger
as well. And what if Shoulders didn't just get pulled over?
What if he had an accident doing one hundred and
one and somebody died or got seriously hurt because of it.
And this comes back to I don't care whether you're
a quarterback or a center or an offensive linement or
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what position you play. If you're a human being in
the human race, at some point you have to sit
back and go my actions are going to affect others.
Even going sixty miles an hour, there's a possibility that
you could have a catastrophic wreck. And that is exactly
exaggerbated more as you get a little bit faster with
your speed. But I don't understand the infatuation with speed.
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When you you're going from pointy to point B and
pointed to point b, it's five or six miles if
it was one hundred miles and you're in a hurry
to get someplace. While I don't condone it, I understand
your your thought process, but going one hundred and sixty
for five miles is going to give you about, I
don't know, you know, forty five seconds faster getting to
point eight to point B maybe a minute and a
half at the most.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's just not worth it. But I got some thoughts
on that as well.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
All right, Colin and I agree on something else he
talked about today. I think that this will be Lebron
James's final year with the Lakers, coming this coming here,
he's going to.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Sign the he signed, the one he's got.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Well, he's got one year left on his deal, and
he's talked about, you know, I may want to play
for several more years. And the bus family, whether it
was Jerry or Jeanie, have always been about family. They've
always been about Okay, it's magic. We're going to keep
him around to do something even if he can't do it,
or whatever he wants, just because it's magic.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
We want him here.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And they certainly allowed after Shack left, for Kobe to
basically dictate who the coach was and who his teammates were,
and I understand to a certain extent why, because he
wanted guys around him that we're going to actually work
and play, play hard. And then now that Lebron's been there,
he's kind of been the not only the star that
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stirs the drink, but he's also the guy that basically Genie.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Bus listens to.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And it's kind of the thing that is kind of
ingrained into the Bus family that you take care of family.
The Dodgers group is about we're going to win, and
we don't care whether your family or not. Can you
can you help us win? And well, I think they
will care a little bit about history and the ex
Lakers will always be welcome in the arena. We're not
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going to just hang on to a guy like Lebron
James when he's forty three, forty four, forty five years old,
just because he wants to, and because Rich Paul's his
agent and he has so much power.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We have power too.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
We've got more money than he does, and we're going
to do what we want to make this team competitive.
That's how the Dodgers are being run. And they've they've
moved on off of some very good players to get
some other very good players.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And my thought is that the.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Laker organization will be back to be running like the
Dodgers are in other franchises. I don't know if that's
going to be good or bad, but it's certainly going
to be different.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I like your thought process.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
But as long as Adam Silver is still the commissioner
of the league and the NBA is still going to
milk the golden goose, obviously you know they don't milk,
but they're going to squeeze as much juice out of
Lebron James as they possibly.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I think the Lakers organization can defeat Adam Silver. They
can say, listen, he's forty four years old, he wants
fifty million dollars. We're not paying it, and and if
you'll take a pay cut to seven, then we'll have
him as I'll come off the bench player. But we're
starting over. We're getting it. We're going to build around Luca.
This is no longer his team, and that's kind of
a you know, Rachel Nichols talked about that the other day.
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You're a billionaire, why don't you take the league minimum?
As a veteran and just go play if that's what
you want to do. His he goes way too too
high for that to happen. There's been some players that
have done that. But I think that this organization, Adam Silver,
would not be approving the sale of a team to
this group and then tell that team who they can
sign and not sign. And if these guys don't want
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Lebron on the team after this year.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
He won't be.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
But here's the other issue, because you mentioned it, Rich Paul,
Clutch Sports. They they have become so powerful to where
they con dictate a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Let me throw something else out there.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Is there going to be a rule that the NBA
tries to pass that after Rich Paul gets so many
athletes signed, as far as basketball is concerned, that there's
a limit on what he can have.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
No, because Rich Paul and that organization with Clutch Sports,
I would commend them to hire a lawyer and then
go sue the NBA forct some type.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Of restriction of trade. Yeah. Restraint of trade. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And you know there's I could conceivably see eighty ninety
percent of the league being represented by him. But I
think that there's a downside to that. And while that's
good for the players, it's terrible for the owners because
then they're gonna have to do whatever Lebron and Rich
Paul say. And and if Lebron is seventy five years
old and wants to make one hundred and twenty million
dollars and sit on the end of the bench because
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he needs a walker to get on the court, then
they're going.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
To have to do it.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Now, obviously, I'm saying something very extreme and facetious, but
you cannot allow the players to dictate how you run
your organization. And the problem is is that when Rich
Paul says, okay, good luck signing free agents. If you
don't take care of Lebron, we're not signing with you.
No matter who they are, None of my guys are
signing with you. You're going to be the worst team
in the league.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
So, according to the Googles, right now, there are two
hundred players in the NBA, NFL, MLB, and WNBA that
are represented.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Like, how many those are NBA players?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Stall for time good because I would think if it's
two hundred total, let's say it's one hundred in the NBA,
that's only a fourth of the of the players. Then
you have to ask the question, how many of that
fourth are players that are of impact, how many of
the top twenty or twenty five players are that because
the Lakers are eventually going to try to go after
free agents when they become free agents that are in
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the top twenty thirty players in the league, and if
they're represented by Rich Paul, that's going to be a problem.
If he's not, if they're not doing what he tells
them to do. We'll get to more of that coming
up in a little bit. The Spurs are still holding
on trying to figure out what they want to do.
They have been apparently, if you believe the Internet, they've
been offered some really nice packages to get Kevin Durant
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and to get Jannis or the other teams have demanded
a lot more than the Spurs are willing to give up.
And I think this is going to be interesting to
see if the Spurs give up that much. Which a
lot of that has talked to a centered around the
talk of Steph Castle. To me, Fox, Castle and Wimby
are the three guys that are protected and would would
never be part of any kind of a trade. I
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don't care who the trade is thirty eight thirty eight
NBA players thirty eight NBA. That's not enough yet to
have a to have him, but I have the thirty eight.
There's probably some important ones in there, yep.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Aaron Fox, Anthony Davis, Uh, your guy, Tyrese Maxey, de
Jonte Murray is in there. Fred van Vliet there obviously,
Lebron Keldon. Keldon Johnson is a clutch sports guy as well.
Darius Garland Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You got a mix.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, I remember a couple of weeks ago Becky signed
with him with them.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah. I wasn't happy about that one.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well, she's turning to the dark, so well, sometimes you
have to go to the evil empire to get what
you want. Oh, Becky, listen, if I was an NBA player,
I wouldn't not I would not say no to a
rich Paul Off or he's gonna get you paid, and
I would have some guidelines for him, but I would
certainly I would certainly look into that.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
He would look at you and say, that's cute. I
appreciate you at least having guidelines, but we're not going
to go by that.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, we're going to get you the Maxi money, so
we get the max money. If you don't like it,
go somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
All right.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
The SEC wants to stay at eight games, and that's
what's holding up the twenty twenty six and beyond CP arrangement.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
We'll tell you about that. I told you that they
are going.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
To want to stay at eight games, and I'll reiterate
why the Big the Big twelve, and the is it
nine and the big tens at nine, and they want
everybody to go to nine. I think the ACC's at nine.
They want the SEC to join them so that the
strength of schedule is more compatible. But the SEC wants
to play that extra game against nobody that matters so
they can fill up their stands and pay everybody.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
So we'll talk about all that.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Scotty Scheffler's nine under par with three holes to play
at the Travelers and he's in the lead.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Roy's at minus six.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Jordan Speith, not feeling very well, has something around his
neck and the shoulder area, and he has withdrawn after
five over through fourteen through thirteen holes, and he had
ball to bunker and tried to advance it, shanked it
right and said I'm done, and so no more golf
for Jordan speed.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
For the rest of this week.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Let's talk about the NBA Finals and the Indiana Oklahoma
City matchup that comes your way this evening, and then
we'll get at all the other stuff we just mentioned.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
It's the Indie everage show. On the ticket,