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of the Andie Everage clock struck four o'clock in here,
we are welcome to the program the night after the
Oklahoma City Thunder moved within a game of being on
top of the NBA basketball world for a twenty twenty
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four to twenty five season, and guess what, we're just
a few more months away from the season commencing again
in October.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm Andy Everett. Thank you for being with us today.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Our audio disseminators on this program are one Taysuchik and
also Michael Bartlett, the producer of this show. I often
say that what goes on before the show, during the
breaks of this show, during the day in this show,
and it should be a movie. It actually should.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We should.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We should script it. We'll not script it because you
can't script it. It just stuff that happens. But it
may be far more entertaining than the show actually is.
And I try to think that this show is somewhat
entertaining from time to time.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, let's not do that.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I might have broken something at the top of the hour,
but you know, Tye helped me out. So but no,
we were on time.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We were perfectly on time.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, I I got like three clocks in here, and
they all have a different time. We're all about thirty
seconds off.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We don't go by those clocks. We go by the
clock that is in where Tie is at. That clock
said it was four o'clock.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
We pushed the button. That's why we pushed the button. Awesome,
all right?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
What a game last night from the Thunder and especially
Jalen Williams and Jay Dubb was asked after the game
by Lisassalters. They pulled it within two in the fourth quarter,
He go, they did.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
He didn't even know.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
What the score was. I get it. He was just
locked in unscoring forty last night. Now I want to
pump the brakes just a little bit, because I saw
somebody today that said Jalen Williams is now the second
is the best number.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Two player in the league. Second coming of Scottie Pippen
is who are? Who are? Who were?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Can we back off just a little bit? Can we?
Can the anointing oil not come out just yet?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I mean, they haven't even won the series yet. It
looks like they're going to. But I mean think back
two years ago when the Denver Nuggets won, and we
were already talking about, Oh, Denver Nuggets are going to
be the newest dynasty. They're gonna last for the next
five six years. We're already crowning, you know, the Oklahoma
crown them. They're gonna be the next dynasty for the
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next five to six years.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And it's like, can we just can we at least
let them get to the first one? Yeah? Can they
win one first? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And I'm gonna talk about this again because obviously Doug
and the crew listened to us earlier in the week,
of course, and last week because I said yesterday, I
think you could make a strong argument that Indiana will
be the best team in the East next year.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I think Boston will get blown up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You don't know about Philadelphia, you don't know about Milwaukee.
The Knicks are in disarray with their coaching situation. I
think that you could make the case at Indiana going
into next season, depending on what they do in the draft,
could be the favorites to win the East. But I
think you could make a case that there's about seven
teams that could win the West. And that's why this
championship I think is uber important for Oklahoma City because
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they may never be back to the finals. And it's
not because they're not a good team. It's because everybody
else in the West is equally or almost as good
as they are. So we'll get into that discussion coming
up in just a little bit. But I like one
of the things that Oklahoma City reminds me of in
so many ways is some of the ways that the
Spurs won some of their championships, uh, fourteen, seven, five
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and three, especially in that Okay, we're gonna play with
you for a little bit, but when we want to
turn it on, we flip the switch and all of
a sudden, it's a four point game and it goes
to sixteen.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, that's kind of what I was getting the vibe
of last night, and even with a healthy tyrese Haliburton
Oklahoma City. At this point, it's you know, it's the
thanosence reference in Marvel. He's I didn't watch Marvel, so
it's a great movie. But it's inevitable the Oklahoma City
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Thunder will win Game six, regardless of especial especially health.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Or not he's got.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
He's got a string calf. It's just a matter of
how bad the string calf is. And listen, I'm a
I don't dislike Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Smith.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I think he's a really I think he's really good
at what he does. Is he over the top, Yes,
but day's paid to do that. If you listen to
him in other things other than sports, he's got a
he's got a lot of common sense. But when he
says what Halliburton did tonight was unacceptable, oh six, Listen,
if he sits on the bench because he's hurt, he's hurt,
we're going to call him kawhi Leonard. Oh you're not
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tough enough to go out there and play. Oh you
got a sore leg, big deal? You can walk? Can't
you get yourself out there? And he said, if I
can walk, I'm going to play. And so he goes
out there with you know, bubblegum and barb wire to
you know, tape up his leg and now all of
a sudden, oh, well he was not very good because
he had a bad game. But he had a bad
game because he was hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Go figure. And so either way he loses.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And the Pacers need him and need him to score
a lot of points and be productive and assists and
get to the free throw line. And when you're playing
on one wheel, that's often very hard to do. We'll
get into that more coming up in a bit. Utsa
today signed their baseball coach Pat Almark to a extension
through twenty twenty nine, less than a week after their
elimination from the College World Series Super Regional last week.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Should be another fun season for them next year.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I think some of those players are coming back and
they've got him sewn up. And I would imagine somewhere
along that conversation as they were negotiating the deal, there
was some kind of a commitment to rebuild the stadium,
or to upgrade the stadium, or do whatever they're going
to do to create more infrastructure around the bird bath.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, I hate that it wound up the way that
that story happened.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I hate that.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I think it was just an oversight on both parts.
I think some people thought it was twenty six clerical
air but sad yeah, unfortunately somebody didn't prof read the document.
But hey, we fixed it exactly at the end of
the day, it doesn't matter how you got.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It fixed, as long as it gets fixed.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Forty pairs of eyes looked at it and took pictures
and said, this is this is a.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Six and a five. Sometimes they typo the same way.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Does this look like a nine or an eight to you?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
No, this isn't nine. All right, we're good or good
on that.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
So another swing and a solid hit for one, Doctor
Lisa Commas absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Lebron James has spoken out again. Lebron has said yesterday
that he plans on playing next year and the idea
is for him to get his knee in shape, which
we had no doubt. And you said yesterday that he's
thinking about playing well beyond forty three and maybe forty
five or forty six, which I don't care, as long
as he can play a little bit, you know, rolling
out there and let's see what happens. But he was
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talking about the NBA's culture in that we define greatness
by championships. I don't think we define greatness of a
player by championships because there's a lot of great ones
that never won championships.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Karl Malone and Charles.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Barkley are two that come to mind quickly that they
never won championships, but that doesn't take away.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
From their greatness.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
John Stockton, John Stockton, yep, that's another one.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
EP. Three, Steve Nash, Charles Barklay.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I think championships, championships may take away from your legacy,
but they don't take away from your greatness, and you
can use it with any sports. I mean there's baseball
players that never won World Series. And like Adam Scott
and the golfer was asked the other day does he
consider himself a Hall of Famer? And he said not
till I went a second Major. Well, everybody on the
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planet considers Adam Scott a Hall of Fame, a Hall
of Famer, but in his mind, he doesn't think he
is deserving of that because he's only won one major
and he's had plenty of chances to win others. I
got some thoughts on that coming up here in a
little bit. Speaking of golf, Jay Monahan's gonna step down
at the end of the twenty twenty six season.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
They've already hired somebody. Aw Man, they beat me to it.
You know, I don't know that i'd want that job.
I got to put up with a bunch of egotistical golfers.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Are two knobs to begin with.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
That you would, but see, you're an egotistical snob golfer,
actually am. You would put them in their place and
be like, look, who's the commissioner. I'm the commissioner. We're
doing it this way. Live, You're going away, John Ram,
you want to play.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Here, quit live otherwise hundred million.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Otherwise you're never seeing You're never stepping foot on Augusta
ever again.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, I don't have that power, even its missioner. You
don't have that power.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
But I would fight the USGA and the RNA on
the golf ball reduction and distance rollback thing that they
want because I think that's ridiculously stupid and we don't
need to do that. So we'll get into that coming up.
Kevin Durant has spoken out again. He says, you know,
I'd really like to play for the Spurs and all
the all the people out there that are quote following
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what I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Of all the secret things that teams do, and the
Spurs are the best at keeping secrets, but every team
wants to keep secrets in their their cards close to
their chest right now during this time of the year.
I don't know how they get information as to what
teams have actually offered unless somebody very high up in
an organization is actually telling them that so that it
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be because they want it to become public. Sometimes people
leak information wanting it to become public. Sometimes they leak
it hoping that it will become public, but they the
organization doesn't really want it to. But listen, we know
what this spurs half, and there's three players that they're
not going to get rid of. Whimby and Fox and
Castle are off limits. Everybody else is going to come down.
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And even if Fox obviously has enough money, but Castle
doesn't make enough money yet to make any trade matter anyway,
he would just be the player that they would want
because of his the upside of his skill set. But
I'm not going to give you. I'm not giving you
Steff Castle after I've developed him for a year, and
I don't think the Spurs are going to part with
him either. And I've said this since you know, yesterday
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and even last week. Dylan Harper only has minutes on
the floor. I think if Devin Vessel is not here,
so you could potentially place a five year veteran of
the Cell with a rookie in Harper if the Cell
has to be part of a trade package, and with
him making the most money on the team, and you've
got to get to fifty four million as quickly as
you can to get to the rants numbers, that's you're
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a little bit more than halfway there when you pick him,
or right at the million or two pass halfway. So
whatever they do, I'm sure that they're going to look
at all the offers. And now here's the other scenario
we'll get into a little bit. How many draft picks
are you going to have to give up for Kevin
Durant and the drawbacks of the extension. I'm starting to
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wonder do you really want to give Kevin Durant at
thirty seven and thirty eight sixty million dollars or is
he just is it too much of a risk at
his age?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
So that'll be a part of the topics as well show.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Hey o Tani, pitch last night, got one pitch at
one hundred miles an hour. We'll get into all that
kind of conversation coming up here in a little bit,
and we'll start our breakdown of all the sports stuff
with the Indiana and Oklahoma City game last night as
the thunder Thursday night back in Indianapolis can wrap up
the series and if they can't win Game six, they'll
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have to do it next Sunday as we extend the
playoffs yet even further out. At least a couple of
days may give Haliburton a chance to rest the calf injury,
but my guess is that it's not going to be
much better from last night to Thursday. All right, all
that straight ahead, more basketball discussion. Next, it's the Andy
Everage Show on the TIC