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January 23, 2025 35 mins

Rob and Kelvin explain why Dallas Cowboys fans deserve some of the blame for enabling Jerry Jones’ bad behavior over the year, tell us why they have a big problem with LeBron and Bronny James decision to turn down an invitation to do the NBA’s All-Star Game Skills Competition and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets. Plus, FOX Sports Radio NBA insider Marc Stein swings by to discuss all the biggest headlines around The Association.

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Let me welcome in my partner, he is, what's happening,
what's up?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Feeling good? Getting closer to uh to the weekend? Got
some stuff, some great topics to get to too through
give it a night well that being one of them.
My gosh that people want to jump in on that one.
Yesterday jeezus on socials and then in our own chat.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Group they were going crazy, wasn't they? Yeah, it was
over the top.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
There's a reason why I don't like Elijah Why because
oh yeah, y'all were Yeah, y'all, two were going at it.

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They were going back.

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I want to throw out meals laying up in this thing.
Stop hold on, you know I'm the fight. I mean
I had to get out of the chat. I had
to put the baby to bed. I don't have time
for all that.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Then she decided to drive home anyway.

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Okay, she can drive though, ye good to know good. No,
I'm not just saying good to no.

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Good know that. Let's welcome into Fine. We always sees
Bill Belichick. Boy, I tell you, don't rob me in
the sweat bullets.

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I don't rob a Welcome to this new semester, you
sweating bullets, sir?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Why do you have sunglasses? I don't want to see nobody. No,
it's all good.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
You're kidding seven years strong at USC all right, let's
welcome into the couple.

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Cool.

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Rob G of course is our producer, Alex is our engineer.
And Manti don't walk away. You knew it was coming
back there trying to find something. You better get over
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and she'll keep us updated throughout the program. And I
do want to say a very special happy birthday I

(04:03):
know it's Saturday, but we celebrated to.

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Yes, thank you guys, much appreciated, very surprised, so thank you.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
But Monty made me feel a little self conscious. I
gotta be on, how did that make you feel so
just because you try to take my cake?

Speaker 5 (04:14):
Because she was like, let me get my slice before
Rob Parker gets at the cheese.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Right.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I didn't say she was lying, Manzi, you ain't wrong
when you're right.

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I just was like, I'm gonna go get it before
it disappears, because I'm here for the next three hours.

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That with that Danny g Beck who somebody had a
big old piece. I just came behind you.

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Around back there. I would love us. It's all I have.
Let me see, that's all I had. Let me be
the judge of that. Not that bad.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
It's not too bad.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Okay, but here's the thing about him. We're not sure
that's the only bowl.

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That's it. That's it's just sitting there going to waste.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Of course, we're not gonna let it go to waste.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Cheesecake go to wait. Any weekend plans, any birthday plans, oh,
you know, probably a few breweries. Okay, take it easy.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
I have a meal first please, oh no, not first
like at the same time, okay, at.

Speaker 7 (05:06):
The same time.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
You know, early birthday, you enjoy, appreciate it, live it
up seriously. I appreciate it. Thank you.

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And of course Elijah is our social yeah guru, and
he does a great job.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I can't say I haven't heard of him now because
he got me the clip I needing. So all right,
I guess I heard of you, Elijah.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
All right, all right, let's uh, Rob g let's go
with the news of the day and we'll start there.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
With the Dallas Cowboys. Rob g ain't thinking about us,
Let's see is yeah, So, uh, Bill, you gotta get
the news of the day.

Speaker 7 (05:38):
We need you big news in big d According to
a friend of the show, longtime Cowboys beat writer Clarence
Hill Junior, of course I got the Dallas Cowboys are
zeroing in on their next head coach. They said no,
thank you to Bill Belichick, Mike Rabel Sanders, because you

(05:59):
know what, we got our man. He's already in house.
His name is Brian Schottenheimer, who, according to Clarence Hill,
that deal is imminent and will be finalized by Friday
at the latest.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
And you know what, here we go.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
The reaction will be wowsy, wowsy, woooo wewsy wewsy woo woo.
Because there was all this talk about Bill Belichick maybe
taking the paying the buy out to be able to
get out of his deal at North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Then there was like, hey, Dion Sanders, we told you.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
They were never gonna get have a deal together, and
Dion and Jerry it was nice for them to get
some likes and some looks on social media and everybody buzzing.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
I never believe that.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
So Brian Schottenheimer, who yes, makes total sense to me.
But you know what, I'm gonna go a different route today.
I'm not blaming Jerry Jones. Ok, I'm not blaming Brian
Shottenheimer's gonna take the job.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Of course.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
I'm blaming the Dallas Cowboy fans. You deserve this.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
This is what you.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
Have allowed to continue to happen with all these terrible
coach hires. You keep going to the games, you keep
doing all the Cowboys stuff, you know, and all that
giving Jerry money. Think about this, during the thirty years
when they weren't good, they enabled Jerry Jones to build

(07:33):
a bigger stadium and sell more tickets. Now, I've seen
teams and I understand when you're fans derived from the
word fanatic, right, so I do understand that. But that
doesn't mean fan bases don't make owners go. No, we're
not gonna go for this, because we've seen teams push

(07:54):
back on ownership.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
That's not good.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
And the best one which is relevant it right now
is the Washington Commanders. When I was a kid, there
was a ten year waiting list for tickets to go
to a Redskins game, all right, when they would call
that back in the day. They go to Maryland and
they build that new beautiful FedEx Field or whatever. You

(08:18):
saw the tarps covering the top deck because fans stop going.
They stop going. I worked in Detroit for twenty years.
Love football. People stop going, and yes they did. We
used to have at the barbershop Sportycuts on West seven
Mile Road.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Did I say, yes?

Speaker 5 (08:39):
We used to have tickets. We used to give away
two tickets to every game. We had season tickets. Every
time you got a haircut, you put in a ticket,
and a raffle ticket at the end near when they
went going on sixteen the next year, we tried to
give those tickets away. We call people, Hey, you won whatever?
Hey do you have a pizza or a T shirt
or something? They didn't want the tickets. And you know

(09:00):
New Orleans the Saints when they were the Ahs and
people wore paper bags over their heads. Okay, all I'm
saying is, Dallas, Cowboy America, you deserve this because you're
the enabler of Jerry Jones. You have made this franchise bigger, stronger,
richer by your engagement and you could. You're continuing to

(09:22):
buy tickets and be engaged in that franchise. And that's
why Jerry doesn't feel compelled to go out and get
the best coach to make the right moves to go
sign Derek Henry and not say he don't have money
for that.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Think about it, Stup, you just touched on something and
I was gonna do We went about it in a
different way. If I told you all of the failures
that this person did, this general manager, this general manager
will get fired.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
You remember the fire Matt Millen era in Detroit.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Right, A million man million man March is so for
those who don't know, in Detroit, there was a million
man march where thousands of people fans of the Lions
walked out of a out of a game. They marched
down the street and honor and in order to get
Matt Millan to understand his time to go and the
Ford family to let him go. That's how bad it
had gotten. And as Rob said, in the city that

(10:10):
loves football but had had enough. I say that to say,
if I told you the resume of what a particular
GM had been doing lately, you would say on paper, Oh,
that GM has to go.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
You brought up a few things.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
If I told you this GM gave Dak Prescott all
that money that early, you would say, oh, he was
wild and giving him that money, because the same people
wouldn't want to give that same money to Sam Darnold.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
That same people wouldn't want to give that money.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
To Brock Party, who has had a better playoff run
career than Dak.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
They don't want to give him that money. So you
would say that GM's crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
If I told you that DMGM had a chance to
get Dereck Henry, who is now one of the offensive
Player of the Year candidates, who, by the way, said
I want to stay in Texas Hint Hint, decided to
spend the block like an old girlfriend and go get
Ezekiel Elliott. You would say that what that GM has
to go? The GM held off paying CD Lamb so
much so that it jammed up the money again ultimately

(11:06):
to what ended up paying CD Lamb. So and then
goes on continues to hire coaches that are mediocre.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Let's look at you.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Look at you look at Marty not Marty Schottenheimer, Brian Schottenheimer,
or you wish he was Marty almost right, you.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Look acuse he can't win a playoff. He couldn't win
the playoffs issue.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
You look at his his his resume been doing, you know,
offensive coordinator on and off for a bit, top five
he for five times he finished in the top ten offenses,
another top five years he finished in the last ten
of the league. So it's not like he has a
track record of being great. And in other years where
the teams were actually good in Dallas where he's been

(11:44):
a part of it, he wasn't calling the plays. So
what what makes you feel like the number one franchise
in the NFL at least how you view it in
popularity and money and money? We know that what makes
it this is the guy. When you toyed around with
Mike McCarthy, who if I was his agent, I would say,
got you twelve and five, got you three years in
a row, took you to the postseason, had you know,

(12:05):
underwhelming postseason performances. But you see we're building this year
being an anomaly because of the injuries.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
You kept him around for a year. Lame duck.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
You had a chance to go talk to Bill Belichick.
You don't come to find out Bill Belichick Goo, I
would have taken it. Why why you ain't shoot your
boy a call? You played around with Mike McCarthy, you're
playing around with Dion. You let Aaron Glenn go, Ben
Johnson go. You didn't get Mike McCarthy. You let Rabel go.
Miss Rabel Like, I genuinely don't know what this GM
would do. And this GM will be fired if this

(12:35):
GM wasn't owner, There's no doubt about it.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
But you get my point about the fans that's not great,
Like your point, y'all have to demand more, right like,
think about it, During the thirty years they haven't been
to an NFC championship game, they actually have built a
bigger stadium for more fans to come.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Think about that. That's crazy.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
And the reverse is what happened in Washington, same thing
in over thirty five years or whatever it's been, and
they got covered up seats in DC.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Think about think about it. I do believe he is fortunate.
If I said to any of you, Rob g Rob Parker, Alex,
what's the most crazed football state in this country? Every
I saw you mocked it, Roger, everybody would say Texas.
I do think he benefits from being in Texas. I
get it because if he was in Arizona, Nevada, Minnesota

(13:30):
or something and this was happening, you would get the paperbags,
you would get to this. But because he sold the
brand and he's you know, of the Cowboys, and he
is a in a football possessed state, I think he
benefits because of that.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Now, I understand that, but I'm giving you, but you're
Washington a football crazy. You can't tell me that. Those people,
I mean had a great run in the eighties, a
great run. So that's why I'm saying they did it.
They stopped coming. They just they said enough, all right?
Is it time for Cowboys fans to demand more from
Jerry Jones? What are you waiting on Are you waiting

(14:06):
for fifty years to go by? I mean, I don't
get it. We'll continue that conversation next with you. It
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Speaker 1 (14:42):
All right, we're talking about cowboys, look like they got
their new guy, and we're discussing where does the blame fall?

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Is it Jerry Jones? Is it the fans or the fans?

Speaker 1 (14:52):
And I said, if Jerry Jones was any other general manager,
not the owner, he will be fired by all right,
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Randy and New Orleans join The Odd Couple Fox Prtuadio.
What's up, Randy?

Speaker 9 (15:02):
I'm going on, gentle man, how y'all going doing?

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Good? Man?

Speaker 9 (15:06):
This Randy Color from snowing, New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Okay, I like.

Speaker 10 (15:10):
How you pointed out how we will wear the brown
paper bags in the nineties back in New Orleans, because
we were terrible, and.

Speaker 9 (15:17):
The Fast took that into consideration and we took it
into our own hands and we protesting, right. But for
Jared Jones, this is Jason Garrett Park two point zero,
Brian shot and having being on nobody's short list of
coaches palls. But this is somebody Jerry can control. And
like y'all say at the beginning of the show, it's
not gonna change.

Speaker 10 (15:38):
Until the first step in and say something. And the
only way that the fastest step in and say something
is by not tying up the game, by not spending
money out merchants, and by turning the TV off whenever
the code of.

Speaker 9 (15:50):
Prescott lines up behind under center. That's the only way
that this single And.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Then you'll get at it, and then you'll get Jerry's attention.

Speaker 9 (15:57):
Then you'll get Jerry's attention.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
We got a half filled house, thanks for the call.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
And yeah, and his house is huge, so you know
he's stopped people stopped coming.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
That's a lot of money all right out right in
massive dresses. You're in the couple of Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
What up, Andre, Hey, how you doing?

Speaker 11 (16:15):
Thanks for taking a call. Look, listen, it's been what
twenty nine years since the Cowboys won the last Super Bowl.
Jerry Jones record, he's won three hundred and nineteen, he's
lost two hundred and sixty two. Okay, middle of the
road average at best. He just happens to live and
his franchise is base in the sports crazed state of Texas.
So the bottom line is Jerry Jones' charismatic he understands media,

(16:40):
Q ratings market. He's a very savvy businessman, and if
you look him up, the first thing that comes up
is not sports team owner, it's American business man, because
that's essentially what he is. And unfortunately he had the
uh he refuses to hand over the range. It's just
an absolute nonsense.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
But Andre, let's I agree.

Speaker 5 (17:00):
But but you know, you're old enough to remember when
Washington as a football city was crazy about football and
they stopped going. They had a bad owner, right, they
couldn't win, and they used to cover up the seats,
like not make them available so the games could be
on TV. Because you remember, back in the old days,

(17:20):
if you had ten percent vacancy they weren't.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Showing the games. So, uh, Justin and Bermuda, you're in
the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's some stuff?

Speaker 9 (17:31):
Justin a couple list of nationals. How you guys doing
doing good?

Speaker 2 (17:35):
We're doing great.

Speaker 12 (17:37):
Yeah, it's been a good week for me to get.

Speaker 10 (17:39):
On the show.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
That's unbelievable twice. We love it. What's up? I got
talked to Rob Yeah.

Speaker 12 (17:43):
Yeah, Well listen, God, I'm a die hard skin well
now Commanders fan. I was born during the glory years, yep,
And I had from Bermuda and used to fly up
the game.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
That's how die hard I was.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
But that's how rich you were.

Speaker 12 (17:59):
I couldn't take it any well though. I just couldn't.
I just like in those bad years after RG three,
I couldn't take it anymore. I had to stop going.
And if you remember, like years back, like fans would
show up to games with sign saying sell the team.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
Yep, because like.

Speaker 12 (18:15):
The fans got so set up.

Speaker 9 (18:17):
He couldn't ignore it anymore.

Speaker 12 (18:18):
And Kelvin, you right, because Jerry ain't gonna fire himself.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
We had the same thing with.

Speaker 12 (18:23):
Dan Snyder, like he's not gonna get rid of himself.
But the pressure got so loud on him that eventually
like he had to get rid of it. But Jerry's
not gonna do that.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
But just justin you remember all those covered up seats
in the upper deck, Am I right?

Speaker 9 (18:38):
Oh man? It was horrible, horrible, horrible.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
All right? Justin appreciate the call you.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
That's the power of being the owners, right, you can
tell you you ain't who gonna fire me. And that's
the luxury that he has. Hey, Mark Stein, talk a
little NBA with him. Fox Sports Radio NBA Insider the
Steinline on substat Looking forward to that.

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Speaker 2 (19:13):
Give him a follow, Mark. What's going on?

Speaker 5 (19:15):
Russ up, buddy, gentlemen, I am good, I'm good.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
How are you guys.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Doing doing great? Uh?

Speaker 5 (19:22):
We want to start with the Jimmy Butler drama because
I'm with Pat. I'm with Pat Riley. I'm all honor
your contract. Don't do what he's doing, missing flights, being
a distraction.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
You know, like, what do the the Heat?

Speaker 5 (19:37):
The Heat owe him a new contract at thirty five
years old and missing as much.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
I'm just the the disrespect of the deal.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
Because if the he did that to him, it would
be bloody murder. Where are you on this Heat pat
Riley and uh Jimmy Butler scenario.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
It's been a standoff the like to win, which I'm
not sure we've ever seen in the NBA, because I mean,
you've covered this league as long as I have, maybe
even longer, and there is not a long list of
people who've been willing to take pat Riley on, especially
in Miami where you know he has more clout, more

(20:19):
security than he's had anywhere previously with the Knicks or
the Lakers. But you know, these are two men with
a very strong will, and you know Jimmy Butler has
he's decided that you know, he's going to do whatever
it takes to try to convince the Heat to trade him.

(20:41):
And look, I think he has succeeded on some level,
because I mean the Heat would love to have traded
him yesterday. But the reality is a deal with Butler
in season in this new world in the NBA. It's
very complicated to do because the team where wants to
go the most is Phoenix. As everyone knows, the Suns

(21:04):
are believed to want to make it happen, but they
just they cannot the Phoenix Suns because you know, the
Phoenix Suns have the most expensive payroll.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
In the league.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
They are miles and miles and miles beyond the second
luxury tax Apron. So there is no way for the Phoenix.
It doesn't matter how many draft picks they collect. They
could find a way to trade for five more draft picks,
it doesn't matter. They cannot legally do a trade for
Jimmy Butler unless Bradley Beal is involved in it, and

(21:36):
we know Beal has no trade clause. We know the
Heat does not want to take Bal in it at
this point. At this point, there is no team that
has emerged that is willing to even take Bradley Beal.
And again, even if a team says, yes, we will
trade for Bradley Beal, Bradley Beal can block it because
he has one of the one of only two full
no trade clauses in the NBA. So this thing, it's

(22:01):
not over and I don't know that there's anybody in
the NBA right now who can tell you when it
will be over. And the trade deadline is exactly two
weeks from today.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well, let me ask you this, Mark, you just mentioned
the trade deadline. We've talked about this on the show.
The Lakers feel like their roster isn't what they want Lebron, JJ,
Reddick AD.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
They've all mentioned that they're annual out wishing enough.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
We need more help, conversation, what moves are out there
to be made? It seems like this is more of
a quieteer than normal, Like there's some usually you know,
you kind of get your usual suspect of guys that
are being tossed around as trade bait.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
What's out there, even.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Whether it be the Lakers, whether it be Miami, whether
it be other teams. I feel like they need to
make a move.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Well, look, I would say that I don't agree with
the notion that it's quiet, but I also understand the
way this works. I mean, I only in the NBA,
a trade deadline is only seen as quote exciting if
a major star is moved. And so unless we see
a trade where Zach Lavine or Brandon Ingram or Jimmy

(23:02):
Butler himself is moved. People are gonna say this trade
deadline was a dud, and you know what, one of
those guys could get traded and people will still say
it wasn't enough fireworks. But we've already seen We've already
seen four trades, so it's been pretty active already. Now,
what the Lakers are looking at is a situation where
they do have two first round picks they can trade,

(23:25):
but doesn't all in move. Let's say they were willing
to trade for one of those star names, like, does
that really put them with the championship contenders in this league?
Does that put them on a level of an Oklahoma
City or a Boston or a Cleveland? And the reality
is probably not so With the Lakers, I don't think

(23:48):
they're necessarily done. We saw them trade for Jory and
Finney Smith. Could they still trade for a big man.
I think the answer is yes. But I think it's
more likely that they would make you know, let's call
it an intermediate move, you know, Like I just I
don't see them putting all of their remaining draft assets

(24:10):
on the table to try to trade for someone, because
there's just there's no move there. Like you a Walker
Kessler in Utah's mentioned office, the Lakers would probably love
to acquire Walker Kessler. The Jazz are going to expect
at least two first round picks for Kessler. And even
if the Lakers could pull that off, where does that
put them? Kessler is a very good young center. He's

(24:34):
you know, he's made huge strives in his third season,
but like, is he going to make the Lakers an
instant championship contender? Realistically?

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Not so.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
I just don't know that there's a move waiting for
the Lakers right now that can really dramatically raise their ceiling.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
Speaking of lebron I guess him and Brownie have turned
down the NBA for the skills competition. How surprised are you?
Thought ron loves the warm and fuzzy family stories. What
a great picture that would be him and Bronni? Or
is this do you think maybe uh don't want to
be on that stage where it might not go the
way they wanted to go.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
Shout out to my dear friend and my longtime podcast partner,
Chris Aynes for breaking that story. Chris is the one
who reported.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
That's a weird story.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yes, the Lakers that Lebron and Bronni have turned down
those invitations. Look, I'm not going to sit here and
pretend that I've spoken to Lebron or Bronni about this,
but you know, obviously, look the Skills Challenge. I mean,
have you guys watched the Skills Challenge? Like the Skills

(25:41):
Challenge and.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Never missed the Skills Challenge?

Speaker 4 (25:44):
It ain't exactly the most riveting event of all our weekend.
So the fact that they don't want to participate in
that are we like would that have would that have
sent pulses racing? And would that have had America rushing?

Speaker 1 (25:56):
No?

Speaker 2 (25:56):
But but there's a moment. But there's a moment there.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
It could have been marked where Bronni's not playing, Bronnie's
not really impacting the league, him and Lebron together, you
know what I mean, a father and son. I remember
watching uh Robinson Cano's father pitching to him when he
won the Home Run Derby.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
It's just a little moment thing.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Home Run Derby is box office, Like, we do.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Love the Home Run Derby.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Yes, the Home Run Derby is a very watchable event.
The Skills Challenge is it just I mean, it's nice.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
Well, how else is Bronnie ever going to get to
the All Star Game if he doesn't do that.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
I think here's the one thing I would say now,
had he played in this in the you know, had
he played on you know, as part of the G
League squad in you know, on Friday night is the
game for for rookies. And second lay, had he played
in that and ended up on the team that you know,
the team that wins that will now advance to the

(26:58):
actual All Star Game on Sunday, because you know, they've
changed the All Star format. I don't know we want
to get too deep into a bate on the debate
on this because I don't really love this format change either.
But the way that All Star Game is now, the
twenty four All Stars will be divided into teams of eight,
three teams of eight, and then the team that advances
from the Rookie Sophomore Game is the four team, and

(27:21):
those four teams will play games on Sunday as opposed
to your usual NBA All Star Games. So I guess
there is a scenario that Bronnie could have been on
the winning team and then advanced to the actual All
Star Game. Now that would have been something else. But look,
they're specific reasons for not doing it. Like I said,

(27:41):
I can't say that I've had the discussions to know
exactly why they said.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
No. Boy, I tell you God forbid East versus West,
and just go play.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Just play God Forbid. Mark. Appreciate you man, Thank you Mark.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
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Speaker 2 (28:00):
Appreciate you Mark.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
All right, guys, talk to Yeah, we can have.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
More of this conversation about just Lebron and Brown an
opportunity either maybe miss if you think it's one of those.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Also just that I.

Speaker 5 (28:10):
Thought, I just think that they didn't want to be
out there and get embarrassed.

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was a voice? Do you know who the Shaggy voice?

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is it? Oh? Jerry Jones?

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I will never remember that.

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Case he getting some crazy royalty jests. I mean no, no,
he's passed, but he was getting Kasey.

Speaker 5 (30:01):
Kase was one of the richest people out here because
he owned like a lot of real estate in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
But all that money.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
Yes, yeah, let me let me redo life. Can I
start over, start doing? But to be shaggy, that's putting out. Yeah,
I want something like that. Well all ain't even know
it called mailbox or anything. Yeah, you just hope I
have your mailbox and you got a little check here
and there. Oh yeah, man, little thousand dollars here, fifteen
hundred here to every every few days.

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Speaker 5 (30:38):
All right, another one and two night, twenty one and
twenty six on this on the year. I gotta get going,
you do so? I need a hat trick tonight? Howbaull
Milwaukee Bucks minus six and a half. They're taking on
the Miami Heat without Jimmy Butler. I like that warming
up right now, Tyler Heroes, I hope you had a
hero tonight.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
He's gonna be a sandwich.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
Yeah, that's what we call a hero, I know hero
or in Connecticut it's a grinder.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yep. Everybody has a Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, zero a hero, Heros, grinders, subs, subs.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
We gotta come on, make somebody all come in agreement.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
I got Atlanta minus five and a half. They lost
to the Pitsons last night. They're playing hosting Toronto Toronto's Battle.
I like them to bounce back and they should be
minus five and a half and Denver Nuggets minus seven
and a half. They take it on the Sacramento Kings.
They have since coach nine and one, I should say,
in their last ten. Yeah, yep, so all right, Denver

(31:35):
minus seven and a half, Atlanta minus five and a
half at Milwaukee minus six and a half.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
And remember Kelvin, what's that.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
I'm not telling you who to bet on, I'm telling
you who I bet on.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
I wanted to go back.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
We were talking about Lebron and Brody both passing on the
Skills Challenge in the NBA All Star Weekend. One of
the things that I've always been upset with when it
comes to Bron and I know he's heard of the
gazillion times, but just never doing the dunk contest, and
even Michael Jordan did it at least twice. I know
that for sure might have been three times. Rob g

(32:09):
might have been thrice. Kobe did it. I mean, it's
just doctor j did it pasts for the guys who
were great.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
And Lebron somewhere.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Got in his head that like it would hurt me
more to lose than what I have to gain. And
and sometimes yes, it's an exhibition, dude, if you look,
first of all, if you lose, that means you're gonna
lose some historic and saying dunk contest that we all
will appreciate, you know, like Aaron Gordon has lost a
couple of times, but many people believe he's won because

(32:44):
Zach Lavine want it was it was great. It was like, wow,
this was an amazing dunk contest. Dominique and Jordan two
times they went at it. It was amazing to see.
And sometimes that's the thing, like Lebron is so calculated,
so thought out, so all right, but if I do this,
and then if I lose, then everybody might be upset
if I lose, But then just just do a dunk
context And now obviously he's too old, but when he

(33:05):
was like twenty two to thirty, would have been amazing
to see Lebron. Then he trolled, Remember he was trolling
us where either this whole thing of like showing on
the videos or the dunks he would do pregame throwing
it off, the twenty four second shot clock tip, dunk
reverse and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
So he was trolling us. But that's one of the things,
like man, I think he.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Set the tone for like the very mindful of the
brand and the corporate and the and.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
You know, if you do this, what's gonna lose and gain?

Speaker 1 (33:31):
And he kind of set us back a little bit
because then it became the cool thing to not do it,
you know what I mean, that's where we stopped getting
the big time stars and like, how's Zion.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Not done it?

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Zion in the eighties and nineties would have been the
first thing he did. Vince Carter, bigtime start, that's what
he was known for in college. Right, Well, we had
Zion with somehow it wouldn't be making but ed Edwards
John Morant Zion Lebron Like are.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
You kidding me?

Speaker 1 (33:59):
These be that we would be clamoring to see at
Edwards go up against Ja morant Zion and then you know,
maybe always like a rookie guy he never heard of,
that would be an incredible dunk contest, but again calculated.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
If I do it once again the game, I'm already
the biggest celebrity.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Well, if I lose, everybody make it, they'd be laugh
at me to make any bigger deal if I look,
just do it.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Do you believe that's the Bronni thing right? Why they
won't just have fun with it?

Speaker 1 (34:27):
I think, actually think it's more Lebron than Bronni, because
if Lebron would want to do it, yeah, I think.
And no, we don't have expectations, not like, oh, he's
supposed to be great. We all know he's not great.
So if he goes out there he's eighteen, nineteen, twenty
years or whatever he is, we would we would care.
That would be Lebron if he'd be worried that what
if I don't hit the you know, get the ball
little bounce passed through the hole. What if I you know,
they got to make that shot. What if I miss

(34:47):
the shot five times in a row. Lebron thinks about
those things. He cares about those things. Sometimes I wish
he didn't. I wish I would. Sometimes I wish he
didn't give a blank more. Uh you can't, you know,
kind of recreate who you are. But because I think
it holds him back sometimes from some things and again
in that case rives us to fans.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
It could have been a great done contest some years ago.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
But that's how I think plays a role in this,
you know this thing like things where I'm not gonna
be in a control situation where I know I'm not
gonna be goat get get right right.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
He can't control that that situation and all eyes on
him and instead of having fun, modeit or tight something
may never make an All Star all at all right
in the All Stars stuff once Lebron retires.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
So yeah, I'm just like, man, sometimes that was he
wasn't so calculated and you know, overly thought about it.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Just go have fun.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
It's like Steph Curry never wanted to get into three
point contest, Like, no, Steph, you're the best shooter. We
want to see it. He's done it him and Clay
went added a couple of times. So all right, we
got some big time championship games coming up. One particular player,
star player, I don't know if I buy in him.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
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