040824 400 The Best Damn Sports Segment Period

 A UT football player was arrested and charged with DWI! NCAA Woman’s Basketball is awesome! We love Kyrie Irving! 

Episode Transcript

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All right, mister Dallas is gonnabe long in just a little bit.
We'll see what he's got today.Fun Drive coming up at five. But
right now we got this. Thisis the best damn oh my god.

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Well, our last radio segment wasabout people making poor decisions, and I
thought, you know what, whynot follow that vein as we get into
the best damn sports segment period.We've got some cool stuff on the Dallas
Mavericks and where they're at, theTexas Rangers and where they're at. But
I wanted to start it off withwhat you doing man? Former Texas Longhorns
Defense have tackled to Andandre Sweat wasbooked into Travis County jail on Sunday.

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Sweat, twenty two years old,was arrested by the Austin PD at two
twelve pm and charged with d wTovandre Sweat is about a three hundred and
fifty pound human who, hearing aboutthree weeks, is going to get drafted
into the NFL. It is notimpossible that he goes on the very first

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night man in the first round,probably more likely in the second round,
certainly more likely now, certainly morelikely now. And that is just one
of those things where it's like,man, there ain't a worse time to
do dumb stuff than three weeks beforethe event that shapes how much money you
make for the next half decade.It is absolute last place. It is

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just incredible. If there was atime to get a DUI, I would
say two months from now, he'sgolden. Yeah, two much showers have
already been written. Two years agois fine. You know, have some
time to work through that and havepeople speak to your character, because I
don't know how many people remember this. Dak had at UI in college.
He did back out a d UIin college. And it's one of those

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things that if you ask people whostudy the draft, or if you happen
to know anybody that works for ateam that was in the room when they
interview guys that got an A plusplus for character coming out of college,
he's like, you know, DUI, and they're like, yeah, he
made a bad decision a couple ofyears ago. But like, if you
know everything about this guy and hehad a weird fight on a beach,
no one in our front office isjudging d u us. What do you

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mean tcuh. So, Yeah,there's a poor decision that creates an opportunity
for a blue Star special. Getready to find a nice defensive tackle at
a little bit of a discount.Because our boy did a little day drinking
over the weekend. Two twelve pmis what we all set out to me.
What day was it? Saturday,Sunday, Sunday? So he did

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a little church drinking. I believehe was actually arrested at five am,
and then I guess booked or wellthat's when he got booked. Okay,
that that lines it up to takethe typical stuff. Huh, yeah,
I take back everything. This isa perfectly normal twenty two year old.
Yeah, he got drunk overnight andthen maybe with a perfect perfectly normal DUI.

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Yeah, if he was hammering downfireballs at church and then got his
DWI on the way home, thatwould be bad. Five am though,
I mean that's a long night.I a lot of party, and you
could almost say that you napped andthen you thought you were okay and drove
home or something. Maybe he did. Yeah, if you want to give
somebody the benefit of the doubt,I think that's a good legal strategy.
But yes, he did. Hedrank the night prior and he went to

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sleep and then he woke up andit was time to go home. It's
morning, and they're like, yeah, he blew a point three six like
he just finished up forty eight beers. I don't know the number on it.
Yeah, but it's pretty dumb.All you have to do is not
drive, you know, find apouch somewhere, and it happened. I
think nothing's going to happen to me. It is probably a pretty bullet proof

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time. YEP. It is forsomebody like that, when you are on
the doorstep to millions of dollars.He will have millions of dollars on either
April twenty ninth or April thirtieth,or whenever they signed the contract. After
he gets drafted, he will knowthat he has he's gonna have four or
five million bucks in the bank.And I it's shocking to me that leading

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up to that you would have this. Yeah, and I was shocking at
all. Yeah, I expect it. I guess it shouldn't be shocking because
we get it all the time,and no one when they start driving,
figures they're going to be pulled over. You know. He thought he was
just fine, I just have todrive home. I'm good. I'm a

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better driver after a few drinks.I did this last week. It turned
out great. Yeah. That isthe thing about the DUI DWI is just
that drinking is so so so massivelyingrained in our society, that like,
that's the thing that you do.That it's not unusual at all for a
young person to be drunk. Andhere's the thing about and you're drunk,

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your decision making is impaired. Yep. So it's easy to be like,
no, you can't drive, idiot, But you're not in that brain.
In that brain, we're not hereto make good decisions. We're just here
to go wherever we're going. It'stime to go home. I have a
way to get home. I'm gonnatake it and drive. You never think
about if you're all right or not, if you're well enough to drive.

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You never think about that. Iwould say I'm gonna break news here and
say that I have driven under theinfluence in my life. It's happened.
And I would say that somewhere inthere you pass the point of that conscious
decision where like, and maybe I'mnot speaking for everyone, I don't know,
but I feel like if you've hadtwo or three drinks. You know

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that you've had two or three drinksand this works. I'm probably below point
zero eight, And even if I'mflirting with the number, I'm confident in
my abilities right now. Boy,once you get four times that in you,
I don't think you're doing. Likeeven if somebody tries to help you
out and they're like, no,this is a bad idea, Like that
stuff doesn't even register. You're justhammered. You're saying, fie, you

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just want sleep. You want bed? Yeah, bed. And it's even
worse when I wants that company ofthe woman that you're with. Very possible.
Boy, could you imagine three fifty? I always take an experience.
You think he likes big women.I don't know. I always I don't

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know. Do we do a proportionlike big? Yeah? Is it on
average? Or people proportionate in thatway? I don't know. I'm just
asking, Yeah, I don't know. He's three fifty air bit of it.
He might be probably played a threesixty. Every time I've been out
drinking, when I get the carto go home, I stop down and

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just try to evaluate where I am. But I almost never talk myself out
of it. Right, And thereare times when I probably should, but
I almost, but I very seldomhave. And everything that you guys are
talking about, that's why this shouldn'tbe his decision. If he's got an
agent, if that's worth anything,then every time you're going out drinking between

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your last day of being at Texasand your first day of the draft,
you need someone else there who's makingthe call for you, who's they're the
drivers, somebody who will benefit fromhow large your contract is. Yes,
yes, your age hits X numberpercent, so he lost money today too,
And he's old enough to know howthis stuff goes. And you need

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to have someone there that's figuring allof this out. But you got to
listen to the guy who's figuring allthis stuff out. Yeah, I'm sure
he's formalized very well before the firstdrink. That guy has your keys or
like your keys aren't there because yourcar's not there because the guy who works
for the agent drove you to whereveryou're drinking. Yeah, in a perfect

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world, I'm sure it goes thatway. And I promise you every player
that's going to be a top onehundred pick has people who are advising them
how to comport themselves. At thistime. But the idea that like that
person's going to be with you everyday not realistic. How bad do you
want that? How much? Whatpercent does an agent get? Three to
five? Okay, something like sofive percent of however many million? Yeah?

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Mine back? Where you go?Five? And he didn't do anything.
So that was very sad. Heshould have been my driver. Where'd
you go in the draft? Uh? Very high? Jeff dropping the news
on everyone that he had an agent. I had an agent once upon time,
and I'm here to advise you thatif it does not become readily apparent
that they serve you in a bigway, fire them. Don't do it.

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Yeah, I had one too,and my advice don't fire it.
Run over them, yes, yes, in your car. Uh yeah.
I think it's even more embarrassing whenit happens to the pro players, because
I know it works this way inthe NFL, and I assume it works
this way in every pro league.They have people for this. There's a

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phone number in your phone. Theyhave free alto uber left where it's like
you hit the button, Yeah,here they come. Then it costs literally
nothing, and yet it still happensall the time. We drink a lot.
I don't know if you guys knewthat. We humans, Yeah,
we drink yep, it's kind ofwhat we did. And you hit that

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number, the only thing you gotto do is go get your car the
next day. That's it. Yeah, Yeah, I think the best decision
is don't give yourself the chance.Yeah, if you're going out and you
know that you're going to be drinking, and you know yourself, and drinking
doesn't mean that you're going to havea drink. It means you're going to
drink. You don't take your vehiclewith you to the place. And now

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we have simplified the equation because yourway home is not your car. Yeah,
so in your car, that's thebest chase scenario. Well, we'll
tell you to and Andre sweat gettinga DWI if that drops you around in
the draft, the Cowboys don't haveanybody that plays nose tackle at an NFL
level on their roster at the moment, So you know, position of me.
Yeah, maybe you're staring down ablue star special little second rounder that

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comes up to rubbing his hands together. Oh yeah, Jerry does like it
quite a bit. If they playedwell at a school that's located near Dallas,
Yeah, or at Arkansas. It'sclose enough for Dallas, or at
Michigan. Recently, real weirder one, real affinity for Michigan has been going
on around these parts. What ifhe just took them in the first round'd

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be pretty cool, Like, youknow what, screw it, We're not
letting anyone else get a chair.Yeah, they made a really bad decision
to take a run stopping defensive linemanin the first round last year. Why
not double down and be like,not only did we make a bad decision
in the position we picked, We'dlike to double down on that bad decision.
He's a guy that Jerry can understand. Yeah, let's see we can
make a worse one. Cheers,just like drinking. Huh. I know,

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We've all. I know, buddy, I got you. Next thing
in the best damn sports segment periodthat has my attention is yesterday I watched
Make Shared by Days right, Yeah, yesterday I watched the women's college National
Championship, and I watched Don Staleyand her South Carolina game Cocks complete the

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perfect season and win by double digitsover IOWA and Caitlin Clark. And when
Iowa played LSU in the Elite eight, I said, because they broke the
record for viewers of a women's collegebasketball game, which they had broken the
year before when Iowa played LSU inthe national title game. Well, they

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broke that again in the Elite eight. And so next up was the Final
four, which was Iowa and Yukon, and I put in the prediction that
they won't break it again because Ido think that LSU was part of the
poll. But their next game wasagainst Yukon, they broke the record again.
They just played the championship game andthey broke the record again. And

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TC, you told me the numberin the break was at eighteen point seven,
which I believe is ahead. Ithink I read this right. They
I'm pretty sure they said that's aheadof all the NBA Finals. Who that
wouldn't surprise me, knowing that Iknow it was a down year for ratings
last year. But the Rangers theNBA Finals, Well, wait all of
or each individual game. I thinkthat they're said, yeah, each individual

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game. They said it was thehighest rated basketball game on ESPN, ABC
in X number of years possible,So no NBA Finals game had a higher
rating than that. I think that'swhat I mean that's over double the average
World Series game from last year.Most watched basketball basketball game, men's,
women's, college or pro since twentynineteen. Okay, okay, So the

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most watched basketball game of the lastfive six years was just played by the
lady, including the ones that Jamesplays in. Yes, yes, yes,
yes, including Steph Curry, peopleof this nature. Yeah yeah yeah.
And I don't so like it gotme. Yeah. Yeah. And
if you would have asked me,I guess it's just pre Caitlyn Clark.

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If you would have asked me aboutwatching women's basketball, I'd have been like,
no, I don't, like,I'm not going out of my way
to run them over. But I'dbe like, no, I'm good,
like I'm not. Two years ago, the championship game four point five million.
Yeah, I don't know who wasin it. I don't either.
South Carolina was trying to get backthere. I believe Okay. I believed
year LSU won. The year beforethat, South Carolina won, Okay,

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I believe you. So like preCaitlin Clark, I was like, no,
but I watched the championship game.Last year. I watched Iowa's game
in the Elite eight. The FinalFour. I watched championship yesterday. I
went on a date with TC togo watch Iowa and Yukon. We had
a great time. We did,really we had We had a great time,

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and I yes, I don't know. I'm just I'm kind of surprised
at my own reaction to it andto see that the general public mirrors it.
I wonder what happens now. Doesthat Caitlin Clark momentum which then spread
to those around her that she playedagainst, and the awareness that has grown

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and the interest that has been shown, is that about to carry over?
Are we going to mention the WNBAon our show? If I told you
that she was playing the Wings tomorrow, we could get in for forty bucks?
Isn't that one hundred percent all day? I think so? I think
I would go. I would definitelydrive Darlington to see her play for forty

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bucks. I think it was fungetting to know the other best players in
women's college basketball by proxy, whenit's like, yeah, they're playing this
team and here's their best players,and now you're playing this team and there's
their best players, and yeah,maybe at all like finding out the page
last name was the guy that uhor was the lady that Yukon took instead
of Caitlin Clark, and now they'replaying head to head. Yeah, now

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I'm interested in Page Beckers. Yeah, Gino got sent home because he never
came to a Caitlin Clark open gymand it was her dream school, but
it was the same class as PaigeBeckers. Gina was like, I don't
need to go see that girl.I got the best player in the country.
She I'll play here, and thenCaitlyn sent him home. That's super

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cool. Getting back to your questionof what happens now, Yeah, after
all that, were you interested?I was interested, but I didn't do
anything about it. Okay, I'llbet what happens is nothing. The status
quo will remain and that sport willwe'll pretty much hold forth where it is

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until she was a one off.Yeah, drew the eye of America.
Yes, and then we'll go backto where we were. Yeah, and
it's going to take something else different, something maybe at least as good,
if not better. But she's probablygonna have to have some sort of I

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don't know, second party trick.In addition to being a really good basketball
player that captures the fancy of themasses. Do you think we need the
really good basketball players to be hot? Yeah? Probably, Like I don't
think it hurts that draws the maleattention. That's a horrible thing to say.
But you are you implaying that she'snot? I mean she's a standard

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looking humor, are we playing hotor not she's not? Ye? Yeah,
We're we turned this into hot ornot. So I don't attract Yeah,
I don't think she's ugly. Ithink I think she clears the minimum
bar from what you're talking about.Now, this is Caitlin we're talking about.
Yeah, yeah, that's about whatI think. Yeah, yeah,
you know, she's certainly not unattractive. Yeah, but but like the person
who makes the most money in women'scollege sports, and it may not be

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the most, but she's right upthere is a super average LSU gymnast.
Yeaheah, because she's super hobby.What I heard game is, yeah,
the girl from a golf could hitthree pointers like Cleaven Clark sporadic. I
think that the WNBA would be explodingin popularity. Yeah, that is weird.

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I did read that some of thethings that they're considering for next year,
which is like a direct result ofthese really good TV ratings, have
real locker room. The attention isunit distribution. So like the team's earning
financial rewards for their wins, okayfor one, well yeah, because they're
very very like they don't now,but NBA players don't get money for wins.

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Is that what you're talking about.We're talking about college in Cuba.
Yeah. Oh but so right now, if a men's team wins a game
in the tournament, they get moneyfor it, and the women's you're saying,
don't currently kind of what this implies. That seems awful. Yeah,
I guess it's good that the casethey had a three point line the wrong
distance and they played a whole bracketon it. Yeah, yeah, they

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they fixed it for the last gamethere, and the fix was not real,
like the paint just didn't go allthe way to the line and nobody
was sure. Which was the lastand afterthought, it's like, well,
we have to have this available forwomen because it's here for men. So
here you go. It's like it'sa they're climbing an uphill battle from the
beginning, and it's going to takestats like that, like the most watched

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basketball game on ESPN in five years, or whatever for people to be like,
Okay, maybe we should a lotsome resources to this or reward these
teams and these schools for their wins. It's kind of crazy that that's what
it takes. But if there's goingto be half assedness on one side or
the other, it's going to beon the women's side. It just is
Yeah, and that's what that's whatthey're battling. Also, they're considering a

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new format with more neutral sites ratherthan the higher seeds hosting all of the
games, just probably because those neutralsites would garner a lot more attention and
people would want to travel maybe towatch these games and all of that.
So those are just a couple ofthe things. Like, as an immediate
response, this just happened letter beingtalked about. I like it when if

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you do better you get a homegame. I mean the way the men
I think that it sounds like essentiallythe suggesting is that the will of the
men do it. They'll start doingit that way. They'll put them on
even footing in terms of the format, and they'll they'll usually make it so
that it's close. If you're abetter seed, it's closer to you.
Yeah, you know that if ifthe Longhorns are a number one seed,

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that maybe Dallas would get the regionalthing. Yeah. Well if Dallas ever
gets i don't know, Maine againstOhio University, that's gonna be a pretty
tough tough draw. That will bea tough draw. Yeah, yeah,
that probably would not draw very well. So she finished with thirty points,
eight rebounds, and five assists inher final college game. You're a really
good player, said that there's noregret about not winning a title. And

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it started out looking it's nice.Seven seven to nothing. Eyes set a
record for the most points in aquarter in the first quarter. Yeah,
it was a fun game to watch, and I actually saw some of the
game stuff, and it was prettyclear who the better team was because even
like Caitlin Clark at the podium,like she was talking about being proud of

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where they got to and like thisyear, we're probably even more proud than
last year because the people we lostand this and that how hard it was.
And when she got to losing thegame and she was like in it's
South Carolina's really good. Yeah,she wasn't even pretending like, you know,
if we would have done this differentor that different, it was like,
yeah, South Carolina, like theymay not have as big a name
as we have or the other twoteams we just did. But although apparently

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they're six seven big is a wonderfulbasketball player, but they were just like,
no, they're they're real good andwe tried our best. But it
was cool. It was fun.I enjoyed it. I have no idea
where it goes from here. Ihave no idea if I'm going to try
to watch an Indiana Fever game orwhoever has the number one overall pick in
the WNBA. That's it, okay, But it was it was it was

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fun to watch. I enjoyed itthoroughly. This is the best damn sports
segment period. I want to playone thing of audio for you. So
the Mavericks got a big win overthe Rockets yesterday and it was freakin' awesome,
Dante exem hitting a buzzer beater tosend him in overtime and then they
just beat the brakes off the Rocketsin overtime. And we're gonna come back
to what has been a theme ofthe Speakeasy this entire season, which is

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it can't be a revelation anymore.So we've said it too many times,
but every time Kyrie Irving speaks,I want to hear it because it's like
a blueprint for here. I wantto show you leadership. And there have
obviously been times in his career whereyou might not say that, but our
experience in Dallas so far, that'sthe heartbeat of your team. That's the

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leader of your team. That isthe guy that all of the players gravitate
toward and view as the guy that'sgonna take them where they're gonna go.
And obviously Luca's play will, butKyrie's the dude. And after the game
was over, I loved that skinwas with Kyrie Irving and so here is
just a conversation and when it's done, you're gonna go Yep, that's our

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leader. Funny are the emotions thatyou're feeling right now? I'm depleted,
man, Energetically, I'm depleted.Man. I gave it all. I
left it all out there on thefloor and grateful to my teammates. We
kept battling and kept doing a littlethings, and we trusted one another.
It's been a big staple for usthis year. He's just continuing to believe

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and continue to push through do yourealize you had twenty five points after the
third quarter? Though. It's incrediblestuff and there's so much to talk about
with you guys, but I wantto hear your thoughts on guys like x
sum in Washington and some of theshots they hit. Now, we kept
believing, and we knew that theadjustments that the Rockets made in the first
half, we knew they couldn't keepit up, and we knew that they
had to match our offensive fire power, so we knew that eventually we get

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stops in. Those guys made timethe South. They maybe probably the biggest
out of the game, man,not they took us to overtime and we
were able to take it home.Some proud of the guys, man,
it's a team effort. But Ijust saw you with your arms around lucas
the clock was winding down. Youguys have been a dynamic duo for this
steam. Yeah. Absolutely, man. We worked so hard, man,
and we take on so much tooppress there ourselves, and we want to

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be successful. And I think itspills over to our teammates and it could
feel that mentality and it wears offon him. All right, what do
you guys got to do with oneweek left in this season, have some
fun, enjoyed us ride and getready for you know, the hardest soul
of the season. And that's whatI'm most excited about. But we're gonna
take these days and enjoy it.Man. We got start that in Miami,
and you's got to take care ofbusiness and the season, right.

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You know what I wonder about?What's that? What do these guys who
have had him on their teams inthe past where things have not gone well,
and you know, in some ofthe situations that has given him the
reputation that he brought with him here, which we found nothing of the sort

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going on. What do they thinkabout this and everything? I hear that
reputation comes from coaching in front officeand not from players. Players love him.
Anytime he played the Celtics. Wheneverhe was on the nets, it
was big line of handshakes, brohugs. His teammates have always loved it.
Okay, well, I can digthat, But I wonder what,

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you know, the guys who arethe decision makers and coaches and Joe say,
yeah, people who have have hadyou know, subpar experiences with it.
Joe Sai hates him, I'm surehe's furious. I bet I bet
they're Yeah, I bet they're watchingand they're saying, just wait. Yeah,
because his experience in every other townhas been either stepping in it in

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some way on the internet or forcinghis way out or whatever. It's never
ended well with an organization. Sothey're all looking at it and going just
wait. Because Dallas got him becausenobody wanted it, Yeah, like nobody
wanted to find it right, becausenobody. Nobody wanted to Max salary give
up stuff for Kyrie Irving because they'relike, well, one's he going to

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force his way out of here?And so like everything about it has just
felt so damn lucky, Like theMavericks got lucky. They were the desperate
team that thought they had to makethe move for KP. They were the
desperate team that thought they had tomake the move for Kyrie Irving. And
we have just been blessed and lucky. Yeah. And he's healthy. Yeah,
it's the healthiest he's been in adecade. Ycause the first half of

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the season we had all this luckand missing on a game. Yeah,
the team was not good. Yeahyeah, And now they got the pieces
around him and they have that's theleader of the Mavericks, and everyone seems
thrilled that that is the case,and it's been really good for them.
Like that's if you'd have told mewhen they acquired Kyrie, how it like,
is this good for Luca? I'mprobably not. It's perfect for Luca.

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Yeah, I'm with you, though. Man, every time the guy
talks after a game, I wantto hear what he has to say because
I know I'm going to listen toit and just go, Man, that's
a true leader there. Well,and we know after the game when they
had their arms around each other,Luca told him, Dude, I'm tired,
and Kyrie like that's what made himput his arm around lucas I got

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you. And I feel like that'svery symbolic of their relationship and why Luca's
probably very grateful for him why they'regetting along. Kyrie said it too.
This kid's like, how are youfeeling? I'm depleted? Like you need
two people like that together. Whensomeone's tired, the other one can pick
him up. Luca loves him.Luca doesn't have to do it all himself
and die every single night. Allthose guys don't get too tired. Because

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the real fun's about to start,Kyrie said, the heart and soul of
the season, Kyrie is going tohave an awesome gifts. Yeah, well,
I mean yeah, I mean he'staken shots to win championships. Like,
he's not phased by anything. LebronJames trusted him to go win him
a title, like, and that'sprobably why he sat out some of the
games early, like when we werekind of like, d you really need

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to sit out because you're toe Like, he knows himself, and that's kind
of what he was saying the wholetime, even though we were questioning,
do you really need to be sittingout? He knows. He knows he's
getting ready for this stretch run becausethis is what matters and he wants to
win a title. They're just insuch a kick ass place where you know,
twenty twenty four we use the wordvibes. Yeah, they're the hottest
team in basketball. So the resultsare there, the way they're playing is

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there, but damn it, thevibes feel so good. Yeah. If
you don't think that team believes you'rewrong. No, they are vibing like
nobody in this league right now.They be vibing we're at Clyde Warren Park
where we eclipsed earlier, and we'restill out here. So if you're hanging
around Dallas a little bit, whydon't you swing through and say hello to

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us. And because we're at ClydeWarren Park, it should be easy to
track down mister Dallas. He likesthis area. Let's find him next